Augmented reality? Bring it on!

So, maybe I'm spending too much time on twitter and facebook, because I have never heard of "augmented reality--ar". In general, I am a huge advocate of social media. I do not fear that people are stalking me on my facebook page, predators are seeking me via gps on my iphone, and all those other things that people tend to fear as technology gets more and more advanced.

As far as augmented reality--I think this is a fantastic idea. I honestly don't know how I lived before my iphone or my iphone apps..I find myself in my car all the time and Im like meera--find this..and out comes the iphone with all its glorious answers to everything.

However, augmented reality takes this to a whole new level--putting your phone up to someone and having their facebook page pop up above their head--FANTASTIC! It definitely is going to make networking easier...haha walking around networking events holding my phone up to everyone to get a profile will definitely improve proficiency--- I say bring it on!

Privacy is a thing of the past....

The keynote speakers raised many good points about privacy issues concerning the internet. Though most of our lives are not on the cover of magazines like some celebrities, I bet a lot of us would be suprised as to how many people know things about us and some of them we may not know at all...

For instance, this blog is laying around somewhere in cyber space and anyone that wants to search privacy can probably find this posting.

However, I never thought of privacy how the speaker put it--more, worse, forever

What he meant by more was that more information is out there for people to find out about you

Worse--people tend to act worse or put worse things out about themselves whether it is language, photos, etc

forever--the information is out there forever.

This was very interesting because the things you put on facebook, twitter, etc are out there for people to find and we dont think about it. When tend to think that only our "friends" or perhaps not even all of them are seeing what we put out there. Unfortunatly people can misconstrue what you say, pictures you take, or in the instance of the speaker, speeches you give and change them around. We should all make sure to set privacy settings so what is available to the entire world, forever, is what we want.

Since the job searching thing has become the absolute center of my world this last semester of business school...I stop to think how different networking would be without social media.

I hear about every job post via twitter. Instead of endlessly googling companies and searching on their website under careers, it has been so much easier to follow them on twitter and see the job postings.

Facebook has also served to be great...I am constantly look at old friends from high school and undergrad to see where they have been working...maybe they could hand my resume to someone right??

So, since I waste the better part of my day tweeting and facebooking, I guess I will thank them when I land my dream job :-)

iphone is a better name than MoSoSo

Well, another week, another rant...

Seriously how old was the person who wrote the article: Students' new best friend: 'moSoSo'?

only someone completely out of touch with reality could come up with a term like moSoSo, or maybe I'm just not realizing there is a new word for the iphone.

I love the reference of "military precision gps" in terms of the gps application on the phone. Why are older people freaking out about cell phones? The world changes and the need for information in business, school, social, or work is becoming more important.

I get so irritated with people and the issue that technology for some reason is going to hinder their security. The obvious answer is that having a gps system is to help you not get lost--and endanger yourself--possibly enter a bad neighborhood--it also can help if you are in a car accident late a night, people can track your location--and believe me, the boogeyman is not going to waste his time tracking u down via gps...the reference of pedophiles hunting you down is ridiculous...I reference Oprah before making this statement--but you can google it if you need other proof--pedophiles do not usually "track" people down with gps systems...they usually know you and your family very well.

All of those cellularphobic people out there---calm down, the iphone and blackberrys have become the next basic necessity for life behind food, water, and shelter. We need to have facebook, twitter, banking, gps, email, and game applications on our phones at all times so we can pretend we are paying attention to what older generations are "concerned" about

Older generations have no right to judge what they don't understand.

I completely disagree with the readings this week. I was actually annoyed after reading a few of them..I would like to know how old the authors were that wrote these. I do not think that people under 30 are "dumb" and here are some reasons why:

For one, yes this generation highly relies on spell check..why? because everything is typed and it is simply there and easy to use. It does not mean that people can't spell--typos and not spelling correctly are two different things.

There is no need to learn certain facts about history that you can simply look up on wikipedia--yes I said it WIKIPEDIA--because hey, it is usually right.

I don't see how an older generation can look at the new generation and say they are "dumber"--or for that matter, that the internet is making us dumber...What we learn in school has to evolve just like the technology has evolved...Yes, it is odd that some people may be able to use a computer efficiently but struggle with math/reading skills--but you simply can't do any job if you dont know how to use a computer--for the most part, you would not be able to fill out an application--everything is online now. Let's face it...you can get away with not knowing a few "jaywalking" facts but if you dont know what facebook or twitter is BLASPHEMY!

If anything, I would argue that we are actually smarter...look at all the information that is now available. People know a little about a lot of stuff instead of a lot about a little, and what they dont know, they can look up online.

I find it extremely difficult to work with people in their 40-50's. I get so aggravated when my mom can't hear her cell phone ring and her ringtone screams her name loudly...I mean, how can you possibly ever miss a call???

leaving blogging to the social media generation.

I completely agree with the 10 harsh truths about corporate blogging.

As graduation is creeping up faster than ever, I am frantically trying to find open positions to apply too. I have found myself looking up many company blogs and twitter pages to find out inside information about the company. However, if I start reading a company blog and find it just another marketing scheme I become so irritated.

When I think of a company blog, I hope to find a personalized tone that really makes a connection between me as a reader and the company. I do find that many companies misuse the purpose of a blog.

With social media mania, it seems natural that every company should have a facebook page, twitter, and a blog. Of the three, the blog should be the most personal. People read blogs for a quick/relaxed read--usually to either agree or disagree with what the blog is saying--or atleast I do. I read blogs for other peoples opinion and find myself either agreeing or disagreeing on non-academic topics.

When blogs are a regurgitation of press releases and paragraphs off of the companies website it says a lot about the company. Especially if you are a company of consumer products--lots of times fans of your products come to read more about the company and get reviews from other users. If your consumers can take the time to be interested in your products then you should be interested enough to use your blog as another outlet to reach out to your consumers.

Like the article--blogs really don't get traffic just because they are a blog--I am sure lot's of bloggers have failed miserably. Personally, I enjoy blogs that push the envelope a little bit. With almost everyone having a personal computer at work and at home, having access to reading your blog is very easy so why not take advantage of it.

I would love to find a job after bschool to be responsible for a companies blog--I have recently become more and more addicted to social media and hope more jobs pop up in the social media field. Maybe they are not putting the right people in charge of blogs--I mean no offense, but when people say market research I like cringe...Im like, market research--you mean facebook? Isn't that all the market research you need these days--If you arent being followed on twitter you are doing something wrong because people will tell you what product they like and what they don't. Old school market research is for the birds ;-) move out with the surveys and move in with the blogs--just let new business school graduates be in charge of the job :-)

Should business schools take a lesson from the myth of crowdsourcing?

This may sound ridiculous that I am a second year business student and have not heard of crowdsourcing until I read the articles posted for this weeks class. I am writing this as I am embarrassed to admit it--well maybe I knew what crowdsourcing was, I just did not know they gave it the term "crowdsourcing" if that makes sense.

This posting is going to refer to the forbes article, "The Myth of Crowdsourcing". I have to agree with the author of the article. For some odd reason we like to think that "teams" or as the article says "crowds" are better than individuals--I guess the whole elementary saying, "two heads are better than one". We have this idea embedded into our heads--especially today, that any great idea has been thought up by a team.

I understand that a lot of business today, with whatever industry you go into you are usually placed in a team--a marketing team, a consulting team, etc etc, but I would like to say that I think teams are usually 4 or 5 individuals who think individually, but just call themselves a team.

Many of you people may disagree--but I got my fair share of teamwork after the first year of business school. I found that it was not the team that came up with ideas or worked productively, but more so each individual did their own thing and then at the end we combined all the work and turned it in--like it was done as a team. I am sure everyone can say at some point in their life that they have been on an terrible team--whether professionally, academically, or in sports.

I found this article interesting because with something like wikipedia, people have this idea that an entire "crowd" is constantly checking for incorrect facts on the website and this isn't the case as stated in the article. Usually it is individuals that are driven by some force that makes them do something--like correct a wikipedia page.

So this leaves me to think when did this idea that crowds or teams are better/more productive than individuals? When you hire an MBA student for a job after school, you are not hiring the entire team they worked with for econ, strategy or accounting...so why the necessity of teamwork all the time? Shouldn't we be focusing on make the individual the "ultimate working machine"? Don't get me wrong, some teams are fantastic and produce great work, but I feel lately, like the article, the focus has moved from the individual to the crowd, when really it is still the individual who is doing all of the innovation.

thats enough rant and raving for now---and since a lot of my teammates are in this class and going to be reading this blog--you know I love all of you and if it wasnt for you, I wouldnt have made it through the first year :-)