Learning Unit #8

The two addresses for Learning Unit #8 are:

http://www.dhazimihalis.wetpaint.com

http://writer.zoho.com/public/jaguidosh/Untitled

Group #2 Link:  http://sites.google.com/e/student.ysu.edu/info-tech-tools-group-2/Home

The program I will probably use is the MS Word 2003/2007. The reason I am going to use this is because this is what my company uses. (Although we are still using Word 97 in my office). I will also try to use the ZOHO program for my personal use.

Facebook, ning, LinkedIn, pownce and friendfeed are all free social networking sites. These sites allow you to share just about anything. Below is a brief description of each site.

Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet. Facebook is made up of many networks, each based around a company, region, or school. Join the networks that reflect your real-life communities to learn more about the people who work, live, or study around you. Facebook’s Platform enables anyone, anywhere, to build complete applications that you can choose to use. The possibilities are endless. Define your experience on Facebook by choosing applications that are useful and relevant to your world.

LinkedIn is an onlinWhen you join, you create a profile that summarizes your professional accomplishments. Your profile helps you find and be found by former colleagues, clients, and partners. You can add more connections by inviting trusted contacts to join LinkedIn and connect to you.e network of more than 20 million experienced professionals from around the world, representing 150 industries. Your network consists of your connections, your connections’ connections, and the people they know, linking you to thousands of qualified professionals. Through your network you can:

Find potential clients, service providers, subject experts, and partners who come recommended
* Be found for business opportunities
* Search for great jobs
* Discover inside connections that can help you land jobs and close deals
* Post and distribute job listings
* Find high-quality passive candidates

Pownce is a social networking site that is described to send stuff to your friends. The things that you can send are music, photos, messages, links, events, and more.

FriendFeed enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among friends. The goal of FriendFeed is to make content on the Web more relevant and useful for you by using your existing social network as a tool for discovering interesting information. You get a customized feed made up of the content that your friends shared — from news articles to family photos to interesting links and videos. And your friends get their customized feeds, full of the cool stuff that you’ve shared.

Ning is another social networking site that we are currently using for our ENGR 6923 Information Technology Tools for Engineers. Forums, groups, gadgets, blogs can all be created from this site.

All of these sites are comparable. The differences are mostly in graphics and page style setup. There are numerous things that can be added and linked to each of these sites.

The choice of social networking program that I will use is LinkedIn. This site is a professional website and I believe will be useful for networking for business and other professional activities. Sometimes it is difficult to find new opportunities in my field. I believe that by using this program I will see what direction Civil Engineering is going in order to maximize my education and experience.

LinedIn:

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/7/80b/266

 

Friendfeed:

http://friendfeed.com/haz

 

Pownce:

http://pownce.com/dhazimihalis/

 

Stumble Upon:

http://jjhaz.stumbleupon.com/

 

Digg:

http://digg.com/users/jhaz

 

del.icio.us:

http://del.icio.us/dhazimihalis