ITtalk213

Topic 10

2009-10-29T05:08:00.000-07:00

Topic 10 -
1) Go to athene.riv.csu.edu.au/~ajohnsto and click on Book1 and Star.jpg
I have only done the diagram for one of the questions of our discussion topics.

2) A pattern i found was that someone would post something, and a bunch of people would reply underneath that, then people would in turn reply post to the users that replied to the other people. So even though there may not have been direct chat or linking witheach other there was discussions and ideas passed around all members of the pod group. Someone just had to get the ball rolling for ideas and such.

Another pattern is that of Users agreeing with each other and not having an opinion of their own. This may just be coincidence, or the fact we all wanted to stay chummy until the assignment was done, but no one seemed willing to make rebuttles or disagree.

3) I think that if the exercise was repeated and i was to get my hands on one of the other groups findings, i would be able to draw similarities to our pod group. Maybe not complete similarities, but there would be some there. For example, their group may have found it easier to get the ball rolling. I still dont think they would have had arguments at all though, unless there were two very headstrong people in the group.

Topic 9

2009-10-29T04:29:00.000-07:00

What are the arguments for and against social networking being classified as a business model?

A business model describes the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value - economic, social, or other forms of value. The term business model is thus used for a broad range of informal and formal descriptions to represent core aspects of a business, including purpose, offerings, strategies, infrastructure, organizational structures, trading practices, and operational processes and policies.

The fors for social networking would include being close to the user, associating with a user on a more personal level (ie the user doesnt see the company as the place down the stree) information can be delivered to the user at home with updates such as new season stock has just arrived at ****** a place. If they teamed social network presence with an online store they would have a winning combination.

The negatives are that it makes the business look too casual, or informal, or decreases the reputation of the store. If the profile of the business wasn't maintained to be correct information it could also impact negatively.

9.2 -

Wiki's are an acceptable format for drafting papers for public discussions because the people assigned to write these papers can work together, and suggest different wording or omitting/adding information. It may not be as fast asif the same people were in the same room discussing this in person, but you wouldnt have to wory about getting them to the same place or even timezone as they can work on the document simultaneously.

Twitter in govt im not such a fan of. I don't think politicians can ever say the right thing, so giving them more tools to use to talk to the general public with isn't a good thing. It's like when Kevin tried to appeal to gen y with his promotion with "Kevin '07" and such campaigns. I don't think politicians should be allowed to use Twitter - it also gives the media another thing to hound them on.

I don't support the majority of Govt 2.0 mainly because it give the media an action point if something that is posted can be misconstrued, or if something goes wrong. Politicians can also say the wrong things, so i dont think it is wise for them to be using personal social networking sites, however i am a fan of a party (such as the labor party) having it's own social networking profile.

Topic 8.3, 8.4

2009-10-29T03:53:00.000-07:00

For people that use social networks religiously or have a vested interest, it is a good thing that their data can be shared or rolled around their various sites.

For others - it is not a good thing. They may want to stay anonymous on one site, and have only shared some infrmation with close people on another one. The fact they all link in could be very bad for users who are trying to keep things apart.

FOAF forms a part of the semantic web and web services via social networks as it plays a service to users by being able to link all their information together. It plays as a service to hold all the info together for a users own web presence.

8.4 -

a) RSS (most commonly translated as "Really Simple Syndication" but sometimes "Rich Site Summary") is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.
Web syndication is a form of syndication in which website material is made available to multiple other sites. Most commonly, web syndication refers to making web feeds available from a site in order to provide other people with a summary of the website's recently added content (for example, the latest news or forum posts).
Data aggregation is any process in which information is gathered and expressed in a summary form

What RSS + syndication + aggregation has made concise highly update information avail to users who wish to subscribe to it, making information all the more easy to find.

b) Del.i.cious doesn't "tag" data, it bookmarks it for other users. Bookmarking would be easier to relate to as books were popularised centuries before the internet appeared, and pages were marked so that one could find their place.

c) Go 2 Web 2.0 - provides so many links to tools i've never heard of! I can see much research being done on these to find out how they all work, and which ones can benefit furture workgroups for collaboration whether it be for uni or another reason. I never knew so many existed!

d) Elgg operates on web sites it is installed on benefitting the user in creating their own online networks. It looks to be exactly the same as any other social networking tool. I wouldn't however want it installed on my machine. I find that the colour scheme and design layout is terrible, plus wanting to get other users on it would be a hassle.

Topic 8.1, 8.2

2009-10-29T01:49:00.000-07:00

My Walk -

I took my heavily pregnant dog for a walk today. It was sunny out and slowly dark was creeping in, with very minimal wind, and barely anyone else on the road, so i took Skye around the block as the poor thing hasn't been able to get out lately due to her ever-increasing belly. We started our leisurely stroll, stepping onto the warm bitumen, and breathing the warm, flavoursome air that is our neighbour hood at dinner time. Skye and I took off around the corner in the fresh evening atmosphere and smelling the different smells around the neighbourhood, walking under trees and smelling their flowers and fruit, and past water features that give a familiar smell of rain. We set up the hill back towards our home past the Quarry and it's small pine forest, smelling the strong, clean scent of pine needles, and watching baby magpies being fed as we reached our home, where Skye promptly curled up on the couch to sleep.

(She is having 6 pups! :D)

8.2 -

Well this is certainly weird - im interviewing myself with my OWN questions :S. It is hard to think of questions to ask myself.

1) In Facebook, where do I draw the line between the workgroups with fellow students and work colleagues and keeping in touch with friends and relatives?

So far i hav not kept a distinct line between these two groups. Since joining facebook my friends list just keeps growing and growing and if someone requests me as a friend, i will usually accept provided i know who they are, not making sure they are close friends, if i know the name i will add them.

2) With all the new social networks i have joined where do i draw the line at time spent on these sites?

Each one ive joined i like, and i wont be deleting them after this subject comes to a close. I think that if i check these sites a few times a week it will be ok. I have found a sense of belonging at each site, so it will be hard to break from my once per day checking and posting to 3 times per week tops.

3)Do i plan ti stay in contact with my peers from this subject?

Some of the users i was already friends with before the start of this subject. Others i have become friends with, and some i am willing to keep in contact with via social networks as a purpose for discussing uni only, not my personal life.

Topic 7.2

2009-10-28T04:59:00.001-07:00

A Roobma can aid elderly and/or disabled people greatly. A Roomba is a vaccuum cleaner-robot that scoures the floors in search of carpet food and grime (ON NOM NOM). Arguably one of the worst home jobs has now been completely automated, with the use of a small circular robot. The Roomba makes it's way along floors sucking up dust, dirt and anything else, and when it's battery is getting flat it makes its way back to it's docking station to recharge. The only thing people need to do it to empty the Roomba once it is full of dust and dirt, however this shouldn't be too often as when we do a vaccuum it's the whole house, once a fortnight or so, and we fill the bag. The roomba isn't designed for that.

The roomba comes with "stoppers" that tell the roomba the furthest they can go. It's like an invisible wall that the Roomba cannot get past.

The roobma would be great for elderly people with limited capabilities or arthritis, or for disabled persons, such as wheelchair bounds persons. The roobma cleans for these people so that they do not have to ask for help, and do not have to be embarrassed at the state of their living quaters when they get visitors.

Topic 7

2009-10-28T04:02:00.000-07:00

7.1 - Touchscreens

Touch screens work by using the natural electricity properties embedded in humans. Touch screens such as iPod touches use a layero f capacitors under a protective covering. When your skin touches one of these surfaces, the amount of charge it holds changes.

The iPod's can use one of two methods to register the electrical changes, the first being circuitary mointoring of changes in an array of electrodes, and the second, a layer of driving lines carries current, and a separate line detects changes in electrical charge.

When the charge is changed (ie you touch the screen) - The iPod records the change and mathematically pinpoints where your fingers are on the screen.

The iPod touch's processor keeps track of where you put your fingers and where they move once you've placed them on the screen. You can slide your fingers from place to place, or you can make pinching or spreading motions to zoom in and out. The iPod touch matches what your fingers are doing with what's happening on the screen:

* The iPod touch determines the shape, size and location of your finger -- or fingers -- on the screen.
* The device uses gesture software in its memory to classify your touch. It takes into account whether your fingers move and what your iPod is doing at the time.
* The processor sends instructions to the iPod touch's display, software and hardware based on the data your fingers create.

The touchscreen would be great over any other device when you are travelling in a car and trying to use a GPS. you do not want to be searching for the right buttons, or anything, you want GPS to be as hands free as possible. by being able to pinch the screen and slide fingers around it could make navigation much simpler!

Topic 6:-

2009-10-28T02:58:00.000-07:00

6.1 - Go to http://athene.csu.edu.au/~ajohnsto/ and click "Purpose.docx"

6.2 -

The design of moodle was ok once i had 5 mins or so to play around with it. Afetr that time period it was quite easy to navigate. The colour scheme was terrible - very bland. I didnt like all the dates in the middle that were all unused. I found the whole of moodle to be quite clunky infact. Easy to use but very clunky and mechanicalistic, much like interact when it was first made available.

Moodle includes such features as Site entries (in intereact these would be announcements), a blog, resource tools, a chat tool, wiki, a forum, a list of current online users and a calendar. All of these are also found in Interact. Interact isn't as clunky as moodle is.

Moodle on:-

Usability - Moodle is very usable. It has a high degree and standard of usability. It has a degree of learnability - that is users can learn and adapt with how to use it. It offers some robustness, however it could do with some more. It has flexibility in all the different tools it offers. Flexibility includes all the interactions between a user and moodle and getting info accross. It does succeed in all the tools, such as wiki, blog and the rest.

Sociability - Moodle has great potential for a solid sociability network. This includes interactions between people in real time - via the chat room, but also via blogs and wikis, and collaborative sharing and learning. Moodle has great potential - just needs users to catch on.

Sustainability - How long will it last? Will it convince the pickiest of users? Moodle has great potential for online social networks. Moodle needs to divise a plan or set of goals to achieve acceptance.

6.3

Trust and Reuputation:-

Trust and reputation is centred around a user and their willingness to use a certain product. The factors that contribute to product trust are:-

Credibility consisting of Honesty, Expertise, and Reputation,

Ease of use, and

Risk.

Honesty is about the company or product doing what it says it will. If it is telling you it can fly - it must be able to fly. If it is telling yu it won first prize in a test, when it actually came second, that is lying to sell a product. Consumers are spending hard earned cash in order to by products, and they do not wish to be lied to. If their product doesn't do something that it said it would, the customer would feel cheated, and would not openly trust the company anymore.

Expertise - Things should not be cheaply made. There must be some standard of quality that a user will be happy with the overall product. If the run-time of the product is minimal, the user wil not be happy. It must have some sort of lifetime, and be durable and hardy, and expertly made.

Reputation - Reputation is important because word of mouth is one of the best ways to introduce new customers to your product. Having a good reputation (lets say for example in vaccuum cleaners) - A customer should be able to purchase on in Big W and it is the exact same quality as one purchased in Harvey Norman 2000KM away. Having a good reputation invokes that you can count on the business/product, and in turn trust it.

Ease Of Use - It must be easy to use. If not - people will give up, or feel lost. To make users feel comfortable and included, it is important to make things easy to use.

Risk - What is the risk involved? In a toy - are there small parts that could easily be swallowed? in machinery - Is it durbale enough that it wont break and cause injuries? In IT systems - what are the security measures for attackers/identity theft/viruses/online abuse? What does the company do to protect the user? Ideally a company will have thios online somewhere for the user to see, so they feel like they are in safe hands.

CIO Recommendations

2009-10-27T04:46:00.000-07:00

It is recommended that the CIO:-

They must assign one team to fully research and take ownership of the project to implement a social network - defining the scope, whether they will extend invitations to part or all of the social networks to the consumers and customers to get the updates on the latest products or to get help when it's needed.

They will need to liase with the project manager to see if it is feasible at all to implement this project. - If the benefits outweigh the projected costs.

The CIO should liase with the project manager about what functonality they want and what purpose this is to serve. How many people will be added? What would be the projected budgets for this project? What would be the lifetime of the entire project?

The CIO must decide whether or not the project should go ahead.

I would recommend that the CIO researches NEW technologies and new releases instead of twitter and facebook. The functionality of the new social networking tools would by far outweigh the current technologies. The trend seems to be swaying towards sites that can offer many different tools, such as google wave which has been called a "Collaboration Dashboard" by Sydney morning herald. The new tools and new sites house greater functionality for a collaborative learning effort.

The CIO must appoint IT persons, or admin persons to monitor the appropriate usage of the Social network within the confines of the business, and to monitor who has access. The CIO must make sure someone has written a list of guidelines before using the social network, such as language and addressing others.

Lastly, the CIO needs to make sure that users aren't going to become too informal with the way they talk, commune and collaborate. Also, it must be enforced that the social networking site is to be used constructively or not at all.

Findings for CIO

2009-10-27T04:27:00.000-07:00

The findings we decided on for the CIO was that:-

They must assign one team to fully research and take ownership of the project to implement a social network - defining the scope, whether they will extend invitations to part or all of the social networks to the consumers and customers to get the updates on the latest oroducts or to get help when it's needed.

We found it is alot harder to implement security in a social netwrok than first thought. By setting up two accounts called Ash Johnston, yellows had no idea which one was the legitimate Ash.

We found it difficult to come up with a proper list of what tools we wanted to use. We found that social networking sites such as twitter and second life probably dont have much room in the contexts of an organization striving for professional development. The only one we would consider using is Facebook bacause of the pages options, however they dont have a group chat tool, wiki, blog or anything and we would need to implement that INTO facebook instead of picking an off the shelf social networking utility that has these in-built features.

We found it difficult to maintain the site, knowing if everyone had a presence in it or if we were missing people.

How is a work-related social network developed and sustained?

2009-10-26T06:47:00.000-07:00

Once testing and research has been done on a particular social network, the CIO must decide if the project to implement a social network is feasible or not. If the project is feasible abd the implementation goes ahead:-

A work-related social network is set up and maintained by a core user of the organisation. This core user will have waited for instructions from a superior or boss figure before any such online content was set up. The core user is the "owner" of the tool, and has administrative privileges to the social network. The core user implies ownership - they are the contact if something goes wrong. They are able to control what happens in the social network. The core user then creates the social network, whether it be a ning, a blog that users can share, a wiki, a forum, or some other online tool.

Once it has been created, the core user must sit with their superior and discuss appropriate uses of the site. This includes hours or minutes spent on the social networking site per day, how many people can be added, what other tools they can include, appropriate behaviour, and use of language, the structure of the organisation and communication, the appropriate conduct when replying to colleagues, and the appropriate way to take action on resolving a disagreement or argument. The appropriate usages information sheet needs to be fully documented and handed to staff.

Once the guidelines for usage have been documented and given out, the owner needs to add users to the social network. They can do this by creating accounts for users and then giving out the details (this isn't so good though because users have a stigma about their identity being protected), or the easier method - to send out email requests for employees to join.

If staff are being expected to use the social network, adequate up-to-sctratch training needs to be provided to use the social network and the tools included on it. The training should be offered to all parties who plan on using the social network. The training should happen before users are expected to use the new system.

Once all users are trained, and uses documented, the core user can launch the social networking site for all users to play with and learn. The core user is then responsible for maintaining the availibility of the social network, performing any additions to the features and upgrading if necessary.

Pages can be created just like in facebook where you can have a page to house a group of related users to a task at hand.

The core user needs to add (or send requests) to new employees when they arrive at the organisation, and also, remove illegitimate users who have left the company. This is crucial for the value of the organisation's information and knowledge. This task can be extremely messy for organisations with large numbers of users.

Many businesses have banned the use of social networking sites, because of the trend in how they were used - for socialising online only. There was little to do with support, and collaboration. From one aspect you have the whole distraction factor making it easy to go off task and end up concentrating on chatting to other colleagues. In addition there is also the downward spiral of work completion, as time is taken over by chatting the percentage rate would naturally fall. It would encourage procrastination, and allow people who work and maintain a work related social network to refine the art of procrastination.

How do Web 2.0 tools (blogs, wikis, podcasts and video lectures) complement such social networks?

2009-10-26T06:32:00.000-07:00

Web 2.0 tools can complement any social network by increasing functionality, offering more features, and making styles of communication easier for all involved. It is one thing to have everyone have a web presence and say, be able to receive distribution list emails, but it is another thing to have all those users log in to a page and collaborate, share and disseminate information. Web 2.0 tools make this happen!

Yellow group decided that to get the most out of the social networks, you had to match the right tools to the right style of social network. We also decided that Second Life, while being a social network, has no place for structure and language for it to need web 2.0 tools. It is a game, so we left it out of the confines of our results.

Facebook - With the many different pages you can have, i think that any type of web 2.0 tool would be useful or suitable for facebook. A member can have three different sites - 2009 report, xmas party plan, and november proposal. Each page might have 5 different members. These members need to commune their ideals and proposals. They should do this (as it is structured, and you can see the members of the group clearly) through blog or wiki format. In highly structured circumstances, video lectures would be appropriate for demonstrations, teaching, and showing processes for things, or steps for a function. So a blog would be appropriate for collecting ideas, such as where should we hold the xmas party? A wiki would be handy if you were writing a report such as november proposal....how to start it, fixing and deliberating on the content, the way it is written etc. A video lecture would be good for demonstrations on how to do things for geographically scarce employees or group members ie, how to fix a certain error message. It would also be good for presentations, or project representations, which could enhance the productivity or understanding of the group.

Twitter - Twitter produces many small amounts of information as posts. I think that a video lecture would be an appropriate tool here. For example you could back up the 'tweet' "Check out Mike's presentation at AuSakai 2009" and post a video underneath it of the presentation. The majority of the employees wouldn't have been able to make it so showing them would be a great communication move. You can also post things such as "this is how you download and install the new software we will be using" While Twitter is extremely basic, its uses can be greatly enhanced by becoming a learning page full of posts and video tool, and how to guides.

What are the issues involved with using social networks for professional development in the workplace?

2009-10-26T05:24:00.000-07:00

Professional Development is essential. It is vital for every business and professional organization to increase the knowledge and skills of their employees. They should strive to enhance the quality of performance, to ensure an improvement on the personal and professional front. As professional development is needed for every business and every group of close working employees, it swings into Web 2.0, social networks and wikis. Today, you have businesses that operate globally. The CSU IT Service desk services lecturers and students over in Ontario, Canada, and Singapore, China and Malaysia. There is a high need in these situations for users to be brought closer together. To make communication swift, fast, accurate, and easy. Phones arent good because of time differences. Video Conferences arent good because of time differences. This leaves email, and possibly the use of social networks.

After researching with yellow poddies we came to the conclusion that social networks are detremental to professional development and to organizations. After tossing up the pro's and con's of having them we decided that with the current web 2.0 tools and a few new betas, that there was no good reason that outweighed all the bad ones. In short, it wasn't feasible.

Many of the tools don't fit in with the current social contraints or business constraints of an organistaion. The organization would have to be a learning organization and be willing to grow.

Some issues regarding social networks -

By using such a medium, you are actively promoting slang, and in-formal language/communications - the opposite of what is achieved with professional development. So in a bound and a leap, we are already having a detremental effect on Professional Development by making communication so casual as it's transferred. This would in turn ruin business ethic and respect. The only thing i cant think of here that it would be good for is geting to know your colleagues out of the confinements of the virtual and/or physical office.

Information may be lost while attempting to share it. For example in Twitter you can only use 160 characters per post. So if you use all your 160 characters, but havn't finished the sentence there is a loss of information.

Identity theft - social networks and online sites that are not set to private can easily be looked up by others, and those details used to create a fake account. This becomes extremely important in an organization where what you are selling is capital knowledge. You want to stay ahead of your competitors at all costs, and by posting and housing information anywhere other than your heavily guarded servers is a big no-no! You must also control who has access to certain pages and sites. You never give any one person more access than they are going to need.

Moderators of the group sites and pages will need to keep inviting or removing people from the group as employees start with the company or leave the company.

From what we saw and studied it seems professional development promotes the use of recreational behaviour, and because it is recreational behaviour during normal work hours, it is negatively effecting productivity as it cuts into your work day hours. By making yourself contactable via business social networks it can allow your professional life to interfere with your private life. People have been let go or penalised for posting things online that their bosses or similar dont agree with or like. The risk that you will think something is ok to say, but your boss disagrees is high.

There is huge risk that things can be mis-communicated. Such that three people can read one sentence and get three different things out of it. As you could have colleagues from all around the globe it is also important you articulate what you say with care so you do not accidentally offend someone's culture, religion or looks.

Yellow group and i thought that maybe some of the new web 2.o tools (such as googlewave) coming out would be better used for professional development, or even smart conferencing software where you can share desktops, but for now, professional development should steer clear of social networking sites.

Facebook findings:

2009-10-26T03:19:00.000-07:00

Facebook was by far the best option seemingly, but also the most distracting. There are many different ways that facebook can be used. You can post messages on pages, create private inbox messages for people to read, you can create pages for people to join, and control who has access to them, you can post pictures and links and videos.

The negative aspects of this is it takes alot of formality out of socializing with colleagues, and slang will most likely start to be used. That, and that there are tons of quizzes and applications to keep you distracted from doing proper work on there.

Facebook was by far the easiest to navigate and use, however.

Second Life findings:

2009-10-26T03:04:00.000-07:00

I found second life to be annoying. Annoying and useless. There were always requests and comments made by people i didn't know and it was too distracting. I wouldn't be able to use this to get to know my colleagues as it seems everyone on second life has an avatar they hide behind, whether it is making themselves more appealing looks-wise on their toony selves, or acting different to what they normally would, hiding behind a character that you can move around.

I cannot see the benefits or the applications for second life to be used as a tool to promote professional development in the workplace.

Twitter Findings:

2009-10-26T02:44:00.000-07:00

Once we had set up our presence on Twitter I found that information was passed different ways by different people. I would say this was because of an outgoing personality or a closed personality. Some people would only tweet stuff about the assignment, others would tweet everything - what they had for breakfast and what they were browsing for online etc.

I have mixed opinions about twitter. It seems like a great tool USED IN CONJUNCTION with something else, but little quips posted by many people can get very frustrating to use, and very hard to follow.

If you were to post something and then add a picture, or a video to twitter, this would be the best way to get the message accross, not using twitter as the be all and end all, but by assisting twitter, so you can post and house things on the online community. The aliases thing was a bit annoying. If you used it for business, you wouldnt be able to have the organizations usernames as the twitter usernames and controlling who can see your page would become a nightmare!

Preparing for group work.

2009-10-26T01:52:00.000-07:00

Our scenario states that we have been asked by a CIO to work with the IT manager to report on the use of social networks in providing professional development experiences for staff. From the definition of Professional Development:-

- refers to skills and knowledge attained for both personal development and career advancement. This includes rapour with clients, co-workers and alike.

In today's society it is becomming more and more commonplace to have web presence, and to cater for a 24/7 audience. The CIO of the company wants us to research and test new ways of interacting with staff, colleagues, and customers. Three mediums were suggested - Facebook, Second Life, and Twitter. Our yellow POD set themselves up on each of these three tools, and we attempted to research the ways that these three mediums COULD POSSIBLY bring a higher degree of skill and knowledge, not only inter-personally, but intra-personally.

Professional development is all about advancing one's self within the confines of the business to become someone that is approachable, friendly, and whom upholds themselves as a business professional. Profession Development should also be used to better inetractivity, and possibly using this to increase market share.

The CIO knows how important it is for colleagues to get along - it makes things run much smoother, it gets customers fast turn around times, and it helps the business mesh together and run seamlessly.

As previously mentioned, businesses today are global conglomerates of suppliers, manufacturers and deliverers, meaning staff could literally be anywhere in the world. Web 2.0 is helping to break down the structure of a physical office and thrust employees into the world of the virtual office - that is being able to work anywhere, at any time. Many of these employees will not get the chance to meet and greet with their colleagues, let alone get to KNOW them.

The CIO sees Social Networking as a way to fix this issue. By researching the idea that Social Networks can help you get to know your colleagues, employees will have a better understanding of how to get along and work together, no matter the distance between them.

Prep for assignment 2

2009-10-25T06:21:00.000-07:00

Yellow group and I started with some brief chatting and getting to know you stuff on Facebook first. Diana then set up a ning for all of us to join so that we could discuss the objectives of the assignment. We did this using the forum functions of the group ning.

First we were to identify:-

Social Network - We decided they were web-based services that allow individuals to construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system. The nature and nomenclature of these connections may vary from site to site.

Professional Development - Professional development refers to skills and knowledge attained for both personal development and career advancement.This includes rapour with clients, co-workers and alike.

Web 2.0 - "Web 2.0" refers to what was perceived as a second generation of web development and web design. It is characterised as facilitating communication. It includes tools such as blogs and wikis, podcasts and vodcasts, and alike.

Blog -A personal or corporate website in the form of an online journal, with new entries appearing in sequence as they are written. Usually updated by one person, and often with the use of an alias or fake name to aid anonymity.

Micro-blog - a form of multimedia blogging that allows users to send brief text updates or micromedia such as photos or audio clips and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group which can be chosen by the user.

wiki - is a website that allows multiple users to create, modify and organize web page content in a collaborative manner.

mash-up - a new breed of Web-based applications to mix at least two different services from disparate and even competing companies.

Stay tuned for more on assignment 2!

Chatting environment

2009-09-14T05:59:00.000-07:00

My favourite chatting environment so far would have to be skype. I love being able to see and hear my peers taht are all ove rthe globe! However we are connected at the same time, talking to each other with minimal delays in speech. Skype not only allows for voice and video chat, it is a great easy to use tool! The buttons are large enough and a heuristic evaluation by myself and my friend (both first time users) have proven it is easy to use and navigate while also not lacking in visual appearance. It was great this semester slowly getting to know each other each week.

My least favourite chatting medium was Google talk. Now, look, it WAS only a beta, but google should know better before reaeasing that stuff! It was terribad. The video only worked one on one, it was hard to use, you had to have a gmail email account to use it, the text functionality was hard to navigate, and DO NOT get me started on trying to add users to a conference! BAH! the colour scheme was terrible, and plain, and i couldn't navigate my way around at all.

Facebook i like, as i used it everyday anyway. It is easy to use and great to catch up with people that are all over the globe, or even for finding people you havn't seen in years. Facebook chat however is an abomination, and i think people should stick with msn chat or even skype without the video and audio. Face book chat is terrible, but for learning more detailed descriptions and seeing pictures of my peers it is a great tool.

The interact Chat tool is very very easy to use, and read. Each person was able to log straight in and post comments, however we did run into a wee bit of cunfusion after all the colours (one per person in chat) were exhausted. It got slightly confusing when two dark blue people were typing.

The first thing we did in our pod groups was enter a chat changing website. This was a great learning experience especially for the poor lady in my group who didn knot you could edit text!

All in all, the weekly tasks have been fun, informative, and a good learning experience.

Essay

2009-09-14T05:51:00.001-07:00

Assignment 1: ITC213

The boom of the Web 2.0 has seen many new online technologies that bridge the gap between geographically and time-wise dispersed persons, bringing them together in aid of a common goal or objective. Two people that have helped revolutionise web 2.0 in today’s society are: David Winer and Adam Curry.

David Winer, - the protoblogger - a software engineer, is widely known by peers and web entrepreneurs alike as a father to podcasting and blogging, and making great contributions to RSS, (Winer, 2007). Winer used to create software projects to be sold to large organisations. The major works include : –

1:- Creating one of the first blogs called Scripting News, and creating the interest for people to USE and VIEW blogs on webpage Dave-Net (Oxyegen Inc, 2009).

2:- David created a Really Simple Syndication technology that paved the way for RSS news feeds, and blog updates to subscribers, (Winer, 2007). RSS was given life by David in 1997, which allows users to create their own custom home pages for subscription feeds to be fed to. RSS was improved my David to bring RSS 2.0, making 1 obsolete. RSS is a blog tool, aiding the development and usability of Blogs.

3:- David was a keen problem solver, and after being asked by Adam Curry, he developed an RSS element that would pass an address of a media file to an RSS aggregator. In David’s web-blogging tool Radio Userland, which had a built in aggregator, the components were able to be sent and received, creating audio blogging, (Wiki, 2009).

The evolution was for David, firstly after becoming so sick of Microsoft, to play his own game, and help define the Blog. Once the blog had caught on, the emphasis was on how to improve blogs, and extend the blog usability to many new different areas that were yet to be defined.

In my opinion, there were two lightbulb moments for Winer – the first was creating this blog tool for users to describe daily angst or any other daily activities they wish to publicize. The other tool was the RSS tool, that is used by websites, and news feeds, online magazines, and by blogs. David really helped emphasise and extend the usability functions of Blogs. I think David is a good manager for his work group. He has responded to Adam Curry’s want and need for audio-blogging and together they have created podcasting. David has realised that other users may have wants and needs that will help make blogging become a better tool. Winer has profiles on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Flickr, making use of other web tools that strive to bring together online communities.

Adam Curry – Otherwise known as the Podfather – was an MTV radio host for around 7 years and was one of the first celebrities to run and administer their own website (Wiki, 2009). Curry was one of the first people to create a successful podcast show, called Daily Source Code, and his heart is truly with audio-blogging and podcasting, (Wiki, 2009). Adam has spent his life as a broadcasting personality and also as a young internet entrepreneur aiding and changing the way users receive information. Adam also used his time to script and record promotions for other podcasting websites, and was heavily involved with a few of these. Adam was so into getting audio out to subscribers that he created a domain mtv.com around the time of the internet first appearing for general use, that got all mtv related information out to subscribers. Although podcasting was around before, it was Adam that synergised the way podcasts were created, (wiki, 2009). Adam brought his radio host expertise to podcasting, garnishing it with proper scripts, proper audio content and mixing this with RSS for subscribers, changing the way podcasts were going to be created completely.

Adam worked with David Winer to get podcasts and RSS to run hand in hand. Together, They synergised a way to get podcasts to download and transform to play on mp3 players, and ipods, (Wiki, 2009). It seems Adam also has a big head, since he has been caught changing the podcasting history wiki page to include more information about himself being the frontier to wikis, (Workbench, 2005).

I think Adam is a good change manager, changing the emphasis of written blogs to audio blogs and even changing the way that podcasts are created, as everyone followed suit with how to make them. I have done extra-curricular podcasting work myself, as i prefer to listen than to read, and i think it is important to synergise a set of rules to follow when creating podcasts. There must be a bench mark to follow, and it seems Adam has helped set this.

Both men have been entrepreneurs to the way users gather and follow information, David with creating the ways to do things, and Adam in setting guidelines on how to deliver the information. Each has played a major role in online community development and the development for new online technologies that are becoming or have become commonplace.

Wikipedia. (2009). Dave Winer. Retrieved 13^th September from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Winer#Podcasting

Winer, D. (2007). Dave Winer bio. Retrieved 13^th September from http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/02/21/daveWinerBio.html

Oxygen Media Inc. (2009). David Winer. Retrieved 13^th September from http://ecommerce.hostip.info/pages/1086/Winer-David.html

Wikipedia, (2009). Daily Source Code. Retrieved 13^th September from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Source_Code

Workbench. (2005). Adam cought in sticky wiki. Retrieved 13^th September http://workbench.cadenhead.org/news/2818/adam-curry-caught-sticky-wiki

Topic 5

2009-09-10T06:12:00.000-07:00

Where do I exist? – Interact, CSU email, Hotmail, MSN, Facebook, Twitter, Blog, Forums, Gmail account, Online Games.
None of these have exactly the same information, and i believe that they shouldn’t! I don’t want people finding out too much about me, as im afraid of identity theft. My persistent identity shows that im a young female and my first name shortened, plus my lastname. That is about all that is common place across the board. I don’t think that anything else should be displayed across the board as i wish to protect my identity, however if people want to know something about me they should feel free to ask! I will either say yes or no!

Q2:-
A social architect is a person who plans, devises or contrives the achievement of a desired result for human interaction and behaviours. They facilitate interactions and lead communities online, by planning for interactions. They aid sharing and enabling between users and a site.
Shuffle brain – Objectives, to find embedded icons in a picture, and to do it in record time! Rules of engagement – to upload facebook accepted decent pictures of your choosing and submit them to play with. You can use default pics also. Unique features – it doesn’t just choose the game for you, it lets you create one yourself using your own photos.
The Social architect here is Facebook. They are indded social architects as they have set up the facebook site and facilitate usage, as long as users comply with rules. They have also created a how to guide for how to use the system for first time users.

Whyville – Objective – Design your face, and earn clams (the currency in whyville). You also desing your car and make friends using this avatar. Rules of engagement – im sure appropriate language would be a big one here, but other than that you have free reign on what you look like, and what items you have. There aren’t too many unique features here, as there are many games that do similar, if not the same thing, take neopets(playing games to earn neopoints), facebook fluff friends, the sims, second life etc etc. They all do basically the same thing. Im not sure ‘WHO’ is the social architect, but i believe they still are one, as they have facilitated the use of whyville, with logins and password, and also have guidleines to stick with.

Topic 4 parts 1,2, 3 & 4

2009-09-10T03:39:00.001-07:00

How would I manage my blog or wiki?

I would manage this with respect to the user. Obviously people are going to have their own opinions, and wants and needs, but these should tie under a specific purpose to the blog, such that, if the wiki was about dogs and someone started changing the information to include cats, it would sway from the general community bias of dogs, and the user’s postings would need to be undone, or removed with warning. An online discussion forum must also be prepared for debatable topics, such as religion or politics, and each member of the forum should be given rules to comply with so that things can be discussed freely without nonsense of name calling and direct attacking.

Q2:- My blog site is blog host Blogger.com. The purpose of my community is to post answers as a submission. These answers are tasks in the subject ITC213, and a few of my colleagues are following my blog. My vision is such that my colleagues can come and see my point of view, or my opinion on topics they have a different, or even similar opinion to. The community is easy to work with. The hardest part is finding each other in the first place, as we are constantly asking for email addresses on the forums, and the postings get lost somewhere towards the bottom of the forum. There is a description, or profile that bloggers can fill out about themselves, however this isn’t for everyone. A lot of people wish to remain anonymous on their blogs, however for the folk who don’t mind, they are able to submit a thumbnail picture of themselves, along with a brief description and their likes and dislikes, giving back ground info on the user. Community rules have been developed in that i will never reveal the company i work for, or my name. Lucky for my name is androgynous, so people may think i am either sex until they read more about me. I expect that as rules go, no one would leave inappropriate or rude comments on my blog, as i am definitely the leader on my page. Regular events do promote relationships with my followers, and there will come a time where they might feel they ‘know’ me without having even met me. If i do not post for a while, subscribers would become less interested and may not be willing to play ‘catch-up’ on my online life. I am only one person, with 4 followers, this is not a large group, hence no need for subgroups, no is there a need for people to have roles on my blog.

As for the 3 underlying principles:-

- My blog allows for growth and change, as I can create more pages and topics, follow others, and change the appearance, or details on the blog. I can edit pre-existing posts, change the colour scheme, and the layout of my page.

- Community feedback can be created with the comment button. It can also be deleted or maintained, with me being able to delete unwanted comments.

- The blog does not allow for my followers to have more control. The only thing they can do is subscribe to my blog, and comment on it. I prefer it this way, seeing as it is MY page... J

Exercise 2:-

3 Ways a user can have more control in an online community are:-

- Be given more accesses – some users a part of an online forum may have read accesses only until they have served a certain amount of days on the forum, when they are granted write accesses.

- A user can become the leader of an online community and coordinate members – for example a guild leader in an MMORPG or online multi player game, who coordinates other members to attack the enemy.

- A user can make friends in an online community and be more comfortable in posting and expressing themselves, or conveying their opinions.

Q2:- 3 tips/rules i have learnt from online meetings and interactions:

- Steer clear of any conversations that involve religion and or politics, as they always, always, always end up messy.

- Do not criticize or attack people, as it always, always, always, ends up messy, especially when you are new to that particular online community and the person you’re attacking has been there longer.

- Always, always, always, re-read your words BEFORE you post. If something can easily be misconstrued, change the wording, or omit the sentence altogether.

Q3:- Social networking sites must develop a guideline for usage, not only to guide and assist newcomers to the community with acceptable behaviours and practices for usage, but to aid existing members and remind them of acceptable behaviours and social policies of how to treat other individuals. A main reason why is because people have grown up in different cultures with different belief systems, and when you put these people in a room together you are likely to get clashes, and differences of opinion. The guidelines provide a law to abide by and any member that doesn’t comply may be omitted from the community. The laws are there for people to check what is acceptable and what is the norm.

Q4:-

Sites for learning:

Have challenges for learning - Ning, Deli.cious, RevYu, Digg, Bubbl.us.

Don not impose challenges for learning - Yahoo, Bebo, FB, YT, LinkedIn, TeacherTube, Twitter, MySpace, Flickr, SocialGo, Reddit.

Sites for challenges with professional development in the workplace

All sites impose issues with professional development in the workplace because people tend to forget that once the information is up there it can be retrieved by anyone, and you may have posted something that shows you as inapproriate or gives your workplace the impression you are noty professional.

Topic 3 parts 1 & 2

2009-09-10T02:30:00.000-07:00

Battle for wesnoth!

.....And it indeed was a battle! I got temprarily addicted to this game! I battled with a friend online. My goodness... the points, the money, the citizens........the.......the.......WOW! Best. Assignment. Ever.
This was a great game to play online, and i found alot of people talking to me, wanting me to join up with them, and buy things off them - usually overpriced! - but no one wanted to be my friend :( (naaaawwwwwwww)
I found that everyone wanted to play the game to their own advantage and no one was willing to be my friend like they were in say second life, or even on FB, so wesnoth was disappointing in that regard. Still a great way to join up with a buddy and kill off some boredom!

Part 2:-

What id the educational value of mobile social network access?
- Mobile applications using GPS/MCS
Many new types of hand-held devices are becoming commonplace technologies at school, work and in leisure. The benefit of each of these tools, or the aim of them, is to make life, simpler, information gathering faster, and ultimately for ease of use for things in everyday life.

One such device is a GPS, or global positioning device, that uses satellite navigation technology to locate a person, place or thing’s current location, normally within metres. As Wyryzowski (2009), explains, A GPS device can track the location of an object or person, so if a family was spilt up in territory they were unfamiliar with, by using GPS, they would be able to track each other down. However, the GPS device has sparked debate on how educational it actually is. Sure, it’s convenient, lightweight, and gives you a degree of social network access, however, it is replacing the use of conventional maps in cars world-wide. Just as texting seems to have ruined generation Y’s ability to properly use the English language, it has been forethought that GPS will ruin Gen Y’s ability to read a map, and convey the information to find their destination, (Hoell, 2009).

GPS does give the upper hand educationally-wise, with generation Y being able to use technology, interpret a GUI, decipher information and convey messages, or even listen to instructions from a recorded voice on how to reach your destination. It also can determine terrain, and can re-navigate your path for you if you missed the next turn, however, what will it do for you when you are out of range, there is heavy cloud cover, or you are in a tunnel? Hoell, (2009) states that the GPS signal will be lost, and unless you know how to read a map, you’ll be lost too!

Hoell, K. (2009). Will global Positioning Systems (GPS) ever replace conventional maps? Retrieved 5th Sept 2009 from http://www.helium.com/items/1191770-gps-replace-conventional-maps

Wyryzowski, S. (2009). 12 Practical uses of GPS for everyday people. Retrieved 5th Sept 2009 from http://ezinearticles.com/?12-Practical-Uses-of-GPS-for-Everyday-People&id=74085

Janai!

Topic 2 parts 1, 2, 3 & 4

2009-08-18T03:16:00.000-07:00

Part 1 - Facebook -

Upon searching for groups in Facebook there are around 401 CSU members on one particular site. I'm the 401st. The ethics involved in Facebook are questionable i feel. I will bullet-point the reasons...

*People are unaware of security and privacy issues. They are unaware their identities could be stolen, and most use passwords that are easy to guess.
*Young people are unaware that what they are putting up in the public arena could stay around to haunt them for years - ie missing out on a job because of drunken photos.
*People post private details of their life in the public arena.
*People accept friend invites from users they do not actually know. These individuals then have free access to your page just so you can look popular and gain 1 friend.
*Facebook recently made the accounts so that you could see a picture and see the friends of someone who has not yet accepted your friend request.

I think users, mainly young people, do not know how to use facebook properly. They over-use it in a sense, as they are not old enough, or experienced enough to make judgement on what parts of their lives should or should not be thrust into public face. Their lack of judgement carries over to private, often intimate relationship details, or vicious and nasty arguments being in the public eye. It is important people are advised and warned of this before signing upto sites. Pictures should also be kept private - Many young people do not understand the seriousness of pictures of themselves being used from facebook.

Part 2 - Second Life

I joined second life, as did my friend (whose name i shall leave blank). We searched together and found each other online. Now, i know my friend well, and they know me...but our avatars looked completely different. I think that second life is a way of making people feel better about their lives as life is not controllable but second life is. You can be who you want to be, or what you want to be without judgement of others:- Hence, My friend's avatar (and my own) did not look like us - it looked how we wanted to be perceived, which is often better looking than what you would see in real life.

The next thing i noticed was a few people trying to talk to me, and when it took to long to reply (as i was figuring out the buttons) - they called me a n00b. Noob. Great. Yes, i am new to this, but once upon a time you were too you *******. (Use your imagination for that one....it can be whatever you want it to be!). There seems to be a general feel that there is a lack of tolerance for "noobs." Then when these n00bs grow up - they are likely to call other newcomers n00bs to make them feel better about the time where they were embarrassingly enough - called a n00b by some random individual on second life, that probably is sitting at home in a chair that is almost melded to their bum from usage, typing away with cheezle-crumb fingers, and burping carbonated gas from some coke 'zero' product they think will help them shed a few pounds the easy way.

As you can probably tell i do not like second life. That and the fact it is a giant money generator from people that cannot stand the sight of some '3D animated' image of themselves being uncool, or not having friends, or new animated clothes, and the list goes on. Second Life has crossed the border and delved into the land of the ridiculous. Avatars are seen as people's 'babies' that they have to nurture and develop and grow until it's something they can be proud of - but how the heck can you be proud of that?!

Part 3 -

My face book persona is basically me. Ofcourse i have left off details of my life that i do not want the general public to know, but what i'm doing at uni and where i work is on there. Facebook is the only online persona i actually care about - therefore i will make it like me. I would not put anywhere near as much detail on any other social networking site or tool. I have not included religious beliefs or political beliefs as i think it causes problems. I don't want someone to read this and pass judgement on me before i meet them, so for that i have made my avatar as neutral as possible.

They CAN however make judgement on my likes and dislikes. I do not mind sharing that information as it is objectionable in that everyone has different taste. I also do not mind sharing photos with my friends - as long as facebook never gets me fired, or miss out on a new job because someone found out something they shouldn't have - then everything is ok!

Part 4 - Explaining Dick

Dick's presentation brought up 4 points about online fraud and online security issues. These are Phishing, Farming, Identity Theft, and Privacy Invasion.

Phishing is used by bots to scan the web for email addresses so that they can send hoax emails, either to obtain credit card information, or to send out viruses to users. Example - a phishing system could obtain a bunch of email addresses for commonwealth back customers, create a fake email, and send to all. This could be enquiring about their credit card information, and some un-thoughtful users would unknowingly give their details and their credit card could be used.

Pharming - Is when scammers farm the internet in search of harmless users and scam them. Pharming is a more involved and developed form of Phishing where coders try to duplicate real world as best they can. If someone thought they were logging into their online bank and it was a Pharming scam - the hackers could take control of their account until the bank is notified.

Identity Theft - Is when someone creates an account pretending to be someone they are not. For example, Australian Comedian and Musician Tim Minchin has a facebook site. There are 4 other "Tim Minchin's" claiming to be THE Tim Minchin... This can lead to all sorts of privacy drama.

Privacy invasion - An in vasion of one's own privacy. The unwanted, unauthorized view of seeking out a person's information and using it in a way the user has not agreed to. This could include Facebook photos. You can view a person's photos in an album (of whom you are not friends with) provided one of your friends is tagged in the album. This allows for access to photos they should not have access to. Some persons go further in using this information by distributing the photos or putting them in a place on the web that the owner has not warranted.

Topic 2 ist kaputt!

Seeya Later!

Heuristic Experience Topic 1 part 3

2009-08-17T04:41:00.000-07:00

Heuristic Evaluation:- Evaluation of a User Interface Design. The goal is to find the usability problems in the design, so they can be worked out and fixed during the iterative design process. It involves having evaluators examine the interface and judge its compliance with recognized usability principles.

http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/

The Heuristic Evaluation I used was from http://oldwww.acm.org/perlman/question.cgi

I would love to have done an eval on the CSU system, but i know all the ins and outs already. I think this should be done on a relatively new system, you aren’t too familiar with.

Therefore, i have chosen a bank that i do not bank with – ANZ.

Q1 - 6 - It was very categorized.

Q2 - 6

Q3 - 6

Q4 - 5 - There is too much information for a new user. You have to read everything to find what you want.

Q5 - 5

Q6 - 6

Q7 - 3 - It was simple to learn once you get over the initial *whack* of information.

Q8 - 5

Q9 - 4 - The error messages were clear, but hard to find! They were not large, or bold.

Q10 - 4

Q11 - 5

Q12 - 6

Q13 - 5 - Information is easy to understand but there is so much of it!

Q14 - 5

Q15 - 2 - All the pages are too cluttered. There are way too many boxes and links and tabs.

Q16 - 2 - As above.

Q17 - 1 - I do not like the look of the interface.

Q18 - 5 -

Q19 - 5

Positives :-

*There is lots of info - you can research and banking topic.

*The bright colours enable good visability.

* -

Negatives :-

*Lingo and terminology is used that people would not immediately recognise. (ie - "SmartyBank")

*Web site is too busy and cluttered. There are too many links and tabs. Too much info to sort through.

*Limited use of online forms. For almost everything you need to call the bank or visit the nearest branch.

Overall the website had good information - it was just poorly set out. After a few times accessing this website i think i would have it downpat.

Au Revoir

Topic 1 part 2

2009-08-17T02:32:00.000-07:00

Topic 1 part 2

Folksonomy aka collaborative tagging, is a collection of people who participate together in organizing information into categories. It is a word that has been formed from the words folk – (people) and taxonomy – (or taxis – to arrange/organise). Folksonomy is used by participants to organise content such as web pages and photographs by using labels called tags. Tags are used to ease users in their search for information.

Two widely used websites for folksonomy are Flickr (for photos) and del.icio.us.

The website Del.icio.us stores the most popular tags on the homepage for users going to the site. Folksonomy is a flat namespace, in that there is no hierarchy. There are related tags however for similar search functions.

http://www.enterprisesocialsoftware.info/glossary

http://www.adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediated-communication/folksonomies.html

The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project is about creating a Web work of machine-readable homepages describing people, the links between them and the things they create and do. Tags are also used for FOAF, highlighting users interests and their relationship to other people. It is a project designed to compliment the web as for connecting social networking sites, in that it bridges the gap between facebook users and users that chose a different social networking tool.

http://www.foaf-project.org/

Topic 1 part 1

2009-08-17T01:15:00.000-07:00

(Bah! Here be the start of the uni stuff...)

Social Networking

The article implies that social networking is for groups of people with common interests that can use Information technologies as a means of communication to discuss these interests. One of the more common mediums is websites. The websites are sites you can be granted access to, and once access is granted you can read other peoples pages, and info, and discuss and share your own experiences.

Social networking is bridging the gap between time zones, and geographic regions to bring people 'togther' but online, extending the amount of people a communication can reach, and opening the discussion to (usually) a world-wide forum of users, information, opinions, and alike.

http://www.whatissocialnetworking.com/

Online Collaboration

Online Collaboration is the use of Information Technology to facilitate a group of users to work together on a particular task or topic. It is a facilitator of effective learning, and like Social networking, bridges the gaps between people in different time zones and geographic locations. Collaboration is necessary to create an efective learning environment, providing the necessary discussions, arguments, agreements, that people need to reflect on before learning becomes knowledge.

Online collaboration brings about convenience for collaborative work groups, and with the numerous tools now available, it will only get easier, and more in use.

http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/proceedings/agostinho/paper.html

Auf Weidersehen!

yawwwwwn

2009-08-10T03:22:00.000-07:00

Been a bit ill over the past few days, but thought i'd post once more before getting into the uni stuff (YUCK!). I'll only make it a short one, but i got pondering today whether or not people think about what they say before they say it. For example, where i work, we have alot of students. (I'm being sneaky here again....can't reveal my *awesome* identity). One student brought their laptop that needed fixing - as i said, i'm a spunky can-do career girl in IT - and making idle chit-chat he says, "It's been so cold here, when is it summer in *particular town*?"

*stares blankly* - "Uhh, usually in the summer months....you know, like, December to February..."

*student screws up face* - "What?!? I'm not even going to BE here then...is it going to be winter until then?"

*looks down at computer to avoid eye contact* - "No usually we have a bit of an in-betweener called Spring."

*student smiles* - "Oh yeah! ....Spring!"

I quickly finished up and sent him on his merry way. Won't tell you what he was studying, but you *do* need a UAI of 90 + hmmm...

That's about it for now. I think i'll do some actuall uni work (hehe)...

Sayonara!

Greetings and Salutations...

2009-08-05T01:46:00.000-07:00

Greetings and Salutations,

This is my first blog, shy about it being in the public eye, but i think i have enough of a thick skin, and a heavy internet disguise (haha, a monkey >.> ) to get over that pretty quickly. I'll start this off by pondering for a moment (gee, i'm deep), the fact that i hate Mondays, and I hate rainy days...so if a rainy day falls on a monday, do they cancel each other out?

My first post and i've lied to you already...i *love* rainy days ><

Im a spunky can-do career woman, who works in IT, (not management or anything), and also unlike Jen Barber, i actually *do* know a thing or two about comp-uters. I was born and bred in the Central West of NSW, moved around alot while young, then after finishing school, packed up my bags and headed to CSU in Wagga to study IT. Now in my third year, i've left internal study to pursue a career in answering phones, leaving me with DE study.

My likes include laughing and smiling..(It's infectious, and easy to do), painting, making jokes out of practically everything i do, and long car trips with someone who doesn't mind the sound of me belting out the words to Don't stop me now by Queen.

My dislikes include pension day (for the down town traffic), bad drivers, queue cutters, show-boats, and teenagers....(i can only say that last one as of 5 months ago! Ha!)

I have one dog named Rufi who is black and white, only because I couldn't afford the coloured giga-pet.

Im thinking this is enough for my first ever posting, so thanks for reading!

Ciao!

ITtalk213

Topic 10

Topic 9

Topic 8.3, 8.4

Topic 8.1, 8.2

Topic 7.2

Topic 7

Topic 6:-

CIO Recommendations

Findings for CIO

How is a work-related social network developed and sustained?

How do Web 2.0 tools (blogs, wikis, podcasts and video lectures) complement such social networks?

What are the issues involved with using social networks for professional development in the workplace?

Facebook findings:

Second Life findings:

Twitter Findings:

Preparing for group work.

Prep for assignment 2

Chatting environment

Essay

Topic 5

Topic 4 parts 1,2, 3 & 4

Topic 3 parts 1 & 2

Topic 2 parts 1, 2, 3 & 4

Heuristic Experience Topic 1 part 3

Topic 1 part 2

Topic 1 part 1

*yawwwwwn*

Greetings and Salutations...

yawwwwwn