Google Days; Sure Ways (Reflection Paper)

The talks from the GDAYX Seminar, a seminar held last September 23, 2013, were all about the search engine and most powerful website named GOOGLE. In there, the speakers talked about how google can help someone in so many ways. I was surprised that google had a lot to contribute in terms of aiding businessmen, workers, employees, common people, and students. It caters to mostly everyone who has internet and wants to communicate, collect data, and even formulate business strategies.

At the first talk in the seminar, it was about the importance of the “Human Element” in between technology and business. It is often overlooked and generally becomes the missing link between technology and business. This is why Gail, the speaker, gave several reasons why one must see the importance of the users of google in every service oriented website. The users of the internet are the focus market for they are the ones who help achieve greater goals and widen the provider’s services. She mentioned the term “Crowd Accelerated Innovation”, which means that the groups and volunteers are the ones who put technology to a higher level or in other words expanding technology through the user’s collaboration. Technology indeed will provide more information to people who need it. For example, she plugged google to be the tool that will be used to engage and educate which is perhaps seen in google maps and person finder from the Typhoon Yolanda.  

Google SWAGS that I got! :D

Fortune Cookie from Xavier School.. while listening to the seminar.

 The second talk is connected to the first talk. It talks about collaboration on the web. Everyone who has google and are users of google can now participate. They could be part of any team, be in any place, have any device, and work any time. A new technology called the Google Drive, help us store files in cloud which is an efficient tool to save files that are important to the users. Convenience in collaboration is given to the users especially in sharing information, and google increases and gets more users. Hence, the said formula from the first talk is much proved.

    The third seminar talked about growing one’s business using Youtube. It was said that 100 hours of video content is uploaded to Youtube every minute. There are so many people who watch videos in this website. Hence, the speaker, introduces it as a social platform. It provides a venue for educating and engaging audiences. The speaker told about how one business should conceptualize its videos. They should talk about what the business is, showcasing the product or service, building of a brand like Michele Phan’s make-up workshop, developing a relationship with one’s clients. In the end, the goal is to always enhance online presence through the use of a video.  

            All in all, I learned a lot from the activity. I am happy to see that technology, people and business work together in so many ways. Technology provides us tools while the people use these tools and the businesses just expand. In the end, all are interconnected.

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