Enhancing Collaboration Using Web 2.0

By Jose Angel Cruz

Blogs

• A blog is a frequently updated online personal journal or diary. It is a place to express to the world. A place to share thoughts and passions of the owner. It is anything the owner wants it to be.

• Some useful blogs are in three categories: technology, business/financials, and entertainment.

Technology GIZMODO. This blog is technology oriented. However, it has certain post that are unrelated to their principal content and links to other blogs, possible alliances. Their principal and only description is “we come from the future” with contacts to editors, senior writers, deputy, manager, etc. Gizmo focus on news of a brand spectrum and entertainment.

As previously said in the short description, this blogs contains post that are unrelated to technology such as sports, movie toys, and videos of people skating. Non the less, it does have interesting post such as phones burning, latest advances, and reviews from ovens to complex computers (personally, read one about Ebola). Overall, it contains a less than half portion on other topics to keep people informed and loyal. The blog design is sort off confusing since to links send the user to anotherblog instead of a sub division, but it has a good design.

GiGAOMThey are focus on everything that can be related to technology, from food to ancient ingredients of digital transformation. Gigaom is technology research and analysis firm. Their about says, “We are forward-leaning, with a futures-oriented take on the trends and tools that are shaping the economy of the 21st century”.

The website design is more attractive since it does not appeal complicated to navigate to the eye, in contrast to Gizmodo. Their audience is for young adults and beyond since they are analytical and business oriented. It has a higher credibility sincesome post of there are sponsored by bigger companies such as Dell and Samsung.

ZDNETZDNet brings together the reach of global and the depth of local, delivering 24/7 news coverage and analysis on the trends, technologies and opportunities that matter to IT professionals and decision makers.

Whatever your role in the IT buying cycle, ZDNet provides support -- from investigating options to optimizing a solution. Whether you want to follow hot topics or emerging trends, or keep up to date with the latest news and events, ZDNet is the destination for professionals seeking to research technology-related issues, and solve business technology problems.

A very attractive design, and interesting initial news. It is indeed business oriented, but it also explores curiosity with some uncommon facts and reviews of latest trending devices. Moreover, it provides with latest news from tech that people could still own from previous years.

Business Blogs

Seths BlogA most likely one person manage blog with some trusted occasional partners. It is focus on business topics from basic theory to complex lecture. It lacks a complex designs, not very attractive. However it compensates the visual appealing with good posts.

It has rank top blog in blogmetrics. It gives the feeling of having a course with random topics business related. However, the author is very credible since it has published books which are advertised in the blogs as well.

Chris brogan BlogOne blog which not only has post content but also offers course to its subscribers. The session have limited space, and people need to roll in quickly if they want to received the course. Post come from all kind of business and popular trends such as winning money from YouTube. Covers spectrum of business theory, current examples of entrepreneurs, and self skills as leadership and personality. Chris Brogan is CEO of Owner Media Group , providing strategy and skills for the modern business. He is also a highly sought after professional speaker and the New York Times bestselling author of nine books and counting. His latest is called Find Your Writing Voice.

The blog design is very attractive though Brogan’s picture may be intimidate. However, it is easy to navigate and find topics from teens to business veterans. Such as a youtuber knows as “pewdiepie” and his $12 million income a year by just making videos. Definitely recommended to have a look around.

Shoemoney It lacks information about themselves, except that it is compose of a large community. Seems to be focus on easy ways to make money online and online related topics as “choosing who to add on Facebook”. Moreover, seems like there are psychology and marketing people managing the blogs digital appealing.

I find it very unappealing just by having an instant “join over”. As it can be seen on the picture, they try to manipulate theirvisitors by attacking emotions and status from those who reject them. This actions tell me that they are desperate in a certain way which is weird since it has a high rank in blogmetrics. I would not denied, it can have useful content, but one must navigate a lot and be patient.

BUZZFEED• We strive to connect deeply with our

audience, and give them news and entertainment worth sharing with their friends, family, and the people who matter in their lives.

• We have the innovation obsessed culture and structure of a venture-backed tech company with an engineering team focused on building the media platform for today’s world, and the future.

• We operate a global news organization headquartered in New York and an entertainment studio based in Los Angeles

It is liked by almost everyone. Their snapchat news are quite interesting and funny. Moreover, their presence in other social media is strong which is only increases as the great majority keep on subscribing. I liked their random new to serious and recent news as well as entertainment comics. They content goes from Harry Potter to recent news as Trump which means they are updated and monitor the trends of people. Recommended.

The Huffington Post• The Huffington Post is an

American online news aggregator and blog that has both localized and international editions founded by Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, Jonah Peretti, and briefly, Andrew Breitbart, featuring columnists. The site offers news, satire, blogs, and original content and covers politics, business, entertainment, environment, technology, popular media, lifestyle, culture, comedy, healthy living, women's interests, and local news.

I will say it keeps serious topics and updated. For recent news, and development of certain topics, it is good. It seems to be the type of blog adults like as to be inform from celebrities to politics and from worrying to joking around.

Vibespost

• Latest news of celebrities around the globe. Find out about their lives, their joys, and their secrets.

They focus on gossips from famous people, celebrities, or anyone who are know worldwide. Since myself lacks interest in the gossip content, I would not got to this blogs unless it was a topic of discussion in a social group. The blogs it constantly unfolding previous post to keep the audience interest and promoting more gossip. As it seems with millions of visitors, people really like gossip.

Collaboration Tools

A technology tool that can be used to help people work together to achieve a common goal or objective.

• Google Drive

• Dropbox

Dropbox• Link sharing documents

and folders

• Document type filter

• 2GB free space

• Folder for Recent deleted files

Dropbox is a great cloud storage online service. It provides a software to automatically upload files and share them with a group team or through links. This tool is more convenient for businesses since it has plans that expand storage and unlocks new tools, respectively with the plan purchased. It has the inconvenient that free users have limited benefits and no online edition of documents. Finally, a very good details is its desktop software which enables users to share and update documents outside their web browser.

Google Drive• Online storage + email

• Edit docs online

• Creates docs and folders

• Sharing with work teams

• Share with public or exclusive

• Update old docs

Google drive provides 15gb of free space however it does not offer more storage. On the other hand, one can start a new doc from their platform, update the docs, share with others, automatic saving, and edit as a group in real time. This tool is better for personal use and academic use since it storage is good, but limited. It also comes with PC software to make it more practical and avoid access strictly from web browser.

LinkedIn

There is no denying LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network. A whopping 94 percent of recruiters use LinkedIn to vet candidates. In short, LinkedIn use is not only increasing with millennials, it’s also become the go-to service for professionals of all ages. It establish connections, promotes people, and received job alerts are key features of LinkedIn

My own blog• This is my first blog ever. One of

my hobbies is to increase my wisdom of life. Since constantly, our hopes are turn into despair; where one is under constant attack through his/her weaknesses.

As mention before, a blog is a personal space. It depends on the purpose one prefers to direct it to. Yet, it shows a part of the person’s personality since administrating a blog for free must reflect a certain like or tendency. Some might do it to write, others to share, another to keep their actual knowledge in shape, and many more. The presence is boosted since anyone anonymously can access the blog and have some interaction with the authors or the community. In consequence, the blog is a pathway to creating links with other people, and with the ideas posted there. Unless the visitor knows the person or community, the benefit of anonymously having an exchange of ideas without been judge is very appealing.