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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THBor9pv9ikA

The video above is a commercial from Exxon promoting a new way they invented to gather energy by harnessing natural gas trapped in cracks within the earths crust. Exxon has already started harnessing this natural gas in many states and is trying to bring these practices to New York and Pennsylvania.

This is a video of a man lighting his tap water on fire. In case you were not aware tap water should not be lit on fire. The reason his tap water lights on fire is because the chemicals used in extracting the natural gasses seep into underground wells and contaminate drinking water for many people.

I just changed the website links on my blog because the ones that I had were generics that did not mean anything to be personally. The websites that I posted on my blog are:

ESPN – I added a link to ESPN because I love to watch many different sports and sometimes when you can’t watch it you need to at least know what the score is.

My Facebook – In case people who are looking at my blog want to learn more about me or get in contact with me.

Texts From Last Night – This is a funny site that I love going to. If is a collection of funny drunk stories.

Cracked – This is another funny site I go to a lot when I am bored. It is a collection of random funny lists.

Temple AEPi Blog – I am a brother of AEPi at Temple and this blog lets people who are no longer students or have other affiliations with the chapter know the kind of things we are upto.

Idea #1: Post links to my blog on Facebook

Description: I plan to start putting up the link to my blog on my Facebook every time I make an entry that I think my friends would be interested in.

Rationale: I think that by putting the link of blog on Facebook some of my friends who are either bored or interested in topics that I am writing about would go to it thus increasing my traffic.

Objective: I hope that more people particularly those not in the class and not associated with the class read my blog.

Measurement: I will know if this strategy has succeeded by looking at Google analytics to see how many of the viewers of my website came in from Facebook.

Idea #2: Link other people’s blogs in my posts

Description: I plan to start placing links for my classmates blogs in my blog when their blog posts relate to mine in some way.

Rationale: I think that people in class would be more likely to read my blog if they knew that I refer to what they talked about in their blog and post a link to their blog on mine. Objective: I hope that more people in class will go to by blog and read it.

Measurement: I will know if this strategy has succeeded by using Google Analytics and comparing the amount of views I get on posts where I refer to and link other people’s blogs to those where I don’t.

This class has taught me how little I really know about social media and what kind of amazing technologies exist that I should familiarize myself with to better succeed after college.

Step 1: Find the button – The button is hidden pretty well but if you look hard enough you can find it. It is located all the way at the bottom of the page with the privacy information and all the other stuff nobody really looks at.

Step 2: Select a type of Organization and Name – It is pretty strait forward. I named mine “Peter and Partner’s Freelance Consultation Services” and made myself a consultation firm.

Step 3: Add a profile picture: Pretty standard just upload a picture from anywhere on your computer. I used one of me in a suit so it looked like I may be qualified to give consultations.

Step 4: Import a like button – This is very important so people can like my new page and begin to draw attention to it and this increasing my clientele.

Step 5: Post a status – You need to create some initial activity on the website so other people become interested in your page. I posted “All big things start with a small step”. Figured it was true and would foster some commentary.

Step 6: Place the information including where you are located, site description and your contact information. I didn’t really go into too much detail in this step, but I did put by real email to see if anybody will actually contact me.

This was my first time doing this and to be honest I am pretty impressed by how simple it was. In about an hour anybody can create a very detailed and functional page about an organization or hobby or anything of that sort. Now that I have learned how to do this I will most likely use it to create some sort of legitimate page for myself assuming Peter and Partner’s Freelance Consultation Services doesn’t work out.

Here is my page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Peter-and-Partners-Freelance-Consultation-Services/192444327464892?sk=wall#!/pages/Peter-and-Partners-Freelance-Consultation-Services/192444327464892?sk=wall

Hey guys,

My name is Peter Vakarev and I am an International Business major with a MIS minor. I chose to pursue International Business because I love to travel and I love seeing how people live in different places of the world. I have been to Canada, Jamaica, Russia, Puerto Rico, Dominique Republic, France, Italy, and Israel. I am also hoping to receive an international internship this summer so I can spend six to eight weeks living in a different country embracing the culture. I chose this class because I recognize that technology is a huge aspect of business and will only becoming bigger in years to come. I feel that to be successful in the business world learning how to use developing business tools like blogs is very important.