Monday, 17 March 2014

Week 6 - Internet Tools

The first video is my work in polytechnic for my module on IT management. It was done using Windows Movie Maker. It was a project to demonstrate how IT management is essential for making sure that IT services will be delivered promptly. The project mentioned in the video is a the services of setting up computers in campuses. Only with IT management, it can be delivered without much problem. In the video, it also demonstrate how bad management can lead to... 

Enjoy....



Next, this is a video that I did back in 2013 for Chinese New Year. This video is edited using an iPhone app. The app allow us to put different videos up together into one video and also at the same time adding in music.

I did this just for fun. LOL.

Enjoy this too...

Week 5 - Power of Internet for Learning


It is not hard to find a computer in the classrooms these days. Every classrooms will be equipped with at least one computer and lessons are usually conducted with the help of these technologies. Teachers will be showing videos or pictures from the internet and explaining the topics using the graphics on the projector. Lessons are made more interactive these days, students are encouraged to have a laptop or tablet for lessons. Some of the materials that were being covered will be shared through the internet. Students will be expected to download materials from the school sites and use it for class.

E-learning has became an essential tool for students today to access school materials from school or home. E-learning is a platform where the teachers will post up materials and students are suppose to access these materials online at home and go through a virtual lesson and complete some questions given. Students are also able to interact with their teachers via this platform. They can post questions and teachers can access these questions and answer all the doubts online.

Some classrooms had been replaced by e-learning. Learning and teaching are being conducted online and students may not be required to attend class physically in school. They will have to log on to the platform from home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrrzTSp60RI

Sunday, 9 March 2014

Week 4 - Doing Business On The Internet


There are four components to make E-marketing successful. The data, software, skills and networks.

Data:
You need to know who are your competitors, how's the market like, how many competitors you have in the market, how popular is your market? You need to find out more about the market you are targeting before you actually start on anything. You need to know how to improve your site's traffic should you start the site. Start getting leads from various medias. It will be helpful when you start to promote your site.

Software:
What kind of software do you need when you start up your own site? What makes your site different from the others that are already in the market. How efficient are the softwares that you are going to use? If you are expecting large site traffic, you will have to invest in better softwares. If you are expecting little site traffic, you may just have the basic softwares. Selecting the software based on your traffic is very important. You do not want to invest on things you don't need or not investing on things you need and lose some revenues in the process.

Skills:
With the datas and softwares in place, you will need the skills or someone with the skills to analyse and report to you. With everything in place, it's hard to miss out all the important information or details that you need for your e-market.

Networks:
Lastly, you need to build networks with your current and potential clients on and offline. Combining all your clients onto one site is effective too (Facebook, twitter, linkd etc). Building your reputation online is very important too. With your reputation being built online, it will be so much easier to continue building on what you already have.

With these four components together, you will be able to make sure that your e-market starts on a right track. After these four components, it will be entirely up to you how you handle the good responses from the public.

Saturday, 8 March 2014

Week 3 - Social Networking

FACEBOOK

Mark Zuckerberg, one of the five founders of the online sensation https://www.facebook.com were only college students when they had the idea of launching Facebook into their campus (Harvard). Zuckerberg was exposed to programming and computers at a very young age by his father. His father first exposed him to Atari Basic Programming and from there, a private tutor was being hired to teach Zuckerberg. By high school, Zuckerberg was already developing communications tools and games. He had came up with the ideas for instant messenger even before AOL's IM was introduced. He even built Synapse Media Player which had received a 3 out of 5 ratings on PC Magazine.

He has already built his name as a programming prodigy by the time he was in high school. He was already building programmes for fun and he has been building many different types of programmes.

Facebook was launched on February 4, 2004 in Zuckerberg's dormitory room.. However, Zuckerberg was sued by his seniors for intentionally misleading them to believe that he was helping them build a social network and used their ideas for Facebook. Started out from Harvard, it was quickly spread to other schools like Columbia, NYU, Stanford, Dartmouth, Cornell, Penn, Brown and Yale University. From there, Facebook was slowly building up and has now became the most sought after social networking website. In 2010, there were 500 million users on Facebook.

Financial strategies were implemented on Facebook shortly after. Facebook are earning income from advertising on the site. Zuckerberg was ranked first on its 2010 list of the Top 100 most influential people of the information age.

At the age of 30, he is worth about US$ 31.6 billion.


TWITTER

Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and co-creator of https://twitter.com, is also the CEO of Square (a mobile payments company). Dorsey, Stone and Noah Glass are the co-founders of Twitter which was spun off from Obvious. As Twitter slowly grow into popularity, the founders are seeing it as a perfect opportunity to earn through the site. Dorsey has later developed a new site called Square, a platform that accepts credit and debit card payments on mobile device. 

In 2013, Dorsey even made it to the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company.

With these two successful people behind the two famous social networking sites, there is no questions how these two sites became so successful and popular among the people all around the world today.