Blogs 101- Blogs are posts that are listed in chronological order. Can be helpful to companies that are giving updates about their company or new innovative moves or products that the company is involved with. HP has a blog that has writers from different locations around the world. They give information on products as well as how they are staying active and committed to the communities or social issues that are important.
Microblogging 101- Microblogging are brief updates given throughout the day. A twitter would be a microblog. Businesses can use this to their advantage when making changes in their company and sending out twitters to inform members of updates. You can also send out one tweet for a group of people instead of contacting each person individually.
RSS 101- Instead of you going out to look for updates or new things, they come to you. You sign up for a reader account and list your favorite web sites or subscribe to the sites that you like best. This helps to cut down on the time you spend searching the web.
Photo Sharing 101- I personally use this to share pictures with my family that I do not live close to. It helps us to stay involved with each other. I have seen photographers taking shots of surfers and then posting them on web sites. They are there to purchase.
Podcasts 101- digital audio that is found via the Internet and used or listened to via the computer or portable media devices. One use professionally for podcasts is for trainers. You can put work outs on a podcast for your clients. I have used podcasts
Social News and Bookmarking 101- I have found that this is a great resource for finding jobs as well as staying informed with issues that interest you.
Video Sharing 101- My son just returned from Canada. He was in a long board skating competition. Several professional video tapers were there recording the event. If you are in this field, it is a great way to make an income. Going to events, recording them and then selling the finished product on-line.
Wikis 101- This is a great way to coordinate any event or project. I used this on several writing projects that I had groups to deal with. Instead of e-mailing the document back and forth and losing track of which document was current it was so much easier be looking at one document.
Sunday, June 6, 2010
b3-Something New
I actually looked into a few sites and social networks. I am an active member of Facebook. I love this social networking site. I have been able to reconnected with classmates and classmates I have not seen for over 20 years and met relatives that I did not know. My relatives and I have been able to update our genealogy as well as swap pictures.
The first site I joined was Maoliworld. It is much like Facebook where you put in your profile, have an inbox, can invite friends and are able to comment on posts. What I like about this site is that it is based on the Hawaiian Movement. There are videos, photos, community sites, and a tab that takes you to local events that are happening in Hawaii. All posts or events are based on events that I am interested in and my community. I have been able to ask questions or view stories that have been posted from around the world concerning indigenous people and indigenous issues.
I also joined Digg. It was rated one of the top social sites. Like most all social sites you create a profile, have an inbox, can invite people to be your friends and so on. What is unique about this site is that Digg advertises as a place for people to discover and share. Members are encouraged to submit stories of interest or about something that is happening in your community. If you submission gets enough “diggs” they report about it on a you tube like video with two commenters. If you do not want to see issues you are not interested in you can block them from your personal home page. If you like social issues but not sports or political issues you can add and block.
I actually really enjoyed listening to how they presented some of the articles and the views of the different people who posted their views. The two “news casteters” or presenters were able to be very objective on the information they were presenting.
As I was looking to my different sites my son was looking on another site, Vimeo. When I asked him what it was he just said it was like You Tube. When I started clicking around what I found was that it was a site you had to sign up for like Facebook, MySpace, or other membership based sites. It is more geared for video sharing not personal posts about your day. If you went to my son’s homepage it just had a list of video’s he had posted with comments of other members. The difference between this site, Vimeo and You Tube is that anyone can post or see You Tube. Vimeo is membership based and you can control who sees your videos to a certain point.
When I was “creeping” around, (That’s what my kids said I was doing. When you look around social sites just looking.) One of the stories that seemed to get alot of “Diggs” was about Facebook and the privacy issue. They went down a list of complaints that had come out of the forum about Facebook. The bottom line was Facebook and all these “social sites” are for the most part a free service. If you are utilizing their free service, then you have to submit to the service’s rules. They also said if you are worried about information getting out into the public and not staying within your private realm, don’t post it.
The first site I joined was Maoliworld. It is much like Facebook where you put in your profile, have an inbox, can invite friends and are able to comment on posts. What I like about this site is that it is based on the Hawaiian Movement. There are videos, photos, community sites, and a tab that takes you to local events that are happening in Hawaii. All posts or events are based on events that I am interested in and my community. I have been able to ask questions or view stories that have been posted from around the world concerning indigenous people and indigenous issues.
I also joined Digg. It was rated one of the top social sites. Like most all social sites you create a profile, have an inbox, can invite people to be your friends and so on. What is unique about this site is that Digg advertises as a place for people to discover and share. Members are encouraged to submit stories of interest or about something that is happening in your community. If you submission gets enough “diggs” they report about it on a you tube like video with two commenters. If you do not want to see issues you are not interested in you can block them from your personal home page. If you like social issues but not sports or political issues you can add and block.
I actually really enjoyed listening to how they presented some of the articles and the views of the different people who posted their views. The two “news casteters” or presenters were able to be very objective on the information they were presenting.
As I was looking to my different sites my son was looking on another site, Vimeo. When I asked him what it was he just said it was like You Tube. When I started clicking around what I found was that it was a site you had to sign up for like Facebook, MySpace, or other membership based sites. It is more geared for video sharing not personal posts about your day. If you went to my son’s homepage it just had a list of video’s he had posted with comments of other members. The difference between this site, Vimeo and You Tube is that anyone can post or see You Tube. Vimeo is membership based and you can control who sees your videos to a certain point.
When I was “creeping” around, (That’s what my kids said I was doing. When you look around social sites just looking.) One of the stories that seemed to get alot of “Diggs” was about Facebook and the privacy issue. They went down a list of complaints that had come out of the forum about Facebook. The bottom line was Facebook and all these “social sites” are for the most part a free service. If you are utilizing their free service, then you have to submit to the service’s rules. They also said if you are worried about information getting out into the public and not staying within your private realm, don’t post it.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship
This article gave an interesting summary and history of the phenomena of social networking.
I was fascinated to see how long ago Social networking was started. A site called Six Degrees.com launched in 1997. It took two years for another site to launch. Six Degrees closed in 2000 but over 25 companies have since launched in different places all over the world.
This article defined social networks as: as web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system.
I was only familiar with a few of the companies LinkedIn, Facebook, You Tube, Twitter, and MySpace. I also must admit that the only reason I know of any of these sites is because I have teenage children. In my last semester of school I was also introduced to some of these different sites for the purpose of school work, one site being LinkedIN.
One main issue that has always been a main concern for all users is privacy. This article addressed this issue, but with growing technology it is going to be an ongoing process to keep up with the challenging legal conceptions of privacy. While it is the users responsibility to monitor what they are posting, once their information is up it is hard to control who can access it. “Hodge (2006) argued that the fourth amendment to the U.S. Constitution and legal decisions concerning privacy are not equipped to address social network sites.” The way the internet is growing and developing it has the least amount of protection as well as monitoring.
It is obvious that all social networking sites were not created equal or for the same purpose. It also seems that the people using the different sites and how they used the sites helped to direct how site was developing.
To me it seems that these sites have filled a link that is being lost in the busy lives of everyday people. It helps to connect or reconnect lost connections. While I have loved the sites that I use I often fear that the users will start to lead a more sedentary life style that leaves to more communication happening on-line than in person.
I was fascinated to see how long ago Social networking was started. A site called Six Degrees.com launched in 1997. It took two years for another site to launch. Six Degrees closed in 2000 but over 25 companies have since launched in different places all over the world.
This article defined social networks as: as web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system.
I was only familiar with a few of the companies LinkedIn, Facebook, You Tube, Twitter, and MySpace. I also must admit that the only reason I know of any of these sites is because I have teenage children. In my last semester of school I was also introduced to some of these different sites for the purpose of school work, one site being LinkedIN.
One main issue that has always been a main concern for all users is privacy. This article addressed this issue, but with growing technology it is going to be an ongoing process to keep up with the challenging legal conceptions of privacy. While it is the users responsibility to monitor what they are posting, once their information is up it is hard to control who can access it. “Hodge (2006) argued that the fourth amendment to the U.S. Constitution and legal decisions concerning privacy are not equipped to address social network sites.” The way the internet is growing and developing it has the least amount of protection as well as monitoring.
It is obvious that all social networking sites were not created equal or for the same purpose. It also seems that the people using the different sites and how they used the sites helped to direct how site was developing.
To me it seems that these sites have filled a link that is being lost in the busy lives of everyday people. It helps to connect or reconnect lost connections. While I have loved the sites that I use I often fear that the users will start to lead a more sedentary life style that leaves to more communication happening on-line than in person.
Monday, May 31, 2010
This week in our CMC class we looked into what Computer Mediated Communication is and how we use it in our daily lives. According to Wikipedia it is defined as any communicative transaction that occurs through the use of two or more networked computers. Through advances in technology the definition has broaden or the devices we use have increased. Computers are not the only way that we communicate with our devices. Our phones have become little computers that we communicate to other phones or devices remotely. We also use other devices such as I-Pods independently and with our computers.
I personally use my phone to read e-mails, text, listen to music, check movies, and various other purposes. I also use an I-Pod for work. I teach an exercise class at 24 Hour fitness and download music to play from my I-Pod that I attach to a stereo at work. I have been able to record school classes, take pictures, and make notes to myself on my I-Pod as well. While I use my I-Pod independently, I also use it with my computer. I have been looking into buying an I-pad. The I-Pad does not have a usb port. My I-Pod will then work as a back-up that I can download information on and then plug it into the I-Pad.
In the readings it also said that the Internet makes a poor database: It's not centrally managed, there's no consistent organization, and information quality varies widely.
It is important to make sure that when using the computer that we know where the information is coming from and what the purpose of the information is serving. The information could be presented as information but really advertisement for a product or promotion for an organization with their own goals in mind.
Computers have become a wonderful tool, but at the same time we need to still need to be educated for the best ways to use it for Computer Mediated Communication.
I personally use my phone to read e-mails, text, listen to music, check movies, and various other purposes. I also use an I-Pod for work. I teach an exercise class at 24 Hour fitness and download music to play from my I-Pod that I attach to a stereo at work. I have been able to record school classes, take pictures, and make notes to myself on my I-Pod as well. While I use my I-Pod independently, I also use it with my computer. I have been looking into buying an I-pad. The I-Pad does not have a usb port. My I-Pod will then work as a back-up that I can download information on and then plug it into the I-Pad.
In the readings it also said that the Internet makes a poor database: It's not centrally managed, there's no consistent organization, and information quality varies widely.
It is important to make sure that when using the computer that we know where the information is coming from and what the purpose of the information is serving. The information could be presented as information but really advertisement for a product or promotion for an organization with their own goals in mind.
Computers have become a wonderful tool, but at the same time we need to still need to be educated for the best ways to use it for Computer Mediated Communication.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Itʻs Official...well kinda
I am officially a blogger as of now. This first few posts will be trial and error, so please be patient.
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