Presentation Chapter 12

Podcast Plan & Recording

The Netsurfers’ Budgeting Podcast Plan

Title: Living Large By Spending Small Log Line: How to Save on living so you don't kill your expenses

Format: We will have an open discussion similar to ReelRejects where a topic is proposed and everyone discusses it.

Episode List

Episode 1: Lyft & Uber vs Taxis
Uber and Lyft are compared to Taxis and Cabs in terms of consumer interest, safety, costs, and convenience. The history of all companies are looked into as well, along with features and differences.

Episode 2: Brown Bagging It! Food Shopping and Cooking
With a tight budget, The Surfers discuss the benefits of cooking and packing meals as opposed to eating out all the time. They chart an expense graph to show how much an average person may spend on food if they always ordered out vs. cooking once in a while vs. cooking mainly and eating out occasionally. Websites, social media, and stores are referenced for recipes, grocery lists, and cooking tips.

Episode 3: Bills, Subscriptions, and Prescriptions (A talk about necessities)
The Surfers tackle saving money by arguing cell phone plans, entertainment subscriptions vs. cable, and other bills and necessities. Prepaid plans, paying bills in advance, and pharmacies are discussed.

Episode 4: Getting on Coupons, Groupons and Other advice on buying products.
Despite the stigma, the Surfers put a positive spin on coupons, sales, Groupon, and freebies. Marketing and the means of ‘sale’ items are talked about. RetailMeNot is referenced.

Episode 5: We are Living in a Material World: Fashion and Clothing
Fashion is on the table for the Surfers. How to buy clothing for cheap, thrift, lend, rent and sell clothing is also talked about. DIY websites are referenced as well.

Episode 6: Saving and Emergency Funds
Savings and Emergency funds are brought to light. Apps to curb overspending, splitting paychecks, and setting goals and repair money to the side are discussed.

Episode 7: Every Day I’m Hustlin’: Side Jobs and Earning Extra Money
The Surfers mention side jobs, work from home jobs, or other services that people can do to earn extra cash. Care. com, reviewing, testing products and reviewing, pitching creative ideas, transcription and Uber/Lyft are brought forth.

Episode 8: Going Out and Not Going Broke: Tips for Events And Going Out
The Surfers discuss ways of being social without breaking the bank. Topics include e-newsletters that notify you of events that are free or cheap (The Skint), complimentary tickets (Goldstar), subscriptions that charge a monthly fee for complementary tickets to events of any kind, and taking advantage of student discounts or free/ pay what you can offers.

Episode 9: My First Place, a Discussion on Apartments, Homes, and Other Forms of Living Arrangements
Housing is discussed. Topics include renting an apartment reasonably, renting rooms, prefab houses and more.

Episode 10: When to Fly: International Travel guidelines
Traveling for cheap is the last topic in the series. Flight planning times, tips, and websites are covered by The Surfers. They also talk about alternative sleeping accommodations such as hostels and AirBnb, traveling by bus or train, and using Groupon to book package deals.

Pitch: Appealing to both frugal and small spenders, we combined 'Adam Ruins Everything' with 'Reel Rejects' for a budgeting open discussion podcast where alternative forms of living and spending with real life opinions and experiences. Short sweet, and with a bit of humor, we believe our peer-to-peer approach will reach to a broad audience.

Group Project Team Presentation

News Article Blog Post

Big Brother's Protecting You:

How the Goverment's Tracking Potential Protests

The use of Geofeedia's website to track content

Photo Credit: Geofeedia

Geofeedia’s use of analyzing data from Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, as well other social media networks, is an example of utilizing ‘see, say, feel and do’ measures to gauge the content activity in a certain location.But it has led to backlash once Geofeedia began to appeal to it’s clients in law enforcement to track potential protests. This is worse since due to the content being shared the people are usually people of color. Phil Harris, chief executive of Geofeedia, said in a statement that his company “provides some clients, including law enforcement officials across the country, with a critical tool in helping to ensure public safety while protecting civil rights and liberties.” 

Although some of these features will be great for citizen journalists, since they can reach breaking news and remain current and uphold prestige, it’s still a risk to a user’s personal information and safety. 

“Posts on social media platforms can reveal information about our location, our religion, the people we associate with,” Mr. Cagle said. “Users of social media websites do not expect or want the government to be monitoring this information. And users should not be at risk of being branded a risk to public safety simply for speaking their mind on social media.”- Phil Harris

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/12/technology/aclu-facebook-twitter-instagram-geofeedia.html?_r=0

Team Presentation Plan

Chapter 1 Team Terms Presentation

Shared Google Drive Team Project – Part One

The first 'Net Surfers' Meeting

photo credit via Megan's phone

The meeting went by very well! I meet with my team members at the library and we found 5 key terms and discussed each in detail. We then compressed the terms into short descriptions. I also got to know the other members pretty well, so it was a solid meeting!