Research Project: Assignment 1

Good day to all of you economic bloggers. I hope your level of frustration has not reached the boiling point yet. I am very excited to have the opportunity to experiment and promote these important internet tools. I know we are entering into a new and unfamiliar academic area for many of you. Please have patience with me and with yourself. The benefits one can gain from such an endeavor will hopefully change your academic and intellectual future for ever.

Task: You are charged with choosing a sector of the market and formulating a hypothesis as to which product in that market will fair the best during the holiday season. The objective of the assignment is to introduce you to several very important tools of technology that will aid you in your research. These tools include several social bookmarking sites (delicious, etc), several collaborative online sites, and blogging your experience.

Your assignment for the weekend is to complete the following.

1. (****This is an optional function. This assignment can be completed without utilizing Firefox) Down load fire fox as your web browser and make that your primary internet research vehicle. http://www.firefox.com/
   
2. Look over the extensions under the tools tab on fire fox. These are going to be some of the tools we utilize in our project. Internet explorer also has extensions. See me in class and I will guide you through this process.
   
3. Download the delicious website from the following site http://del.icio.us/
4. Once you have downloaded the site, begin to follow the tutorial.
5. Open up blogger.com and begin to blog a new post that identifies the following information. You must introduce your assignment with some background. Discuss the market and sector of the market you are going to target. Discuss your hypothesis and why you choose that particular market and statement.