Author Archives: Jessica Allen

Once upon a time, long, long ago, before I even considered BCIT’s marketing program, I attended UBC in the Faculty of Arts. (I only graduated last year, but it feels like ages ago!) Being a part of the UBC community … Continue reading →

Before this e-Portfolio came into being we had a sort of practice-run with WordPress in our BSYS1000 class. The product of this test-run is my Zen Tutorial – Using Autofit with MS PowerPoint 2007: Some special features of this blog … Continue reading →

When students graduate from university they usually get to enjoy some thoughtful gifts from their family and friends – flowers, high-end pens, leather jackets, sunglasses, trips to Europe, gift cards; the list goes on. But when I graduated I was … Continue reading →

I think that one of the reasons why I enjoyed by time at UBC so much was because of the student associations, jobs and events I experienced or participated in along the way. Every year I tried to mix it … Continue reading →

In my first year Marketing class, MKTG1102, we’ve learned a great deal about the marketing mix, or the 4 P’s – Product, Pricing, Place, and Promotion. The 4 case studies we’re assigned throughout the term each address one of these … Continue reading →

Financial accounting is one of the first courses a student takes in the first term of Marketing Management at BCIT. Understanding the accounting cycle and how businesses take stock of their financial standing has proven very helpful in some of … Continue reading →

Below is a screenshot of my PowerPoint presentation on the rise of the consumer demographic called “The PANK’s”. PANK is an acronym for “Professional Aunt, No Kids” – or a segment of older, professional women who have focused on their … Continue reading →

Most students encounter MS Excel at some point in their academic and professional career – for me it was Grade 9 Business Computer class at Thomas Haney Secondary School! Since a lot of time has passed since I graduated from … Continue reading →

Using Microsoft Word 2007 my team and I developed an online publication on Cloud Computing for our BSYS 100 course. To create this document we used MS Word theme templates, the automated table of contents function, and page formatting, well … Continue reading →

This video is a commercial my team, Ironcorp, created for a BSYS1000 project. The aim of this project was to become familiar with the basics and special features of PowerPoint – and there was no better way than to create … Continue reading →