Social Media in the Workplace

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One of the subjects that I decided to discuss are the pros on "Social Media in the Workplace". It is only right for corporations and many different organizations to have someone responsible to keep it's social media updated on events, and photos. As a president of a Spanish club (Pura Vida) on campus,  I know it is the best way to communicate with other organizations, for support and for partnership in raising money for one another's organization. It is also another way for the business to get attention and feed back from those who view to make the organization or corporation better. This is another way for other organization/ corporations to discover and find out about what your organization/corporation does as well, opening new opportunities to grow as an organization/ corporation because you are letting the media draw others to participate.

One of the research tools that I used to research a little more about pros towards Social Media, is Duckduckgo.com. This website was more detailed and one giving me articles to help provide me more pros and cons towards Social Media for the workplace. I also researched the photo that I provided from the images on DuckDuckgo.

Read an article about it as well, which you can click on the link below and read more:
http://work.chron.com/impact-social-media-workplace-pros-cons-22611.html

Improve Your Internet Privacy In 15 Minutes

     From reading this article I want to opinionate that although this may help people protect their information and what they post on the internet; I believe their are people that can still find a way to hack into these new protecting websites as well. Don't get me wrong I enjoy finding out about better websites to protect my information and emails that are not being seen by those through my computer, but technically my information is already seen on the internet. Even though I am not as important like those celebrities on TV, but their are people who will do anything to take an identity and information. Reading this article brings me to question whether if I start using the website "Tor" and start downloading password protectors, would it help protect my information regardless, knowing there are ways for people to find my information? Because their are so many hackers in this world and the government do the craziest things to keep track of their people, what is the difference now with these websites than the one's were using now, if it can possibly lead to the same scare of losing our information?

 Click the link below, to read more about it:  
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/13/improve-internet-privacy_n_6902622.html

Targets's Coupon App

As a Target employee, I find it very useful and a great deal for all customers to download the Cartwheel app. It is a free coupon app that customers can download on their phone and search or scan items while in the store to receive great deals to save money. Cartwheel gives the option of signing in through Facebook or email and once they are signed in, customers are given a search bar on the top of the app and a category list showing, market, electronics, etc. When a customer finds a particular item on the app they are given the option "Add" on the item selected. When the coupon is selected, it will be seen under the bar code. Every coupon that is added on the customers cartwheel gives an expiration date for when the coupon expires. If a customer’s coupon is expired on the app, the app will automatically delete the item off the list and notify the customer as soon as they get back on the app. Cartwheel allows the customer to select about 18 coupons and once it is time to check out, the cashier will scan their cartwheel bar code on their phone helping each and every guest save money. If you’re a shopaholic like me and enjoy shopping at Target, then downloading cartwheel is the best thing you can do to help yourself save money. As an employer for Target I have heard great things from customers regarding cartwheel and how much they saved because of cartwheel.

Choosing the Best Smartphone

"Selecting a cellphone plan is the most complicated financial transaction that a consumer will ever make," stated by Mr. Toikka. In this article they have come to the conclusion that AT&T has the best deals for families, and understanding the difference between phone companies and what they offer to their customers, from the memory, payment plan, activation fees, and data usage. The article discusses the two year plan, as they call it the "Death of the 2 year plan", AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and Verizon drop the two year plan because it is cheaper for their customers.  The authors of this article Brian and Chen discuss the contract-fee plans on the differences in prices, and etc. I thought this article proved you should be smart with your finances by calculating the fees before you decide a phone plan for your family, or self. The authors of this article were able to have myself think twice of my phone plan, because to be honest it would be too much for me to calculate and really think twice on switching my company of Sprint to AT&T. If you really think about it, technology has really taken over lives of everyone. In other words, its much easier with technology now than it was back then. My smartphone means so much to me, it has everything I need, google, twitter, facebook, instagram, and etc. I believe technology makes a person lazy, but even though it does has its down faults its worth every penny out of your pocket.

If you would like to read more about it just click on the link below:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/03/technology/personaltech/choosing-the-best-smartphone-plan-for-you.html?ref=technology&_r=0