Taking Business to Web: Creating a Portfolio Website

The world wide web has taken a rise, playing a part in our everyday life. Job and businesses and other people now use social sites and websites to brand themselves to a larger audience that they can not physically get too.   Now and days when applying for a job it also acceptable to use social media sites. Websites are now being used to build personal portfolio. This provides a place to further display all your work.

  

On a personal website there can be about me section, work a person has done and even ways to get in contact with them potential job candidate. Building a website has become a more efficient way to physically show things that are listed on a resume. It also is a great way to show personality. Just like on a resume you want to publish things that can potentially have you stand out from everyone else. You also want to keep it short and concise because people don’t have time to read everything 

Because social media has been taking over our life in many different forms, a person can have a business page to further reach out to their clients and still be considered as professional. Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter all offer business features to reach to promote a brand. By using these sites and connecting to a website you can show how committed you are to expanding your brand or service. Blogging sites like Blogger can also help when applying for certain jobs. By writing about relevant topics and showing versatility, it will grab the attention of more employers  

It is also very important when using social media sites to keep fresh content on the page. Outdated content can show a lack a commitment.

Building website can be quite a challenge. You have to understand where the coding needs to go in order for the site to work the right way. Using a prompt or a preset template definitely does make the job a quite faster than starting from nothing. By seeing the patterns in the coding it becomes a bit easier as you keep working on it the site. 

Sometimes finding what is wrong with a coding can be quite difficult. Some things may not always align the right way or work the way you want to. Each line in the coding has to be specifically right with no errors. Coding is a very sensitive thing and can be frustrating if it is not done right. 

          Dreamweaver the Adobe software provides a split screen so that you can see changes to the site happen instantly. It also sections the coding different colors so that you are able to notice what each code is for. Dreamweaver also offer way to directly inserts photos and videos directly from the files. After working on the sites there is a preview button where you are able to see the site on web browsers like Safari or Google chrome. Once all the links to you sites work and everything is in place it is now time to publish your site!

Microblogging Madness: Twitter

The microblogging social media platform, Twitter has become a huge success since the year it was created on March 21, 2006. The social media site, which allows people to create “tweets” and connect with other user has been very beneficial for not just socializing but for companies to market their brand. Twitter has also come very far to expand into more than just a site for these two aspects. Today, people look to Twitter to find different current events. The instant speed of the web has allowed people to post and create a fast-acting news source system. 

During the heavy rainfall in Houston, the city of Houston posted things on their twitter to communicate with there community fast and efficiently. They Tweeted “911 services at capacity. If u can shelter in place do so, a few inches in your home is not an imminent danger. Only call if in imminent danger” People who were not in the situation directly also tweeted people in need to provide advice through the devastating tragedy.

Twitter can be useful in many different ways. In a journalistic aspect, you can get news to talk about instantly. There are so many hashtags trending with the latest news story that journalist can get the story even before it actually airs on the news.

Twitter has also become good for politics. Politicians have noticed the growth in the social media presence. They started to take advantage of that and ran to social media platforms like Twitter where they can rant and talk about things. Although twitter in the place to get retweeted multiple times and the post view by many, it up to the politicians and their PR to keep that positive image of their campaigns. According to the twin of politicians tweeted can expand in the world of politics.


This platform can also be great as an organizational tool because the hashtags help to categorize everything. Once you look up a certain hashtag you can find many things on the topic. The more things are narrow down and specific the easier it is to find.

Over the last twelve month, one event that happened over the course of the month was the Event with R. Kelly that took over the whole network. When the controversial documentary that talked about him being a rapist and pedophile came out it sparks conversation. One of the interviews with R Kelly and Gal dropped, the internet retweet was outstanding.  Whether it be them making fun of his crying and acting out on national tv, or people just talking about the situation, the R&B star became a twitter topic on the Twitter community. #MuteRKelly has hashtagged thousands of times.

     Another event that took place was when Ihop changed its name. Last June 2018, they changed their name to Ihob and announced that that would be changing their focus from breakfast foods over to burgers. This cause Ihop lovers in an uproar, not understanding why the go-to breakfast place would change their name and focus. People continued to tweet IHOP and retweeting their post. The marketing plan was a success once Ihop revealed this change was not actually true. It sparked up one-million conversations on the platform.

Another event the was widely tweeted about was was when Kanye West went to the White House. Many people were disgusted by his appearance and him a Trump had. There were many bad tweets going out. Kanye has also tweeted that he support Trump. He later went back and said the mistake he has made for doing this

One company I chose for my Twitter was Coca-cola. This is a drink that I love and the company has been around for many years. I wanted to see how they still continue to market themselves to this day. The next I chose was NASA I did not know much about what the organization does daily or why they would need a twitter. I definitely thought this would be interesting to be able to study. The last thing I chose to follow was Tidel, itis an online streaming network ran by rapper Jayz and singer Beyonce. Their streaming service offers many exclusive app features. 

This experience has been very different from blogging because it is much smaller. With Twitter, you have to make sure you elaborate using the right words. With only two hundred and fifty characters being used in the post you must make sure that you get straight to your point. With blogging, it is way more easy to elaborate on ideas and for the word count to be endless.  Also compared to other social media accounts Twitter is mostly about the words rather than the images. Although you can add images and gifs that is not the main focus of the post. Tweeting was definitely different for me because I have not been on it in many years, I am definitely more of an Instagram user.

WikiHow Experience

                                                                              

WikiHow is a database that shows many different guides on how to do something. Most topics that you can think of may already be on the WikiHow page.  These actions can be physical or even how to mentally get through something. Wiki How provides you with the step by step process. There can even be different methods to do a certain thing within that one page. The sites slogan is “We’re trying to help everyone on the planet learn how to do anything. Join us.” When launch the page you also see many suggested articles to read about. On the right tab site, they also have many different categories so that you can narrow down your search.

 When creates a WikiHow you first have to go to write an article. The database has two different search bars so that you may narrow down what it is you would like to talk about. The firsts search engine is “I know what I want to write about” and the second is “I want topic suggestions”. These search engines also help you to figure out are there similar topics out already.

If there is already a topic out with the with the exact topic, they will give you an option to add to the already existing article. Just like Wikipedia you can go back and edited another person’s work, as long as it is approved by the WikiHow community. This helps people to share their knowledge on topics that may be know.

The only way you can have the same topic if the topic is more detailed. For example, there can be a topic on how to bake cookies. The way you can create the topic to be different is “how to back peanut butter cookies” or “How to bake healthy fat-free cookies”.

Once you have figure out your way to make your topic different from the ones out it is time to create your page. You can add an introduction, things you will need, steps, videos, images, comma, and even warning. The draft section breaks up these categories so that you are able to type right under each section. They also include an Advanced editing section for people who know how to code instead. 

The process of creating a WikiHow page can be fun bit also intense. For example, a student’s page created is “how to create a geometrical sculpture on a budget”. This a simple project that you can do at home using, shish kebab sticks, a lid, a hot glue gun, and spray paint.

 The inspiration for this project came from a project recreated in the summer of 2017. It was a YouTube video based on home décor. After doing this project to redesign a college room. Time having my own room in college. This project really wanted your room to look nice and decorative but also understanding that you are on a budget. Finding this YouTube video definitely helped and gave great pieces to use to recreate. This was chosen as a WikiHow page because for one, no one else has made one on it. Also, it is proven that at this time where we are all college students on a budget. We need to learn how to use what we have to get what we want.

Trying to break down the process to become a WikiHow was a little more difficult than intended. It was found that after completing the rough draft to the instructional there was still some things that needed to be added. The next step to solving this problem was to do it step by step to follow the instructions. This helped to see if there was anything that was missing out of the directions and needed to be added. This was actually a great idea; things had been found that actually needed to be a step to make the process clearer.

As it was said in class when we first started “somethings that may be common sense to some people may not be to others.”  Simple Steps like “hold till dry” had been missed out. This could be a big step change that wasn’t recognized.  Following the instructions and writing at the same time help to clear any empty spaces within the instructions. It may be a little harder to explain things by text, rather than visually because you have to make sure that you are writing everything. As for when the process was on YouTube, the video made it easier to show exactly what to do, even if a step wasn’t clear verbally. It can sometimes be hard to communicate with others clearly the first time because you may be so used to doing it without having to explain anything.

For my project, you can use photos. You can even use videos. The pictures are important to have, but as though some parts were still hard to explain through a picture and they also needed a motion representation to explain what is going on.

 Also while going through the process to create visuals it is in your best interest to think which images would be the best to capture on film. It is also a good idea to take more pictures than needed, just to makes sure I got the right ones.

Once your article is complete with the coding and pictures it is time to finally publish.  One the article is publishing you can add links to summarize your work so that other people know what to find under. You can also add references links to your article to direct people to other process and to just give credit of where the information was learning from. There is a discuss section on each article as well so that people can give feedback on what they think about the WikiHow page.

I bet there has plenty of times when you have stumbled across a Wikihow page from google. If you look at little closure you may see how useful it is. Overall, the WikiHow community is definitely here to help one another.

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Social Media: How Far Does Connection Go?

    The generations of millennials have grown up using electronics devices. Within these devices, they all contain a world that may be bigger than what meets the eye, Social Media. Social Media is a platform for many apps and websites, which allows you to create and share content. It also lets you contact anyone instantly. Over 2 billion people around the world use social media.

     On a daily basis, People use these sights to stay in contact with old friends and relatives. But, Over the years this platform has definitely expanded positively. Marketers and businesses of any size use social media to expand their marketing plan to consumers. This platform makes it easier to connect with and contact a brands current audience no matter where they may be. Social Media has now become so mainstream, that it offers analytics of your following. Letting businesses know who of what age, race, city, and sex are tuning in to their current marketing strategy.

    Although so much good can come out of social media, it is still believed that it is very intrusive.  Have you ever typed something in on google, to a friend, or even said something out loud, then a couple of minutes later ads pop up for that same thing? It can be scary to know how connected we really are to the web.

    Also being in this online world, you should know that it's very important to handle social media with much responsibly. Things that are posted will never go away, whether it was deleted or not. The online world moves at such a face past that things can be shared or reposted within 10 secs of the initial post.

     Even today, the movement #BlackLivesMatter, that has streamed through the internet for the past couple years has been showing police brutality. We, as an online community got to witness the harsh reality of cops taking advantage of their position. We see live videos of people like Eric Garner actually being put in a chokehold by police, which resulted in death.

     Social media has played a very concerning role in this event by just simply raising awareness Though this may be seen as a negative event, the outcome of for social media has seemed to be very positive. It has made people alarmed to pull out their phones and record in events like this. It has definitely made cops more aware of their actions as well. The #BlackLivesMatter movement has also brought out activist and other people to speak out, protest and bring change to something happening all across the country.

    In all, It is still believed that Social Media will go down a productive path. Now that we see all the pros and cons that social media has, we can act more responsibly. There should be more activists speaking out, comedians producing content, brands creating strong marketing plans, and much more. In the future, there will be no limit of how far you can take social media to become successful!

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