Final Assignment

My expectations as a student were to concentrate and listen to all lectures as a freshmen in college. Get an A in the course so that my GPA is good. My expectations were met as I learned a lot and got a good  grade in the course. I would like to see more speeches added in the course as it motivates us to do well. I wouldn't like to see anything removed from the course. The professor was great as he really knew how to teach a class. He was very vocal and upfront with the expectations toward the class. UHD 1301 is a great course as it help me settle down in college as a freshmen when I was very nervous about giving speeches.

Social Media Consultation

Social Media Consultation: Starbucks in Action

Starbucks was founded in the early 70's, so before their main clientele was adults, but now since younger people (teenagers) are drinking more coffee they have found new ways to get their products out to them. They use social media sites like twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube to advertise their vast production of services. On twitter they have about 6.86 million followers. They frequently post new products and limited time deals on certain things. They start trends that relate to their products, for example now that winter is here they begin to sell their favorite winter product. The limited time pumpkin spice late. They post tons of things saying "ITS BACK, get it while its hot". It doesn't take long before people begin to upload post and pictures with the #pumpkin spice. Same thing happens on Instagram where they upload celebrities and or athletes enjoying their products. On Facebook tons of people click "like" on coffee then tons of things on Starbucks begin to come up, advertising their extensive supply on coffee. They use YouTube to showcase new products through funny and relatable situations that coffee drinkers come across and or overcome by drinking their coffee. These situations are retable to younger people since now in 2014 is their biggest clientele. They also post a lot of random things that isn't really relevant to their product but relevant/important to their customers. For example they would post things about supporting the army and or supporting the fight against cancer.They do this to attract their customers to their company as a whole. Starbucks shows their support in a lot of other things that the people seem to stand behind. This makes them more likable as a company, this in turn makes people want to buy more of their coffee. They will continue to do this because it works and it has a lot of people’s attention. Since people are visiting these sites on a daily bases it’s near impossible to ignore Starbucks. Now that every time you are craving coffee you will be driving to the nearest Starbucks thirsty for caffeine.

Social Resume Assignment- Sajid Ali

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Group Progress Report 2

Group Progress report 2

What role is each group member assigned to in the group?

Tajmina Aakhi

Tajmina is responsible for the introduction of this whole presentation. She is going to be announcing exactly what we are all going to talk about throughout the entire discussion. She is also responsible for the interactive video that will support the statements made by the group members.

Sajid Ali:

 So after discussing with the group we decided to switch the responsibilities of the individuals in the group therefore, Tajmina has decided to introduce the topic while Sajid will try to find whether or not online education is actually beneficial  depending on the research.

Hamza Malik Tariq:

He is responsible for the pros, and cons of online education. He will try to find what may be beneficial for people who are interested in online education. On the other hand, how online education could be a setback and may not help an individual at all when he/she finally decides to learn in a classroom.

Specific research:

Many people have tried to go through online education to get their degree but we want to find out if they have been successful in actually getting that degree. Some questions in mind are the level of difficulty compared to what a person learns in school and if the intellect one receives from actually having a face to face interaction and what somebody learns just by reading online. Our motive is to research and find as much information as we can which is true about the topic and not out dated or false. It's very important for people to understand if online education is right for them and if the level of education is as great as what one gets to learn in class. We will also talk to people who have taken their education online and hear how it has benefited them or effected them after they have transitioned into a real classroom environment.

Sources:

We will try to find information online from sources like UHD libraries and Hcc database including other online websites. Also we will look for books which have a connection with the topic at hand which is online education. Newspapers/Magazines which almost always have data regarding online education.

Blog Assignment 7: Privacy Scavenger Hunt

Senator Rockefeller Questions Whisper About Privacy Practices

There is an app called "Whisper App" where people can share their thoughts with the world and was labeled as the "safest place in the internet". It turns out that was all a lie these people can actually locate the exact place where the person who shared his/her thoughts is. Even if the user had requested not to be located. Even going as far as to setting up a place in the Philippines to review user when in fact in the privacy policy it had said all information was stored in the United States. This just shows that a person cant trust anybody and any franchise even if they guarantee that the information will stay private.

EPIC Recommends Research on "Privacy Enhancing Technologies"

EPIC has recommended privacy enhancing technologies and a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. An effort to limit the collection of personally identifiable information. Examples being identity theft, security breaches, and financial fraud. The white house has accepted these recommendations. I think it will be great if they can improve their security so that frauds, thefts and security breaches never happen again.

EPIC Obtains New Documents About Lack of Student Privacy Enforcement

EPIC has obtained new documents reveling that parents and students have filed complaints about the misuse of education records. This being rightfully done so because its possibly a violation of the federal student privacy law. Where schools and districts cant disclose a students personal record without the students consent. Personal information should never be disclosed without the consent of the person whatever reason it might be for doesn't matter. 

Blog Assignment 4- Blogrolls

What I have been reading so far in the blogs I had posted, are updates on those certain situations. For example the Ray Rice article I had posted there is now information on how he has been released from the team because of the trials and hitting a women is just not acceptable, so he has been released by the Baltimore Ravens. The article on Stephen Tulloch talks about the recovering from the injury   after getting injured  while celebrating a sack. I had also posted an article  on Accounting which talks about how successful people have been in their careers after getting a degree in Accounting. The last article I had posted was about online education which talks about the pros and cons of taking online education instead of classroom education.

Blog Assignment 6: Privacy

Four online services that I use are Facebook, UHD Blackboard, Yahoo mail, and Google blogger. They have many different options as far as the account security or privacy settings. Facebook has options such as making my profile private, public, viewable to only friends. It also has an option to block unnecessary tagging from people in your friends list. I can also deactivate my account any time I want to if I don’t feel like I’m going to be using for a while. The UHD blackboard allows me to make my email, address, phone number private so that I am the only one that can see this information. I can hide my name off the roster so that only the teacher can see my name and no one else. Google blogger has a setting where I can check all the previous records as to when I have logged and if any log in timings are not accurate, I can file a complaint. Yahoo mail has a privacy option in which if I suspect that someone else logged in, I can set up a secondary log in verification. Or change my password so that it doesn’t happen again. I feel that Facebook has the most privacy settings and  the best one is the setting to deactivate when you’re not using it and then being able to activate again when you want to use it. UHD blackboard has the worst since there are not a lot of privacy setting options.