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ESPN final wiki post

2006-05-18T20:06:00.000-07:00

For my final edit I chose to to the huge sports network ESPN which is the gold standard for sports networks everywhere. This wiki also had a diehard following which made it next to impossible to update without doing tons of research but somehow I was able to sneak three solid edits in there. The first post was very smooth because even though its affiliated with ESPN no one would think to put it in the wiki. I added a link to EXPN ESPN's extreme sports website. I followed this up by paying attention closely to what events were coming to the ESPN channel of networks and I got my break. My second edit was about extreme biker Mike Metzger jumping over the fountains in Las Vegas which broke the record for farthest backflip on a motorcylce. Lastly I was astonished when I saw someone had not already added this to the article. It must have gone unnoticed to some that the WBPA Billiards Tour aired on ESPN so I was able to add that. This wiki was by far the hardest one to gather information on. My contributions though I thought were very good ones and added value to the sight. My edits remain untoched so I believe the community is thankful that someone went out and added the obscure coverage of events that ESPN sometime has to offer.

Tom Petty Final post

2006-05-18T19:28:00.000-07:00

One of the better singers from past generations Tom Petty was the feature of one of my wiki articles. This community was different than any other post because this fan base is very large and loyal to any comments. My first post was probably the best of the bunch because I was right on top of the issue as it was announced. Tom was asked to be the headliner at Bonnaroo Music Festival which is a major concert in Tennesee. My second entry also featured information about tour stops as he embarked on his Highway Companion Tour. I included some information about tour stops. The third entry involved his new loyal fan club called the Highway Companions Club which offered loyal customers deals and priority ticket requests along with a version of his latest cd. This wiki article and blog posts generated many responses from my fellow bloggers most likely related to the success Tom has had through his career. Once again my edits were accepted by the community and I think I added some quality information.

Pepper final edit

2006-05-18T19:14:00.000-07:00

The relativly unknown band out of Hawaii Pepper was of interest to me and I decided to help along thier wiki article. With many bands tour information is important so fans can see them when they are coming to their town. All of my posts for this article was about the current tours they were on. My first post had to deal with a show that Pepper was able to host. They were asked to host the third annual Kona Town Music Festival. My second post also had to do with new releases to thier tour schedule that would take them from the island to the rest of the US. They had stops all over the west coast like Oregon, California, Idaho and Nevada. My third post also had to do with a component of their tour. They started to add video to their website showing what they do in their free time. I also added new venues to the tour with 311. I think I had a very good impact on this article. I was able to update fans with their newest tour venues and provided information about their website. This community is different from many others because this band is not mainstream but i seemed to be accepted ok by them seeing they were nice enough to keep my posts up.

Guster Final wiki

2006-05-18T18:57:00.000-07:00

Throughout this semester I updated the Guster adding alot of information about recent things including thier tour stops and recent TV show. In my first post I was able to address the band's Campus Consciouness Tour where they traveld to different schools and preached a healthy enviornment by using bio diesel fuel and wind power throughout the tour. My second post addressed their new tv show Joe's Place which airs over thier website.This show gives a look into the bands activites while they are on tour. My third post informed them on the current summer tour that the band is on. I added about their stops in major cities as well as small towns like Portland,ME and Vienna,VA. I believe through these blogs i had a very positive impact to the wiki. I hope to have had a good impact on the community and think I accomplished that because my entries havent been deleted. The last thing is that my entries are temporary features associated with the band because next year the tour schedule will change and so will the show.

ESPN update

2006-05-17T05:54:00.000-07:00

Picking ESPN for a wiki article tended to give me more problems than I anticipated trying to find things to edit about. For the last edit I had to go deep into research to find something that no one in their right mind would think of. Someone forgot to post that ESPN airs the WBPA Classic Tour a billiards tour that airs on their network during weekdays. If it wasnt for being in college and having nothing better to do than watch useless daytime tv I would have been stuck for my last edit.

Guster Update

2006-05-16T22:07:00.000-07:00

For my last Guster post I decided to update what is going on with this years Summer Tour and I found some pretty interesting things. The band will be having a Pimp My Clean Car contest at many of their shows the day of to promote their enviornmental beliefs. Like most tours they will stop in big cities such as Chicago, Detriot, Philadelphia and Boston. But what was interesting about this band is that they play in smaller cities and towns. The band will make a stop at Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland,ME home of fellow blogger Erik and will make another stop at Wolftrap Farm Park in my home town of Vienna,VA.

Review number 2 of partners blog posts

2006-05-15T20:06:00.000-07:00

I was reading through my partners blogs and I saw that many of them had some very infomative stuff. On Beccas Blog I was impressed with how the MySpace presentation was really able to show her all the options that is offered by that program even though she admits to being an avid Facebook user. On Meagan's Blog I was able to catch up alittle bit on a Skype presentation that I unfourtunalty missed. The presentation given by Dave on Search Optimization seemed very interesting and looks like it gave added insight to our experiment. Then there is Erik's Blog when I saw the devestation I was at a loss of words. Today however I was able to get some clarity and learned never to talk bad about certain things on your blog cause they may get you back.

Jason Howard Skype

2006-05-15T19:57:00.000-07:00

Today we were lucky enough to have Jason Howard a member of StudyLink speak with us from Australia. He helps implement a study abroad program in many countries throughout the world. He spoke about his company provides students the opportunity to study in different countries including Australia, Europe, India, Singapore and even the United States. The company has been around since 1991 and currently offers almost 80,000 courses in a variety of education levels. More imporantly what I have learned from these Skype presentations has been nothing short of amazing and I look forward to possibly using it in the near future.

New AIM advertising

2006-05-14T19:47:00.000-07:00

I was just reading up on Click Z News and came across this interesting article about the new AIM. They just announced a new way they will advertise to the 41 million AIM users. They are going to use banner ads by way of AIM pages and AIM Phonelines. These new ways of advertising are going to be debuted sometime in the month of June. The AIM pages will be similar to programs such as Myspace and Yahoo 360 where you can become friends with other people over the internet.

Pepper edit

2006-05-11T11:29:00.000-07:00

I just added to the Pepper wiki article about new features they added to their website for their current tour. The band has provide behind the scenes access with some home video of the band hanging out in between shows and afterwards. Also the band has added more shows to the schedule as the support 311 throughout the summer with many stops in the Northeast.

Tom Petty update

2006-05-10T15:25:00.000-07:00

I updated the Tom Petty wiki article to include new features added by the band for their upcoming tour. The have decided to start a Highway Companions Club which would offer its fans different benefits for the upcoming tour and in the future. If you sign up for it you would recieve pre sale tickets before the general public, discounts at the Tom Petty store, a complimentary Cd of Highway Companion and a personalized email address.

Guster Update

2006-05-10T15:12:00.000-07:00

I have recently updated the Guster wiki article to add some information about their show Joes Place. It was already posted that the band had a show called Joes Place I added that it is now available to view the shows from their webpage. I also added that the next show will premiere on May 23rd.

ESPN update

2006-05-09T15:22:00.000-07:00

Its getting pretty hard now to edit this page because it is such a big company and there is so much information about it already on the page. I posted in the shows section about the recently aired jump performed on ESPN by Mike Metzger where he set a new world record for the longest motorcycle backflip. He did it by jumping 125 feet over the Ceasars Fountains in Las Vegas.

Top 50 advertisers

2006-05-02T12:54:00.000-07:00

I was catching up on my Click Z news articles and I came across on that interested me. It was an article on the Top 50 Advertisers on the Internet. Some of these companies or websites I never have heard of so I guess they are not targeting my type of audience or are just doing a poor job. The number one advertiser was Vonage some type of phone company. There were many major companies in the top 25 with the likes of Target and Walmart located in that group. Towards the middle of the pack were companies like Verizon and Victoria's Secret and bringing up the 50th spot was Expedia a travel website. Combined these companies spent 235,163,000 in advertising during the month of March.

Tom petty update

2006-05-02T12:44:00.000-07:00

I just updated the Tom Petty article on wikipedia. I updated the page to include Petty's upcoming Highway Companion Tour which will be going on throughout the summer of 2006. The tour will kickoff with a show in Charlotte, NC on June 9th and ending with a show in Houston, TX at the end of August. The tour will make stops at the famed Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, TN along with stops in major cities including New York, Denver and St.Louis.

pepper edit

2006-04-26T11:10:00.000-07:00

Pepper has once again taken the road for a summer tour. I decided to update the wiki article to include their latest stops which include shows in California, Nevada, Oregon, Idaho and Florida.

ESPN wiki

2006-04-21T12:32:00.001-07:00

I have currently updated the ESPN wikipedia page. The page was pretty full of content but I managed to see that they didnt have any mention of their extreme sports website EXPN so I went ahead and added that as part of thier business ventures.

guster wiki

2006-04-19T09:03:00.000-07:00

I recently updated the Guster page to wikipedia. The band has started the Campus Consciousness Tour where they have been promoting an enviornmentally friendly world by using bio diesel fuel and wind power energy throughout the tour. The tour has been from Washington to New Hampshire. The tour runs through May.

skype robert scoble

2006-04-16T13:43:00.000-07:00

In class this week we had a presentation from one of the big thinkers over at Microsoft. Robert Scoble was the name and he had great views and opinions about open source and his idea of video taping meetings and encounters by Microsoft employees. He did this by forming channel9 which is the website where people can view all of this recordings. He is an essential part in developing and reviewing their latest inventions.

loocsixela

2006-04-07T16:27:00.000-07:00

In class our proffesor Alex decided to make us learn about how the search engines work and how they use their formula to provide sites for people to view. He chose to search the word loocsixela which will provide a link to the Green Bay Packers website. He chose this to make sure it is a site he has no affiliation with. With all of us blogging about this some of our blogs will show up featuring this word and than it also shows the packers website because of how our thing links it to there.

Free Ipods

2006-03-24T23:23:00.000-08:00

As I was checking to catch the latest Click Z news I saw an interesting article pertaining to the sites that offer free ipods and dvds like http://freeipods.com. The company that is behind this is Gratis Internet and they are being sued because they revealed customers email addresses which violated a promise to the customers confidetiality. Other similar companies that have been charged for this Datran have recently agreed to settle for 1.1 million dollars. Im gonna keep my eyes pealed to see the lastest news so I can post again about the outcome.

Review of my fellow bloggers

2006-03-22T15:50:00.000-08:00

As I was reading through some of my partners blogs today I noticed some interesting posts that I thought I would blog about. As I read erics blog I came across a extraordinary post about polar bears where I learned that eric is a fan of watching polar bears on the Discovery channel. My other two partners becca and meagan have also found skype and the buzz marketing presentations to be very interesting.

We got a live presentation

2006-03-20T16:35:00.000-08:00

I almost didnt get this blog in under the weekley time limit but what the heck im on the money to the day. At this point Meagan cant believe that there are two blog postings from me on the same day. A week ago Mark Hughes came in for our first live presentation of the year. This was the best speaker I have heard in some time besides someone named Alex Brown. Mark Hughes the author of Buzz Marketing spoke with us about the power that Buzz has in the world today. Him and his colleagues started up http://half.com in Halfway,Oregon and some how got the whole town to change the name for a year which is still mind boggling to me at this point. How they used the buzz from that town renaming stunt to promote the website along with fortune cookies to get their name out there to the public. They later sold the company for a lot of money and from there he has become very influencial with his book and website http://buzzmarketing.com. Stay tuned for my next post.

blog number 6 just to make meagan happy

2006-03-20T16:23:00.000-08:00

After Meagan berated me for not having enough blog postings available for her to comment on I rushed home to read an article from clickz so I can post another blog.http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3592841 I found an article regarding Nike and Google teaming up to form a website devoted to soccer fans. The website is http://www.joga.com and will provide soccer videos, photos, a blog posting area and a fantasy team league. It will include 14 different languages and if you really are that interested in seeing them check the link. Currently you can only join by invitation only but it will be come available to everyone in the near future.

Tom petty wiki update

2006-03-15T10:50:00.000-08:00

I just updated the Tom Petty page on wikipedia adding that last febuary Tom signed on for a second season of his XM Radio show in Febuary of 2005. More recently Tom agreed to be the headline act at the fifth annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Tennesee. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Petty

skype presentations

2006-03-09T11:58:00.000-08:00

Over the past couple weeks during our class we have been listening to skype presentations over the computer. This has been some pretty cool technology that I didnt know was out there until I started with this class. Last week we had Dave Brown talk to us about Internet Security which includes stuff like phishing to gain personal information so people can use it as identity fraud. Yesterday we had Toby Bloomberg who is incharge of the http://bloombergmarketing.blogs.com/ which discusses different marketing tactics used by different companies. Without skype we would not have been able to have these experts talk to us about their field of work.

blog 3

2006-02-26T18:07:00.000-08:00

For my third post I decided to edit the wikipedia article about Pepper (band). As I read the article it had a very good history about the band and their influences but wasnt really up to date on recent events. I added to the article about how they have been participating in the annual Kona Town Music Festival in Hawaii. December 17th 2005 was the third annual show.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_(band)

second post

2006-02-19T18:45:00.000-08:00

The purpose of this blog is to talk about the current situations that arise in our class and through our reading. Through this project we are suppose to work with partners and check their blogs along with commenting on how their blogs look and how they relate to the class. Over the course of this project we will learn how to change the different settings and features of this blog to improve it. http://bricorc.blogspot.com

first post

2006-02-14T13:47:00.000-08:00

i hope this worked http://espn.com