Okay, so I use Twitter all the time. Think of Twitter as a mini blog. People blog every once in a while simply cause it takes quite a bit of thinking. By creating mini blogs you can give simple updates about what you are doing and what you are interested in.
The part that makes Twitter interesting to me is the ability to subscribe to other peoples Twitter, and people being able to subscribe to mine. Say I have a question about blogs and I know there are a couple people that follow my Twitter who are bloggers. I can simply post a question and anywhere from a minute to a couple hours those people have answered my question.
To me it’s not about about just posting what I’m doing. It’s the giant resource it provides. The other day I had a question about the principles of designing a billboard. I posted a question and within minutes a person in Chicago who is a professional billboard designer gave me a link to a 30 PDF on designing billboards.
If you aren’t getting anything out of Twitter then you aren’t using it right. It’s being used by millions of people around the world, and with them as a whole it becomes a resource better then Wikipedia.
Everyone knows that the economy isn’t doing so great right now, and that really does not bode well for me since I’m trying to enter the marketing world. I am getting ready to graduate this summer and things still aren’t looking up for me.
I know there are companies that are still hiring. There are always jobs up for grabs out there, but the key is knowing where to find them. When it comes down to it, it’s who you know. I had a friend tell me recently that companies are rarely looking at all the resumés they are being sent since there are so many of them. Instead they are looking for referrals from people inside the company. I know many people out in the world, but not a whole lot of them work in the field that I’m wanting to enter.
This Thursday there is a career fair here at BYU-Idaho. I have been working on perfecting my resumé, getting my siblings to review it and spell check for me. Generally there are lots of companies that come to this event, many of which are looking for perspective interns and new hires. Will it be the same this year with the economy the way it is? Who knows. All I know is that I’m going to be there as much as I can, talking and interacting with all the reps.
This weekend I decided to get out of town and visit my sisters in Utah. I needed to just get away from school and relax a little but. I stopped by my sister, Tricia, and had a great visit with her and her family. After some ice skating and spending the night I headed down to Beth’s and stayed with them (Played the Wii.. a lot.) After going to church with them I headed up to visit Kaytie.
Everything was great. I was driving a long zoning out like I usually do when I drive and then Bam! the car turns off. I coasted to the shoulder and as far as I could to get off on the nearest exit, didn’t quite make it. I hopped out, called Dad and started investigating. I figured it was the fuel system so a very nice gentlemen who stopped to give me a hand drove me to a parts store and I picked up a filter. After replacing it, nothing, so we pushed the car as we could and with the help of some passing people pushed it into a 7 eleven parking lot.
It was Sunday so no shops were open and nothing could be done. The gentleman gave me a ride to his place where I could be comfortable and warm and make phone calls. They even fed me dinner. After many phone calls and a short time later Tricia picked me up and took me back to her place.
In the morning I got back to work, I called several shops and found one near my cars location. So we packed up the kids and headed back Kaysville with Lynn (my sisters father-in-law) and his big truck. We towed my car to the shop and let them do that they do best. They were quite busy but they managed to fit me in.
I spent all day with Tricia and the kids trying to kill time. We went to temple square and toured the Conference Center and the Tabernacle. Then on a whim we went back to the shop to see how my car was doing. Found out that there was an issue with one of two things; the distributor or the crank sensor. Since they have a deal with a parts supplier they couldn’t get me good prices on either, and they couldn’t get the parts for a couple of days. So I went to the nears parts store and bought the parts my self saving close to $200.
As we were headed back to Tricia’s place I get a phone call telling me my car is done and ready to go. So one quick jont back to my car and I headed to Logan to get a good nights rest.
Thanks to Tricia, Lynn, Jared, Kaytie, Bethy, that nice man who stopped to help and their familied for their help over this weekend. It was stressfull, but it wasn’t dull that’s for sure.
Every year the hype builds. It’s the time of year when friends become enemies, when one tries to out spend the other to get the upper hand. I’m not talking about the Superbowl or the people that go out and buy the over sized TV’s just to watch it. I’m talking about the companies that spend the millions of dollars just to get their ads on the air during this game.
As I was taking a look that this year’s ads, there were a couple that stood out, but many that I still don’t understand why they did what they did. Here’s a few I enjoyed:
Hyundai: Angry Boss – This made me laugh a lot. Plus you will know how to say their name by the end.
Pepsi: Ingredients – Yeah, it’s a man thing.
Doritos: Too Delicious – Again, made me laugh.
Heroes – Just cause I like the show.
Many I feel missed the mark on what they were trying to say. Pepsi I thought hit the mark with the Max ads, but the Pepsuber… WTH? Also I don’t know what is with Sobe, but ever since last year their commercials have been way out there. Lots of dancing with little product promotion. And what happened to Budweiser? I mean sure I don’t drink beer, but they used to be much more creative with their advertising. Although the Bud light ads weren’t bad.
Now we get to see these commercials for the next 6 months to a year, both good and bad.
There are many things I really want to accomplish this year. I’ve never been one to write down my goals, I usually keep them up in my head. The major ones I would accomplish, but some of the minor ones would slip through the cracks of my brain. Since I now have a working blog I figured I would jot them down here.
Major Goals:
Finish my last two semesters with a 3.0 or above.
Graduate this July.
Get a job in the field that I have studied over the past 5 years (Advertising/Marketing.)
So last summer I built a my own website. I was determined to write all the code myself, and I think I did a pretty good job considering my knowledge of the code. I built my own blog and comment system, I was pretty proud of it. Now I realize that it kinda sucks. So I’m trying out some new software.
