I'm back!- for more updates.
For this practical 2, we were told to do the following things:
1. Update my blog with the links and brief description of the 2 resources my had searched during Practical 2.
2. Write a paragraph about my reflections on lessons learnt during Pactical 1 & 2.
And so, let me update my blog with the links!
Personal
Description
Anything which affects the use of the web, mobile telephony, interactive TV, CDROM or any other new media for PR, or indeed the promotion of websites, the blogger talk about it here.
Organizational
Description
An online Business magazine which publishes anything and everything, including technology reviews- podcasting
Reflections
In practical 1, we were told to select a research topic from a list provided in Ole. After spending some time surfing the internet for information and much consideration, I've chosen this topic:
- Discuss the impact of blogging/podcasts on businesses
Then, we were asked on research on the topic that we've selected from the Discussion Forum, Electronic Journal/Magazine and one WWW site.
Before we started on our research, Ms Faridah, briefed us about what we need to do for Portfolio. She also showed us two 'A' graders' portfolio and websites, there was a clear distinction of 'A' graders work and those who did not do well. Many of the ‘A’ graders’ work was well written and had included many screen shots of the engines they used with explanations of the things they've found out e.g. the difference between an advance search and a normal search in Google. They had very good and insightful reflections as well. From the work they had produced, it was clearly shown that they had put in much effort- which means the to get an ‘A’ in UIR, we need to put in loads of effort. So who says UIR does not need much effort? But it is true that UIR is an easy, idiot-proof project. HA!
Being my first UIR practical, there are definitely difficulties faced! To think that I actually spent two hours to find three different websites from different internet resources!
That was pretty long! However this taught me to use key words to search for the most relevant information. On the other hand, this is not good enough as I believe there are better key search terms out there and I’ve yet to know it, which I believe I am going to learn it from this subject. I have also learned the definitions and the differences between a Discussion Forum, Electronic Journal/Magazine and WWW site.
In practical 2, we were asked to search the Internet for one Personal and one Organizational website and create our blog.
Already a blogspot blogger, creating and writing an entry is not a problem for me. However, I realized that there are many expert bloggers around! Thus, I really want/need to learn from them! Like the blogskin etc... It is kind of interesting to see other students’ blog too!
When I saw the outline of search a personal website and an organization website, I thought I would be able to complete this exercise easily and quickly. Nonetheless, I’ve spent a long time on this practical. The differences between a personal and organizational website were quite clear and understood, but as I begin to search on the internet, I realized that many of the websites have blurred the line between personal and organizational. Let me take this website for example (which I’ve spent long time figuring this out),
Interactive PR
http://interactivepr.blogspot.com/2006_11_01_archive.html
It is unmistakably that this site is maintained by a group of people from a company. However, the articles were being uploaded and shared by individual users! At this instant it comprises the features of both personal and organizational website. I always thought that a website can only be either a personal or an organizational website- I was wrong.
I was told by Ms Faridah that a website can be both a personal and an organization website. The above website is one example.
We were also told to cite our resources and how are we suppose to cite them the correct way. This was learnt in CMSK class before and this practical show that I’ve to once again recap and learn what I’ve learnt previously into action. =X the lecture was useful and the slide came in handy. I will definitely need them in the future!
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