Ford Fiesta Movement

The following video was published by myself and my fellow BU colleague, Erik Barfield, we discuss Ford's use of Social and Viral Media in 2009 as part of our E-Commerce class on Social Media.

I'm sure that most of my BU colleagues would agree, this assignment was filled with challenges, but for me was an enriching experience - outside of learning about the use of social media in e-commerce.  I was exposed to voice recording on power point, then timing it (poor Erik was probably tired of my voice, he worked on the sequence last night - he's probably saying thank goodness for text messaging) and then there was figuring out ways to post it to You Tube.  We are proud of presentation and hope you enjoy it! 

We'd love to hear from you and look forward to discussions.  Paula

Our first snow storm in 2012 - three to six inches expected.  It's pale in comparison to some areas of the US.  I'm sure that the snow always brings back some memory for most of us.  I go back to our first winter in CT in 2007.  That season, our mailbox was knocked down by the snowplow a couple of times, run over and then vandalized by pranksters (it was a big thing in town, they went through an entire neighborhood).  The mailbox had certainly seen better days. It got to a point where the post was nailed with 2x4's on each side and the door was missing.  In the spring we got a new one and moved it to the other side of the driveway - we haven't had problems since (cross my fingers) with the exception of prankster kids who tried to take the door off the new one.  I guess that's what kids in the burbs do these day, smash mailboxes.  

Blogging is kind of fun

I've spent most of my evening playing with the colors and format of this blog. Let me know what you think! Thank you.

Memories

I don't what it is but, lately I've been thinking about my mother inlaw. I just came across this picture of her when I was looking for pictures for my other page on the blog. I miss her, she passed on a few years ago. She was an amazing cook! Unfortunately, I never learned her cooking tricks so that I could share them with Xavier or on days my husband needs alittle bit of TLC. She's sitting next to me on the left. Her two cousins are next to her and her nephew is on my other side. This was taken in 2004.

Interesting day with "free" internet

I'm sure most of you have heard about the significance of this week's internet protest.

I found out from my husband ,who's in IT, over coffee this morning he was ranting about how he hoped that he'd be able to work because "today the internet is going to be dark".  I thought right away, how could this be possible?  Google down for the day? What about my email?

I remember I could barely survive the 4 days we lost power in September due to a hurricane - no weather, no news, no email, no facebook. I felt so disconnected  - yet I was more in touch with myself. It was peaceful and calm not having to have the pressure to check everything and know everything. Once upon a time, I lived without internet.  I remember my first attempts at navigating world wide web and the modem using dial up to connect.  It all seems so long ago and ancient, I'll probably be with my grandchildren talking about how I once used a manual typewriter and it was it the coolest thing when you worked on an electronic one that you could type your sentences and read them before they printed.

Today, Google made a stance and put a black sticker over their name. Not as bold as wikepedia.  A part of me does wish that Google was more daring in their stance and actually show us, so we could taste what the internet would be like with SOPA and PIPA enacted.  I think that those desiring to have this policy would certainly experience a difference and realize that we've come to far with the internet and world wide web.  Parts of this policy would certainly set us back.  Not to mention that it could restrict us from freedom of speech...there goes facebook, twitter, blogs and all the other social networks.  For those of us who have embraced this technology, it was be devasting. My 4 year old wouldn't know the difference on the other hand.  I voted against SOPA and PIPA,  take your vote on Google.