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1) The topic of Swiss Watches and IMI have been aproved 2) The long tail name of the project based on the article would be "Swiss Watches and IMI Luzern"

3)My idea for attracting new students to IMI and finding a niche market is to channel swiss watches to Russian/Canadian students. The fact that nowadays people do not wear watches to know the time ( cell phones), people wear them mostly to show off status, professionalism and success. These attributes can be linked to IMI and education in Switzerland. It always better to buy the products directly from its main producer. Globally, Siwtzerland is recognized for making the best watches that last a lifetime and are worth to pay for. All of these ideas can be linked to IMI and the unique education it provides. Hopefully I am on the right track.

4) What I intend to do for the project is researching more on the Swiss Watches, why they are so popular, doing research in Luzern, possibly interviewing the store owners and students who have the watches. I will be taking pictures of the personal watches people have and the pieces of at the stores if possible to display why they are so unique. The interviews and pictures will be uploaded to the internet ( youtube/flicker/.facebook group) so people can see. Both Russian and Canadian perspective will be used from students and others willing to be involved.

August 1/2010

I have decided to develop a blog dedicated to Swiss Watches on Blogspot, post my own videos along with other interesting once, see if I find anything cool about swiss watches, update with new technologies and do my research within IMI as in making the video of IMI students. interesting site []

August 4/2010

I have finally created a blog on blogspot.com called []

(schweiz watch) please check it out. It is very much in the beggining stage of the development, I was mostly playing around with the design, fonts and how to use it in general. I was also looking at different programs that I can use to paste videos and pictures. The current pictures on the website should be ignored, they are the intial pictures the blog provided me. However, today I managed to take pictures of a few students at IMI with their swiss watches as well as find cool models on the internet. I will upload and upgrade the blog in the next day or two :)

I also registered on Bebo, Flickr,Yahoo account and found great pictures of watches from Omega and Swatch to add to the blog.

August 5/2010

Today, I have been taking more pictures of students with their watches which all look great. However, I came across a roadbump. When I made the blog on my blogspot, I saw that I can create a slideshow of pictures if I have a Flickr account. I made the account in Flickr, uploaded a few pictures to it, learned about its features and how to do different things. Then, I went into the "Help" section to figure out how to link Flickr and Blogspot so I automatically get the slideshow running. It took me about an hour to connect it ( I was following the steps and the internet at Central was EXTREMELY SLOW) but when I saved the work and went to view my blog, The slideshow said it had an error...I am not sure as to what is wrong, I will ask Mr. Ritzel. I will also work on my video over the weekend so I can upload it to youtube and then paste it on my blog.

Aug 8/2010

I have created a plan an initial plan for the video. I will be using three students from IMI to have a tour around Luzern specifically stopping at the watch stores. I have casted Ruslana Filipchuck (PG program) as well as Kristina Dolgova and Nadejda Miruychenko ( BA) to star in the video, it will have a commercial feel to show off the beauty of the city and the watches that are sold/worn here. I am still having problems with Flickr and so I have created a Photobucket account and will upload pictures of students onto it. The internet is EXTREMELY SLOW. I have turned MSN/Skype and it still barely works. Very inconvinient.

Aug.11/2010

At the meeting with Mr.Ritzel, I decided to use Flickr for only the professional photos of watches and have the photobucket account for the pictures of students and staff. That way I can use the different sites in different ways, have flickr as a slide show and photobucket as a link. I also decided to interview Nadejda Myruschenko about her expensive diamon encrusted Omega watch to see why she chose to buy a Swiss watch along with making a video of the girls walking around Luzern.

Aug.13-19

I have been taking pictures and collecting various material for the project. Nadya M. starred in my video for the project which I will be editing and posting it on youtube. I have also made an animoto using the pictures of students and some good music that you can already video on the website. Overall, I was very busy with writing the dissertation.

Aug. 19-27

I will be creating a little information chart about the popularity of swiss watches. I need to find a program that would display the information in the best possible way, right now I am thinking of making a prezi for it since its mostly charts and it would look cool. Also, this week I will be working on editing out the video with Nadya about her omega watch and posting it to the blog. Thank You :)

Sept. 22/2010

I have posted the Flickr link to my blog, I do not think I will ever use Flickr again, it is not very user friendly, too much information thrown onto a page, not easy to use nor do I understand how to do it, especially since I am a new user, I also do not know any of my friends who use it and actually like it. So for now I just posted a slideshow from flickr, I finally edited the video that Nadezhda M and I shot a month ago. I used the Windows Movie Maker and really enjoyed it. I put music, transitions, credits and pictures into it. This has been a fun experience and I think i will keep on making these videos for my own self. I am also finally posting the Prezi that I made. After the Prezi I consider my project being complete. After seeing Mr. Ritzel a few times each month in his office, he confirmed that if I do what I have said I wll in my plan then I will receive an A, so I am hoping this is still the case. I have put a lot of work in this blog, all of the programs I have used, I will definitly use again. Overall, this has been a positive and educative experience, I had a lot of fun ,learned a lot about new products and programs on the internet and got to interact with participating students. Hope to get my mark soon and see how it is :)