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ALMA KARENDERYA

Ms. Alma Ruyeras is the owner of the karenderya business. She is 54 years old. She is the one of our member's mother Kharl Alien Ruyeras. She started her "KARENDERYA" in year 2014. she sell many foods and all of her foods is so delicious. Her karenderya have many customer most of them are students.

For my 7th week in my Technopreneurship class, we didn’t have a class on our scheduled meeting every Tuesday. Sir Mabulay was on Singapore. My team didn’t agreed to meet but as the week nearly ends, I was worried that my team wouldn’t make any progress for this week. My team also realized that we were running out of time. Muznah scheduled the team’s meeting on Friday afternoon. We discussed to improve more the application’s GUI and add more on its system. She said that we also need to get more customers and validate more our application. In order to accomplish this, I suggested to get an actual face to face interview with our CdO sellers but they wanted to conduct a survey instead since we already have our questions. The same questions were needed in making copies for our survey. Lovely said that we should a survey instead because we can answer the seller’s questions at the same time. We can explain all the details of DropBuy and its goal. After printing the copies of the questions, as a team, we all headed off to Divisoria. Lovely said that Divisoria is the common meeting place for CdO sellers.

In Divisoria, we all went to in front of Jollibee Divisoria to look for CdO sellers. Across Jollibee Divisoria, we found some sellers. They were arranging their items. We handed our questionnaire to each of the sellers. We also explained that our team is making the application possible for them because they said it was one of their common problem as sellers in shipping items out. Next stop, we visited some boutiques within Divisoria. We asked if they handle an online shop for their shop. Some said they do and we proceeded in giving the questionnaire and explaining about DropBuy. The others said they didn’t have an online shop for their business so we thanked them and walked away because as for DropBuy’s target respondents only includes businesses handling an online shop. Mostly, we found many clothing boutiques handling an online shop for displaying the ordered items to the buyers online. Along the way, a seller’s husband responded and acknowledged our application to be helpful. He says it can help her wife in dealing with her busy schedule in terms of meet-ups and shipping items for the week. Only one seller said that she haven’t done cross-shipping yet because of her experience so far. She has less than one year experience in her online business.

After roaming around Divisoria, we managed to give out all the questionnaires. Our team gathered and talked about the results afterwards. We found out that the seller’s common answers from our survey conducted was mostly a positive response from them. They wanted to support DropBuy’s goal in solving their problem. Our team also talked about updating our BMC. Muznah clarified in removing developers in the customer’s segments and also removing the payment revenues from the revenue streams. Lovely suggested that we should add a courier revenue instead.

We spent this week doing our new lean canvass and validation board for the tutoring services on the mobile application we are going to develop.

Our Lean canvass which comprises of the following:

The problems we found that we are trying to get solve are first: students who needs tutor find it hard to look for suitable and reliable tutors or lack of resources and information where to find good tutors. Second: parents nowadays are really busy with their work that they lack of time in teaching their kids with their studies. On the other side, as this application is two sided, there are people who looks for part time jobs but could hardly find one. Thus, our application is the solution for it connects students and tutors in an instance. The tutoring services will be home-base therefore it is convenient to both the student and the tutor. Our target market or customers are the students in all grade level, the busy parents who can’t spend time to teach their kids and the individuals who needs part time job.

For our Validation board, our customer hypothesis are the busy individuals in their work while the problem hypothesis is the security concern. For the core assumptions, we have safety of the customers, quick access to service, and quality of the service done. But the riskiest among the three is the safety of the customers. To be able validate our idea, we interviewed few people. As a result, 7 out of 10 person has a positive response to our survey.

Mediated communication describes the use of tools and technology to communicate and record information across time and space. In 2014, perhaps the most common form is Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) or “netspeak” (Crystal, 2006: 27). Not quite writing, not quite speech, CMC takes elements from both and also employs new techniques for us to engage with the world, each other and ourselves (Baym, 2010).

 Many researchers have claimed that the increase in CMC will eventually lead to overall impoverishment of communication, for example due to the decay of  the human language, the reclusive nature of the internet or the inadequacy of online interactions that fail to have verbal and non-verbal cues such as body language and rhythm of conversation. To the contrary, Nancy Baym argues that a “communication imperative” pushes us to use new media for interpersonal purposes and come up with creative ways to work around online barriers, rather then submit ourselves to a content- and emotion-less communication experience (2010).

 There are four obvious methods Internet users have created to add context to online social experiences which include emoticons, adapted language, hashtags and audio-visual cues. 

Emoticons can best be described as graphic signs used to indicate an emotional state. Two of their key uses are to:

a)    eliminate ambiguities, for example clarifying sarcasm; and

b)   build rapport, often in the workplace or with strangers of acquaintances in social media contexts.

Twitter recently acknowledged how important emoticons are to online communication and actually made their platform Emoji compatible.

Language adaptations are also incredibly common, particularly in mediums which require brevity, like mobile texting or Twitter. Abbreviations such as ‘lol’, symbols like <3 to depict a love heart, or use of caps lock can convey complex emotions in just a short word or phrase, instantly providing framework to online messages.

Hashtags play a key part in the searchability and identity of online users. They can be topical such as #auspol, or non-topical, such as emotive hashtags like #fail. Hashtags can increase visibility to posts, allow users to define how they want their photo or tweet to be interpreted, as well as determine the terms on which it will be accessed. This kind of categorisation can give rise to a feeling of community or network and connect users with likeminded people.

For example, a quick glance of the “paleo” hashtag on Instagram immediately brings up almost two million photos of food, recipes, selfies and personal stories related to the lifestyle practice.Similarly, the trending tag on Twitter is #coachella, which is a music festival currently on in California.

By including that tag in a tweet, Twitter users can immediately:

join the conversation

read and hear about audience reactions

get real time photos and videos from the event

refine their search by only looking at "news" articles

Even if you are solitary in your own home, this could hardly be described as reclusive behaviour when considering the ability to interact with millions is a mouse click away. Hashtags are a simple way of expressing what you want to talk about, and make it easy to find like-minded communities or topics that you’re interested in.

The final common method for adding context to CMC is the use of audio-visual cues such as uploading pictures on Facebook, sending a Snapchat or broadcasting a Vine. Probably the most prevalent technique, it is hard to argue that the Internet has caused us to be ‘disembodied’ when Facebook profile pictures follows users wherever they post, comment or chat. Skype is another obvious example that allows users to transcend the online barriers of time and space to fill their emotional needs and provide intimacy (Valentine, 2006). Whether it be parents skyping a child overseas, or perhaps a father skyping his family while he is away in combat, the audio-visual aspects allows physical bodies to become more visible and more spontaneity and instanteity to be achieved.

Despite the lack of traditional verbal and non-verbal cues, technology users have created new techniques convey social and emotional contexts online and engage with the world, each other and with themselves.. Much of this digital language depends on the mode used, the purpose, the norms of the group and the styles of participants offline (Baym, 2010: 63), however the more universal techniques discussed above are the most important in creating online connection and expression.

References

Baym, Nancy. 2010. “Ch 3: Communication in Digital Spaces.” In Personal Connections in the Digital Age, 50-70. Cambridge MA: Polity Press

Crystal, David. 2006. “Ch 2: The Medium of Netspeak.” In Language and the Internet. 2nd ed, 26-65. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

Sauter, Theresa, April 03, 2014. “Week 6 – New Media Communication.” Accessed April 6, 2014. http://blackboard.qut.edu.au/