Online behaviour

Be Relevant

Have you ever Googled yourself? If so, did the results surprise you? Maybe there are others who share your name or, maybe, you don’t even appear at all. Either way, if you are not easily recognizable on the web, you are virtually invisible.
One way to make sure your name is not lost in the sea of search engine results is to create your own website, with your own name in the URL. When optimized effectively, your site should be the first to appear. That way, you can control what the viewer sees when they search for you online.
In addition, you should cast your online profile throughout the Internet. Make sure you create profiles on all the major social networking sites, including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. In addition, consider creating a Google profile, not to be confused with Google’s social networking site Google+, and getting listed on sites that act as digital white pages, such as Spokeo. 

Brand Yourself

So, you’ve now established your online presence. What’s special about you? Let the world know. Is it your awesome ability to manage high-profile projects? Your creative problem-solving techniques? Your fascination with foreign films? Whatever it is that makes you unique and marketable to potential employers, make sure that it is prevalent across all your online profiles.
Keep your messaging consistent. When others visit your profiles, they should be able to “see” the same personality. Know what type of company culture most correlates with your personality and create your online presence to complement that.

Managing digital information on a computer

 Managing digital information on a computer

If you are using a computer to store your important information you need to back it up because you wount know when your computer will crush or when your laptop needs to go for repairs. Backing up your information is crucially very important if you use a computer on a daily basis. Install a data back up software so it can keep all your valuable information safe incase something happens to your computer. Imagine losing a spreadsheet of important payments or a song you wrote, you cant remember all the words you wrote down. Rather be safe than sorry and back up your information.

You can use an external hard drive to back up your information or save your work on a removable disc and put them in a safe place.

Using references

 There are no spaces used with brackets in APA. When possible, include the year, month, and date in references. If the month and date are not available, use the year of publication. Too, that the OWL still includes information about print sources and databases for those still working with these sources.

Because online materials can potentially change URLs, APA recommends providing a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), when it is available, as opposed to the URL. DOIs are an attempt to provide stable, long-lasting links for online articles. They are unique to their documents and consist of a long alphanumeric code. Many-but not all-publishers will provide an article's DOI on the first page of the document.

 Article From a Database
APA states that including database information in citations is not necessary because databases change over time (p. 192). However, the OWL still includes information about databases for those users who need database information.
When referencing a print article obtained from an online database (such as a database in the library), provide appropriate print citation information (formatted just like a "normal" print citation would be for that type of work). By providing this information, you allow people to retrieve the print version if they do not have access to the database from which you retrieved the article. You can also include the item number or accession number or database URL at the end, but the APA manual says that this is not required.
If you are citing an article from a database that is available in other places, such as a journal or magazine, include the homepage's URL. You may have to do a web search of the article's title, author, etc. to find the URL.

learning possibilities supporte by the internet

There are many different viable opportunities for learning using the internet. Each form or method for learning online serves a different purpose. They can be created or modified by teachers in schools, lecturers, Managers of companies, parents etc. It is generally used by anybody who wants to learn. It is not the same as e-learning which can also be done on a stand alone computer. it is known as web-learning and can be done through any computer connceted to the internet.

People can use other people's work for free through the use of a creative commons license. when a person creates something, the may get a creative commons license which specifically states for what and how that particular peiec of work can be used. if a person creates learning material, they can specifically stipulate in the creative commons license that it may be used for teaching purposes.

A creative commons can be intergrated into training institutions in the following way:

• Graphic designers can use images that have been marked for personal re-use
• teachers may play video tutorials/lessons for learners in class
• Audio lessons may be provided to leaners
• Creative commons license also includes acedemic materials which may be used in learning institutions
• students may be taught about commons licenses by creating their own work and having a creative 

• license for it which can be posted online

 There is no clear indication of who wrote the page, although it is a website for the company Microsoft there should be a clear indication of who the author of the website is as well as information to clearly indicate whether or not the person is qualified to write this website.

There is no clear distiction between the webmaster and the author of the article. There should be a clear indication made so reader or users of the website and clearly know the difference in the case of some readers/users wanting to contact the author about content or the webmaster for any queries about the website.

The layout of the website can become rather confusing and over-whelming for users. The creator of the website should redesign the page in order to enforce simplicity in the website. there are a large amount of links on the website linking to other website as well as other pages. a list of links wopuld be more desirable as well as categorising the links in a manner which groups the links of the same site in one location while grouping links to other websites in a different category.

There is no detailed information on the website. All the content on the website in very vague and should rather be redone in order to give the users more clear information of the purpose and content of the page.

The information presented in the website Is very clustered and can not be read very easily. A person would have to clearly read all the information in the website in order to find the link or information they are looking for. Information in the website should be summarised better and placed in categories so that users can navigate the wbsite with ease.

All the information presented in the website is based on the evaluation of the Microsoft Learning website http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/default.aspx#fbid=uIa8Lsst8fN

Internet trends in 2013

Five key internet trends for 2013

The annual Internet Trends report by venture capital firm KPCB highlights how Internet use is changing and the direction it is headed, and the 2013 report by Mary Meeker and Liang Wu is no different. Some of the results were important, but not necessarily surprising, like the continued growth of social media platforms like Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram, and others. But some of the results were a bit more unexpected.

Saudi Arabians love to share way more than Americans

People from the U.S. aren’t nearly as forthcoming as citizens of other nations. While Saudi Arabians ranked first and Indians ranked second on a poll of “respondents indicating they share ‘everything’ or ‘most things’ online” in May, people from the U.S. ranked fifteen, and only 15 percent of people from the U.S. said they’re prodigious sharers, compared to the global average of 24 percent and the Saudis’ over 60 percent.
So even though plenty of people in the U.S. complain about a culture of over-sharing, this research suggest Americans are downright close-lipped compared to other nations.

When it comes to taxi apps, the Chinese do it right

In the U.S., taxi apps and services like Uber and ZabKab are paving the way to making hailing a ride less of a hassle, but there are tons of regulatory hold ups, and we’re leagues behind how China is utilizing this market.
There are already Chinese taxi apps that let you bid on drivers, track the taxi that’s coming to you in real time, and use push to talk to say your current location and destination into your mobile and have drivers from various companies hear it. Sure, you might get stuck in a massive Chinese traffic jam after you get in the car, but before that, you’re going to have a much simpler time finding a ride than you will in the States.

The rate of growth for digital information is insane

It’s not surprising that the amount of shareable data people create has grown in a big way over the past decade, as social networks took off and it seemed like everyone ever went online.
 But the numbers show almost absurd growth in the amount of digital information created and shared — it grew nine times larger from 2006-2011, and projections indicate that by 2015, people will be creating and sharing 8 zettabytes of information.
And a zettabyte is the absurd measurement that’s equal to 1.1 trillion gigabytes, so that’s a mind-boggling amount of data.

Despite multiple controversies, Snapchat is still killing it 

Snapchat’s issues with making its disappearing photos stay disappeared aren’t really hurting usage. And people are uploading many more Snapchats than they are Instagram photos, though photos uploaded to Facebook take the cake.
Even though your scandalous Snaps can land on gross pages like Snapchat Leaked, and sometimes you might get random porn sent your way, the app is on the rise in a major way. Hopefully its young founders can keep the controversy at bay long enough to truly cement Snapchat as a mobile mainstay, since it’s still very new.

 

 

Facebook is successfully monetizing mobile

There’s an idea that Facebook fails to monetize its mobile arm, but according to the numbers that’s simply not true.
Mobile is both bringing more users to the platform and boosting revenue – and now 30 percent comes from mobile, up 14 percent from when Facebook first started popping up on phones. Sure, there’s always room for improvement, and the initial reaction to mobile experiment Facebook Home wasn’t a monumental triumph, but the notion that mobile is Facebook’s Achilles heel is just plain wrong.

: http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/top-x-things-we-learned-from-the-2013-internet-trends-report/#ixzz2f44w8drP

twitter as a source of information

Twitter is a network of people, like the networks we have seen in class, and it allows us to monitor and measure how information is spread through this network of people. A group of people connected on Twitter will most likely share similar interests, whether it is in a team or in a certain situation. Rather than go to Espn.com or a different sports website, a person could check their Twitter and find out find out the same information faster due to a post by their friend either at the game or watching the game on TV. In the article, a person was quoted saying that when the power goes out in his neighborhood, he would like to know whether he is there or not. Using twitter this is possible; one of the people in his neighborhood that he follows on Twitter would just have to tweet about it.

Facebook and protection of minors

Facebook and protection of minors

When you connect with a game, application or website - such as by going to a game, logging in to a website using your Facebook account, or adding an app to your timeline - Facebook give the game, application, or website (sometimes referred to as just "Applications" or "Apps") your basic info (Facebook sometimes call this your "public profile"), which includes your User ID and your public information. Facebook also give them your friends' User IDs (also called your friend list) as part of your basic info.

Your friend list helps the application make your experience more social because it lets you find your friends on that application. Your User ID helps the application personalize your experience because it can connect your account on that application with your Facebook account, and it can access your basic info, which includes your public information and friend list. This includes the information you choose to make public, as well as information that is always publicly available. If the application needs additional information, such as your stories, photos or likes, it will have to ask you for specific permission.

The “Apps you use” setting lets you control the applications you use. You can see the permissions you have given these applications, the last time an application accessed your information, and the audience on Facebook for timeline stories and activity the application posts on your behalf. You can also remove applications you no longer want, or turn off all Platform applications. When you turn all Platform applications off, your User ID is no longer given to applications, even when your friends use those applications. But you will no longer be able to use any games, applications or websites through Facebook.