Author: chris

Social media can be a powerful tool to help you get the word out to a wide audience in a relatively short amount of time.

1. Imagine that you are organizing a fundraiser for a local charity. Explore the various social media outlets discussed in this module or that you are aware of from your own personal and professional use (examples include Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Instagram, etc.).
2. Compose two announcements advertising the event to be posted on two different social media sites. The first should be geared toward your friends, family, and other social acquaintances. The second should be written for co-workers or professional colleagues or acquaintances.
3. What types of media would you include in your announcements? Written, photographic, video, or audio? Would the same media be appropriate for both announcements? Where could you get this media? Is it OK to copy whatever clip-art you find on the web? Why or why not? Is it OK to use part of your favorite song? Why or why not?
4. Discuss which social network site would be most appropriate for each example and explain why. Be sure to include a brief reflection on the differences in tone, style, and content of the two postings in terms of their intended audiences.

Your initial response should be at least 150 words. Each of your follow-up responses should be at least 50 words.

Use properly documented sources outside of this course to justify, support, and expand on your response. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

Bill, a close friend of your parents wants to start a business. Your parents refer him to you since you are presently working on a technology related degree. In your first discussion, you discover the following facts:
⦁ Bill has been a sales representative for a major restaurant supply company for many years.
⦁ His prior skills are very low tech. He drives from city to city, visiting restaurants and either provides his customers with supplies, or visits new restaurants to try and convince them to purchase supplies from him exclusively. He phones his orders in to the manufacturer, and other than accounting for his expenses while on the road, he does no record keeping.
⦁ Other than basic email skills and a vague familiarization with Microsoft Word Bill has little or no experience with existing communications technologies or software applications.
⦁ Bill’s business plan is to start a new restaurant supply business in his home. He wishes to spend more time at home and travel much less than he did in the past. He knows he will sometimes be required to travel to negotiate deals or meet with clients, but he would prefer to be able to do all this at home whenever possible.
Bill has already implemented the following actions:
⦁ He has found an accountant who has agreed to help him set up his accounting system. (Do not consider any accounting software for this assignment. The accountant will provide that.)
⦁ He has contacted six different restaurant supply companies and negotiated a fee and commission arrangement that will allow him to represent them and sell their products.
⦁ He has found local training and certification company that has classes in all the major software packages (Apple OS, Windows 7/8, Word, Excel, etc.), which will allow Bill to start classes immediately.
Although Bill has minimal technical skills, he does know what he wants. As the discussion proceeds, the following items are added to the plan:
⦁ Budget: Bill has funds for the start up, but the budget has some limits. He doesn’t want the fastest, biggest or best, but he will spend what it takes to have equipment that will suit his needs.
⦁ Security: Bill has heard horror stories about computer information being hacked, and he wants your assurance that his business information will be secure, if he follows your suggestions.
⦁ Hardware: Bill knows of no special requirements for hardware, but he does know he will need to store somewhere between two and three terabytes of catalog information from the companies with whom he will be working. He needs to be able to access this info at all times from any location. He has no knowledge or preferences about hardware and says he will go with what you recommend.
⦁ Operating System and Software: Bill feels comfortable with the Windows environment, and prefers not to learn another operating system.
⦁ The Cloud, Wi-Fi, Mobile Computing: Bill has no idea how these technologies tie in to his business, but he does know he needs to be able to do the following from his home office, from his car, or from any remote location: Check his email and compose/send emails at any time, place a supplies order via the Internet to any of his suppliers, be able to answer phone calls, and be able to set up video conferencing phone calls.
The Proposal:
Prepare and submit a proposal to Bill that gives your suggested solution to his business plan. Provide Bill with the details of what he needs to purchase in order to have what he needs to conduct his business using today’s technology. Make sure you include the following items in your report:
⦁ Hardware: What items of hardware (computer, laptop, tablet device, telephone, etc.) should Bill purchase. For items like a computer, include minimum specifications for all major internal components. Justify the need for any major hardware items recommended.
⦁ Operating System: With the recommended hardware, what operating system choices are available and which would be best? Why?
⦁ Other Technologies: Include the details on any peripheral devices and technologies that you propose (“The Cloud”, mobile computing devices, Bluetooth, wireless networking, etc.) and explain how they fit into the business plan.
⦁ Software & Training: List the software applications that should be purchased. Include the training courses that Bill should attend to gain basic skills in the software packages you recommend.
⦁ Cost: Provide Bill with an estimated cost for him to implement all of your suggestions.
Your proposal will be evaluated using the rubric below. Make sure you read the rubric and have a clear idea of what is expected. If there are any additional questions that you would have asked Bill be sure to note them as you explain to Bill what networking options he has so that you can explain what additional information could change your suggestion if any.

• Provide a brief history of the credential and credentialing body.

• Explain the purpose of the certification and the certification audience.

• Describe the acceptance of the credential in the field, such as how many job listings require the credential, and so on.

• Select which credential you think will be the most important in the next 5 years and explain why.

Resource:  Financial Statements for the company assigned by your instructor in Week 2. (Apple Inc., Ford Motor Company, Coca-Cola bottling Co., or The Gap Inc)

Review the assigned company’s financial statements from the past three years.

Calculate the financial ratios for the assigned company’s financial statements, and then interpret those results against company historical data as well as industry benchmarks:

• Compare the financial ratios with each of the preceding three (3) years (e.g. 2014 with 2013; 2013 with 2012; and 2012 with 2011).
• Compare the calculated financial ratios against the industry benchmarks for the industry of your assigned company.

Write a 500 to 750 word summary of your analysis.

Show financial calculations where appropriate.

Decide upon an initiative you want to implement that would increase sales over the next five years, (for example, market another product, corporate expansion, and so on).

Using the sample financial statements, create pro forma statements of five year projections that are clear, concise, and easy to read. Be sure to double check the calculations in your pro forma statements. Make assumptions that support each line item increase or decrease for your forecasted statements.

Discuss and interpret the financials in relation to the initiative. Make recommendations on potential discretionary financing needs.

Write a 350 – 700 word analysis of the company’s short term and long term financing needs and determine strategies for the company to manage working capital

Review “The Company You Keep and the Image You Project: Putting Your Best Face Forward in Online Social Networks” in this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings.

Review your results from the What’s My Face-to-Face Communication Style? self-assessment.

Interpret the scores of your peers on the Peer Perception Survey.

Analyze how others perceive you and how you perceive yourself to determine appropriate strategies for improving self-esteem and interpersonal perception by answering the following questions:

• How do you feel that others formed perceptions of you?
• Were others’ perceptions surprising? Why?
• What can you do to improve the accuracy of others’ assessments to your own?

Combine your analysis with your score interpretations.

Instructions for Peer Perception Survey: Write your name in the first blank of the survey and then distribute it to three to seven people whose opinion you value and in whom you trust. They may be friends or acquaintances; the most important thing is that they are people who provide you with honest opinions. Their names need not be included on the survey form. Collect the survey forms and use them to complete this week’s assignment.

Note: You cannot meet a requirement by saying it does not apply. Use the concepts in the grading rubric in your answers. Look to the sample paper for appropriate formatting. This requires considerable thought and processing on your part. While there is no formal word count requirement, if you haven’t written at least 1200 words, you do not have enough detail in your paper.

Look to the grading rubric for the concepts that must be coverred and the APA expectations to see what APA guidelines you must follow in your paper. The sample paper is laid out so that you will cover everything required for the assignment if you use it as your template

For this assignment you will complete a summary review of an scholarly, peer-reviewed journal article on an important issue in psychology selected from the list below. This summary will be attached to the assignment screen for grading and also posted on the Week 2 Forum where it will 1) be read by classmates for discussion in class, and 2) be considered by them as the direction for their course paper (see details in the Literature Review assignment instructions for how this works).

Debate the following statement: The purpose of using a process in making a decision is to verify what your instincts have already told you is best.
Using the articles from this week’s assignments and any relevant material from previous weeks, debate the pros and cons of the statement listed above. Be sure to “sell” your point of view. This means use the material in a way the supports your premise. Don’t quote it per se unless you intend to use a statement for emphasis. Pretend you are talking to someone and you have to get your points across as strongly as possible. Select your words carefully to give impact to the best argument while again using language to de-emphasize the weakest of your points. Hide your weakest argument between the strong and strongest points. Always close with your strongest argument. In selecting your words be careful not to use words which offend but rather ones that paint a vivid picture of your argument. You want a weaker picture painted for the weaker argument because it will highlight the stronger arguments by contrast. NEVER USE PERSONAL PRONOUNS and NEVER USE I THINK, I FEEL, I BELIEVE. You may be presenting the strongest and most logical case but as soon as the reader thinks it is your opinion and not fact you will find they take what you have to say with a grain of salt. You want to appear the expert so avoid these fateful words.  Finally never argue a negative or the opponent’s point of view. Be positive and genuine! You want “sell” them your point of view not a used car.

Make the pros argument.

Take the following quiz and determine what your decision making style is and describe it to the class. Then, use the readings from this to comment on ways that you might improve and perhaps even change your decision making style to create one which would improve your performance as both a leader and a manager. Make sure to describe the difference between the two styles of a leader and manager when discussing the changes as well as how the job might affect your style. Finally comment on whether your style should be changed depending upon the job or task that requires the decision or if you can suggest that it remain constant instead.
Finding your decision making style quiz

problem of ‘scarcity’ and why it is a profoundly cultural phenomenon. This in itself may strike you as a problematic assertion. Clearly there is a form of scarcity that is totally separate from anything learned, shared within a group and passed down through succeeding generations (the definition of culture I shared with you earlier in the semester). For example Helium is a relatively scarce element (and we waste it foolishly). Carbon life forms would appear to be relatively scarce on the scale of the universe, as far as we know to date. Various minerals are scarce, as far as anyone can tell. But these are abstractions – despite being materially ‘real’ or even ‘true’; what about food? What about clean water? Or clean air? Or any of the myriad commodities that have increasingly come to be thought of as critical to survival, never mind ‘the good life’ whatever that is?

write 2 pages & half  but focus on ( The ties that bind us to family ).