Nike's Digital Landscape

The Nike brand has transformed its corporation into one of the most respected and innovative athletic apparel companies. Nike seemed to embrace the growth of the Internet as a marketing and advertising platform. A quick search of Nike on any search engine such as Google or Bing will bring initial links to the Nike online website as well as connections to other places where Nike may be sold. The main company website is beautifully designed with groundbreaking digital effects. Any information a customer may be interested in finding is available on their website. They also provide links to the “Nike Community” including links to many official Nike sponsored twitter accounts. Nike is prominent in other social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, promoting their products and expanding their brand exposure. (Nike’s Facebook page has over 12,330,313 likes!). Although the website is very impressive and massive, it is sometimes overwhelming when trying to navigate. Nike markets its many products under its own brand and sponsors many other companies. It appeals to people of all ages and sports and may need to create a few sub-websites that are more simple or user-friendly. Besides this, Nike has seemed to truly master the digital frontier.     

www.nike.com

got 5 minutes?

go to 5min.com! this is a do-it-yourselfer's dream. (i, being a do-it-myselfer, personally love this website :)
this website allows people to upload how-to videos on just about anything. the videos give advice, instructions, and other lessons in five minutes or less. of course, you could go to youtube and search "how to make a balloon sword" until you found a legit video, or you could easily go to 5min, click on the arts section, and click balloons to find out how to make just about any balloon animal!
there are tons of categories including cooking recipes, travel tips, and game rules.

Control Panel

i can remember when i was like 13 years old, i was on a computer at my school library and i saw something that caught my eye.
the cursor.
the cursor was no longer a boring little white thing with a point, but a walking dinosaur.
since that moment, i was determined to find out how to change my cursor to a dinosaur.

i went home that day and played around on my computer until i found the "mouse" section in control panel. using pointer options tab, you can change what each of your cursors look like. (of course, if you use the walking dinosaur it will slow down your computer a considerable amount) you can also change other preferences- even switch the right and left click buttons, or change the speed of your mouse.

there are a few options for changing the way your cursor works, and you can also download many other cute or animated cursors. i still love changing my mouse and right now my little cursor is rainbow :)

St. Joseph's- Green is the new Red

The green movement is really catching on at St.joseph's Academy!
We all seem to be making a conscience effort to recycle and keep our environment clean.
Because we use laptops, it would seem that we would use a lot less paper than regular schools.
i wonder if this is true. because we have an unlimited access to printers, we can print whenever, whatever we want. this results in a lot of paper being wasted. even though we recycle the paper, it still doesnt change the fact that a tree was cut down to make the paper and we wasted it.

greenprint world is a download that can help us along our green movement and save even more paper. before you print a document, this program scans the paper and removes unwanted pages or images. if you print a screen from the internet, it will automatically remove ads or pages with a single line of text.

as another extra thing- it keeps a record of how much money and paper you are saving! if everyone at st.joseph's used this service, think of how much ink, money, and paper we would save......

MY NEW FAVORITE WEBSITE!

GUBB!!!!!
i am obsessed with making lists. my friends all make fun of me because whenever i get an idea, i start making a list with all of my ideas or things i need to remember :) the only way i remember things is if i write them down... i have to make list every day with my homework and for my schedule of the week.

gubb.com is the perfect website for me! i just added it to my favorites :) its an easy way to make an organize your own list! you can change colors and coordinate the list and check things off. i've already made 15 lists! you can even get your list texted to your phone or sent to you in an email. it has pre-made example list for many different topics, but you can make your own personal lists.

startuplite

StartUpLite is a software that can disable or remove all known unnecessary startup entries from your system. this can make your start up and other procedures on your computer faster. all you have to do is download it and run it to disable programs that arent needed and basically degunk your computer! just a few clicks will eliminate what you dont need. i downloaded it to my desktop and tried it, the only bad thing is that you have to restart your computer after everytime you clear the system.

we all love quoting people..

recently, i searched my dad- Mickey Guidry- on pipl.com.
many many results came up and i'm actually jealous of my dad's popularity on google! (he even has a picture on google images!)
when i get bored and google my name, nothing really comes up..

but one of the links that came up from searching his name was to thinkexist.com
this is a website full of quotations! you can easily search a person or author and find quotes by them, rate them, or even upload your own quotes.
my dad wrote a book on football years ago, and he had three quotes on the website! i thought that was pretty cool.. and i also found a new website that easy to find quotations from!