What’s up

Just a quick post to highlight the new semester I’m in. It’s going to be a bit of a bear, but interesting.

Currently, we’re in planning stages for the development of my team’s social community. The name has been nailed down, it will be called ArtStarters.org

The first steps were outlining our project scope (who will use it? what problem are we helping them solve? what tools will we give them?). Next is to take our list of tools and give them greater depth, outlining in detail what they have to do (input first name, if no first name upon ’submit’, refresh page with error note) that kind of thing.

Next steps will be to begin shopping for developers. Additionally, we’re taking an internet law class so we understand how to write terms & conditions, what’s legal to ask users to undertake, what we open ourselves up to legally by hosting the sites, etc.

My third class for the semester is my one and only elective and is outside the Annenberg Communications school. I’m in a class in the business school looking at the business of the networked digital industry; how is the internet and the demand for ‘always on’ going to affect companies like Nike or General Mills? What do the hardware companies need to do to keep up? Just how far behind IS the U.S. in terms of internet speed and connectivity (umm, way far; we’re about to go 4G which I vaguely recall is like 10MB and South Korea is consistently at 40MB, um, yeah, bad news bears). It should give me a wider global perspective on how networks are changing business cases.

Finally, I’m going to be writing a little eBook, so keep your eyes open for more info on that one!

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