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Victoria Burch

Deadline #10- HW#6- Video Resumes-How to: Create a Video Resume | OEDb - 0 views

  • Some companies refuse to view videos upon attorney advice, as these visual accounts might open the door to discrimination based upon your appearance, ethnicity, and race. Other recruiters are simply lazy or too hesitant to use different technologies in their search for the right person for the job. Either way, your video might end up in the garbage despite all your best efforts.
  • A video resume can get you face-to-face with that employer far faster than your print resume can in many instances. Plus, if you can't make it across the country for a face-to-face interview, a video can help bring your face to the employer.
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    This site provides information on how to create a video resume as well as when to avoid it, and when to use it.
Victoria Burch

D#12, HW#3 - Does a New Website Hold the Secret to Great Customer Service? - 0 views

  • the trend with big companies has been to outsource and mechanize and it's getting ever harder to get through to a live person who knows as much as you do about the problem you're trying to get help with. We're creating a kind of social network designed for companies and customers to communicate with each other.
  • Your best customers know more about the product than many people who work inside the company -- certainly more than most of the low-paid, call center people who are reading from a script.
  • When customers start to converge and talk, for many companies this is gold -- real engagement with current or future customers.
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    This is an interview with Thor Muller, CEO of GetSatisfaction.com. Muller discusses the importance of customer service and how it is replacing outsourcing. He talks about how it's much easier for people to discuss their problems are quickly read about them through forums on the internet vs. waiting on hold with customer service. He discusses both the benefits to the companies, as well as, the customers'. 
Victoria Burch

D#9, HW#3 -WordLingo New Media - 0 views

  • New media rely on digital technologies, allowing for previously separate media to converge. Media convergence is defined as a phenomenon of new media and this can be explained as a digital media.“
  • he most prominent example of media convergence is the Internet, whereby the technology for video and audio streaming is rapidly evolving. The term convergence is disputed, with critics such as Lev Manovich pointing out that the 'old' medium of film could be seen as the convergence of written text (titles and credits), photography, animation and audio recording
  • New Media has become a significant element in everyday life. It allows people to communicate, bank, shop and entertain. The global network of the Internet, for instance, connects people and information via computers.[3] In this way the Internet, as a communication medium of New Media, overcomes the gap between people from different countries, permitting them to exchange opinions and information. Diverse means for this exist even within the context of the Internet, including chat rooms, Instant Messaging applications, forums, email messaging, online video and audio streaming and downloads, and voice-over-internet telecommunications. New Media is defined not only as a communication tool, but also as a tool for the commercial exchange of goods and services.[
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  • transition to new media has seen a handful of powerful transnational telecommunications corporations who own the majority achieve a level of global influence which was hitherto unimaginable.
  • new media follows the logic of the postindustrial or globalised society whereby 'every citizen can construct her own custom lifestyle and select her idology from a large number of choices. Rather than pushing the same objects to a mass audience, marketing now tries to target each individual separately.'
  • "virtual communities" are being established online and transcend geographical boundaries, eliminating social restrictions. Rheingold (2000) describes these globalised societies as self-defined networks, which resemble what we do in real life. "People in vi
  • rtual communities use words on screens to exchange pleasantries and argue, engage in intellectual discourse, conduct commerce, make plans, brainstorm, gossip, feud, fall in love, create a little high art and a lot of idle talk"
  • New Media has been used extensively by social movements to educate, organize, share cultural products of movements, communicate, coalition build, and more.
  • New media can be defined not only as things you can see such as graphics, moving images, shapes, texts, and such. It is also things that cannot be seen, such as a Wi-Fi connection. Like radio or electricity, no one can see the Wi-Fi waves in the air floating through the air. But the Wi-Fi concept can be considered new media. So new media can be either concept-based, refer to a solid object, or both.
  • Any individual with the appropriate technology can now produce his or her online media and include images, text, and sound about whatever he or she chooses. [27] So the new media with technology convergence shifts the model of mass communication, and radically shapes the ways we interact and communicate with one another.
  • even some forms of digitized and converged media are not in fact interactive at all
  • "the global interactive games industry is large and growing, and is at the forefront of many of the most significant innovations in new media" (Flew 2005: 101). Interactivity is prominent in these online computer games such as World of Warcraft and The Sims. These games, developments of "new media", allow for users to establish relationships and experience a sense of belonging, despite temporal and spatial boundaries. These games can be used as an escape or to act out a desired life. Will Wright, creator of The Sims, "is fascinated by the way gamers have become so attached to his invention-with some even living their lives through it" [30]. New media have created virtual realities that are becoming mere extensions of the world we live in.
  • The advertising industry has capitalized on the proliferation of new media with large agencies running multi-million dollar interactive advertising subsidiaries. In a number of cases advertising agencies have also set up new divisions to study new media. Public relations firms are taking advantage of the opportunities in new media through interactive PR practices.
  • New media can be seen to be a convergence between the history of two separate technologies: media and computing.
  • new media can now be defined as "graphics, moving images, sounds, shapes, spaces, and texts that have become computable; that is, they comprise simply another set of computer data.
  • Flew (2002) stated that as a result of the evolution of new media technologies, globalisation occurs. Globalisation is generally stated as "more than expansion of activities beyond the boundaries of particular nation states".[6] Globalisation shortens the distance between people all over the world by the electronic communication (Carely 1992 in Flew 2002) and Cairncross (1998) expresses this great development as the "death of distance". New media "radically break the connection between physical place and social place, making physical location much less significant for our social relationships" (Croteau and Hoynes 2003: 311).
  • Old media
  • involve analog processes
  • as opposed to new media which sample media as a numerical representation in binary code.
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    This is the best article I've found for this topic. It discusses new media in relation to Manovich's article AND actually interrelates Flew's virtual communities article too! I thought that was pretty cool. It also gives examples of what new media is, and how it is affecting our communities through globalization and social change
Victoria Burch

D#8,HW#3 - 31 Days to Building a Better Blog - 0 views

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    ProBlogger provides numerous links to various sites on how to improve your blog. This is a really in depth site but really provides a lot of information. 
Victoria Burch

D#8, HW#3 - 15 Awesome Free Tools That Will Make Your WordPress Life So Much Easier | W... - 0 views

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    I like this site the best because it gives you tools that actually make blogging easier. I will probably incorporate one of these tools into my blog. I like the evernote and screenflow the best. 
Victoria Burch

WordPress Tricks to Improve Your Blog | Mtaram's Daze - 0 views

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    This is a site that gives you tutorials on how to build on your blog. It shows you how to pick a theme, use sidebars, etc.
Victoria Burch

D#7, HW#1 - Current Issues and Resources - 1 views

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    Here is a website from UMUC. There are twol links, "Digital Milenium Copyright Act," and "Digital Rights Management and Emerging Technologies" that provide multiple links to outside resources on topics regarding documentation/copyright issues. 
Victoria Burch

D#7,HW#1 - Copyright and Digital Media in a Post-Napster World - 0 views

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    Although this article is older, it gives relevent information on documentation and copyright for digital media. It outlines difficulties created by digital media such as P2P and file sharing. I found Chapters 2 and 5 helpful.
Victoria Burch

D#5, HW#4 - Technical Writing - 0 views

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    I found chapter 3 of this document useful. It gives you common elements of good writing, do's and don'ts of writing styles and usage. All of the chapters are relevant for this project and provide a checklist at the end of each.
Victoria Burch

D#4,HW#5 -CRAP 4 - 1 views

shared by Victoria Burch on 27 Jan 11 - Cached
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    I think this link is the best representation of CRAP because it is simple and very appealing to the eye. Contrast: A lot of white background. Large focal Image and set to the entire left side of page. Louis Vuitton large and bold. Repetition: All text is brown and in capital letters. Less important items are not all capitalized and smaller. Alignment: To the left Proximity: Each location is grouped into correct continent. Each group is given appropriate and equal space in-between.
Victoria Burch

D#4,HW#5- CRAP 3 - 1 views

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    Contrast: focal point is an image of a laptop, aligned to the left with its description to the right. Gives a lot of empty space around it to make it your main focus. Besides the focal image other images pop against the black background. Repetition: Menu items are linked blue at the top of the page. Smaller unimportant items linked blue and smaller at the bottom. Alignment: Everything is aligned to the left in each group. Proximity: Under focal point are 4 groups with category titles that you can click to enlarge to see different related aspects of the site.
Victoria Burch

Yahoo - 1 views

shared by Victoria Burch on 27 Jan 11 - Cached
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    Contrast: White background, main story in the center of the page. Summary of story underneath with related links smaller, different colored text to bottom right. Repetition: All links are colored blue and all bullet points and listing numbers are purple. Yahoo sites in the menu are all black with thumbnail pictures. Titles for each grouping box are in black capital letters with subtitles in grey. Alignment: Everything aligned to the left throughout entire webpage. Proximity: Alike items are grouped into boxes with a title in black capital letters.
Victoria Burch

CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News - 0 views

shared by Victoria Burch on 27 Jan 11 - Cached
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    Contrast: CNN is centered and bold white against a red background, which makes it easy to read. Breaking and main news stories are in groups of three and set as the largest images at the top of the page. Bold white text against a black background makes the focal point pop. Repetition: Menu items are white against red background in smaller text under CNN. All links are blue, bullets red, titles bold large and black. Alignment: everything aligned to left for each grouping object. Proximity: News is categorized into different groups, i.e.) world, business, entertainment... etc.
Victoria Burch

D#2, HW#7 - Blogs - Alternative Communication And Advertising Methods For Corporation - 0 views

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    I thought this blog was interesting because it shows how blogs are becoming an alternative communication method for corporations, advertisers, politicians and journalists. It gives you a brief definition of all the tools in blogging, how to involve your company in blogs, examples of blogs, benefits, and much more. It illustrates how communication of blogging through the internet is really changing the way we communicate in the corporate world.
Victoria Burch

D#2,HW#7 - Gender Differences in Internet Use and Online Relationships - 0 views

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    This journal article shares its findings on how the internet continually changes the way society as a whole communicates and maintains relationships. It explains gender differences, experiences and opinions of online interpersonal relationships. It explains that because the internet gives a sense of anonymity, it allows people to lend more social support, be more truthful in personal information and be more accepting to others. It also explores the importance of the internet for males vs females and also found that both genders would rather have a face-to-face interactions than online ones.
Victoria Burch

D#2,HW#7 - The Social Affordances of the Internet for Networked Individualism - 1 views

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    This website has an overview of how the internet is involved with community networks, numerous social aspects of the internet, effects of the internet on community and global and local connectivity. It explores the questions of how people communicate through the internet vs real world communication, how people find individualism and friendships through the internet, and how the internet affects our ability to communicate in a "real time" manner.
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