Social bookmarking tools

Hi everyone !

Diigo

Diigo is ʻa multi-tool for personal knowledge management dramatically improve our workflow and productivity easy and intuitive. Much of our library has shifted to online resourcesʼ, So Diigo help us to organize our electronic information in one location.

This week4 I was signing up with the social bookmarking tool such as Diigo, it was easy and after exploring Diigo tools with our group. I learnt how to download the symbol of Diigo that help me to capture websites easly and quickly. Then, I made bookmarks for my favorite and used websites into my library, tagged it, share it with public, divided these websites into three lists For example:

        -where you find me (3).

        - Library (2).

        - Flickr & BillionGraves (2).

This is just the start!.

I encountered some difficulty in the beginning to create sets, but Susanne, Kate, Lisette and Me work as a group to cope with this issue.

Bellow there is a snapshot for my library in Diigo .

Furthermore, I noticed that Diigo and Endnote seem alike in ability to make social bookmarking that help users to manage and organize their documents.

However, the difference is Endnote has features that helps people to make references electronically which is beneficial for academic research. 

Using Diigo to set social bookmarking is considered a new goal that hadn't been listed in my learning goals.

Google Document

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 Today I will talk about our experiment with Google document .

Actually our group already have Google document that created by Susanne at the beginning of this semester which aims to help each other in this course Document Management 1, but in the last tutorial our group have made the decision that this document is used to discuss all problems that we may face in common courses.

Moreover, Susanne made a suggestion to change the name of this document. Each member suggested the name, ultimately our group voted to Bloggers Anonymous!.

Furthermore, there are some rules when using this document for example, each member write in different color and write the date.

In addition, the aims of creating this document in the tutorial(week4) is to discuss social bookmarking tools such as Diigo, Delicious, CiteUlike, etc. Our group agree to start focusing and discussing Diigo in this document.

Each member started to explore Diigo and  wrote about his vision of Diigo tools, also we help each other to solve any issue we found it.

Here the link of our discussing in Google document (Bloggers Anonymous).

This achievement is considered a new goal that hadn't been listed in my learning goals.

My experience with BillionGraves

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 Today my post is about my experience with BillionGraves.com .

BillionGraves

I was hesitant to explore BillionGrave because I had a sad story in February 2014(My father died). I thought I will relive the sad moment, but I intended to contribute to this program and continued to challenge myself. 

I started with the  downloaded BillionGrave application from Apple store in my mobile and made register process then explored how  I could  deal with these tools in this program. I watched the tutorial which helped me a lot to understand how to use tools. After taking photos in Melbourne General Cemetery, then logged on to BillionGrave.com from my laptop and started with made transcribe photos.

I didn't face any problem with BillionGraves. It was very easy to contribute in this program.

I have been able to contribute to BillionGrave which is considered one of my goals.

Flickr

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This week I explore another new tool  for me that I had never heard about before which is Flickr. The process was easy, beginning to log on to the flicker website then create an account in Yahoo then I started to upload my photo and tried to explore the metadata menu. I noticed this menu is intuitive and I was very interested in this feature because it saved me time when I wanted to edit the title or add description. It highlighted by itself what I wanted to copy from the title or description of special photo and allowed me to past it for a new photo. I was also able to put my photo in different sets depending the name of country of my trip for example Saudi Arabia, Switzerland and Australia, but I faced  difficulty to control the size of these pictures.

Moreover I have able to follow my friend Lisette Teasdale.

Bellow the link for my Flickr photostream.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/121264865@N06/

   Note: Most of the photos from the internet.

I have been able to create my Flickr which is considered new goals that hadn't been listed in my learning goals.

Twitter Progress & Organisational Examples

Twitter Progress:

 Hi Everyone!

This week I felt more confident with technology, so I started tweet in the lecture via #isys1166 hashtag compared to last week (I can't tweet). Now after finishing week 3, I started to achieve some of my goals like:

-         Breaking the barrier of fear in using new technologies such as Twitter.

-         Challenging myself, so I need to push myself to do things that  I do not necessarily comfortable doing  like Write Tweet .

Organizational Examples:

One example of an organization using Twitter to help clients was The British Library. The British Library use their Twitter account for informing their clients about historical artefacts and different events that are coming up. Also, they post information relating to the date, for example, on St Patrick's day they posted an image of St Patrick in a document from the 13^th century.

Also I find Commonwealth bank using Twitter to ' help customer to Keep up to date with the latest news and information on investment markets from Australia's leading online broker '.

Technological tools

Hi everyone!

In this week I felt confident and familiar with exploring more and more in technology tools, so I listed below some of them which I hope it is will useful for you and I add it under Page gadget. 

Mashme- tv

One of my favorite tools is mashme.tv it provides group video chat and other online audio, video broadcasting and communication services for individuals, businesses, and organizations. In order to access certain features of the Site and Services, you must register to create an account and become a “Member”. To become a Member you must be at least 15 years old.

Cometdocs

This blog explain how to use master document tool/feature when working with large word files, it is sometimes hard to organize such as report, research, etc. A Master Document is more of a container or folder that holds a set of sub documents within it. While the Master Document gives off the appearance of one large document, the sub documents are actually individual documents that can be edited independently.

RSS and Feedly

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At the first time my eye catch the word (RSS) in my assignment 1, I asked myself what it meant because I never had heard this word before. As you know English is not my mother language, so I tried to search about (RSS) in the Blogger’s Quick Tutorial. Unfortunately I couldn't find the answer there, then I started to read about it in Google, ultimately I understood what it means and checked it with my friend Lisette.

I learned we use RSS feeds to keep up to date with blogs or website by creating an account in Feedly.com, which I did. Also I found it so easy and interesting to deal with this site, it has great user interface and simple access organizational tools. I immediately began to subscribe to the RSS feeds of all my favorite blogs. I have been able to create four subject collections according to the different types of blogs I follow that including (Document Management 1[My Group], Interior Design, News, Photography).

  For example, the design blogs are in the 'Interior Design' folder and news blogs in the 'News' folder.
My feedly account

This achieved is considered a new goal that hadn't been listed in my learning goals.

My First Experience with Twitter

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I spent many years of my life with a false sense that I don't have enough time to get to know how to use technology and communicate with people all over the world by microblogging tools such as twitter or other social networking, but that was not the truth. The truth is I have a fear from dealing with each new in technology.

As a result, I started my tutorial with a bit of stress and I had a lot of difficulty creating my account, but I wasn't be able to create it in spite of the help and the guidance of Huan. I felt very disappointed, after that in the break I felt more comfortable and I went to the IT service in level 3, but suddenly I was able to create an twitter account without any help of them. What's the magic that happened ?

The answer is  I felt more serene than I did in the tutorial and this means that I began to break the barrier of fear in using new technology which is one of my goals.

According to science of energy, the negative energy transmitted from human to the surrounding environment and this what happened with me.

Ultimately I have Twitter account @Noufkr, I began to see the light of technology in my life and started my journey with the world of twitter. I've learned how to following Twitter accounts, the difference between message and tweet, reply and re-tweet,etc. Until now I have one tweet and many following and followers.

 Here my first tweet.

  

Some Example of following :

   State library of Victoria

  Bill Gates

 9 News

This is just the beginning.

Actually twitter helps organisational IM to expand and reach easily for everyone, therefore Twitter can bring all people over the world together under one umbrella, especially during a conference/event/lecture.

  

Interesting blog

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There is no doubt that reading expands the horizon where it leaves a good impact on the person at the beginning stage which then impacts the community, therefore attention must be paid to the display and organization of the information by using information management technology in this era of technological age.

ReadWriteblog is one of the interesting blogs that allows the reader to enjoy reading tirelessly by displaying classified articles. This blog is characterized by superb design, which makes the article concise through the display of a small window where an image occupies half of the space, whereas the other half of the available space has the title and the main idea of the article. This makes the page visually balanced, which makes it easier for the viewer to access the articles. It also avoids frequent interlinkages and advertisements that are usually seen on the right and left of the page, which result in the distraction of the reader. In addition, this blog takes into account both the simplicity and ability to post comments or share the link of the article by using Facebook, Twitter, Google plus, In and Reddit.

This blog using IM technology with high professionalism to achieve eye catching.

Welcome to my blog

My warmest greetings to  Huan and to my great group members Christina, Kate, Lisette, Luisa and Susanne.

My name is Nouf  and I’m from Saudi Arabia, I have been in Australia for a year to study the English language and now I am in my first semester of Master of Information Management. I have worked around 11 years in Ministry of Social Affairs; 10 of them I worked in childcare on the computer and in the last year, I was in Department of Incoming and Outgoing Transaction. Last but not least, I am a mother of 3 children.

For a fact, I am very far from social networking technologies, as a result this is the first time for me to create and understand what a blog means. It is a chance for me to share important moments, and there is a lot more to come: goals, challenges and opportunities!

Anything is possible when you just believe in yourself, in spite of all the difficulties that I had encountered to create this blog and in making comments for my group, I am excited to start this project in this course and I am ready for challenges.

I would like to thank Kate for helping me create this blog, and thank you Lisette  and Susanne as well.

My personal learning goals are:

·        Breaking the barrier of fear in using new technologies such as Twitter, Google Maps.                  

·      Being familiar with technology such as participation in Wikipedia or BillionGraves.    

·      Challenging myself, so I need to push myself to do things that  I do not necessarily comfortable doing like Write Tweet .

·       Displaying the information in an orderly manner and making it interesting for the reader.   

I'm looking forward to working with my group and I hope by the end of this course that I have achieved some of my goals.