Sunday, May 2, 2010

From Mount Pleasant to Chicago

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The last week of my college career I recieved this picture from my brother; his view from his apartment. It made me realize how far I've come (and how long I've been here, haha) at Iowa Wesleyan College. I'm ready to grow up and become a productive member of society, but at the same time I'll obviously miss some things of college, with 8am class not being one of those.

From Mount Pleasant, I'll be seeing Chicago soon enough.

Youtube Video

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Here is my youtube post. It is a video I made from my Razr phone my freshman year of college and uploaded it to youtube.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Facebook "Like"

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Recently Facebook unrolled their new web-wide standard of sharing information. The "Like" feature is already implemented on 50,000 websites, in which the user clicks the "like" button and this page is automatically shared to the user's Facebook page.

I think this is an amazing use of social technology. Websites will be shared more and more through it, instead of just copying and pasting. It also brings in even MORE users to Facebook, thus gaining them a huge market share and chunk of change.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Final Project

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In case anyone reads this and wants a preview of my presentation tomorrow, here's the link. This will also serve as my copy to Dr. Price so he can view it after my presentation tomorrow.

http://prezi.com/b11dryk54bku/comm-380-project/

Photostream

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I couldn't figure out how to get my own photos into a gallery or others photos into a set, so I developed two smaller streams to be viewed as one.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jcalderoneiwc/sets/72157623904718316/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jcalderoneiwc/galleries/72157623900633512/

Iowa Wesleyan College Video News Release

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With the school year winding down, Iowa Wesleyan College has started the application process for living spaces. This video news release showcases one of the options: Carol J. Nemitz Suites

Friday, April 16, 2010

Lost iPhone

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For Apple, Lost iPhone Is a Big Deal

This article talks about the lost iPhone prototype and how it came to be. This article concerns PR and New Media because Apple is getting TONS of free PR from this fiasco. If someone was to lose a prototype 20 years ago, the only consequence would have been another loss... someone's job. Now because of social media and how quick every bit of information is processed and spread, within a few hours of a link being posted from Engadget the blogosphere went wild. It was trending on Twitter, Digg, Facebook and practically every social media site.

This is creating a huge buzz for Apple while also allowing them to see consumer reactions, all of the trending topics are public, and tweak their product to counteract the reactions.