Blog 8-Summary

This blogging entrepreneurial project was a great learning experience.  First off, it helped me learn and understand the world of blogging and how useful it can be.  I also learned a lot about how to relate my own ideas to the technology and advancements in technology that we learned about in class.  The experience of learning all of these tools will help me be more successful and has made me aware of the technological advances we have going into the future. 

When starting this blog I knew that a lot of effort, time, and organization has to go into starting your own business or marketing your ideas, but coming out of it I feel like I have gained a lot of knowledge about doing it myself.  I learned about a lot of technological tools that would help me be successful in my own business.  I think that blogging about things that I have learned helped me see how I really could use them in the future.  I also feel like reading comments from others can help refine ones idea so that it can flourish in the long run.  

Another part of this project was I got to comment on other students entrepreneurial ideas.  The three URLs I commented on were:  http://matttallmanist195.blogspot.com/ (Matt Tallman), http://ist195entrepreneurship.blogspot.com/ (Fiona Andrews), and http://helenology.blogspot.com/ (Helen Peng).  All three of them I felt had excellent potential to be very successful ideas.  I think this project really helped us stretch our knowledge of the world today, to find things that we think would advance it even further.  All of their ideas did just that.  Matt talked about having a website that would portray all the critical information on one site.  I think this would be very benificial for elderly people or just people that hate searching all over the internet for a few things.  Fiona talked about having a store that rents dresses.  I feel like that would be an awesome idea especially if you look at how much woman spend on dresses sometimes to even just wear once.  Lastly, Helen talked about advancements to online shopping.  She proposed a way you would be able to make a model, matched to your bodysize, and have it put the clothes on so you could see how it looked before buying it.  I felt like all three of these ideas were good ones and if they were real, I myself would use them. 

Overall, I think this project was a very benificial one.  I think it helped me broaden my horizon to the ways of getting ideas out there for publicity purposes or even to just get some feedback with blogging.  I enjoyed learning how to start a blog and I will apply this to my everyday life and future.