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I must admit, I didn’t really see how much this module would help before I started it. However, as the weeks came and went with a blog post to follow them, I started to see how much a professional profile and an active online identity can help me once I start to finish my time at University. Although I’m an IT student, I didn’t really have much of an online identity or even a presence, where I would not have anything personal online other than a Facebook profile. Continue reading →

No one likes having to look through the internet for the content that they need, only to find that it is locked behind a Paywall or micro transaction. With the ease of access and availability the internet brings to knowledge and research papers, where the user can simple search the paper and find it in a moment with a large variety of the paper along with it, rather than going to their library to rent it out on a loan. Continue reading →

This week (months) topic was a lot broader than some of the other topics that we had faced in the previous weeks, allowing us to choose a specific area to target our answers. Since we had a lot more choice in the presentation of our answers, there were a lot of different conclusions that the class made on this subject. I personally focused my answer around social media being used socially and professionally by teachers in schools, colleges or Universities. Continue reading →

When faced with the question about ethical issues with social networking, we must first examine what ethical issues actually are. From looking at the name you might be able to speculate what ethical issues are and as the BBC states, they are a system of moral principles and a branch of philosophy which defines what is good for individuals and society [1]. Continue reading →

It was surprising the amount of influence an online professional profile can have on a person’s job opportunity. From my research that I gathered during the process of writing the post, I found some rather high figures from the Jobvite survey. These figures really helped open my eyes to how important it is and how much effort I will need to put into my own profile, to get it ready my search for a profession after my third year. Continue reading →

Looking for a job can be tough and at the same time looking for a good employee could be more difficult. Most employers will not just throw open their doors to every graduate with a degree, they will want to know a lot of information about the applicant, with both their professional skills as well as their personal features. This makes the use of professional profiles on the web a crucial component to a job seekers arsenal. Continue reading →

This topic was a lot broader than I first anticipated. From looking at some of the other blog posts I can clearly see that. There were a lot of different views on this subject and everyone had a different way to target this question. I personally like the way Bartosz targeted the question at hand. He gave a view of how we would act in real life to different social groups and then added upon this by linking it with online identities. Continue reading →

We live in a world where you can type someone’s name into a search engine and find very detailed information about them in seconds via Facebook, twitter and LinkedIn profiles. This has caused identity management on the internet to be a key aspect to understand. Through the ease of access to information on the web, people have begun to create more than one identity that they are associated with. Continue reading →

Well topic one is now over and upon reflection of writing the blog post and reading what others had to say on the topic, I can say that most people’s posts I read were heading on the same track with the question that we were all given. All went down the path of explaining what digital relatives and visitors are, with a little information about the earlier model created by Prensky (Digital Natives and Immigrants). Continue reading →

The model for seeing online users as either “visitors” or “residents” was developed from Prensky’s Digital natives and Immigrants model.  This model saw people that had been brought up with/using the web classed as Natives because they could use and understand it easily. While older generations that did not grow up with it would find it difficult to adapt to it and thus they would feel like they were trying to speak a second language. Continue reading →