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I love the World of Social Media; I find it intellectually stimulating. This semester, I will teach you how to enhance your digital reputation with a series of social media strategy lessons. These strategies will enhance your social media reputation and allow you to create a “Brand You.” Hopefully, this should help you get a better job.

The term Social Media refers to the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into an interactive dialogue. Social Media allows your customers to know you on a personal level.

Social Media gives you an opportunity to share engaging content and enhance your digital reputation. Social media, blogs and Twitter allows you to share your knowledge with a vast audience of savvy, inter-connected people. Build your digital reputation with online activities and high-quality content that you post.

Social Media activities can enhance your job opportunities. My students are getting job offers from LinkedIn because they are blogging and delivering credible, relevant, high-quality business content.

Eventually, you will join a passionate community of like-minded people with common interests. Sometimes, you will meet them in the real world at a networking event.

Infographic on how Social Media are being used, and how everything is changed by them. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This semester, you will obtain an ISBN number and become published authors on Amazon.com. This activity will build brand awareness for your name.

We will continuously integrate Social Media strategies into this class throughout the semester. Eventually, you will build your own “Personal Brand” to promote your books and enhance your “Digital Reputation.”

There are various platforms, applications and features that you will need to deploy to accomplish your social media goals. This process will optimize searches for your name using your “Vanity” URL. Mine is www.eveannlovero.com.

The website and all of your Social Media activities will become your professional “Window to the World.” Since your Facebook activities fall within the realm of Social Media, it is important for you to adjust your “Privacy Controls” on your Facebook Page so that only your friends have access to your personal activities. Furthermore, it is essential for you to post content that enhances your persona in the digital world.

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When you engage in Social Media activities and integrate social outreach activities into your Web SIte, these references generally show up with your “name” page on a Google Search. You want to control as many links to your name on the Internet as possible. You want all links to your name to represent your character in the most favorable light; think of this process as “Reputation Management.” You will use these Social Media Tools to enhance your digital reputation:

http://www.xmind.net/share/socialmediaevie/create-and-promote-a-wordpress-blog-1/ #xmind #SocialMedia

Your LinkedIn Profile is a good example of managing your digital reputation. When I type my name “Eveann Lovero” into Google’s Search Box, these are some of the items in the results:

• Lewis University – Graduate School of Management – Faculty
• www.lewisu.edu/academics/gsm/faculty.htm – CachedSimilar
• Dr. Eveann Lovero Professor of Business Administration; former Dean of the College of Business and the Graduate School of Management; DBA,
• eveann lovero | LinkedIn
• Greater Chicago Area - Professor, College of Business at Lewis University - Lewis University
• View eveann lovero’s professional profile on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is the world’s largest business network, helping professionals like eveann lovero discover inside …
• Social Media Strategy
• www.eveannlovero.com/ – Cached
• Aug 1, 2011 – Social Media, Blogging, publishing e books, YouTube videos.
• Amazon.com: Vino Con Vista Rome and Lazio eBook: Dr. EveAnn Lovero …
• www.amazon.com/Vino-Vista-Rome-Lazio…/dp/B0033AGTKE – Cached
• Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise: Florence Art History 101 | Vino Con …
• vinoconvistablog.wordpress.com/…/ghibertis-gates-of-paradise-in-fl… – Cached

You will create a similar “Digital Profile” when you start engaging in Social Media Strategies. Here’s how it works:

1. The first step involves claiming your personal web domain. Your personal domain name is your identification label. When you claim your own name it is called a “Vanity” URL; mine is www.eveannlovero.com. It defines your realm of administrative autonomy, authority and control in the Internet. Go to www.BlueHost.com to register your personal domain name and then create an email account. I created eveannlovero@eveannlovero.com. I also have a Travel Website
2. The second step involves setting up a www.WordPress.com website at www.simplescripts.com. Using my WordPress Dashboard, I selected the “Twenty Eleven” Theme. Here is a link to a Bluehost Video instructional video that will help you get started : https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/wordpress. Follow the directions and use the “Help” Center Button on the BlueHost web page and put in “set up WordPress”. Look at the Theme Options and select the one that you like best. You do not have to use “Twenty Eleven.” Use the WordPress “Support” button for clarification; it is very helpful.
3. The third step involves creating an informative blog that your audience wants to read and share. Fill your blog with photos, videos and in-text links. Eventually, you can move data from Google Docs into your blog. Check out the interesting Google Docs Templates that are available to you, including the “Resume Template” and the “Project Management Template.”  Using templates will save time and dramatically enhance your blog posts.
4. The fourth step involves signing up for a www.twitter.com account so that you can micro blog your blog posts and re-tweet other blog posts that you think are worthwhile to your followers. You want to target a specific audience with your posts, so I will show you how to optimize your Twitter Profile for SEO. I selected the Twitter user name “Social Media Evie” to enhance SEO. It is a good idea to use a Dashboard Widget to show your Tweets on your webpage. These issues will be addressed in more detail in a later posts.

Let’s begin our adventure by entering the wonderful world of WordPress. This is my first demonstration post for my students. I will blog every step of the process so that my students will not get frustrated or lose pertinent data. My students should print this checklist:

1. Give your Website an interesting or provocative title. All of your blog posts will become SEO opportunities for you. The text in your posts will be analyzed by a program that you will install on your computer called Zemanta. Zemanta will also allow you to select from a designated list tags, categories and stock photos. I selected the Search Engine pie graph for my first post and then I changed it to the Apple Inc. Dashboard. This is very easy to do with Zemanta.
2. Add a photo to your post through the Zemanta Feature and/or click on the photo icon button next to “Upload/Insert” to post a photo from your computer, gallery or media file.
3. Select a photo from your computer and insert it into your post. Select the appropriate area using your cursor. You can add many photos to your post later.
4. Add tags to the photo for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) purposes.
5. Add a caption and click on “Update”.
6. Look at the bottom of your post and add any “In-Text Links” that you like from the Zemanta text analysis. I inserted “SEO” and all the other highlighted terms in this post. This process allows me to turn my post into a mini-lesson; college professors love opportunities like this.
7. Then add any relevant “Categories” and “Tags” that will enhance your SEO (Search Engine Optimization). This will improve the performance of your website in search engines like Google. Your goal is to optimize your place, prominence or rank within the search results. Hopefully, your Social Media efforts will allow you to be found on the first page of the “search engine’s results” page. Your SEO activities will allow you to target different types of searches, including image search, local search and video search. I like to incorporate images and embed videos into my blog posts when possible.
8. Allow all tags that are relevant from the Zemanta search box by clicking on “Apply All” or select specific terms. I generally add a few extra terms for long tail searches.
9. I will add “How to Create a WordPress Blog” in both categories.
10. View your post and carefully “Edit” the text and then Publish your Post. Edit your spelling and grammar from the toolbar “ABC”. Correct errors before you publish your post.
11. Monitor your “Dashboard” statistics to see if your Social Media Strategy is working.
12. Go to your Dashboard and load “Widgets” under the “Appearance” Tab. I loaded the following widgets to my website:
13. Custom Menu
14. Pages
15. RSS Feed
16. Jetpack

Graph of social media activities (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Dr. EveAnn Lovero teaches Strategic Management and International Business at Lewis University in Illinois. She writes a Travel Blog @ www.vinoconvistablog.wordpress.com and she writes books about Italy @ www.vino-con-vista.com

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You can create a bar code that takes you to any website you want when you scan it using your smart phone or tablet. Here is a website link that you could use to create the bar code, http://barcode.tec-it.com/ You will have to chose Mobile Tagging bar code from the selections.

Befor you create a barcode, you actually need a resume and cover letter. You may want to consider some of the Google templates: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11LkOJJczmIpOCvbl6zIypERcUdWwSYMJnoXvtDfX5nM/preview?pli=1

 

Here’s an example of a creative resume:

http://www.businessinsider.com/insanely-creative-resumes-2011-6?op=1

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In point-of-sale management, barcode systems can provide detailed up-to-date information on the business, accelerating decisions and with more confidence. For example:

• Fast-selling items can be identified quickly and automatically reordered.
• Slow-selling items can be identified, preventing inventory build-up.
• The effects of merchandising changes can be monitored, allowing fast-moving, more profitable items to occupy the best space,
• Historical data can be used to predict seasonal fluctuations very accurately.
• Items may be repriced on the shelf to reflect both sale prices and price increases.
• This technology also enables the profiling of individual consumers, typically through a voluntary registration of discount cards. While pitched as a benefit to the consumer, this practice is considered to be potentially dangerous by privacy advocates.
  

  A bar code encoding the word “Wikipedia” in Code 128 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Besides sales and inventory tracking, barcodes are very useful in logistics.

• When a manufacturer packs a box for shipment, a Unique Identifying Number (UID) can be assigned to the box.
• A database can link the UID to relevant information about the box; such as order number, items packed, qty packed, destination, etc.
• The information can be transmitted through a communication system such as Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) so the retailer has the information about a shipment before it arrives.
• Shipments that are sent to a Distribution Center (DC) are tracked before forwarding. When the shipment reaches its final destination, the UID gets scanned, so the store knows the shipment’s source, contents, and cost.

Barcode scanners are relatively low cost and extremely accurate compared to key-entry, with only about 1 substitution error in 15,000 to 36 trillion characters entered. The exact error rate depends on the type of barcode.

 

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Situational Leadership

Walt Disney Pictures logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Read Disney Case on Corporate Governance

English: Corporate Governance (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Answer questions

Go to Table of Contents Doc and open up Corporate Governance Section

Go to Company’s Website and search under investor relations for Corporate Governance

Find Board member and standing committees

Make a table for Disney

English: Portrait of Walt Disney, 1 January 1954 Here is a picture of Walter Disney cropped from a NASA photograph. Deutsch: Walt Disney, 1954 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Then create a table for your company

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Now you are ready to become a self published author. You can publish your book on www.amazon.com. This is the culmination of all your research and hard work. Here are the guidelines:

1. Go to www.createspace.com and create an account. You will select the “author” option.  There are 2 steps: load your file as a PDF and make sure your margins are .75 on all sides of each page to allow for gutters. Then design a separate cover for your book.

EAN-13 bar code of ISBN-13 in compliance with the “Machine-Readable Coding Guidelines for the U.S. Book Industry”, Revised 1/97. (The referred book being The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper, 10th edition, German language, ISBN 3-16-148410-X resp. ISBN 978-3-16-148410-0) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

2. If your wish to purchase an ISBN number and bar code you should go to www.myidentifiers.com and fill in the information. You can get an ISBN number through Amazon for free, but they will own it.

3. Once you submit your book, it will be returned to you as a “Proof” in about 10 business days. After you fix all of the issues with the “Proof”, send it back to them and then you will become a “published author.”

Do a Google search of your name. Since you have engaged in many Social Media activities this semester including: blogging, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Mind Mapping and Pinterest, you will be amazed at your enhanced “Digital Reputation.” I wish you the best of luck in all of your future endeavors!

Go to the link for Bowker https://www.myidentifiers.com/isbn/main. They also sell bar codes that can match your ISBN as well.

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Your first assignment will involve industry and company research. I will give you a table that you will complete and turn in on the second class meeting. This project will be completed using Google Drive.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – MARCH 07: Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an Apple product launch event at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on March 7, 2012 in San Francisco, California. In the first product release following the death of Steve Jobs, Apple Inc. introduced the third version of the iPad and an updated Apple TV. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

Strategic direction requires insights in the form of market intelligence, market size, market growth rates, competitor analysis and other key variables. Industry reports are available for: Telecommunications, Healthcare, Energy and many other industries.

Your Research will be an organized effort to gather information about markets, customers and industries. It is a crucial component of our class. This exercise will offer important information that will allow you to identify and analyze the market and the competition.

You will systematically gather and interpret information about your organization. You will harness the power of research during the semester to support your decision-making and presentation efforts.

Watch this video about Industry analysis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Fa6XMSTko&feature=share&list=ULH9Fa6XMSTko

ProQuest search results (Photo credit: The Shifted Librarian)

Hoover’s Logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Your research will be conducted using the Library Databases. You will also create a stock portfolio on Yahoo Finance. At the end of the semester, you will submit your data in a “Market Study” Binder.

For example, go to the website “academics” and click on “library”. Then go to EBSCO and click on Business Searching Interface. Type in “Global Wine Industry” and you will find the MarketLine pdf report. It includes the following information: Executive summary, market overview, market data, market segmentation, market outlook, five forces analysis and leading companies.

You can also search for a “company profile” that will provide the following information: company overview, key facts, business description, history, key employee biographies, major products and services, revenue analysis, SWOT analysis, top competitors, company view and locations and subsidiaries.

Swot analysis (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Then you will search the Lexis Nexis database for companies. Click on “Company Profile”. Enter the company name and put a check in the Worldscope box. Enter search and you will get a company description, key financials, income statement information, information regarding foreign assets and income margin. The “Ratio” section will provide three years of ratios for your company. At the end of the report, you will find a geographic sales breakdown and sales and operating income by business unit.

Use the snipping tool to enter some of the diagrams into your industry table. To find this tool, go to all programs, accessories and “snipping tool”.

If you were researching Apple, these are some of the resources that you would use to conduct an industry analysis:

Angel with mobile phone (Photo credit: Akbar Sim)

EuroMonitor Passport: Mobile Phones in the US

Various cellular phones from the last decade (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

IBIS World: Computer Pheripheral Manufacturing #33411B; Computer Manufacturing #31141A; Operating Systems and Productivity Software #51121A; and Internet Publishing and Broadcasting in the US #51913B

SAN FRANCISCO – JANUARY 26: Workers apply the Apple logo to the exterior of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in preparation for an Apple special event January 26, 2010 in San Francisco, California. Apple Inc. is holding a much anticipated special invitaion only event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on January 27th where CEO Steve Jobs is expected to unveil a new Apple tablet computer. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

In Lexis Nexis, under company profile search Hoover’s, Disclosure and Worldscope

In EBSCO, find Company Profiles:  look at the SWOT Analysis, Key Executives, and Company overview. Gather global information in the ”Global Industry Reports” including: Global Computer and Electronics Retail; Global Mobile Phones and Global Computer Storage and Peripherals.

English: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) one week before iPad 2 announcement. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Get the Company’s 10K and look for: Company background, business strategy, products, risk factors, stock performance and “Management” discussion of financial issues and segment operating performance. Pay attention to the Corporate Governance Issues.

Fo to Yahoo Finance and generate a Stock Portfolio. Include as many competitors as possible so that you can get a customized daily news bulletin. Buy 100 shares of stock in each company.

Go to the website and get the annual report under “Investor Relations”

This plan was created for the Wikimedia Foundation’s strategic planning process and will be used during that process. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Use Proquest to find articles on strategic alliances, joint ventures, acquisitions and divestitures.

If you wanted to conduct research on a global food company like Sara Lee; look at some of the following reports:

IBIS Meat, Beef and Poultry Processing #31161

Baking Mix and Prepared Food Manufacturing #31181

file (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Cookie, Cracker and Pasta Production in the US #31182

Coffee Production in the US #31192a

For Global information, use:

1. Packaged Foods and Meat;

2. Global Meat , Fish and Poultry

3. Global Hot Drinks

4. Global Frozen Food

5. Global Bread and Rolls

When you have gathered all of your data, you can complete your Team SWOT Analysis and start your TOWS Matrix.

Use these templates:

1. This worksheet will help you visually organize information about the external environment:

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/worksheets/PESTAnalysisWorksheet.pdf

2. After completing a SWOT analysis, you will engage in a matching and converting process using a TOWS Matrix. Matching strengths to opportunities to leverage competitive advantages. Develope conversion strategies to convert or mitigate weaknesses or threats by dinding new markets, diversifying or developing new products. Generate a TOWS Matrix for your project using this format:

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/worksheets/TOWSAnalysisWorksheet.pdf

3. Generate a Porter’s Model Worksheet:

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/worksheets/PortersFiveForcesWorksheet.pdf

Here’s a Rudyard Kipling Quote to think about:

“I keep six honest serving , they taught me all I knew. Their names were What, Why, When, How , Where and Who.”

Figure 10: SWOT-Analysis of the organic business idea. Belongs to The Organic Business Guide. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Dr. EveAnn Lovero teaches Strategic Management and International Business at Lewis University in Illinois.

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SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. Effective SEO strategies will help your site rank higher and more accurately in search engines, like Google. If I write about travel in Italy, I want my posts to rank high in the search results. When someone searches for Italy Travel Guides, I want my blog to rank on the first page of the search engine site.

The ultimate goal of SEO is to increase your website’s SERP (Search Engine Results Page) ranking.You can optimize SEO with YouTube videos. Creating and publishing videos will help enhance your social media reputation. You will enhance SEO efforts, reach more people with videos and drive traffic to your website when you create and upload videos into your posts.

Here’s a San Diego Video that I created using Google Picassa: http://youtu.be/beH01nziAIs. I can check my “Insights” to monitor the traffic

YouTube is a very popular search engine. I like to integrate videos or photo slide sharing into my blog posts. Go to www.youtube.com/create

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When you log into YouTube you will see many options for creating videos. Pick an option and click on the “Create Video” button. I like to use the Stupeflix option or the “One Media” option for my photo slide shows. If you have an iPad 2, it’s easy to video and send it to YouTube immediately.

youtube (Photo credit: Sean MacEntee)

After you load your photos, you will select some music from the music menu. Make sure that the song is long enough in duration to match the video.

Videos serve as effective linkbait; they will generate more links and more traffic for your site. They will bolster your ranking with search engines.  Check out YouTube’s most popular videos to see what makes them so popular. Oftentimes, the video is funny or teaches a meaningful lesson like our WordPress Tutorials. Watch this very helpful SEO video so you can effectively tag your videos.

http://www.searchengineland.com/guide/what-is-seo

Here’s an interesting video about page rank: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYWlEItizjI&feature=g-vrec

To optimize the video, follow these rules initially:

1. Create a sexy title

2. Keep it short

3. Tag the video to enhance SEO

4. Use the word “Video” in the Title.

5. Optimize the introduction, description and comments.

6. When you embed the video in your blog, make sure it has words (text) around it so the search engines can find the tags.

7. You can do an “audio swap” on YouTube if you don’t like the music.

8. Publish your video on YouTube. Then follow the WordPress instructions for embedding your video in your blog. Make sure that you create your own YouTube Channel. Monitor the “Insight” stats on YouTube to find out how your channel is doing.

9. You will need the URL of your video to embed it on your blog. Copy the complete YouTube URL from the address bar and follow the WordPress instructions. It is also helpful to use www.prlog.com to create a free press release about your new video feature.

You can subscribe to other YouTube Channels via RSS Feed and add it to your reader. http://www.youtube.com/user/username. For example

http://www.youtube.com/user/vinoconvista

You can embed the video in YouTube by following these steps:

1. Go to www.youtube.com and click on your video.

2. When your video starts to play click on the “Share” button under the video.

3. Click on the “Embed” button and Copy the “code”.

4. Click on the Facebook Share Logo or the Twitter Logo and add the video to your Facebook “Home” tab and to your Twitter Followers.

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Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci, Galleria dell’ Accademia, Venice (1485-90) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge.

It is easy to create an infographic by generating a pie chart for your industry. Explain the industry revenue and the key participants. Explain the impact of the market share on the HHI and industry concentration Then post your blog to Twitter and LinkedIn.

These graphics present complex information quickly and clearly. These “Visual Representations” include: time-lines, a matrix or a Venn Diagram. They are well-suited to blog posts.

Infographics are a useful way to convey meaningful information. Leonardo da Vinci‘s Vitruvian Man is an outstanding representation of an Infographic. The drawing, which is in pen and ink on paper, depicts a male figure in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and simultaneously inscribed in a circle and square. The drawing and text visually depict the concept of the Canon of Proportions or, less often, Proportions of Man.

Self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci. Red chalk. 33 × 21 cm. Turin, Royal Library (inv.no. 15571). NOTE This image is in red chalk. Do not revert to the black and white image. Deutsch: Kopf eines bärtigen Mannes, sog. Selbstbildnis. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Leonardo da Vinci  (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an “Italian Renaissance  painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of “unquenchable curiosity” and “feverishly inventive imagination.”

Leonardo (Photo credit: Arenamontanus)

Leonardo’s drawing represents the correlations of ideal human proportions with geometry described by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius in De Architectura. Leonardo’s drawing is named in honor of the architect.

We are in a visual content revolution vortex! The  infographic craze and Pinterest, Facebook and Google+ are growing exponentially.

“By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes, a sort of information map. And when you’re lost in information, an information map is kind of useful.” (David McCandless)

Check out his video about visual information:

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/lang/en//id/937

Read these tips on how to optimize your images:  http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/32567/A-Marketer-s-Guide-to-Optimizing-Images-for-Google-Search.aspx#ixzz1tAiuGj2t

In business we use pie charts, bar graphs and stock charts to convey trends. Videos, Pinterest, Flickr, Slidesharing and Podcasts can all be useful infographics. We want to disseminate our information to the collective knowledge of our “digital cocktail” party crowd.

Great headlines and engaging content coupled with outstanding Infographics can help us with our efforts. In addition, insert some eye-catching pictures or graphics above the “Fold”. Timing the release of your post is also critical. I find that lunchtime posts are effective.

Here’s a list of useful infographics for you to incorporate into your Social Media Arsenal:

1. Slideshare is a great way to share high-quality content. Think about how we use BlackBoard in our course shells. You can use an embedded video Zipcast tool.

2. Short Videos like “The Fountains in Rome” series on my YouTube Channel provide an example of a powerful infographic tool that can drive traffic to your site.

3. Embed a YouTube video or ”Food Truck” photo slide show into your post. This is a fun way to tell an interesting story or convey information.

4. Don’t forget the mind mapping concept we discussed in class. Download the www.xmind.net software. Incorporate a mind map into your post. You can search my mindmaps at “SocialMediaEvie” on the site.

Red Pinterest logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

5. Check out my Pinterest Boards by clicking on the button on my websites. Create your boards at www.pinterest.com. Give your boards an interesting title and place them in the proper category.

Pinterest is a social catalog service or virtual pinboard where you can categorize and share the things that you love. You can create a collection of pins for your board. I have added the widget to this site bar of this site with a link to the travel “Boards” that I have created. As a blogger, create pins or boards with a theme that is relevant to your content. Add a Pinterest share button to your site. I have created lessons for my students on Pinterest that link back to my website.

Watch this video to learn how to add Pinterest to your toolbar

http://pinterest.com/about/goodies/

More Pinterest info: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pinterest-pin-it-button/

Pinterest widgets http://wordpress.org/search/pinterest

Check out this mindjet manager software: http://www.mindjet.com/products/mindmanager/

6. Add a “TinyMCE” button to your toolbar in your dashboard settings. This will allow you to enter tables into your posts.

7. You should consider installing and activating a plug-in called “Google Doc Embedder”.

Here’s the checklist that I distributed to the class. I have embedding the code using Google Docs and I am publishing this link to the Web. Anyone with the link, can use the document.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ei502Vr4M7Zfo4C7u3QFI7mDFbLwEf2x4IK-hIvg09s/edit?hl=en_US

I changed the privacy settings under the “Share” button and I copied and pasted the “iframe” code into the blog post.

If I change the Privacy settings to Public this happens: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ei502Vr4M7Zfo4C7u3QFI7mDFbLwEf2x4IK-hIvg09s/edit?hl=en_US

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Mind map of the mind map guidlines. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Mind maps can be used to convey information visually.  A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea.They can generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid to studying and organizing information, solving problems, making decisions, and writing.

In my “Wonderful World of Strategic Management” Post, I inserted links to some of my mindmaps.

Check out my “MindMap” Pinterest board for examples of Mindmaps. Use a Mindmap to understand how informations flow. It can be used for brainstorming and summarizing information.

Mind-map showing a wide range of nonhierarchical relationships (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The elements of a given mind map are arranged intuitively according to the importance of the concepts. They are classified into groupings, branches, or areas; that are similar to an organization chart. The ultimate goal is to represent connections between ideas or information. Mind maps may enhance your ability to remember important concepts like the mind map that I distributed related to the elements of the ”External Environment.” My mind maps have been uploaded into the www.xmind.net site and will help build my digital reputation. Be sure to upload your mind maps after your create an account on this website.

Here’s are 2 interesting video tutorials from XMIND site that you should watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YyJNCZLZ4A

http://xmindusers.ning.com/video.

1. Go to www.xmind.net to see the mind map that I created to analyze the relationship between different types of “Social Media Assets” :

• Social Networking includes Internet sites Facebook, MySpace, Pinterest and LinkedIn.
• Social Content sites include YouTube, Wikipedia and FlickR.
• Social Recommendation sites include StumbleUpon and Digg. This allows users to recommend Internet content to others and vote on the content.
• Social Bookmarking sites like Delicious, Digg, Reddit, Technorati, and Google Bookmarks provide users with opportunities to share their bookmarks.

2. Go to the website www.xmind.net and install the Mind Mapping software on your computer. This will allow you to create a mind map.

I have copied some of the code from my WordPress Mind Map here:

<iframe id=’xmindshare_embedviewer’ src=’http://www.xmind.net/share/

3. The site will generate code for your Mind Map. Insert this code into your site to share your mind map with your audience. If you save your Mind Map in Picassa you can modify the boundaries of the image and insert it into your blog post.

4. Create a mind map of your industry’s External Environment using the IBIS database assignment. You can insert the maps into your blog posts. Creating a Mind Map of the industry “External Environment” and describe the important variables.This activity should generate some traffic for you.

This worksheet will help you visually organize information about the external environment:

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/worksheets/PESTAnalysisWorksheet.pdf

5. Here are a list of other templates that you will use during the semester for blog posts. Then you can incorporate your finished posts into your book.

*Here’s an interesting link for generating your TOWS Matrix for your project.

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/worksheets/TOWSAnalysisWorksheet.pdf

Generate a Porter’s Model Worksheet:

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/worksheets/PortersFiveForcesWorksheet.pdf

Generate a Boston Consulting Group Matrix

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/worksheets/BostonMatrixWorksheet.pdf

6. If you want to sell an Android app an the Google Store, you can create one at www.andromo.com. The number of Adroid Mind Mapping Apps is growing exponentially.

7. Some of the other Mind Mapping tools that you can use include:

MindGenius, iMindMap and Mindjet.

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