Questions raised by Toolbox Activity 5
Written by: Jonathan Briggs
November 10, 2009 [1303 views]
Why did so many people switch from MySpace to FaceBook?
Web audiences are very susceptible to better services and tell their friends and colleagues about them. MySpace had become a bit old and ugly and FaceBook looked easier to use. Once people started to move they dragged their friends with them.
Will Twitter be bought by or embedded into Google search?
Twitter is already doing deals with the search engines to allow them to provide search results for recent tweets. It is this real time information that makes Twitter so interesting. We’ll see what Google does about buying or partnering with Twitter.
I found it hard to think of 4 different ways to promote my site
You and many companies. Most web marketeers see Social Marketing as being a huge opportunity but it is not straightforward to find imaginative ways of using these to attract real customers to a site.
Here are a few links that might help:
http://www.getelastic.com/social-media-examples/
http://www.beingpeterkim.com/2008/09/ive-been-thinki.html
Are there simple tutorials to show how to use FaceBook Connect on our WordPress pages?
Why don’t you try and find one?
Search for “facebook connect wordpress tutorial” on Google
Could we not include IRC in our discussions?
IRC is really interesting and you are right that it is widely used in the developer communities. Feel free to explore and evangelise other technologies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat
I really do not enjoy these social site and find it a pain to have to go into these sites regularly. Are you going to keep using them in your teaching? Should we continue to use Twitter or can we forget it now?
This sounds a bit like finding newspapers or libraries boring. I believe that these technologies are growing in importance and Twitter has become my eyes and ears for updates and knowledge. Of course you don’t have to use them but I suspect that as future professionals you will need to at least keep watching what happens with them. The key is to make them work for you and this takes practice.
Are hashtags really worth having?
The jury is out on hashtags but they are useful if you want to link your Tweets to a common thread or trending topic. Perhaps Twitter will find a better way of doing this in the future.
And from the last activity, would different subdomains or pages within a site share the same PageRank?
No, although if they are linked some PageRank will pass between them. PageRank is awarded to each individual page.
I still don't understand this module or what I am supposed to learn
I wonder how many people feel this way. This is an unusual module but I get the feeling that most people do understand what they are learning:
- How to learn about technology on their own
- How to find out the answers to technology problems
- How to manage technology themselves
- How modern IT works (behind the scenes)
- How modern IT fits together (web + ecommerce + social + mobile + search + mashups etc)
- The kinds of thinking needed to become an IT professional
- How to grow their own confidence in this area
- How to ask questions
If you still don't understand then please ask questions below or tell me what you think you should be learning instead.
What do you think?
