Wiki World

Happy Fall, Everyone!

In Emerging Tech class this semester, we have learned about "wikis," another emerging technology I am unfamiliar with. Of course, I use Wikipedia....Duh. I also knew that anyone could edit the articles on Wikipedia just because of some stories I heard about people playing jokes on other people. So, if you are like me and don't really know what a wiki is, it is simply it is a collaborative report that ensures important information is elicitied, discussed, and edited. However, you may not have known that Wikipedia is not the only wiki space available. Other sites such as Zoho, Sharepoint, and Confluence are also wikis.

In class that day when wikis were first introduced to us, we watched a short YouTube clip of The Colbert Report and how he asked people to change the Wikipedia article on elephants. It was pretty funny -- you should check it out!

Thanks for reading...
Erica

"Somewhat Frank"

Hey there!

Just wanted to post a little something about Frank Gruber. His career now is with AOL, but he is also involved in numerous other things in the social media world. One of his many activities is blogging for Tech Crunch, the world's largest tech blog. I am familiar with Tech Crunch from working at my internship with BLASTmedia this summer. When someone got coverage in Tech Crunch, it was a big deal.

Frank is a proud Purdue grad and then continued to get his Master's degree at Northwestern University. He was so inspiring and accomplished. When we left class that day, I was thinking how accomplished he is after being out of school for about 8-10 years. I hope to be just as accomplished when I am about 8-10 years out of Purdue.

You should definently check out his blog titled "Somewhat Frank" at http://www.somewhatfrank.com/.

Erica

Geocaching

Hey All --

I had to leave lecture a little early today for an appointment to see the doc. -- feeling a little under the weather for the past week. I need to get better ASAP because I'm leaving for Florida on Friday for Fall Break:) I can't wait.

Anyway, today Dr. Chris Miller was our guest lecturer who spoke about "geocaching." To no surprise, I had never heard of it before and was thinking what the heck is he talking about. The more he got to talking, I understood geocaching better and I got pretty excited about the whole concept. I think it's good, clean family fun with a little twist and mystery.

We are doing a geocaching hunt on Wednesday for lab. We will be wondering about Purdue's campus looking for clues. I signed up to be the detective, so this should be interesting...I hope I don't let my team down. I didn't want to sign up as the navigator because they use the GPS, which I am still a rookie at. I know how to use a GPS -- my mom, dad, and boyfriend have them but I didn't want to take that responsibility for the team. So, Wednesday should be fun and interesting....I'll let you know how it goes!

Thanks for reading! Happy Monday ;)
Erica