USU CMST 3050

Online Reputation Memo

To:	Jared Carlson
From:	Scott Call
cc:	Preston Parker
Date:	September 30, 2015
Re:	Online Reputation

Jared,

As you know, the world has become a smaller place because of the internet. People you have never met can have access to anything that is posted on the internet, whether you post it yourself or someone else posts it about you.

Today I am researching you to learn more about you as a friend and associate and also to show you what any person in the world can find out about you knowing only your name and how to use an internet search engine.

Jared Monte Carlson was born on November 17, 1987. He grew up in the small town of Cove, Utah, which is north of Logan close to the Utah-Idaho border.

As far as I can tell through Jared’s Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/jared.carlson.391?pnref=eh), Jared grew up his entire childhood life in and around Cove before attending Sky View High School in Smithfield, Utah. 

Jared’s time at Cove high school was highlighted by his participation on the men’s soccer team. In 2004, as a sophomore, Jared “Grizz” (apparently a nickname that Jared received from his teammates) Carlson played a “significant role” on the Sky View High School team that went on to win the state championship for men’s soccer in Utah in the year 2004. An interesting note is that Jared played center on this soccer team and one of the other leading contributors in the center of the pitch on that team was Jared’s cousin, Vic Carlson, who was in the same grade as Jared. The state championship team received a lot of attention in Jared’s junior year, the year they attempted to defend their title (http://news.hjnews.com/archives-1/a-wealth-of-returning-talent/article_44abf659-e64c-588b-a711-586b73e89d9a.html). 

Soccer played a large role in Jared’s life even after his glory days of winning state championships in high school. On August 29^th, 2013, Jared “Grizz” Carlson was chosen for the Utah State University Men’s Soccer team.  And it seems that he continued being a part of that team until making this heartfelt Facebook post  on March 6, 2014.

The announcement of Jared becoming part of the team 

https://www.facebook.com/UtahStateMensSoccer/posts/360135890756356

Soccer is not the only love in Jared’s life. Jared married his wife Michelle on December 21^st, 2013. They were married in a religious ceremony known as a sealing in the Palmyra New York temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They were married in New York because that is where Michelle grew up. Another sign of his affiliation with the Church of Jesus Christ is his two year mission served in northern California in the Oakland California mission.

Picture of Jared and Michelle on their wedding day.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151874035831669&set=pb.506056668.-2207520000.1443637096.&type=3&theater 

Researching Jared is not as easy as I expected it to be. The fact that he has a slightly common name makes it difficult to filter out the results that aren’t him. It is also my professional opinion as a Facebook stalking expert that Jared is not very involved in social media. I was able to locate two Twitter accounts atrtributed to Jared Monte Carlson, they both look like they belong to him but one of them (@car08057 https://twitter.com/car08057?lang=en) has not ever tweeted anything even though it was created in 2012 and the other (@Grizzlycarlson https://twitter.com/Grizzlycarlson?lang=en) tweeted only once. This tweet said “Hello World!” but apparently the world wasn’t listening because this tweet received 0 favorites or retweets and Jared has 0 followers and he never tweeted again after that.

LinkedIn proved to be equally passive regarding information about Jared although yielding more results. Once again Jared had two accounts attributed to him. One of them says that he is a soccer coordinator at BYU-Idaho in Rexburg Idaho and the other asserts his status as a student at Utah State University. https://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/f?type=all&keywords=Jared+Carlson&orig=GLHD&rsid=&pageKey=oz-winner&trkInfo=tarId%3A1443634840717&search=Search

I was unable to locate more information that I was sure applied to this Jared Carlson. On Instagram I found over 50 accounts attributed to Jared Carlson but none of them had pictures involving Jared. It appears to me that Jared is not involved on that particular social media website/app.

Through this search I found that Jared is a family-oriented man who enjoys soccer. 

Letter to Cousin

Dear Cousin,

I recently began taking a class to learn more about Technical and Professional Communication. The reason I am taking this class is to gain and improve important skills that will be useful as I complete my education and enter the professional world. I have only attended one class so far so my experience with the class is very limited and, as of yet, I’m not even sure what it is going to be about.

I wanted to write to you about what my initial perspectives of this topic and expectations of this class are. In my mind, technical communication is being able to effectively communicate a message using terms, grammar, and structure in the most proper way so that the message itself is what draws the attention of the reader instead of being lost in a sea of typing errors, misplaced punctuation marks, and dangling participles. Being an effective technical communicator is mastering the techniques of proofreading and the styles of correct writing.

Professional communication is similar to technical communication but with a focus on the content of the message being presented in a way that eases the process of cooperating with the receiver of the communication instead of correctly conveying the message itself. A professional communicator knows how to use the correct words to show that the message is sophisticated and professional while still being simple enough for everyone involved to understand.

Both of these skillsets are ones that seem to be very useful and very important to a business person in today’s world of widespread global communication. I look forward to learning more about these communication techniques and how I can use them more effectively to add these communication aptitudes to my repertoire of marketable skills.

In conclusion, Cousin, it will be interesting to see if my expectations of this class turn out to be similar to the reality of its content. I’ll keep you posted.

Sincerely,

Scott