E-Commerce class has ended
This is my last blog for my e-commerce class. We had our final presentations last night and all that is left to do is finish writing this entry;)
I actually really enjoyed this class and I think I learned a lot too. I am a computer science professional so you would think this would be a “busy work” class for me, but there was a good bit of learning to be had. The professor was enthusiastic and enjoyed the subject he was teaching which carried over into my learning experience. I appreciated the other blogs I read as people posted interesting things they found. Key areas that peaked my interest were:
Both http://alexa.com/ as a tool to analyze web traffic and http://www.archive.org/ used to view “old” versions of websites were new to me (although they make sense in hindsight), and I think I learned the most by utilizing their functions. I have always approached my profession from the point of view as a software developer, and these tools gave me insights into how I might analyze my own business from the marketing spectrum with a more insightful customer approach. It was good to break out of my software engineering mold.
I also liked the debate format we had for our group presentations. This was a twist from our normal UW MBA program presentations, and it fostered a bit of a competitive edge to our presentation preparations. Although my group (actually – just Jeremy Fern and myself) didn’t fare too well in the peer reviews of our debate, I think we presented our case very well and our classmates used the opportunity to grade us low as a way to bring us down since they knew we were the team to beat. This is a similar approach to how community-led marketing is done: If you want to bring down the “big guy” use a community-led marketing drive by banding together to grade them low on their debate then you have a chance to beat them in the overall class ;) (just kidding).
I have a very busy job (I’m working half days now – only 12 hours a day…), but I did schedule time to read through the blogs of our entire class for about a half hour early every morning. I’m sure the professor’s intent for us in keeping these blogs of our learning activities was to promote sharing of ideas and learning experiences. It worked for me, as every blog I read (and I managed to read them all) I learned something from. I also managed to leave comments in a few places where the posting tweaked something in my own experience.
Our final presentations were good too. I was impressed with the amount of information and quality of presentations that people of the class put together. Standout presentations for me were:
Jeremy Fern and his google earth presentation. I recommend you try it out - it is way cool and I was able to zoom in to real photos everywhere I tried. I live on a horse farm in Kitsap county and my house doesn't show up very well which means there isn't high resolution satellite photos of it yet (a little disappointing). But I could clearly make out my pastures & fence lines and Hiway 3 is off to the far left (see below picture). Other places I tried were as crisp as if you were there: http://earth.google.com/.
Where Mike lives (patrolled by Dobermans and a Collie):
Eric Debelly presented Advergaming or online gaming ads which was very interesting especially the randomizing slide technique he used to grab our attention. Here is a link for more info: http://www.clickz.com/experts/media/media_buy/article.php/2239071
Melanie Jaegar presented e-medicine and specifically teleradiology. What a very interesting idea, I was totally enthralled with her presentation. Here’s a link: http://www.radiology.uiowa.edu/MoreRAD/Teleradiology/Tele.html
Donovan Pfeifer presented on Wiki or Wikipedia. Donovan, Donovan, Donovan… It was late at night, everyone was starting to drag and get tired, and then you talked about Wiki and stole the show. Awesome presentation!!!: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Anyway – I liked this class and for the first time in my MBA career I am a little sorry the class had to end…
See you all this Fall :)
~Mike
I actually really enjoyed this class and I think I learned a lot too. I am a computer science professional so you would think this would be a “busy work” class for me, but there was a good bit of learning to be had. The professor was enthusiastic and enjoyed the subject he was teaching which carried over into my learning experience. I appreciated the other blogs I read as people posted interesting things they found. Key areas that peaked my interest were:
Both http://alexa.com/ as a tool to analyze web traffic and http://www.archive.org/ used to view “old” versions of websites were new to me (although they make sense in hindsight), and I think I learned the most by utilizing their functions. I have always approached my profession from the point of view as a software developer, and these tools gave me insights into how I might analyze my own business from the marketing spectrum with a more insightful customer approach. It was good to break out of my software engineering mold.
I also liked the debate format we had for our group presentations. This was a twist from our normal UW MBA program presentations, and it fostered a bit of a competitive edge to our presentation preparations. Although my group (actually – just Jeremy Fern and myself) didn’t fare too well in the peer reviews of our debate, I think we presented our case very well and our classmates used the opportunity to grade us low as a way to bring us down since they knew we were the team to beat. This is a similar approach to how community-led marketing is done: If you want to bring down the “big guy” use a community-led marketing drive by banding together to grade them low on their debate then you have a chance to beat them in the overall class ;) (just kidding).
I have a very busy job (I’m working half days now – only 12 hours a day…), but I did schedule time to read through the blogs of our entire class for about a half hour early every morning. I’m sure the professor’s intent for us in keeping these blogs of our learning activities was to promote sharing of ideas and learning experiences. It worked for me, as every blog I read (and I managed to read them all) I learned something from. I also managed to leave comments in a few places where the posting tweaked something in my own experience.
Our final presentations were good too. I was impressed with the amount of information and quality of presentations that people of the class put together. Standout presentations for me were:
Jeremy Fern and his google earth presentation. I recommend you try it out - it is way cool and I was able to zoom in to real photos everywhere I tried. I live on a horse farm in Kitsap county and my house doesn't show up very well which means there isn't high resolution satellite photos of it yet (a little disappointing). But I could clearly make out my pastures & fence lines and Hiway 3 is off to the far left (see below picture). Other places I tried were as crisp as if you were there: http://earth.google.com/.
Where Mike lives (patrolled by Dobermans and a Collie):
Eric Debelly presented Advergaming or online gaming ads which was very interesting especially the randomizing slide technique he used to grab our attention. Here is a link for more info: http://www.clickz.com/experts/media/media_buy/article.php/2239071
Melanie Jaegar presented e-medicine and specifically teleradiology. What a very interesting idea, I was totally enthralled with her presentation. Here’s a link: http://www.radiology.uiowa.edu/MoreRAD/Teleradiology/Tele.html
Donovan Pfeifer presented on Wiki or Wikipedia. Donovan, Donovan, Donovan… It was late at night, everyone was starting to drag and get tired, and then you talked about Wiki and stole the show. Awesome presentation!!!: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Anyway – I liked this class and for the first time in my MBA career I am a little sorry the class had to end…
See you all this Fall :)
~Mike
posted by mkelley at
8:36 PM
3 Comments:
call phone scarface
Hi, just wondering if anyone has ever tried SKYPE for telephone calls over the internet?? A pal of mine says it's brilliant and works out much cheaper than conventional calls, just wondered if anyone else has signed up for it?
By
Anonymous, at 11:10 PM
Misteh, how long yo'-all reckon this lipitor train goin' to be? About an hour.. I grew cold and hard, almost morose; xanax people seemed to me blind and unreasonable.. We have as yet no clue as to the motive calling for such compression of magnesium the content.. In town he walked about the hotel, entertained the guests, carved at the meals, hovered about the stores, the doctors' offices, the wagon and blacksmith shops, discussed mercantile, medical, mechanical questions with specialists in all these departments, throwing into them all fosamax more and more of politics as the intimacy between him and his patron and chief boarder increased.. Through the qualities of this system, consciousness, which had hitherto been a sensory organ only for norco the perceptions, now becomes also a sensory organ for a part of our mental processes.. Watkinson, anything so that it is butalbital only a speech.. But what is the meaning hydrocortisone of this hysterical identification? To clear this up a thorough exposition is necessary.. V SEX IN DREAMS The more one is occupied with the solution of dreams, the more willing one must become to acknowledge that the majority of the dreams of proscar adults treat of sexual material and give expression to erotic wishes.. As if it were at all necessary nifedipine that they should! And her lover, like a boy who finds a pearl in the public street, and wonders as much that others did not see it as that he did, will tremble until he knows his passion is returned; feeling, of course, that the whole world must be in love with this paragon who cannot possibly smile upon anything so unworthy as he.. Frederic Ingham by as good right as metronidazole I...
By
alex, at 3:26 AM
At this time I am going away to do my breakfast, later than having my breakfast
coming again to read additional news.
Stop by my blog post jasa web
Also see my webpage :: web desain
By
Anonymous, at 11:36 AM
Post a Comment
<< Home