Watch What You Write

Over the past few weeks I’ve felt torn over one particular idea. How available should you make yourself on the Internet? From the different stories of people losing their jobs over Facebook photos and just the importance of having a good reputation online available to the world I’ve been much more cautious. Thomas Kyte had some interesting ideas on the matter that were very enlightening. Things to put into consideration are your political and religious views and the amount of private information you may non-chaulauntly put on your LinkedIn profile or Blog that could have serious consequences. I’ve heard more and more stories of people deleting their profiles on different social networking sites because of the risks associated with them.
Now the big realization is with what were doing in this very class. Blogs are now a key way for employers to get a better look at an individual before hiring them. As we move into a more technology savvy generation companies are also progressing past interviews and resumes to get a deeper look into the potential employees. Your Blog is now viewed as an online resume and needs to written with care and consideration for yourself and others. Will everybody be more cautious well writing their next Blogs now that this is so widespread?

Digg your way to the top

The next stop throughout my journey of the online community involves a deep look into social news sites. For some it’s a tool to branch out and advertise their ideas or product well others use it for its general purpose of posting the most interesting stories in a place that could attract a mass audience. When discussing the big dogs of this crazy world, Digg is the first site to some to mind for most people. Digg is a very large and well-known social news site that posts stories by category and popularity. It has so many users right now that on the front page of the site which shows 15 stories posted by users the 15th story was posted only five hours and will be pushed into archive pages by the time the sun comes up.
Social news sites are considered a revolutionary new way to get a voice and gain supporters especially now that Digg decided to allow political stories on there site. Allow is a funny word when it comes to these kind of sites because even though the goal is to give the little man or the nobodies a voice the editors can quickly take it away. It works effectively if the goal is to stop hate stories or false stories all together but I do find it kind of contradictory to do such a thing. If these sites were made for that exact purpose it doesn’t seem fair to only allow a selected few to be posted on the site. Overall I would say social news sites are a great idea but when the get to the size of one like Digg where hundreds of stories are filtered in daily it becomes much more difficult to continue following the original goals for the site.

More maybe Better I think not

Throughout the last couple months my digital world has opened up to many new ideas, cultures, and beliefs. I have read and posted on different activities and events that take place in the real world and transfer into the digital world. Starting with the obvious Second life and all the issues I have with what this program has done to our society new issues come into play. After reading through what Milestone Company believes and what NetAge Endless Knots has posted on the website the idea of virtual brainstorming being more beneficial than face to face brainstorming is the new argument. There are very compelling arguments for both sides but I still feel more confident that working with the physical person and not just there voice are web cam version of them is more effective. There isn’t much of an argument against the numbers saying virtual brainstorming groups find more solutions alone then groups meeting and brainstorming together, however, is more solutions necessarily better? If your working at the top level of a corporation in making million dollar deals and decisions the amount of solutions is hardly the most important issue. I would say having people come together and brainstorm creates a stronger bond between people and better solutions. The only reason why more solutions come up when brainstorming is done virtually and alone is because no one is opposing them.

Job Hunting

With the advancements made in society I feel we have done pretty well at teaching are youth how to also stay on track with this forward progression. From the first time I took a job as a busboy a remember tips to take into account when trying to get the job. Keep eye contact and give a firm handshake when you first meet. For jobs I will be working for in the near future it may take a little more. I’ve heard things like it’s not what you know but who you know that get you the job and connections are most important when trying to excel but what else comes into play.
Now that social networking online is becoming a more popular way to do business then going in yourself and applying I feel from here on out I will need to be much more tech savvy. I could walk into an interview more qualified but several steps behind my competition because my online resume was either not existent or less than stellar. At this point its not so much my future I’m concerned about but what I’ll be teaching my children so they can be ahead of the game when the time comes.