Learning’s/ reflection of Guy Kawasaki make a meaning:

Make a meaning
In this generation many companies now are exists, and many are successful. But do you know how and why they made their company grow and expanded into many branches and be successful persons? For me, I think they reach it to the top because the companies they have are really a need in the world and it really has meaning and big purpose to all people. We all know that it’s really hard to think on what would be a good start up business nowadays because their many big companies existing. It’s all also hard to start a business for a reason that the big businesses might have adopted already the business. So for those who will start a business, first thing that you will consider is why would you put up the business and what is the main purpose of it, then search some information about the business you desire if it still in demand and research some information of new trends of technology that might be a help for your start up businesses. By the way don’t start a business because you really need money and you badly needed to be rich because in order to make a business successful and expand into many branches we should consider if it helps the society and the lifestyle of the people. I know its part of the reason why we put up a business, but we don’t need to stick to that reason and make it our priority because in order to gain and earn money is by your business. So when you just aim for money alone, you’ll be having hard time to reach it because a business which produces productive products can only succeed in this industry. So in business don’t just think for your own good but think for the good of all because when you succeed to help the society then you can have your money. In that situation you don’t just help the society and improve the lifestyles you also help your self too.
I have some ideas now after I have seen the video of MR. Guy Kawasaki about starting a company or business. In that video Mr. Guy Kawasaki tell his student that in starting business or company we should first think of what is the meaning of the company or business we will starting, what would be the main purpose of it. By the way who is Mr. Guy Kawasaki? I have some research done of information about Mr. Guy Kawasaki. So in the research I have done it appears that Mr. Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine.Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. Guy is the author of nine books including Reality Check, The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, andThe Macintosh Way. He has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.. In his video I have learned that in staring a business we should make meaning out of it in order to succeed because I business without a meaning can be considered useless for the reason that what the purpose of it if it doesn’t have a meaning or a goal. Like some companies, I think most of them are making the world changed and make it better for all. Most companies also change the lifestyle of people, as what our facilitator said. Like now, in the past people communicates by the use of letters. It takes to long before you can read it. But now, by the help of some companies we may able to communicate via cell phones, and telephones. Even when you’re far from each other just by the use of internet you can still connect and communicate with each other. This should be a companies should be the purpose of, to change the world and make it better and increased the quality of life. So for those who will put up start up business, my suggestion is to know what the need of the society most especially peoples because peoples are the one who will engage and will buy the products. And also think widely before you decide on what your business will be because it’s really hard to think of best business that will grab the attention of the people. Then be a risk taker in order to survive every struggle you may encounter, and have faith to GOD and to your self in order to take all those struggles smoothly.
http://www.guykawasaki.com/about/index.shtml

Increase the quality of life
In the world of businesses most of them increase the quality of life by changing the lifestyle of each person with the products they producing. Just like for example drinking a coffee, before you can drink first your coffee you’ll need to have a hot water, coffee, Nescafe, and sugar, then put it together then steer it. Now we only need to have 3 in1 coffee and hot water to have a coffee. By the technology existing nowadays people may enjoy their life at the same time make it easier than before. One example also of increasing the quality of life is in the internet, by the help of some social networking sites people may able to communicate even if their far from each other. One thing that makes a change of life style is by those social networking sites people may able to gain many friends and knows one another. Also with the help of social networking site people around the globe become one for 1 campaign, like what happens in facebook, people were changing their primary pictures into a cartoon characters for one reason and that is stop child abusing. Company’s products really help peoples in their daily life and life styles. So with them people may able to do things somehow possible, although there are some factors that businesses and companies brings, but still as a whole they were playing a big part in the improvement of the world to a better place. For those who will put up businesses make your businesses really productive and make your business one of the help that people needs because although there are many companies and businesses are existing, still theirs still lacking in this society, and still there’s a place for everyone that want to start a businesses. Just search some information that might help you in starting your businesses, also make your business increase the quality of life by making products helpful to people because with that you may bale to benefit on that because the profits will be good, at the same time you able to help improve the quality of life to make it better.

Right a wrong
Right a wrong, in business you can be stagnant on something because their might be some changes or improvements needed in that product. Like when a product has something wrong then improve it and make it better to be able to use it and make it more productive. An example of it is like what happens in some car distributors, someone died because of the defective of the car. So if you were able to think of a solution to improve it and make it better, you can help them and innovate it and make it better. With that, they were not only the one that benefits with but also you, and because of it you were able to help them back the trust of their customers and you have also save life. In your own business don’t take to calmly your success, be vigilant and explore of what can cause of something wrong in your business, then if you find some troubles, then work for it to improve what is wrong and make it better. In business you can assure that there will no problems that you will encounter because problems are always a part of it before you can be successful, so you better deal with it, be a risk taker. By just improving it you can produce productive products that can cause betterment of the life style of a person.
You can also be part of the improvement of something to right a wrong by just exploring fro what something wrong or lacking around you, then if you saw or have an idea on what should be the things to be improve then apply it to your business. By just exploring around you can find many improvements that should be done and you can be part of the improvements to make it right. There are still something needed to be improve in this society like in hospital, even though most hospitals have high-tech gadgets and devices for their patients still there still needed to be added technologies to able to cure illnesses. Although it may cause much for them but it can still help them for the improvement of the hospitals. Nowadays we can say that it’s really hard to innovate something when your company or business is still starting to grow or expand, but don’t lose hope because you might better ideas than anyone that can be productive and useful because even if they have the needed technologies you can still compete them if you’re just imaginative and innovative like them. It’s not just about how high-tech you were using, it’s about how do you make solutions for every problem because technologies are not the reason of the success they just part of it. You are the one who thinks and produce ideas for solutions, technologies is just a tool to implement an output of your ideas.

Prevent the end of something good
In business you should not end a thing that helps the people or don’t let others destroy what’s good for the improvement of the world. In the world of business you’ll need to produce what can cause goodness to all and don’t let it be stop. Just improve the necessary improvements that need to be done because if you let it ends it might cause big effects to people. Don’t stop producing products that really helps the society most especially people because with just a little help still it has a big impact and cause changes in the world that might make the world be better. Don’t mind if it will bring just a bit impact rather think of making it better or improve it instead of ending it. Although businesses now are aiming for a big profit but still they are not ending producing beneficial products to the society. So as an Information technology student and future Technopreneur if blessed I would probably helped them to prevent of ending producing products that are useful and beneficial to all, because for me it’s better to try to improve something that might help the society and at the same time gain money from it than to directly end it and change it.

As a future Technopreneur we should preserve things that been invented for the improvement of the world and life style of the people. Instead of rejecting and disregarding those things, innovate it and make it more productive. Don’t let it end up because without those things that let the world change we might not live like this. We should be part of preventing the end of something good because without those we can’t increase the quality of life.

What I have learned in technopreneurship 1?

Learning’s comes in different form and many ways. We have so many learning’s as we go along in our lives. Learning’s is not just in school but we got also in our environment and surroundings even in our own experience that gives us lesson and learn from that.

Talking in our subject which is Technopreneurship 1, I have learned a lot from this subject, some of them are what technopreneurship is all about and why is it really important to us information technology students. As defined in the internet, Technopreneurship is High-tech and entrepreneurial skills are driving our economy back to prosperity. Technopreneursip-merging technology prowess and entrepreneurial skills- is the real source of power in toda's knowledge-based economy. A technopreneur distinguishes logic from tradition, tradition from prejudice, prejudice from common sense and common sense from nonsense while integrating a variety of ideas from diverse groups and disciplines. Technopreneurship is not a product but a process of synthesis in engineering the future of a person, an organization, a nation and the world. Strategic directions or decision-making processes are becoming more demanding and complex. This requires universities, and in site professional development programs and training to produce strategic thinkers who will have skills to succeed in a rapidly changing global environment. So in short technopreneurship is the combination of technology and entrepreneurship.
http://www.amigospais-guaracabuya.org/oagmc160.php

Last semester, in our technopreneurship 1 our facilitator tells us what supposed to be our mindset as we take this subject. Before our mindset as student was just to go to school, then graduate and be employed in a company. But our facilitator thought us that in technopreneurship, our mindset should be to go to school, then graduate and be an employer of our own company, not to be employed by an employer. I have also learn that as future technopreneur we should aim for the best not for just better because as future technopreneur we should be talented like Steve Jobs and be wise like Bill Gates. To be like them and be one of the richest businessmen’s in the world. I have also learned that as future technopreneur we should think widely and discover new trends instead of sticking in what knowledge and trends we just know. So in the first activity that we have, our facilitator gives us an activity which we will visit some fast food chain and observe in their facilities and technology they are using then suggest some changes and additional technology that might help the establishment be more productive. Most of us visited Jollibee, Mc Donalds, and Chowking which are I think the top fast food chain in the Philippines. In my experience in visiting the Jollibee at Tagum City I have noticed that customers have hard time waiting for their tern to order. In terms of their technology use its fine but I have some suggestion that might help their security to maintain the safety of their customer. I want to suggest having their establishments a detector that can detect harmful stuffs even if you’re still far from the establishment. I can say that it might help because nowadays terrorism is really a big treat to us because we can’t know everything. As I visited the Jollibee, I have learn that even how success a business or establishments are, still they should have to add some technology or other features that might help them to be more productive. I have also learn that If we put up a business we should consider new trends and strategies to be applied in the business you want to build because every year or maybe months, technology are evolving fast.

In our technopreneurship 1, we have watched the Pirates of the Silicon Valley which is a story of Apple Company and Microsoft Company really started. As we watch the Pirates of the Silicon Valley I have learn that in order to make it to the top you must aim for the best and take risk for what you really want to have. Like us as future technopreneur we should be risk taker and imaginative person. In that movie I have also learn how Bill Gates overcome Steve Jobs and be counted in the most riches business man in the world. We have also discussed about the commencement address of Steve Jobs. In the commencement address of Steve Jobs we have tackle the 3 topics of it which are the connecting the dots, love and losses, and about death. In connecting the dots I have learned that everything has a purpose. I have also learned that we should make our everyday meaningful and be productive because our present plays a big part in our future which determines on what status we will be having soon. In the second topic which is the love and losses, I have learned that we should find what we really want and love to do because if you find your love, you will go and pursue for it, put more efforts on it and take risk in what your really love. It just like in a relationship, if you really love that person you will all just to have him or her and do things just to protect the one you love. And if you follow your passion their no reason for you to regret it because it your choice and their no one to blame for the decision you made. The third and last topic is the death, in this topic I have learned that we should let every second, minutes and days counts and make it productive for the reason that our Lord God Give this life and we should live with it to the fullest with his commands and wills. I have also learned that we should really give importance ad love to our life because our life in the world is just temporary, we just live here to witness, see and experience the creations of God and gift for us. So we should make it really productive in a right and proper way that no one will be affected in every step you are taking.

We have also tackle about SEED model which will serve as our guide in our IT elective 1 and 2 subjects which is the technopreneurship 1 and 2. In technopreneurship 1 we have only discussed the first model which is the self mastery and the other will just be continued discuss in our technopreneurship to subject. The first model in the SEED model which is the self mastery is all about finding our passion and to know what we love to do, what is my best at and what are our irritants. As our facilitator discussed the first model I have learned that the model mostly focused on our characteristics and attitude. In the self mastery model we have also discuss personality traits, emotional quotient, adversity quotient, and intelligence quotient. We have also done some online test on it. As I take the personality trait test the result came out that I “somewhat entrepreneur” which our facilitator tell us that we the capability of a technopreneur and we have the entrepreneurial skills. At first I am so confused on the result because I haven’t experience yet about business but as our facilitator discuss more I have learned that most of us can be a successful technopreneur even if it takes long term of process to really be successful. As I take the intelligence test I have failed to pass the average grade of the test because of time pressure, but it just fine with me because I know my capacity and I know that I’m not that dull because I failed to pass the test. In taking the emotional quotient test I pass the average test and I have learned that I’m really an emotional person which I highly agreed. I also pass in the test in adversity test. In general, as I took those tests I have learned that intelligence test in considered least important because knowledge doesn’t really plays a big part in the success o a person although it has some part in the success but not totally. In addition, adversity quotient test really has the more important rule and part in the success on a person because in that kind of test it is more on real life situation. I have also learned that adversity test gives and helps like us as future technopreneur on how to deal and handle complicated situations as we go along with our life.

As we go along with our class in technopreneurship 1, our facilitator gives us the chance to proposed our own business and present it to the class. Our facilitator groups all of us into 5 in order to brainstorm our ideas to think of an ideal business proposal. In making the business proposal, I’ve find it hard to brainstorm ideas for the business proposal because of existing companies nowadays and also because of technologies that companies are using. By the way before we have make the first proposal that been rejected we have gathered some guide base on “what we love to do”, what we best at”, and what is our irritants” in order to make a business proposal that’s really fit to us. As we think of what our ideal business should, I have learn that proposing a business really need takes many days in order to perfectly meet the needs in this generation and also before making a business proposal we should take some guide in order to organized it. Base on our experience the first attempt of business proposal we proposed was been rejected for the reason that our proposal was so common and call it a “chocks to go” because it all ready existing and many are using it. I have also learned that in a business proposal we should research successful businesses, new trends and other factor that should be consider in making a proposal because in this generations it is really hard to propose a business plan. As we have composed again of a new business proposal we have figured out at first that most of the business proposal that’s been accepted is middle man. So our group decided to think again of business proposal that we are the middle man basing on our love, best at and irritants. As we think of our business proposal I’ve doubt that it will be accepted because it is really common and I think it’s not helpful nowadays. When others proposed their business proposal, most of them are still rejected because it already exists. So when many are been rejected I have noticed and learned that the business proposal that our facilitator is a type of business that are high-techs and useful for a lifetime not just for a couple of years. Just like the proposal we have proposed which is a high-tech watch that can monitor blood pressure, pulse rate and heart condition of the person if still normal. It has also built in map for travelers and tourists for them not to get hard of finding their destination. As we make that business proposal we have learned that we should consider whose our beneficiaries and what is the big impact of it in our prospect beneficiaries.

In general, I think Technopreneurship really has big purpose and help not just Information Technology and Computer Science Student but also to anyone who are really willing to engaged in this kind of industry and to those who are risk taker which do anything to pursue what they really want to do. Being a Technopreneur you should have the presence of mind, a risk taker, decision maker, passionate and other factors that a good Technopreneur must possess. For me, I can’t consider my self as a technopreneur because I don’t possess those characteristics that I’ve mentioned for the reasons that I’m not ready yet and still in the process of developing the skills. I may have the idea but I haven’t had the strength to stand alone in my own decision in that kind of situation.

Trends and Opportunities in convergence
Convergence? So what is convergence, it is defined in the internet as:
• the occurrence of two or more things coming together
• the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit
• overlap: a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena; "there was no overlap between their proposals"
• he act of converging (coming closer)
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So convergence is the merging of things to make it better. For example, the death of consumers and the existence of prosumers which most country now adopting. So what do I mean of the death of consumers and replaced by the prosumers. In the past generation customers are only depending on what businesses are producing for them, customers are demanding on what they really want even if they were paying for it. Like when you’re buying a food, you are paying to eat a food in there own desire not in your own desire. Unlike now, people or specifically customers are now demanding; they are paying for what they really want to have; and most customers now are not get easily satisfy on products that business are producing. They are called prosumers because they are the one who demands on what they are paying for not the businesses that produces it. Like in some fast food chains like Mc Donald’s in there past years since they were started, they are just producing foods on their own imaginative mind, now Mc Donald’s are offering free customizing of their products base on what the customers wants and desires. In this case they were able to make more profit because of changes they made.

In this generation many convergence trends and opportunities are existing and some of it is new technologies, new services and new business strategies and market strategies. Business services, some services nowadays offer customizing in your own desire, online ordering, and others. Business strategies, businesses now are creating and imagining new ideas and strategies to make their businesses more productive, like online selling. There are also business adopting and implementing a kind of business strategies like virtual communication by the boss and his or her employees in the company to update the status of the company. Technologies now are playing a big part in the business industries to produce world call products in the market. We can also trends in convergence the making of products to make it more convenient to customers, like what happen in some products now, the existence of instant drinks, instant foods, and others. There are also trends in advertising, as a matter of fact I have search trends in advertising by the Nielsen company.

Though the overall advertising environment in 2009 was glum by most accounts, a number of trends are nonetheless continuing to take hold as the industry evolves to meet new marketplace realities, according to The Nielsen Company.

Most notably, Nielsen said, advertisers are beginning to look at the media mix more holistically and to take seriously the increasing need for accountability beyond simple “click-through” metrics. They also are starting to embrace burgeoning social networks and consumer-generated media as advertising and branding platforms that can help them bring consumers closer to a product or brand.

Nielsen’s advertising trends for 2010:
1. Optimizing media convergence will become top priority: Continued corporate mandates and pressure to measure ROI will lead to a better understanding of media convergence and how various media work together. The ability to accurately measure activity and link online ads to offline purchasing behavior will be critical.

2.New models will emerge to take advantage of smartphones: Accurate mobile measurement will be required for advertisers to stay head of the snowballing growth of that media platform.

3. More cross-media ad campaigns will surface: The massive growth of online video games played and shared online is leading the way for more successful interactive and cross-media advertising campaigns to appear. Growth in the adoption of such advertising across screens and activities will increase.

4. Commercialization of social networking hubs will increase: Social media will provide a new sales channel for establishing product awareness and commercializing brands to better support traditional advertising or text-based ads.

5. More interesting and interactive online ads will appear. Increased use of more creative advertising and content models online such as video, attention-seeking page takeover ads and mechanisms for greater interactivity will drive the next era of web development.

http://www.marketingcharts.com/interactive/convergence-at-heart-of-top-2010-ad-trends-11461/

Opportunities in convergence are been realized because there many things needed to be developed especially in marketing. They seen many problems that occur in marketing,; people are not satisfy on what products they have; and people are demands on what they really want and they are willing to pay for it worth. We have also an opportunity in the development of agriculture with the help of technologies. There are still many improvements needed in the agriculture industry to maximize the productivity of it. We can also minimize their problems in their manual managements to lessen the hassle that they may encounter. By the help of technology in agriculture industry, we may able to help them increase their profit and developed their marketing strategies when they will sell their goods soon. We can also do online promotions of products in some social networking sites. Some social networking sites now are not just for meeting and gaining many friends or to communicate with love ones far from you, now it is also used for online selling and promotions of products, it is also used for campaigned to communicate to many people. Start up businesses can also adopt this kind of strategy because by this you may promote you products to everyone, and by that you can gain more profit in that strategy you apply for you business and we can consider that as an opportunity I convergence because you have able to change your strategies form manual or offline promotions to online promotions. There are also opportunities in mobile applications or the development of cell phone or smart phones. We might think of what improvement needed in the smart and cell phones nowadays, although most cell and smart phones are high-tech because most of it are almost alike to computer, it can access internet access, you can search for information, we can watch TV through our mobile phones and it can also store electronic books. It’s really hard to think of new development in mobile phones but still we can improve the performance of it to make it better because I believe that technologies like mobile phones still needs improvements to make it better. There are many opportunities in some country that are not trying convergence especially in marketing. There are also some who are adopting it now and change their marketing strategies from manual to technological type of marketing strategies like in social networking sites.

Changing the habits of the consumer may improve the mobile technology and it will driving invest to the region’s telecoms infrastructure. For a long time, media convergence was a case of traditional media adapting to the online world. But increasingly, the chosen platform for convergence is mobile devices. More time is spent using data services such as internet browsing, social networking, instant messaging, gaming, mobile TV, video on demand and navigation-based applications. The quality of the data experience has become just as, if not more, important than the voice experience. Convergence allows one media outlet to take advantage of features and benefits offered through other media outlets. For instance, in many areas around the world television programming is now delivered digitally via cable, telephone or satellite hookup. This delivery method uses the same principles of information delivery that is used to allow someone to connect the Internet. The convergence of television and Internet opens many potential opportunities for marketers to target customers in ways not available with traditional television advertising. For example, technology may allow ads delivered to one household to be different than ads delivered to a neighbor’s television even though both households are watching the same program. But convergence is not limited to just television. Many media outlets are experiencing convergence as can be seen with print publications that now have a strong web presence. The future holds even more convergence opportunities. Many experts view this as simply being the tip of the iceberg, as all facets of institutional activity and social life such as business, government, art, journalism, health, and education are increasingly being carried out in these digital media spaces across a growing network of information and communication technology devices. Also included in this topic is the basis of computer networks, wherein many different operating systems are able to communicate via different protocols. The Television, Radio and Newspapers are the world's main mediums in accessing news and entertainment. Now, all 3 mediums have converged into one and people all over the world now can read news on the Internet. Convergence of media occurs when multiple products come together to form one product with the advantages of all of them, also known as the black box. Converging technologies seems to be squashing many types of demanded technologies into one. Mobile phones are becoming manufactured to not only carry out phone calls, text messages, but also hold images, videos, music, television, camera, and multimedia of all types. Manufacturers are now integrating more advanced features such as video recording, GPS receivers, data storage, and security mechanisms into the traditional cell phone. Media convergence in reality is more than just a shift in technology. It alters the relationship that already exists between industries, technologies, audiences, genres and markets. Media convergence changes the rationality in which media industries operate and also the way that media consumers process news and entertainment. Bearing in mind that media convergence in reality is essentially a process and not an outcome, there is no single black box that controls the flow of media into our homes and workplaces.

DEATH OF CONSUMERS ( prosumers )

In our subject project management we have learned one of the convergences which is the death of the consumer and the existence of prosumers. . As far as I remember as what our facilitator said, prosumers is simply the being not satisfy of what companies produces for consumers and for being in demanding of consumers. Prosumers is defined in the internet as a portmanteau formed by contracting either the word professional or producer with the word consumer. The term has taken on multiple conflicting meanings: the business sector sees the prosumer (professional–consumer) as a market segment, whereas economists see the prosumer (producer–consumer) as having greater independence from the mainstream economy. It can also be thought of as converse to the consumer with a passive role, denoting an active role as the individual gets more involved in the process. But way back to old type or kind of consumers or customers when prosumers are not yet existed, customers just buy thing what’s available in the mall or everywhere. Like in some fast-food chains, they offer food in their establishments in what available and what they just offer. But now with the help of technologies businesses are evolved because of the demands of the consumers. They now offer customizing of food online that fits what their appetite really wants to eat. In past years it’s really quite boring and have insufficient products existed but now with the help of experts and technologies, impossible now are made possible for consumers just to satisfy their need.

The term “prosumer” originated with Alvin Toffler, who first used the term in his 1980 book The Third Wave. Toffler defined the prosumer as someone who blurs the distinction between a “consumer” and a “producer.” The term has since come to mean a variety of things, but here we define it as someone who makes little distinction between his or her home and work lives. The prosumer engages in activities belonging to either sphere, regardless of time or location.

Because of their complex lifestyle, which combines a demanding workload and an active family life, prosumers are eager adopters of Web 2.0 products and services—a convergence of process innovation, global marketplaces, and advanced technologies that fundamentally changes the way consumers buy, retailers sell, and products are brought to market. Prosumers typically embrace Web 2.0 technologies such as social networking (Facebook, MySpace), blogging, video on demand (VoD), podcasting, VoDcasting, virtual realities (Second Life, There.com), mobile communications, and other Internet-based technologies and services that allow people to stay connected whenever and wherever they desire. We refer to this as “Connected Life,” and the prosumer is an enthusiastic and early adopter of the connected lifestyle. Not all prosumers use all these technologies, of course; they access whichever technology subset best suits their individual preferences and lifestyles.

Prosumers is really existing nowadays as high technologies are growing and expanding in the world. Being prosumers are been adopt in many countries in the world because nowadays consumers are willing to pay for the cost of what they really want. Consumers are not easily get satisfied on something that they see if that is not their want because consumers now are demanding and they want to have what they really want. But there are still who satisfies on what are existing products now because they are alike of what they want and they are satisfied in its products. Just what in the studies conducted by The Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG), prosumers prefer laptop computers to desktops because of their need to be mobile. They spend more of their discretionary income on entertainment than most people, and are interested in multiscreen applications. If they commute, their commutes tend to be longer, and they work at home some percentage of the time (many are full-time home workers). For me would prefer to use laptop also because of its portability, its physical design, and other features that laptop computers advantages than desktop computers. Although desktop computers and laptop computers have differed in some factors, they still have similarity in terms of functionality, but for me laptops have more advantages than desktop computers. Mobile phones evolve I think because of feedbacks they hear and read. In pass years mobile phones are just ordinary phone that can call and text particularly use for communication devices. Now mobile phones are evolve not just for communication device but also for some uses that can be enjoy be consumers in this generations. Mobile phones now have cameras, music player, radio, video players, and others. Consumers have satisfied in the phones existing but there something else I think they want in mobile phones. So touch screen phones exist and grow largely that really satisfy the wants and needs of consumers. As watches exist, it came first to many processes before it became that slim and small. Watches I think made first very big that we can’t imagined, I think it’s been made smaller and fashionable as years passes by because time is really important to people most especially business man. So they made it slimmer, smaller and fashionable that can be used for accessories at the same time because consumers want the watches portable that they can bring wherever they go that at the same time fashionable and presentable to others. In this evolution of product produce are inspired because of the needs and wants of consumers. In my observation products in the pass are been innovated and make it more productive in order to make it more useful. It’s been because of the demands of consumers to businesses that made them realized that’s it’s one good idea in businesses that can help their company or businesses increase their profits also help the industry and society to increase quality of life and change the world to better. Although many businesses are bringing all impossible things to reality to customers, there are still missing or lacking in this world that can still be identify and then innovated.

Marketing strategies of businesses are also evolving because of being in of consumers in high technologies that existing now. Technologies really part of life of most people nowadays and most of them are quite dependent on it. Businesses adopt new opportunities particularly with the use of internet because people are mostly using internet every day. So businesses adopt online selling and promotion of products in internet to increase profit and help change the lifestyles of consumer in terms of buying things. Consumers find really productive type of strategies they think because consumers may able to buy what they goods far from them and make it reachable instead of spending more money for something, and it’s also too time consuming for consumers. Businesses also offers customizing on what customers really wants because as what I have mentioned earlier consumers are demanding, so businesses implemented new strategies that really fits the need and want of customers or consumers. For example in t-shirts designing, some offers free customizing or either customers brings their own design they want for the t-shirt because most customers wants their belongings or maybe gifts wants it to be their handicraft that can they call their own that are unique from others. Customers want to be unique, simple but attractive. That’s the new generations of customers, far from what customers are in the past years. Marketing strategies are evolving because of the demands of most people nowadays. We might think of why businesses are changing their strategies just to increase their profit and to attract more customers, simply because customers now or consumers are now prosumers. It’s just simply because businesses and companies are dependent on consumers because they are the source of profit. So in order to increase their profit they will change or add strategies base on the demands of the people and generations because in demands of people businesses may able to know what should be best products to be produce that might attract customers. Just like in gaming, before 3D games, online games are existed we played kiddy type games that make use fun. But as years pass by we find it boring anymore because it’s not exciting anymore. So businesses came with an idea of developing online games which are exiting than before because with the existing games now people get easily addicted because of it graphics that are realistic that gamers really wants and enjoys. They came up of developing more games nowadays because gamers get bored when it’s already not exciting. There are many games existed in the computers and online in order to not get easily uninterested because if there are many games existed there are lots of options that gamers and customers can choose on in order to still be excited. This are some example on how prosumers affect the strategies of businesses in order to give what society wants, because with the demands there are opportunities that available to businesses.
This are some samples I think about prosumers that I have search in the internet that is also help life be better and make changes on the lifestyle of people that might adopt this things.

The year was 2009; the month, October. News came of the end of the last specialized consumer electronics device. The GPS, which had seemed destined to continue its existence, passed on at the announcement of the Google Maps navigation feature on Android 2.0. OK, a bit exaggerated, but not by much. The current stock of smartphones is showing how many categories of consumer electronics are simply going to disappear, because virtually no one will need them — particularly when the feature set is so much richer. The vision of device “convergence,” long touted as something to desire, will suddenly bite a lot of vendors on their rear ends when they realize that it also means a tumbling opportunity to sell product and, ultimately, a shrinking consumer electronics market.
People are talking about the new Motorola Droid being a GPS killer, but that’s just one category. Next up, cameras, both still and video — 5 megapixels (often more than enough, as I’ve found in my photographic work) with white balance, scene modes, and 720 x 480-pixel “DVD quality” video images. Right now too grainy, according to the PC World review, but something that can certainly be fixed.
Other categories? How about MP3 players? If you look at unit product sales for Apple, it’s clear that as the iPhone increases in popularity, the iPod falls. Granted, that still leaves millions of the units going out store doors, but it suggests what will happen when a majority of handsets become smartphones with storage and user interfaces that make the devices a natural choice for downloading and playing music.

Portable DVD player? I don’t know about your family, but my daughter watches video on her iPod touch. Digital recorder for taking notes? Please, not with a straight face. And with the applications available now or soon coming you, consumers will have all manner of software that will eliminate for many (though not all) the need for a netbook or laptop. But while everyone is drooling, there must be executives scared witless. As you roll first one thing and then another into a single device, you eliminate the need for additional purchases. It’s the logical extension of the march of semiconductors, with a single chip adding ever more functions. Eventually you buy only a fraction of the chips you once needed, and a lot of companies try to figure out what to do with their spare time. Now that’s going to happen on a device level, when suddenly there’s nowhere left to run for anyone.



Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosumer
http://www.bnet.com/blog/technology-business/android-20-and-the-death-of-consumer-electronics/1810
Prosumers: A New Growth Opportunity by:
William Gerhardt, Principal
Service Provider Practice, IBSG

Is Project Management the best method of implementing changes?
As what I have understand about Project Management is on how to manage a project. And based on my learning in our discussion in Project Management is that it is the best method of implementing changes in a project. It can greatly affect to a certain project because as what I observe and learn from the topics which are given to us as our report, there are so many steps and ways on how to manage a certain project and work it in the right way for it has a template to be followed for a project be successful it should. Project Management is a very helpful in a project as well as on the business area, as we all know that in a business there should be an organization and a perfect management for them to have a smooth flow of process in their businesses and also the project they are working on.

I can say that it’s a best method in implementing change because of its advantages brings in the project. Project management helps the team to organize their task in a proper way that meets its quality intended to that project. Project management is really needed in a project most especially in bigger project because with this they may able to finish the project in a given period of time with its cost intended to that project. Making a project without any management will took very long period before it will be finish because you don’t have any guidelines in the project and you will not be updated on the schedule if it still in the schedule and within the budget. I have searched some reasons why project management is the best method in implementing change because these methods I think mostly used in project management.

• Plan – This is the first step needed in the project to be success because this is where the ideas are generated .This method help the project team or the leader to strategies what should be the strategy they would do in order to make the project success. Without planning of project the team will have problems in completing the project because there are now planning engage in the project.

• Organizing – this is where all ideas are organized in order to identify the needs of the project. This method helps the project team to organize well the needed information and datum in the project. I think this will also be the time to define the scope of the project because you have able to gather information, plan the project, and then organized the datum of the project. We all know that organizing is really a play a big part in the project because without organizing you will find hard of proceeding in the next step because or unorganized management of project.

• Staffing – This were it identifies who should be in the team needed in order to finish the project properly because without staffing you will find hard time to finish the project. Staffing just simply means of recruiting experts needed in the project with each of their expertise. By this method the project will be surely finish within the time frame and within the budget. Also with the help of this method the client will be able to trust you to finish the project in what the client wants with its qualities. Staffing is really helpful in making the project because this were you will Identify the experts that you will need to finish the project.

• Guiding – This were the leader will guide his teammates who are in the project. We should guide our teammates to follow things in order to finish easily the project within the timeframe and budget. Guiding your teammates on what should be the thing to do is very nice act in a team because with the guidance you can guide and monitor you teammates if it still doing good in the project and also you were able to manage the team properly to meet the deadline of the project because for me without guidance you may able to exceed in the schedule given to you by your client.

• Monitoring – This is really one important thing in making a project because you will monitor the flow of the project if it still in the flow or if it is out of flow already. It is really necessary to monitor the project especially big project in order to be updated of the progress of the project, or if it is need time to be finish because without monitoring you will not be updated on the progress of the project if it will be finish with the schedule and time or else it will be no chance to finish the project. Monitoring is really important in project because is where the team will know the status and situation of the project.

• Innovation – I think innovation is not really required in the development of the project because innovations are just additional features that might make the project unique and more productive in order to impress clients. For me innovation still has part of the development of the project because we should not be stagnant of something that we can do, we should explore and be innovative in order to make project more unique. In this generation being innovative is really important because if you’re innovative you can’t stand long especially in business.

• Completion – it is where we should set deadlines of the project because every project is needed to be finish with in the schedule. Gantt chart is one tool that can help to set deadline of the project, with this you were able to schedule the deadlines of the project you were also manage the time that needed to complete the project.

http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Importance_Of_Project_management.html

For me project management is really the best method for implementing change because with these methodologies or reasons, the project will be able to finish properly in satisfaction guaranteed. Project management really makes a big impact in project because without management of project the project would probably come up worst, and without project management project will not be able to finish correctly on what the clients really wants. It is really the best method in implementing change because without management probably there are lesser percentage that a project will really be successful with satisfaction guarantee.

Interpersonal skills
We are enrolled in the subject Field Trip and Seminar or FTS because it is in our curriculum. As a part of the said subject we will having a field trip and seminar. As decided of the majority, we will having a 1 major fieldtrip, 1 national seminar, 1 minor field trip, and 1 interpersonal skills.
We have conducted our first part of the said subject in our school last July 21, 2010. In our interpersonal skill the theme of that activities is to gain and meet new friend in order to get closer to others and eliminate the gap between the evening class and day class. In that kind of activity I didn’t really expect to gain lots of new friends. I was happy and enjoyed in that time even though at first I don’t even know each one of my group mates.
At the first part of the activity we have 2 speakers who will share something related to the theme of the activity. The first speaker was the guidance councilor our school. She shared something about gaining new friends and how to socialize with others. As she discusses it I’m quite bored but not really, as a matter of fact I’m still listening to her because I’m interested on it. In the second speaker, i didn’t feel bored on him for the reason that he deliver it well. And I was touch on what he is saying.
After the discussion in the morning we have an activity that is really enjoying because we are like kids playing with each other. As we conduct the said activity we have realized something that might help us in our daily lives.
At the end of the day as we the end activity and go home each of our houses we have the happy memories stored in us ad the purpose of that activity is successful because all of us able to socialized with others and maker friend with them.

Sutherland
As we visited the Sutherland Global Services, one of their employee tour us in their company and will explain further about the company. As he discusses about Sutherland Global Services, he mentioned on how easily to get promoted in that company if you are really interested to work for them. As a matter of fact his one of their employee that been promoted i think in just 3 to 5 months.
In that company I have learned that Sutherland global services also accept trainings and OJT’s in some of the universities within Davao city. As we walked in their company, I have noticed that they have many data center in their company for their computer units to access operating systems and applications. I have also learned that they are using wyse system in their computer that serves as their system unit that will communicate to their data center to request and access some applications. Their data center,I think serve as the mainframe.
As we go along with the tour I’m quite amaze in the security they have because its really strict and their guards are really presentable and in proper manner. I have also noticed that their employees are really enjoying staying in the company and as matter of fact I’m quite interested to work for them in the future if given a chance.

Field Trip and Seminars Overview

Field Trip and Seminar is one of our subject enrolled in this semester and also it is part of the curriculum of both course of Computer Science and Information Technology in the University Of Southeastern Philippines Obrero Campus.
In this Subject we were given the chance on the type Field trip that we will be having and most of us have decide to conduct it to Metro Manila. All of us were excited to our field trip but before we have our Major Field trip at Metro Manila we have conducted first our interpersonal skill which is also part of that same subject in our School, then we have also conducted our Minor filed trip at Sutherland Global Services within Davao City.
So here comes our Major Field Trip and educational tour at Metro Manila to complete the requirements of our subject FTS. By the way the agency that we choose for our educational tour was the Maynilad tours and Educational Services. In our first day in Metro Manila, we directly go to Jade valley for our lunch because we have arrived almost 12:00 noon. Then we visited our first company visit at Bayan telecommunications. All that the companies we visited for our five days Educational Tour was the Bayantel, University of the Philippines Diliman Campus ITTC, SeaChange, IBM Innovation Center, Advance Science and Technology Institute, Social Security System, Philippine Long Distance Telephone, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, and Telecommunications Training Institute. We have also conducted recreational Activities at Tagaytay and Enchanted Kingdom for us to be not bored on our Tour. We have also visited some malls for us to buy for our giveaways as we comeback to Davao City.





Day 1 (October 4, 2010)

Today, I went on a company visit to…
We went to the Bayan telecommunication (Bayantel) which is located at Roosevelt Avenue, Quezon City.

Bayan Telecommunications Inc.

What I’ve learned?
What I’ve learned in the bayantel short for Bayan Telecommunications? I think I’ve learned that the foundation of their networking is strong for the reason that it can hold millions of people to maintain good services that they offered. I also learned that the areas of their responsibility are not their choice in order to lessen the conflicts that will be making. Other telecommunicating companies are also assigned like the Bayan Telecommunications.

What I like?
I like the way that the company manages the problems and how they cope in their top competitor to main a good services offered to their clients.

What I didn’t like?
What I don’t like at Bayantel? I think that I didn’t like is the person who is in charge of introducing bayan. Not literally not like but I just don’t like how handles us because the information and the time given for us is to less to explore and know more about bayantel. I still understand that we have just given lessen time to visit the bayantel because they will be having a meeting in that day. Our day was still good but we just lack some info that we should now, but still it’s ok because we find it one of the best telecommunicating companies in the Philippines. In the side of the services and facilities, for me it’s perfect because bayantel won’t grow this much if they are not good in terms of their services.
Day 2 (October 5, 2010)

Today, I went on a company visit to…
We went to visit University of the Philippines, Diliman Campus and UP Ayala Techno hub at Quezon City

UP Diliman Campus

In our second day our destination was in the Up Diliman campus for our national seminar which is part of the Educational tour that we have. I think the UP ITTC invited 8 guess speakers if I’m not mistaken that will share their knowledge and encourage us more to still pursue in the field that were taking now. They were all both good speakers because the knowledge that they’ve shared and the things that they’ve made was very amazing because we were all amazed in what the achievements they have, and I just realized that I’m really behind and out dated in the new trend of applications and technologies nowadays. I’m an Information technology student but out dated of the new trends of this generation.


What I’ve learned?
• I’ve have learn that in order to win your thesis we should follow some steps.
o first is thinking about it Stage.
o second is proposal Stage.
o third is burning your eye brow stage.
o forth is the Nerve Wracking Stage.
o and the last is the I did it Stage.

• I’ve also learned that in the game industry, grades are not important to formulate new games. As what I’ve read in the slide of miss Len Degracia “forget all about grades”, “its all About Marketability”, and “its all about Gearing yourself towards that dream job”. In this kind of the industry she introduces “INTEREST” and “PASSION” are some of those qualifications.



What I like?
The part of the seminar I like most is in the part of miss Len Degracia who is one of the guess speakers who are been invited for our seminar. Miss Len Degracia made us realized to really choose and know what we really love to do. She told us in the field of graphic designing there are no high grades requirement to be qualified in their company because for them they don’t care of the grades, they just care of how passionate you are in engaging graphics designing and other related to the gaming industry because in this field of job interest and passion is really the requirement for you to be qualified and be successful like her and them.


What I didn’t like?

The one that makes me irritate and make me yawn while the seminar is going on is Professor Carloss Bott. Even though his topic is somewhat interesting but the way he delivered it is not that good. He talks so fast and release some words and terminology that we can’t easily understand.







SeaChange

What I’ve learned?
• I’ve learned that SeaChange brings programmatic innovations.
• I’ve learned that it gives highest quality of products and services.
• I’ve learned that the system they use and produce are reliable
• SeaChange products and services are acquiring, storing, managing and streaming video content and applications for those companies that demand superior performance


What I like?
What I like about SeaChange is their video servers and set up box which holds the channels that are been passing to the clients who request additional features. I also like the technology they offer for their consumer which just likes a CD or DVD player. Those technology they offer is really interesting because it can be personalized you can watch movies on it like a CD that can be pause. It also has background music when you turn it on.


What I didn’t like?
It makes me bored when the General Manager of SeaChange introduces and discuss about their company. We can’t understand what he is saying to us because he speaks to fast and knowing that he is a foreigner his English was so profound sometimes.





IBM Innovation Center

What I’ve learned?
I’ve gain knowledge that IBM change their services from hardware they shift from software, I think for the reason software are more productive than hardware because nowadays software and applications are expanding very fast and it is a big help than hardware and most of the hardware need applications in order to run and to fully use it. I’ve also learn that some of their employees are not really computer literate and haven’t graduated with a course of Information technology, Computer science or any computer related courses.


What I like?
What I like in the IBM Innovation Center is the free access in their data center and free usage of some of their vacant units for those people who wants to developed applications and innovate software because with this help they offer people may now do better applications that can be a help to our industry which may be adopt by the IBM if it is really a big help fully functional. I also like the facilities they have and technologies they use


What I didn’t like?
In terms of their company I don’t have something I really I didn’t like because it’s really amazing. The thing that I just I didn’t like am that I’m quite unsatisfied of the tour we have in the IBM. Its not that I want to demand but I just want to see and learn more in their company because I’m quite interested about their company and how the company made it to success.




Day 3 (October 6, 2010)

Today, I went on a company visit to...
We went to visit Advance Science and Technology institute at C.P, Diliman, QC and Social Security System at East Ave. QC.

Embedded Technologies

What I’ve learned?
I’ve learned that they are using Embedded System which is a microprocessor-based device with a built in operation system. I’ve also learned that they are developing technologies that are much cheaper and customizable than the other technologies that are existing nowadays. I notice that most project of the Embedded Technology team are mostly for the improvement of our industry like weather monitoring and other technologies.

What I like?
I like the technologies they developed like:
• GSM Data Terminal
• PICME Microcontroller Starter Kit
• GSM/ GPRS Data Acquisition Terminal
• Digital Wood Moisture Meter
• Digital Multimeter

I also like their passion in developing this kind of technologies that are really a big help nowadays.

What I didn’t like? I’m quite unsatisfied in Embedded Technologies at ASTI because we didn’t saw their projects and the technologies that they developed that is now out in the market for the reason that we lack of time
Bayanihan Linux

What I’ve learned?
I’ve learned that Bayanihan Linux team is providing best alternative with low cost but effective desktop solutions for everybody. I’ve also learn that Bayanihan linux Operating Systems are made by Filipino team and now they have their latest version of Bayanihan Linux 5 which is their latest version of Bayanihan Linux Operating System. Previous Version of Bayanihan are:
• Bayanihan Linux Version 1- which is out last June 2002
• Bayanihan Linux Version 2- which is out last Feb 2003
• Bayanihan Linux Version 3- which is out last Feb 2004
• Bayanihan Linux Version 3.1- which is out last Sept 2004
• Bayanihan Linux Version 4- which is out last Nov 2006
• Bayanihan Linux Version 5- the latest version as of now

What I like?
I like the Operating System they produces and develop even if it is my first time to hear and saw that kind of Operating System, because we always stick to windows made by Microsoft Company. I and most people would really like their Operating systems because it is user friendly, customizable if you like, freeware or downloadable for it has free downloads from the internet. I also like the User Interface and other features of it.

What I didn’t like?
What I didn’t like in the bayanihan linux is that their answers are inconsistent. i also don’t like the time we spent is too short.




Social Security System

What I’ve learned?
What I have learn from the company visit we have at Social Security System is that this year the Social Security System and Land Bank of the Philippines recently signed a memorandum of Agreement (MDA) allowing the latter to release salary loans of Social Security System members through the bank facilities as an alternative means of getting their loans aside from the usual mailed check. I’ve also learned that the Social Security System has implemented new ID System for better Security.


What I like?
• I like the benefits they offer for their customers.
• I like the security of the company for protection purposes from the hackers that attempting to enter to main of the SSS
• I also like the way security membership they offer in their customers which is the UMID or the Unified Multipurpose ID System.


What I didn’t like?
So far I have no problem encounter as we visit at Social Security System because the tour was satisfying and they also answered all questions consistently.





Day 4 (October 7, 2010)

Today, I went on a company visit to...
We went to visit Philippine Long Distance Telephone or PLDT.

PLDT
What I’ve learned?
Philippine Long Distance Telephone or we called as the PLDT. We visited their InnoLab or the Innovation Laboratory and Telecommunication and Education Centre which is located at Boni Avenue, Mandaluyong City Manila. It was founded at November 28, 1928 which it is the Age of Birth (1928-1938). I’ve discovered also that the Monophone was first introduced at the Age of destruction (1939-1949). At the Age of Change (1959-1968), the nicknamed “the mouse” was introduced. It is a computer mouse while it is called mouse because its tail came out at the end and this time PLDT was headed by Don Ramon Conjuangco. Age of Control (1969-1978), this time PLDT’s celebrate it’s commemorate stamp and it was their 50th anniversary

What I like?
I am grateful for the tour for us on their company and explain every detail on how they start up on their company and introduce us on their new system which they are using as well as they are good at us. I also do like Engineer Roland because I he deliver all the information to us perfectly, as matter of fact I was so amazed on him because of his intelligence he have

What I didn’t like?
As what I have experience in the PLDT we have great time spend. In term of their facilities and services is also great, the thing that I just don’t like is that we have spent lesser time in the discussion.

Day 5 (October 8, 2010)

Today, I went on a company visit to...
We went to visit MMDA at Mandaluyom Quezon City and TTI at Valenzuela

Metropolitan Manila Development Authority

What I’ve learned?
As we visited at MMDA, I’ve learned that the technology that they only use in monitoring the Street is just the CCTV cameras that can be viewed in their office or base. I’ve also learned that they also have data center like the other company we visited.


What I like
I like the CCTV cameras they put in every street in Manila in order to monitor daily if the motorist are following and abiding the rules. They also use it for helping others that in danger just like what happens when the typhoon Ondoy Strike Manila that causes millions of damages. I also like the LCD monitors they have because I enjoy watching those video that are exceed in the other monitor. I also like their quick respond to the people who is in danger.


What I didn’t like?

So far I did see anything that makes me annoy at the MMDA because they treat as well there. They make as see how they know if there is an accident or problem at the street by using the CCTV camera.

Telecoms Training Institute

What I’ve learned?
I discovered about TELOF’s Telecommunications Training Institute or TTI was originally established for the purpose of delivering telecommunications training programs to TELOF employees. They offer training programs were opened to other interested parties, such as: technical staff of PTEs, Image employees from other government agencies, students, out-of-school youths, and foreign students to name a few. They also use some of the network topology and technology.


What I like?
By initiating us to their equipment and machine they are using have a sense for me for us to know that they using a different machine to other establishment. I also like the machines they use because even if it’s quite old stil the functionality of is still fully functional and helpful for their trainees

What I didn’t like?
I didn’t like the room that we have stay for the discussion because it’s too hot. And I also don’t like the scenario in that room because I can’t really understand the speakers is saying.









Appendix


What I can recommend for the improvement of the Field Trip and Seminar?
To those in coming 3rd year students who will take this subject, I suggest that they save and prepare money for this subject because it really expensive. To those who are interested in this subject I can say that the money you’ll spend in this Educational Tour is satisfying because we will engaged in the new trends of technologies that the companies mostly used.
So as the first batch of this subject I think are many recommendation that could be recommend in order to fully succeed in that kind of activity. For me my recommendation is to fix all the schedules and agenda so that during the actual day of the Field Trip everything is organized and clear because what I have experienced in our major Field Trip and Seminar at Metro Manila it has many changes done in the schedule especially in the buses assigned. I would also recommend to have fair company visit to all students for the student to have same knowledge gained in the said Field trip because for me it’s quite unfair in the side of other group of students.

My Purpose in Life

My Purpose in Life


* to be part of Gods creations
* to be happy
* to be love and be loved
* to live life to the fullest
* to be an influence to others
* to follow God's will

Techno Business

Last last last week, our facilitator gave all of us a group task which will be presented on him the following week and that is a business proposal. He gave us that task because we have a subject on him of IT elective 1 or mostly known as technopreneurship. As a part of completion of this subject, we are required to create a business proposal. Now our group has proposed a business proposal which we decided to be proposed base on some questions like: What are the things we love? What are our best at and what are our irritants? Now we have finish our group task which sir Gamboa have given us.


For me, constructing or proposing a business plan is not an easy task to do like what others are thinking, because creating a business proposal are quiet hassle, time consuming and a brain draining task to do, for the reasons that most existence of new business for now just rarely succeed with their business. Although most new businesses doesn’t really level up their business, still there are some new businesses are successful because they plan and think it very hardly to put up that business. So before I may implement my desired techno business, first thing that should be done is to think really hard on what should be the perfect techno business in this time. Putting up business is not that easy because there many things to be considered in order for your techno business grow successfully.


After a week, our facilitator gave us again another task which is a techno business. Our facilitator now gave us an opportunity to make our own techno business individually, then describe the business, its nature and then identify who are the beneficiaries and client of my own techno business. I will name my techno business as “Eedit”. I have decided to have this kind of techno business because even if there are many businesses that already exist like what I propose, still the demand of it doesn’t change, and even if I have many big competitors in this kind of business, it’s not a reason to easily give up on it because a good technopreneur and entrepreneur doesn’t easily give up on something that hinders them on something they really and love want to do like making our own techno business.

Before I will formally introduce the techno business I want to have, let us first define what a techno business is.


Technology is the usage and knowledge of tools, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization. The word technology comes from the Greek technología (τεχνολογία) — téchnē (τέχνη), an 'art', 'skill' or 'craft' and -logía (-λογία), the study of something, or the branch of knowledge of a discipline.[1] The term can either be applied generally or to specific areas: examples include construction technology, medical technology, or state-of-the-art technology or high technology. Technologies can also be exemplified in a material product, for example an object can be termed state of the art.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology


A business (also known as a company, enterprise, and firm) is a legally recognized organization designed to provide goods or services, or both, toconsumers, businesses and governmental entities.[1] Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies. Most businesses are privately owned. A business is typically formed to earn profit that will increase the wealth of its owners and grow the business itself. The owners and operators of a business have as one of their main objectives the receipt or generation of a financial return in exchange for work and acceptance of risk. Notable exceptions include cooperative enterprises and state-owned enterprises. Businesses can also be formed not-for-profit or be state-owned.


Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business



So techno business is derived from the words technology and business. Techno business is still a business that is integrated with technologies as part of their business. Techno business played a great role in the business world for the reasons like it helps people to their job in faster manner, it lessens the effort consumed to that particular task, and all are automated. In the side of communication in the business technology still exists like cellular phones computers, internet, and telephones. Those communicating technologies plays a big part I the business because without those technologies they might not able to negotiate or transact their transaction in other places, and without those technologies or devices exist businesses man will find hard to communicate each other. As what I really observed nowadays in most businesses, most are really using technologies in their businesses to lighten the task, and to easily finish the job, and it is not time consuming. And technologies to business are already part of the business world now up to forever.


Now given a chance to put the techno business I really want.I have in my mind a business that are already existing and a really common one but still a good techno business that should be implemented, and that is type of business which is mostly focus on editing, like video editing, film or movie editing, photo editing and music editing. There is other features offered, and that is animation which commonly known because of animated films and videos. This techno business I want is to big for me alone to handle and manage it without a big and wide idea yet, so putting up a business like that needs really a help of other with the expertise that I really need which knows how to use software in movie editing, animations, music editing, and others services that my business has.


This business I think just came out to my mind, even though I really admit that I have no great and awesome talent of editing films or movie, video, audio, photos and animating, still I want to pursue on what I want business because it give me interest, and I think it still one of the in demand businesses so far because editing is now widely use just like in movie making and animation for animated movies and shows. Although I have totally talent with regards to my business, still I want it, I don’t why but it’s what I want techno business. Like Steve Jobs enrolled in a calligraphy school, because of his interest of that calligraphy thing it helps him a lot in the future and adopts it to his creations and then became famous. And with that, now our computers have different font styles.


My techno business will be named as “Eedit”. Eedit is a type of business which edits videos, movie or films, pictures, music and others. This is an online business which renders online services. If you ask how would it be possible? If the client wants to let us edit the film or video or movie, the client will provide all and exact details on how should the film, video, or movie would look like that. Then before we can render the services we offer, the client must first register, and then also register his or her credit card. In the animation service we are accepting making animated graphics, videos, and others which is animated, but if there some clients that want us to finish his or her unfinished animation, still its fine to us as long as the exact details needed are given exactly in order to satisfy their needs and to aware some conflicts because miss lacking of the details that are been given. For the clients that are not interested or just lazy to visit our site, they may also visit us to our office or main company for clarifications or for other information needed to be known by the client or maybe they will give contract to work for a big project. I know I’m being really ambitious, but we might not know it will happen because my business are possibly be discover if they will be impress in the services we offered or if they will be amaze or something that make them decide to work with us.


My Eedit business will be uploading some sample edited videos and other samples regarding to the services we offer in order to let them be encourage more to visit us. Those samples are uploaded for the client know how we do editing and to emphasized the quality of our services.


By the way, if you’re confuse of what is really a video editing, photo editing, audio editing, and animation, this are some of their definition base on the reference.

Video editing
• is the process of editing segments of motion video footage, special effects and sound recordings. Motion picture film editing is a predecessor to video editing and, in several ways, video editing simulates motion picture film editing, in theory and the use of non-linear and linear editing systems. Using video or film, a director can communicate non-fictional and fictional events. The goals of editing are to manipulate these events for better or for worse communication. It is a visual art.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_editing


Audio editor
• is a computer application for audio editing, i.e. manipulating digital audio. Digital audio editors are the main software component of a digital audio workstation.

Reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_editing


Audio Editing
• is the process of manipulating audio to alter length, speed, and volume or to create additional versions such as loops.

Reference: hotbedmarketing.com/hbproductions/


Photo editing
• Image editing techniques applied to photographs.
• The cultural impact and ethical concerns of photo manipulation.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_editing


Animation
• Animation is a type of optical illusion. It involves the appearance of motion caused by displaying still images one after another. Often, animation is used for entertainment purposes.

• In addition to its use for entertainment, animation is considered a form of art. It is often displayed and celebrated in film festivals throughout the world. Also used for educational purposes, animation has a place in learning and instructional applications as well.

• Cartoon animation is often considered to be animation in its classic form. The animated cartoon made its debut in the early part of the 20th century and calls for the use of 24 different drawings per second. In traditional animated cartoons, frames are hand drawn.

Reference: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-animation.htm


I’ve been inspired more to pursue this kind of techno business because of the demand and success that I may be having when the business will be more productive and will expand. Like the other companies that are implementing editing stuff, most of them are successful because of its demand from their generation until now, and I know in the future times editing will still exist and that what’s the best part of this kind of techno business which I decided to have. Editing don’t just stick on videos, film, movie, music, picture, animations and others, because there many ways were editing may exist. And as my business will grow, I will adopt those other things in order to be more productive If it really helps my techno business.


I’m not being so ambitious but I want my company or business also be successful or be known like the Pixar animation or other successful business which is most likely with the techno business I want. Even though it’s quiet impossible or ambitious but with God’s grace we will succeed in what we really want because he don’t live us. So when problems and trials come be strong and face it in order to win it, because every business really encounter problems and scenarios like that, just like our life, everyday that we spend in our life there’s a trials and problems and when we face it we will win against it and overcome or trials and problems that weakens us. Just have faith and believe that God is always you, and there in no impossible on him, all are possible beyond or imaginations.


With this type of techno business I choose, my target beneficiaries and clients are everybody who love what we do. Big businesses are involve in our target client and we will considered them as our best client for the reason that business man’s businessman are love advertising for their products to be known. All people who love editing stuff like photo editing are we also considered as our target clients. Photo editing is one best editing stuff that editors produce because people are easily amaze on something especially when they sometimes think on how editors do those things. Some clients are not totally amaze or impress on some works or art of the editors for the reason that most of those not interested clients are literate on editing or have knowledge on how to edit those stuff like editors. Although there that kind of instances comes, still many are still amaze on it because as years pass by, editors explores another things techniques and software’s or anything that may help them in order to let our target clients and beneficiaries are still loyal to our capability.


Being updated to new editing software is one of the tasks that the editor and the company should do to be able to still satisfy the client’s needs and wants. Giving the exact needs of the clients is really the important thing to us in our company, not just to us but also to all who are future technopreneur and presently technopreneur like us. Those target clients and beneficiaries of my techno business are plays really a big part on my techno business because they are the one who will be my customers, so without them my techno business is useless. Giving importance and being approachable to your clients is really not that hard thing to do. Though there times that customers are strict or may be hardheaded, just stay calm and go with the follow, keep your temper in a normal level and stay chill and relax because if you let you emotions prevail you and your company will suffer for the consequences you made.

Commencement Address

The last time that we met our facilitator sir Randy Gamboa, we are assigned to read the commencement address of Steve Jobs and write our reflection base on what we have understand in the commencement address of Steve Jobs. By the way, Steven Paul Jobs or Steve Jobs is the CEO or chief executive officer of Apple Computers and Pixar Animation. The Commencement address of Steve was held in the one of the finest universities in the world.

Connecting the dots

In this story, Steve Jobs share his story on how dropping out from school gives many changes in his life, and how these changes lead him to his success and be counted us one of the most riches and famous businessman in the world. Steve Jobs dropped out several times when his in college for the reasons that it didn’t interest him and he doesn’t see the value of it. So when he decided to dropped out from college which the school is almost expensive as Stanford, he decided to drop in a calligraphy class because it gives him interest to learn it, and it makes him happy.
With the help of the knowledge that he have in the calligraphy class when he is still in college, he apply it to the Macintosh computer which created by them in the apple company. The calligraphy class really gives big help and benefit to Steve Jobs because the Macintosh functions as what Steve Jobs really want.
In the first story of Steve Jobs trusting in our guts or in our self is one of the things that lead us to success and to our really desired task. And I must say that everything has a purpose, just what happens to Steve Jobs. We just all think that every mistakes will always be forever mistakes, but the truth is every mistakes has it purpose and those purpose helps has learn from our mistakes.
As a future technopreneur, I must consider mistakes as lesson in my life not a lost, because in every decision that we make has purpose for us to be grow more and then learn from it. Deciding in one thing is very important because our decision plays a big part in our life and it purpose affect our daily lives as years pass by and as we grow and grow.

About Love and Loss

Steve Jobs was so happy and proud of his self that he fined what he really love to do in life, and because of it Steve Jobs now is now counted as one of the world’s famous and successful businessman. Steve Jobs become rich man and be known in world also because of his friend Steve Wozniak, who is a co-founder of the Apple Computers. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started Apple Computers in their garage, but now because of their passions in what they really love to do and what interest them they have now their own company which cost almost $2 billion. And from an employee of three or four, now Steve Jobs has now 4000 employees working for him and for apple computers.
For me Steve Jobs is really right, finding what you really want to do and your passion in life is a good thing that you will do in your life. Finding what you really want to do in life is just like finding the person you really loves. If you really love that person, you will do everything to have her. In the case of Steve Jobs, he is truly devoted on his job, even though he has been fired from his own company. When the time that he got fired from apple computers, Steve Jobs didn’t use it as reason to give up but instead he put up another company named neXT then followed by the Pixar animation.
If I wear in the case of Steve Jobs, I will do the same thing like he does when he got fired from his own company he started. As a future technopreneur, finding what you really love to do give a big credit to a success of a technopreneur. Like Steve Jobs, I will do also my best to have back what I have lost and still do what I really love or want to do or what interest me, because with the help of this it will help me lead to my success and be like Steve Jobs who is counted as one of the most famous technopreneur and entrepreneur in the world.
Loving what you do is the best thing as technopreneur because if your truly devoted to your job or work you will not find it hard to finish and you will find it more interesting as years pass by and as you improve in what you do.

About Death

We all know that we will die soon and our life will end anytime. So let’s live our life to the fullest and do those things that you really love before we will be run out of time. There are some who waste their time doing some unnecessary things instead of valuing the moment when they’re still alive. Even though there some who doesn’t give importance to the life given by God still they will just knew it at the end when they were already going to die.
Steve Jobs is right that knowing or being aware that we will die anytime is the important thing in our life because we will be able to cherish give importance in the time, days, months, and years that pass by as we live in this world. It’s good to be aware about death because we will be able to think wisely on what we will do in our life and should be the right thing to be done. Follow what your heart tells you because following your heart gives you unforgettable moment. Follow Gods plans for you for only god knows your past present and future, follow God’s lead because God doesn’t leads us to a wrong path or into danger or harm. As Steve says (“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”).

Personality Traits

The Last time that we've met our facilitator sir Randy Gamboa in our subject IT elective 1 or TECHNOPRENEURSHIP, we were all shock when he said that we will having an examination in that day wherein all of us has no idea about the exam and not prepare or study a little about the slides that he discusses to us. But when Sir gave the instructions for the exam all of us get calm because the examinations just a personality traits test but it still considered as our prelim examination wherein it will gives us ideas on how we handle any situations or events base on our characteristics or personality, and base on how we deal with it. as expected in that test it still connected or inline in entrepreneurship and technopreneurship to know how we deal events and situations as entrepreneurs or technopreneur. The result of it is that we are all "somewhat entrepreneur" wherein all of us has the capability of a good entrepreneurial and technopreneurial skills inside of us but not yet developed totally. When our facilitator tell us the result of the exam which came out "somewhat Entrepreneur", I was quite confuse on the result because i have experience yet about business, but I was thinking that i should not get confused of the result because I might have the capability of an entrepreneur but still in process of developing the skills with the help of this subject technopreneurship for the reasons that it teaches us and gives us ideas to be a good entrepreneur or technopreneur someday and what really technopreneur are.

Personality traits:

Personality are defined as:
• Habitual patterns and qualities of behavior of any individual as expressed by physical and mental activities and attitudes; distinctive individual qualities of a person, considered collectively.

• The complex of qualities and characteristics seen as being distinctive to a group, nation, place, etc.

• The sum of such qualities seen as being capable of making, or likely to make, a favorable impression on other people.

• Informal personal attractiveness; engaging manner or qualities

Traits are defined as:

"A distinguishing quality or characteristic, as of personality." In other words, this means that personality traits are the distinguishing characteristics that make you "you." Personality traits are the unique set of characteristics and qualities that only you possess. While a lot of people might have similar personality traits, each person combines these traits in a different way, to create one unique, irreplaceable conglomeration of traits that make up their individual personality.

The Five Major Personality Traits

• Openness: Openness refers to how open you are to experiencing new things. Do you enjoy learning new ideas and concepts or are you frightened of change?

• Conscientiousness: Conscientiousness refers to how dedicated you are. When you say you are going to do something do you follow through? Do you have a strong work ethic?

• Extraversion: Extraversion asks how comfortable you are in the company of others? Do you prefer to be by yourself or in a crowd? Do you like to be the life of the party?

• Agreeableness: Do you try to get along with people or do you go out of your way to be contentious and start a fight?

• Neuroticism: How emotionally stable are you? Do you get upset over the little things, or do they roll off your back?

REFERENCE: http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/reference/define-personality-traits.html


Personality traits are defined as person personality or person’s character. All people or human beings are made with different personalities or should i say uniqueness of personalities, because God created us with difference or with uniqueness though there some in common but totally we are different from each other and each one of the us has unique ability or capability that no one can do which makes him or her unique from others. Person’s personality increases or developed as years pass by because of how we deal or handle thing or situations in our life as we gain experience through communicating with others, get to know others and share some experiences from others that makes your personality grow more. Like an entrepreneur or technopreneur, in order to be successful, gain respect or be respect by your employees you should show the good characteristic of a good Technopreneur or entrepreneur because good personality leads to a your success.

Personality traits test is a test wherein it evaluates your characteristic or personality bases on some events and you how you handle those events.

Personality traits Test are consist of: IQ (Intelligence Quotient), EQ (Emotional Quotient), AQ (Adversity Quotient)

First is IQ or intelligence Quotient, as define by some sites, IQ Stands for Intelligence Quotient is a measure of relative intelligence determined by a standardized test? The first Intelligence test was created in 1905 by Alfred Binet and Théophile Simon to determine which French school children were too “slow” to benefit from regular instruction. Binet came up with the idea of mental age when he noticed that children are increasingly able to learn difficult concepts and perform difficult tasks as they get older. Most children reach the same level of complexity at about the same time, but some children are slower reaching those levels.
Mental Age/Chronological Age X 100 = Intelligence Quotient

REFERENCE: http://giftedkids.about.com/od/glossary/g/iq.htm


As I’ve notice in this kind of test which is Intelligence test, it mostly focuses on intelligence of a person who calculates its intelligence to determine how intelligent they are in answering difficult questions. With the help of this kind of test, we may able to know if our knowledge is not enough or far enough to pass.

IQ or Intelligence quotient is one factor to be a successful person but it is not the most important or most needed test to know for your success. Intelligence quotient test evaluates intelligence of an individual person. It does not evaluate emotional intelligence because it mostly focused to your knowledge you have.

In some universities, in order to study in that university you must first took IQ test before you can be enrolled in the particular to know if you've pass the qualifications or standards of that particular school. In this type of exam you will know if you’re successfully pass the test and be a student in that school and with the help of this you may also able to distinguish your Intelligence or knowledge.

Second is EQ or Emotional Quotient. In the early 1990s, Dr. John Mayer, Ph.D., and Dr. Peter Salovey, Ph.D., introduced the term "emotional intelligence" in the Journal of Personality Assessment. They used this term to describe a person's ability to understand his or her own emotions and the emotions of others and to act appropriately based on this understanding. Then in 1995, psychologist Daniel Goleman popularized this term with his book Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ.
EQ actually stands for Emotional Intelligence Quotient. Much like an intelligence quotient, or IQ, an EQ is said to be a measure of a person’s emotional Intelligence. However, there is much debate surrounding the legitimacy of a definition of emotional intelligence quotient, primarily because there is no standard against which it can be measured.

REFERENCE: http://quiz.ivillage.com/health/tests/eqtest2.htm
REFERENCE: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-an-emotional-quotient-eq.htm


Emotional Quotient test is a type of test which mostly focuses on person’s emotions for some events and situations which letting them assume that they are currently in that situation or events which identify their intelligence on how they cope up their self in that kind of situation or events. in addition to this, emotional quotient for me is more important than IQ test or Intelligence quotient test as technopreneur because having the high Intelligence but can’t handle emotional events and situations. Emotions really affect ones personality, so you should know to deal or understand your emotions in order to handle things that affect your entire life.
Emotional quotient test is a type of test wherein it gives possible situations or scenario of a person and then you’ll just answer it by rating it on how you agree in that given situations. In addition, EQ is a type of test which pertaining to your emotional intelligence to cope in your emotional problems that affect your personality.

And the last is AQ or Adversity Quotient. Adversity Quotient is rooted in three sciences: psychoneuroimmunology, neurophysiology, and cognitive psychology. They are its building blocks. Hundreds of research studies lend support to the role AQ plays in determining one’s ability to triumph over obstacles.

To measure AQ, Stoltz developed an assessment instrument called Adversity Response Profile (ARP).

The Adversity Response Profile is the only scientifically-grounded tool in existence for measuring how effectively one deals with adversity, or one’s AQ. AQ, according to him, is a valid predictor of one’s success, stress-threshold, performance, risk-taking, capacity for change, productivity, perseverance, improvement, energy, and health.

The ARP is a highly valid assessment instrument based on 25 years of research and 1000+ studies at more than 150 universities and organizations worldwide. Unlike IQ, AQ can be improved!

AQ scores fall into 3 broad bands, with an expected normal distribution.

Low (0-59) AQ characteristics:
• Low levels of motivation, energy, performance, and persistence.
• Tendency to ‘catastrophize’ events.

Moderate (95-134) AQ characteristics:
• Under utilization of potential.
• Problems take a significant and unnecessary toll, making climbing difficult.
• A sense of helplessness and despair arises from time to time.

High AQ (166-200) characteristics:
• Able to withstand significant adversity and continue forward and upward progress.
• Maintains appropriate perspective on events and responses to them.


AQ response is comprised of four CORE dimensions. Understanding them is the first step toward improving your response to adversity, expanding your capacity, and, ultimately, increasing your overall AQ.

Now, look at your CORE breakdown and determine which aspects of the AQ you need to improve.

C = Control
To what extent can you influence the situation?
How much control do you perceive you have?
Those with higher AQs perceive they have significantly more control and influence in adverse situations than do those with lower AQs. Even in situations that appear overwhelming or out of their hands, those with higher AQs find some facet of the situation they can influence. Those with lower AQs respond as if they have little or no control and often give up.

O = Ownership
To what extent do you hold yourself responsible for improving this situation?
To what extent are you accountable to play some role in making it better?
Accountability is the backbone of action. Those with higher AQs hold themselves accountable for dealing with situations regardless of their cause. Those with lower AQs deflect accountability and most often feel victimized and helpless.

R = Reach
How far does the fallout of this situation reach into other areas of your work or life?
To what extent does the adversity extend beyond the situation at hand?
Keeping the fallout under control and limiting the reach of adversity is essential for efficient and effective problem solving. Those with higher AQs keep setbacks and challenges in their place, not letting them infest the healthy areas of their work and lives. Those with lower AQs tend to catastrophize, allowing a setback in one area to bleed into other, unrelated areas and become destructive.

E = Endurance
How long will the adversity endure?
Seeing beyond even enormous difficulties is an essential skill for maintaining hope. Those with higher AQs have the uncanny ability to see past the most interminable difficulties and maintain hope and optimism. Those with lower AQs see adversity as dragging on indefinitely, if not permanently.

Note: The average ARP score is 147.5.
REFERENCE: http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/reference/define-personality-traits.html


Adversity for me is a type of test wherein it evaluates myself on how to deals situations and how I cope up with this kind of situations. As technopreneur adversity quotient test is really a good help for me in order to know how to deal things in times of downfall. It priors on how you deal thing out in what you really feel.