Oakland University MIS 100 Chapter 6 -- Case 1 1)As a troy manufacturer, Lego must always be sensitive to the needs of its customers, both children and their parents, which requires the company to pay close attention to changing preferences and trends

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MIS 100

Chapter 6 -- Case 1

1)As a troy manufacturer, Lego must always be sensitive to the needs of its customers, both children and their parents, which requires the company to pay close attention to changing preferences and trends. Visit the Lego Mindstorms Web site and identify specific social networking features. Based on what you have learned in this chapter, write about 200 words in which you describe current developments in social networking that Lego will need to understand as it decides whether to continue, remove, or modify the social networking features you identified. In your discussion, identify at least two specific social networking features.

2. Lego provides a complete set of instructions with this product for building the basic robots. In about 200 words, explain how a new owner of this product might learn how to build and program complex robots using social networking elements provided by Lego.

A new owner of a Lego product will have the physical tools available to get them to their end goals with the project they are working on. But what if they need assistance or a more detailed explanation of what to do with those tools?

3. In this chapter, you learned how newspapers, magazines, and broadcasters are using participatory journalism to have their readers to create news items and stories. In 200 words,