Here is my survey that I have created for this project. I want to know what CCAA baseball team had the most players selected in the 2013 MLB draft?  The answer to this question typically means that the team with the most players drafted often has the best recruit class come in for the following season. 

<a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3MVXV3H">Click here to take survey</a>
 
Being a baseball rat like myself I have always been interested in statistical analysis. As a baseball coach and a former player I know that stats mean a lot in the game of baseball. As players all they have sometimes to define themselves are their numbers. Statistics really don't mean much for the youngsters and I would not recommend making them a priority for them, however as athletes get older stats are very important. Being a college coach I look at a lot of stats of high school and college players to see what they have done and against who.  Sometimes stats do not tell the whole story but they sure do paint a good picture of what an athlete has got. 
During my statistical analysis exploration I found some really cool baseball statistics websites. One of the websites that I would like to share has to do with building a webpage with statistics for your own baseball team. For example if you are a high school coach and want to make your teams stats available online for your players as well as college coaches to view then here is a cite that might be useful http://www.hometeamsonline.com/
It is so important for high school baseball players to have their batting stats or pitching stats readily available online for scouts to view. 
 
There is no doubt in my mind when it comes to getting a job a lot of it has to do with people you know. Obviously your own knowledge and skill is most important but knowing the right person can only help. I have only been involved in the coaching world for a little over a year now but I have made many connections. Just as was the case when I was a player, other coaches have taken me under their wing and provided me with opportunities I would not of had if it weren't for them. For me the most important thing I can do as a new face in the world of college baseball coaches is meet as many people as I can and make an impression that demonstrates who and what I am all about. Since entering into the coaching world I have reached out to just about every baseball connection I have ever had, high school coaches, college summer coaches etc. Even since being involved in this class I have met people whom I could potentially work with one day and that fires me up. Another helpful way of meeting people in my profession is doing camps. I worked a scout camp last winter and met a bunch of college coaches both young and old. At that camp I met an assistant coach at Hartnell Junior College In Monterey who told me about this program at FPU and here I am getting my masters. This world works in misterious w Like I said I don't care if its the professional coaching world or finding a job as a burger flipper, its not necessarily about what you know but who you know. Some people might cringe with disgust when reading this comment but its true and it is how this world works. 
 
What a concept. For a long time I have used wikipedia for information both educational and personal. Having the ability to communicate with a group using one document is pretty cool. I am a big camper/fisherman and I try to go on as many trips as I can each year ( I always go on two big ones, one in the early summer and one in the late fall). When I go on these trips my friends and I are constantly asking each other what to bring and whose bringing what. I definitely think that with the use of this technology I will have the most dialed in camping trips ever. 
I could also see the use of wiki in a professional sense for other coaches and myself. For example when we go on the road for games there are many checklist we have to cover before we leave. Whose got equipment? Who has made the food arrangements? Hotels, etc. This whole notion of effectively communicating through the use of wiki is pretty dialed in and I will use this for professional and personal situations. 
 
Obviously Linkedin is tailored toward your profession career. Your Facebook profile might expose parts of someones life that are not peoples business at work unless you choose to make them apart of it. Facebook is good for keeping up with friends and family whereas linkedin showcases a professional profile of you and your professional attributes that potential employers might see. The seperation of your professional life and personal life is important for peoples privacy and that is why I am an advocate for sites like linkedin. The linkedin site is much more direct with its infomation in the sense that it is all about professional credentials and skills whereas facebook is really a colla
 
What I mean by my title is there are so many social media outlets and even more apps that I can hardly wrap my head around them, that is why I am going to only speak about one. The garage band app we used for creating a podcast was a great learning experience for myself. Just as others in our class have used podcast for either their team or class I feel this app is very valuable. I hope to one day have my own baseball program and having the ability to create a podcast for my kids can be much more informative and direct than a text message. A podcast might be more practical in a sense than making 24 phone calls takes which can take a long time.
There is no doubt that I could spend hour upon hour researching this app or that app, but spending that kind of time plugged into a device just doesn't seem practical for my current or future situation. Information is all relative in accordance to your profession. If you are an elementary school teacher then the best way to find and share valuable app information might be at a convention or at teacher meetings. Relative information to what it is you do can be shared by communicating with your peers. I would have never learned about twitter or scoop it if it were not for my exposure to that stuff as a direct result of this class. Apps are wonderful and there are many great ones out there I just don't choose to seek out every single one that may or may not be of use to me. I am old fashion in this sense and I want to keep it that way. At the heart of my intentions as a coach are the development and progression of not only solid baseball players but productive members of society and I feel I can accomplish that primarily with my own gift of coaching and not what app I can use for this particular situation.