RJA #8c: Multimedia

Resource searched or tool used: Blinkx.com, Video search
Keywords used: News + Causes of housing market crash
Search strategies used: Keywords
Date of search: Oct 8, 2009
Number of hits: 74,000
Relevance of hits: 4

RJA #8b: Social Media

Resource searched or tool used: Feed mill, Social Media Tool
Keywords used: Housing bubble crash
Search strategies used: Keywords
Date of search: Oct 8, 2009
Number of hits: +100
Relevance of hits: 3

Resource searched or tool used: Icerocket, Social Media Tool
Keywords used: Causes of the housing market crash
Search strategies used: Keywords
Date of search: Oct 8, 2009
Number of hits: 39
Relevance of hits: 3

RJA #8a: Websites

Resource searched tool used: Bing, Search Engine
Keywords used: Housing, Crash, Causes
Search strategies used: Housing + Crash + Causes - Depression
Date of search: Oct 8, 2009
Number of hits: 17,635
Relevance of hits: 2

Resource searched or tool used: Meta/Mulit Search
Keywords used: Housing Crash + Causes -Depression
Search strategies used: Keywords
Date of search: Oct 8, 2009
Number of hits: 18,324
Relevance of hits: 3

Resource searched or tool used: Infomine, Directory
Keywords used: Housing cause + Crash + Bubble + Bust
Search strategies used: Keywords
Date of search: October 8, 2009
Number of hits: 622
Relevance of hits: 3

Resource searched or tool used: Incywincy
Keywords used: Economy + housing market crash -Depression + Causes
Search strategies used: Incywincy and Keywords
Date of search: Oct 8, 2009
Number of hits: 662
Relevance of hits: 3

RJA #7c: Field Research Plan

For my field research I am going to create a survey for Real Estate Broker. I am also going to be interviewing a couple of Real Estate Brokers. I think that they will be a good source of information, because they have been through the ups and downs of the market. For the survey I am going to include questions regarding what they think the cause of the housing market bust was. I am also going to ask them when they think the housing bust started. With my interview I want to find someone that has been in the business for a while and get their professional opinion on the housing bust. I plan on doing this within the month of October.

RJA #7c: Field Research Plan

For my field research I am going to create a survey for Real Estate Broker. I am also going to be interviewing a couple of Real Estate Brokers. I think that they will be a good source of information, because they have been through the ups and downs of the market. For the survey I am going to include questions regarding what they think the cause of the housing market bust was. I am also going to ask them when they think the housing bust started. With my interview I want to find someone that has been in the business for a while and get their professional opinion on the housing bust. I plan on doing this within the month of October.

RJA #7b: Internet Research Tool Test

Resource searched: Newsvine from Keotag
Keyword: Housing Bust
Search strategies: Newsvine, MSN, Yahoo
Date of search: 10-01-2009
Number of hits: 3
Relevance of hits: 2

Resource Searched: Google from Keotag
Keyword: Housing Boom and Bust
Search Strategies: Google AND
Date of search: 10-01-2009
Number of hits: 20+
Relevance of hits: 2

RJA #7a: Internet Research Tools

I use Google mainly when I search the Internet. I use Google from anything to finding restaurants, dentists, research, etc. I use Google, because it was the search engine that was the easiest, fastest, and had the most results. I really like Google, because I always find what I need on the first page. I do not like Google because they have too many databases. Whenever I search on Google I get a lot of results that are irrelevant to what I am looking for. However I am lazy so the fact that Google is the easiest and fastest outweighs the negative.