Teresa Jones

While the focus of my post was on a business aspect, many of my peers focused on open access on information and research based content. The infographic below is a brief summary of what I have learnt from them. Information from Hazel, Xin Lin, Yong You, Zoey, Maureen and Issac, Infographic created by me using Piktochart. Wanni deduced and I agree that the question behind the accessibility of your content should be ‘what do you want from it’. Continue reading →

Who are content producers? Created by me using Piktochart The advantages and disadvantages of providing free content for academic and research purposes as well as social and business purposes are vastly different. Curiously, my research has led me to the understanding that academic writers do not usually get paid for their writing and might actually need to pay to publish them(Michaela Panter). Continue reading →

I am glad we finally got a topic that allows us to explore and concentrate on different issues from each other! I feel that with regards to privacy, misuse of personal data as raised by Zaidhan’s post and YongYou in his video as well as identify thefts are the most prevalent and harmful issues with regards to social media ethics. Dayna raised the problem of identity theft in a Human Resource(HR) recruitment perspective. Continue reading →

My focus today will be on an ethical issue revolving around the business use of social media – Astroturfing. What is Astroturfing? It is the creation of a fake review by a company that a reasonable consumer will believe to be by another real consumer. Businesses usually astroturf through their own employees or relatives by asking them to provide biased reviews in attempts to improve their online reputation. Continue reading →

It is time I stop giving myself excuses and start working on shaping up my own online professional profile. My readings on articles and my classmates’ blogs have simply emphasized the importance of it. Xin Lin gave a very comprehensive and interesting framework on how to create an online professional profile that I thought was extremely useful for self-branding. Continue reading →

Here comes the time the Millennials enter the workforce, bringing along with us the culture of digitalisation. The rigid structure of talent management (recruiting, training, managing, retaining and evaluating) is slowly evolving to a dynamic environment that involves greater interaction and creativity (Dan Tapscott, 2014). As mentioned in Topic 2, employers are increasingly utilising social media in the hiring process. Continue reading →

So I noticed that my classmates and I have taken rather different approaches for this question, some that I had missed exploring. While my focus was on how having multiple online identities may influence your professional and personal lives, others like Xin Hui, Adelene and Wan Sia brought up issues of cyber bullying, cyber crimes and identity theft as a result of having multiple online identities. Continue reading →

“Can you introduce yourself?” Sure! Do you want to know the Twitter Teresa, Facebook Teresa, LinkedIn Teresa or the Instagram Teresa? Your online identity is made up of multiple partial identities, from the persona you create to represent yourself, the interactions you make with different websites (Internet Society) to the identities created by everyone else that has access to your information (Costa, Torres, 2011). Continue reading →

Something is wrong if I am still unable to explain the concept behind Digital “visitors” and “residents” after reading all the articles and blog posts on it. Continue reading →