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Whilst it was an interesting topic, the new learning experience for me was the challenge of creating a video. It made a different, but welcome change to my normal text posts. The biggest issue I faced was the concern that I might not be able to get the same information across as I could with a written post. My first impression was that I felt more constricted by what I could write, so the video could flow easily. Continue reading →

To recap… Advantages: OpenContent License – This specifically protects your academic software allowing you to experience the benefits of exposure whilst knowing your software is safe from misrepresentation. Free Journal Articles – This will allow you to publish your academic research without engaging in the controversial activities that journals and researchers can sometimes do (charging multiple times for taxpayer research). Continue reading →

This topic was particularly interesting; it seemed to have an incredible amount of scope and opportunity, so I decided to create a very brief guide that seems to have been received fairly well (see comments below). As the module is named Living and Working on the Web, it was great to see a topic that encapsulated it. As with other students on the course, and like the last topic, blog posts seemed to reflect on personal experience. Continue reading →

(Jobvite, 2012). In this blog post I will focus on the idea of your personal online brand. about.me: A starting point to further developing a professional profile is to create an about.me page. This page can act as a ‘homepage’ of you. On the about.me page it is advisable to add a short bio about you, and a picture. From this page there will be links to your other online profiles such as your Twitter, WordPress blog and LinkedIn (though you are able to add many more if you want). Continue reading →

This has easily been the most extensive and current topic so far. Many of the blogs written are very different and to some extent reflect our personal and social experiences and also our views of our identities. Similarly, many blogs seemed to be written reflecting current societal attitudes to one’s own identity. On a magnified level however, these blogs have shown clearly how there is much more to the arguably popular view that having multiple identities can be a sinister affair. Continue reading →

As soon to be graduates searching for jobs, we are advised to make our online presence expansive. Adding into this mix is that we have spent our formative teenage years online in one sense or another and have posts from school and university days (DiMicco, 2007, p.384), therefore, we as young adults are likely to have developed and changed in the past 5 years. Continue reading →

It has been an incredibly interesting exploration into the two concepts of “resident” and “visitor” shown by Le Cornu and White. My first impressions still remain to an extent (These being that the two concepts seem simplistic for dealing with millions of internet users displaying qualities of the “visitor” and “resident”). Continue reading →

The concepts of digital “visitors” and “residents” are the following: “Visitors” use the internet as a tool to accomplish something such as booking a holiday, or to complete a task (White and Le Cornu, 2011a), whereas the “resident” ‘lives’ on the web alongside their physical lifestyle. Continue reading →