...There has been a lot of talk and speculation on whether on students using the Internet to do their assignments; copying someone else’s work and using it as their own. This has brought around the conversation that some students are being unethical in their own work. But there are some students that work really had at putting their own thoughts and ideas together, for their own work. The students that use other people’s work tend to get in trouble for it. Plagiarism is frowned upon in the Academic community. You are allowed to use bits and pieces of information but you must give acknowledgment to where you found the information and who wrote it first. When writing it is very important to form your own opinion so no one can say you plagiarized someone else. You find this a lot in blogs on the Internet. You read one blog go to another on the same topic and it’s the same. This makes you wonder who wrote theirs first. Thankfully there is a post date on these blogs. For bloggers on the Internet there should be some type of code when it comes to writing. Bloggers should only blog about their own stuff and the ones that are copying other writers and posting it as their own should be called out on it. It is not fair to other writers that have put a lot of work into something they wrote...
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...Active Ways to Get New Clients 1. Get the word out to family and friends in a meaningful way. I had a friend launching a business + blog who chose a method that I now love to use and help other people use: she wrote (actual) personalized + purposeful messages to each person. This may sound very “duh” to you, but make sure each time you reach out, you include: * a personal note that lets someone know this is not the same email/message 300 other people got; make a connection on a hobby, interest, desire, or need of theirs * a brief description of the type of work you are doing now and why it’s so important to you * the ways in which your friend/contact can help you (Do you want referrals if your friend knows someone in need of your services? Do you want people to share your message?) * a clear way for people to practically do what you’re asking/hinting (for example: if you’re asking for people to share your brand on Facebook, give them a brief description and picture “if they so choose to use it” . . . or if you’re asking for referrals from a good friend, give them an idea of what they could email out to others–and perhaps even give them a sweet freebie to distribute) * a sincere “thank you” for the person’s time in reading your message and in helping you any way they see fit Are you at a loss for where to pull personal connections from other than your phone’s contact book and Facebook friends list? Think of people you may know through: * volunteer work...
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...4 hands on MIS 1. Privacy is always an important aspect of people’s personal lives. Theses negative social costs come with the introduction of new information technologies. There needs to be limits on how much information is available to the private citizens and the government of our country. Information should only be available to anyone with the permission of the user. Any information must be obtained only with consent of the user. 2. Employee Minutes Online Total Minutes Used 1.Talbot, Helen 260 868 2.Kelleher, Claire 248 3.Milligan, Robert 155 4.McMahon, Patricia 127 5.Olivera, Ernesto 40 6.Wright, Steven 38 The employees are using much of the company’s time. over 14 hours between the six employees. I feel that the employee’s are not being that unethical because they are only using 2.4 hours a week, per person. The company is being slightly unethical monitoring their employees Internet history, but at the same time it concerns company time and money. 3.Creating a simple blog A blog can be helpful to business in many ways. Blog readership is still on the rise, and these readers can turn into customers. There are many tools available to make your blog the way you want. There are many different templates that you can use and many ways to customize the fonts and the presentation of your blog. Also, there is an array of gadgets and widgets that are available to add to your blog, such as Wikipedia, and news search engines. 4. These groups...
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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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...individuality Posted: Monday, November 2, 2009 11:40 pm Joe Dellosa, Alligator Columnist Do you remember LiveJournal? LiveJournal is a hybrid blogging and social networking service started by Brad Fitzpatrick in 1999. Users could create a blog that usually served as a public diary, and then they could add people they know who also set up LiveJournal blogs as "friends." Friends' blog entries are aggregated on a single page, allowing users to see at a glance what their buddies are up to, like a proto-News Feed. The service was many people's first experience with a Web 2.0 application, and, in particular, the first for many teens. LiveJournal quickly acquired a reputation as a clearinghouse for suburban, adolescent angst - collections of lengthy, startlingly sincere lamentations of broken hearts, occasionally interspersed with awful, copied-and-pasted Dashboard Confessional lyrics and "Which 'Hey Arnold!' Character Are You?" quizzes. (I always shot for Gerald, but I'd always wind up being Eugene - or, on a good day, Mr. Hyunh. This was a source of mild consternation.) LiveJournal was, in many ways, a forerunner of much of the purportedly revolutionary social media environment we're in right now. After all, it was started before the word "blog" was even coined and before the phrase "Web 2.0" gained any sort of currency, and it predates both MySpace and Facebook by about half a decade. It was also among the first social media to receive the same flak that Facebook and Twitter catch...
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...“Blogs as a knowledge tool in a construction company” Information and knowledge Knowledge is a critical part of the way a company functions and its success depends a lot on it. When the individuals, and the company as a whole, possess valuable knowledge of the resources, processes, new technologies, its rivals’ situations, customers’ desires and needs they can deliver in a much more sufficient way. The same applies in construction companies. Gaining and generating valuable knowledge is one of the most important company’s capabilities, though very few take full advantage of. That is why a management consultant that is retained by a construction company, which is about to bid for a major project as part of the Thames Gateway development, should advice it to put effort and try to enhance this area (Holtham). There are four steps in the process of making knowledge. First of all comes the data, which is available to everyone and it comes from everywhere. Especially today there is an “explosion of data” from a significant number of resources (television, radio, the Press, the Internet, colleagues, friends etc) and it can be either ‘hard”- when it is “structured and objective” (e.g. facts, numbers) - or “soft”- when it is” unstructured and subjective” (e.g. people’s opinions). Data is then processed by each individual and is converted into information, which can be also either hard or soft. A point that requires attention at this level...
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...5 Tips for Using Google+ to Boost Your Marketing By Jason Miller Published October 18, 2012 Are you wondering how to best use Google+ to enhance your marketing? Google+ is quickly becoming an essential part of any business’s social media strategy. It boasts a cool 250 million users! And this number is sure to grow very quickly as Google is making a Google+ account mandatory for all Gmail users. It’s an audience marketers cannot ignore. Google+ can help people learn about what makes your business tick -- your products, promotions, hours and anything else you want to share. Google+ also plays a major role in search engine optimization (SEO) by making it easier for marketers to show up in search results—yet another reason to include Google+ in your social media strategy. Here are five simple ways to give your business an almost immediate boost using Google+. #1: Include Keywords and Relevant Links on Your About Page The About page is a fantastic opportunity to give a quick overview of your business. You can also link back to specific pages and services from this page, directing potential customers to the most important pages on your website. It’s important to have a balance of marketing-savvy copy that’s also SEO-friendly. So make sure to include information that searchers will want to know about your company. Include keywords and links relevant to your business on the About page. Take advantage of the fact that Google+ allows you to use bullets in your description...
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...useful contact information is provided if someone wants to book me for a gig or enquires my expertise for writing. Building a following requires a network of other platforms such as the internet, the website works in conjunction to drive visitors to my other main pages i.e Youtube/Facebook and Twitter. The page offers information relevant to the people on it. In the future it aims to offer free downloads of my music as promotional campaigning.The objective is to construct content that is easy to share, let people know about it and let people know about me. Once the community grows I will add a blog A blog is suppose to be enticing and it raises a feeling of curiosity , it will encourage people to follow my interest which for the blog will be social issues that relate to the audience I am grasping, for an example a discussion on bullying targets teenagers, teenagers will tend to read my blog page and the growth of my teenage audience for music will grow. Fashion/Beauty and Celebrity gossip are other key topics of today’s teens which I will also incorporate. There will be no third party advertisements via my website page as the selling point is me and so the focus should be no where else. My website is visual as I need to have eye-catching aura around the page to entice the interest that draws people in and inspires them to become a loyal reader. The visual theme that'll represent...
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...Ace, expresses her personal struggles with hijab in a blog post titled “Miss or Diss?” The second woman, Fatemah Fakhraie, is a Muslim-American activist for the rights of women. Her article “Scarfing it Down,” originally published in Bitch magazine--a feminist news publication--examines hijab bans and the way they effect Muslim women’s rights. While both women participate in hijab, their opinions differ on the view society takes: One woman wishes that society would accept her choice to observe hijab, the other demands it. Scarf Ace speaks out about her decision to start hijab. She begins by stating the difficulties with wearing the headscarf: it’s hot, people look at her, she can’t have a ‘good hair day’, etc. She continues because of her “husband’s high regard for hijab” and because, as a stay-at-home mother, she can choose when to leave the house, thus not having to wear it constantly (488). Her blog is an outlet for dealing with her decision to start hijab; she has very mixed emotions about it, and she wants people to hear her voice – she wants her decision to be understood and accepted by the people she encounters every day. She hears the voices of her insecurities through the eyes of watchful passersby: “… I’ve got her figured out, and it ain’t good” (489). Her difficulties with hijab stem from the fear of being different and being watched and subsequently misrepresented in people’s thoughts. She employs the use...
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...1.0 Introduction “Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.” – William Pollard. Nowadays, the way of business has been changed. Everyone talk about internet marketing. Hence, what is internet marketing? Internet marketing also known as online or web marketing, is referred to people sell their products or services over the internet. Among all the e-products or e-services, there is one product that can make us retire young, retire rich. It is information products. Information products are anything that take information, knowledge, and wisdom and encapsulate them in a form that another human can take, learn from and use. Ideally, it’s very similar to sitting with you in a room and actually learning from you directly. Those are the most valuable information products. Here, I’d like to show you an example. You may have heard of these books before. The first book I would like to suggest is called Mindmaps by Tony Buzan. This book sells for RM50.00 in the bookstore like MPH or Borders. By the way, this is an amazing book. Everyone should read this book. This is a lifetime of wisdom about learning and how to increase our memory skills using proven techniques. The next book which I would like to talk about is Stealth Marketing by Jay Abraham. This is also a very important book but it was a thousand dollars book online. A thousand USD...
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...of Social Media in International News Social media is a term used to describe the type of media that is based on conversation and interaction between people online. Social media are media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. For almost two decades, the web has changed the world and revolutionized how information is stored, published, searched and consumed. The ripple effect has spread so wide that it impacts not just businesses and industries but crosses over into politics, medicine, media and breaches geographical locations, cultural boundaries and ultimately, affects people’s day to day lives. The great wave of web innovation since Google in 1998 has been in social media. Social media is about networking and communicating through text, video, blogs, pictures, status updates on sites such as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn or microblogs such as Twitter. A survey about social media usage in news operations will be conducted among selected chief editors from different parts of the world: the former future media chief of the UK’s biggest news organization, the North American bureau chief of a wire agency, the Singapore bureau of a news wire agency, a Malaysian wire and radio news organization, an Indonesian news agency and one of the biggest digital online groups in India.-WIKIPEDIA New-media technology is not only having a serious effect because of its impact on established journalism. The way that...
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...0468934400 ABSTRACT: This paper examines the impact of crowdsourcing on search result ranking by identifying the relation between crowdsourcing and web search. Here the question arise, what are the reasons that compel me to search this category i-e crowdsourcing and search result ranking. To me, it is very beneficial for us as student of computing to know about the relation of crowdsourcing with web technology. How much is impact-able if we add it as ingredient in our searching results for finding good webpages is understandable after reading this paper. Crowdsourcing is a term coined by Jeff Howe in wired magazine to characterize a way of using groups to solve the problem [1].The groups are usually online communities, such as member s of a blog or a visitor of website. An organization broadcast the problem to the crowd as an open call for solution. The crowd submit solution, and then sort through them, find the best one. The organization selects and owns the ultimate solution, and sometimes rewards members of the crowd. As this paper also explain the application aspect of crowdsourcing when it merge with web-technology. KEYWORDS: Crowdsourcing, WEB 2.0, Social networking. INTRODUCTION: The last two decades have seen dramatic revolution in information technology: not only in computer power, such as the processor speed, memory size and innovative interfaces, but also in the everyday use of computer. The 1990s was the decade of the World Wide Web, built over the physical...
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...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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...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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...In a short span of five years, blogs have invaded our culture and left an indelible mark on society. From Politics to Journalism, blogs are reshaping our notion of how content is created and information is disseminated. Before the popularity of blogging and the internet the main sources of news were television and newspapers. The content and perspective of the news was decided by the media. It was easy for them to stretch the truth, omit important issues, portray problems as more or less serious than reality, and show the point of view that they wanted the public to see. The internet changed the way our news was delivered, and blogs in particular have affected the news industry greatly. Unlike before where some executive decided what the country should and shouldn't be told about, it is now possible for any individual to publish news on the internet. This has changed the news industry dramatically from a consumers point of view. The executives can still try to control which stories are published and which point of view to portray, but online we can find the real truths more easily. Not only can we find out what happened from various view points, we can read individual people's thoughts and feelings about the stories. We can see what various experts think about situations and events, as well as the general public opinions. Another benefit for consumers is that we can filter the types of news we choose to read. Television news often shows world events, sporting events and a weather...
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