Sunday, 25 September 2011

all you need is your smartphone

Korean do not have time to do their grocery shopping once a week. Tesco has launched virtual stores in the subway station in South Korea. The stores look exactly the same as the real one. However, each grocery items has a QR code. People only need to scan the QR code with their smartphones for the items they want to buy, then the items will be on their online shopping cart. They then pay by their phone and the items will be delivered to their home. Tesco boosts their online sales up to 130% and has been the first in Korea's online market.I found this quite interesting and I think it may also work in Australia as people may not have time to do their grocery shopping as well. What do you think?

Tuesday, 13 September 2011

using social media for looking for jobs

I have recently read an article about a teenager using social media to ask Google to give him a job. He upload a video "Google please hire me" on Youtube. Although Google didn't offer him a job at the end, he was given 80 interview opportunities by other companies. He joined a company which is called SigFig.



I found this quite interesting. As social media is not only used by companies, it can be used for marketing ourselves too. Will you ever try social media for jobs?

Tuesday, 6 September 2011

think before you tweet

Two Mexicans tweeted yesterday by reporting that gunmen were attacking schools. The consequences of this was 26 car accidents and parents rushing to schools to pick up their kids. The two people are facing 30 years jail which is the most serious charges brought up for using Twitter. news article

As there are not clear guidelines for people for using Twitter properly, Twitter should outline some clear guidelines for using Twitter ethically and legally. I have found nine things not to do on Twitter. I think it should add one more to it: not to publish false or offensive information.

Some organisations did badly on Twitter such as Telstra Bigpond which we discussed in class. However there are also some organisations did well (40 of the best twitter brands). The organisations which did well often monitor its twitter page, respond to the comments, and engaging with their fans and critics. 

Do you think Twitter should set up code of conduct for its users? If yes, how?