Meet My Major Presented By:

Alex Boley

Sarah Conway

Sean Corron

Lucas Kidston

Tom Watson

Celeste Zimmerman

A Website That Helps Students

Information On Available Majors

Focuses On:◦ Class Reviews◦ Events◦ Internship Experiences

What is Meet My Major?

Six Kent State University CIS Majors

Roles Include: Programmer (2), Writer (2), Cross-Functional (2)

Team Overview

Target Audience

Competition

Competitive Edge

Focus Group & Survey

Market & Industry Analysis

KSU College of Business

In The Future...

o Remainder of KSU

o Expansion to Other Universities

Target Audience

Two entities offering a similar, but different, service

◦ RateMyProfessors.com

◦myEdu.com

Competition

Strengths:

◦ Popularity

◦ User-friendly

Weaknesses

◦ Validity concerns

Rate My Professors:Strengths & Weaknesses

Strengths:

◦ Amount of services offered

◦ User-friendly

Weaknesses

◦ Validity concerns

myEdu: Strengths & Weaknesses

Validity

◦ Kent E-mail Usernames

Full Suite of Services

◦ Course, Professor & Internship discussion boards

◦ Student Organization Events/Activities

Meet My Major’s Competitive Edge

Focus Group consisting of eight College of Business

Administration students

Survey given to Introduction to Computer

Applications Class

Focus Group & Survey

Liked our overall invention

MISA President agreed with monitoring of forums

Agreed with use of KSU ID as the username

Focus Group Positive Comments

Allow users to “flag” comments

Allow users to “like” comments

Do not post internship opportunities

Focus Group Suggestions

Thought Meet My Major Would Be Useful

Survey Results

HTML

◦ HTML 5 Not Utilized

◦ BootStrap Framework

PHP

MySQL

Development Tools

phpBB

◦ Generates All Forum Pages

◦ Session Integration

WordPress

◦ Events Pages

Open Source Tools

Website Demo

Meet My Major

Phase 1: Prototype ◦ September 2014-December 2014

Phase 2: Implementation of Service◦ January 2015-December 2015

Phase 3: Campus Wide Expansion◦ January 2016-December 2016

Phase 4: Expansion to Other Universities◦ January 2017 and Beyond

Product Life Cycle

Phase 1:◦Market Research

Phase 2:◦ Social Media◦Word-of-Mouth

Phase 3 and Beyond:◦ Daily Kent State◦ KentWired.com

Marketing Strategies

Phase 1:

◦ None

Phase 2 and Beyond:

◦ Advertisements By Local Businesses

Revenues

Phase 1 and 2:◦Webhosting

Phase 3:◦Webhosting◦ Advertisement Costs

Phase 4:◦Webhosting◦ Advertisement Costs◦Marketing Manager

Expenses

Early Communication Issues

Original Ideas:

◦ Improve Kent State Parking

◦ Status Report Of Kent State Rec Center

Our Journey…

Red Alert Early

As Communication Morale & Production

Our Journey (Cont.)…

Biggest Key To Success:

Communication!

Thank You

Any Questions?

Meet My Major