How to get noticed, LinkedIn a business platform

                There is a lot of noise on the Internet. I refer to noise as nonsensical non pertinent information when searching for something online. The Internet is much like a multidimensional marketplace in the sense that you can find virtual anything about if you are looking and you find a lot of things that you weren't looking for.

               Which that said, how does one break through and deliver their message to the right recipients in the right way? This is a very difficult question to answer. There are a multitude of ways to accomplish this task. Ideally you would create a very interesting custom website and update it with intriguing information that is relevant to the website. However doing something like this requires a lot of time, skill, and resources.

              However, because of this businesses have created online platforms and management systems. These platforms include websites like facebook, google, wordpress, and LinkedIn.

               LinkedIn is a website designed to be simplistic, friendly, and displays content clearly. These key features have made it one of businesses primarily outlets in finding employee's and social professional business networking. If you are looking for a internship,job, or high quality volunteer work LinkedIn is a great starting place. In in all, LinkedIn is a great platform that makes finding new potential employee's and exploring potential contacts easy and seamless.

Why QR Codes? Likes/Dislikes/ The Sha Bang?!

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         QR codes(Quick Response, get to it later)!!!! I personally don't like QR codes, but we'll look at that later. What is there to like about QR codes? QR codes allow for large of date to be expressed in an various visual ways. You can read a lot of shenanigans about QR codes at  QR History and useful information!and by browsing the web . However let's skip to the new, the hip, and the present. Why QR Codes, where should they be? How useful are they? Why go around and about to make them? We'll talk about my view and the troubles of them later.

       First, what is a QR code? " The QR in the name stands for quick response, expressing the development concept for the code, whose focus was placed on high-speed reading. When it was announced, however, even Hara, one of the original developers of the code, could not be sure whether it would actually be accepted as a two-dimensional code to replace barcodes. He had confidence in the performance of the code, however, and was eager to make the rounds of companies and industry organizations concerned to introduce it in the hope that it would become known and used by as many people as possible."QR codes are very nice on the fly. To someone who has a QR reading phone or device it allows for the user to interact with the QR and for information to show up very quickly on the device. It is a very handy feature for getting a lot of data in a small amount of space.

     QR codes make most sense on inventory objects, on documents that are interesting but you need more information about it.  QR codes are extremely useful, they convey information quickly and can be very applicable.

      I don't like QR codes for a variety of reasons. The most obvious is because you have no context on what is going to happen when you scan a QR code. In the same way that you do now know what content a  URL(http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/U/URL.html) is going to bring up, let alone a shortened url. Additionally, they generally take up a lot more vertical space then a link. A lot of companies have no tact as to where they how up. QR codes are very visual, and look terrible in most cases. Additionally the artistic displeasure or laziness is often larger than my prospective benefits from accessing the QR code. QR codes in terms of advertising is generally a turn off. It doesn't have the same grasp of aesthetics or immediate information, while QR codes for an application tool are sometimes useful. Balencing how to go about making a successfully viewed QR code is difficult. QR codes without context, need, or surrounding information is simply noise mixed within boring advertising.

Sources:
http://www.qrcode.com/en/history/ 

Social Media and Security

Social media has made a huge impact on the world. It allows users to connect with one another in various ways such as chat, videos, music, and much more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media has a nice description of social media and some of it's impacts. In short social media is user generated content that users post/upload onto a server onto the cloud(virtual servers).

If you are thinking about making a facebook page for a company or organization there are a variety of things to think about and watch out for in an attempt to create a positive and secure web page. Facebook is designed for simplicity and integration, it typically does not tell you what settings are for security. Facebook also has a tendency of updating their privacy policy and changing it's layout without any notice. You don't really know what is happening on the backend and where or what is happening to your data. Additionally, like most large websites, Phishing(https://www.facebook.com/help/www/217910864998172) is a problem. In addition to these problems, you have to deal with spam which is increasingly becoming a large problem on facebook. (http://mashable.com/2013/08/29/facebook-fan-pages-spam-200-million-business/).