Blog 16: Advisory Meeting #2

EQ:

• How can an IT department best meet the demands of a real estate company?

Answer #2:

• An IT department can best meet the demands of a real estate company by creating a website tailored to the company's needs.

Support:

• Creating a personal website about you as an agent/company can help give clients an insight into what kind of agent/company you are and an idea of how you treat business. Using a personalized domain can help as well, giving you a more professional look to your website. (RID 29 RC 11)
• There is a difference between a real estate website, & a company website. You don't want to have a long tedious domain name, keep it short & simple. I then comes down choosing a custom or personalized template. Another option is to have a web designer customize a template. (RID 31 RC 12)
• Websites that have a blogging aspect to them tend to generate more traffic, and it is very important to get more traffic as it increases the amount of potential clients that you can work with. The major focus of WordPress content and it is content that makes the difference on a real estate website. (RID 33 RC 12)

Research:

• Clark, Sabrina. "Personal Branding for New Real Estate Agents." Web log post. Personal Branding Blog. Personal Branding Blog, 20 Sept. 2013. Web. 25 Jan. 2014.
• Price, Seth. "How to Build a Better Real Estate Website." Web log post. Inman News. N.p., 13 June 2013. Web. 6 Feb. 2014.
• Price, Seth. "11 Reasons to Choose WordPress to Build Your Real Estate Marketing Website." Web log post. Placester. Placester, Inc, n.d. Web. 6 Feb. 2014.

Concluding Sentence:

• There are many factors that can lead to a successful real estate company, but as with many companies today, success, requires a website.

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

• A major part of what my mentor does is management of projects in IT. It is important for a project to be managed properly and for all steps taken to be documented clearly. I feel that I should take on a technical project to manage such as the creation of iPoly's new website to try to plan and manage the daunting project.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

• A final product, the school website.
• Meeting logs
• GitHub Logs (GitHub allows a user to keep track of changes in code)
• Documentation of the framework of the website so future iPoly students can make changes.

3.  And explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.

• Every project in IT must be handled in a professional way, and it is important that the school's website is taken on as a serious project as it will need to survive for many years. IT in real estate can help a company by creating a website and that can either be done from a template, a blog, or from scratch, like in this case.

4.  Post a log on the right hand side of your blog near your other logs and call it the independent component 2 log.

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

• Literal
• I, Carlos Cerrillos affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 32.5 hours of work.
• My main source of information regarding company needs for computer requirements was my mentor Maria, I worked with her to plan how we would go about replacing everyone's computers. The article "The Nuts and Bolts of Making BYOD Work." by Brent Gatewood was helpful due to the laptops-as-desktops scenario being similar to a BYOD infrastructure.
• Independent Component 1 Log
• Interpretive
• The work I did was essential to my senior project as an important part of IT deals with setting up new technologies, making sure that they work & that the employees have the knowledge to use them, which applied to my earlier EQ.

 The only new desktop we purchased as the employee doesn't need to work on the go.

 A picture I took of the office printer's model number so I could find the drivers online.

 Optimizing settings for the printer & creating presents for Color/BW/Double-sided.

 Installing those necessary programs.

 A little Gandalf reference while I was waiting for loading bars >_>

 A shot of the HP laptops we chose.

 Working on two computers at once, the other laptop is connected to the monitor in the background and can be seen on the left.

 Another computer.

 Yay! The 2TB WD drives arrived!!

 Fitting two of the hard drives at the bottom of the server case.

 A shot of one of the WD hard drives.

 Two more of the 5 hard drives at the top& the arrow points to the CD drive that I had to remove.

 Wiring up the power for drives.

 Enabling the drives in the server's BIOS.

 Checking in the operating system to see if all the drives are being properly detected.

 Stickers that come with the drives.

 My hands would have been dirtier if the server hadn't been cleaned a few months back.

Semi unrelated, but while I was at the Jeved office I noticed that Ale had put up the flyers I had made for AgaveGirls (a part of Jeved) over the last year. If you look closely you can see the reflection of my Tardis slippers, it was Sunday, and I wanted to go to mentorship in comfort x]. I felt proud of my work being displayed :]


• Applied
• This component help me understand the foundation of my topic by working on the back bone of IT which is the actual hardware, and learning what it takes to set it all up. Along with teaching the employees how to make the most of their technologies.