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
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Russia. More like a news blog of current time. My grandmother gave it to me and let me read it. It really caught me off guard; I just wasn’t expecting to find something big like this. I think it’s pretty cool. “All I knew about what was going on in Russia was what I gleaned from the news. And the news, of course, is mostly focused on politics and catastrophic events, such as the Kursk submarine sinking and terrorist attacks. For that reason, I wanted to keep this blog as apolitical as possible
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Advertising Trends You have a great product. You want to let everyone know about the product so they will beat a path to your door. How do you do it? This question must be asked thousands of times every day in the minds of business owners that produce products. What is it that makes some advertising work and other advertising not work? That's a big question. It is often much easier to find what doesn't work then it is to isolate what does. Effective advertising is a combination of several factors
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producing strong brand awareness in the community. Blog A blog (a contraction of the term “Web log”) is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. There are many different types of blogs, differing not only in the type of content, but also in
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amongst teenagers. In fact, the number of blogs is exploding, with about 14 million existing blogs. On average, the number of blogs is doubling every five months. There are many advantages of blogging. Firstly, people can use as an online dairy, using it to share the day’s happening in her life with other visitors on the net. Furthermore, if the blogger (author of the blog) has met up with certain incidents in her life, he can share it on the blog and others can console or praise him, by
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positives of digital media outweigh its disadvantages. Internet functions as a valuable resource for information. One can find any type of information on any subject with the help of search engines like Google, Wikipedia etc. Anyone can create media – blogs, photos, videos etc. Bloggers barely research and write anything original. So does this mean the quality of media is lowered? Expressing views in print is not as easy as doing so on the internet. With millions of people expressing their viewpoints
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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
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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
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feedback. Diret2Dell is Dell’s official corporate blog. Not only the Dell employers can post articles on the blog, the customers and visitors can also do that. You could also post different languages on the blog. English, Chinese and Spanish. Basically, any topics related to Dell’s product, you could post on the blog. Also, the blog has a variety of different functions that made it easy to use. Customers could email the blog, share the blog the Facebook and put comments to the author. StudioDell
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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
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