Over the past eight weeks or so we have been blogging based on lectures from IST 195 and how to make our business idea come to life with different aspects of technology.
The company that I started for this project was BrainBuckets. This is a ski and snowboard helmet making company that makes cool helmets for that teenagers will actually want to wear instead of being like a lot of people and thinking that helmets ruin there look so they won't actually wear them.
This projects was a great way to connect what we learned in class to the real world. It really made me go back and think about what we talked about in the lectures and try and apply that to the business i was creating. I really enjoyed doing this project and would definitely recommend having it in future semester as a project for IST195.
The Blogs that i posted on from other students in IST195 are
1. http://ebrennan91.blogspot.com/2011/10/httpdavematthewsblogcom-famous-blog.html?showComment=1320072915586#c5574232824997511211
2. http://dessertpizzajustin.blogspot.com/2011/09/week-one-social-media.html?showComment=1320073478517#c2491366304145813557
3 http://himynameisjustinlaw.blogspot.com/2011/09/ist195-project-blog-post-2.html?showComment=1320074001831#c17840548068319131
Monday, October 31, 2011
Networking
BrainBuckets being a web based business where we del ski helmets online as well as at mountains will be greatly impacted by how we are presented online. During IST 195 we learned a lot of different things that would be very helpful.
Domain names is something i didn't know as much about that I should of if i am trying to start a online business. If you want to be successful online as a business it is actually important to purchase all the domain names that look like your business. If someone purchases the domain name that is one letter off from your name or sounds like that how it should be spelled and makes a bad name from your company on there it could ruin you. It was a very good thing to find out and I'm very glad I was informed about it.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Digital Color!
This week in IST professor Rubin taught us about digital colors and how to use them in different technology fields. Brain Buckets being a company that will a be highly web based company understanding Hexadecimal colors is very important. Hexadecimal colors are what web designers use when developing websites to determine what color things are.
BrainBuckets will also need to understand other color models for different things we need to do. For example we will have pro athletes wearing our products and taking pictures of them. When you are trying to upload a picture to a website the picture needs to be saved in RGB (Red,Green,Blue) format. On the other hand if you are trying to print out ads to put at mountains or send into magazines for advertising they need to be in CMYK ( cyan, Magenta, yellow,black) format. These are things i didn't know before this class but is very good so i don't make that mistake when trying design my website or advertise and get BrainBuckets out on the market.
BrainBuckets will also need to understand other color models for different things we need to do. For example we will have pro athletes wearing our products and taking pictures of them. When you are trying to upload a picture to a website the picture needs to be saved in RGB (Red,Green,Blue) format. On the other hand if you are trying to print out ads to put at mountains or send into magazines for advertising they need to be in CMYK ( cyan, Magenta, yellow,black) format. These are things i didn't know before this class but is very good so i don't make that mistake when trying design my website or advertise and get BrainBuckets out on the market.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Blogger Blog
This week I decided to look into how other companies in the sport equipment industry were doing on different blogging websites trying to get a feel for how brain buckets would actually do if it were made into a real company.
Going through many different blogs reading and watching different things i really liked the layout of "Epic Sports" blog. They are a down to earth blog talking about most major sports and different companies along with new technologies that are making each sport progress each year. It is highly geared towards the teenage consumer as well which would be perfect for this company because teenage skiers and snowboarders are are target market.
If BrainBuckets were on here i think they would get excellent exposure from many of the fans who read this blog and probably get people to check out BrainBuckets online to see what it is all about and possibly buy one or just spread the word about the new cool helmet everyone will be wearing.
Blogging especially in skiing is a very popular thing and could really help BrainBuckets in the future.
Going through many different blogs reading and watching different things i really liked the layout of "Epic Sports" blog. They are a down to earth blog talking about most major sports and different companies along with new technologies that are making each sport progress each year. It is highly geared towards the teenage consumer as well which would be perfect for this company because teenage skiers and snowboarders are are target market.
If BrainBuckets were on here i think they would get excellent exposure from many of the fans who read this blog and probably get people to check out BrainBuckets online to see what it is all about and possibly buy one or just spread the word about the new cool helmet everyone will be wearing.
Blogging especially in skiing is a very popular thing and could really help BrainBuckets in the future.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Input and Output lecture
This week in IST we learned about a few different things that i feel could help brian buckets become a more successful company from a technology standpoint. The one that stands out the most to me from the lecture though is RFID technology. RFID is radio frequency identification system that lets you track the little chip around certain areas.
Brain Buckets could use this in our helmets for back country skiers. When you're akin the back country at some mountains there is always some chance of an avalanche and you getting stuck under piles of snow. If we put an RFID chip that are as small as stickers into the helmet, when people got lost the safety patrols on the mountains could know right where they are and get to them before it is to late.
Adding this feature to our helmets would make a lot of back country skiers and definitely ski patrol people want to have our helmets on to feel more protected while there doing what they love to do, ski.
Brain Buckets could use this in our helmets for back country skiers. When you're akin the back country at some mountains there is always some chance of an avalanche and you getting stuck under piles of snow. If we put an RFID chip that are as small as stickers into the helmet, when people got lost the safety patrols on the mountains could know right where they are and get to them before it is to late.
Adding this feature to our helmets would make a lot of back country skiers and definitely ski patrol people want to have our helmets on to feel more protected while there doing what they love to do, ski.
Monday, September 19, 2011
BrainBuckets Blog #3 (Hardware)
If Brainbuckets is going to be successful we will need to have a large good computing computers to handle the amount of things taking place at once that take a lot of memory to run. For example the designers of out new helmets will being using software like Adobe Photoshop. This program requires a lot of RAM or Memory that allows data to be accessed quickly. Without a large amount of RAM like 12 or 16 gb the designers computers will be start running slowly and won't be efficient for what we need to do on a daily basis.
I am also going to order my computers with 3.0 USB ports for very fast transfer speeds. This way if there are a few people in the office that need a lot of designs they can be transferred in seconds rather then taking 15 minutes just to transfer some files from one computer to another. BrainBuckets is definitely going to benefit from these Hardware upgrades, it will make working on new things a lot easier.
I am also going to order my computers with 3.0 USB ports for very fast transfer speeds. This way if there are a few people in the office that need a lot of designs they can be transferred in seconds rather then taking 15 minutes just to transfer some files from one computer to another. BrainBuckets is definitely going to benefit from these Hardware upgrades, it will make working on new things a lot easier.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
How Excel is going to help me with Brain Buckets
Knowing how to use Excel is a essential part of getting a job in todays day and age. Opening and running a company like BrainBuckets I will definitely need to know how it is used. Things like online credit card transactions, budgeting, orders and so on are all made easier with Excel.
BrainBuckets will have a website displaying all our products where consumers can make online purchases,and follow our new product lines to keep up on the yearly trends and what there favorite stars are wearing. When the customer make there online orders having the credit card payment processed through excel will help a lot. Having all of my records on the computer will make things like taxes a easy process instead of trying to file through mounds of paperwork.
Processes orders with mountains so they can maintain a stock of our helmets will also be important if we want people to buy our products. Having all of the mountains send us spread sheets of how many helmets they have left will let us ship them new helmets fast so there is always inventory for the customers to purchase.
BrainBuckets will have a website displaying all our products where consumers can make online purchases,and follow our new product lines to keep up on the yearly trends and what there favorite stars are wearing. When the customer make there online orders having the credit card payment processed through excel will help a lot. Having all of my records on the computer will make things like taxes a easy process instead of trying to file through mounds of paperwork.
Processes orders with mountains so they can maintain a stock of our helmets will also be important if we want people to buy our products. Having all of the mountains send us spread sheets of how many helmets they have left will let us ship them new helmets fast so there is always inventory for the customers to purchase.
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