This is the second part of a five part series based on a recent emarketer survey. In part one we discussed the concept of Exclusivity. Today we discuss: Education as it relates to Apartment Internet Marketing.
I have included the chart here again for reference:
What is Education?
Education, according to Princeton.edu is defined as; a gradual process of acquiring knowledge. From the time of birth we are taking in information, processing it, making decisions and acting. All the while we are layering information on top of information, taking in the new and purging the old to make new assumptions about the future to come. In any case, we are subject to the people and the environment we choose to hang around and participate in. There is a Dave Matthew’s song called: The Space Between. In that song Dave belts: “the space between – the tears we cry – is the laughter keeps us coming back for more – the space between – the wicked lies we tell – and hope to keep safe from the pain” I would contend that space between is called – choice. And, that choice is the byproduct of a catalyst and the result is action – all couched in education or better said, knowledge.
Value Exchange
Education would lead us to understand that the single most important catalyst in today’s business environment is garnishing a individuals attention. With no equivocation – it is the most important determinant of business success. When asking someone to give you their attention, you are asking them to give you their most precious possession – time. Ask for that attention in the way of a negative event caused by you and or your organization and expect a less than positive consequence. Ask for that attention in the way of a positive event and expect – nothing. In the Internet age this is the price of admission. In the context of apartment marketing ideas, ask for that attention in the way of educating apartment patrons and you plant the seeds necessary for true engagement.
Consumer Expectation
There is yet another thing that human beings have in common – the need for insight. Insight is often a vibrant, happy and emotionally loaded space in any person’s life. At some level we are all after it – we all want to be in-the-know. The emotion and desire is hard-wired into our system. That is to suggest that consumer’s want – innately. It’s imbued on their hearts and minds. When we apply that fact we can quickly see the overarching need to embed listening, understanding, interaction and feedback into our concept. It all adds up to meaning for the apartment patron. It all adds up to the willingness to give us their attention. As an example – people spend an average of 25 minutes per session on Facebook – why? The need for insight is being met.
Offer it and They Will Come
We see examples of this all over the internet today but my favorite is Wine Library TV – dial into the 3:50 min section of this video – it is the point. You get people to this and you are on your way to what I will end this series with.
Have a over the top and compelling end to your week – we will be back in a couple days with another installment to this series.
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Great lesson Jay. verse 6 form above says: 6 “Therefore, say to the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment. 7 I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. 8 And I will bring you to the land I swore with uplifted hand to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD.’”
You put God’s statements that “I will bring you out… I will redeem you… I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God in bold print. May I suggest that those that emphasize the sovereignty of God do exactly the same thing. They place the emphasis on what God does and regard it as primary and regard what man does as secondary and the result of what God does. Someone has said that even Pelagians like Calvinism until someone points it out and then they back off of it. Thus they take a little of the credit and glory that belongs to God and appropriate it to themselves for making the right choice and deciding to give their lives to Jesus. Granted, they don’t see it that way, but it is logical to see it like that when they say the difference between them and a lost person is their free will choice. Calvinists do not deny man making a choice and being responsible for the choice he makes. They just believe the credit for their choice belongs to God rather than themselves.
A second point has to do with Jesus drinking the cup of wrath. NT Wright seems to be the darling of many progressives in the CofC as well as the emerging church movement. I can’t get my head wrapped around his teaching that Jesus is my substitute but NOT a penal substitute. I wish someone could explain it to me better than what I’ve heard. In your post above Jesus certainly drinks the cup of wrath that is intended for, and deserved by sinners. This seems altogether consistent with the Calvinistic doctrine of penal substitution atonement. That is, he paid the penalty for my sin and his righteousness is imputed to me through faith. Did you intend for us to understand it that way?
Peace,
Randall
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Game mechanics: not just for WoW and StackOverflow anymore. Read this — it is worth your time.
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I’m really getting upset that people are learning about game mechanics. It was my little secret for so long. 🙁
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Does anyone know of a similar method to learn vim? It would be a lot easier, faster and more fun if there was some kind of game which would teach you all the keys and combinations.
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This is a seriously interesting innovation.
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This is wonderfully on point for me. The main reason I belong to HN is because I want to create an educational game. Glad to see it here and hope to see other similar stuff in the future.
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No, but does anybody want to make a vim plugin which does this? I’d help, don’t know much about Vim plugins though!
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Play nethack.
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Funny, the main reason I read HN is to procrastinate and avoid doing other things. 😉
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I think we’re going to start seeing alot more ideas from gaming start to creep into applications. I’ve definitely been noticing a trend of this even recently here on HN. It’s going to be interesting to see how these two worlds collide (and what startups form from the debris).
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Don’t worry most people will ignore it in lieu of their preconceived notions of what should work.
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Relatedly: Some of us have egos. The rest of us have A/B testing. It is a lot like signing up for a lifetime subscription to Humble Pie Magazine, but it certainly works.
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I think you’r referring to StackOverflow’s points and badges; is there a deeper dynamic that you’d like to explain?
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I really want to make one myself. My idea is to have the terminal screen as a vim-editable 2-D ASCII environment, which you manipulate with vim commands.The goal can be anything. Say a plane or something going straight through a cave and you have to use vim commands to move the cursor to and clear ASCII obstacles before the plane hits them (and you can’t use ‘dd’, just to make it harder).
Or a game where you have to fill in blank spaces randomly strewn around for some purpose, and also make it time-based. Or any other kind of game you can think of; I think it has a lot of potential for fun + vim-training.
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I really want to make one myself. My idea is to have the terminal screen as a 2-D ASCII environment, which you manipulate with vim commands.The goal can be anything. Say a plane or something going straight through a cave and you have to use vim commands to clear ASCII obstacles before the plane hits them (and you can’t use ‘dd’, just to make it harder).
Or a game where you have to fill in blank spaces randomly strewn around for some purpose, also make it time-based. Or any other kind of game you can think of, I think it has lots of potential for fun + vim-training.
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NO NO NO! to quote Paul in this instance leaves us with an empty hope.
Paul was given progressive revelation. The offering of the kingdom was still in his sight. That is why is went to the synagogue first and then to the teaching of a new message that salvation was being offered to the Gentiles. Remember what he said about another gospel? That was mixing law and grace together. The old testament is used to study from a point of where have we come from. Not to be used on where are we going. I really don’t do communion any more because of its Jewish nature you just explained.
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If only Excel had some kind of Flight Simulator…
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Considering that this whole thing is just a tradition of the elders and that Jesus and the apostles had a tendency of disregarding those, I don’t think any of this is accurate.
Fascinating article, I never knew that. Um, according to your article, “one-cuppers” would be totally un-biblical in their practice.
Anyone who is literate can clearly see that he only said “This is the New Covenant ratified by my blood over one cup” regardless however many other cups they had at the Passoever. For example, with the first cup mentioned in Luke he doesn’t ascribe this meaning to it. Only to the second. Just sayin.
“This seems altogether consistent with the Calvinistic doctrine of penal substitution atonement.” Leave it to a Cavinist to make every discussion about bashing God’s grace.
“I really don’t do communion any more because of its Jewish nature you just explained.” What does that mean ‘really don’t do communion’?
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I’m just referring to points and badges as an incentive mechanism for directing user interaction of a site in ways which provide business value.
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Heavenbound,
If I insisted on Passover as a condition to salvation, that might be another gospel. Understanding the Jewish history behind communion is not remotely another gospel.
It’s unfathomable to me that you reject communion because of its Jewish roots. Faith has a Jewish nature. So does the concept of a Messiah/Christ. So does Jesus. Christianity has a Jewish nature.
(Rom 11:24) After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
We Gentiles were grafted into a Jewish tree. We therefore have and should honor our Jewish roots.
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Exploring the linked site a little deeper, there’s this gem on making applications more game-like: http://lostgarden.com/Mixing_Games_and_Applications.pdfFrom what the author explains in the presentation, vim violates the tried-and-true video game mechanics of starting the user with only the most basic functionality. To teach vim using the author’s method, one could start by removing all but the most basic commands. Then, these missing commands could be introduced to the user one at a time, in a controlled environment where there is a clear task (eg. jump the cursor to a particular point in the text) that can be measured as success or failure.
In the linked presentation, the author draws a comparison to the game Metroid. In the game, the player falls into a deep pit and has to find a way to climb out before being able to continue on. Failure to perform the new skill (accurately timing the character’s wall-jumping) is immediately clear because the player will fall back down into the pit. When the user finally times it correctly, he’s free from the pit and the brain rewards him with a sense of accomplishment.
Back to vim, if you wanted to create such an environment for learning a new command to move the cursor around, you wouldn’t want the user to fall back on basic navigation with h, j, k, and l. You could disable these keys temporarily, or leave them but only reward the user if they accomplish the goal using the fewest key-presses possible.
Once they "win" this "level" you’ve designed, those new navigation keys should be considered part of their arsenal of skills for solving future problems. Each skill mastery could be further rewarded by filling in parts of a cheat-sheet (like this one: http://www.viemu.com/vi-vim-cheat-sheet.gif). This can be seen in the section where the author talks about Link to the Past and the picture of the player’s item inventory. The vim player’s goal could be to "unlock" and master these keyboard skills and ultimately fill in the complete chart.
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I don’t know if I’d call it a game, but there is vimtutor, which is a document that tells you how to edit it:http://www2.geog.ucl.ac.uk/~mdisney/teaching/unix/vimtutor
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Having read the comments I found it interesting that one of the features is to show you which of the features of Office other people actually use. I’ve had the same experience with blog posts or hacker news submissions about Vim or Unix tools in general. Simply being informed of their existence is a real benefit, otherwise they’d just sit there in my machine unused. (The hefty guidebook Vi IMproved by Steve Oualline was good too)
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Heavenbound,
You stated, “I really don’t do communion any more because of its Jewish nature you just explained.”
Is that the reason you give Jesus in the assembly when you decide not to take communion? Do you express that thought to Jesus when communion is served? Are you telling me that . . . had you been in the upper room when Jesus was serving the communion meal . . . that you would have said, “No thanks.”
I don’t understand your reasoning. Anyway, didn’t Jesus say, “Do this in memory of me.” Isn’t the bread and the wine something to embrace? Something To cherish? I would think that someone who was heavenbound would cherish this gift Jesus gave us.
Some other questions for you:
My god is the god of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Is not my god your god? You wouldn’t reject my god would you . . . seeing that he was their god first?
Wasn’t the “prophet like me” prophesied by the prophet speaking in Deuteronomy 18 . . . Moses the lawgiver? You wouldn’t reject The Prophet Greater Than Moses would you . . . seeing that the very god at work in Moses brought to completion that which Moses prophesied?
Didn’t Paul tell us to study the scriptures . . . the Jewish scriptures? You wouldn’t reject the Psalms would you?
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Bishop Jay,
Back to the lesson on the 5 cups. I really found myself nourished by this information, as I do in all of the summaries you are giving us on the faith lessons by Ray Vander Laan.
After reading the lesson above, it seems to me that the bread that represented his body and the wine that represented his blood were incorporated into a passover meal that was already in practice. So instead of these two things taking the place ot the passover meal, or being instituted as something separate, they were made a part of the passover meal. The passover meal was “upgraded” or reshaped into the communion meal Christ initiated. Am I reading correctly?
We see this practice in other aspects of what Jesus gave us. Christian baptism is an example that comes to mind. Baptism wasn’t new in Acts 2. There was already a baptism for forgivenss of sins. Jesus took the baptism that John the Baptizer was administering to the people and “upgraded” it. Not only was there foregiveness of sins as John taught . . . but also the gift of the Spirit was promised. A pretty good upgrade!
So God’s practice of taking existing expressions of faith . . . and incorporating them into new expressions of faith . . . is well established. Did I get this right?
Is it a stretch to conclude that it was Jesus’ intent to incorporate the symbolism from the original passover meal into the new meal that Christians would partake? This seems reasonable because, as the lesson illustrates, it would help us “understand our own Christianity in much greater depth.” and help us “understand the Lord’s Supper in greater depth.” By dropping the original components of the meal, we have lost the symbolism that Jesus intended to hand to us. Did I read this correctly? Is that what Ray Vander Laan is thinking? Is that where you are leading? I like it.
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