Google Atmosphere 2010

Dave Girouard , President , Enterprise, Google Inc.

The president starts off by talking about cloud computing, he calls it big and disruptive. I have no idea what it is but it has something to do with the apps. Dave uses an example that helped me understand it more. I believe that cloud computing is when you have your entire hard drive per say.
He gives an example of how he lost his entire computer but didn't lose anything from it no data or productivity. Dave seems like he knows what he is talking about and really helped me, a person that knows nothing about Cloud Computing, to understand what it is and give examples. This is enterprise 2.0 at its best. they are basically selling a program that is revolutionary and new to Google.
The quotes helped a little to understand what cloud computing has in store. I'm assuming that the companies that were used in the quotes have already used Cloud computing. Im sure that Cloud computing is a bigger workspace and basically keeps everything that you have been working on and keeps it and accesses it from the Internet or database. If this is the future of business I am all for it. He explains the benefits, Cost savings, speed and innovation, but some benefits they have to work on is customization and fitting the specific business that uses it.
Trust is what he keeps on repeating because people are having a bit of scepticism and they did a poll and a little more than half the people had an issue with trust. He is basically selling Cloud Computing.

Enterprise 2.0

Enterprise 2.0 has to do with technology and concept in the work place. Me myself, I enjoyed the book and if i ever become a key component in a company or start my career I will suggest Enterprise 2.0 to my Company. It does seem complicated but again real easy. I'm sure its like a wiki in some ways and in some ways not. This business is all about growing your business and employing hard workers but the main thing is to make a profit. So I believe that Enterprise 2.0 really gets you to look at another side of technology.
My presentation was over chapter 7 and that is implementing Enterprise 2.0 and my chapter was the Six Organizational steps to implement Enterprise. I really understood it as it talked about slightly moving away from the old technology. Not just to delete the old ways but to better them and use them along side the new technology.
I should put a link up if anyone wants to see the presentation.. Because this project was one that I really learned from.

Presentation

In the book enterprise 2.0, my group has to do a presentation tomorrow on chapter 7. I am not nervous or anything I just feel like we always get nervous right before, but we always seem to pull through in the end and have a great presentation. I am excited honestly that it is our last presentation of the semester. What I'm not excited about is the fact that I don't know anything about the test that is coming up. I want to get a okay grade so study I will have to do.

10 Ideas for the next 10 Years

The 10 ideas are pretty accurate. Of course I had to do technology and The Boring Age as my article. In the article it explains how technology has not revolutionized much since great inventions such as the electric oven, the typewriter and the wind source and wood burning as heat sources. I believe that this is true in a way. We are still using the same technologies and have advanced but not to extraordinary conditions. The same applies to knowledge management , it is a great system and not have had many breakthroughs to come to the field.

STEP SHOW FEVER

Yay we have entered into another step show. We have been asked by Fisk Zetas to step in their place at the annual NPHC step show at TSU. Now we have to come up with a whole other them and we have done that but it is essentially our same step show from last year in which we placed 2ND, 2ND and 1st traveling and taking it to different schools. I wonder what we will get at this one. We deserve what we practice for and that is always number 1 baby. We are here to prove that Zetas can step and we step good. Not meaning to put myself in a stereotype of a Zeta, which is Zetas are Fat black ugly and country, But baby I am here to say I may be a Big girl but I can step with the best and out dress the rest..look good and feel good in my skin and Beautiful above all...so stereotype I know nothing of..being a Lady of Zeta is always above!! I love it I love it I love it!!

INFS 3500

I really have been sick for a week or two with stomach issues and have missed my INFS 3500 class for a week. It is a TR class so its only two days but I feel I've missed alot. I have to keep up with blogging and its hard for me... I try not to blame my illness but it really gets to me at times. Living with adult ADHD is kind of a challenge. I pravail I like to think everyday. making waves and changes and learning to live with it more everyday. I know that I can pass this course if I buckle down from here on out. Its getting kind of hard since my classes are wanting more and more out of me as we draw to the end of the semester. Can my mind keep up with the request. Only time can tell!!

My New Baby

Okay so yay for me I have a new laptop... It has been a minute or two since my computer got stolen when I got robbed a year ago so I feel this is a major step up. Of course my babe got it for me and installed Windows 7 on it so its practically brand new with a new hard drive....the only problem is that I have to start from scratch with installing all the programs I need that are on my desktop. I had to install itunes and firefox and microsoft office.. It was a real headache for sure. But I am pleased with it and can start to be more mobile when I'm doing homework. Being a CIS major i need all the technology I can at my finger tips!! Oh an my new babies name is STAR......I love it!!

Epic Fail for Finance

Okay so I overslept for my finance exam so that is an epic fail and my teacher wont let me make it up..I wasn't expecting on taking finance in summer school but thats whats gonna have to happen. I am so pissed at not only myself but my teacher. Hopefully I will get a better teacher this summer...I mean I know all the formulas and problems that we are doing now so it shouldn't be that hard....I hope??

Family Feud

Okay so after church service and after everybody getting out of their shitty sharp clothes(still don't know the purpose) our family did our annual BBQ at the park. Its a tradition that had been cast to the wayside a few years after my grandma passed. She truly was the glue holding our family together. But any who we finally got everyone together and we had a picnic at Overton park. All was good, All my aunts and most of my cousins my uncles and family were all there and it really was a good family get together. My frat brother Sean payed our family a visit which was nice. My boyfriend Jerome was unable to make it but that is understandable, he was with his family as well. But you get what I'm saying that everyone was getting along. So I hadn't really been paying attention to the ark or that the kids go to it to have fun but my little cousins did and two of them got jumped by grown women and men. Now these are two kids 13 and 14 and to get jumped by grown women and men has to make a parent mad. So they really didn't know it was that many of us in our family and got wrong so our family went down and literally whooped the mess out of those people. They pulled knives and so did we but I am not proud of all of this in fact i was the one on the phone with the police telling them the location and to come quick because of the fear of someone having a gun. But all i have to say about this situation is.....Don't mess with the Cooper Family.. My grandma didn't raise no fools...LMAO!!

Easter

Okay so I had a great weekend in Memphis I guess. I know the reason for the season will always be Jesus and bless his name because I love him so much for dying for not only me but for the entire world. I know this may sound strange but my pastor is getting older and his message is more of I have lived my life and ready to go home. I mean he speaks more of death than to relay the message of hope to change your life around. I guess I have went to churches up here in Murfreesboro enough to love the service here and when i go home its like blah....I love the lord and my church home and I want it to Prosper but with no message for me to take on during the week , no inspiration to get me going, no bible stories that give great examples...I'm lost for words.I hope everyone had a safe Easter..I know i some what didn't but that's another blog.

Law and Order

So , I believe I am addicted to law and order and not just SVU but Criminal Intent and the original Law and order episodes. I guess being in the house for these last couple of days not feeling well and really letting my illness get to me is the blame. I have been watching v like there is no tomorrow while being at home not doing anything and I also wonder what we have been doing in class. I have missed Tuesday but I will not miss Thursday.......Hey this is my first blog from home...I like it I will blog all night maybe.

Twitter

HAHA, I know I said I would never use Twitter but I'm eating my words now. I guess i was afraid to steer away from my precious face book and all my 1,291 friends on face book, but I guess new technology is scary for some people. I guess I'm one of those people. Okay so on the 29 of March i got on twitter. I must say it was a trial getting use to the twitter language and I'm no pro just yet but i have 39 followers and i love them. I mean most of them are my blue and white fam but that's all good. I love my Z-phiiiii. I'm excited about twitter though...I have been on it so much i hardly ever be on facebook..I am apart of the twit phenom....I cant complain but now my goal is to get more followers!! SO FOLLOW ME???? www. twitter.com/Endiluscious.....

Neural Network Technology

In class today we used the NueralClassifier to turn data into knowledge. This program turns raw data literally into graphs and useable information. More to come on this amazing program!

Zeta Week

Okay so monday kicked off Zeta week.. My sorority Zeta Phi Beta is having events and community ervice this week to celebrate being on campus and to inform people of our sorority. I love being in my in my Sorority so there will be more to come on this week. but tonight is the Sisterhood forum and I feel we are more than knowledge than ever to discuss this topic!!!

Presentation in Class

Today we did a presentation in class. I believe we did an excellent job. Our chapter was 11 and it was collaborating on wiki and gave us very different companies that used and were successful in groundswell. I really enjoyed this book but that's another blog all together. But back to the presentation, it was short and to the point and we knew the information. I can say I understand the wiki portion of groundswell . I can say that if i wanted to create a wiki for my boyfriends small business I could with this book.

Strategic Planning for Groundswell

Okay so today in class we presented our project on chapter 4 strategic planning. I must say I learned a lot from how companies tap into groundswell. I'm sure listing all the good in strategic planning would be time consuming but all I can say is that I enjoyed presenting useful information and hopefully I helped some one understand chapter 4 of the book Groundswell.

Spring Break

Okay so my plans for spring break is to go to Miami, FL and I can hardly wait. This will be my first time on a plan as well as in Miami. I have been to Florida many times. Disney world and Universal Studios were places my family visited often on our vacations. I must say that I was blessed as a child to have a mother who cared about her children and gave them the world if she could but was also realistic. I enjoyed my times in Orlando but it is time for a new scenery. I am 21 and moms is not gonna be with me on this trip. But I do remember how I was raised and know my rights from wrongs but that doesn't mean I'm not gonna have a great time.

That week it is also my nephew's first birthday. I am too excited bout this as well. I cannot miss his birthday or his birthday party. I was not there for his birth so I have to be there for this and that means my vacation will be cut short but that is alright with me. I value my family way too much to miss out on the great things. Life is too short!

Groundswell

I am interested in reading the book Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff. I only read the summary but from that is states that they have many cases as to how technology has helped many top companies increase sales and knowledge from tapping into the power of technology that is with the times like blogging, twitter, facebook as well as original sales pitches. I'm sure if I was in the business world or owned my own company at this present moment, this book would be a great help but I know that learning this information now is great. You can never have enough knowledge!

This book also got me thinking about my goals and aspirations after I graduate and get an even higher level of education. I want not only to work in database and computer info systems as well as have my own consulting firm . I'm pretty sure i will need knowledge and innovation n to get me the results i want. I know that this is a learning process and to take in as much as i can. I know that one day my hard work will pay off!

Twitter

I have no idea what twitter is all about. Is it like the status portion only of facebook. I assume that you just update your feelings and people follow what you do and get updates on what you do. I mean i can do all of that on facebook. Plus everyone I know is on facebook and i can interact with them more on facebook. On twitter everyone has different names and its hard for you to look them up. So I am use to facebook but I guess twitter is like facebok in a way. I do know alot of people on twitter but I dont think it is as big as facebook. I know I always said I would never do Twitter cause I dont understand it but if I needed to find out sum info on someone i would get on it for sure lol!

New Beginings

It has been a minute since my last blog. Alot has been going on and have not had the time at all. From the flu to anxiety attacks it has been one heck of a week. In my INFS 3500 the exam was harder than I expected and i didnt do so good. I have to juggle alot with my 18 hours but I know that I can do it. I dont see anything that happened to blog about except my emergency room visits. But here I go getting back into blogging!

Behind the Times

So today started off totally wrong, got into Murfreesboro at 3:30 this morning from Memphis. I had an excellent time there but I didn't get any school work done what so ever. I am totally behind in my classes. So from now on I guess I will be on coffee and in the library for the next week or two. I really do hate to miss class but it's like a pattern once you miss one you are completely behind. I'm making a promise to not miss any of my classes unless it's an emergency! On a good note i made an A on my first test of the semester which sets my confidence to new heights. A downfall to that is that I haven't looked at My INFS 3500 work what so ever. I need to do better but I have no clue whats gonna be on this first test. I am at a loss!

Halmark Idea Exchange

Today in INFS 3500 we had a group to present on Hallmark and the article on Idea Exchange. The presentation was very insightful. I didn't know so much was involved in creating a Internet community. They wanted to create a an Internet community(network) to get feedback and surveys, online chats, and bulletin boards. They had plenty of interactions and ideas available to go into bettering their company. Halmark did not create this community but went to an outside provider that is very well at what they do. This all helped in creating a better online experience for the customer and consumer. I think I am going to start sending e-cards now because of their presentation. I believe it is cheaper, more funny and convient, although the downfall to this great idea would be the lack of human interactions. Human contact is needed, and being an internet junky is not cool. I guess that there is a positive and negative side to e-cards.

Data, Information and Knowledge

Thinking about all 3 of these definitions, they all are interchangeable or can be on a hierarchical. I realized that in every analogy I use I can include Data, Information, and Knowledge and it will make sense because these words and their meanings are closely related. Data defined is facts, representation of facts that really don't have a meaning until put into information that is applied by knowledge. Information and knowledge are derived from data ( which may represent attributes of a variable or sets of variables and referring to INF it can be raw data).Information is data received and understood. It is a result of processing, manipulating and organizing data in a way that adds to the knowledge of the person receiving it. Information bears the diversity of meaning, it is data plus meaning that is integrated and consolidated. Knowledge is the application of information and data. Knowledge to me is the simplest of the 3 because it is just the application of information. When you retain information from data you put into affect and u comprehend it and learn from it. I can truly say that I feel I understand data, information and knowledge and find it fascinationg that they are so closely related!

The Wisdom Of Crowds

Well this topic was brand new to me upon entering my INFS 3500 class and I am still trying to understand it. So The Wisdom Of Crowds is a book written by James Surowiecki about the aggregation of information in groups, resulting in decisions that, he argues, are often better than could have been made by any single member of the group.(Wikipedia) he broke down crowd wisdom into 3 parts which were Cognition,Coordination, and Cooperation. Now I believe without a central Idea or main person in charge, great things can happen, people can work together and he expressed the pros of people working together without organization. He also described four elements that were required to form a Wise Crowd; Diversity of Opinion, Independence, Decentralization, and Aggregation. Now I have to say he mad excellent points in explaining his theory. But of course with all theories their has to be failure. He did studies that showed in some cases people produced very bad judgment, argued that in these types of situations their cognition or cooperation failed and were too conscious of the opinions of others.(Wikipedia) So when it came to decision making he went with personal decisions! I know i would be biased as well when decision making is involved. But again this is just my thought on this topic and may be wrong but hey it's just a blog!!

Knowledge Managment

Knowledge management is such a broad term I didn't know where to begin. In class we are focusing on Knowledge management and how it applies to businesses and corporations and that it is used in everyday life.I understand that knowledge management is comprisedof a range of strategies and practices used in an organisation to identify, create, represent, distribute, and enable adoption of insights and experiences. now that I can get, you use knowledge and embed it and it becomes apart of your everyday life and it surrounds us, but as far as the different types of knowledge management and dimensions it is very complex to me. I guess with a little more studying it will become relevant to me!

Arriving in the Windy City

Friday the 22nd of January was also steered away from school and studying all of my six classes. I did miss my Operations Management class today and also another quiz but I am sure I will catch up on my reading. Friday morning the arrival time into Chicago, IL was suppose to be at 9:00am but ended up being 9:30 am but it was cool. We ate a nice breakfast on the train Cafe which was a full service restaurant. Upon arriving into the train station there was a problem with the car rental which resulted in more money being spent but a better Luxury car the new 2010 Lincoln MKZ from Alamo Car Rental Company. Also on this day the viewing of the Late Great Jerome Taylor was held. It was beautiful as well as the setting. It makes you appreciate life and the people around you. It made me realize love everyone cause one day your here and the next your gone. I love Jerome's family, they treat me like their own and we also had the famous Harold's chicken after and called it a night.

Trying Something New

Thursday the 21st of January was totally directed away from school. I spent the whole day with my sister Laken, who recently graduated from MTSU, my nephew Nick Jr, her son who will be 1 very soon on March 11, and also my cousin Eboney, who sense of humor was much needed that day. On this day I took my first train ride on the Amtrak to Chicago, IL and it was quite peaceful and much better than the Greyhound bus system.I really enjoyed this train ride with Jerome although we slept mostly the whole night.

Learning to Blog

Wednesday I see now is going to be a very stressful day. This Wednesday the 20th of January, a full day of classes and mostly all of them new to me. I have a Operations Management, Marketing and INFS 4790, the hardest class in the CIS major to me. On top of all the stress of school just starting I have to leave tonight for Memphis,TN to board a train tomorrow leaving for Chicago,IL to attend the funeral of my Father-In -Law. This could not have came at a worse time there have been so much death lately in both of our families. But back to the nature of my classes, In Operations Management we are starting with chapter two and when I return from Chicago we will be doing chapter 3. I will be very behind in this class. In marketing, we just started so nothing new but to read the first chapter. And lastly in Database Design he doesn't slow down for anyone so I will have to catch up and fast!