Here is a quick video on how-to set up categories for your friends on MySpace
MySpace-Categories
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Ning
what advantages/limitations do you see with using a Ning?
how could you use a Ning in a work environment?
Advantages:
how could you use a Ning in a work environment?
Advantages:
- Groups can be made private or public depending on your needs
- easily contact all members of the group, by sending one email
- keep track of individual members
- Forums for your group
- event management
Disadvantages:
- address to groups are hard to remember
- site is not top on my list of frequently visited
- yet another social website to remember to visit
- design is not quite as clean as I would prefer
- not a lot of customization options
What makes services like MySpace or Facebook "sticky"?
What makes services like MySpace or Facebook "sticky"?
people spend a lot of time on these sites...why?
MySpace and Facebook (and even blogs can sometimes be considered part of this) are almost like the NEW homepage that we saw in the mid-90s. They are a persons digital, public face. People spends endless hours tweaking, adding content, adjusting etc. because this is what image they project to others. They want to look their digital best. I once was weary of a new employee because they showed no signs of a "digital-footprint" as I liked to call it. I was wary because having no "digital-footprint" is almost akin to not having a real-life footprint in this digital day and age. They were applying for a job in the IT department and this lack of virtual face, told me a lot about the potential employee. Mainly that they were not up on current technologies. I later proved to be correct in my assessment, but this just goes to say that having a "digital-footprint" or some kind of digital face is very important for both your personal and professional life. People spend lots of time on their Facebook, MySpace and Linked in profiles as it is like a "calling-card" its a way to enter into networks and be part of a community.
people spend a lot of time on these sites...why?
MySpace and Facebook (and even blogs can sometimes be considered part of this) are almost like the NEW homepage that we saw in the mid-90s. They are a persons digital, public face. People spends endless hours tweaking, adding content, adjusting etc. because this is what image they project to others. They want to look their digital best. I once was weary of a new employee because they showed no signs of a "digital-footprint" as I liked to call it. I was wary because having no "digital-footprint" is almost akin to not having a real-life footprint in this digital day and age. They were applying for a job in the IT department and this lack of virtual face, told me a lot about the potential employee. Mainly that they were not up on current technologies. I later proved to be correct in my assessment, but this just goes to say that having a "digital-footprint" or some kind of digital face is very important for both your personal and professional life. People spend lots of time on their Facebook, MySpace and Linked in profiles as it is like a "calling-card" its a way to enter into networks and be part of a community.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
My Educational Video: Insane Disco - The Walking Step
This short video shows you how to do the "Walking Step".
YouTube SCILS Attack
Ok, I've decided that we are all pretty funny and a rather odd bunch! It was interesting to see that so many people chose never to show themselves in the videos and most where shot from a close angle. I really enjoyed the instructional soccer video as soccer is my primary religion and laughed out loud at the cardigan video. Also why oh why did someone do coffee? You stole the show. With both soccer and coffee off the topic list, what on earth can I do for my topic?
Here are some links to my top favorites:
Edu vs Ent
Educational Videos vs. Entertainment Videos.
As I wasn't really sure either we're in competition with one another, I will try to address this battle of the contents. Educational videos and entertainment videos, I feel, both are made for different audiences at different stages of their lives. Educational video are needed at a very specific time (when one is looking to learn something on a specific topic) and entertainment videos also have their time and place (when one is trying to avoid doing their SCILS homework). I tend to think of it in terms of television. I spend about half my time watching both educational channels such as the History or Discovery Channel and another good chunk of my time watching tribble like Bravo and E!. I even spend a larger portion of my time watching the soccer channel, but we will not discuss that. I think its very possible the entertainment is how most people spend their time on something like YouTube - however, I then think of my boyfriend who is constantly watching How-to videos for software, music and design and it cancels that out. I genuinely think its a tie, fair and square between the two types of content videos and I think both are in their own class.
What do we all have in common:
Flickr Group: scils598f08
Commonalities:
We all love taking pictures of our families, pets (dogs & cat's - anyone have any exotics?), our homes and where we do our schoolwork, the great outdoors and travel along with the very random harmonica and JD degree and the super random War of the Worlds Plaque. It seems like a good portion of us really love music and love science-fiction or at least literature that borders on the unique. We also enjoy hot beverages (tea and coffee) and alcoholic beverages.
Differences:
Are kinda hard to pin down. We do seem to be either Mac or PC users, with one (including myself two) dual platform user(s). We also seem to be in different stages of our lives, some in their 2nd career while others are just starting out. Some of seem to be right, smack in the happy middle. I think overall we have more in common with one another than differences. Which is interesting all in itself.
Flickr Group: scils598f08-edexperience
We all really should have a discussion with someone regarding our obsession with vending machines. I think that really says something about our student diets. Also we are in a love hate relationship with all our library school texts - we love to photograph them, yet really are at odds with the fact that we own so many. We all seem to own the librarian action figure and really love our computers and the schools computers. We are clock watchers and poor eaters. Reads like a profile of a very nervous, tech obsessed, hungry person.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Podcasts vs. Text Based Blogging
What are the benefits/detractions of podcasts vs. text-based blogging?
- podcasts - have a much higher learning curve
- blogging - you can just type and go
- podcasts - require specalized equiptment and software as well as hosting services
- blogging - you just need a computer and an blog application account or ISP
- podcasts - more portable, can listen to on the go
- blogging - users must either print out or save in a text file to read on the go
- blogging - has a much wider audience
- podcasts - have a more specialized audience
- blogging - edits are easy and do not require much more than the delete button or the backspace
- podcasts - to edit you need specalized equiptment
Overall, I think each medium has both pros and cons - blogging for its speed and podcasts for thier portability. Each also has a very specific type of audience. For the more casual user blogging is a very easy way to get thier message read, while podcasting is a more complicated way of getting thier message heard. For the end user the medium varies in how it can be obtatined and options for reading.
Excerpt from Terry Pratchett's Going Postal
I decided that why come up with my own story when I could read someone elses that was far more interesting! I decided upon reading an excerpt from Terry Pratchett's book "Going Postal" from the chapter entitled "Angel". It picks up with a man contemplating the fact that he is to be hung in the morning and starts as he is trying to make his escape:
You can use the direct link here or use the player below:
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