...THE “BLOG” EXPERIENCE: WHEN FREEDOM BECOMES INVASION INTRODUCTION Francois Voltaire, one of France’s most famous philosophers became well-known for this often quoted phrase: “I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.” The phrase summarizes the spirit of the freedom of speech – one of the inventions of the 18th century Enlightenment, a time when discussions among the upper class were construed as constituting the public sphere. Although they belonged to the sophisticated members of society, their conversations highlighted social equality and everyone was given the chance to speak and be demanded to listen. With free and frank conversations, people became acquainted with points of view that were not familiar; they discovered strengths and weaknesses in their personal arguments, and subsequently became moderate in the expression of their views taking into consideration the arguments of others. With this small light ignited in the intellectual realm, the idealism of free communication of thoughts and opinions spread and became one of the trademarks of democratic societies. During the next century, John Stuart Mill affirmed that societies progress when people freely express themselves because errors and misconceptions are exposed, and alternatives were proposed. These sentiments became the backbone of the United Nations’ Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948...
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...Blogging is the most popular form of self expression now. Blog is a discussion or information providing site on Web. It enables people to share their views, opinions, and interact with a large number of people. Blogging is fascinating; you can share your views with the entire world in a matter of seconds and helps in creating awareness and forming public opinions. Blogging has become everyone’s favourite, be it Celebrities, News Reporters, Business man or a common student. Rise of micro blogging sites like Twitter has added to its popularity. Wordpress.com, Weebly.com etc are some of the various alternatives available on the Internet which are free and has commendable privacy options and therefore considered safe and convenient to share stuffs in the virtual media. People can express their likes, dislikes and opinions faster and can effectively exercise their Right to expression. It is used by politicians for campaigning and informing people about their agendas. It can be used by commoners to express their agreement, contempt, pity for anything that is happening in the world. The addiction towards internet and the zeal to write has also added to its prevalence. It has become a favourite hobby for people and it provides a sense of satisfaction to the people. For instance , in the movie Julie and Julia, the protagonist takes up blogging to share her cooking recipes with the world and it creates a sense of self worth in her. One can blog between lunch breaks, journeys, before...
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...Hints for Business Blogging Success Inc. So, you want to create blogs for your business? Here are just a few ways in which you can create meaningful, lasting impressions on your readers and your leadership that you are the person for the task of conveying the business’s information. Blogging in our society has a great many uses, whether those purposes be for keeping friends updated on your personal life, or your take on the new special at your favorite restaurant. The corporate world also use blogs in much the same fashion, but includes information more to keep inquiring minds in the loop on what is going on in industry. The variety and content in the quintessential blog lies in the skill, planning and effort of the writer. These are the blogs that receive the strongest following, and in turn keep their business inundated with curious readers. How you ask? Well follow these ideas: Include only Important, Helpful Details As always, you should write to your audience, always keep in mind that is it your customer, the industry or the public at large that wants to come away from your message feeling like they just received something valuable. If after writing line after line you don’t feel you have conveyed anything of valuable, it may be time to go back to the top and revise. Interesting, meaningful information is key to continuous readership. Make Posts that Shine like Diamonds Continuous polishing and proofreading enables us to create a jewel from a raw...
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...Blogging is a dynamic part of the internet information sharing experience, and it is up to everyone to understand the role that bloggers play in sharing information responsibly. Bloggers started in the late 1990’s as an online movement challenging conventional journalism and creating an outlet for personal expression due to the lack of need for conventional publishing support. This explosion led to thousands of new voices in the public forum commenting on any number of subjects at a time. The most important issue that bloggers face is the scrutiny over what they comment on and how they do it. There is no standard convention for the content of blogs so issues like copyright infringement, fair use, ethics, and factual content are all topics of heated discussion in the community. The most significant question facing bloggers is: What can they safely use and comment on and what is their responsibility to distinguish the line between opinion and fact? Fair use policy does not distinguish a specific amount of content that can be quoted for review. There are guidelines however that state that using only a portion of the content and then linking back to the original source site is a the best rule of thumb. The US copyright office offers the following four categories that must be considered when determining what is fair use for the use of protected materials for criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. You can learn more by visiting http://www...
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...Starting a blogging business 1. What is my Niche market? Individuals and Small businesses 2. What problems am I solving? Simple steps involved with setting up a small business Guidance on starting a small business 3. Come up with a good domain name 4. Coming up with a tagline 5. Topics/ collection of article Your business Idea ; Your business plan ; business structure; Funding your business;insurance, market research; setting yourself as a self employed. Content Strategy You need to have a solid content strategy in place, so think about the following questions: * What kind of content will you produce? (audio, text, video) * How will you produce it? * How often will you publish new content? * How will you make new readers aware of old content? * How will you use your content to grow your business? Your content is what will build authority and trust. The more you can share, the more people will trust you Traffic Generation How will you get traffic to your site? Write down at least three traffic generation strategies that you will start off with. For example, I started with blog commenting, but I quickly moved over the guest blogging, because it was so much more effective. To this date, I’ve written close to two hundred guest posts for different blogs, and they all keep bringing traffic to my site and building my list, and consequently, my business. Pick Your Web Host (Avoid using a free blogging option like WordPress...
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...Blogging is a resource used to discuss, share, and evaluate various news and topics. It is not a replacement for traditional media, so it is not, and should not be held to traditional journalism code. However, blogging should have its own ethical code and rules so it can continue to thrive and be viewed as a credible source of information and valuable discussion. Copyright infringement is the number one ethical and legal issue on the internet. It is important that bloggers protect themselves from committing this crime. It is okay to use copyrighed material for certain purposes such as: teaching, research, and news reporting. However, one must use caution when posting pictures and text messages from other people in blogs. Using the work of others without permission is equivalent to stealing a photo album or journal from your next door neighbor. Just because you may not sell it to make a profit, does not benign the fact that the material was stolen. Bloggers must become educated about copyright infringement and fair use. When unsure whether they are committing copyright infringement, they should refrain from using copyrighted material. Although it is common knowledge that blogs are the opinions and points of view from various people, bloggers themselves should not deliberately spread false information. Furthermore, the opinions in blogs should always be easily identified, as well as the facts. Bloggers may not have the responsibilities of journalists, but they have the responsibility...
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...Web 2.0 Lab 2 Blogs Learning outcomes After this session you should be able to * Define the term “Blog” * Identify what makes a good blog * Describe business applications for blogs * Use Blogger to create and update your own blog * Change the appearance of your blog * Set privacy/security settings for your blog * Link your blog to Facebook * Allow RSS feeds * Delete your blog Blogosphere is a term used to refer to weblogs as a social network. Weblogs are websites that are frequently updated. Individuals create and update Weblogs or blogs similar to the way one would keep a diary. Many businesses also communicate with their customers through the use of blogs. Not only is it used for communication, it has become an important marketing tool and a way to generate a lot of interest without necessarily being a direct form of advertising. In addition, blogs are also used for public relations as well as advertising. A blog is also a useful tool for engagement and can be used to invite dialogue from existing and prospective customers. They are often seen as a way of humanising businesses such that customers can relate with them on a personal level. Customers can also be constantly updated with news published on blogs. Group Exercise In groups of 3/4 search for recent cases or studies that refer to Blogs and their use in business. The sector in which the business operates is entirely up to you and it may either be a small or large business...
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...photographers with intriguing styles have kicked the doors of the once exclusive fashion world open and draw in millions of readers and viewers, democratizing the industry, showing that even the average can claim a stake in the paramount. Fashion bloggers have become the new faces of this generation, with many of their blogs and social media feeds garnering more followers than celebrities do. Representation is the act of speaking for or acting on behalf of others and one of the greatest sources of representation in the fashion world are bloggers, as they have an extraordinary impact on the business wherein both designers and consumers now look to them for representation of the masses. In “Conspicuous and Authentic”, Marwick defines fashion blogging as “an international subculture comprised primarily of young women who post pictures of themselves, swap fashion tips, sell vintage clothes and review couture collections… [participating] in the global flow of consumption while simultaneously producing fashion media which is read worldwide” (1). Bloggers, in a sense represent more than just themselves, they represent their readers and the brands they wear. They have value as they are part of “the scene”. In “Modeling Consumption”, Wissinger states that models “work to present themselves in the know, as part of a community, an important player in the field” (284), bloggers do the same thing and are valued for these attributes by their fans. Bloggers have become the signifiers of fashion...
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...Blogging and Online Publishing An Assignment Submitted by Name of Student Name of Establishment Class XXXX, Section XXXX, Fall 2011 Abstract An age of new information and digital technologies brought in our life many new and useful things. Appearance of new mediums such as TV, video games, the Internet was an impulse for cultural, economic and social development. In our daily life we cannot dispense with these things and it is hard to imagine that nearly 50 years ago all these technologies were only a dream. In this course paper I will try to find out why new mediums became so popular and whether old mediums will yield to new mediums. Keywords: new medium, old medium, Internet, video games, TV Blogging and Online Publishing Description and a brief history Nowadays blogging is very popular. There are different types of blogs, for example, new blogs, music blogs, blogs for entertainment etc. Practically everyone is reading blogs today. The history of blogging started in 1994. The first person who created a blog was Justin Hall. He was a student of a Swarthmore College. The first blog was Links.net. Of course, nobody called it a blog, it was only a homepage. The term “weblog” was created in 1997 by John Barger. The first example of blogging was fixed at the news site in 1998. The first author of the blog was Jonathan Dube. He created a blog with information about Hurricane Bonnie...
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...The promotion that I have located is a promotional campaign from PepsiCo Vietnam for its new snack product Poca Twisties, which is also known as Twisties in other Asian market like Singapore, Malaysia or Thailand (this is an equivalent to PepsiCo’s Fritos/ Doritos for the Asian market). Beside using traditional promotion methods ad like print ads or broadcast ads (which will still be used after this specific campaign is over), the main content of this campaign is heavily emphasized on social media platforms, specifically YouTube and Facebook, which is also what I will focus on. This content is designed, proposed and operated by a local marketing agency instead of in-house department, which is a common practice for big organization. Since the method being used in the campaign is rather new, uncommon and is intended to work specifically for Vietnam market, I will describe the campaign (along with background information) so that it is easier to understand what the campaign is and why the company choose to do this, as well as to answer the discussion question (also because it’s impossible to find and understand what the campaign is about if you don’t speak the language) Background information: Facebook is currently the most popular social network platform in Vietnam, with over 20 million users over the population of 90 million. YouTube, while not having any details data, also seen improving in term of users and user engagement. This is contributed by 2 factors: 1- Internet connection...
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...Research problem/gaps With the increase usage of Internet around the world, Internet has become the major information-gathering platform for individual that allow easy access to information. As the Internet is getting common for individual, health information has become one of the rising search content. According to Chung and Kim (2008), more than 94 million American adults have search for health information on Internet including topics such as eating well, getting fit and health insurance. As Web 2.0 has arrived, online communications have change from one-way to two-way communication, which allow interaction between health information provider and receiver. Recently, Blog have become a significant platform to act as an online community for social interaction. With its simplify structure, blog followers can access post easily, join conversation and receive information that they needed (Chung and Kim, 2008). However, these advance in technology have become major reason to shift empowerment from organization, producer and marketer to individuals. In simple words, consumers are having more power over producer. In marketing concept, this consumer power cause the adoption of product-push approach to shift to consumption-pull strategy (Shankar et. al, 2006). In respected to this issue, practitioners have started investigate on empowerment from different perspective. However, most of the literature reviews are focusing on theoretical structure analysis. Few studies are done...
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...EN1320 9/27/14 Unit 2 Assignment 3 Elliot Hulse Motivation can from a myriad of sources. Mentors, books, movies, and music. For the particular goals I’m working towards, I get my motivation from a YouTube channel named “Strength Camp”. Now I’m not a die-hard social media buff by any means, however I can’t help but to give credit where it’s due. Elliot Hulse is the founder and creator of the Strength Came gym in Tampa, FL. I stumbled across his channel about two years ago, looking for a workout regimen, and the rest is history. Elliot is a pro strong man and strength coach, who provides motivational and instructional video blogs available for anyone with questions about strength and physical fitness. Elliot also pushes a more intellectual approach by fusing the body with the mind, his method is simply train your mind and your body will follow. With any mental and physical balance, a certain eating habit has to emerge, which is simply eat for the body you want. The saying “Athletes are not born, they are made” is especially true for his upbringing. Elliot grew up playing high school and college football, with was and excellent baseline for his true calling. Before Strength Camp, He participated in professional Strong Man competitions and eventually buckled down and opened his own gym. His impulse was not the smartest move financially, but the debt he accumulated with the new gym and a little girl on the way lit a fire under him to make this move a success. What...
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...Social Media and the Fashion Industry Term Paper Table of Content 1. Why social media and fashion? 2. The newest social media trends 3. Fashion Blogging 4. Example Lookbook 5. Example Looklet 6. Impact on the fashion industry 7. Types of Fashion Blogs 8. Fashion Blogs around the world 9. The 10 best Fashion Bloggers 10. Haute Couture and Fashion Blogging 1. Why social media and fashion? In this time, the social media is an amazingly fast growing trend. Social media is not only used for creating friendship networks, for staying in touch with friends and family, it is becoming more and more a medium, which industries are using for growth and success. In this paper, the fashion industry is an example taken to show how e business is in relation with the social media and the fashion industry. Especially the fashion industry lives from ideas, from pictures, visuality and communication. Newest trends are created in minds, are brought down to papers, and photographed in pictures and are shared in magazines, newspapers – and fashion-blogs. The fashion industry has 1000 ways to go- to show its creativity and its world. Fashion lives from spreading ideas-which is exactly driven by the social media, by communication and the sharing of it. Fashion bloggers have become the newest wave of trend-settler, not only inspiring designers and stylist but also people all over the world. Fashion blogs are increasingly becoming a part of the...
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...Malala Yousafzai is an inspirational young woman who fought for her rights. An advocate for girls’ education, Malala works to help children around the world get the formal education they deserve. She is a hero because even after receiving death threats and an attempted assassination from the Taliban, she had the courage continued to stand up for what she believes. Malala grew up being educated and heavily influenced by her father who was a Pakistani political activist protesting against the Taliban. Wanting to follow in her father’s footsteps, in 2009 she started blogging for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) under the fake name of Gul Makai. Blogging against the Taliban was dangerous, and the original volunteer was stopped by her parents from blogging because they feared the Taliban. However, Malala continued to blog even with the threat of the Taliban....
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...PROPOSAL FOR THE Micro-blogging Purpose of the Research Micro-blogging, it’s the abbreviation of micro blog. It’s a platform that based on a user's relation, communication and information sharing. Users may update information with around 140 words and realize the sharing in time through the WEB, WAP and various client components individual communities. The Micro-blogging is more and more used among the college students at present. We carry out this survey in order to accurately understand the condition about using Micro-blogging among the college students. 1. To make a survey among the college students about paying close attention to the situation, the way of understanding and the using condition. 2. College students focus on the group and the content by using the Micro-blogging. 3. College students using the Micro-blogging if they desire to be concerned by others and wish to share personal life. 4. Whether the Micro-blogging has become the main social platform for college students. Research Design The survey research method will be the apply research design. Each respondent will be interviewed in classroom. The personal interviews are generally expected to last between 10 and 20 minutes, although the length will vary depending on the previous tax-related experiences of the respondent. For example, if a respondent has never been audited, questions on audit experience will not be addressed. Or, if a respondent has never contacted the Micro-blogging, certain questions...
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