Design & Innovation

I enjoy reading many of your posting. I am glad to see activities on-line taking off. Here are some suggestions.  First, I hope that all of you will edit your profile so that your posting will show your full name — no nick name or initial, but full name. Please edit your profile so that your full name is displayed. There is an option to display your full name. But in order to have that option, you must type in your name. Again, you choose whatever login ID you like. But, if you put your real name in the proper field your profile, you can display your name for your posting. Second, choose ’student posting’ as the category of your posting. Third, please add few tags at the end of your posting. It will be fun to see the changes of our tag cloud change over time.  Fourth, it is a requirement. But generally, the blog is a way to connect contents. So, it will be nice to see links, pictures, and videos in your posting. You can include YouTube clips, for example, right inside your posting. For example, here is the new version of the video clip that we saw in the class, “did you know”:

You can also quote the contents from the source, using block quote feature.  If you have some other suggestions for the posting of the blog, please let me know. For example, there was a story on New York Times on Target’s response to a blogger’s complaint.

“That was the message the cheap-chic retailer seemed to convey in an abrupt e-mail message to ShapingYouth.org, a blog about the impact of marketing on children. Early this month, the blog’s founder, Amy Jussel, called Target, complaining about a new advertising campaign that depicted a woman splayed across a big target pattern — the retailer’s emblem — with the bull’s-eye at her crotch. “Targeting crotches with a bull’s-eye is not the message we should be putting out there,” she said in an e-mail interview. Target offered an e-mail response: “Unfortunately we are unable to respond to your inquiry because Target does not participate with nontraditional media outlets,” a public relations person wrote to ShapingYouth.

So, make your posting more colorful and interesting. But, make sure it is rich in your OWN thoughts, more than anything else.