I learned about this during an ethics class from one of my professors.  He mentioned that this could potentially be useful especially if you want to stay on alert about what is happening in your industry.  I actually did not even think about using this until I had a project to do for my [...]

foursquare (Tae in Philadelphia, PA) Leaderboard (last 7 days) 1. Tae K. 389 (69x) 2. Matt T. 252 (55x) 1. Find your friends 2. Check-in (tell us where you are!) 3. Shout (broadcast a message to friends) 4. Search venues 5. Badges 6. Leaderboard 7. Change location 8. Add friends 9. Download 10. Feedback? Bugs?  [Read more]

  My key take-away that I received from social media innovations were the things like dropbox that further enhanced my value of social media. Before this class, I never fully realized how much value was in social media and what it all encompassed.  I had no idea that there are programs like drop box, masher, [...]

I recently got netflix and I’ve been watching a lot of documentaries lately.

I thought this one was really interesting so I’d share it on Digg.

Here is a link to my digg post.

http://priory.dhs.edu/Images/THXflyerwebcrop.jpg

Our last discussion question on viral marketing I thought was interesting.  It seems to be that pretty much anything you do could be thought of as viral marketing.  You just telling your friends about a new product you heard about or like is a form of viral marketing.  Sulay Desai write in his blog, “tweeting [...]

We did a Facebook ad for our group project to promote our site.  It was pretty simple to set up and didn’t take much time.  The only hard decision was either to chose impressions or per click. There are a few quick questions to answer in order to set it up. The questions are pretty straight forward like country, name [...]

I got 4 badges on 4square!   The first one is the Newbie badge for getting my first checkin.               “Adventurer”  this was the next badge I got for getting 10 checkins   “Explorer” After getting my 2nd badge, I got this one for checking into my 25th place.   “Super User” [...]

I finally got Four Square working recently and have been trying to rack up some poitns for it Pretty much what four square is, a social media tool that lets you tell people where you are, write a quick comment about the place and sometimes the places offer you discounts.  You can even collect four [...]

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I was taking a look at some other peoples blogs.  I noticed many had the ratings thing on their

kind of like how facebook as the like button in their system.  I thought it was cool was I added

in this plugin.

This is a link to blog giving some information about Philly tech week.

On it are information, a calendar schedule a bunch of other information.

http://www.uwishunu.com/2011/03/philly-tech-week-a-first-ever-week-long-celebration-of-innovation-in-philadelphia-is-set-for-april-25-30/

  I was trying to think of a viral marketing campaign that I may have been directly or indirectly exposed to and after thinking about it, I couldn’t think of a concrete answer.  One thing that might fit is a hair wax product that I got from my girlfriend I told everyone about.  It was [...]

VS     Both these programs do pretty much the same thing and track views and visits your sites get.  You can see a breakdown of when people are viewing, how many times a certain page is being, viewed and all the other goodies that you might want if your trying to bring traffic to your [...]

  WOOOOHOOOOOOO! finally graduating and leaving this grimy city, although I will miss this city.  It’s been my home for 4 years and honestly feel more at home here than my home back in mechanicsburg. This post is actually here to describe my Facebook group page I made for people I know that are also [...]

I did not go to the IT awards this year because of class and work.  I am usually in class or working during my off times.  I work at a sushi restaurant on South Street and my shifts are pretty long.  I work from 11:30 – 10pm and 11pm on weekends so I don’t have [...]

  FAQ: How do I add my slideshow into wordpress. I was struggling with this for awhile and I couldn’t figure out how people were getting their slideshows to show up or how to even make a slide show to upload on wordpress.  After messing around with different things and looking at other blogs I figured out [...]

  I just signed up for TopCoder.  I know it’s pretty late to register since we had the speaker about a month and a half ago, but I wanted the extra quest points so I could get back on that ranking table.  The registration was pretty easy except for the very beginning.  When you first [...]