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CIS Presents:
Learn about the CIS Major and Minor

This CIS presents was the most fun, and most entertaining of all the presentations I attended. Not only did I get some free pizza and soda after the event, but I also enjoyed what some of the alumni had to say about the jobs. The event showed the diversity of the major and I am planning on signing up for the Minor. I am not sold on the Major but the Minor does seem like a good idea.

del.icio.us

del.icio.us is a program, that liek twitter, is something that I do not think about. In these past few weeks my life has had very little time to browse the web and find random websites. If I found the time to browse websites and stumble upon cool things, the last thing to come to my head was to de.icio.us it. The bookmarking tool has great potential for some other people who want viewers to only read certain websites, but just like twitter I feel as though this application has little use for me.

Twitter

I feel as though if you had a job or some sort of interesting hobby this website may be of use. However, for a student like me who rarely has time to sit down and type a post over the last six weeks, this website was not for me. I found it hard to remind myself to post interesting things I might be doing with my life. I guess I may havejust never got into the twittering mode, but I found it to not fit in with my life. I feel as though this has some serious potential, but I am just not in that area of my life as of yet to fully enjoy and use Twitter.

The Intersection of Marketing and IT

With Louise Rijk of Advanced Media Productions

Louise Rijk was clearly well versed in her field of work. She discussed thouroughly the different aspects of online marketing and demonstrated sincere insight into the field.

To me this was one of those times where she would say something to me, and I would instantly think that what she was saying was common sense. The only difference is that I would not have ever thought to account for those certain issues.

A major problem I found in her presentation was the single slide she used in her slide show. Having a single slide with copious amounts of information attracts the listeners to read the slide and not listen to what is being said by the speaker. Chris Penn's slide show featured a lot of fast slides that contained pictures relating in some way to what he was saying.

Overall I feel as though I have learned from her presentation, but did not feel as though the the presentaion was very relevent to my life.