Enhancing Collaboration Using Web 2.0

By Oscar Almanza11 November 2015

Assignment Chapter 5Professor Eduardo Orozco

Technology Blogs

Techerator.com is a technology blog that specializes in guides, reviews, how-to's, and tips about a broad range of tech-related topics. Techerator was founded in 2009 and has served over 2 million pageviews to readers all over the world. 

Get in-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology, and how they are shaping business, entertainment, communications, science, politics, and culture at Wired.com

Ars Technica is a technology news and information website created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998. It publishes news, reviews, and guides on issues such as computer hardware and software, science, technology policy, and video games. Many of the site's writers are postgraduates and some work for research institutions. Articles on the website are written in a less-formal tone than those in traditional journals.

Business / Financial Blogs

Quality reporters provide a steady stream of analysis of the big economic stories as they develop. The site also features a stable of resident economists who help readers navigate debates related to their areas of expertise. There are also very good economists writing about health and education policy and so on.

The authors cover many macroeconomic issues in an understandable and straightforward manner. They focused on current topics like the economic impact of stimulus spending and the deficit debate. Other key topics include business cycles, monetary policy and oil economics.

Econbrowser

If you are looking for all manner of business and economic news, as well as Wall Street gossip and what's hot on the Web,Business Insider is the best place to go. Unfortunately, more and more of the content on the blog is basically plucked from elsewhere without a lot of original analysis or reporting. But Business Insider, which is headed by former Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget, does a good job of picking its stories.

Business Insider

Entertainment

RollingStone For over 20 years, Peter Travers has been writing movie reviews for Rolling Stonemagazine. It shows, as the veteran scribe is able to succinctly sum up his moviegoing experience in half the space that most critics require. If you want a cinematic guide who gets straight to the freakin’ point and doesn’t waste time with self-promotion, this name should be at the top of your list.

The Needledrop Calling himself the “Internet’s busiest music nerd,” Anthony Fantano heads up the music criticism site known as The Needle Drop. The sheer volume of his reviews is staggering, and he still somehow finds the time to post video reviews and comments on a daily basis. If it’s happening in the world of music, there’s a good chance that Fantano has something say about it. His delivery and enthusiasm may not be for everyone, but you owe it to yourself to give him a try.

Dezeen This site was first launched in 2006, and its millions of monthly visitors are a testament to the quality architectural content they offer from around the globe. Their news feature includes everything you could ever want to know about the art of decoration and design, and aspiring architects can find lucrative gigs in the job section. My favorite feature, however, ties two art forms together by analyzing the various architectural wonders created or featured in motion pictures.

Collaboration Tools

Choose a collaboration tool and create an account

PresenterNetMain utilities offered: • Online Presentation Room • Online Presentation Library• Upload Manager • Interactive Slides• Integrated Database • Report Writer 

Report:In the globalized world that we are living, we are required to be interact not just with the people we see around of us in our companies, but we have the need to interact with people from different companies, countries, and continents. Some years ago, it would be insane to think that we could meet somebody in a different country every day. It was costly and nearly impossible. Facing this need, collaboration tools came up to make communication easy just by using the internet. PresenterNet, for example, is a really easy-to-use webpage that aimed to help businesses to communicate in a dynamic, easy, inexpensive, and effective way. Some of the utilities that this tool offers are shown and briefly explained below:Online Presentation Room -- Audience members enter with just a single click. Users optionally add additional conference rooms.On Demand Showroom -- users can post any presentation from their online library. By adding voice narration to PowerPoint, users can create a Showroom with a presentation selectable at a unique Web location 24 X 7. Users can optionally add additional Showrooms.

Online Presentation Library -- holds an unlimited number of slides and presentations, organized for easy selection.Upload Manager -- upload PowerPoint, Flash, PDF, and JPEG files.Interactive Slides -- created by placing InterActors™ - special purpose graphics objects - for onscreen audience participation. Account owners drag-and-drop InterActors that may be text boxes, sliders, checkboxes, or a variety of button types for special functions.Integrated Database -- logs all actions, tracking every attendee, every slide displayed, and all audience responses through InterActors.Report Writer -- lists attendees logged in, shows specific feedback from every attendee, rates interest level for sales qualification, collect contact information as well as questions and responses for follow-up.

Opening an Account in LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a social networking site designed specifically for the business community. The goal of the site is to allow registered members to establish and document networks of people they know and trust professionally.A LinkedIn member’s profile page, which emphasizes employment history and education, has professional network news feeds and a limited number of customizable modules. Basic membership for LinkedIn is free. Network members are called “connections.” Unlike other free social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter, LinkedIn requires connections to have a pre-existing relationship. 

LinkedIn “follow” feature allows the site’s users to follow one another’s posts without having to officially connect (something the site recommends you do only with people you know). More interestingly, LinkedIn is also rolling out a long-form publishing tool — basically a blogging tool — so people can post lengthier, media-rich updates to their profile pages. Both tools will be available on the desktop site and LinkedIn’s mobile apps.LinkedIn recently introduced a new feature that enables users to follow companies they are interested in. They are called Company Profiles. Company profiles often act as fact sheets to LinkedIn users and now these fact sheets just became a little more accessible and interesting. Company profiles are private, unless you are logged in and then you can view them freely.Why would someone want to follow a company?It's easy - by following a company on LinkedIn they can be updated with new developments, business opportunities and even job opportunities. Company profiles display recent hires, related companies, recent promotions, top locations for employees, and even showcase what they deem as "popular profiles" - meaning those individuals who get a steady stream of profile views and press mentions.  

 

LinkedIn Groups provide a place for professionals in the same industry or with similar interests to share content, find answers, post and view jobs, make business contacts, and establish themselves as industry experts.You can find groups to join by using the search feature at the top of your homepage or viewing suggestions of groups you may like. You can also create a new group focused on a particular topic or industry.

Jobs In the last several years, LinkedIn has become an increasingly popular way to network with people in your industry. More and more employers are using LinkedIn as a recruitment and hiring tool, and students and professionals are also using it in their job searches.

Many companies will create a “company page” on LinkedIn to represent themselves and build their online presence

The company page is similar to the brand or fan page on Facebook, where a company generates activity and discussions and shares updates. 

This page allows you to see basic information about the company and people who you may know that currently work there. You can also view any job openings currently vacant at the company.You should follow companies at which you are interested in working so you can see updates about them. If you get an interview with one of these companies, you will have less research to do later since you will have learned all of this information already.

You can find these company updates on the company’s page or on your homepage/activity feed where you see updates about your connections.

You can also invite people at this company to connect and include a messagehttps://www.interexchange.org/career-training-usa/guide-using-linkedin-your-job-search/

Creating a BlogPosting Summary of Chapter 5