show details 11:19 AM (14 hours ago)
Yes, that would be worth a try with the Nugget!
Shing
Garret Earley ✆ to coachlopez24, Shing
show details 4:12 PM (10 hours ago)
That's fine for the gym idea. I can make any appt work. For Nugget there are several so let me talk to them and if what they are using fits the criteria, I can find something central for all of us. Let me work a little more on the blog then for that part of it. I will throw in our emails and you all can tell me what you think. That will be tonight or tomorrow morning.
Thanks,
Garret
On Jan 21, 2011 11:41 AM,
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> Attached: CFF Presentation.pptx
> Message from coachlopez24@gmail.com:
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> Hi Team,
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> So a few things:
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> 1) If we will not be using google dragons/groups does anyone know how we can incorporate Jackie A.M. into being "invited" --as she put it-- into our workspace. Is it as simple as just including her in the e-mails?? I want to make sure she is gives us credit for our workspace part.
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> 2) I have attached a powerpoint presentation on California Family Fitness for you two. I am hopeful I can schedule an interview with them today for sometime next week. If it turns out as a go, I just thought you would like some info on the company--it's nothing fancy just something I put together real quick from all of my other projects on this company from Sal's class. If you would like more info feel free to ask.
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> 3) Garret: Thanks for putting in some more time on this (Apple, 10 social media companies, etc.) Barnes & Noble was unwilling to share as well. Can't blame these companies it is a competitive advantage for them but sucks for us :)
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> 4) As for the Nugget idea, I think it's worth a shot to try, however, I think we should try and shoot for a nugget that is as central to all of us as possible. I live in Natomas and I believe Shing lives in Elk Grove. Is there one that is central to us???
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> 5) Shing, if you can get into Intel's barriers and they are willing to share their info I think that would be a great one to go with. I know the contact that I have at the gym is okay with sharing information with us. I think now its just about scheduling a time and ensuring they have social media tools that they use, which from Erin's voicemail they do.
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> 6) If I can schedule an interview, I will try and schedule it for the late morning early afternoon time (11-1pm --start time). Will this fit for everyone's schedule? I will be shooting for Monday or Tuesday as well. What do you all think?
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> Jackie
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> Google Docs makes it easy to create, store and share online documents, spreadsheets and presentations.
Garret Earley ✆ to Jackie, Shing
show details 11:07 AM (15 hours ago)
This came from a Yahoo article on the 10 best places to work. It seemed like with Apple they were reluctant to discuss anything with me for fear that we are exposing their proprietary secrets or something. Also, for some companies Social Media is reserved for use at the Corporate level and not for people that may be in the retail stores. What does everyone think about approaching Nugget (I have one a block away) to ask them about their willingness to share?
Thanks,
Garret
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Garret Earley ✆ to Jackie, Shing
show details 10:59 AM (15 hours ago)
Ten Corporate Blogs Worth Reading
Posted on 19. Feb, 2009 by Adam in Blogging
Corporate blogs can be dry and lack the personality of some of the independent blogs. They tend to be far more censored because of legal and public relations concerns, too. But they can be a great source of information on the market and other topics of entrepreneurial interest. Here are ten “big blogs” that are worth reading regularly, even if they are written by large corporations:
1. Official Google Blog (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/)
It’s ranked #1 on Technorati’s top Corporate Blogs, and whether you approve of Google as a company or not, if you do any kind of business on the internet, you must acknowledge this company’s influence on all things web-related.
2. LinkedIn Blog (http://blog.linkedin.com/)
Stay on top of changes in the job market, learn how to use the LinkedIn application, read about how to use social media to make the most of your professional contacts.
3. Whole Story: The Whole Foods Blog (http://blog.wholefoodsmarket.com/)
As a pioneer in conscious consumerism and one of the most successful retailers in the country, Whole Foods’ blog combines business news infused with the unique Whole Foods philosophy, along with delicious topics on all kinds of food, wine, and environmental issues.
4. The Chatter: The Official Ebay Blog (http://www.ebaychatter.com/)
Keep your finger on the pulse of the most successful and popular online auction website. The Chatter covers Ebay as both a company and a community, and regularly features some of the coolest auctions posted on the site.
5. Check Out Blog: The Official Wal-Mart Blog (http://www.checkoutblog.com/)
Whether you like Wal-Mart or not, this retail giant is a huge force in the retail marketplace, and regularly reading their blog can help you stay abreast of trends that inevitably occur when they make announcements. Despite Wal-Mart being a big, faceless corporation the bloggers on this site are surprisingly personable in their writing.
6. The Fast Lane: GM’s Blog (http://fastlane.gmblogs.com/)
As one of the largest manufacturers in the U.S., and in light of the major economic impact this company has had on American taxpayers in the past year, keeping up with this blog is a great way to stay up on the forces that are shaping the future of the economy right now.
7. Future Banking Blog (http://futurebanking.bankofamerica.com)
This blog is a collaborative effort between Bank of American and MIT which addresses the future of the banking industry, and the steps that are being taken to evolve banking as a business. If you are interested in money at all you should read this blog.
8. Values in Practice: The McDonald’s Corporate Blog (http://www.crmcdonalds.com/publish/csr/home/_blog.html)
McDonald’s remains one of the most successful corporations in America, and continues to show profits even during the current recession. But what makes this blog so unique is that it is an official corporate blog that is primarily focused on corporate responsibility and sustainability.
9. Amazon Daily (http://www.amazon.com/gp/daily)
Amazon is the premier internet marketplace, and the official blog gives information about the company as well as product information from editors in every product category. Customers can give private feedback to the writers or leave a public comment.
10. The Platform: Opinions and Insights from Cisco (http://blogs.cisco.com)
One of the world’s largest manufacturers of networking and security technologies, Cisco’s official blog will give you a glimpse into the inner workings of a tech giant, and help you stay aware of product and financial news that will have an impact on the market.
Garret Earley ✆ to Shing, Jackie
show details 10:55 AM (15 hours ago)
Apple was unfortunately a dead end. I was surprised that the company that brought us the Podcast had nothing to offer. I think it was more that they were unwilling to share anything though. I have a friend that does contract work for SCA which is an insurance appraisal company. They are pretty large and national. I'll check with him because they did have a teleconference the other day with an online interactive component to the meeting. Google Docs is fine as it is already established and it should get the job done.
Thanks everyone,
Garret
Shing Vang ✆ to Jackie, me
show details 10:45 AM (15 hours ago)
Thanks Jackie for working on this homesite for us. I am definately ok with using this program. I how do we send files...I'll have to look into this more. My co-worker has an aunt who works for Intel and so I am still waiting to hear back from her. Garret, any news from Apple?
Thanks team for keeping everyone posted!
Shing
Jackie Lopez ✆ to Shing, me
show details 10:39 AM (15 hours ago)
Shing & Garret,
Shing: I'm glad to hear you are working on Intel. Keep us posted on how that goes.
Shing & Garret: I just sent out an e-mail/post from google dragons explaining my status report with my gym contact. In my e-mail to them I asked for an interview early next week. It will give us time to work on what questions we need to ask, etc.
Also: I was wondering if the two of you can access (and post) via google dragons. Just curious if we want to use this tool so that I can invite Jackie as well--that way she knows we are working hard on this project.
Thanks,
Jackie
Jackie Lopez to Google
show details 10:28 AM (15 hours ago)
Hi Team Dragons,
Hope your enjoying your Friday. I just wanted to give you a status
report. My contact at the gym finally returned my call late afternoon
yesterday (I was taking team pictures and couldn't get back to her
before 5pm). Per her voicemail message, I sent her an email of the
description of our project guidelines which she will forward to their
communications/marketing department--she said this would be the best
to people to help field our questions.
The name of the gym/organization is: California Family Fitness (CFF)
The name of my contact person in their HR dept is: Erin Norris
Website: www.californiafamilyfitness.com
I left her another v-mail today (still playing phone tag) to confirm
that she received my latest email. I will keep you posted as I hear
more.
Happy Friday,
Jackie
P.S. I have a big basketball game tonight but will have to be there
around 3:30-4:00 (my game starts at 5:30). I will have my phone on me
feel free to text me or e-mail me. I will do my best to take her call
if she calls back around that time.
Shing Vang ✆ to google-dragons
show details Jan 20 (1 day ago)
Hello you two! I am at work and wanted to quickly email you two that I am working at trying to see if I can talk to someone from Intel so that we can get going on our project. It sounds like they have social media but the hangup is trying to find a person who will take the time to talk to me. Wish me luck!
Jackie, if yours is a go...let's move forward with the fitness center...
I'll try out google dragon when I get off of work.
Thanks for everything!
Shing
Jackie Lopez to Google
show details Jan 20 (1 day ago)
Hi team dragons!!
I was playing around with the settings and it looks like we can all
post now. Try it out and see if you can respond if you can and if you
are all ok with using google groups as an additional tool I think we
are good to go as far as the tools go.
Jackie Lopez ✆ to Shing, me
show details Jan 19 (2 days ago)
Shing--Can you get text msgs? I forgot.
Jackie
Jackie Lopez ✆ to Shing, me
show details Jan 19 (2 days ago)
Shing,
Thanks for doing the leg work to find out about the weight watchers thing. Garret didn't have much luck at the Roseville location (he just texted me) but he did get some info for the Elk Grove location hopefully this will be better. In addition to leaving a voicemail for Erin (CFF) I emailed her. I remember that emailing is a good way for her to communicate.
Keep up the good work team. I will start becoming more unavailable as it reaches closer to 2pm. Emails and texts are working great and should continue to while I'm with the JV team.
Jackie
P.s. I love how "in the loop" we are keeping each other. :D
Garret Earley ✆ to coachlopez24
show details Jan 19 (2 days ago)
Jackie,
Im at the mall in Roseville. I was going to text you to see if I should still talk to them, but I realized I don't have your cell. I'll be here for a little bit if you want to text me at 9163807494.
Thanks,
Garret
Shing Vang ✆ to me, Jackie
show details Jan 19 (2 days ago)
Yeah Garret...I hope you can talk to Apple! Just to let you all know, I spoke to a rep on the phone from Weight Watchers and they do have an online program for members where they can talk to each other, but I am not a member and will not be able to check it out. The problem I found with Weight Watchers is that the actual physical place where they hold classes are not open all day. They have specific times when the building is open. For example, the one in Elk Grove is closed today and will open tomorrow from 2pm-4pm and then Fri from 8am-1:30pm. Also, in talking to the lady, she wasn't very familiar with it and I asked her if there was one person at the site that would be able to help and she was not very sure as these people were more of the personal interactions type and not necessarily social media type. It sounded like this Social Network is done and organize at the Corporate level.
This doesn't sound like a go with Weight Watchers.
Shing
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Garret Earley
Okay,
Now I have the email traffic and I am back in the loop. No problem with the wikispaces. I can convert to another tool if you all want. I enjoy doing it so its no big deal. When I get home ill send the blogspot link. I did it, I was just concerned that it didn't turn out user friendly. I'll talk to Apple too since I'm here.
Thanks,
Garret
Jackie Lopez ✆ to Shing, me
show details Jan 19 (2 days ago)
Looks like we are all hard at work on this. I bet you its something as simple as changing something in the access part that will allow us 2 post stuff. Anyway, keep me posted on how it goes guys! Good luck!
Ps. Shing: Garret is at apple right now.
Shing Vang ✆ to Jackie, me
show details Jan 19 (2 days ago)
Just so you both know, I am not working today. Please call me at 214-6682 if you need to get a hold of me. Jackie, I joined your Google Dragons space but I can't post anything either...maybe we should just use Google Docs...anyway, I am calling weight watchers as I am typing this email away and am still on hold...don't know how well it will go...
Shing
Shing Vang ✆ to Jackie, me
show details Jan 19 (2 days ago)
Jackie, I too remember that Prof did not want us to use wikispaces...Sorry Garret...
Shing
Jackie Lopez ✆ to Shing, me
show details Jan 19 (2 days ago)
Hi again team,
I just called and left a message for Erin, my contact at California Family Fitness. I have to be on the bus 2pm today so if she calls me back anytime after then I will do my best to returner call before my game at 5pm (ish).
I also called Mary Haynes at Barnes & Noble and spoke with another mgr. who told me that it would be better to Mary about our project, she seemed very uninterested and not willing to help. Mary starts her shift at 4pm today so I will be getting more info later this evening to share with you ( I hope).
Sorry for the over communication just wanted to keep you all in the loop on my status.
Have a great day,
Jackie
Jackie Lopez ✆ to Shing, me
show details Jan 19 (2 days ago)
Hi Team,
So in an effort to create another space (I'm sorry Garret that Jackie won't let us use wikispaces) I created and invited you both to a google group called google dragons. I tried to post something for a discussion so that you all will be able to see it and it said that I don't have sufficient permissions to do this which I don't understand since I created the darn thing. Just goes to show how tech savvy I'm not lol!! Maybe I need to have another member accept first??
Now, I'm not even sure if you all even got my invitation to join...good grief! In it I told you that if you both choose to not use google groups as a tool my feelings will not be hurt and that is still the case. Since I can't start off a converstaion we may have to dump this idea anyway. I just thought I would try my hand at this tool business. :)
Jackie
Jackie Lopez ✆ to me, shingvang
show details Jan 19 (2 days ago)
Hi Garret,
Thanks for working on this. I'm sorry you had a difficult time with blogspot. I really like the wikispaces idea too but I remember Jackie saying that we can't use it, since this is what we are using for our other class assignments. I hope you didn't put too much time into it.
Myabe just sticking to googledocs is what we will have to do.
Jackie
Jackie Lopez ✆ to me, shingvang
show details Jan 18 (3 days ago)
hi team
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Garret Earley
Sorry for the late reply. I like the Barnes and Noble idea. Also Apple might be a good option as well. I will be thinking of some other things we can examine as well. I am also glad to be working with you and Shing. You are both awesome. See you later tonight.
Thanks,
Garret
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Garret L. Earley
Jacqueline Y Lopez
show details Jan 13 (8 days ago)
Hi Team!!
So our deadline to have our project completed will be here before we know it.
Garret: Shing and I spoke briefly after class on Tuesday about who we can interview and what social media tool we can use. This was more like a brainstorming session, here is what we discussed:
Tools: Google Docs-It's the only one we both know how to use but I was wondering if both of you would be willing to try one of the other "free" tools. I'd like a chance to learn how to use a new tool and I have not had the best of success with Google Docs in the past. If we do use google docs, we will need each others gmail addresses. Here is mine: coachlopez24@gmail.com Please use this one to communicate with me--checking my drexel email is quite the task for me.
Drexel Group Pages: We discussed this idea briefly but I looked into it and it seems like we will have to get Jackie A.M. to set it up for us and it will be available for the entire class to see--I could be wrong though.
Project Ideas: Drexel, California Family Fitness (CFF), and Weight Watchers. I have a connection at CFF whom I've been using for my other HRD assignments--but I'm not sure if they will be appropriate for this project.
Extra information:
Barnes & Noble: After class on Tuesday, I had to go to the book store (Barnes & Noble) and while I was there I asked the mgr if they use virutal communities. She said YES!! She has to ask permission for us to interview her and I'm still waiting on a response which is good since I wanted to run the idea past you all as well.
Apple: While talking with the Mgr. she suggested we look into apple as well. She said she knew for a fact that they use virutal communities internally and if her district mgr said they couldn't do it, Apple would be the next best thing. Personally I think this idea is better anyway. Again wanted to get your thoughts.
Garret & Shing I am looking forward to working with you both! I have worked with both of you before on separate projects and was excited to see that we were in the same group. I know our group will be great! :)
See you soon,
Jackie
P.S. sorry for the super long e-mail, they will get shorter after this. :)
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