Final Blog

Hello Followers, again sorry for the tardiness of this blog...busy week.  But to answer the topic of if technology helped us, the answer is 100% yes.  Our main means of communication was through e-mail.  With out e-mail we would have been in a complete loss of staying on track.  This cut our meet times drastically, being able to attach our files, to then compile them into one final proposal.  Also the internet helped us look up valuable information, and contact information neccesary for our cost analysis.  Our project was based around facebook, and a fruit sale; without technology our main means of adverstising our fruit sale would be shot.  Technology is a great thing if used correctly, and really helps people colaberate in a quick and convenient style.

Peace to All

Ethical Memo

After seeing the memo that was presented to us in class it shows the importance of keeping your ethical standards when writing. Though, the example in class was a complete extreme of how people lose sight of their ethics when writing, it is still an all to common occurrence. Not only is it important to have ethics in your writing, you must keep your ethics in every day life. The work place can become very cut throat which makes people lose sight of such ethics, but you must keep them in sight to be able to achieve your goals.
Peace to all.

Miscommunication

Hi all,  Sorry about the tardiness of my post...long weekend. 

I once had a job as a cart boy at a golf course.  If there was any miscommunication at that job then it could affect everyone's scheduling.  there were  numerious times when my fellow employees, and my self would send a group out  at the wrong time.  This then overflowed the golf course, doing nothing but making all the  stuck up members mad.  That is never a good thing to witness in its self.  Anyways, that is the only example I can think of where miscommunication directly affected me.  Have a good day.  Peace to all

Online Portfolio

I had a great time with all the presentations, and really enjoyed the ones this past week. My favorite for this week was the past top 5 tropical vacations. It was a good break for us especially after it the snow on Monday. It was altogether a great presentation with a fun topic for us all to dream about spring break.
I have never done online portfolios so have no idea what to expect. I think that it's going to be a challenging assignment, and will see how it plays out. I also think that it will be nice to have my work and information on the internet so that future employers can reach it. We will see how it works out.

Peace to all

Top 3 Presentations

Sorry to all my avid blog followers about the tardiness of this post.  Of the past presentations that we have seen there were definitly three that stood out in my mind.  The first is Austin's about the sailing club.  I am actually a fellow marinor, and really enjoyed listening to him speak about the sailing club.  I though he was very effective with the great pictures and making sailing sound interesting, when most people would just write it off as a boring sport.  The second was Ally's about drinking coffee.  The main thing that made me really enjoy this was the hand out that she had.  I thought it was a very creative hand out and brought the presetation together as a whole.  The third was Lauren's five worst pick up lines.  That was a very funny topic to start with, and she had great humor throughout the entire show.  I now know what all my pick up lines never work, and will never try them again.  Thanks.

Peace to all

Week Feb 15th 'Cover Letters'

After reading the website about appropriate cover letters, I have come to some conclusions on the best way to go about them.  Though the website isn't perfectly spot-on with their advice, they do have some really great points.  The first point is to not send your cover letter to fifty different companies.  They should be personalized (the website said to a spefic person in the company, which isn't always the case) for the company specifically suited.  I also liked their two important points, "two important points: (1) what your product can do for your customer (the company), and (2) what your customer will need to do to buy your product."  These are very good for a marketer to know, but seem to be all to easy to forget.  Thanks,

Peace to all

Blog 4: Free Blog

My roomate and I purchased a fish tank for $40 from Craig's List. It is a very relaxing and therapeudic to have a fish tank in your living room. I have 5 fish in my fish tank, they all have names including, Boyaah, Japetto, Big Green, Fried and Grilled. The only bad thing is Boyaah is always trying to eat Japetto. My fish tank interests me to the max. Peace to all.

Ten Years

In ten years I hope to have started my career that I wish to have for the rest of my life.  I hope to have been a graduate from law school, and working in Charleston, at a firm or doing any sort of thing in the legal environment.  I can see my self making the decisions of what sort of field I hope to go in to during law school, after I further advance my studies.  I also hope to have a house, and be living with a family in my own house.  I want to have a relaxed lifestyle on the weekends, but a very determined life style during the work hours of the week.

Second Blog: Web 2.0

The Web 2.0 video is definitely one that is meant to spur ideas about our new technologically advanced world.  In the video there are some interesting topics that the author brings up mainly about how we are "teaching" the machine.  I think that the idea of it (the machine) 'using' us is a little far-fetched because I feel that in the sense that we are more 'using' it.  The 'machine' is/was mainly used for storage purposes, but needless to say we have expanded its capabilities far beyond that.  I feel that we the proper use of the 'machine' we are much more connected to other people around the world.  This causes and will cause people in the work force to make sure they stay up to date with such technology and opportunities.  As we look at technology we have seen in the past the older people get the more they fall behind on such technological advantages; but, I feel that as important such technology is in our world today such an age gap decrease significantly.  All together I feel like the importance of the video is to spur thought, but to take what one professor creates in a video to the grave would be a misconception of the video in a whole.  

First Blog: About Me

Hello to all.  My name is Holmes Hill.  I am from the city Greenville, SC and have spent most of my twenty years there.  I have a family that consists of a mother and father, and an older brother, who is currently living in Charleston.  I am actually an undeclared major here at Clemson, but only becuase I have not changed into Economics.  I hope to continue my studies in law, and one day go to law school.  I enjoy the outdoors, music, and the arts.  Peace.