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Facebook group collaboration

ekoestne@purdue.edu — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:37:54 +0000

This last week our group was to collaborate our information and pur our paper together. I needed to find some URLS for my information and I had to find a few articles for our group to use for our white paper.

I also found a few new articles that our group could use for our tutrial paper. That is about it for now. Our group will get together again this Sunday at 3pm.

We wiil go over our presentation and get ready for our presentation day.

Eric Koestner

Facebook online tutorial research

ekoestne@purdue.edu — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:44:04 +0000

This past week I was able to find some articles on recent complaints about privacy issues from Facebook users, Articles on how E-learning can benefit companies through faster results, lower costs, and able to meet deadlines easier, and How educational information that helps consumers can be a marketing tool for companies interested in gaining new clients and keeping the customers they have. Ways of makeing educational products such as tutorials becaome a product to use to possible make more profits through more users of the service.

I hope to collaborate my information with the others in our group and we should be able to come up with some good ideas to implement this information.

Have a great Thanksgiving Break!!!

Eric Koestner

Facebook security measures and tutorial

ekoestne@purdue.edu — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:31:43 +0000

I spent some time looking for some more information on Facebook privacy issues and tutorials also. I did find some info on how academics redearched and found how personal habits, tastes, and values affect the formation of social relationships. Scholars are using data from one University to monitor the facebook profiles of an entire class of students and using this information.

I also looked up info on passwords, filters, and security measures to use for facebook. I found one article on Hacking Myspace passwords and another on MySpace passwords aren't so dumb. But, I wasn't able to find much on using a different alternative for security measures besides the tutorial for privacy protection.

Eric Koestner

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Facebook tutorial and paper

ekoestne@purdue.edu — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:07:53 +0000

This past week I have been writing our tutorial for our facebook group and also meeting with our group to make the final changes for our group presentation. I found that I wasn't able to use some of the clip art for the tutorial, so then I made some changes to how it needed to look.

I asked our facebook group for some suggestions after I completeed the tutorial the first time. They wanted to make some changes and we did. We also got together as a group a few times in the past week and was able to work on the paper, summary page, and our prresentation.

Lastnight our group was able to get together and make final changes to our paper and also had a chance to practice our presentation and make sure it was the correct length.

We finished our presentyation lastnight. Today I filled out the peer review form for our group. I also filled out some note cards to use for the presentation. I also practiced the presentation and made sure the time was good.

Facebook research data found

ekoestne@purdue.edu — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:35:40 +0000

I have done some searching online for tutorials to use for an example for our facebook paper. I was able to find a tutorial for ITAP that seems to be a good example for what we need to use and I can use the template for our project and just adjust it to make it fit for facebook.

I also found a tutorial on the Purdue Library site. I can use some of this information also and make it fit our paper.

I will search for some more articles for the older age segments and professionals who use facebook to stay in touch with co workers and old school mates.

Eric Koestner

Facebook online tutorial

ekoestne@purdue.edu — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:02:31 +0000

Over the break I was able to find a couple of articles talking about online tutorials and how they can be effective. One of the articlas was called Best Practices in Online Customer Training. This spoke about howe to build a profitable online customer training business. It went over elearning technologies mostluy from an employers perspective.

Business drivers, business models, and customer training as a profit center. Three basic busines models. Customer trianing as a slaes and marketing tool. Customer training to reduce support and service costs. Customer training is a product, not just education.

These are just a few different areas of a tutorial to consider.

Eric koestner

Facebook Research

ekoestne@purdue.edu — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:28:52 +0000

I was able to find a few articles online that talked about our issues with facebook. some of the issues they discussed were:

A father who recently started using Facebook enjoys using it for professional use for work and talking to his coleagues. While his daughter does not like him using Facebook because she is embarrassed that her dad uses the same site to chat.

I also found some demographic material on the age groups who use Facebook and it also discusses which group is growing the most as users.

"Facebook Age Distribution"

O'reilly Radar, "Facebook Growth By Age Group: Share of College - Users is Declining."

I want to show that Facebook need to show more privacy measures, learning tools, tips for privacy, and Facebook need a tutorial for beginning users to use and learn about all of the different types of privacy setting that can be used to keep users safe ou there.

Maybe use pop up menues or something like that for new users to learn from or everyone to use.

A way to select privacy settings in a more user friendly manner for the non teck people out there.

Eric Koestner

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Topic Proposal: Privacy issues with Face Book

ekoestne@purdue.edu — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:11:17 +0000

There seem to be many reasons for college students to enjoy using Face book, like writing on someones wall, constant contact with your friends, ability to post pictures and also letting others post their information on your site. But, there are also problems that may arise from this freedom and ability to just post whatever you want whenever you like. I think that users and members need to think about what could happen with the materials that they place on Face Book before they actually post these items.

Some of the problems that could arise are: Members placing pictures of themselves, you, and others on your site, which you may not want placed on your site. People asking you to become a member of their group, when you don't know what the group is or does. Members can write and post things on your wall that may be damaging to you or someone else.

For example I have a friend that justs posts pictures onto my site without asking me if this is ok with me or not. I think that they should atleast ask me first if, I care that they are placing pictures of whatever they are posting on my site. This is common curtesy I thought. You could end up having pictures of people on your wall that you are not really fond of and you may not want the pictures there.

To utilize my skills and strengths as an intern at Ernst & Young

ekoestne@purdue.edu — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:58:31 +0000

–To utilize my [leadership skills and accounting background] as a [intern in the audit department]

–A position as a [intern in audit] for [Ernst & Young LLC. ] allowing me to develop my [leadership, accounting, and auditing skills.]

–An opportunity to [work in the auditing field] in a [Public accounting firm.

–[An internship in auditing] with emphasis in [audit, financial statement analysis, and accouniting regulations. ]

Cover Letter Outline

ekoestne@purdue.edu — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:26:33 +0000

Cover Letter Outline

Dear Sir or Madam:

I. Introduction

a. I found your advertisement for an Assurance and Advisory Business services internship in the Center for Careers and Occupations website through Purdue University.

b. I am very interested in this position and would like to talk with you about it. If the position is still available my resume may be of interest to you.

II. My experince in the leadership academy gave me insight to principles of leadership and the skills needed to effectively lead teams in different situations. My experience as a team member of Purdue Crew has given me the ability to work in a team environment and be a cohesive member of a team. I also had the opportunity to be a senator for the Purdue student Senate where I was on the internal and audit committee as a representative.

III. It would be a pleasure to meet with you to discuss my background and skills to find if I would be a good fit with the rquirements for this position. I hope that I would be able to make a contribution to your Ernst and Young organization. I look forward to speaking with you soon.

Closure,

Sincerely,

Eric J. Koestner

Enclosure:

resume