Course Experiences and topics

I will write here the blog entries for the course experience and the topics seen during the course ;)

1. My expectations on the course were basically covered. As I said before, I expected more practical and technical issues, but also have a look at the immense tools that internet offers for Social Media is amazing. Social Media has changed the way people do almost everything on the Internet and in some way directly into the real world, from communication, trough business. Marketing trough facebook has being more popular and among another Social Networks like myspace, which actually has quite more a lot on social issues like real events, concerts and so on, than its counterpart facebook.

2. Videos entries, actually, let the others users feel more in touch with themselves. A video lets feel the expressions and the inflections of voice, more than a simple comment or an email. According with the increase on bandwidth of the Internet connection, videos has been more accessible to the whole population, and the quality has being increasing quite much, letting space even for HQ videos online, as you can see on vimeo.com . For educational purposes is amazingly useful, letting the experience to the student to have a enriching experience and actually increase of a “fun” way knowledge. Out there now exist quite a lot of tutorials made out from videos, which actually let the student see how to do it, instead just reading, which sometimes, turns quite boring time and monotone.

3. With the Web 2.0 blogging was introduced, changing the user experience in quite a lot of ranges. Blogging has become actually a essential part of every webpage, the main reason why of this, is that it lets the users become part of the actuall development of the page, with comments and with interaction that didn’t existed before. And opening the doors to new business, offering services, and feel the contact with the person beyond the screen, seeing posts and interacting “face to face” with discussions and so on. Actually blogs that receive a lot of visits also earn a lot of money thanks to that traffic generating profit with advertising and publicity.

4. And also trough tools like RSS and feeds being informed of the day to day basis with new blog entries directly to your cellphone, computer, or feed reader, without taking time sitting in front of the computer reading and reading, it let the person read and being informed whenever is located increasing effectiveness and efficiency of the use of time.