...My First Blog- At Age 29! Ok, well, here it goes. I hope I make you proud Carissa I want to preface this by stating that some people may think I’m coming off a a narssicist or conceided, but, in all truth, it’s not. It’s something I’ve dealt with my whole 29 years of life, and have tried to believe, which HAS made me look narcissistic or conceided in the past, but it was just y way of trying to figure this all out. This is it. I was watching the Wedny Williams show the other day, and she mentioned how she “swanned” into becoming thr beautiful lady she is today. She ven said, “Hey, I’m not saying I’m the MOST BEAUTIFUL, but I am proud of what I have turned out to look like.” She was talking about Heather Locklear, who at age 50, looks amazng but seems to not be grasping “losing her looks.” She was all American blonde cheerleader that all the boys wanted in high school, etc, etc. Wendy and I, were not. I was not pretty, popular, or fit in in my childhood or High school years, the boys weren’t asking me out, I wasn’t in the IN group, I always felt out of place. Not pretty, not wanted….just THERE. It does hurt, and makes you want what all the pretty girls have. Why couldn’t I be one of them? And to add fuel to the fire, my freshman year in high school, I finally thought I fit in somewhere, only to have the girls turn their backs on me in one day, for no reason at all, and I can put my daughter on that. Walking down the hall and being called names, that I had...
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...experiences. Businesses also refer to social media as user-generated content or consumer-generated media. The best way to talk about these different types of social media’s are to show the main examples, they come in all forms and types, there are six major ones in the field of communicating with social media and these are: Blogs, Internet Forums, Micro-Blogging, Social Networking, Social Network Aggregation, and Events. Each one of these has a specific purpose and can all be used in the field of advertising. Advertising is changing with the technology and this social media is the next step in the advertising world. Social media’s allow advertisers to reach a huge number of people and target the exact audience they are aimed at with this new type of technology, advertising is becoming a science and different types of social media are becoming the necessary tools to make it work. Kids are now growing up with insane amounts of technology all around them, most households have at least one computer or television in it and these forms of technology are becoming necessary to our everyday lives. The first type of social media that I will talk about is blogs. A blogs is a website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. This allows the...
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...CHAPTER 7 UNDERSTANDING NETWORK EFFECTS Introduction * Network effects: When the value of a product or service increases as its number of users expands * Also known as network externalities or Metcalfe’s Law * When network effects are present: * The value of a product or service increases as the number of users grows * They’re among the most important reasons you’ll pick one product or service over another Where’s all that Value Come From? * The value derived from network effects comes from three sources: * Exchange * Exchange creates value and every product or service subject to network effects fosters some kind of exchange * Staying power: The long-term viability of a product or service * Networks with greater numbers of users suggest a stronger staying power * Complementary benefits: Products or services that add additional value to the network * The three value-adding sources work together to reinforce one another in a way that makes the network effect even stronger * When users exchanging information attract more users, they can also attract firms offering complementary products * When developers of complementary products invest time writing software switching costs are created that enhance the staying power of a given network One-Sided or Two-Sided Markets? One-sided markets * A market that derives most of its value from a single class of users * Have same-side...
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...Difference between journals and diaries:- The difference between a diary and a journal is that a diary is where you can write down what happened during the day and keep a record of stuff. A journal is to write your own personal feelings in, and things that happened, and how they happened. A diary is a report of what happened during the day—where you ate, who you met, the details that what was happened in the office, and who took whose side. It is a like a newspaper about you. A journal is completely different. A journal is about examining your life. It’s a GPS system for your spirit. Journals lead to insight, growth, and sometimes, achieving a goal. You can keep a journal in anything that feels comfortable and that’s portable–a spiral notebook, a bind book you have put together with lokta paper, index cards held together with a rubber band. You can use a computer; keep a blog, although that doesn’t work as well for me. But things on the internet are simply not private, password protected or not. To keep a journal on paper, pick a time of day to write. Keep it regularly. It makes it easier. Try that you didn’t stuck to an exercise program because then it can nailed it into schedule at a certain time. Writing works the same way. First thing in the morning, last thing at night, while eating lunch at your desk. Write with a good pen that feels good and whose color you like. In the beginning, you may have to set a time limit. Three minutes is good. Just write whatever comes...
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...Nurse Educator Nurse Educator Vol. 34, No. 5, pp. 209-213 Copyright ! 2009 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Wikis and Blogs Tools for Online Interaction Jane S. Grassley, PhD, RN Robin Bartoletti, MS Online education requires nursing faculty to learn teaching strategies that encourage students’ interaction with the course content, their peers, the faculty, and the technology. The Web 2.0 technologies of wikis and blogs can help faculty direct online learning activities that encourage peer support, collaboration, and dialogue. The authors discuss these tools and how they were used to engage students in a nursing research course. ince the mid-1990s, increasing numbers of people have come to rely on the Internet as a convenient source of information and education. In nursing, the growing need for convenient and nontraditional learning strategies fostered a proliferation of Web-based nursing education programs. Since teaching online requires faculty to use strategies that differ from those used in face-to-face classrooms, nurse researchers have investigated characteristics of online education environments that facilitate students’ engagement with learning.1-3 Thurmond concluded,3(p237) ‘‘Good teaching practices are deeply rooted in the concept of interaction.’’ MancusoMurphy4(p257) identified interaction among faculty and students as ‘‘the core element of an effective online environment.’’ Researchers determined that peer support, collaboration, and...
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...------------------------------------------------- English 101: College Writing Dr. Tinberg Office Hours: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays 12:30-1:45PM (or by appointment) Office: B210 Phone: 678-2811 ext. 2317 Email: Howard.Tinberg@bristolcc.edu Course Blog: http://bcceng101.edublogs.org/ Course Description This college-level composition course provides students an opportunity to develop their writing through various stages of composing, revising, and editing. In addition, students learn how to formulate and support a thesis using a number of rhetorical strategies, to conduct research, and to integrate a variety of sources according to the Modern Language Association guidelines. Students write in Standard English with consideration given to audience, purpose, and context. Prerequisite: Satisfactory performance on the writing skills test or “C” or better in English 090. Passing score on the College's reading placement test or concurrent enrollment in/or prior completion of RDG 10. You may have some questions . . . . What will I learn in this course? I’m hoping that by taking this course you will be better prepared to handle the writing tasks that await you in college and beyond. Specifically, I expect you to be able to * respond appropriately to an assignment or writing situation; * state your purpose clearly and stick with it; * consider your reader’s needs; * understand the genre in which you are writing; * value and demonstrate...
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...Xanga members receive a "Xanga Site", a web site made up of a weblog, a photobook, a video blog, an audio blog, a "Pulse" (mini-blog), and a social networking profile. Members also have the option of joining or making blogrings. Xanga (ZANG-uh) is an Internet Web host that provides its users (community) with access to their own online diaries and journals (often called blogs). A person who belongs to the Xanga community is called a "Xangan". If someone has a Web blog on Xanga, they are being referred to as "having a Xanga." Xanga services are most popular with youth and young adults. Along with its popularity among younger people, Xanga has been mentioned in major news publications worldwide as many law enforcement agencies believe that many of the 91 percent of some 40 million users aged 13 to 29 are revealing too much personal information about themselves on Xanga journals. Protected Posting allows users to restrict access of each post to a list of specified friends. Xanga Classic protected lists can hold only up to 10 members; you must obtain Xanga Premium in order to get a protected list of unlimited size. User Blocking allows users to block certain people from commenting or subscribing to their sites. Xanga launched Xanga Lock, a feature that restricts access to a given site to only other Xanga members. If a casual web browser who is not logged in to a Xanga wished to view someone's Xanga, he or she would first have to log in to a registered account, or else he or...
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...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. In 1999, the term “weblog” was shortened to “blog” by Peter Merholz. At first, the original blog was created manually, it was not easy, however, everyone could do it with the help of a programmer. There were no blogging platforms. After that, in approximately two years was created a blogging platform called LiveJournal. In 1999 Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan started a new platform for...
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...shopping-related events. Fashion blogging has also been a revolutionary method for communicating and advertising through online media. Sprouting from the collective whole of blogs, called the blogosphere, fashion blogging is a whole new world of personal journals infused with the fast-paced line of design in clothing, footwear, accessories, makeup and other wearable paraphernalia. The fashion industry has been finding ways to connect through their rising audience in the modern society, and via blogging, it has secured a throne of perpetual popularity, fame and success. Through this, fashion blogging is born. Two years ago, two million blogs represent the growing and fast-rising modernity of fashion; and now, fashion blogging has been crowned the most popular form of blogging. The persona of fashion blogging itself is innovation, making use of creativity in a conventional way, following the standard of wearability of certain articles of clothing. All in one, it could express the personality of the blogger, as well as openly communicate with the audiences of the blog, while effectively advertising the pieces of fashion the blogger has been showing. B. Literature Review Fashion bloggers share their knowledge pertaining to the fashion industry, specifically in terms of new style and trends, which they share through their own blogs based on their own experience (Bunina 2013). This is how bloggers share their styling skills, views, opinions, and fashion advices or recommendations where they...
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...from print to visual or news broadcasting, journalists presently are now seeing a transition from visual to web-based news. Social media sites like Twitter and Facebook as well as blogs are slowly becoming the new medium of communication or web-based news. Similar to the print to visual news transition, the transition from visual to web-based news is also having its fair share of rough patches. Many people in the journalistic field argue that this new medium of communication lacks correct facts and has an opinionated view of the truth. However, in today’s society an accredited source of information is an idea that cannot be disproven. Through constant updates, being a watchdog, and becoming a catalyst of journalism, these ideas will help aid web-based journalism become an accredited source of news. Constantly updating the public with reliable information makes web-based news an accredited voice of information (Andrews 1). In the early hours of September 11, 2001, blogs became the best available source of eyewitness reporting,” according to Paul Andrews, author of Is Blogging Journalism (Andrews 1). Without a constant update on the situation, mainstream news and authorities would have never been able to get eye-witness accounts. Call it participatory journalism, says J.D. Lasica, the author of Blogs and Journalism Need Each Other (Lasica 1). Citizens provide the information that will ultimately serve to inform the public of what is currently happening. This process of constantly...
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...interest to implement a legal regulation check for our firm’s blog. An arrangement with an attorney has been made in order to maintain our continuous lack of legal strife. While we recognize that this adjustment may impact the initial quality of the blog’s content, we feel it is important to demonstrate our commitment to practicing CSR policies and keeping a safe community. This new mandate will in turn lower the risk of any litigations and reduce exposure of liability. Beginning next month, a draft of your blog entries will be screened by an appointed attorney before being approved for publishing. This process will include filtering out any traces of the following: * Defamation of any persons, corporations, or products * Copyrighted or trademarked work * Invasions of privacy * Demonstrations of legal and regulatory neglect * Disclosed information * Discovery disasters Although we understand that not many corporations feel the need to execute the use of a litigator for social media purposes, we want you to understand that they will serve as a collaborator in our competitive advantage over other firm’s. Not only is it internally important for us to have a sense of ethics in our day to day activities, it is vital for the readers of your blog to feel that Tech Garden is a reliable, socially responsible source of information. From past experience in the media, it is feasible for corporate blogs to perpetuate a threat of litigation, which we wish to avoid...
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...and exchange information. For instance, it provides a new way to communicate and share photos and videos. Also, it provides a new platform which is called web based diary, also known as blog (abbreviated from of weblogs) that contains online personal journals with reflections, comments from visitors and hyperlinks provided by the writer (Herring et al.). Eve Edelson describes it in simple words as “just” browser interface to web site publishing, however, blogs are used by different societies for different purposes and now has become a part of daily life for many bloggers. Matthew Mehan refers to “the blogsphere world as colorful and varied as the animal world. There is an evolutionary struggle for supremacy amongst bloggers” (qtd. in Mehan). A blog is ranked by the number of hits it receives from visitors and the number of outbound links it has. Also Mehan clarifies that there are levels of bloggers from novice those who have just entered the blogging world and up to a level of pounding fathers. Many bloggers use blogs as just a hobby but some blogging can also translate into business. There are some bloggers who blog almost every day to attract advertisers or even product endorsement offers. There are different visitor statistic analyzing sites that offer tools to assist those who use blogs as business tools. For instance, “Site Meter offers a free, basic hit count and link log in exchange for posting a logo-link to their website. It also sells one of the thousands of “site...
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...to summarize four journal papers related to sentiments and influence, (2) to critique the methods and scope of the journal papers and (3) to brainstorm directions for the term project. 2 2.1 Literature review Java et al. 2006 Java et al. (2006) explore models that determine the blogs with the most influence on the Blogosphere. The paper defines influence as a link from blog a to blog b implies that a influences blog b. They further create an influence graph that weights edges by a function of the amount of links. This paper evaluates various heuristics, such as Pagerank, indegree, and greedy algorithm, to determine which blogs have the most influence on the Blogosphere. The analysis shows that PageRank is rather efficient and converges quickly. The paper also analyzes the effect of splogs, i.e. spam blogs. The results indicate that not removing splogs greatly impacts the accuracy of the influence models. As such, the paper uses some algorithms to identify splogs, and then, and only then, do the heuristics converge to within 70% agreement on the predicted number of influenced nodes. 2.2 Leskovec et al. 2007 ”How do blogs cite and influence each other? How do such links evolve? Does the popularity of old blog posts drop exponentially with time?” These questions are addressed by Leskovec 1 (2007). This study creates a directed graphs to analyze shape patterns in the large blog graphs as well as temporal patterns regarding how the popularity of a blog post...
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...Connectedness Most kinds of social media thrive on their connectedness, making use of links to other sites, resources and people. Need Inspiration? Now that you know what social media is, do you need any inspiration in getting your social media campaign under way? One of the best way to get inspiration for your organization can use social media is to check out what others are doing. This ebook is intended for anyone who wish wants to start a social media campaign, but will be most useful to people working in media, marketing and communications. Here are some 300 case studies that can help you get started. 300 Case Studies of Social Media Marketing – An e-guide by Roderick Low of Expeditus Media No. ● 1-2-3.tv Corporate Blog: http://blog.1-2-3.tv/ Social networks: Facebook Page YouTube Channel: 123TV Microblogging: 123TV Flickr Foto-Stream: 123TV 3 Italia Social networks: Facebook...
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...Blog as a Form of Popular Communication In 2005 spring, a 16 years old boy from southern U.S. decided to tell his parents he was a gay and he did not take it well. Thus, his parents decided to send him to a Christian “straight camp” to get him back on the right path. He poured his emotions into a blog on his MySpace.com website which was accessible to the whole Internet. In his posting, he raised the idea of suicide and harming his parents and he wrote his emotional anguish about the camp, including a strict list of rules he would be living upon in next several weeks before leaving for the camp. Within one day, his postings began spreading among blogosphere, provoking a political demonstrating, a state investigation and international new coverage eventually (Tremayne, 2007). The impact of the experience on him remains unclear, but the whole event suggests that the power and dominance of blog in transmission of information and message are evidence comparing with the pre-blog era, in which his story unlikely spreads out further than the circle of his family and friends. According to Gunn and Brummett (2004), among communication studies scholars, “popular communication concerns the study of objects that are widely circulated by means of mass media” (p. 708). In early time, the most popular objects of analysis were radio, television, advertisements and films. However, along with the Internet matures and becomes essential in people’s daily life, new types of popular communication...
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