Saturday, April 20, 2030

Welcome

Hey Welcome to my blog. It is all about all different types of sports including baseball, figure skating soccer as well as hockey.

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Power Point Review

After the past two days in class I have learned that in power point presentations when your take a picture from the web you need to copy it into your h drive before putting it on your project so that it is clearer. My power point will include good slide transitions, web and clipart, as well as bullet points and timed animation. My next power point assignment will either be on My top ten favorite figure skaters.

Friday, April 23, 2010

Critical Review of Google Docs

Google docs is a huge part of our communication in the world today. It is widely used and is also used in variety of ways. It can also be used for good as well as bad but when it is used right then it is very sufficent.
Google Docs is used for business by allowing them to work anywhere due to the fact that Google Docs is securely powered by the web.It gives you the ability to work from home or at the office even when you are off the web. The files stored on Google Docs are easily accessible and easy to use. Google Docs gives you the ability to save your work in a reliable source. Google Docs allows its users to create and edit documents online and collabarate with other users. Google Docs combines the two features of Writely and Spreadsheets which in October of 2006 were merged into a single product.
Google Docs can also be used on mobile phones. It allows users to browse their google docs in a mobile browser. These users can view documents and edit and view spreadsheets but can not access presentations. Although this may be a let down for some people their are other websites used to access this from their phones.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Critical Review of My Space and Facebook

MySpace and Facebook are two websites that are and have been commonly used to chat with friends online. MySpace and Facebook are huge parts of our society's communication methods and the way people connect with eachother. MySpace has been losings a lot more people due to the fact that it is now mainly used for upcoming artists and celeberties to promote themselves, in order to build up a fanbase and get more people to come to their gigs.
Facebook on the otherhand is greatly used for communicating and is a social networking site. Facebook has many games and applications for its users to play and explore with. Facebook seems like a pretty safe website but what you are not realizing when you sign up is that the website is allowed to give out some of your information to others whenever they feel like it and you can not argue because it is said in the contract which most likely is unread.
Facebook is used by all ages of people ranging from about 10 years old to people in their 60's or mpossible even older. Many companies use facebook to communicate because you may be part of a company that is really set up in another state or country and is one of the easiest way to share their work to their bosses and going up higher on the ranks.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Critical Review of LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a highly growing website that is used like facebook and twitter but is more frequently used for businesses. Many Small businesses use Linked In to get more of a cliental as well as make more deals. LinkedIn is used so people will spend less time trying to promote themselves because it allows them to show their skills,expierence things.It takes your network online, giving you access to people,jobs,and opportunities.It is built on trusted and connectionsand relationships.There is currently more than 65 million professionals on LinkedIn. Linked is considered to be one of the best online tools to assist you during job searches thanks to its user-friendly. It gives you a chance to access to both job listing and people that can help you find a position.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

2010 Smucker's Stars on Ice Highlights

Critical Review of Twitter

Twitter has become a very popular website used by numerous teens all around the world. By using twitter it allows people to fell connected to our friends and families lives. On twitter you can share short updates about what is happening in your life and follow what your friends may be doing.You can also see different sides of your friends and family members and also learn things about them that you had not known previously. THe updates are always short and to the point with up to 140 characters. Twitter makes it faster for you to see what those close to you are doing without reading long messages. It is also used in the business world, in fact it is used in four different ways just for business's. The four ways it is used in business consist of direct, indirect, internal, and signaling.
Some companies are using twitter for marketing or public relations channel. They will dsitribute links that will take people to corporate web pages and it is known to be the easiest way to begin. Dell, Starbucts and Jetblue are a few businesses that are known to have used this form of twitter.The second method which is the indirect method is to let their employees to use twitter to enhance their own personal reputations. This can also affect the employees negatively which may get them in trouble with the boss.The Internal method is used to communicate and share ideas about certain projects that they are working on . The last way that businesses use twitter is by the method of signaling by listening to certain things on twitter using certain tools that allow you to keep track of what is being said on twitter.