Hello class!
I have put together a video presentation for my project. It's not perfect but I hope you like it!
Thanks,
Eddie
http://youtu.be/L1yR1FvXZMM
Ed's Web 2.0 Tools
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
SoundCloud!
I have just now gotten to SoundCloud to try it out...
https://soundcloud.com/ecor-2/eor1/s-SWms2
https://soundcloud.com/ecor-2/eor1/s-SWms2
Thursday, December 5, 2013
ADVANCES IN SOCIAL MEDIA
Social
networking is a communication tool via the Internet. The most popular are
Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. You can find an old friend, a long lost uncle
or even a job. The information is there to be debated and disected to
exhaustion. The dangers are also there and must be realized before an
unfortunate encounter takes place. To go about carelessly and foolishly
displaying information of a personal nature may damage of even ruin one’s reputation,
so be careful!
According
to the journal article: Social Networked Media: Advances and
Trends (Izquierdo),
3-D glasses in action! |
The
future of social media interaction is evolving from a new generation of media
tools into a richer, more life-like multimedia experience for web users. The
progression of these tools is likely to include the 3-D element that has become
popular in the motion picture industry and in Television. This feature would
greatly enhance the experience and provide for a more personal perspective to
social networking than the current text-based interaction. Capturing the user
emotional state and physical activity would be key to this interaction and of
course would be heavily technology dependent and requiring resources currently
not available on most devices.
Ebroul Izquierdo (2011) School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science Queen Mary University of London, Mile end road, London, UK,
Email Communication
Email is a standard communication method that has
developed into a sophisticated tool. No one knew just how important email would
become when it was first introduced. In 1971, the first email transmission
takes place. It is not the instant success that it would seem. SMTP, which is
the “simple mail transfer protocol” was introduced in 1982 and it became the
standard for email. Spam, a term derived from an obscure “Monty Python” sketch
which illustrate that the canned meat of “Spam” can be served with every meal,
and thus equating to the serving up of “spam” email.
Email addresses contain the
elements: user ID, host name and top-level domain. Email is sent via an email
client. Some popular programs are outlook and thunderbird. An email client
holds email that is downloaded to your computer from an email server. These
servers use protocols to format the messages. Each client typically uses
several protocols to ensure that messages can be read. Email messages are
composed of several elements that allow for what is sent and who receives the
message. The recipient is chosen via the “to” line as well as the “cc” address.
The topic is contained in the “subject” line, while the content is displayed in
the “message body”. There are many and various features included in the
different email clients and most are universally available.
The
etiquette of email is something that is unfortunate sometimes overlooked. I
doubt that there is anyone who uses email who is not aware of this. Common
courtesy seems to sometimes be lost in the “cyber world.” We should take care
in what we say and just how we say it. It is common sense that should be our
first thought when deciding on email or social media posts.
Windows Live mail is an email client
by Microsoft Corp. It has many useful feature and functions much like its big
brother Ms. Outlook. You can use “Live Mail” to work with your Gmail, Yahoo or
other web base account. Web based email is simple and functional in design and
is convenient in that you can access it from any Internet connected computer.
You have access to all of your old and current folders. There are many
different web mail services to choose from including Yahoo and Gmail.
www-01.ibm.com
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
GOOGLE FORMS!
Google forms is quite a discovery! I was not aware of the
existence of Google forms and was quite surprised. I could, I suppose go into
an extensive discussion of what is possible with such a tool, but honestly the
possibilities are endless. I can think of a few nice things that maybe could be
useful. How about a party invitation? You display what the other invited guests
are bringing and rule out everyone showing up with desert!
You could take a
vote on where to have the family reunion. Coordinating any sort of meeting or
event could be simplified with any Google form.
If you are in a band, you could
send out a survey to all the fans on your mailing list and ask them what they
thought of you last performance. You could take requests (and give a discount
for responding) and give a shout out at the next show.
Getting opinion on
anything is easy with a form. Reaching consensus that avoids the tendency of
distracting arguments could be really helpful, especially with my family! I
can’t imagine my mom using “forms” but she could have decided on the dinner menu
with no resistance from her kids!
You can keep track of your budget and
passwords and many other things and have access from any computer! So many
things you can do!
Friday, November 15, 2013
LINKEDIN connections
Linked in!
I have connected on Linkedin and it seems like a good think for professionals. It seems more formal than the Facebook or Google sites and thus maybe more geared to that audience. Maybe it will help me find work someday, but time will tell. I have connections with friends in rather high places, but I don't know if I can call on them to get me connected. Just not sure if I want to mix business with old friends. My other concerns are that, all of my personal data is up there on the web and this is just more of the same, but with information that is NOT, most definitely not intended for a broad audience. I don't want people knowing my work history any more than I want them seeing me get the morning newspaper off my front lawn in my bathrobe! I mean, it concerns me that at some point that there will be a breach and of course there will be and then my whole life will be public knowledge! Just think about that for a moment...that job that you had and lost, for what ever reason is now public. I don't mean to say that I'm a spy and that the security of the nation is at risk, but maybe we don't quite know the consequences of the whole thing just yet! I know, I know...we're all in this together and it will affect us all equally at some point, but I just don't want it to be ME first!
I have connected on Linkedin and it seems like a good think for professionals. It seems more formal than the Facebook or Google sites and thus maybe more geared to that audience. Maybe it will help me find work someday, but time will tell. I have connections with friends in rather high places, but I don't know if I can call on them to get me connected. Just not sure if I want to mix business with old friends. My other concerns are that, all of my personal data is up there on the web and this is just more of the same, but with information that is NOT, most definitely not intended for a broad audience. I don't want people knowing my work history any more than I want them seeing me get the morning newspaper off my front lawn in my bathrobe! I mean, it concerns me that at some point that there will be a breach and of course there will be and then my whole life will be public knowledge! Just think about that for a moment...that job that you had and lost, for what ever reason is now public. I don't mean to say that I'm a spy and that the security of the nation is at risk, but maybe we don't quite know the consequences of the whole thing just yet! I know, I know...we're all in this together and it will affect us all equally at some point, but I just don't want it to be ME first!
Friday, November 1, 2013
The mobile Executive.
The
effective use of mobile devices in business can possibly be best measured from
the top down. For the average person, the need is mostly a convenience and not
mission critical, but in the intensely busy and hurried existence of business
executives, the need to communicate is magnified by the responsibility level.
Old Office Technology |
Executives
use both smart phones and Laptops, but they use laptops more, but only by a
small percentage (%5) difference. Twenty-five percent of all executives use
both devices. A large percentage of executives use more than 2 devices. The
average is 3.46, while CEOs use 4.21 devices, while CFOs use about the same
(4.22) devices each. That sounds like a too many!
Privacy! |
Twelve percent of executives use their smart phone
most often, but most consider the PC as the most important device at their
disposal as it has features not available on a mobile device (Excel and Office
programs). Younger execs see the smart phone as their most important
communication tool, while older execs not so much.
Not so smart phone!
The younger the Exec the
more likely they are to use the device to communicate via text or email rather
than voice. Almost half of these senior
execs had a preference for making business purchases on the internet (mobile or
otherwise) as opposed to the phone. The younger execs tend to be less concerned
about the type of device used as the older(over 40) execs, who still prefer a
laptop (PC) device, but the younger groups preference is clearly for mobile
technologies and apps.
Complete "mobile" office! |
Mobile Executive!
Their preferences lean towards the convenience of mobile
access to boost productivity. In fact, almost 50% of all executives believe
that within the next 3 years, their primary tool for business related tasks
will be a mobile device such as a smart phone or tablet. As these devices
become more powerful, with enhanced features, the popularity will likely also
increase. Mostly these execs feel the
need to be connected on a constant basis. The total amounts of communications
they receive are astronomical and they need to be accountable 24 hours a day.
The mobile device is the only thing that reasonably accommodates this need.
http://images.forbes.com/forbesinsights/StudyPDFs/The_Untethered_Executive.pdf
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