Student Name: David Buiter
Major: Business Economics
Minor(s): Management Information Systems/Marketing
Why? I chose to take Business Economics because i have the desire to be a Sports agent when i graduate and i felt a good understanding of the economic elements to this field would be important. My parents are both economists and such discussions over the dinner table have prompted me into taking up the subject.
1/9/2013
What will be your primary target audience for your website? what is your primary color and why you chose it?
My primary target audience will be the youth, the young and energetic individuals full of curiosity, as they hold so much energy to explore. However the website will need to be very cautious, because of the few children that use their parents belongings unwisely.
My primary colour will be blue because of it's relation to professionalism. On many websites blue is used because it is distinctive and very easy to see when the user has that capability. The colour is part of the subtractive system which comes to play in printing, drawing, and painting. My secondary colour would be magenta because i have the intentions of using the primary colour red with blue. In between the primary and secondary colour, my tertiary colour will be blended and formed.
1/16/2013
What colors are you adding to your primary color and why? how do they represent you?
Along with my initial primary colour, i chose to use yellow, purple and red because i feel the colurs work well together and i have already thought of ways of managing the colours. Without order the colours can ruin each other, in a sense that the blue could overshadow the yellow and the yellow could ruin the user/surfers screen appearance.
1/21/2013
what is your value proposition and why?
As a member of your organization, it will be
my pleasure to provide the company with a website that informs the public of
your products arrival, allowing them the opportunity to read into your product
line and purchase what they demand. The website will also be a form of
communication allowing your company to communicate directly/indirectly before,
after or even during the exchange of money for products or personal information.
01/23/2013
How will you organize your Facebook?
In the process of organizing my Facebook I will go through my friend list again, have the comments on the left with my friend window, likes, activity, locations on the right.
01/28/2013
What do you want perspective employers to know about you?
I would like my perspective employers to see what i can achieve, to understand the level of work i can put into a project and the quality of work i can produce. I have the capacity to produce excellent pieces of works to the highest quality, on a consistent basis without living a social-less side of life. A hard-worker but a social individual. I also want my perspective employer to see that I have been able to maintain a clean social environment using social media and avoiding any mixed opinions from a picture.
01/30/2013
Describe a Photoshop tool and explain what it does?
Polygon Lasso Tool, you use this to draw selections in whatever shape you would like. In order to close the selection, either click on the beginning point or just double-click. The cursor tends to change when your on it. When holding the CTRL key, you will see the cursor change. The next time you click, it will close the selection.
02/04/2013
Describe a specific html tag and what it does?
<HTML> this html tag tells your web browser that a page whit HTML is coming up. The opening tag is always placed at the beginning of your document, and the closing tage is placed at the very end.
02/06/2013
What is CSS?
CSS stands for cascading style sheet which is a style sheet language used to present semantics of a document written in a mark-up language.
02/11/2013
Describe a topic in your major to show your knowledge?
In my major of business Economics, my field has such a broad horizon of jobs. As an economist you are analyzing how a market reacts to different circumstances, first by defining a market where sellers and buyers meet, known as the equilibrium where the demand curve of the consumers and the supply curve of the suppliers cross.
02/13/2013
What community service project have you been a part of and how did you contribute?
I have not yet taken part in a large scale community service project, however I do intend on participating in such an event in the upcoming months. There is a 3 month window between the end of the Spring semester and the beginning of the Fall semester and the time can be used to take advantage of my opportunities.
02/18/2013
What is the value of social media to a graduating college student? How can it help you and how can it hurt?
Social media is incredibly popular these days and for students can yes be both damaging to their image and beneficial. In a beneficial sense, an employer can take a peek at what a future employee can have on their facebook page, and some friends in common can become advantageous contacts. Some forms of contact offered from the social networking such as Linkdn can offer the employer a good educational background of what the future employee has achieved and what they are capable of achieving. On the other hand, social media can be harmful to ones future if not taken care of, certain moment of misjudgments on a facebook page can change an employees opinion of you in a click, for example if you were to have any vulgar statuses or photos of yourself with an alcoholic beverages.
02/20/2013
What is a Klout score? Describe it's value to you?
Your Klout score incorporates incorporates several signals from different social networks. The data is processed on a daily basis and the majority of the signals are used to calculate the Klout score are derived from combinations of attributes, such as the ratio of reactions you generate compared to the amount of content you share.
I like using my Klout score as a way of showing how i interact with my friends and how influential i can be with my fellow social networkers.
02/25/2013
What is Pinterest and how can it help you as a social media tool? What other new social media tool (nothing we have discussed) would you find beneficial?
Pinterest is a pinboard-style photo-sharing website that allows users to create theme based image collections such as interests, hobbies and events. It allows you to connect with your friends and other users as they "pin" pictures of items and things that they like and you will have the ability to repost their pictures which you both share an interest in.
I have found instagram to be incredibly helpful because it works similar to Pinterest and I have not got into this form of social media yet. Instagram allows it's users to take pictures and post them for other users to see, there is a friendship requirement for people to see what you post. Once the picture is posted you can like the photo or comment about it and offers another source for communication.
02/27/2013
How can you simplify your social media postings so you do not have to go to multiple places to post?
A lot of these social networks have managed to provide links between themselves and other networking sources, for example Instagram can now be synchronized with Facebook and Twitter.
Another form of social media management has been through the use of hootsuite prohich allows you to manage unlimited Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google + page profiles. and allows you to schedule tweets, post and messages to all of your own accounts. It also allows you to create reports and measure your opportunities for success via the use of enhanced social analytics.
03/11/2013
What new thing have you learned this semester, in this class, another class, on the job or in the community that will make you a more skillful and insightful employee?
This semester my knowledge of economical models has been expanded and my knowledge of the way the economy reacts to sudden changes has increased. Using such models as the production function or the marginal rate of technical substitution have offered another angle on how company owners have been able to estimate and plan for the upcoming production periods.
03/25/2013
What is your brand? What do you want people to know about you from looking at your eportfolio?
When possible employers look at my portfolio I want them to see a marketable individual. An individual who offers a selective set of skills that they wish to use. I have a very open personality and my several trips world-wide offer the advantage of adaptation through different environments.
04/01/2013
What will you change about your eportfolio? How will you increase your Search Engine Rankability?
In the future, my e-portfolio will change because my own work experience will offer different angles that my future employees will look from and my portfolio will need to be adjusted to provide a good outlay of my skill set and my experiences. Currently my search engine rank-ability is already rather high, however in the future I hope to have my name as the main search result as opposed to my father's which is commonly linked to my own name.
04/08/2013
How has your Value proposition changed if it has? How has your knowledge/skill grown this semester? What will you do with this knowledge in the future?
My value proposition was a little longer than it need to be, the aim for my next value proposition would be to use it to cite all the relevant information needed but in a smaller context. Trying to avoid beating around the bush and actually stick to specifics and important information.
In future MIS clases to come I'm certain there will be more information to offer in future value propositions but for now I feel my initial proposition included everything that was asked for.
01/28/2013
What do you want perspective employers to know about you?
I would like my perspective employers to see what i can achieve, to understand the level of work i can put into a project and the quality of work i can produce. I have the capacity to produce excellent pieces of works to the highest quality, on a consistent basis without living a social-less side of life. A hard-worker but a social individual. I also want my perspective employer to see that I have been able to maintain a clean social environment using social media and avoiding any mixed opinions from a picture.
01/30/2013
Describe a Photoshop tool and explain what it does?
Polygon Lasso Tool, you use this to draw selections in whatever shape you would like. In order to close the selection, either click on the beginning point or just double-click. The cursor tends to change when your on it. When holding the CTRL key, you will see the cursor change. The next time you click, it will close the selection.
02/04/2013
Describe a specific html tag and what it does?
<HTML> this html tag tells your web browser that a page whit HTML is coming up. The opening tag is always placed at the beginning of your document, and the closing tage is placed at the very end.
02/06/2013
What is CSS?
CSS stands for cascading style sheet which is a style sheet language used to present semantics of a document written in a mark-up language.
02/11/2013
Describe a topic in your major to show your knowledge?
In my major of business Economics, my field has such a broad horizon of jobs. As an economist you are analyzing how a market reacts to different circumstances, first by defining a market where sellers and buyers meet, known as the equilibrium where the demand curve of the consumers and the supply curve of the suppliers cross.
02/13/2013
What community service project have you been a part of and how did you contribute?
I have not yet taken part in a large scale community service project, however I do intend on participating in such an event in the upcoming months. There is a 3 month window between the end of the Spring semester and the beginning of the Fall semester and the time can be used to take advantage of my opportunities.
02/18/2013
What is the value of social media to a graduating college student? How can it help you and how can it hurt?
Social media is incredibly popular these days and for students can yes be both damaging to their image and beneficial. In a beneficial sense, an employer can take a peek at what a future employee can have on their facebook page, and some friends in common can become advantageous contacts. Some forms of contact offered from the social networking such as Linkdn can offer the employer a good educational background of what the future employee has achieved and what they are capable of achieving. On the other hand, social media can be harmful to ones future if not taken care of, certain moment of misjudgments on a facebook page can change an employees opinion of you in a click, for example if you were to have any vulgar statuses or photos of yourself with an alcoholic beverages.
02/20/2013
What is a Klout score? Describe it's value to you?
Your Klout score incorporates incorporates several signals from different social networks. The data is processed on a daily basis and the majority of the signals are used to calculate the Klout score are derived from combinations of attributes, such as the ratio of reactions you generate compared to the amount of content you share.
I like using my Klout score as a way of showing how i interact with my friends and how influential i can be with my fellow social networkers.
02/25/2013
What is Pinterest and how can it help you as a social media tool? What other new social media tool (nothing we have discussed) would you find beneficial?
Pinterest is a pinboard-style photo-sharing website that allows users to create theme based image collections such as interests, hobbies and events. It allows you to connect with your friends and other users as they "pin" pictures of items and things that they like and you will have the ability to repost their pictures which you both share an interest in.
I have found instagram to be incredibly helpful because it works similar to Pinterest and I have not got into this form of social media yet. Instagram allows it's users to take pictures and post them for other users to see, there is a friendship requirement for people to see what you post. Once the picture is posted you can like the photo or comment about it and offers another source for communication.
02/27/2013
How can you simplify your social media postings so you do not have to go to multiple places to post?
A lot of these social networks have managed to provide links between themselves and other networking sources, for example Instagram can now be synchronized with Facebook and Twitter.
Another form of social media management has been through the use of hootsuite prohich allows you to manage unlimited Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google + page profiles. and allows you to schedule tweets, post and messages to all of your own accounts. It also allows you to create reports and measure your opportunities for success via the use of enhanced social analytics.
03/11/2013
What new thing have you learned this semester, in this class, another class, on the job or in the community that will make you a more skillful and insightful employee?
This semester my knowledge of economical models has been expanded and my knowledge of the way the economy reacts to sudden changes has increased. Using such models as the production function or the marginal rate of technical substitution have offered another angle on how company owners have been able to estimate and plan for the upcoming production periods.
03/25/2013
What is your brand? What do you want people to know about you from looking at your eportfolio?
When possible employers look at my portfolio I want them to see a marketable individual. An individual who offers a selective set of skills that they wish to use. I have a very open personality and my several trips world-wide offer the advantage of adaptation through different environments.
04/01/2013
What will you change about your eportfolio? How will you increase your Search Engine Rankability?
In the future, my e-portfolio will change because my own work experience will offer different angles that my future employees will look from and my portfolio will need to be adjusted to provide a good outlay of my skill set and my experiences. Currently my search engine rank-ability is already rather high, however in the future I hope to have my name as the main search result as opposed to my father's which is commonly linked to my own name.
04/08/2013
How has your Value proposition changed if it has? How has your knowledge/skill grown this semester? What will you do with this knowledge in the future?
My value proposition was a little longer than it need to be, the aim for my next value proposition would be to use it to cite all the relevant information needed but in a smaller context. Trying to avoid beating around the bush and actually stick to specifics and important information.
In future MIS clases to come I'm certain there will be more information to offer in future value propositions but for now I feel my initial proposition included everything that was asked for.
