Week 12 - April 11, 2012

Last week was Entrepreneur Week. I feel a little bad about not going to it, but I enjoyed my Wednesday with no class. I got to celebrate my Birthday. :)

So this week is chapter 15. Sounds interesting right? Well, it actually kind of is. It builds on what we learned two weeks ago. Some of that stuff just feels like forever ago. But this chapter had some nice points of review as well as some new information. The full title of the chapter is Advertising and Public Relations. It's interesting that the now famous Tour De France began as a publicity stunt. I couldn't believe it when I read that in the chapter.

The professor provided an overview of Entrepreneur Week and showed some of the videos/websites that were shown  during presentations. I took a few notes on this and that helped me understand what happens at Entrepreneur Week a little better.

There have been some questions about the class blog assignment so the professor talked about that a bit. One thing he said was that some of the questions he has been asking us as part of our class involvement quizzes could probably be copied and pasted into our blog posts. I think I might do a little of this. There was one answer that I typed that I really liked and wanted to include in my blog. So I'm considering it, but I'm pretty sure I probably will include some of my write out answers.

The topics that we reviewed from the last class were really quite useful. I like the diagrams my professor drew, so I wrote them in my notes. If I can later I will scan in part of my notes and post the picture as an edit to this post.

From a question in the quiz:
I really enjoyed the class. I feel bad because I feel like I can't remember much. Well public relations and advertising are much more than I thought they were. Advertising is really what I thought of at the beginning of this class as 'marketing'. I'm glad I've gained some new perspectives and insight from this class.  I guess one way of putting it is that advertising is a process, but it can happen slowly or quickly. The process is generally the same, but different in type, variation, and speed for different products, services, target markets, and companies/organizations. I guess I remember more than I thought.

I'm not sure how accurate my analysis is but that is what I thought of while taking the quiz and looking at the text to try and help me remember what we learned/talked about last week.

The class discussion on MySpace was difficult. I determined one thing though, I'm glad I never joined MySpace. I do not like the fact that they really did not have any rules about content. That is an issue that I think companies might have struggled with when the were deciding whether or not they should join MySpace.

I did my presentation last week too. I say last week because of when I am writing this. It went pretty well. I wish I had not had such a hard time making the video. I learned a lot though and I hope the video has helped some people out there, as I posted it on YouTube, with signing up for and using Facebook.

If I can I will embed my video below: