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After reading a few of my friend’s blog, I have learnt that there are pros and cons to having free online materials.Open access promotes the publisher’s work and it showcases the publisher’s creativity and ideas. These ideas will then be shared amongst other people of the same interest and in the long run, would benefit the whole community. Continue reading →

(credits:123rF) Many materials freely available online benefits end users who are unable to afford the subscription fee for the desired information on the web. According to Adam Geib (2013),”The core idea of open access is the basis of its key advantage—articles are freely available for anyone who wishes to read them. For readers and libraries, the benefits of not having to pay for an individual article or journal subscription are obvious. Continue reading →

(Credits: Localseopackage) After reading some of my friend’s blog on topic 4, I realized that they are actually a lot of ethical issues raised by the use of social media, for business as well as for educational purposes. Social media entices people to post personal information online, however we are in control of the information we want to post and we should be responsible of any consequences. That being said, data sharing is inevitable. Continue reading →

  (Credits: Frissdoteu2) One of the ethical issue raised by business use of social media is data sharing leading to privacy invasion, without the individual’s consent. According to Gary Chuang (2012), “Barack Obama was doing a Q&A online. Obviously, it wasn’t Obama himself who was answering questions, it was many of his representatives. Continue reading →

(Credits: SchoolTraining.com) These days, there is an increasing number of employers looking for Job seekers through social media. This topic is highly beneficial as it emphasizes on the importance of creating a professional digital profile that best represents ourselves. I learnt that social media has a great impact and role in helping me to create a professional image for me to secure a Job that I want. Continue reading →

(Credits: Abby Perkins) Building an authentic digital professional profile is very important as it will determine your chance of getting the job you desire. A creative way to develop an authentic digital professional profile is through blogging. Continue reading →

After reading a few of my friend’s blog, I came to realized that most of us owns more than just one online identity. Because of the different persona we want to portray for different purposes like networking or for communications. I learnt that there are pros and cons to having more than one online identity and everything online is actually very transparent and we have to choose carefully what we want to show and share with the other web users. Continue reading →

The Internet has revolutionized the way people interact and communicate with one another. Social media has become a trend and majority of people have hopped on the bandwagon. Now, it is rather common that most of the people owns at least one social media account, where they will create an online identity to manage and represent themselves. There are so many social media users in the world and each of the users have their own purpose spending time on the web. Continue reading →

After reading some of my peer’s blog on “Digital Residents” and “Digital Visitors”, I discovered that not only most of us have the same ideology and opinion on this particular topic, we also have something in common, and that is, most of my friends are under the category of “Digital Residents”. As I had mentioned earlier that most of the Gen Y people are placed under this category, it is true to a certain degree. Nonetheless, I have also learnt a lot from my friend’s blog. Continue reading →