Keiser University Latin American Campus

Management Information System

Project based on Web 2.0 review: Chapter 4: Enabling Commerce using the Internet Chapter 5: Enhancing Collaboration using web 2.0

Professor:

Eduardo Orozco

ID number: 5417725

Made by: Andres Antonio Torrez Blanco

Due date: November 13th, 2015. 5:00 PM

Activity 1: Identify 9 blogs (3 about technology, 3 about Business/ Finance, and 3 about entertainment). Now they are presented in the same order mentioned previously3 Technology blogs:

1) Gigaom is the first blog related to technology, and its purpose is to provide a timely and in depth analysis of the technology. It was founded in 2006, and currently this blog is the leading global voice on emerging technologies. Its news, research and events empower its subscribers with a deep insight on disruptive companies, people and trends in order to better understand the new business opportunities that are taking place. For instance, by looking at the first news in the screenshot below, we can appreciate how a private company, Atlassian, is trying to go into public. This step is made when the owners of a company want to trade their shares publicly looking for funds in order to get into more investment opportunities. This blog has actually an average more than 6.5 million monthly unique readers.

2) Mashable is a leading global media company that informs, inspires and entertains the digital generation. Mashable is redefining storytelling by documenting and shaping the digital revolution in a new voice, new formats and cutting-edge technologies to a uniquely dedicated audience of 45 million monthly unique visitors and 25 million social followers. In the picture on the right hand side, we can read about a curious and innovative Canine Home Intelligent Pet already packed with many sensors. For instance, the head alone has an array of carefully hidden infrared sensors that give it a 360-degree view, which it uses to find its special ball and charging bed. CHiP also has Bluetooth so it can connect with its special Smart Band. Owners wear the band to send the robot dog likes, and to help CHiP keep track of you. As well, CHiP can sit, squat down, shimmy, dance around and make all sorts of dog sounds.

3) ZDNet brings together the reach of global and the depth of local, delivering 24/7 news coverage and analysis on the trends, technologies and opportunities that matter to IT professionals and decision makers. Whatever the role in the IT buying cycle, ZDNet provides support from investigating options to optimizing a solution. Whether you want to follow hot topics or emerging trends, or keep up to date with the latest news and events, ZDNet is the destination for professionals seeking to research technology-related issues, and solve business technology problems. At a glance, a blog related to Cloud computing caught my attention since it encompasses everything from Google Apps to data center services to virtualization to software-, infrastructure- and platform-as-a service. Key players include IBM, HP, Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Salesforce, NetSuite and VMware.

 3 Business Financial blogs:

1) Business Insider: 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. A recent photo gallery of what hotels look like in brochures versus what they look like in person was a lot of fun. And when Blodget does write, it is usually worth the click.

2) DEALBREAKER: The site is run by Bess Levin, a humorist cum reporter who has successfully managed to turn Wall Street's biggest names into cartoon characters, and into her most loyal readers. The site feels like a mashup of Page Six and Bloomberg News. The articles may be laced with humor, but beneath all that wit lies a remarkable truth that often cuts closer to reality than more sober news reports. Bess's trick is that she is not laughing at Wall Street; she is laughing with them. As a result of Bess's frequent potty mouth, many financial institutions block the site, but that has not stopped a fiercely loyal group of readers from making their way to Dealbreaker and adding their comments.

3) ShoeMoney.com shares ups and downs in the world of online marketing to a loyal daily readership of over 30,000 people. ShoeMoney.com has been named the Best Affiliate Marketing Blog and ranks in Technorati’s top 50 blogs for the past three years. Having made millions of dollars over the past five years, the blogger share his insights to others in order to learn and grow. Most of the reading were related to marketing and other techniques to embrace new trends and look for opportunities to exploit them.

3 ENTERTAINMENT BLOGS: 1) WIRED: Your essential guide to what’s next, delivering the WIRED take on the intersection of technology,

science, business, and culture. Get first looks at dozens of products, plus in-depth reviews of the newest, the best, and the essential. This blog provides daily reviews of the latest consumer electronics, gadgets, cars, gaming gear, and more. As well, In-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology, and how they are shaping business, entertainment, communications, science, politics, and culture. Here you have an example of the movie Spectre that is hitting on the head of viewers.

2) BUZZFEED: BuzzFeed is an American internet media company. It describes itself as the social news and entertainment company redefining online advertising with its social, content-driven publishing technology and providing the most shareable breaking news, original reporting, entertainment and video. BuzzFeed was founded in 2006 in New York City as a viral lab, focusing on tracking viral content, by Jonah Peretti. BuzzFeed produces daily content, in which the work of staff reporters, contributors, syndicated cartoon artists, and its community are featured. Popular formats on the website include lists, videos, and quizzes.

3) Digg delivers the most interesting and talked about stories on the Internet right now. Digg captures a snapshot of all of the Web’s hottest streams. Then it presents a smart, gorgeous, editorially coherent digest of what’s popular online. Other sites have attempted this, but the new Digg is the first place that does it well. The story of Digg's comeback tells us a lot about how the web has matured over the last decade. In brief, this entertainment blog makes fly our imagination in a comic manner.

Activity 2: Select a web based collaboration tool (page 210- chapter 5- table 5.5)

 

Web collaboration tool selected: Google docs is an online office suite comprised of a spreadsheet application, a word processor, and a presentation application. The documents, spreadsheet, and presentations can be created in the Web application or imported from other tools. 

Finding report: Google docs is a free web based office suite, and data storage service offered by Google. It has sources that allow users to use word documents, presentations, spreadsheets, a much more. It also provides the opportunity for sharing files. This tool is highly powerful for all people that like to work online because student can work no matter where they are. The usage of this tool is so easy. It is just require having a Gmail account. So with your email you can have you Google

docs. It is also important to remark that for high school students this is an excellent tool because it is supposed that they are

going to go to any University. Therefore, it is essential that they know how to use this tool so that whenever they go to the University it will not be complicated.

To sum up, Google Docs has three great features that will really help you become a better writer:

once you create a document, Google Docs will automatically save your document. you can share your documents with other Google Doc users. You can actually see other people typing on your document while you type. It also means people can offer you feedback

to improve your writing.  

Activity 3: Profile on LinkedIn

Nowadays LinkedIn has become one of the most important connecting tools for professionals. It was founded in December 2002 and launched on May 5, 2003, and it is mainly used for professional networking. It helps us to manage our own professional identity, and assess to the different job opportunities and trends. Sincerely, I had never used this application before; however, I would like to rank it among the best applications for finding a job, and connect with friends. It is also essential to remark that you can find anything of your interest. LinkedIn is an outstanding tool for keep in touch with people.

Besides, having a good photo that you use across all networks says something about you. It says that you are professional and care about your public image.

LinkedIn is a network for business professionals. It is different than other social networking sites like Facebook because it is designed specifically for professional networking, finding a job, discovering sales leads, connecting with potential business partners rather than simply making friends or sharing media like photos, videos and music.

Talking about the recommendation feature, it is a key way to recommend other potential assets to the different companies that are virtually looking for them.

Additionally, the following and groups features serve as a picture to demonstrate your interest as well as your curiosity about some controversial news that are taking place all around the world.

The last feature I would like to highlight is Job in which you can find interesting job opening within the boundary of your country. Here you have how my profile looks like on LinkedIn.

Findings on LinkedIn

Activity 4: Create a blog using any blog tool such as wordpress.com.This part of the project made me feel ignorant in the sense that this tool was already on the internet, but I did not know anything about it. This is a great tool for communicating because you not only post photos but also see photos from others. According to the article named “Importance of wordPress”, Word Press is open source software. Like all open source software, when an upgrade comes out, the details of that upgrade are made public. If one of them is a security fix, then someone with malicious intent could use that information to their advantage potentially hacking into any Word Press website that has not been upgraded in the meantime. It’s best to upgrade your Word Press installation as soon as a security fix is released. It Helps Ensure Compatibility with New Plugins.

I also find interesting the fact that we can have followers, we can like pictures; see the profile of someone else and so on which seems to be very entertaining. Nevertheless, it is extremely crucial to state that all these tools that we have discussed previously which is all about social media play a crucial role in our daily lives because they keep us in touch with one another, and they also keep us informed of what is going around the world which is something very productive.

By trial and error technique I started to type my first blog due to the fact that I had not used this tool before. Here I realized that we can write everything we want, and update it at anytime we please to do it. As well, we can find recommended blogs to enhance our writing style.

This is a picture on how my first blog looks like!

Slideshare is an excellent tool for saving your PowerPoint. For instance, if your computer get a virus, it does not matter because we save it online on this key tool. This tool keep your assignments secure.

THIS IS HOW MY SLIDESHARE LOOKS LIKE

THANK YOU !!!