Week 11. Lecture – New Media Landscape
I’ve never heard about Ripplewerkz or the name Lionel Chin. His name might be new to me but I’ve seen before his work such as famous blogger, Xiaxue’s blog and visited the website of Nuffnang.
In the lecture, he shared about his expertise and experience in web development and the use of new media tools in the industry.
He talked about the advantages in Web 2.0. More applications can be support with the use of Web 2.0.
He also talk about the amount he can earn with a design of a web and that each website are not sold pages.
Towards the end of the lecture. He mentioned about the difference between a freelance designer and an employee, recommending people to work in a company if they can’t and we should start as a freelance if we have yet to graduate.
When Lionel mentioned that he was in this job industry not for the money but for the work satisfaction when the client is happy with their work. I really agreed with what he said, because afterall we’re doing what we love and interest most.
I find it very useful to have a guest speaker to share their expertise as we’ll be able to know more about the industry and these knowledge will get us more prepared for the future.
Creating Awareness
The Singapore Children’s Society is an organisation which looks after the welfare of children. It is committed to protect the physical, emotional and mental well-being of disadvantaged children.
Their objective is to help protect and nurture children and youth of all races and religions, especially those who are abused, neglected, or are from a dysfunctional family.
In order to create awareness for this organisation. They can make use of Social Media to educate people about this organisation. They could create a fan page in facebook. Providing information about their services, volunteer works available and upcoming events that are open to everyone in Singapore.
Since they’re helping a lot of children. They could use another popular social media, twitter. Volunteer can help updating the progress about a particular children that the Children’s society is helping on. Followers will then get to keep track of the children and how the organisation help those children.
Source: http://www.childrensociety.org.sg/index.htm
Website Visit (Offsite): National Archives and Records Administration (NARA-USA)
The National Archives was established in 1934 by President Franklin Roosevelt, but its major holdings date back to 1775.
Before it was established, each branch and agency of the U.S. government was responsible for maintaining its own documents, which often resulted in the loss and destruction of records. So it was established to centralize federal record keeping.
What do they do?
NARA is the nation’s record keeper. Valuable records are preserved and are available to people and for people to find out if they contain clues about their family’s history, a need to prove a veteran’s military service or helping in researching a historical topic that interests you.
What type of service they provide?
NARA provide basic services like document preservation to more advanced services like helping you in finding people.
The Public Vaults give allow visitors to know where original records are held, visitors will have the opportunity to look at fascinating letters, maps and films that offer glimpse into the history of America’s history.
The National Archives currently utilizes social media and Web 2.0 technologies in attempt to better communicate with the public.
Literature Review: Douglas Engelbart & Social Media
Source: http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa081898.htm
http://www.macworld.com/article/137400/2008/12/mouse40.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart
These articles are about how Douglas Engelbart first invented the Computer Mouse. The time line of how the Computer Mouse evolve and how he changes the world with this invention.
Computer Mouse is a device or object that i lay my hands on more than any other thing else daily. i touches it more than i touches my book. i hold on to it longer than my utensils.
Without the Mouse. i would not be able to navigate the cursor around my Desktop. it is highly associated with the computer. It changes how the computer work and without it. the computing world will never be as successful as today.
Source: http://www.morpheusmedia.com/mlog/interactive-marketing/evolution-of-social-media/
This article is about the evolution of Social Media. It talks about how social media became like how people wants it to be. Facebook only open to college students with valid .edu email addresses . MySpace was in its prime being used by 15-30 year olds on a regular basis. Twitter was in its infancy and only being used by a select few who were in the Internet (pre 2.0) industry. Blogs were not popular in distributing content but to use as personal journals.
Trending in Social Media has defined our culture. Facebook opened to the public and offer many applications and games. MySpace came into its own by specializing in Music. All of it can keep us engaged for hours and leave us updated in seconds becoming more beneficial for advertising campaigns.
