The following images describe me as a consumer of media and tech products. Below each, I'll give a brief description of what each logo or picture represents and why it's important to me.
Delta Airlines: I'm a frequent traveler and their website is indispensable to me. I book flights and cars, and manage my frequent flier account.
Pandora: I'm a paid Pandora subscriber. I listen to Pandora almost exclusively - even above my 12,000 song iTunes collection. I don't like to have to take the time to organize my music collection. I'd rather someone else do it for me.
Nikon: I'm a pro photographer outside of school and own two Nikon digital SLRs. Their blend of image quality and ruggedness are just what I need.
Facebook: I'm a frequent, but not die hard user of Facebook, so it goes in the "Close to Me" category.
Triumph Motorcycles: My primary mode of transportation. Not exactly high tech, but important to me nonetheless.
Adobe Lightroom: As a pro photographer, this is the best image organization and editing suite. I spend 80% of my post processing workflow in Lightroom.
Netflix: I watch streaming shows on my TV, laptop and phone whenever I get a chance.
Reddit: My go-to source for procrastination, news, interesting facts, funny videos, and anything new on the internet.
What I Can't Live Without:
Gmail: My primary email account. Gmail makes organizing, sending and receiving messages easy.
iPhone: This is probably the single most indispensable tech I own. It's always within arm's reach and I access everything from email to BlackBoard to CNN to Facebook on it.
LTE: What's a smartphone without mobile data coverage? LTE is 4G data and turns smartphones into truly powerful devices.
Amazon: As a Prime member, I order huge amounts of stuff on Amazon. I'm not a compulsive shopper though - I subscribe to items I regularly use, and use Amazon as a more convenient alternative to brick-and-mortar stores. I average about 3-4 shipments per week.
Laptop: I currently have two: A Samsung ultrabook and an older MacBook Pro. They're the real powerhouses of information processing. I take the Samsung with me to class every day and I dock it at my desk at home with two huge monitors, a full-size keyboard and full size mouse.
Outlook: My laptop-based central hub for email and schedules - two of the most important things in my busy MBA school life.
Where I Get My News
When I Get My News
Outside of those two times, I frequently check BlackBoard and business news during school, and catch up on Amazon, restaurant reviews and photography blogs during free time.
Hey Ryan - Nice job with this. It was interesting to see you interpret the "Close to Me" exercise as tech-related since some people went a completely different route - people, etc. I guess it just goes to show that even seemingly clear instructions can be ambiguous and interpreted differently by different people!
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