Blog #4

In today’s world, many people are using social media tools to stay connected with families and friends. They use these tools not only to stay in touch with families and friends, but they also use it to develop new relationships with people who share common interests around the globe. Social media networking technologies are becoming a significant means of communication in today’s society, offering opportunities to increase social interaction among people from different places based on a virtual connection rather than face-to-face connection. The internet technology has developed many social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Blogging, and other useful social sites and it continues developing new sites as time progresses. All of these tools have affected the way people communicate with others. In my paper, I will introduce and analyze the topic of the social media tool which is blogging, with a brief history about the tool and explains how it is involved in social interaction.

Blog #3

One of the important things in a successful blog is quality content. Using a quality content always engage others to read your posts. The blog content should be informative, interesting and entertaining readers. A good content would helps others to read your ideas on blog and post their comments about the topic. This maintains the communication between you and your readers. It is also increase your visibility among your readers. So a good content always lead you to interact with others by posting comments and feedback.

Blogging -Update

Blogging is a web based journal that helps people with social interaction and business advertising. Many people using it for just making fun and interacting with others by sharing things about their lives while other people using it as a tool for business advertising by sharing information about their business and engage others to get involved. I think it is a good idea to learn about blogging and I choose it as a topic of my final paper. So I will try to explore more about it and continue to update with new information.

Mindmeister

MindMeister is a tool that allows people to visualize their  thoughts. It helps people create, organize, and plan their personal things like instructors organize their lessons and set discussion boards and students can post their questions and get answers from instructors. Students can use Mindmeister to organize and plan their classes and plan projects and share with others. Mindmeister can be accessed at anytime and anywhere from any computer. This sound like Mindmeister is a good tool in education and e-learning tool which was the topic of week.

 The function that mindmeister does was, it helps users organize their personal lives. For example you can use it to create your personal tasks like your schedule, project plans, and ideas for upcoming evens. 

The most interesting thing about this tool was it is Multi platform and site sharing because it is available at any time and anywhere from and computer or other devices like iPods and iPhones with internet connection. The most challenging about this tool was understanding all mindmeister's features and how can be applied into different applications.

 Mindmeister can improve communication more than complicate it because it offers discussion options for users can share their thoughts and interact with others. But I am not sure how it can complicate communication.

However, it is a good tool that allows people to utilize their thoughts and it can be used in different purpose like educational or business or other personal events ideas. I do not really know about this tool but it is looks great and enjoyed it and I will explore more about it.

Flickr

Flickr is a social media tool that enables people and organizations to manage and share photos and videos online. It also allows them to interact with others by telling others about themselves through photos or videos. Organizations use the Flickr to maintain their business relationships with their customers and entire community by sharing images of their services and products through Flickr. This describes how the Flickr connected to the topic of the week which is Organization.
One function that the Flickr does was, it allows users to express themselves to others by sharing photos and videos online. It is also helps Organizations to describe their services and engage others to look at it and helps bring customer's attention. This means if you have a new business you can tell people about your business by sharing photos about products and office style, to engage people to come see your business.
The most interesting about this tool was being able to tag, and provide title and description for each photo you upload into Flickr. This will help others to understand about your photos. But I don't think there was anything challenging about this tool, everything was easy if compared to other tools that we have used in this class.
I think that Flickr can help users to improve their communication by telling stories about themselves or about their business through sharing photos and videos online. It could also complicate the communication if users attempt to sharing fake images or videos about themselves or their services.
However, it was great opportunity for me to learn about this tool and I think it helps users to tell others about themselves through photos and videos. It is also helps organizations to express their products and engaging customers to buy it. So i don't think it is bad to use it.

Dungeon Blitz

    We have discussed the concept of online gaming as a topic of the week. Then we used dungeon blitz tool as in class activity for online gaming. Dungeon blitz is an online game that allows people to play games and interact with others by inviting others to play it. It also allows people to pick color and other things as well as they can choose the class they want. And each class has its own play style, the users can customize the character they want by choosing a specific class.

    This tool serves as creating a fun by allowing users to play game and helps them to interact with other players easily. The users can also invite friends and find new people using this game. Dungeon blitz was integrated with Facebook and this made it much easier to Facebook users to sign in and start gaming, I think this was the most interesting thing within this tool because you don't need to use much personal information to create account if you have a Facebook account. But I was challenged in how to organize the different classes with their play styles and make a powerful attacks.
   I think dungeon blitz can improve communication because it allows players to communicate with other players and friends. It also complicate communication because when people are playing the game they pay their attention on game they are playing in so I think they may have no time to communicate with others.
    However, it was a grate fun game and I enjoyed it and it was also a good experience and learning opportunity for me to know more about this game. I was spend sometimes to play with it but honestly it was interesting.

Second Life

The topic of this week was "Second Life" which is a virtual community where people can interact with each other using free text and voice chats. It serves as an important tool that allows people to create some kind of activities that they use in their real life. People can buy or sell item through Second Life so I think its a good tool for business. Its also good for entertainment because people can play games and other entertainment things through Second Life.
The most interesting thing about Second Life tool is that different options that you can customize your appearance in Second Life. For example you can customize as people, animals, robots, vehicles, and ect. My greatest challenge about this tool was how understand different techniques that used to play with different games. 
I think Second Life improves communication because it offers a free voice and text chat that can help people to interact with others. I think it also too complex for new user to understand all different things within Second Life before start to interact with others.
I think it is a good opportunity for me to learn new social media tool that I never used before and enjoyed to play with the tool but I have a little hard to determine this tool is a place for entertainment or a place for interaction.