Cherrie Sun

As a final year student at the university, knowing how to improve my employability is really important to me since I have to get a job soon after I graduated. Before looking into topic 3, I was one of the people who only believes in heading in CV and doing well in an interview. However, after writing this week blog post, I have changed my initial thoughts. Continue reading →

Imagine if you were an employer and you are looking for the perfect employee out of hundreds and thousands of candidates, with only a few pages of CV, or maybe a 15 minutes interview for each of them, how well can you get to know them and make sure you have chosen the right one for that job? I think it is impossible! As social media is becoming more and more popular in this generation, majority of us might already have an online profile built in many ways. Continue reading →

It has been an interesting discussion over these two weeks since this is an issue which the argument could go both ways and I have enjoyed reading others’ blog posts and have seen a lot of different perspectives on this particular topic. Namat’s blog post extended my thinking of who have the power of manipulating ones’ online identities. In fact, not only ourselves have the power of controlling our own online identities, others have the power of doing so too. Continue reading →

WHAT IS ONLINE IDENTITY? Online identity is an identity that Internet user constructs and establishes, the image they present to others online and it shows people who you are and what you do. Nowadays, individuals are a lot easier to be exposed to others and it is difficult for individuals to stay anonymous online. Most of the time, when you wanted to use some of the services online (eg. online shopping, commenting on a blog post), there are always needs to register. Continue reading →

Before wring my first blog post for UOSM2008, I have never heard of the terms “digital residents” and “digital victors”, or even digital “native” and “immigrants”. But after I have done some reading on this topic, putting my thoughts out on my blog and reading others opinions on this aspect, I have learnt some much more and have a more holistic and better understanding about this topic. Continue reading →

(from http://www.quickhr.biz/category/digital/) As social media is becoming more and more prevalent, the previous “digital natives” and “digital immigrants” distinction suggested by Prensky (2001) is needed to be reconsider since the use of Internet has changed. In the past, Internet was primarily used for information gathering or finding information, but now, social-networking also came into place. Digital “natives” and “immigrants” are distinguished by age and generation. Continue reading →