Corporate America catches on?
General Motors plans on kicking off it’s centennial campaign wiki-style.
What does that mean?
That means GM is launching a corporate history wiki on GMNext.com where people can post first-hand experiences with GM. Whether it’s a story about a summer job in an assembly plant or pictures of your first car, GM wants your multimedia to help celebrate their history!
To show how corporations are having to adapt to todays wired world, read the following quote:
The company had originally considered creating a traditional book on GM’s history. “We felt that a more social, more inclusive approach was appropriate, and the story was best told not by the corporation or media but by men and women who were there,” says Keller.
Is your real life really that boring/horrible?
While reading up on Second life, a website/program where you can create an alternate life through a computer character, I came upon a one-page satire called Get a Life First. Yes, I’ll admit that I played Sims when I was an awkward 7th grader, but I can’t imagine spending my hours, days, life as a 21-year-old woman living an alter ego life on Second Life. From what I understand, in Second Life you can make and socialize with friends, purchase items, listen to a class lecture etc. How about doing these things in real life, where it counts!
From Get a life First:
“America’s teens, your First Life dream world awaits. Hang out at the mall! Embarrass yourself in gym class! Get acne! Experiment with mind-altering recreational drugs! The First Life world is your oyster.”
I don’t believe you can gain real world knowledge by playing Second Life. In the real world, we have real relationships that involve verbal and non-verbal contact. It’s easy to hide behind an online character and be the person you are scared to be in the real world. But easy isn’t true development and I’m afraid that people who are involved with Second Life are avoiding reality and not being true to themselves.
Something I can add to my list of random facts
I stumbled upon (har har, no pun intended) a list of the 25 Largest User Generated Content Websites and was suprised to see some sites that I’ve never heard of. So I clicked on StumbleUpon, which boasts the fact that you will discover new sites, and was a bit surprised by it’s similarity to del.icio.us.
It’s obvious at first glance that StumbleUpon has a more visually appealing template than del.icio.us as it has thumbnail screenshots of the sites themselves (as opposed to just text, like del.icio.us). StumbleUpon also has an advantage because not only does it promote or pass on an article but it also promotes the website from which it’s from.
Tripit – the perfect tool for anxiety-ridden travelers
So I stumbled upon this website called Tripit and suddenly I realized that someone else understands my anxiety and anal organization when it comes to planning my travels!! So here is how it works:
I email Tripit my travel confirmation emails to their email address and what happens next is amazing. Tripit creates a master itinerary that has related information, daily weather, driving directions and more through what they call the Tripit “Itinerator”
For the on-the-go generation, this website is perfect! It even allows us to sync the calenders to Google or Outlook and it is all accessible from our mobile phones
Tripit has gone social! According to their website: “With TripIt, travelers can share their travel calendars, access itineraries, and collaborate on planning trips with individuals or across their network of TripIt friends”
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