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Madison DeSousa

Look Out, Facebook and Twitter - Pinterest, LinkedIn Are Gaining On You In Content Shar... - 0 views

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    • Madison DeSousa
      Madison DeSousa on 23 Jan 14
       
      This image shows how Pinterest has surpassed many other social media sites when it comes to sharing information. 
  • Pinterest sharing rose more than 19%
  • Pinterest and LinkedIn LNKD -1.57% grew faster in the amount of content shared with friends and acquaintances than either of the two leaders,
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  • The gain by Pinterest came close to making it the third most popular channel for sharing
ilana enoukov

What Constitutes Good and Bad Web Design? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Bad design can be infuriating, inconvenient or damaging in any field.
  • a well-designed Web site needs to deliver the same things as most other examples of good design by fulfilling its intended function efficiently and engagingly.
  • A common mistake is to prioritize style over substance
    • ilana enoukov
      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      An example of this is animation ; though it looks great it takes ages to upload, thus making the visitor furious
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  • principal problem with many Web sites is that their designers were neither rigorous nor imaginative enough in planning the way we will navigate them
  • If you find information swiftly and easily on a Web site, its designer has succeeded. But if you need to click on an inordinate number of buttons and links, or dither over what to do next, the designer has failed
  • Amazon’s site scores highly for navigational efficiency, but poorly in terms of the second criterion of good Web design, because it is far from engaging.
    • ilana enoukov
      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      Great relevant example of what author is trying to prove. 
  • ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
     
    The good, the bad, and the worse of web design
florencekong

Aywas: Collectible Creatures Online - 0 views

www.aywas.com

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  • florencekong on 08 Apr 14
     
    Let's just reveal everything about my regular online life, lol. I play a lot of 'virtual pet' sites, where you collect little creatures, but Aywas is one that stands out a lot. In the spirit of participatory media, it's a very different kind of participation from the usual kind of pet site. Aywas encourages users to create their own pets by colouring them in with sophisticated art programs (such as Photoshop) and submitting them. In turn, these pets are then eligible to be 'bred' with pets other users have made, and a site artist will mix and match the designs on both parent pets to create a new one. It's a very interesting concept and heavily user dependent for participation. If you're interested, shoot me a message at user ID #6429 and I can get you started!
Richard McMaster

Using Diigo in the Classroom - Student Learning with Diigo - 0 views

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  • Richard McMaster on 03 Sep 12
     
    Introduction Diigo is a powerful information capturing, storing, recalling and sharing tool. Here are just a few of the possibilities with Diigo: Save important websites and access them on any computer. Categorize websites by titles, notes, keyword tags, lists and groups. Search through bookmarks to quickly find desired information.
Michael Tran

Our Mission - StatCounter - 0 views

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  • StatCounter's mission is to help our members easily understand their visitors, so they can make good decisions to become more successful online.
  • Fast, Responsive, Quick loading Service
    • Michael Tran
      Michael Tran on 11 Mar 14
       
      I've personally never noticed any downtime
  • Well we certainly don't believe so - with StatCounter you get what is probably the most configurable free hit counter available in the world, as well as the option to go completely invisible. There are absolutely no ads on your website!
  • Michael Tran on 10 Mar 14
     
    I use this site for my blog to keep track of the geographic location of my viewers as well as how many views I get on a certain day to see how successful my posts seem to be. 
Claudia Yung

Spur - A fun and easy way to critique a webpage. - 0 views

www.spurapp.com

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  • Claudia Yung on 10 Mar 14
     
    A site that allows people to critique their website through various tools provided in the app. There are seven tools. For example; One is Grayscale, which makes your webpage black and white to see if the design still works. This helps a person to evaluate their website's design effectiveness.
Michael Tran

26 Places to Find Free Multimedia for Your Blog - 0 views

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  • Need a professional-looking image but don't have the budget for spendy stock photo houses? Check out these great alternatives for free stock photography.
    • Michael Tran
      Michael Tran on 11 Mar 14
       
      Blogs aren't too interesting to read without pictures in between to keep them attracted
  • Nothing makes a blog post more eye-catching than a great header image, but not all publishers have artistic talent. And even accomplished digital creatives often crave some found material to start from or work with in a project. Luckily for all of the above, sources abound for finding a compelling photo to grab your readers' eyes and draw them in, or to locate fresh multimedia to remix.
  • Michael Tran on 11 Mar 14
     
    A comprehensive list of sites for people to find free audio, video, and visual media to add extra detail and spark to their websites.
Michael Tran

Why Should My Website Have a RSS Feed? What is a RSS Feed? - 0 views

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  • It seems like almost every Website or blog you visit has a RSS feed. They have been around for years and the buzz is up about them as the technology continues to go mainstream.
  • More free traffic to your site
  • It’s an easy way to update your audience
    • Michael Tran
      Michael Tran on 11 Mar 14
       
      Readers will be able to keep themselves updated easily with notifications and see where they left off
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  • To summarize, a visitor sees the headlines they want to read, view the summary, and click through to your site to read the rest of the news, either in a new window, or without having to leave the application they are in. And when you update again, the reader will notify them that you have new headlines, and/or populate the list of items you have available. This can keep your audience coming back. It is so easy you would be crazy not to do it!
  • Michael Tran on 11 Mar 14
     
    Reasons why your website should have an RSS feed and how it benefits you for free.
Madison DeSousa

Is Teaching Media Literacy Important? [POLL] - 0 views

mashable.com/...media-literacy-poll

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      Madison DeSousa on 24 Jan 14
       
      Rheingold talks about how his University students were not network literate, and that he made the assumption that they were. This article suggests that media literacy should be taught in grade school. 
  • As our technology evolves, and our streams become even more packed with tweets, articles, videos, pictures and posts, the concept of media literacy evolves with it.
  • To be a functioning member of today's digital society, one must not only be able to use social networking and online publishing tools, but must also be able to think critically about all forms of media.
Alexandre Lalonde

Candy Crush Saga Has Trademarked Candy And Apple's App Store Is Helping Enforce It - Fo... - 0 views

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  • This last point is where this all gets a little absurd. Candy Crush Saga makes an estimated daily revenue of just shy of $1 million—and it’s a free game!
  • King.com Limited registered claim with the US trademark office almost a year ago, to the word ‘candy’ as it pertains to video games (and clothing!)
  • Alexandre Lalonde on 28 Jan 14
     
    Last week, King.com, the creators of Candy Crush Saga were approved for their request to trademark the word Candy for use in all video games and clothing lines.
fayann huang

7 Specific Ways To Harness The Power Of Social Media - 0 views

www.forbes.com/...ness-the-power-of-social-media

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  • fayann huang on 03 Feb 14
     
    This article talks about the different ways in which social media can help improve any business. It also explains that 60% of the world communicate online now, which is where and why business as heading there to connect with their consumers.
Shalyn Millstone

You Will Never Kill Piracy, And Piracy Will Never Kill You - 0 views

www.forbes.com/...and-piracy-will-never-kill-you

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  • Shalyn Millstone on 06 Feb 14
     
    Piracy exists all over the world. This article written by Paul Tassi talks about how piracy is a service problem. What stood out the most in this article is when it mentions that Netflix is also considered to be piracy, and people are not even aware of it.
Danielle Rose

Understanding Copyright Law In The Age of Content - 0 views

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  • Danielle Rose on 08 Feb 14
     
    This article from the Forbes website talks about copyright in business. It discuses what can and can not be copyrighted it tells writers to be mindful as to who and to what degree are they collaborate with someone else as this other contributor may end up owning part of the copyright.
Danielle Rose

Facebook Aims To Weed Out Piracy By Analyzing Your Personal Data - 0 views

www.forbes.com/...y-analyzing-your-personal-data

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  • Danielle Rose on 08 Feb 14
     
    This article considers some of the challenges of using algorithms to identify copyright infringements in electronic media. So far this method has been successful especially on FaceBook, catching users posting material they do not have rights to yet claim their own. The downside of this method is that occasionally websites that are perfectly legitimate are taken down.
Danielle Rose

Fifty Shades of Copyright Protection - 0 views

www.forbes.com/...shades-of-copyright-protection

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  • Danielle Rose on 08 Feb 14
     
    The article Fifty Shades of Copyright Protection discusses the online world, using FaceBook and Fifty Shades of Grey as a specific examples. The author cautions user to watch everything they post online because it is, de facto, forfeited to the public domain.
Danielle Rose

50 Disney Movies Based On The Public Domain - 0 views

www.forbes.com/...ies-based-on-the-public-domain

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  • Danielle Rose on 08 Feb 14
     
    In this article found on Forbes magazine website the article discusses the continuous extension of copyright terms. In specific it highlights how disney used its influence on members of congress to keep extending copyright term therefore disney material could never be used by other authors or film makers. It is ironic owing to the fact that a large number of works created by disney were based on stories in the public domain.
Mohammad Amir

Crowdsourcing Our History: How The Wikipedia Generation Will Change The World - 0 views

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  • Mohammad Amir on 11 Feb 14
     
    Online and encyclopedic resources will have the most bearing in our common understanding of the past, or how history is written in the present
  • Mohammad Amir on 11 Feb 14
     
    Online and encyclopedic resources will have the most bearing in our common understanding of the past, or how history is written in the present.
ilana enoukov

30 WordPress Tips YOU Can Use Today | Blogelina - 0 views

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  • Use a Landing Page.
  • Strengthen Your Footer.
  • Improve Your Permalinks
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  • Improve Your Sidebars.
  • Make Sure Everything is Current.
    • ilana enoukov
      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      Currency equals relevance
  • Check Your Site as a Visitor
    • ilana enoukov
      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      If the blog doesn't have an effect on you as a visitor, it probably won't have an effect on actual visitors!
  • Encourage Social Sharing.
    • ilana enoukov
      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      Blogging tips from a blogger (compilation of formatting tips and steps to take to make your blogging experience effective)
ilana enoukov

Ukraine And The Stage For Social Protests: When Familiar Visuals Go Viral - 0 views

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shared by ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • social familiarity
  • both the creation and the consumption of these images on mobile devices speaks to the relative ease of tapping into that familiarity
  • Thanks to the startups and digital entrepreneurs of this last generation, we are all minor league auteurs or videographers, used to framing the shot, creating more drama, working the lighting.
    • ilana enoukov
      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      The power of social media. Everyone is a storyteller, and the simplicity and availability of electronics, social media, and the world wide web, makes it possible for anybody to be a relevant news anchor.
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  • long-running debate in some wired intellectual circles about whether social media powers revolutions, whether Twitter or Facebook really assist movements – and on the other side, whether digital technologies now help malign governments in sniffing out and crushing dissent
  • Of course the networks matter – because they always have
  • Twitter isn’t a traditional broadcast company; there’s no editor-in-chief who can be bought or pressured
    • ilana enoukov
      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      Interesting point about Twitter becoming a replacement for traditional news outlets like television and radio. Had similar discussion in class.
  • They horrify, but they don’t necessarily empower – or encourage action
  • we can instinctively understand the smaller scale conflict against a familiar backdrop in the same way we can grasp what happened at the Boston Massacre or even Lexington and Concord versus how Washington conducted the siege at Yorktown. And the visuals – really the currency of social media – have that quality of being instantly understood.
  • What’s different is speed (no wait for the 11 pm news) and the ability of everyone to share those images, along with comments and outrage
  • “Facebook ‘likes’ are often ridiculed as meaningless, but they can make a person realize that their social network feels the same as they do—and that’s a socially and politically powerful thing.”
    • ilana enoukov
      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      Powerful because without awareness there will never be action.
  • ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
     
    When social movement meets social media
Michael Tran

6 Tips on Choosing a Proper Template for Your Website - 0 views

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  • Each kind of a website has its own peculiarities. A common mistake in web design community is to ignore the specificity of a website.
    • Michael Tran
      Michael Tran on 11 Mar 14
       
      A lot of people pick a template because of how it looks but certain templates don't work for certain kinds of sites. An online shop for example shouldn't have a template that was originally designed for a fashion blog for example.
  • In order to help people that want to create their own website at any cost, the designers came with a great solution: website templates. A template is a structure that needs small customizations, especially for personalizing it, and after finishing these it may be uploaded.
  • Tip #2: Choose the template you need but not the one you just visually like
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