Guest Speaker: Erik Hanberg

We had a speaker in class who's name is Erik Hanberg. He talked to use about what it was like for him and the technology world when it came to writing books and other things such as bit con which is virtual money.

A quote that Erik (the quest speaker) and Mr. Fry (the teacher) came up together with was " The amount of privacy you have right now is probably the most you will ever have".

He started off by a quote he enjoyed by Seth Godin which was a really good quote. I forgot what he liked about it though since I was busy coping the quote and not making side notes as to what he enjoyed about it.

In 2006 he started a theater called Horatio- How much services you had to pay- a lot for one or virtual which was cheap or free.

He wrote for Exit133.com which is a website Eric Young started and it was a site about Tacoma. Erik wrote the Friday Satire.

Suite 133- 2007 he sold out in 2009. Suite 133 is an office space to release to those who were free lancers who wanted to work but had no office. So people rented out a chair to work out of instead of sitting in coffee shops. It was a co-working spaces and it reached an international level. It was office no mad, wifi, an outlet as well as tables.

He and his wife created side x side which is a consulting on marketing.

Erik has written many books over the course of about 6 years. Publishing has been his side job but as of now it has been is main source of income.

Here is a list of books he has published and one that will come out in 2016:
'09- He wrote the book a Little Book of Gold which was an info book on (drawing a blank) and it sells for $9.99. This book only took him 100 hours to do :)
'10- He wrote another book called Saints Go dying and he sold a lot of those books which then put him as number one author above James Patterson for an hour!
'11- The Marina Murders
'12- The Con Before Christmas
'13- The Little Book of Likes
'13- The Lead Cloak
'14- The Little Book of Boards
'14- The Queen of Neptune
'16 he will publish a book called The Iron Harvest

He has had book launches and that is where people show up to hear about the book.

He then proceeded to tell us about a site called storybundle.com which is a site where you can go by books and you decide how much goes to the author and how much goes to the site. At times if you buy x amount of books you can get 5 (give or take) for free! I thought that was pretty cool and I need to get back into reading so I am going to check this site out.

The cave and the stream- The best artists and entrepreneurs can master both!
The cave: Is where you go to to do work
The stream: Is where you go to promote- twitter, blogs, update.

The downside: Erin Kissane: stated that the downside to going on line is what you say can be taken out of context on twitter/internet. The more you share the more criticisms you'll get.

He then ended with saying "Great things online should help your everyday life".

I liked what he had to say and I found it interesting that one can publish books by themselves. I always felt like one had to have a big team working for them in order for a book to get published. He also ran for elective but did not win. He had good insight about the internet and I enjoyed him coming to class to tell us what he knew.

3 things I would not buy on-line

We were asked to list at least three things we would not buy on-line. I may have more than three things!

1.) I would not buy shoes/boots on-line because sizes may run differently and I would not want to have to take the time to return them.

2.) I would not buy food on-line (blue apron and such) because I would not be able to see the food before hand and what if you end up with some bad stuff?

3.) I would not buy a car straight up on-line. If I was able to test drive and all I would reconsider but if it was a bring money here no return type stuff I would not.

4.) I would not buy pants on-line for the same reason I would not buy shoes/boots on-line.

So far the things I have purchased on-line have been books, sweatshirts, toys, jewelry and that is abut it. I still prefer to go to a store and see what I am buying before I actually buy it. The only reason I do buy stuff on-line is because it is not sold in stores or it is a really good deal (on certain items).

Internet Scavenger Hunt

On Monday NOV. 1st we had to conduct a internet scavenger hunt where Mr. Fry gave us a list of 19 items we had to find on-line and send him the URL's to the info. we found.

I don't remember all of the items we had to find but some of the things we had to find were his middle sisters married name, information about us on-line  other than facebook and itinerary for 3 adults and 3 kids to Disney in Hawaii.

My group of three split up the questions and one person had 4 questions to look up while the rest where split up between me and the other person.

I didn't have too much of a struggle to find the information on the questions I had to look up. One of the questions was two different definitions of the term sock-puppet. I just went to google and found the answer. Actually I went to google for all the questions I had to look up and from what I remember all of the answers showed up.

We completed the task at hand but it took us roughly an hour and a half I believe. I personally wasn't worried about finishing first since either way we would get extra points. Overall the task was neat and fun! Would I want to do it again...maybe....maybe not......

The point Mr. Fry was getting across to us was how easy it is for people to find information about you on the internet and no one is safe in the virtual world. It makes one think for a moment plus realize how much times have changed and one can no longer hide when it comes to the world of internet. That is a scary, scary thought when it comes right down to it!