Social Media Diary

i enrolled in a summer online course organized by Ms Krithika Srinivasan from Laurea UAS,
the course included a weekly contact session and and a lot of home works ,

it is designed to give students an idea about social media tools and how to use them for various application .
we had weekly online session of contact tuition using a tool from adobe that allows teacher to interact with students.
we also used a platform similar to Moodle where we had to submit our homeworks and where we also found related course materials  .

the instructor also setup a Facebook page to ease communication with us students .
the course included the HowTo of various tools and websites of social media
i was already familiar with some of them like Facebook Twitter and linked in but i also got to know new ones like Hibbo which is an online virtual Hotel if you may .i also learned how to use a very handy tool for making bookmarks and sharing them ,the tool is called Diigo and it basically stores your bookmark in a"cloud" where you can access them any where and you can also share them with others on the web .
the course was very informative but also a bit time consuming as the number of home works is great .
over all i am happy with the experience and i recommend it for other future students

Homework .Social media

Social Media and and research  of Technology .

until not far ago ,researchers ,engineers , and researchers of any sort  had to go throw great deal of trouble  when trying to find papers and work related to their field of interest ,even when they did manage to find useful information on the web it was often limited to the form of text .the introduction of 2.0 brought a lot of changes in the ways we use the web .its no source for  software/video content/Audio /Code/it is a place where you meet up and discus/it is even now a work place ,the idea of open source programing is now extended  to all sorts of businesses , there is now even virtual employees.the outsourcing sector is great example for that where Finnish companies for example hire a programmer in  India to get the job done and deliver the minute he/she is done.

in my own field of work there is a lot of examples where engineers develop software  for factories  totally from outside the country , deploy it monitor it and update it all from over seas .it help reducing cost ,and maintaining highest quality because you are seeking the best professionals without compromising your time or budget

Facebook or linked in, i believe that both are equally useful and there is not really any space for comparison,one of them is aimed at friends and family (FBook) and the other is designated at maintaining a professional profile that helps promote your business/career, 

i use both .

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