Project 4063 Coming to an End

(by: melissa calabro)

Greetings all!

With the semester coming to close, Project 4063 is also coming to a close. We've had an awesome semester, learning a little bit more about William Byrd Community House and their involvement in our community and a lot about social media! We ended up donating about 10-15 bags of non-perishables from our food drive, and cannot thank you all enough for your support. It's been a fun ride, and I hope you all have enjoyed being a part of this project as much as I have!

Also, consider volunteering with WBCH during some of that free time. Non profits can always use an extra hand with something and WBCH is doing great things for our community!

Thanks again for all of your support! Have a happy holiday and an awesome new year! May our paths cross again soon....

Cheers,
Melissa

What will be the turnout for our class?

I am interested in seeing how exactly we are going to do this project. Things are still in the works and it seems to be a race against time. We are trying to come up with something that'll be effective in generating funds and something that will work to attract attention to our effort. It seems like we have to think about the planning and the logic of every idea we come up with. Will we ever land on something? I know we will and I'm interested in seeing what it is, because everything's so "foggy" now.

I think some of the main questions we're wondering is how are we going to get people interested in our cause, what format are we going to present ourselves (besides using this blog), and how are we using interactive marketing in this project?

I don't know -we'll see!

-Stephanie

Enthusiastically Anxious

Hi everyone out there in the bloggosphere! I'm realy excited to get this project going and I hope that we can raise as much money possible for the William Byrd Community House. We're halfway through the semester and I'm running through all kinds of emotions! I am learning a lot from this class & i really think it's going to be beneficial for me in the future. I'm anxious also to see where our project is going because I don't want to fail! But I know with our team, we're going to definately KICK BUTT! Ummm..what else can i say? Oh yeah, there's this guy who teaches our class-he calls himself many things from Dave to MadMan, tothe King of Social Media to Mr.Drinking out of a Rugby Cleat ..he's awesome & i wouldn't mind him being my dad! I love going to class and hearing his stories of the week! haha

Okay, well I'm going back to working on schoolwork cuz apparently that's why I'm here @ school-to do work!

Rachel N.
Class Treasurer (<- haha that sounded so high school)

Project 4063 on Flickr

(by Melissa Calabro) Hello all! Great news...Project 4063 is now on Flickr! Thus far, we've only got a few photos of William Byrd Community House, and a couple of Lynna posing by WBCH, but keep any eye out for more photos to come! We should have photos of the entire class, as well as our future endeavors with WBCH. Can't wait to share them with you!

Melissa

Project 4063 on YouTube!

We are finally up on YouTube! We don't have any videos yet, but that should change soon. Keep posted to see videos of our class and all of the things we are doing. Subscribe to our Project 4063 YouTube Channel and keep your eye on us. Things are getting exciting!

Google Wave

As we all have learned, everything we do in life is somehow affected by Google.  Well maybe thats a bit of a stretch but i just thought i should point out that Google Wave was released to 100,000 testers yesterday.  Why is this important?  Google Wave promises to make the web even more interactive.

Google's definition: Google Wave is a product that helps users communicate and collaborate on the web. A "wave" is equal parts conversation and document, where users can almost instantly communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Google Wave is also a platform with a rich set of open APIs that allow developers to embed waves in other web services and to build extensions that work inside waves.

Wave is something we should all be excited about as it can enhance the way we communicate and collaborate on ideas.  Whether you're in interactive marketing, PR, or advertising Wave offers a new tool that you can use to complete tasks faster and more efficiently.  As technology keeps advancing our online lives will continue to get more interactive.  It is necessary to embrace these new technologies and figure out how to use them for your advantage.

Here is a link to some of the extensions that have been developed for Wave during the preview.  It will be cool to see how this all may affect the way we communicate and work together in the near future.

-Tommy