Google Gold

1.) Unfortunately I have not focused most on my blog on being search engine optimized. While I could have done a better job of utilizing labels in each of my posts, I think it would have helped the most if I named my blog after my product or included the product name in the URL. I did make sure to post a link to my blog in every student's blog that I commented on, but those links are read as text by Blogger, which would not really help in having the search engine give more relevancy to my blog.

2.) The only keywords that were used throughout this course were the week name labels. This blog post has one for example, Week 14.

3.) I did not use social media to any extent in promoting my blog. In the case of this specific blog, along with the posts that it has created, I'm not sure a significant increase in the site traffic would have been achieved. Most social media users click on blog post links that relate to a topic of interest and have the potential to teach them something new. Most of the posts on this blog have been analytic in nature, although I think some people would be interested in those posts with videos.

4.) The "My Entrepreneurship Story" and "What I Think are the World's Biggest Problems" blog posts obtained the highest number of page views. I think this is because of the recent creation of the blog at the time those posts were created. At that moment in time I was sharing the URL to my blog with friends and family members and while they may have looked at the blog post, they most likely didn't continue to visit the site for subsequent posts.

5.) Since I did not have any pre-defined keywords at the start of the semester, I have done some searches with the keywords I believe I would have used. Note that each page of search results in google shows 10 results.

Keywords - rank - page

uf odd job blog - 10th - 1st page

ent 3003 odd job blog - 1st - 1st page 

uf odd job app blog - 6th - 1st page

While these results are all on the first page of Google, they are due to very specific searches. Had I searched "uf odd job" I would have had a very hard time finding the results since my blog is not optimized for general keywords.

 

Week 14 Reading Reflection

The biggest surprise for me, in this week's reading, was how extensive and far reaching corporate entrepreneurship can be. Previously I only considered corporate entrepreneurship to include the acquisition of other business in similar or different markets. I've now come to realize that internal development and production is a large part of corporate entrepreneurship and that by fostering an open and creative environment, any employee can bring an entrepreneurial idea to fruition.

After reading Chapters 3 and 4 of our textbook, I was most confused by one of the types f morally questionable acts detailed in Chapter 4. Here the author details Role assertion as a type of morally questionable act but does not give clear examples. How does "investing in South Africa" or "using nuclear technology in energy generation" represent morally questionable acts? Perhaps these examples refer to the South Africa of the past, when apartheid was present, but overall the examples don't seem to be very good.

If I had the opportunity to ask the author two questions, I would first ask if there are any business development workflows that allow entrepreneurial ideas to become most apparent. The company where I currently work employs a system of software development called the Agile/Scrum method in which departments are broken down into small groups of 4-7 individuals. Each group decides which tasks are of most importance and work together to deliver on business commitments after a set amount of time. Are there other models such as this one that can help in creating new concepts? I would then ask if there is a most efficient manner of allotting time for employees to work on innovation projects during the workday. Many companies are more focused on keeping employees busy during their hours of work but don't consider the benefits that a set amount of "innovation time" could provide.

I did not find the author to be incorrect with any of the points made. Overall, I found no problem with the concepts and ideas brought up in the reading.