You can refer to the slides as well as the links on my website.
You have to write an essay on:
- How blogging (and participatory media) can help students (a message to your juniors at SCIT)
- How blogging (and participatory media) can help budding professionals
- As a comment to this post
- As a post on you own blog with a trackback to this url.
- As a comment on a post written by any of your classmates. In such a comment, you must highlight the pros and cons of the position taken by the author of the blog.
All submissions should be made by 2nd February.
Submissions with plagiarized material will not be considred for evaluation.
495 comments:
1 – 200 of 495 Newer› Newest»Blogging – What’s on your mind?? That’s what blogging is all about!! Well, If my kind of a definition of blogging doesn’t appeal to you then this is what ‘Wikipedia’ says - A blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order. Too technical?? Is it? Then this is a blog all about blogging. Here I shall be sharing all my learning’s (essentially my own views and thoughts) about blogging and related stuff explaining how can it be of help to us though myself am being a newbie to it. Blogging, a new media technology, has bought a new style of interactivity among people of varied interest. It could be better explained as a platform for sharing thoughts and views over common interest and involve in a kind of a discussion with others. Such interactivity leads to greater learning among the participants. The basic advantage of such a learning style is the depth of exploration and the revealed insights of the topic being talked about. Have you heard of open system or closed system? Techies could very well relate themselves to these terms easily. Well the above kind of a discussion of blogging could very well be mapped to what we call an open system – like an open learning system. However, blogging could very much be a closed system. For example I may choose to write a personal dairy every night – wish not to share it with others explicitly. This simply may be for maintaining a journal of my daily activities. Well, I may not want others to post a comment on it however; I may not have any issues with other having a look at it though. May be!! Again, for the benefit of others, this is what ‘Wikipedia’ says - Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. Also, ‘Wikipedia’ says – blogging combines text, images, links to other blogs, web-pages and other related media to its topic. Then the immediate conclusion one can draw is – blogging is just not freedom to share your thought but such a superior platform offering freedom to expression of your thoughts too– all in all, providing all the means to Xpress your thoughts confined to a related topic of discussion. To cite an example, during our sessions there was a question on how could blogging help one of the students in setting up her own business? There were several incites that came up during the discussion? But how many? Just about a handful. But why? Because time was a constraint during the session. But over here?? Time is not a constraint, allowing you to drop in your incites at your leisure and may be in your own comfort zone. And also giving you various means of expressing your self. Say through text or may be you have a great image to share or other wise you have a video recording of how to start up a new business and you don’t mind sharing it for the benefit of others or may be you have an idea of your own or otherwise you probably had the same question. Right?? To give a justification to the greatest benefit of blogging is that the ideas to the discussion of starting up a business would actually get captured, right? Isn’t it the greatest benefit you could ever think of? I came to this conclusion when the thoughts could not be captured in our classroom discussion.
Here I would take up the opportunity to further my insights over blogging in relation to budding professionals by giving you all a reference to a blog posted by our faculty Parag Shah sir:
http://www.adaptivelearningonline.net/learningblog/2007/1/24/blogging-for-learning-professionals.html
In his blog he writes about blogging as a participatory media. Indeed it is truly a participatory media as it beautiful engages all its participants and brings ones thoughts on the table with it’s powerful tools of what ‘Wikipedia’ terms as - photoblog (photographs), sketchblog, videos (vlog), or audio (podcasting) as a part of a wider network of social media. This type of exchange of thoughts could be of lot of help even to budding professionals. For example, a company may want it trainees of a particular batch to start a blog of their own and exchange their learning’s essentially creating a knowledge base for those to come next. As rightly said by our sir – it enables ‘conversations that lead to learning’ – and if such a learning could be archived for future reference, then isn’t it a knowledge base? Well, I see it as the greatest means of tapping knowledge and thus it’s a boon to the student community as well as to the industry meaning to budding professionals.
There was an interesting discussion about podcasting in the session, which I essentially understood as a means of creating and sharing audio content. But otherwise you could also do this? Right? There is a difference, which though which we cannot over look. The audio content could be streamed to where ever you are to a gadget like an iPod and another benefit – it would always be upto date. Thus, it could be synchronized and you could listen to it in your comfort zone and probably at your pace and at your leisure. Right? Indeed a great way of sharing and learning too. Again let’s not get into the technical details of what leads to such an awesome way of learning – I would rather back off giving a hint to those interested – RSS feeds!! Yes, and would encourage other to better read it at ‘Wikipedia’. You could as well go to this page to understand podcasting in depth:
http://www.podcastingnews.com/articles/What_is_Podcasting.html
As a remainder we were all going to blog here to share our thoughts on blogging and enlightening over selves on this topic – coming to a conclusion in what various ways it could help the student community. Isn’t this itself an example of an open learning system? Isn’t itself a justification of how blogging can help we students? I keenly look forward to your insights on to my justification of the very topic of discussion – blogging.
The above blog was posted by,
Anupam Maheshwari
IT043004 - SDM
SCIT
(email - mail.anupam.maheshwari@gmail.com)
http://techzing.blogspot.com/2007/01/learning-through-blogging.html
Srinivasarao Nudurupati
IT052122
SDM
Note: -- Sir, there is some error in the trackback URL. So, i have submitted this way
Blogs and its benefits for students and budding professionals
A blog right from being called as a user generated website, to online diary has today become the host of information. All this only because of active participation of Internet users, their interest in sharing knowledge and quest for gaining knowledge. All said and done, it is very important for the students to understand the benefits of using blogs. I was never attracted to the concept of blog although many of my friends persuaded me to read their blogs; in fact I never made an attempt to read them too. But after my course on Media & Technology I realized how important blogs have become in today’s Information Age.
1. To begin with, I think the following benefits of blogging would be appropriate for the student community:
1. Knowledge is an evolution that never ends. The best phase in a man’s life is when he is a student. Here, you crave for having more and more knowledge and be aware of the new technologies, news, events, and more such information on the social circuit. Reading blogs written by industry experts, experiences shared by umpteen people, information about the upcoming events, updates on the latest technology can add a lot of value to the student’s personality.
2. Not only reading but also writing will make a lot difference to a student’s prospects. He can ask questions, solve his doubts, interact with the experts, request comments on his projects, etc.
3. A student interested in projects, research & development can blog his interests and help relevant patrons.
4. A student can also consider blogging to sell his skills. A fresh graduate out of college can show off his skills, interests, and make blogging a selling commodity. He can possibly attract the employers with his relevant skills and experiences.
5. Apart from gaining knowledge and selling skills, students can also involve themselves in writing anything personal that he feels is good but would like to share with everybody. And nobody knows but he may find people interested in his areas of interests and they may click together! They may become the best of buddies!! While there could also be somebody who really likes the way he pens and may be offered the official blogger of some Company!!
Thus, the benefits are many but these may be few important.
2. In the age of competition and as a kick to stay always on top drives the budding professionals, it is very important that one has a strong idea and clear vision and mission to start with. Blogging would be a valuable stepping-stone to start any new venture/ career. The following benefits would be appropriate for the budding professionals.
1. To begin with, for a professional starting a new venture can blog about his idea and request feedback, comments, help from the experts and act accordingly.
2. For one starting his career, he too can post his questions about current openings, the market trends and relate to his career path.
3. The beginner can advertise his new venture in the Internet world. If the blog really clicks, there would be no end to the prospective clients. As blogging today can become a “Word Of Mouth” advertising therapy, there would be a lot of response from the community.
4. As the Internet is reaching every nook n corner of the world, we are becoming a close-knit family. Hence correlating one’s views and ideas has become a very easy job. Although the authentication and security is a vital issue in the Internet space, trusting one’s personality becomes important to some extent.
5. Although professionals may be hesitant to share the secrets, it is advisable that having trust on bloggers would help them sooner or later.
6. Not only bloggers but also other visitors to the blog posts may find interest in the budding professionals.
7. The professionals may find suitable partners, venture capitalists, investors who may be interested in the upcoming business.
Thus, one can reap the benefits of blogging just by spending sometime from his/her busy schedule and having the “Give and Take” attitude. Last but not the least, blogging doesn’t harm anyone but may help everyone!!!
Any Feedback or comments??? ---- Revati Gokhale (PGDM-II- SYS IT 052097)
BLOG on BLOG
With the burst of new technology and media, the word "information" has taken on a new meaning and several new shades.Its not that a lot of new information has suddenly come up in the past decade.Instead, what has happened is the availability of existing information and the access to information has become shockingly easy.yes, its shocking - even 2 decades ago the thought that you could get information and opinions on any topic (however niche) from someone living thousands of miles away- possibly in some isolated place with such ease was unthinkable.but now, just with the help of a few clicks (and mostly without any cost) one can gather the experiences of people who have gone through or have experienced the same situations/difficulties as we might be doing so.Whether we are learning something new or taking a new step in life and any other trivial or important matter- someone else might have done something similar.To gain from other people's experience is very valuable in such a case.What better way than a blog? You get the experience from the person, at your convenience-without ever taking up his time and you can still interact with him/her by posting comments.Time is a very important consideration(besides knowledge) in this as well. I believe that a person having knowledge cant be hounded by people seeking knowledge all the time.its not possible to repeat the same thing again and again.But over here,the author can sit down and write any time he feels convenient.(i believe most bloggers write at unearthly hours).He can write it in as many sittings as he wants as well.When a blog is written,its as if the author has given out his knowledge and understanding and released it into space.Now anyone seeking it can access it(any number of times) and read it without troubling the author.Also the seeker has read it without wasting any of his own time in searching for such a friend/acquaintance.
Writing a blog has got many implicit advantages which are almost as useful-(sometimes more so) as reading from blogs on the Internet.But as i said, the advantages are implicit and hence are often taken for granted or underrated.For a beginner it is difficult to grasp the true advantages of taking out time to write a blog.Hence the motivation for doing so is usually very small.Why write a blog?well, for beginners i recommend writing about some trip that you have made or new place you have visited,which one would like to share with friends.Such things come naturally and don't require much thinking or editing.In fact its fun to do so.After one has a little experience then one can start with the more serious stuff.Why? well- it has the same advantages as you would have when you share knowledge with your peers when sitting in a group.In fact that's exactly what you are doing in a blog-only difference is that the group is a bigger one.Lets see what one can gain from writing?
In my opinion there are 3 major advantages:
1) You tend to think out each and everything in a very clear perspective when you sit down to write about it. It may be any topic- technical,political,personal etc etc.The kind of new insights that you get will really astonish you when you actually put stuff into writing.You will know and understand the topic far far better at the end of the day.(Of course, your intention should be to really give/share knowledge to other people and not to try and show off some half-baked knowledge).Additionally, when people write comments- the feedback is very useful in getting different perspectives and new viewpoints to the same thing.
2)You let the whole topic(or part of it) out of your system.This makes your mind very clear.This really makes room for some new and fresh ideas to enter.Unfortunately, u have to experience it to understand this, because its not possible to explain.But it is so useful, i really cant overemphasize it.Try to think of the times you have explained something that you are passionate about to someone else.After the discussion you will feel different.And next time you will look at the topic with a new depth.
3)Lastly,Its helps immensely in building a network.No matter what you are doing professionally or writing about- building a network has got a lot of advantages.It can help you in ways that you might never have thought of.The logic is simple- when you write about a topic, only people interested in the topic will read about it.And only like-minded people will regularly keep up with the blogs (of which most will keep commenting).So now you have a group of people who are interested in the same thing as you are and have similar thinking to yours-but with different backgrouds and different perspectives.So when you have a problem or need an opinion on the same topic- you already know where to look for.The more niche your topic the more important is this point.
Besides these there are several other advantages such as promoting your own work or business etc.At the same time it has all the advantages that come about when you write a personal diary.Although the diary here is not personal but the advantages do remain- such as looking back at your own development over a period of time.Or refreshing your own knowledge in your own words!!!
The possibilities of blogging are endless.Other media such as pod-casts etc are popular as well but require more effort on your part.Hence i feel Blogging is by far the most interesting and popular medium of knowledge give and take or as Mr Parag Shah puts it "Participatory Medium".
Jaydeep Vijay Pathare
SDM-IT052054
Well friends Blog as you all know from the comments of my fellow
friends above,is the way in which we can share our knowledge and increase our knowledge. It is basically the representation of ones identity on the web. It shows how much you know about the particular topic and what are your views on it.
As you already know what the blog is from the above comments posted by Anupam and Revati, I would like to tell you, how we as students can use Blogs?
Here are some of the ways in which we can use the blogs as students-:
1.We can create a blog for the Guest Lectures and the National Seminars that are held in our college, and can post our views about what we have learned from these lectures.
2.We can create a blog about the papers that are held in our college and can post our comments about the particular paper. Even we can discuss about the answers of the questions that we were unable to solve.
3.We can create a blog about our Internship projects and can share our view about what we have learned at the particular company. We can also post a video or audio
presentation about our internship project.
4.You can also create a blog about certain R&D topic which you are doing and can ask your fellow friends to comment on that topic. The same way in which I have created a blog about my R$D topic at
http://www.shahabuddin7.blogspot.com/
which gives you a little insight about what ERP is all about.
5.You can also create a blog about the sports meet which was recently held in our college, discussing about how we have won a particular event, or why we have lost a particular event.
6.Well blogs can be created for any thing, which you feel that is important and useful to the world. You can create a blog about the placements of your seniors and discuss about the packages and the profiles offered to them. Well I won’t suggest this, as at SCIT we are not allowed to disclose the names of the companies and packages offered by them in public.
Well blogs can be of great help for the budding professional too. They can write blogs about the topics, they are passionate about. They can comment about the particular topic and hence in this way they can show the world how much they know about that topic. As Rahul has said in the above comments that many company executives checks the Blogs and look for budding professionals who can be an asset for their company.They can search for the new openings that are available in the market. They can discuss about the certifications and courses that are available in the market. Even they can post the new openings that are available in certain company if they knew.They can also comment about the new products that are launched by the companies, by posting comments about the drawbacks and benefits of that product. In this way they can attract the executives of that company. They can post their new ideas on the blogs and can show their creativity.
Well budding professionals can also take blogging as a career, as we all know there are many guys who have earned a lot of money by simply writing blogs. They can use blogs in deciding their career path by asking queries from the experienced professionals. They can discuss with Experts about the current trends and future growth in their fields.
Through blogs they can be in contact with the people, who have interest in the same field as theirs. May be they can have an online chat with them and can even meet them. They can comment on what they expect from the Industry and can also have a discussion about what Industry exoects from them.
By blogging we can show the world what we are and how much we know. It is one of the best way to be in contact with the like minded people.
Finally I would say :-
“Knowledge is the thing, the more you give, the more you Get”
so what are you waiting for go ahead and create your own blog and see how many hits you get for your blog.
Note-> For more Information on Blogging, Please refer to http://www.adaptivelearningonline.
net/learningblog/2007/1/24/blogging-for- learning-professionals.html
SHAHABUDDIN SHAIKH
SDM-IT52110
SCIT.
Blogs- for Students and Professionals
Learn to blog, blog to learn.
This is the Synonyms of what all I am going to convey with you all.
Lets us first understand “what is Blogs?” Weblogs or blogs are personalized web pages where individuals can place anything of their liking in the form of text, links or graphics online. Don’t get too much confused its like a “Online Diary”, where reader leaves comments in interactive format. Thousands of people blog everyday.
Lets share what I learnt from two day workshops and my own explorations about blogs. It can help in education, can act as a Knowledge management tool,
and personnel image builder. As our lecturer Mr. Parag Shah mentioned that Blogs are best suited for all students specially those from IT. It is great tool for them to write their thoughts clearly and enhance their technical concepts. Beside it can act as a showcase where they can showcase their skills to the outside world.
I believe that it is very important for the students to understand how powerful the blogs are.
1. Blogging gives students a way to organize the students their thought process and putting them in reader friendly way. Being from Management stream it also help us a lot in cultivating writing style. Sometimes it may happen that you get an idea in your head--however (half) baked it might be--and, in seconds, share it with the world. Immediately, you get feedback, comments and so you came to know how brilliant it was. It was not possible without this concept of blogging.
2 Many of the subjects we study here require Interactive teaching methodology. Blogging promotes interactive mode of teaching. Students can express their knowledge on particular topic. And all students along with concerned faculty will comment on it.
3 Blogging makes all of us senior to share various experiences in the college, our four months Industry Internship experience, and our Research and development project. Even the juniors can let the seniors know what current happening in the college, and request for their comment on the issue.
I started writing blogs after the topic was introduced in the course. "I have found blogging to be extremely useful not just as a personal publishing tool, but in building a well-networked community of people. In fact, after learning the power of blogging, I wonder how did I not know about it before.”
4. Blogs Plays the the role of the e-teacher, meta-learning, and more. Blogs maintained by individual students enable teachers to assess their students’ thinking patterns and depth of understanding. In the future, students may learn by assembling personal digital portfolios. It is more multi layered approach than traditional formal education. It seems that you are doing an apprenticeship under scanner of various experts. Blogs make experts, gurus, and beginners accessible to you.
5 Many times it so happen that students get group projects to work and faculty is not clear who is contributing to what. It involves collaborating with peers on group projects and involves lots of interaction with their professors. It makes the students to think more critically, and able to communicate outside the boundary of classrooms. Conventionally, students often rely more on lecturer as main source of ideas and crtical thinking.
It makes students think from different prospective and for themselves. It provide students to discuss ideas, experiences or opinions allows students to discuss any issue publically- what they are studying with other students and ask for comments from outside their college.
6 If you had a group discussion in class, and you made a very good point. It may be possible that only couple of people listening to your ideas and comment over it. But when they write on their weblog many can read it. They have a voice and the other students read it and respect it as well.
I being a student get totally different prospective of things which were not there earlier in normal lectures.
Not only as a student, blog will also help us when we will enter into the corporate world, where blog help us to recreate the same learning environment of college.
1. Blog can be used as a tool to collaborate, manage knowledge, develop communities. It allows collaboration between teams and departments, making them easier to plan and schedule meeting.
2. When you enter into the professional world, as a employee it will help you to manage your ideas, which can be categorized in future. The interactive nature of blogs used to promote online knowledge sharing communities.
3. Many of us think of becoming an entrepreneur in future, blogs help them in seeking advice and feedback from experts, and can act accordingly. It may be possible few from outside community get highly impressed with your ideas and want to be the part of your enterprise as an investor or co partner.
4. Like earlier I had not written any blogs but I am regular visitors to the blogs on http://www.mouthshut.com. I visit here to see what others think of particular product or service available in market. Not only bloggers but also other visitors to the blog posts may find interest in the budding professionals.
5. You may create a blog in which your super seniors who are working in the industry can also participate to discuss regarding current opening in their company, job profiles, and seek their advice on particular issue.
There are many good websites for blogging like I recommend to start with www.blogspot.com, http://www.mouthshut.com, or you need more clearification on blogging http://www.adaptivelearningonline.net/learningblog/2007/1/24/blogging-for- learning-professionals.html
Just imagine the great learn with fun the blogging will bring for any age group.
Enjoy the learning process!
Deepak Agarwal
IT52035
SDM June
Blog – A new start of learning’s for newer people in a newer way!
Well this is my first blog ever, in which I am going to write about the power of blog for students and professionals, specifically budding professionals. To start the blog is something, which you can write your thoughts to, the one you want to share with others. The thoughts can be a sort of knowledge sharing stuff or could be an incident you want to share with others.
Now a days blogs are coming up as an effective means of sharing knowledge, and could prove very useful for keen learners, thus very useful for students and budding professionals.
The blog is currently having millions of users around the world, which might consists of all types of people ranging from students to CEOs of MNCs, who are penning down their thoughts in form of blogs, their experiences, their day to day learning’s and many more things which a normal person would spent his whole life to learn while he can learn just by reading the blog of that CEO.
As a budding professional a person can learn how organizations are working around the world, what the problems they are facing and their solutions, so its ultimately a simulated experience with immense learning.
The professionals can track the blogs of person of their concern say, a person working in java platform can track java expertise, can learn from their blogs and simultaneously can ask questions from them, thus blog can be an interactive problem solver too.
Just imagine the power of blog that with it you are interacting with Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's CEO who regularly writes blogs. Can you imagine interacting with that person by any other means !!
Just to mention, at the end of a blog the author normally provides his email address, so you can contant him through that.
The same usage of blogs applies to students also. It can provide the same amount of learning experience to students too. The students not only have learning experience from blogs but also come to know the latest in their field. They can share their study material on blogs. Like at the end of lecture they can always blog down their learning’s and thus can makes notes, which could prove useful at the time of examinations, rather than traditional paper notes. It can also help the students who were absent on that lecture, who can read the lecture blog of other students. This can also help junior students in getting knowledge from their seniors blogs and thus the redundant work of learning every thing from scratch can be reduced and that time could be used for other productive activities.
Apart from a whole lot of learning’s a blog is little more. A blog can prove to be a money-making asset. If you are writing blogs and your blogs is getting a large number of hits then you can host ads on your blogs and could be paid handsomely by the ad companies.
There are other means also like if you are fond of some technology say you are passionate about some companies product and regularly writing about their products, so might possible that company person notices that and sends you the free copies of every product, they want people to know or are about to launch in the market, for review. Another example is directors are sending free copies of movies to persons giving their expert reviews about movies. So you can be amongst them.
To wrap it up, blogging is really coming out as a new media technology in the modern world where persons sitting in opposite corners of the world are interacting with each other. So do blog, to share, to gain, to learn and make others learn form you !!
Piyush Gupta
IT052083-NITI
SCIT.
(email: pi_gupt@yahoo.com)
Blog has brought in a great revolution in this Internet world. Following are my thoughts over how “Blog revolution” can benefit the professionals and students
The blog can be a daily record of an individual or a group: of their experiences, observations, advice, impressions, opinions, analysis, notes, and comments across a whole range of subjects – news, politics, travel, economics, journalism, computer programming etc.
Although blogs are mostly personal in orientation, we found that a range of professionals including journalists, librarians, and project managers, corporate customer relation managers actively uses blogs. And there is also evidence that teachers in primary, secondary and tertiary education are using them with great success. Blogs in learning offer personal e-learning spaces. In many ways, the blog draws on the extensive practice of learning logs and journals. These have been found to be effective in a wide variety of teaching practices – in nursing, medicine, teacher training, engineering, professional writing – and across a range of education levels from primary to postgraduate. Some teachers are commencing to use blogs to provide an area to point students to useful resources and discuss issues arising as part of a teaching and learning program. Typical of blogs are employed for teaching would include: Links to websites as resources, Observations on learning content, Discussion forums, Learning resources and Syllabus. However, a blog is significantly different to a traditional learning log in that the student record is created in a public performance space. The student may post a personal observation but other students, teachers or mentors may immediately view this. This dramatically shifts the nature of the learner discourse. It introduces the student immediately to the practice of publishing, and all this entails. The blog also has a high capacity for communication in that visitor to the personal space can post their own comments and remarks, or in some cases, edit each others work. Many students find the flexibility of online learning a practical alternative to sitting in a campus classroom for hours on end.
Blogs can help a company and its clients in promoting its products and services, participate in the conversation related to its products and services, convey the image of a pioneer and thought leader and make and sustain contact with important user groups and other blog authorities. Blogs open up another whole world of doing things that may bring new learning habits and a more eager and committed clientele. Knowledge Management (KM) is the current focus of professionals, Web logging is seen as a story-telling device in KM - learning and communicating, even collaborating - in an environment that unfolds on a daily basis. A story is being told - both for the creators of the content, and the people who read and discuss that content as it emerges. Apart from knowledge management Professionals in a company uses internal blogging for Internal communications, Project management, Event logging, Team management. The key benefits these professional enjoys from internal blogging include improved internal communications replacement of other exiting work processes, and replacement of email. Professional uses external blogs for PR/marketing and demonstration of thought leadership. The benefit, which they have because of the external blogging, is improved brand recognition and external communications, as well as a vehicle for customer feedback. A few professional also blogs to generate income
This opens up a whole other domain –mentoring, collaboration and discussion features that have resonance with other Internet communication devices (discussion boards) but with a higher level of control. From a web-publishing point of view, the range of blog software available simplifies blogging. The advantage for the user is that there is no need to install cumbersome software on their computer. The simplest method to enter the blog is via a browser form, using a PDA form. There is an array of software currently available to install on the server side, or use can be made of hosting services already established – some for free. The integration of a Personal Digital Assistant (Palm Pilot in this case) further enhanced the blog potential. This device allows the student to write their blog in any location (classroom, lecture theatre, public transport), and then upload their blog to the host site at a later stage. Wireless technologies will make this process even more effective. Creates a learning community feel in a place away from the traditional classroom. This learning community is open 24/7. Provides an authentic audience for student writing, an audience of peers, parents, and a potential worldwide audience. The embedded hit map on our site allows the students to determine the location of their readership. This also is a nice connection with geography. Allows for multiple feedback loops among the networked students, teachers and other interested parties. Learning in a class blog setting is now a social activity. Allows a wonderful outlet for creativity. Supports differentiation. The blog gives some of our more verbally reserved students a forum for their thoughts. Encourages reading. To make a meaningful comment, or to choose their favorite post, the students first need to read what’s out there. Encourages and teaches research skills. Encourages students to extend their research beyond the assigned work. Builds technology skills.
This was my understanding of blog and how it can facilitate students and professional in information sharing, learning and research.
Jayanti Shailesh
IT052053, Systems
SCIT
Honestly speaking when I first attended the class on blogging, I wasn’t really expecting it to motivate me to actually go and start blogging. That’s why I was totally taken in by surprise.
I had maintained a journal for the last 5 years, kind of like a personal diary where I would just note down the day’s events, my thoughts and other such stuff. This year I decided to let go of that habit bcoz I didn’t think it served any useful purpose. But after attending the new media technology class, I decided to start again. I’d like to highlight the reasons why I decided to continue with the habit, but this time not by maintaining a diary but by blogging.
The class really changed my thinking about a few aspects of writing. In the initial years of maintaining a journal, my greatest fear was “What if someone reads it?” “What are they gonna think about it?” To add to that fear, I have a younger sister and u know how they get into their ‘oh-so-curious’ phases. But later on, I would write something that I wanted to share with people around and I would think to myself “Just bcoz I am interested in it doesn’t mean anyone else should be”. So I kept all of it to myself and gradually got fed up because I felt that it did not really serve any purpose.
A few of my classmates are bloggers and introduced me to their world of blogging. At that time I didn’t really feel confident enough to write out my thoughts and expose them publicly. I remember feeling “unfaithful” (if I may) to my diary!!!!!! The reason being that after writing a diary all through my teenage years, right until last year, there grew some kinda weird attachment to it.
Through blogs, I’ve learned that all the things that one would think don’t matter, actually do. People may really be interested in the kind of experiences you’ve had. Take for example, if all the seniors at SCIT started a blog sharing their experiences at interns, the juniors would benefit a great deal from it. They would know what to expect and learn from the mistakes we seniors made.
Also when reading about new things, it doesn’t really get assimilated unless there is some sort of discussion about it. So just reading about it doesn’t help. When we write blogs, we sub-consciously understand the subject more clearly. Expressing it in or own words makes it clear to us in our own language.
Another observation I made was that ever since I quit writing my journal, my vocabulary shrunk to the size of a dot. In most college campuses, English is not the mandatory language to converse in. So people use mostly Hindi and other languages. English is just reserved for the classroom, presentations and other seminars. From personal experience, because of this, I would find myself searching for the right words and then end up using a mediocre word, which would diminish the meaning of what I, was saying. When we write we have to the time to reflect on what we want to say and then bring it out best in the right words. So what if I have to open up the thesaurus a thousand times to find the right word. At least I increase my vocabulary in that way.
From a professional perspective, blogs help to take a stand on things. I have a friend who is a regular blogger. He writes about all the latest technology in the market. When I read it the first time, I thought "Okay, so you write on technology, but doesn’t everybody?" Doesn’t everyone want to rave about their new I-pod, new operating system, the latest software model etc?
That’s when he told me that it is not just repeating what countless websites have to say about stuff. It is about taking a stand on things. Seeing it in a different perspective. Forming an opinion and then sharing it with the world. There maybe a lot of people who don't see eye to eye with you but there may be several others who do.
When I write about something, I think about it deeply. I understand it in depth and then I am able to talk about it. It gives me the confidence to say what’s on my mind. Being able to express my thoughts confidently to a group of people is a big booster.
When u want to know what the customers are saying about your product, blogs are the best to find out. A professional ultimately reaches out to the customers. Sure you can get a valid opinion through polls and surveys. But blogs will give u a better idea because they not only tell u what the customers want but also when it comes across in such a detailed manner, it helps to understand the customer better.
I believe that blogs can also be viewed as an opportunity. If u want to put forward a good idea, but your organization does not have the resources for such initiatives, u can use a blog to tell people about it. This way when other people comment on what u have to say, you'll get a broader perspective of things and who knows u may end up with a group of people who are as willing as you are to put the plan into action.
I saved the most important reason for writing blogs for the end.
Today, when all of us are rushing to get to THE place, or struggling to achieve THE goal, it does help a lot to take some time off to retrospect on the experiences gained and the knowledge accumulated. Blogs give us all that and the means to plan what next to achieve.
So whether it is the role of an advertiser, a communicator, a medium to make friends or just a confidante – a blog plays them all....to perfection.
Submitted by:
Divya Kamath
IT52043
SDM
A Wake Up call….. For one and All
The other day I was reading an article on how Knowledge Management has flung open new horizons and cast focus on the importance of storing, harnessing and most importantly disseminating the intellectual capital in any organization which had led to the emergence of a new set of roles and responsibilities and a potential one is that of a Chief Knowledge Officer.
Knowledge is always the most endearing and sought after resource of any community, company or nation or in a more flowery terminology “The Intellectual Capital”. Time and again intelligentsia, luminaries and visionaries across the globe have at some point of time emphasized the importance of sharing knowledge with the rest of the world. Because this is perhaps the only resource which multiplies & procreates the more it is expended!
This was with respect to a limited arena of a particular organization. However, speaking in terms of appealing to a mass internet community what tickles your mind as far as knowledge dissemination is concerned, is the new breeze of participatory media on the block. Be it blogs, podcasts, webcasts, screencasts etc.
THE CONFESSION: Although I have been hearing about the blogosphere and its captivating & trancing impact over the internet fanatics for quite sometime. Seldom did I attempt to peek into the real world of blogs/podcasts. Exploring the underlying reason might require my writing another blog ‘101 excuses why I am always short of time…’. Well Student Life has its own fancies and reservations and own time constraints at the same time. As we always state in the regular cliché “Yaar! Kya karun,time nahin hai!” (lamenting over shortage of time). But one thing I can say with 200% confidence that even if a day was comprised of 48hrs we would have complained the same!!
THE REVELATION: Parag sir’s lecture and workshops have always been an eye opener. He is the one who inspires us to think beyond the normal classroom environment. And this workshop on new media technology has been absolutely no exception. He is the one who relentlessly endeavors to infuse and imbibe that spark of enthusiasm and ebullience among the disinterested lot of students mostly busy fiddling with their cell phones. Fault lies not within our character but our complacent & cushy attitude.
During the workshop I got as insight into the pros & cons (not many) of sailing into the sea of blogs and podcasts and the benefits we can derive by capitalizing this really effective means of voicing your opinions and sharing the experience/knowledge reservoir.
THE OPPORTUNITY: I have always had a keen inclination and interest towards writing and as I always say my friends “you will come to know about that in my autobiography”. Well I will surely come up with that some day but that still years and years away. But as of now atleast I have a platform to share, express and discuss what invades and engrosses my mind as a fresh MBA graduate, a fresh industry entrant or a passing out senior or just another dreamer.
The problem with budding professionals or a newbie is that their minds are swamped with oodles of facts, figures, theories, fundas and concepts.. We are too much into cramming and churning of information that somewhere down the line we tend to mess up the basics. We are already maestros in “searching -> copy + paste” (due credit to Google & other search engines), lets be atleast initiators in expressing also! Knowledge transfer has to be a two way process right?? Why not explore the niche role of a knowledge contributor for a change!
As my friends have already enlisted numerous advantages of blogging and podcasting for that matter, so I intend not to be repetitive. So just a little standpoint- Experience for yourself how stimulating can the consummation and practice of ‘new media technology’ be to your network of billions of neurons and thus amelioration of your own thought process.
May be few years hence you would culminate into the perfect technology evangelist yourself! If not so, atleast it would aid in channelizing our potential and convergence of cognizance as to what interests us the most academically and appeals aesthetically. And may be next time when someone asks me which IT domain I wish to specialize into? I have a more concrete reply based on my own discretion & not the employer’s imposition.
And finally….
THE RESOLUTION: And since this article embodies a lot many clichés here I shoot one more ‘Its better late than Never!’ – Very plebeian yet very true!
And as Kathy Sierra says in her blog ‘How to be an expert’ - The only thing standing between you-as-amateur and you-as-expert is dedication.
Although I am yet to write my maiden blog and am a novice to blogosphere, I feel pretty much confident to produce one in the near future. And also a second, a third, a fourth…… All I would appreciate are a handful of readers for this aspiring blogger! And yeah Podcasting will surely follow! :-)
SHIVANI SINGH
IT052111
PGDM – SDM(2005-07)
Blogging the great buzz word on the Internet is going around in the world, to me it’s like adding fuel to the fire. I was first introduced to it in my college when a teacher had asked to submit a blog as a part of assignment. To me it’s about expressing one's own views, knowledge, thoughts, ideas, pictures, graphs and many more things. Best part is that its free and a person can have his own space on the net and time to write what ever information likes to share .While attending the two day workshop I was provided with loads of information and new areas related to blogging such as opening a new business, advertising, reviews of latest gadgets, monetary benefits etc.
When ever the word blogging comes to my mind I think of Knowledge Sharing and Contributing to the community. Reason being the mode of Sharing knowledge from one individual to other or as a matter of fact, between groups of experts in various fields, with the added benefit of being free of cost.
So I feel its more a of a community with the aim of providing people with abundance of knowledge, thus inculcating a desire in them to express their views pertaining to various fields in both the forms of writing and reading blogs. To enrich both the reader and writer and leaving them satisfied to the fullest.
Coming to the second aspect of Contributing, as there is a vast pool of things which can be expressed and discussed by a blog, say from technology to marketing, production to sales, hobbies to profession. We need to keep this abundant information in an ineffective and efficient manner in order to cater to the needs of the user.
The Quest for knowledge has been given a new dimension with the upcoming powerful tool of blogging. The reason being it can be an effective tool for budding professionals, students, professors, and almost all people who have desire to share knowledge.
Participatory media has got a new role to play with the availability of online audience which is an active participant in the creation and dissemination of news and information always-on connection such as wi-fi, wi –max and increasingly powerful mobile devices, PdA’s etc. To add to the power of blogging, podcast which is sharing audio content is a very effective manner to share knowledge. During the workshop great emphasis was given to pod casting which wonderfully presented the exact definition. Wikipedia can provide you with any addition information that you may require. Thus it’s a great opportunity to the students and budding professionals who can use these things to enhance there knowledge and to gain from it.
What I feel is that,” students are the most benefited lot” if as earliest as possible they are exposed to the blogging not only will they use the freedom of writing and reading , such activities benefit them to gain Gyan in new areas too. They are able to express themselves more openly to the outer world, leading to increase in the their moral, self confidence, art of writing and reading, art of expressing, removing mental blockades and so many other things which no one could have ever thought. Thus it’s a type of medicine for the youngsters which they must consume to become perfect citizens of the country. Students are the future of a nation and it depend not only how well they inform or interact amongst each other but also how well they encourage and enable conversations with other citizens and workplaces they visit.
Coming to the budding professionals it reminds me of the sentences said in the workshop that it’s a resume building process and I whole heartedly agree to it. By expressing the knowledge no one is sure that who all are going to consume it. This could be a turning point in one’s life as the consumer who reads your blogs could be an avid fan of yours. Further more the professional would be able to get a global recognition and a better platform to explore and dive into new areas. The professionals could share there industry exposure and experience which could be of great help to the new comers providing with insight of the work culture various companies follow. Thus it would provide fruitful options to the fresher’s and those thinking of shifting jobs.
While during the workshop certain negative aspects of blogging was also discussed, the out come was one can not fake all the time on the net. So I feel it’s a great learning experience to have come across and other should also benefit form the blogging. Keeping the negatives aside it’s full of positive values and community of varied interest, this is what I felt.
Aman Shahraz Singh
PGDM – SDM
ITO 43001
BLOGGING-Learn to talk, talk to learn
A blog is a Web publishing tool that allows authors to quickly and easily self-publish text, artwork, links to other blogs or Web sites, and a whole array of other content. Blogs are the web-based forums for discussing ideas; experiences or opinions allow students to discuss publicly what they are studying with other students and experts outside their own university.
Blogs are good for students because they can be worked on at virtually any time, in any place with an Internet-enabled computer. They require minimum technical knowledge and are quickly and easily created and maintained.
Blogging is helping students to think and write more critically, and can help draw out people who remain silent in class or are shy of speaking. With the help of blogs students are learning to be responsible and they're communicating outside the boundaries of the classroom and the institution. Students are getting new perspectives. The best part of Blogging is that such as intranets, chatting messenger, emails- it is public and not restricted by password and can be seen by anyone.
Because students are writing in the public domain, they also have to learn about copyright, privacy, ethics and defamation. So they are absolutely savvy about their responsibility and behavior. There are numerous educational benefits of blogs. Blogs are:
·Highly motivating to students, especially those who do not participate in classroom discussions.
·It helps students become subject- matter experts.
·Excellent opportunities for students to read and write.
·Effective forums for collaboration and discussion.
Blogs opens the opportunity for students to discuss topics outside of the classroom. With a blog, every person has an equal opportunity to share his or her thoughts and opinions.
Blogging can help budding professionals.As a budding professional a person can learn how organizations are working around the world, what the problems they are facing and their solutions, so it’s ultimately a simulated experience with immense learning
·Can gain knowledge about other technologies- expanding boundaries.
·Facilitating collaboration toward shared practice.
·Building connection with experts and knowing their viewpoint.
·Finding out the alternative solutions and perspectives available.
·Uncovering the new technology and the emerging trends in the market.
·Blogging is speedy. Therefore quick interaction.
·Blogging builds creativity as one can see others viewpoint and put his own.
Siddharth Shukla
ITBM-IT052114
SCIT.
(Email:shuklasiddharth@yahoo.co.in)
All About Blogging !!
Before attending the lecture of Mr. Parag Shah, I had a very different perspective about blogs. I always confused it with “Forum”. And very often whenever I came across a blog while googling for a particular topic, I used to oversee it thinking it to be a waste of time. But I could really visualize the power of Blogs on after attending the class.
And writing an essay on “How Blogs can help the students and the Budding Professional” at this juncture of time when we are on the verge of joining the industry in a few months will help me analyzing the power underneath.
A blog, either written by Ms. Sierra Cathey or our Alumni Mr. Ranjan Jha could give me an idea that, “Blogging is boundary less”. One can jot down things from what is happening in a person's life to what is latest in the industry to philosophical musings to social issues. It also gives freedom to comment, criticize and share experiences on or about others blogs. Thus Blogging is a new medium for - connecting and interacting. The other benefit is one will have useful information filtered by people in this ocean of the same.
I tend to define Blogging as “An innovative means for freedom to speech but without plagiarism”
As Students and Budding professionals we can see it as a promising opportunities to gain knowledge, share knowledge in whatever I have got a passion for, read and comment on great blogs.
For example- I foster a new idea in the field of Marketing and Sales and put across the same in the form of Blog and thus can ask for significant thoughts or posts for the same. This process will not only lead to innovative thinking but also acquiring Knowledge by reading the posts by other bloggers.
Thus according to www.elearnspace.org - Blogging will result in spiraling: I say something, you comment on it, I evaluate it, comment and present a new perspective, you take it to the next level...and the process repeats until a concept has been thoroughly explored.
Other benefits can be like finding different useful Links and connections without wasting time on googling for the subject.
Blogging will provide an opportunity to connect with a wider audience and build a community who share the same thought process, interests as mine. With the help of this easy tool knowledge gaining and sharing will now be a two way process rather than one way. It will not only be restricted to college friends, Libraries etc but will spread across people across the globe.
It will give the power to work in real time to share current events, and read other's posts about current events. Discussions and interactions happen on the spot.
Blogging will act as a very powerful tool to garner and aggregate research work, assignment information collected by worldwide researchers.
Blogs can act as best content management systems. We can also upload videos files, photographs, pdf files and easily store them and use them as Knowledge web.
As students we can have Blogs as intranet. We can upload White papers; details about the Internship projects, Seminars, Company question Papers etc. This can be an excellent way of sharing knowledge within the institute. Moreover I also came to know that we could have secure folders in which you can assign different access rights to different users of blog as per the requirement.
In short Blogs will help people to know who I am and help me to know who they are.
It will help in learning to write journals and enhancing skills in writing.
Importantly can also help in Earn Dollars. As a Budding professional or an entrepreneur Blogging one can help in raising ones website profile and increase visits to ones’ site. It will help publishing advertisements. Blogger can earn money, by selling products too through blogs. One can also ask for advice and feedback from experts. Can do sheer analysis and study about the pros and cons of different products and services offered by different companies and can also help the professional to search new openings.
Thus by Blogging makes one smarter, more disciplined and provides a type of social glue
Of course, there are many other benefits that I might have missed while blogging. So if you have some innovative ideas or experiences about the benefits gained from blogging then post comments and make blogging your passion.
Happy Blogging :))
Dipti Panda
ITBM-IT052041
SCIT.
(email: diptipanda@yahoo.com)
Blog!!! The most happening place today for youngsters to express all that they feel about everything. Well, its not just youngsters it’s for people of all ages, of all cultures, with all kinds of views.
Actually a blog is your very own personal space on the internet, where you can write what you feel. Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news. You can use is as a diary, or you can use it to gain more knowledge and share yours too.
I am myself quite amateur as a blogger but I actually made one long back which did not gain quite a lot of comments except for parag sir’s. I started this blog as part of my final terms project where I needed some information about agile methodology for requirements engineering.
Then gradually I started reading blogs by famous bloggers on these subjects, some of their writing styles were amazing. Its actually a very nice practice to read blogs when you have absolutely nothing to do! But then it can also take away a lot of your time because I am sure you are going to come across some really fantastic blogger stuff on the net.
When parag sir was delivering this informative piece on blogging, I suddenly felt the urge to go and explore more about it. It was then that it struck me that my juniors who will be joining SCIT (well, that’s my college!) can have so much fun plus gain lots of knowledge from blogs. Then can reach one another through blogs, write articles about the college, how they feel about a particular lecturer.
And they can also list in their blogs about the various sports events in SIC. (hey, I am sure they will connect more to sports than to studies when at SCIT!)
One nice thing about blogging is that your work becomes an open diary, people read it and if they like it, you receive comments too! But don’t get disheartened if you don’t receive any for say one or two months because blogging is not a forum, it’s a long term activity I which you indulge yourself and slowly it transforms into a habit.
Now its not only about writing, it gives you options to audio and visualizations too. True, I am referring to podcasts and webcasts. They are a very nice medium where you can get the latest news on very niche subjects which normally would not be available anywhere.
And you too also make a video about something that interests you and publish it here on the net so that the whole world can see it.
Blogging can also be quite useful for young professionals who are so very new in the big corporate world. It connects and familiarizes them which many new aspects in their areas of interest. I feel that if you have a blog of your own, there is so much you can do! Believe it or not, I had this senior of mine who used to love writing blogs ( well, it was l o n g ago, when I had no clue to what a blog was!) and an HR of an MNC happened to come across his blog. He was so impressed with the stuff he read on his blog that he decided to interview him, and a long interview to place some weeks later. He was through.
Well, you would say this happens once in hundreds but then whats important is
IT DOES! This is something quite motivational, actually that was a time when I had started to read blogs!
So I wish you all the very best for blogging!
Sonali Ketkar
IT052117 (Systems)
My blog: http://clearblogs.com/myresearchwork/
Everything about BLOG:
What is a Blog?
A weblog, or simply a blog, is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger”. Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog. Postings on a blog are mostly arranged in chronological order with the most recent additions featured most prominently.
In simple terms, a blog is a website, where you write material on an ongoing basis. New items show up at the top, so your visitors can read what's new. Then they may or may not comment on it, or link to it, or email you.
Is a Blog a Webpage?
• To the reader, a blog is a webpage
• To the author, a blog is an authoring system that allows them to create a webpage without knowing HTML or other web technologies and without needing special software
How are Blogs Different?
• Blogs use a journal or diary metaphor
• A user makes a post instead of making a page
• Posts are most often ordered by date
• Posts can also be ordered by other criteria, such as user-defined categories
So Why Use a Blog?
• To make a website
• To make a website with many authors
• To publish a journal
All this can be accomplished without even knowing HTML, Frontpage or other web authoring tools.
Now, Blogging has also become an integral part of students as well. It can help them in various ways. These blogs use for learning or educational purposes are called Edublogs.
Edublogs are blogs used for educational purposes. In education, the Weblog is becoming the favoured Web-presence; educators and students alike are taken by the blog's advantages over the traditional Website. Without being radically different, the date-stamped blog structure lends itself to regularly updated personal records and comments on current Web-based resources, with quick and visible responses from other bloggers. In this way a Weblog becomes an accumulation of writing and other content maintained by a community of Webloggers who share a common interest. This easy interaction facilitates the development of learning communities.
Benefits for Teachers and Students
Edublogs can be a useful resource for educators to find information related to their particular discipline or interests. In effect the blog allows colleagues to act as filters or judges of content form many sources and to allow as many editors as they like. A second major advantage of using blogs in this way is that the content of a blog can be guaged by the confidence the reader has in their colleagues contributing to the blog.
Teachers can use weblogs to provide an area to point students to useful resources and discuss issues arising as part of a teaching and learning program.
Now to sum it up, the emergence of blogs as a component in the two-way flow of information on the web has opened up exciting new avenues for the educational community. The potential of weblogs in education is almost limitless. Also, blogs are easily linked and cross-linked to form learning communities. They help small groups communicate in a way that is simpler and easier to follow than email or discussion forums. They promote cohesiveness and group culture.
The school blogs show how even the newest writing form can get all pedagogical. When teachers see something kids actually like to do, they're not slow to catch on to ways to make it educational as well.
Each student has his or her own blog where they write about school camp, post their book reviews - and, of course, complain about the horrors of homework.
Thus, the idea is to get the kids writing and thinking, it seems to be working, even if sometimes the spelling isn't so good.
Gaurav Singhal
IT052047
SCIT-ITBM
(email: 21.gaurav@gmail.com)
Few years ago there was nothing called as “blog”. However, with the internet penetrating our lives deeper and deeper, blogs have become an important and influential components of the Internet, and their importance is growing exponentially. The word “blog” is a shortened form of “web log,” and it stands for a web site that keeps a log (much like a diary) of people’s thoughts, their actions, and their reactions to other people’s thoughts and actions. Today, there are millions of blogs on the Internet. Some blogs are personal logs which record a single person’s thoughts, activities and reactions. These can be very influential if the persons who create them are interesting personalities with important or provocative things to say. Personal blogs can be effective means for people to promote themselves and their interests; and some people find them to be psychologically fulfilling tools for self expression.
Blogs also can be used as tools for creating on-line communities of people interested in the same subjects – or in each other. On such a “blogsite,” any number of people can describe their thoughts, activities and reactions, and thereby share them with others who participate on the blogsite with them. Since blogs are normally publicly available web sites, some people can simply read them without contributing any thoughts or materials of their own. These are called “lurkers,” and they often outnumber the active “bloggers” who contribute to the blogsite. During the past two years, some blogs have become “news sources,” publishing stories like newspapers, radio stations and TV stations. People working for these blogs began to call themselves “reporters,” and some were even allowed into the White House Newsroom with nationally known reporters from the major networks. The basic idea behind blogging is to share the knowledge. This includes not only putting forward what one knows, but also contributing to someone else’s start-up thoughts as well. Students can benefit tremendously from blogging. They can, not only get their queries answered from various sources, but can also get to interact with the experts in the required fields through their blogs. Any thought or idea that comes to a students mind can be penned down by him/her and he/she can also seek an opinion about it by others through blogging. This becomes very important if a student is doing some kind of research and development work. It provides him/her with new avenues to look into as well as realizing the focus of the R & D. Blogging helps students to create a knowledge pool for themselves. Sometimes students or professionals want to be heard about some of the pressing social issues. This can be done through blogs and can cause, what I say the “Rang De Basanti” effect. Blogging provides a platform by which students and budding professionals can reach to a huge pool of people (some experts and some new comers), with almost no investment, which would not have been possible otherwise. The reach and visibility that blogging gives is incredible. Blogs encourage people to publish their content for the world. Now, everyone with something to say or share can do so without needing to learn new skills.
Within this emerging landscape a debate is raging among bloggers, technologists, and self-proclaimed pundits about the true impact of blogs. Many argue that blogs are merely a passing fad while others believe that blogs will soon replace much of traditional media methods. The truth is probably somewhere in between the extremes but it is interesting that blogs share some characteristics with the Open Source and Peer-to-Peer movements.
Blogs are:
Decentralized
Driven by community rather than profit
Often subversive to existing power structures
Unmanaged and often unmanageable
As a budding professional, through blogging one can get to know what is happening in their respective fields and can even share views with some of the experts in that field, which otherwise would not have been possible. This could also lead to winning some interesting contracts as well. Sometimes one’s blog becomes his identity long before he meets someone who could change his life professionally and take it to new heights with new professional commitments. Blogs enable budding professionals and individuals to compete and participate in content creation and distribution and that participation is having a profound effect. Tomorrow if I want to get into Equity Research field and I have no expertise, then blogging can help me get some vital and useful information about it, that too with no financial investment. A newly published white paper on blogs from Edelman, an independent public relations firm, and Intelliseek, a marketing intelligence firm and provider of a leading blog portal, explores the importance of the blogging phenomenon for public relations and marketers and provides a directory of influential bloggers, segmented by industry. This could help in providing the necessary branding one might need to establish his credentials. Consumers are increasingly turning to other consumers for trusted information, and the blogging phenomenon is the perfect example of this shift.
There are various types of blogs for students and budding professionals, and each differs in the way content is delivered or written.
By media type
A blog comprising videos is called a vlog, one comprising links is called a linklog,[9], a site containing a portfolio of sketches is called a sketchblog or one comprising photos is called a photoblog
By device
Blogs can also be defined by which type of device is used to compose it. A blog written by a mobile device like a mobile phone or PDA is called a moblog
Genre
Some blogs focus on a particular subject, such as political blogs, travel blogs, fashion blogs, project blogs or legal blogs (often referred to as a blawgs)
Whether somebody is a doctor, engineer, IT professional, politician, writer ECT. Blogging provides an unmatched platform to make one’s existence known through voicing his concern about various issues that was not possible not very long ago.
Blog use has grown significantly in the past year -- online consumers who regularly read blogs increased from 2% in 2003 to 8% in 2006. Blogging will grow in importance, and at a minimum, companies and individuals should monitor blogs to learn what is being said about their product/services and issues raised by them. Forrester recommends that even companies develop blogging plans in four strategic areas: 1) monitoring blogs; 2) letting employees’ blog on their own; 3) supporting internal blogs; and 4) creating external, public blogs. Thus blogging is for everyone...go for it.
Hi Parag Sir,
I forgot to add my roll number with my comment. so i am posting my roll number separately. Please consider it.
Regards
Imtiaz Hussain
IT052051
Systems
BLOGS!!! Here…There…Everywhere
Well I will start with explaining what exactly blogging is. I went through a number of definitions but the one that really impressed me was from
Blogger.com. It says:"A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world."
What I got from this was blogs are basically online journals or diaries which allow persons to share their view regarding any particular subject like food, movies, books, web-sites etc. A person can also share his or her personal experiences through a blog. I personally think that we should not view blogging merely as technological novelty. Its impact on our world stretches beyond communication and personal entertainment and into the political and social realms of modern life.
There is no denying the fact that blogging has done wonders in reshaping education.Its impact on students is immeasurable.
1. Blogs provide an unbiased platform to students for sharing their views, idealogies regarding every possible topic that can be thought of. For instance students can share their views regarding political issues with complete freedom.They can disscuss study related issues, new technical and non technical trends.
2. Blogs can also help students in keeping them updated about all the recent happenings across the world as in the occurances of semminars, guest lectures and all.
3. Besides this blogs often provide opportunities for educators to advance literacy through storytelling and dialogue. Storytelling and literacy are the foundation of language development, and more so, the foundation of learning. Since the format of blogs is similar to a personal diary, where recounting tales and autobiographical events is customary, blogs provide an arena where self-expression and creativity are encouraged. Its linkages to other bloggers establish the same peer-group relationships found in nonvirtual worlds.
4. Because blogs are both individualistic and collaborative, they allow self-expression, a place where the author can develop highly personalized content while simultaneously allowing students connection with an online community, for they can comment and give feedback to other bloggers, and they can link to fellow bloggers, creating an interwoven, dynamic organization. In the classroom, students have a personal space to read and write alongside a communal one, where ideas are shared, questions are asked and answered, and social cohesion is developed.
5. Blogging has entered the field of librarianship and library life as well, for it has become a convenient way for library staff to communicate with each other and spread-their message to a wider base. For instance, Warwick University hosts its own blogs. Fourteen library staff have taken advantage of the University's blog hosting service, mainly to communicate with colleagues.
6. On a personal front students can also disscuss their problems with other students be it personal or study related. Infact all the students across the world face more or less the same problems.In this way blogs can come to their rescue.
I personally think that blogs should be used throughout the educational curriculum since they help promote reading and writing, to showcase the work of students or to exchange ideas among students, teachers or school administrators.
In the same way blogging can help budding proffessionals as well.Blogs help these proffessional in knowing all the latest technical happenings across the world. That is they can always keep themselves updated about the latest happenings. As we all know inorder to survive in this competitive world you need to keep yourself updated.More over there are many successful stories of people getting in touch with each other via blogs and then finally all this culminates in great business strategies and plans.Apart from this a budding proffessional can ask queries related to market trends and career growth.Advertising of one’s bussiness can also be carried out via blogs.
All in all I conclude this blog by saying that in today’s era we cannot escape blogs.They touch each and every aspect of a person’s life.
BLOGS!!! Here…There…Everywhere
Anindita Sarkar
IT052013
Software Development & Management
Benny .V. Mathew (Systems- IT052028)
Blogs: A blog is a frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web linksA blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order. A blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person's life and what is happening on the Web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site, although there are as many unique types of blogs as there are people. Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual although some focus on photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), or audio (podcasting), and are part of a wider network of social media.The term "blog" is derived from "Web log." "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
Need of blogs for students: Blogging is helping students to think and write more critically and can help draw out people who would otherwise not engage in debate. Students learn to be responsible and they communicate outside the boundaries of the classroom and the institution. In conventional teaching, students often rely on the lecturer as the main source of ideas and critique for their work. What makes blogs useful is their interactive nature. These web-based forums for discussing ideas, experiences or opinions allow students to discuss publicly what they are studying with other students and experts outside their own university. Because students write in the public domain, they learn about plagiarism, copyright, privacy, ethics and defamation. Blogs also encourage greater participation in debates.
Need of blogs for professionals: Blogs offer an accelerated and efficient approach to acquiring and understanding the kind of information a professional needs to make a business decision. A professional starting a new venture can blog about his idea and request feedback, comments, helps from the experts and act accordingly. For one starting his career, he too can post his questions about current openings, the market trends and relate to his career path. The beginner can advertise his new venture in the Internet world. If the blog really clicks, there would be no end to the respective clients. The professionals may find suitable partners, venture capitalists, investors who may be interested in the upcoming business. The lack of formality and the ease of cross-referencing other blog content or references means is great to accelerate discussion and promote broader thinking and understanding. Learning professionals should be able to engage and contribute in these discussions. They should be able to communicate, and they should be able to both have, and express a view. If not, how effective are they as learning professionals? So, on balance I think, getting more or all learning professionals to engage in the blogosphere would be positive. But maybe for some, their blogging will be public - i.e. on the Internet, for others it will be "private" , i.e. inside their own organisation. BENNY.V. MATHEW (Systems- IT052028)
A blog is an online equivalent of a personal journal or a note book. This difference being that this notes book or a personal journal is open to all or to the ones we choose to open them to and that it is open for feed back from the world at large. Accepting and acting on the feedback is the prerogative of the blog owner. The blog adds to the form of the diary by incorporating the best features of hypertext: the capacity to link to new and useful resources. It gives people a chance to display their writing skills and also to explore their creativity.
A blog is characterized by its reflection of a personal style, and this style may be reflected in the form of its written content or the selection of links passed along to readers. Blogs are, in their purest form, the core of what has come to be called personal publishing.
Apart from this a blog is also used as a tool or a methodology of education for teachers and students in their daily lives to facilitate the learning process. The World Wide Web now has become a familiar educational forum. Hence, for those sites where personal publishing or chronologically ordered content would be useful, blogs have stepped to the foreground.
VARIOUS WAYS IN WHICH BLOGS FACILITATE THE LEARNING PROCESS IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION.
Teacher Communication
Teachers often start a blog as a tool for communication which need to be given to students, parents, or other teachers. Sometimes this is just the posting of homework or other assignments in one easy-to-find location. This type of blog can also take advantage of the comment feature for students and parents to ask questions or for clarification, where the answer would be of interest to all the readers.
Teachers can blog for each other about their experiences teaching, their philosophies, and their methodologies.
Dialogue Generation
A teacher blog that posts questions about current subject matter can be a great way to introduce students to responding in writing and contributing collaboratively. For instance, a teacher might ask specific thought-provoking questions about a book the class is reading, and ask for students to respond through the comments feature with their ideas. This is often done as a voluntary exercise to help demonstrate the uses of blogs in easy steps.
Student Blogs
Providing each student with an individual blog seems to generate the most significant enthusiasm for blogging among students. Whether done through special programs on the blog posts and comments, or through public services with parent and teacher oversight, students with individual blogs have an opportunity to discover the work and joy of communicating their ideas in a written form, and then getting feedback from others. Sometimes the blogs are not made public, and the feedback is just from classmates or specifically-allowed individuals; other times, and more often with older students, the feedback can come from the wider audience of the World Wide Web. Most often public student blogs are done under a nickname and without any personal details, so that the incredible excitement that can come from communicating with a global audience does not place the student in harm's way. Student blogging must be overseen with coaching and training to make sure that personal data is not communicated and that blog posts are appropriate.
Student blogging is incredibly empowering:
1. Writing and blogging encourage students' initiative to write, to be engaged at more than just the head level. It involves writing from head and heart. Children often have not learned to do more than live from the heart, while adults have concentrated their efforts on more cerebral approaches. This means adults and children can bridge the gap that exists by writing together, creating a community of writers in their classrooms where there is no pseudo-community, only community where humans write.
2. It acts as a documentation process which would enable the student to refer to in future if faced with any problems or if the is in the need of clarification.
BLOGS AS AN EFFECTIVE MEDIUM OF COMMUNICATION:
The World Wide Web being the “in thing” and the way of life now, blogs, make it easier for teachers and students to communicate on a level which would make learning an enriching experience for both the students as the teaching comes to them in the form of their favorite mode of communication that is the www and the teachers as they are in touch with the latest forms of technology and can communicate their ides or philosophies and be rest assured that there will be no breakdown in this communication. The “comment” feature can help to resolve doubts or misunderstanding that arises in what id being said and what needs to be done immediately. Simply stated, resorting to this mode of communication would act as a motivating fact to learn both on the part of the teacher and the student.
IN CONCLUSION:
Blogs can be used as an effective tool as we can see from the above that it can be extremely useful and motivation. It gives each person a fair chance to voice their own opinion and thoughts. Each individual is heard (read) without having been suppressed or subject to any biases. It is slowly becoming the most used medium of communication with the ever increasing popularity of the World Wide Web. To site my own example, this assignment has been extremely interesting and the thought of posting as a comment it on blog is very exciting.
Nikhil Chandran
ITBM - IT052140
(email: nicky82@gmail.com)
There was a time, not many years ago, when keeping journals was a trend. But that too in ways, somehow made us think of the ones who do maintain journals no longer have the zing to themselves, or the apparent “cool” lifestyle a teenager would claim of, and was certainly not a thing to do for a 40 year old who secretly wanted to keep one, hidden from his wife and kids, putting pen to paper, giving structure to all the thoughts and ideas he got, while rotating on his fancy chair in a dull but posh corporate office space, lest they thought lesser of a man of him. But all that is done. We have found ways to make all this dull life of ours interesting. Propagate and broadcast it around. Share and exchange ideas and move on to possible greater things in life. Educate the lesser knowns. Attain greatness of the kind. Freedom. Of speech and thought albeit. Blog.
None of us are anymore unaware of the concept. We all know that it’s like an online journal to put it simply. A free online space allocated to you. To your ideas, to your thoughts, to what you did all day, to what to live to achieve in life, to theories and hypotheses that will probably need a patent in the years to come, from the moment of glory of this day to even the saddest moment in life. A complete monopoly of your existence and thought process.
I have made up my mind, even as I write this, that I will for a change not give in to the typical ctrl+C and ctrl+V phenomenon that we are most comfortable with. But whether or not I have surrendered will truly and purely depend upon how extensively everyone else has searched and have stumbled upon the same pages that I “probably” have.
Blogs ideally are supposed to highlight one’s freedom of speech more than anything else. That is the reason with which it was created in the first place. Though there are many other reasons which have crept up through time, starting from a place to meet “apparent” intellect [for it is assumed people who write are in some form superior beings, though it has not been established so far], to meet like-minded people and start off what might be a joke to your friends but a probable threat to a relatively famous MNC, to building up your own interests, and career and steer life in all possible profitable avenues. People at all ages are equally welcome to start off with a blog. But it’s mostly the students and professionals that do make a career, of choice and comfort and learn in the process.
It’s most beneficial to students in the streams of arts and media who learn the most. These are all people with budding thoughts and ideas which need a platform to be aired from, to exercise their writing skills, and act as a portfolio to showcase their skills and creativity and help in the job market. It’s a way of organizing one’s thoughts and putting it across in a reader friendly way, which is an excellent tool for upcoming writers and journalists. It would be unfair to leave the other techies behind, for even they stand to gain by all means. It’s often surprising to see who might stumble upon one’s blog. Depending on what it’s named, it can be no surprise that it might end up as the first link to another like minded techie’s search, which can only lead to more brain storming sessions and newer ideas getting refined and filtered. Students can also indulge in specific blogs, depending on their field of interest and career, and invite open comments from the more experienced ones in the industry. It helps as a great learning tool for all those just about to enter the industry, to know the norms and customs before actually starting it all hands on. Blogs are like online archives of resources that can be at all times accessed and act as referrals. There are many highly acclaimed people who blog about their field of expertise and all those yearning to be in the same can take lessons or even enquire about the technicalities of the same. This serves as a huge benefit to students who can get behind the nitty-gritty of the issues and learn from their experience.
Professionally speaking, blogging is a great way to create and increase one’s network. It’s about introducing yourself in an interesting way that others find you worth interacting with and this can actually help stand point in the market. It can also help people get jobs and be employed since blogs give us a pedestal of being an expert in our field of expertise. It helps people to establish a virtual relationship with people, for one can never tell when an opportunity can lead to a possible employment. There are many people who make a living out of their blogs. Many who would much rather sit at home, and write and earn money at the same time while doing something that they enjoy the most. It gives people a chance to meet potential clients and increase their business. At the same time, for all of us who have randomly searched and landed on unknown blogs for technical refuge from our problems, it gives us a chance to give back to the community and be useful to the others who are just as disillusioned as we were when our Visual Basic refused to connect to the Sybase database thanks to a complicated network situation we are still not sure of.
Souparna Datta
Systems – IT052120
(email: souparna@gmail.com)
Sir the track back ulr has some error hence below is the link for my blog.
http://guptamansi.blogspot.com/
Mansi Gupta
SCIT - ITBM
IT0 - 52066
Blogging is simply setting your mind free. Getting the thoughts out of your mind
and into alphabets and letting the world know about it. It enables people with similar thoughts to come together and create a forum where they can discuss about their thoughts and join people around the world with similar thoughts. People can come together and relate with people whom they have never known or even thought existed. Blogging is just like your exclusive article in “The Times of Internet” (or “The Internet Express” if you wish). In the Blogosphere no one can stop you from expressing your opinion on anything that is happening around but with freedom of expression also comes the responsibility of sensible writing.
Participatory Media Advantages for a student:
For a student blogging could be the best or the only possible way to communicate with experts of a particular subject like Java, Six Sigma etc. A lot of subject-experts have their own blog and by posting problems or views on a particular topic might well be the best way to learn the nuances of a particular subject straight from an authority on that subject. By regularly visiting the blogs of such experts a student can keep updating himself about the new developments in that particular subject. In other words, a student who blogs, is usually more knowledgeable about the latest developments in his area of interest as compared to a non-blogging student. Blogging is just one of the many participatory media available online. Similarly, Wikipedia is like a free encyclopaedia available online. It can give you information about topics right from Six Sigma to Himesh Reshammiya. But since it is participatory, source of the information should be verified before use. Media like podcasts can be of equal benefit like blogs. Podcasts of lectures, news updates, and informative television programmes can be a great addiction for ardent viewers of the idiot-box.
Participatory Media Advantages for a professional:
Blogging can be a boon to budding professionals for similar reasons mentioned above for a student. He can update the knowledge on his area of work with knowledge of latest developments by visiting blogs of experts in that area of work. One can share his work experiences and knowledge with other professionals around the world. And knowledge is one thing that multiplies as it is shared with other people. If one has unique knowledge of a particular tool or solution to a problem that could be faced by other professionals then blogging is a way to announce your expertise to the world. This could increase the amount of people visiting your blog. Then by putting up advertisements on your blog regarding the service you are providing could earn you new clients and could also open avenues for better job opportunities. By using Google AdSense or similar advertising tools with your blog one can earn revenue by providing relevant ads. Blogging about a niche or an in-demand subject or technology could be the easiest way for one to get noticed or stand-out in the field of cut-throat competition. Bloggers are usually better informed than non-bloggers. Thus professionals can learn about the latest technologies that are replacing the obsolete ones. In this manner one can stay up-to-date by learning the new technology.
In other words the popularity of participatory media boosted by the confirmation given by 'Times Magazine' is a boon for the new generation.
Feri Geo
IT052048
SCIT - Systems
http://simranraina.blogspot.com/
Simran Arora
ITO43014
SDM-June
According to the dictionary, a blog is-
"A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and web links."
A blog can be a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts.
Your blog is whatever you want it to be. There are millions of them, in all shapes and sizes, and there are no real rules.
A blog is often a combination of what's happening in someone's personal and business life and what is happening on the web--a kind of high-tech, hybrid diary/guide site-- and there are seemingly as many unique types of blogs as there are people.
Described as tools, blogs are simply websites organized in reverse chronological order. Their popularity is in their ease of use- most blogs can be created in a few minutes and with very little technical know-how, and are equally easy to personalize and update. However, though discussing blogs as tools makes it possible to be all-inclusive of the variety of their uses, it is not sufficient to having a deeper discussion of blogging. It becomes more fruitful to consider blogs as a range of genres with different conventions, standards, and – perhaps most importantly – built-in audiences.
Blog space is not a space where the grammatically correct sentence rules supreme, or where critical literacy is the order of the day. It is not even a space where having something significant to say holds sway. Indeed, parading one’s trivial interests and ordinariness may often be of the essence. And the idea that there is—or could possibly be—some identifiable “personal journal” weblog genre able to be reduced to a concise and definite set of criteria and norms that could be taught in classrooms as applied meta knowledge is defied by the actual forms and practices engaged by bloggers.
Now As if now we have understood what is blog I would like give you few reasons how blog helps-
Benefit -1
Blogs are designed to publish and update contents easily once you have them set up, configured and running. Once you get the hang of it, it's a matter of getting into that habit of writing blog posts and pages and publishing them regularly.
Benefit -2
They are either free or cost very little to set up. You can create your blogs easily by visiting blogger.com or wordpress.org and taking time to study.
Benefit -3
You can make money with your niche blogs in many ways, such as-
- Publishing third-party ads in your blogs (eg. Google Adsense pubishing)
- Recommending affiliate products and services in your blogs (eg. Amazon)
Benefit - 4
Unlike websites, blogs are interactive. Visitors, or blog readers, are usually allowed to post comments for a blog post (or article) to the blog owner.
This 'dialog' helps to build rapport and relationship between the blog owner and his visitors or members.
Benefit - 5
Since blogs are usually updated regularly via blog posts and pages, blogs will rank higher in search engines as compared to websites. In contrast, you have to do a lot of tweaking to a niche website through Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques. Search engines will visit your blogs more regularly as you blog more regularly. Thus, you can also place links of your other websites to get them indexed quickly by the search engines.
Benefit -6
A blog's syndication function is its most powerful benefit!
You can syndicate the contents of your blog by allowing other website publishers to publish your feed (or channel) on their sites. This helps to bring more traffic to your blogs as the visitors of these sites subscribe to your feed via web-based or desktop newsreaders. So, with the above benefits, doesn't it make a lot of sense to start building niche blogs as quickly as possible?
Now why a professional or a person having business should blog :
1) It is perfect for creating a web presence for independent professionals who have something to say and who need people to get to know them and what they can do for them.
2) Having your own business blog gives you credibility and a forum where you can show your expertise.
3) Readers can comment directly onto your blog, creating interaction and interest.
4) No more waiting for your web designer to update your web site.
5) You can post to your blog yourself, about any issue, daily if you wish, and get it broadcast into the blogosphere instantly.
6) The search engines love blogs and will pick up your keywords easily, boosting your rankings, making it easier for people to find you on the web.
7) Customers are drawn to personality behind the business. Human voices convey intimacy beyond PR-babble. (To read about this topic read The Cluetrain Manifesto. The first chapter is available free online: http://cluetrain.com/apocalypso.html.)
8) You can network and build up a community of like-minded readers. You blog, people comment. Others blog, you comment. Before you know it, more people have heard of you and your business because the buzz gets passed around.
9) You can test out new ideas and get instant feedback. Get your customers and prospects in on the act now and let them help you help them - invite them to talk back! Let them see how you develop your products and services and they can show you how to best to serve them.
10) You can use your blog side-bars to promote your products, your affiliate products, run blog ads, sell books, and any other product or services you have. You don't have to include this in the body or content of your article; therefore your posts - your writing - can remain content rich and free of promotional hype.
Finally, email marketing and electronic newsletters are struggling because of over-crowded inboxes, spam problems and filters.
- On the average, 64.7% of the business e-mail you send is not even opened, let alone read. [source: Q3 2004 Email Trend Report, Double-Click ] - E-mail marketers are seeing their open-rates range from only "mid-20s to just over 50 %" [source: ClickZ.com] - That means that you are losing at least 50% of your prospective buyers or readers. How much does that amount to in losses over the course of the next few years?
- AOL receives roughly 2 billion e-mail messages a day, of which about 75 percent are blocked and another 4 to 7 percent are sent to the bulk folder. [source: ClickZ.com]
Disclaimer : Above text have been referred from various sources. The primary aim was just to create an awareness about blogging and the author has no vested interest in publishing the material on his name, references wherever possible has been mentioned.
The above blog is posted by :
Abhishek Choubey
IT052001 - ITBM
SCIT
email - abhishekchoubey@rediffmail.com
Sir, I could not link my post with your post using trackback.
here is my blog post -
Have you blogged today?
Kiron Gawde
SDM - IT043009
Not all that difficult…is it?
I had heard of blogs but before attending the workshop on ‘New Media Technologies’, I was almost sure-it’s not my cup of tea. Like most students, I attended the workshop because I was expected to do so. During the workshop, focus was to ensure that we understood what a blog is, how it works and helps, what can we blog about, how can we become part of the online learning community, and so on. Basically, the idea was to encourage us to blog. As expected, students seldom do something unless some grading and marks are associated with it. Well, the trick always works. We were given an assignment, and here we are. All of us are part of the blogosphere.
I would like to share my perspective of the whole situation and how I went about it. I attended the workshop and found it was good- informative and useful. That’s it. But then we were bombarded with an assignment, which carried evaluation. Now let me be completely honest- that’s also a learning of the workshop. I was really not in the mood to do it but then some situations are difficult to escape. So, I wanted to first identify the rules for writing a blog. Thankfully, not much difficulty there. I started off with reading blogs by other authors. Well I must admit, it was fun and not in the least boring.
Writing a blog is the most interesting way of learning. That’s my opening line of being a blogger. I as a student found blogging as the most innovative and easy way to access information. Whatever be your area of interest, you always have people across the globe, somewhere… who are on the same wavelength on a subject or probably who can help you modify or refine your ideas.
Apart from reading blogs about blogging, I tried to work out how exactly would it help me? My questions were all answered once I finally decided to start writing a blog. For a beginning, it makes you think a lot about what you are writing. Your thought process is always captivated by the thought that you are giving it out to the public…someone will be reading it. So you need to write something nice. Hence, by and by it enhances your learning and writing power. I am sure one improves over time as we realize that people are taking interest and reading what we are writing. It’s all about the power of the audience.
Moreover, it is a very educative way to spend your time. It provides a platform to share what you know with the world at large. It makes you more accomplished and thorough in your learning. Share anything that interests you. For example, as you go through this blog you will realize that I have not tried to put in anything much technical. What interests me most about blogging is that- It’s your space and you have the power to use it to your full potential. I think it’s a great place to build up your thought process and your ideas. You can actually defend them and bring people round to your way of thinking. It helps to gear up the thought process and helps develop a practice of writing. You come to think and highly value your opinions. You could share your mastery over a concept or idea and ask others to help with alternative suggestions. It gives a certain degree of pride and pleasure of knowing something and being able to share it with others. It is kind of easily diffused as an infection and encourages others to write too as it has encouraged me.
Blogging is a kind of networked literacy. We are going to step out in a distributed, collaborative environment and it's a brilliant way of associating with the world outside. One very interesting thing, which I came across while going through several blogs, is equal citizenship...which everyone desires. You can comment, review, debate, react and add on to anyone's work irrespective of the position of the person (teachers and students alike). A very satisfying feeling is that now your work is not just limited to the four walls of your classroom. The world is your platform.
This one time, I have been put in a situation where I HAVE TO blog but after this one there is a change in my perception. It can be considered as a tool for the fun of learning not because it is required or expected out of us. My sincere thanks to Parag Sir for putting us all in this ‘grading problem’, we all are so serious about. Made me think a thing or two about myself. Read my next blog to find out J
We know about technologies but seldom try to get a feel of it by our self. Although I was forced to enter the blogosphere through an assignment, it is a good trip and I intend to travel further.
Rashmi Sinha
PRN. NO. IT052096
rashmi.nik@gmail.com
BLOGGING IS POTENTIALLY EVERYWHERE PEOPLE ARE, AND YOU WANT TO BE WHERE PEOPLE ARE!!
Is it any wonder? Blogs are booming, not only in number but also in authority and
reach. The power of blogging, I feel, is tremendous. Blogging has caused quite a buzz. That is why, from political activists to aspiring novelists, industry pros and avid hobbyists, everyone seems to be starting a blog.
If there is a single truth about blogging, it’s that bloggers have differing opinions on just about everything—including the question of what a blog is (and isn’t). Well, I will define “Blog” as a space where you can express your thoughts and where you get to read other people’s mind and ideas. Blogs are an engaging alternative to static web sites because they offer something new to read, usually every day and sometimes several times each day.
Blogging, and the easy access to--and exchange of--ideas that it has spawned, is having a "transformative" effect on education and its impact on learning can be profound.
There is an excitement that comes from writing for a real, authentic audience instead of a circular file seen only by the teacher. This thrill can be a huge motivator for students.
We, as students at SCIT can benefit from blogging by discussing with our peers about the new emerging technologies, our experiences during our Interns, and anything to the upcoming events in the college. We can also interact with the industry people and learn more about how the industry is booming and the current industry requirements as through this we can correlate with what we are studying and what is happening in the industry.
“Success breeds success”- This holds very true for successful blogs. There is a chain reaction that begins with a real desire on the part of the blogger to provide value and connect with their audience. The blogger shares useful and engaging content—the latest information, help, discussion topics and ideas. The way the audience responds to that content is the key.
I believe that as far as budding professionals are concerned, blogging can help them tremendously. It can help them from bolstering Knowledge Management to starting new ventures.
Bolstering Knowledge Management
A blog can help in bolstering Knowledge Management. Blogs work in two ways. First of all, they’re an easy way for the readers to find information and resources they want or need. Secondly, blogs are a kind of “university lite” for the blogger, because blog posts engender conversation in which knowledge is developed and shared.
Prospective Employers
A blog is informal. It’s part of a conversation where people can comment, and the blog can provide a measure of value. A budding professional can come to know about its prospective employer in the industry and thus can enhance his skills based on the prospective employer’s requirements.
Starting new ventures
A blog can be very helpful in starting new ventures as it can help budding professionals on how to start a new business by knowing others experiences.
Blogging as a career
Blogging can also be pursued as a part time career. It is a very good way to earn money while sitting at home.
These days the corporate blogs are also living up to all the hype. Corporate blogs are giving established companies and obscure brands alike the ability to connect with their audiences on a more personal level, build trust, collect valuable feedback and foster strengthened business relationships.
CONCLUSION
To conclude with Mahatama Gandhi’s quote “Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever”, I personally feel that everyone should try out blogging for sure as it will not only help us in widening our knowledge horizons but also help in discovering more of ourselves.
Sumedha Arya
IT052126-NITI
SCIT
This is my personal home page
http://sdtripathy.tripod.com/
There's a link by the name of my blog....
click on it ....to access my blogs..
Soumya Tripathy
NITI
IT052119
SCIT
Blogs: The democratic face of the Web
According to me, blog is a voice to and from the millions; it's the new, democratic face of the Web. From CEOs to government officials to journalists, all are blogging and expressing them in the most pervasive way the world knows today!
But what are Blogs?
Blogs (or Web Logs) are dynamic web pages that can be created, written and updated regularly with new articles, thoughts and opinions through a simple content management tool. Web logs or blogs are a type of Web content typically created by independent writers. A web log is updated frequently and sometimes groups links by specific subjects, such as politics, news, pop culture, or computer issues. They also contain links to other sources of content.
I firmly believe that, bloggers are people with attitude. It’s said that there's a book inside everybody. Well, the Web and blogs have let the book out! There has literally been an explosion of opinion. Traditionally, a public relation was about honing a silvery message that communicated exactly what the organization wanted us to hear. Now, we can hear all sorts of voices on the subject. It's true democracy at work.
1. How blogging (and participatory media) can help students?
Students can use blogs to record what they learn, for example, a student can get information from a blog about the course curriculum, assignments that are required to be done. This application has many advantages:
• Students can quickly catch up if they miss a class.
• The blog serves as an accurate summary of the course that prospective students or new teachers can refer to.
• Blogging can also be used to record class excursions and to create electronic ‘scrapbooks’ of student life.
• Blogs can also be used to bring out the diversity in the classrooms, in terms of learning styles and individual preferences.
• The librarians can post suggested reading list and book reviews for students. Teachers can showcase student writing.
• When students use web logs to write, teachers can differentiate instruction and deliver the support that each student needs to improve as a writer. At the same time a teacher can keep track of broader patterns. She can make a list of common errors and then conduct lessons for small groups of students who share the same need.
• Students can read comments for the class as a whole and comments directed at them individually. This maximizes feedback and contact with the teacher.
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2. How blogging (and participatory media) can help budding professionals?
The blogs can help the professionals in the following ways:
• Blogs help in building trust with prospects and clients, as an instant communication forum.
• Blogs helps in establishing credibility, for a business if informative content on relevant topics are posted regularly.
• Help the professional in developing stronger relationships and brand loyalty with its customers, as they interact with the 'human face' of the organization through blogs.
• Blogs can build the profile of the professional, showcasing the organization as having talent and expertise.
• Blogs, in an intranet environment, can be an excellent way of sharing knowledge within the organization.
• The customers can be targeted efficiently and can be potentially better informed through blogs.
In all, blogging is sure to take the Internet revolution ahead, leaps and bounds.
Niraj .R Singh
IT052077-SYS
SCIT.
(Email: niraj15282@rediffmail.com)
http://bani-chadha.blogspot.com/
Bani Chadha
IT043005
PGDBM SDM June
email: bani.gur@gmail.com
CONTRIBUTE TO GAIN........
A blog is a web publishing tool through which people can express their views on a particular subject quickly and easily. It is used to give individuals a voice, to encourage discussions and community building. We can write blogs on any subject like politics, technology, business, personal experiences, personal thoughts etc. It is a platform through which we can share knowledge and valuable experiences with people who have same area of interest. It is a way of knowledge transfer and ultimately learning. If you are a blogger , you will act as a contributor as well as receiver.
Blogs are very useful for students. It is very user friendly. Anybody can use simple and understandable english language to express his thoughts. Some people are not involved in class participation, they are afraid of giving presentations etc. So, blogs acts as an excellent tool for them to communicate with teachers. At colleges, we have visiting faculties,who might not be available all the time to answer your queries so you can communicate with them through blogs.
Blogs provide excellent opportunites for students who are not able to put their ideas into proper frame of words to read, write, discuss and ultimately grow. Every person has an equal opportunity to express their views, ideas and opinions within a blog. Teachers can post assignments on blogs. Whenever we want to join any institute we can use blogs to ask questions from senior students about the academics, extracurricular activities, internship , placements etc. We can share our internship experiences with our juniors like name of companies which provide summer trainings, test pattern, questions asked during interview, topics of group discussion, our learnings during internship period , working environment etc so that they can prepare well.
Today i have read an article on website in which it was written that the latest breakthrough is the use of apple's ipod in education. In order to support distance learning through ipods, Apple launched a variant of iTune's-the iTune U which provides universities with free hosting capablities for lecture podcasts. Students can subscribe to ITune U and remotely download these lectures which later can either be synchronized to an ipod or burned to a CD.
Professionals have embraced the world of opportunities that internet has introduced. Blogs are also helpful for budding professionals. They can use it for searching of jobs. Emerging professionals can use blogs to recognize their potential. If you want to be an entrepreneur and you need some ideas regarding how to initiate and from where to initiate you can post blogs so that an expert of that domain can help you through sharing his experiences.
Blogs and podcasts can be used to explain the new professionals about how to use any new programming language, any tool . For e.g. ETL (Extract ,Transform and Load ) tool. I have to give a demo on how to use Informatica tool for loading data into the datawarehouse and I dont know how to operate this tool. If I can get any podcast on how to use this tool. It will act as a learning tool for me.
Some people use blogs to promote their product and services .Some professionals treat blog as a way to communicate internally with fellow employees. Senior professionals can share their experiences with juniors and new ones. We can provide best solutions of problems in our domain on blogs so that if any new employee faces the same situation ,he can get help from there.
According to CEO, Bloggers club: "Blog is an individual tool with impact on the blogger as well as the reader/commenter. It can act as a filter of captured and evolving knowledge, it is a content management system that is sufficiently robust to be effective. the features that make a blog an ideal tool for emergent knowledge management is speed, flexibility, interactivity, and ability to spread information outward"
As the Internet becomes an increasingly pervasive and persistent influence in people's lives, the phenomenon of the blog stands out as a fine example of the way in which the Web enables individual participation in the marketplace of ideas.
Learning is an eternal phenomenon . it continues perpetually and nurtures the beholder as long as the sparkling desire "to learn" keeps kindling.!
So folks contribute to gain..........
Posted By:
NEHA
IT052074
PGDM - SDM
Blog!!
Buzz word around…
Honestly speaking I did’nt know much about blogging few days back till I attended the lecture of Parag sir which gave my the whole new prospective of blogging and its use for the people in various fields and how blogging can help in various ways. Technically I knew that
“A weblog, or simply a blog, is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger”.”
But hardly could visualize this technical meaning into the daily life…its after the lecture I could get the actual and more practical implication of blogging. So here’s all about the blogging and its various benefits for the students and the budding professionals.
Most people till date think that blogs are just meant for personal use but after taking a glimpse of the benefits offered by blogs, we come to know that there are number of advantages related to blogs. Some of the benefits offered by blogs are listed here:
Real time discussion: The information that we get from blogs is usually week’s ahead of the press releases and newspapers because bloggers keep looking for new development areas to publish i.e. something which is very new. Discussions and interactions happen on the spot. So there is no delay of information sharing. Blogs act as Real time Forums and one may find answers to one’s queries with a fraction of a second.
Back Links: Through blogging, you can find number of business partners together because people having different interests and thoughts are closely knit with each other.
Regular readership: Blogging helps in gaining regular readership traffic. If a visitor comes to your blog and he likes the stuff, he can permanently subscribe the blog through RSS feeds.
Boost Traffic: Blogs and RSS feeds can make excellent positive change in your web traffic. By adding new content to your site on a regular basis, you ensure that search engine’s spider crawls your site more often. Consistent updating the rich content matter of a keyword chosen by you gives you an added lead also by increasing the number of search terms or keywords that regularly show up in search results.
Research tool: Blogging is a very powerful tool to collect and aggregate research work, assignment information as well as a powerful means to gather and search the information collected by worldwide researchers. This phenomenon is known as Syndications and RSS is derived from this feature.
Cheap Marketing: By Blogging you can raise your website profile and increase visits to your site.
Easy Web Publishing Solution: Blog Softwares are easy to use. Updating the weblog is a faster process than seeking a web designer for various changes or managing the coding part and uploading it yourself.
Blogs as intranet: Blogs, in an intranet environment, can be an excellent way of sharing knowledge within the organization. You can have secure folders in which you can assign different access rights to different users of blog as per your requirement. You need to get yourself build on an application as to share your resources.
Blogs as CMS: Blogs are best content management systems. You can upload videos files, photos, word documents, pdf files, anything you want to store. Navigation system of blogs is very strong as everything is categorized and for every entry there is a permanent link , every entry can be named with a keyword and in built search feature in blogs has made it simply cool to look for any records.
Apart from the above benefits the blogs have inormous uses for the mangement and other students which can be concussed in the following points
Interactive teaching
Organize the thought process and put them in friendly way
Share various experiences
E-teacher, meta learning
Highlighting the important points which are discussed in class and missed by some of the students.
There are many other benefits that I might have missed while blogging, so please post your comments and ideas about benefits gained from blogging and help out enormous number of friends.
Keep Blogging J
Abhishek Mohal
IT2003
ITBM
Blogs, you cannot afford to close your eyes to them, because they're simply the most explosive outbreak in the information world today, no more an elective but a prerequisite. Name just about anything that's in our society today, and it's on in the blogs. Weblogs can be explained shortly as easy-to-use personal journals published on the Internet. Blogging is an excellent way of showcasing your talents to the world. It is the closest you can get your own free space like having your own paper where you can document in the most ordinary fashion recounting each day's events.
Blogs are about communicating. You observe your experience, reflect on it, and then write about it. Other people read your reflections, respond from their perspectives by commenting or writing their own blog article. It’s a way to let people know what you are thinking about the field that interests you.
Blogs today can be seen as part of normal routine even in academic environment to store ideas, links and references. Blogs are giving departments, staff and students the freedom and informality of tone impossible in scholarly journals or even the student newspaper. Blogging may open new opportunities for students to work together on projects. By connecting together the weblogs of a whole class, or even a whole college, it's possible to create a virtual community where students can read, and make comments upon, one another's work. Students can to contribute to group weblogs devoted to a particular project or class, or perhaps maintain their own personal blogs on which they post essays and views or comments on different topics of the campus interests. Through postings students can share their thoughts in a more comfortable medium and communicate outside the boundaries of the classroom and the institution. As student you can use blog to share your opinion on classes, campus events, local or world news, or really anything, and your opinion will be heard. These web-based forums for discussing ideas, experiences or opinions allow students to discuss publicly what they are studying with other students and experts outside their own university.
A well-executed blog sets you apart as an expert in your field. One of the most cost-effective and efficient ways of marketing yourself is with a blog. It speaks about your expertise, your aptitude and your attitude. For budding professionals it’s a great tool to air their thoughts clearly, as well as exercise their writing skills. Besides, it can act as a portfolio that will help them showcase their skills, build a well-networked community of people and help in the job market. Here since the style is typically less formal than that of other marketing media, and one wants to create a sense of personal rapport with the target audience, I think there is a lot of potential in this kind of blog as a means of developing your career. The activity of blogging gives one a chance to stay in touch with the dynamic world and stay in touch with the leaders or pioneers in the world. Blogging provides that common platform for discussions through comments and hence it can provide a lot of personal benefits to a professional. Blogging provides more opportunities. Building brands, changing careers, launching a business — these endeavors are much easier once you’ve established yourself online. You might observe and write about branding or direct marketing best practices, the evolution of the supply chain industry, notable happenings in the retail industry, or the latest online teaching tools and perhaps also make some money from your efforts.
Sugandha Joshi
IT052125 (Systems)
(email- joshi.sugandha@gmail.com)
Blogs -- short for Web logs -- are online journals or diaries. Blogs can be public or private, entertaining or educational, eclectic or subject specific.
A blog entry is similar to a traditional journal or diary entry. It usually includes the date, reflections on a topic of interest, and a signature. Students can use blogs to practice writing and communication skills, teachers can use them to post assignments, share thoughts, stimulate classroom discussion, and more.
According to Wikipedia… “ a blog is a user generated website..where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order”
Bloggers are people with attitude. They say there’s a book inside everybody. Well, the Web and blogs have let the book out! There has literally been an explosion of opinion. Traditionally, public relations was about honing a message that communicated exactly what the organization wanted us to hear. Now, we can hear all sorts of voices on the subject. It’s true democracy at work.
There are different kids of blogs like personal blog, business blog, photo blog, family blog, community blog etc…
A blog, therefore, is and has always been more than the online equivalent of a personal journal. Though consisting of regular (and often dated) updates, the blog adds to the form of the diary by incorporating the best features of hypertext: the capacity to link to new and useful resources.
Put into practice with an understanding of their benefits and limitations blogs are increasingly accepted instructional technology tool. Blogs can be used for reflection about classes, careers and current events.
The major uses for blogs in education can be:
1. Teachers use blogs to replace the standard class Web page. Instructors post class times and rules, assignment notifications, suggested readings, and exercises. Aside from the ordering of material by date, students would find nothing unusual in this use of the blog. The instructor, however, finds that the use of blogging software makes this previously
2. odious chore much simpler.
3. Instructors begin to link to Internet items that relate to their course. Mesa Community College’s Rick Effland, for example, maintains a blog to pass along links and comments about topics in archaeology.
4. Some instructors are using blogs to organize class seminars and to provide summaries of readings. Used in this way, the blogs become “group blogs”—that is, individual blogs authored by a group of people.
5. Students may be asked to write their own blogs as part of their course grade. As in this case we are asked to post a blog which carries marks.
6. Apart from all this students can also post blogs regarding their experience about a particular faculty, provide feedback and all that they have experienced so that the juniors can benefit from.
…perhaps the question isn’t so much that should all learning professional be blogging
but rather all budding professionals should be actively involved in blogging? To which I think the answer should be “yes”
The ‘How?’ question then leads naturally to blogging or similar activities - because the exciting, new and innovative developments at the college level areas are being discussed, reported, analysed and further developed on the web, through online journals, news, blogs, and so on. The web is the home to the current knowledge and ideas, and is much more up-to-date than most traditional print-based academic journals, where the time-frame from research to publication can be years.
Participating in those online communities is a true scholarly activity - contributing to the ‘unending conversation’ in our discipline areas, debating ideas, furthering knowledge and understanding, and sharing that with the wider community.
Yes, it’s a time commitment, but it’s part of our pursuit of knowledge in our respective discipline areas - and it’s also a timesaver in some ways, with easy access to the leading thinkers and resources, the opportunity to share and seek feedback on ideas and drafts of papers, and so on.
But blogging is not for everyone…. and it takes a while to develop one’s blogging expertise.
Blogging is one way - and can be an excellent way - of actively participating in one’s discipline, and contributing to the application of ideas and knowledge in the wider community. Blogging goes further than traditional email discussion lists, conferences, academic papers, and other standard academic means of communication. So, yes, I think professionals should be aware of what blogging is, reading the relevant thinkers in their fields, and at least actively considering whether blogging is an appropriate form of participation for them.
Anupam Goel
IT-052146
ITBM
A couple of months back, I just had a vague idea of what a blog is and what is the use of blogging. Before joining Symbiosis Centre for information Technology, one of my friends had made a forum in pagalguy.com. Lots of people who were going to join this institute became a member of this forum in view of knowing who all are going to join, their educational background, places from where they belong, etc. This forum was moderated by a person who was also going to join the institute. So, all the queries and discussions posted by the members were to be given a green chit by the moderator. Hence I believed that a posting a blog is similar the posting on a forum.
One of my friends’ who was an expert in website development told me that blogs actually can be very informative but many people have misunderstood its purpose and keep on posting unnecessary things on it. Till then I had personally not even seen a single blog. It was during my internship (From May, 2006 to August, 2006) at Hughes Communications when I actually saw a blog posted by one of our batch mates and hence could at least understand one good use of blogging. We were away from the campus for a long time and hence missed our college life a lot. It was through blogging that someone on the campus kept us updated on how things were going on there, any new developments, etc and that too in a very humorous way. A lot of students who were about to join SCIT also read these blogs and got even more exited to start up with their new campus life.
It was then that I started reading more and more blogs on www.blogger.com. While doing this I came across a lot of technical blogs written by students and enthusiasts on any new technical aspect that they came across recently. And, in the subsequent blogs they used to provide the complete technical knowledge on those aspects. I read those blogs and started searching on google for more insights on these new technologies. And if I found out something new that wasn’t discussed till now, I used to post a comment with a detailed note along with the source from which I took this information. Further I also found out that we as students should not blindly believe technical blogs unless and until the source from where it has been taken is mentioned, as there are possibilities of it not being completely true.
So, these were a few advantages of blogging that I could personally find out. There could be many more too.
During Diwali last year, I met my maternal uncle who was running an advertising agency in New Delhi. His son who was a Telecommunications engineer and an MBA in marketing had started a business of Mobile marketing and Mobile application development. He just had 5 years of experience and started his own business. While discussing with him, as how did he come up with this idea of mobile marketing, what were the services that his company provided, and how did he get clients from the Corporate world. He told me that he was very much interested in mobile technology and started blogging on that. Doing this for a couple of months, he found out that there are many small companies who are doing this business of mobile marketing, but they were not operational in Delhi/NCR. So he started making a view towards starting this business with the guidance of his father. Till the time he actually started this business, I had made a lot of contacts through the medium of blogging, which proved to be very helpful to me. Also, though blogs only I keep myself updated on any new concept of mobile marketing that had evolved in the market. So this is a very good way in which budding professionals can make use of blogs.
http://apt-learning.blogspot.com/
Nidhi Sharma
IT052076
PGDM-SDM
A blog is a Web publishing tool that allows authors to quickly and easily self-publish text, artwork, links to other blogs or Web sites, and a whole array of other content.As Blogger.com says: "A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links.
Blogs are web logs that are updated regularly, usually on a daily basis. They contain information related to a specific topic. In some cases blogs are used as daily diaries about people's personal lives, political views, or even as social commentaries. Weblogs are more than pages of links - they tend to reflect the personalities of their owners. They are personal web pages, updated very often.
They are the product of their owners' imaginations, interests and wit, and it's probably this personal touch which has made them so popular, especially for political issues. The truth of the matter is that blogs can be shaped into whatever you, the author, want them to be.
The roots of blogging can be traced back to the mid 1990's. Who the very first blogger actually was is unclear, as the art of blogging did not really take hold until 1999. The original "weblogs" were link-driven sites with personal commentaries. The very first blogs were human guided Internet web tours. While initially thought of as diaries or online journals, blogs have evolved into the latest fresh web content.
Weblogs, or blogs, were created as a tool for people to create online journals without the need of any programming experience or knowledge. Although not originally intended for use in classes, blogs have immense potential as an extremely valuable tool for the teaching of second language writing. By utilizing free blogging services on the Internet, teachers are capable of creating and storing online supplemental materials for students, post class notes for student review, and give general feedback to the class as a whole and individually. Additionally, students are able to submit assignments online. Taught in a computer room with Internet access, a writing class utilizing blogs that allows students to actually write in class on a computer can be created. Initially started on a whim it has become beneficial to report tips, tricks or make students aware of new things related to the jobs.
A class blog opens the opportunity for students to discuss topics outside of the classroom. With a blog, every person has an equal opportunity to share their thoughts and opinions. Students have time to be reactive to one another and reflective. Teachers can also bring together a group of knowledgeable individuals for a given unit of study for students to network and conference with on a blog.
As the Internet has become an increasingly pervasive and persistent influence in people's lives; the phenomenon of the blog stands out as a fine example of the way in which the Web enables individual participation in the marketplace of ideas.
There is a section called Journals at Student.com! Every registered user at Student.com can have their own journal. With every journal entry, students get to choose a title, a mood, and can add clipart pictures you can choose to make your journal public, for other users to read, or private
Blogs work well for students because they can be worked on at virtually any time, in any place with an Internet-enabled computer. Hence, they can be used by computer savvy teachers to create a classroom that extends beyond the boundaries of the school yard.
Educational Benefits of Blogs
In addition to providing teachers with an excellent tool for communicating with students, there are numerous educational benefits of blogs. Blogs are:
•Highly motivating to students, especially those who otherwise might not become participants in classrooms.
•Excellent opportunities for students to read and write.
•Effective forums for collaboration and discussion.
•Powerful tools to enable scaffolded learning or mentoring to occur.
So as an educational tool, blogs may be integrated in a multi-faceted manner to accommodate all learners. To sum up Blogs serve these basic student areas.
•Classroom Management
•Collaborative studies
•Discussions among students
•Published Student Portfolios
By
Rincy Joseph
IT052098
NITI
In the early nineties, blogging was just viewed as an online diary.
But now, blogs can be well-sourced as traditional journalism, the
only difference being the immedicay of a talk radio. Blogging is
definitely changing the media world.
But for me, it had always been a waste of time. I always uesd to think,
who is going to waste his time reading about what I feel? Why would
anyone bother to even read my interests, leave aside giving a feedback.
But after getting to know what exactly its uses are, the rapid pace
with which it is engulfing technology world, it really surprises me
as to how could i have overlooked such an important aspect of the
technical world, when I myself am a part of it.
Blogs are personal, they contain the temperament of the writer.
The personal touch of the blogs is much more in tune with the
current sensibility of the readers than with the opinionated magazines
and newsletters. Basically, bloggers are people with attitude.
They say there is a book insde everybody. The blogs are just a way
to let the book out. There is money in words - real value, real worth.
Also one great advantage of blogging is that it bypasses the
ancient ritual of writing, editing, publishing etc.Blogging on
the other hand is generally written to please only a handful of
people - people with common interests, common ambitions,common
career goals etc. There are people who blog to make profits. Once
a person has established himself as a renowned blogger, there is
no stopping him. He can churn out dollars by the minute. There are
people who blog for a living. Today there are blogs on almost all
the topics under the sun. Right from knowledge to science to fiction
to romance to psychology - you think of a topic and there are
hundreds of blogs under them. Afterall a blog is nothing but a
chronological publication of personal thoughts. There are personal
blogs,business blogs, family blogs, community blogs. A blog has many
benefits as well. Some of them being - direct communications, brand
building, competitive differentiation, relational marketing, media
and public relations, reputation management, low cost etc. These are
just a few from the lot. Using a blog one can collect his thoughts,
maintain a daily journal and share it with the world. He can have his
feedbacks which might help him to improve on his work, he might meet
people with similar interests, which might further help him. There
are various reasons which indicate why a person should blog. A blog
is defined as a website with dated entries, usually by a single
author, often accompanied by links to other blogs that the site's
editor visits on a regular basis.
Blogs have always proven advantageous for the students.Following
are some of the benefits that blogs offer to students:
1) They offer an innovative way for students to engage in reflective
writing on classroom topics in a familiar medium.
2) Blogs allow others to respond as well, which provides feedback to
the students which further helps them to improve.
3) It helps student to record the progress of their projects. Other
students with similar curriculum interests can always prove to be
of great assisstance.
4) Investigate topics online and then report on their research.
5) Talk about shared classroom experiences.
6) Ask professional writers to edit their blogs, or provide feedback.
Learning is a process that never stops. Once you get a feedback you
always want to know where your thinking was different and you tend
to read more on it. This only improves your knowledge base.
7) Also, blogs prove as a great way to display your skills to the
world. It can attract prospective employers for the freshers.
In case of budding professionals also, blogs prove to be very beneficiory.
1) You can share your expertise and knowledge with a larger audience.
2) Employers can post in vacancies in ther organisations as well.
3) Through blogging one can learn from their seniors in their field,
the upcoming technologies in their field and the practical implications
of these technologies.
4) Because he is budding, he might have some skill sets which he might
want to show to the world. There might have been some projects in which
he might have implemented something new which the world is not aware of.
If he projects these assets of his on the blogs, he can attract prospective
employers and might even bag his dream job!
As a concluding statement, blogs only help one to enrich his knowledge
on areas that are of interest to him, share his thoughts with the world
and get to know people with similar interests.
So start blogging, and start spreading the wealth of knowledge around!!!
-------------Ranjani Gopalan
IT052095 - NITI
SCIT
“Your words are a mirror to your soul”
Blogging, the newest craze to hit the net is catching up fast with the younger generation. Blogging is penning down of your thoughts, ideas, knowledge, events, issues, news, philosophy and whatever that comes to your mind. Blogging provides a platform for you to let roam your mind. Its like having your own space on the net where you can let your thoughts roam free, share your knowledge with people, provide news on certain things to people, give reviews to people and most importantly be yourself.
I was first introduced to blogging when searching for something I came across the material written as a blog over the net by an expert. This introduced a blog to me as a medium of knowledge sharing. The blog was about the open source movement and was written by an open source crusader. His idea of blog was to make his voice heard. Thus blog to the net community is more of knowledge sharing and recognition. Recognition in the sense that in the matrix of the internet where we are but a faceless entity, our words become our identity. Sure thing we may have photos over the net but the photo can’t portray your thoughts, feelings and most importantly your knowledge.
Blogging as a tool, a media for passing on the knowledge is also been used worldwide for issues related to social awareness. The power of the blog as a news media is demonstrated time and again in places where restrictions exist on free press. Blog is thus used as a social tool for inducing changes and bringing out the truth.
Blogs do help budding professionals to create a niche for them selves. As a professional a person is expected to be able to demonstrate his knowledge as a sample of his capabilities which makes him all the more marketable and viable for a specific task. Blogs provide the person/professional with such a specific platform which is easy to maintain and accessible to worldwide audience. Thus budding professionals can have a launch pad to make their voice heard and their capability demonstrated in the form of blogs. This platform provides the identity to the professional to launch his career be it in the field of job hunting or consultancy.
Students are also encouraged to read and write blogs. A lot of knowledge on the net at this point of time is in the form of blogs. A student can get a lot of information, reviews and ideas over the net in the form of blogs. A student can also get involved in knowledge sharing initiatives over the net which are in the form of blogs. As aptly demonstrated most of the open source knowledge initiatives and technical expertise is over the net in the form of white papers and blogs. Most of the students have found the material exhaustive and helpful. Thus blogs have helped in self study initiatives taken by the students. Students are encouraged to write blogs to share their knowledge which proves helpful to other people and will also help improving their written and soft skills.
Blogging- The work of a creative mind.
I think i would define blogging as a piece of work brought into life by a creative mind.
When i think intense i feel it's creative because to pen down one's thoughts needs lots of clarity and expression. When one is clear with his own thought process then only his thoughts when expressed would be understood by others.
Blogging is a platform where people can express their own thoughts concerning a particular topic, not only one's own but also exchange viewpoints.
In my opinion blogging or any other participatory media has a important role to play
outside the vistas of a particular domain. Man has always used one or the other form of expression to put his thoughts since time immemorial. Blogging and other forms of participatory media can have a major role in improvement of our society. It can bring a revolution , can be a agent of change in the society.
Coming down how blogging would help students specially juniors of scit......
Entering symbiosis with a passionate dream in mind specially facing the cut throat competition and then being the lucky one whose name is in the merit list tastes delicious. Well this is reality as "Nothing succeeds like success".
In this new phase of life prior to joining the bandwagon of the most sought after "B-school way " there is a whole lot of questions popping up in the minds of the students . Starting from how would be the course, whether there would be good professors, hostel life, room mates..... in short a whole new perspective.
The process of communication can begin not only after the students join but prior to it. Knowing one's own classmates exchanging thoughts is worth. Blogging can also be used to share opinions regarding academics. Let's say there is a particular subject which impresses your mind , you wish to learn about it more and may be much more as time passes then here blogging can help. Your classmates who have flair for the same subject would like to comment on the same. Faculties , experienced people in that particular domain can also post their valuable suggestions which will be a able platform to grow. As soon as days pass, internship comes knocking at the door.
Resumes, dream companies, stipend suddenly become the topic of conversation
in the campus. Preparations regarding the industry exposure begins. These four months in the industry shapes you and you mature in your profession. The approach completely changes. Work specially doing good work becomes important for one's growth and for making SCIT proud in the industry.The experiences which one has specially the senior batch from the interns in their respective companies give a good insight to the juniors who are on the verge of their turn.The piece of cake is yet to arrive and that is when the placement season comes."Hardwork Pays" and the SCITians are through with bright options.Blogging would indeed be a paltform for the budding professionals as i feel that discussions on any subject that forms a major part in your career or may be of your interest would find new dimensions.
Opinions from different people would provide a whole lot of ideas which would enrich you and inturn enrich others whoever visits your blog.
Last but not the least Blogging is a arena where thoughts find their destination.
Soma Bhattamishra
NITI
IT052116
Well friends when I attended the Workshop on "New Media Technology" I was very enthusiastic to really know what Mr. Para Shah and his colleague were going to share with us. And the topic was really interesting – “Blog” . The workshop really forced me that extent of my thinking that how Blogging has effected the whole world and how it is going to effect the world in future. The enlightening session has provided us the knowledge of the various electronic gadgets, podcasts, webcast etc.
What I personally feel is that Blog one’s personal Diary through which he or she can share his knowledge and experience not only with their friends but with the whole world. It makes you a kind of Editor of your own newspaper which you publish and edit when ever you like. You can use the blog for sharing and expressing of ones knowledge, ideas, thoughts, picture etc.
A blog is a website generated by user where entries are made in journal style and the contents are displayed in a reverse chronological order.
Uses of a Blog for the students are as follows:-
1. They can share their Daily classroom experience with others people to tell the excitement and the work pressure they enjoy in their respective institute.
2. Students can tell the whole world about the various project works they do in their academic sessions and through constant feed back they can lessen their mistakes.
3. Students can share their domain knowledge areas which they consider as their strengths and want to excel in that particular domain. Through blogging they can be in touch with various industrial experts who can give invaluable guidance to them.
4. Students can share their experiences of the various competitive exams in which they have appeared. They can also share their view points about various colleges, course structures, fee structure and placement structure.
5. Students can discuss the various seminars which they have attended and whoever the dignitaries presented the seminar.
6. Students can learn immensely from various tutorials posted in the form of blogs. For example : http://adaptivelearning.squarespace.com/ made by Parag Shah.
Uses of a Blog for Professionals are as follows:--
1. Blog can be used by the budding professional as their Knowledge management System where they can keep their daily experiences and trouble shootings which they do in their day to day work.
2. They can share their work experience in their particular domain and the kind of the responsibility and respect they are given.
3. He can elaborate the products and the services offered by his company and can share the work culture of his company.
4. They can share the various verticals and horizontals along which his company works. They can also discuss the organization structure of their company.
5. He can share his interview and GD experiences with those students who want join his company.
6. He can discus not only his personal R&D on any technology but also on the technology or domain knowledge in which they are expert.
7. Even they can share and discuss the various certifications their company provides and which are available in the market too.
8. Professional can help immensely others by writing various tutorials on particular topics or technology in the form of blogs. For example : http://adaptivelearning.squarespace.com/ made by Parag Shah, Owner of Adaptive Software solutions.
By
Shailesh Solanki
SDM - IT052115
SCIT
As someone has rightly said knowledge is power and what I feel is that the more you share your knowledge more power you become. From times people have not been able to get a platform to share the knowledge. But now I feel that blogging is the best platform to share your knowledge and power.
Blog is a kind of digital diary which you keep in a pocket in which you write about daily experiences, schedule, meeting, mistakes and achievements. Blogging makes you kind of leader without a mass to form his own directions and tell the whole world what he feels, his experiences, his responsibilities without any kind of political, social, organizational pressure. Its your own responsibility whatever you write for the welfare of society.
Through blogging we can enhance our social relationships with the people around the globe whom we have not met but they have the same thinking and ideas as ours. Moreover through blogs you can share your country’s cultural and mythological heritage through various pictures and presentations with your friends around the globe. I think blogs is excellent way to share your hobbies with others. It can also help to reflects how passionate one can be about any sports, technology, literature and politics.
Blogging has been used by many peoples like students, professional and time pass user.
How students can make use of blogs :
1. They can share their project works inside the colleges and outside the colleges.
2. They can make contacts with the industrial experts.
3. They can learn a lot by reading the blogs of the people who have expertise in the field in which that student wants to excel.
4. They can share day to day experiences of their lectures.
5. They can share the knowledge of any book they have read and just want to recommend it to others.
6. They can share the pictures and videos of cultural, sports events taking place in their campus.
7. They can write motivating articles for the other students who want to join premier engineering, medical, management institutes. They can also give guidline about various competetiva exam and how to achieve good rank in those exams.
8. Students can share links to the various sites which they find very informative and beneficial for the students.
How Professional can make use of blogs :
1. They can share their industrial experiences and knowledge of the areas of their expertise.
2. They can advertise their company’s products and services. They can also share the different vertical and the horizontals areas of their company.
3. They can share the knowledge of their various project undertaken by them and their current projects.
4. They throw some lights on current technological changes and demands in the market.
5. They can start a kind of Consultancy Company by using blogs through which they can help and consult their clients.
6. By blogging they can make good use show the world about your talent and they can be hired by the good companies after going through their blogs.
7. They can share information regarding various openings and vacancies in their companies so that the visitor of his blog can make effective use of it.
By
Narinder Kawatra
SDM - IT052072
SCIT
Blog Everywhere…..
Blogs are defined in various terms. The most general definition which is used is “Blog" is an abbreviated version of "weblog," which is a term used to describe web sites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information. A blog is a frequently updated, personal website featuring diary-type commentary and links to articles or other Web sites. Blogs range from the personal to the political, and can focus on one narrow subject or a whole range of subjects. Many blogs focus on a particular topic, such as web design, politics, sports, or mobile technology. Some are more eclectic, presenting links to all manner of other sites. And others are more like personal journals, presenting the author's daily life and thoughts.
Basically a blog is a diary or journal where the writer or "blogger" will write her observations on the world or provide links to useful websites. Different bloggers write about different themes, sort of like a newspaper columnist but with no specialized training necessary.
Blogging is good for career. A well-executed blog sets us apart as an expert in our field
Blogs are emerging as an enabler for good career. It helps professionals to remain updated with the latest trends in their respective fields. They provide all kinds of guidance and help to define a career path. Blogging helps us grab opportunities through various ways. Blogging creates a network. A blog increases network because a blog is about introducing ourselves over the wide world of internet, and sharing information. Through exchange of thoughts with other it gives an opportunity to know people. Blogging can get a job. Knowledge sharing and expertise in a particular field can help to provide us with good career opportunities
Blogging is a great training. It helps to get more expertise and knowledge about a particular subject through knowing various views of different people and this would help to increase our thought process. Blogging makes self-employment easier. It gives us opportunity to represent ourselves in our own way .One of the most cost-effective and efficient ways of marketing ourselves is with a blog. Blogging provides more opportunities for building a career, launching a business. Blogging helps to bring out our creativity.
As blogs helps budding professionals to build their career, it also helps students by guiding them through their career .It provides them with a strong platform to help them in taking strong career decisions. Blogs act as a platform for sharing knowledge among the student s and developing communication network. It helps to share their views and keeps them updated with new technology. They can share not only their knowledge but it helps them remain connected with each other .It also act as a medium for them to remain connected to their seniors and get to know their experiences in professional world. They can share their articles on various topics. This could be a medium to express their creativity by conducting good cultural activities. They can share good links with each other. They help each other in various research projects. It can be medium to interact with industry experts. Good knowledge sharing can be conducted through created network.
Posted by
Ruchira Anekar (IT 52101)
(email- ruchira.anekar@gmail.com)
Blogs: The democratic face of the Web
According to me, blog is a voice to and from the millions; it's the new, democratic face of the Web. From CEOs to government officials to journalists, all are blogging and expressing them in the most pervasive way the world knows today!
Blogs ideally are supposed to highlight one’s freedom of speech more than anything else. That is the reason with which it was created in the first place. Though there are many other reasons which have crept up through time, starting from a place to meet “apparent” intellect [for it is assumed people who write are in some form superior beings, though it has not been established so far], to meet like-minded people and start off what might be a joke to your friends but a probable threat to a relatively famous MNC, to building up your own interests, and career and steer life in all possible profitable avenues. People at all ages are equally welcome to start off with a blog. But it’s mostly the students and professionals that do make a career, of choice and comfort and learn in the process.
The major uses for blogs in education can be:
1. Teachers use blogs to replace the standard class Web page. Instructors post class times and rules, assignment notifications, suggested readings, and exercises. Aside from the ordering of material by date, students would find nothing unusual in this use of the blog. The instructor, however, finds that the use of blogging software makes this previously
2. odious chore much simpler.
3. Instructors begin to link to Internet items that relate to their course. Mesa Community College’s Rick Effland, for example, maintains a blog to pass along links and comments about topics in archaeology.
4. Some instructors are using blogs to organize class seminars and to provide summaries of readings. Used in this way, the blogs become “group blogs”—that is, individual blogs authored by a group of people.
5. Students may be asked to write their own blogs as part of their course grade. As in this case we are asked to post a blog which carries marks.
6. Apart from all this students can also post blogs regarding their experience about a particular faculty, provide feedback and all that they have experienced so that the juniors can benefit from.
It’s most beneficial to students in the streams of arts and media who learn the most. These are all people with budding thoughts and ideas which need a platform to be aired from, to exercise their writing skills, and act as a portfolio to showcase their skills and creativity and help in the job market. It’s a way of organizing one’s thoughts and putting it across in a reader friendly way, which is an excellent tool for upcoming writers and journalists. It would be unfair to leave the other techies behind, for even they stand to gain by all means. It’s often surprising to see who might stumble upon one’s blog. Depending on what it’s named, it can be no surprise that it might end up as the first link to another like minded techie’s search, which can only lead to more brain storming sessions and newer ideas getting refined and filtered. Students can also indulge in specific blogs, depending on their field of interest and career, and invite open comments from the more experienced ones in the industry.
Blogs can help professional in following ways-
1. Blog can be used as a tool to collaborate, manage knowledge, develop communities. It allows collaboration between teams and departments, making them easier to plan and schedule meeting.
2. When you enter into the professional world, as a employee it will help you to manage your ideas, which can be categorized in future. The interactive nature of blogs used to promote online knowledge sharing communities.
3. Many of us think of becoming an entrepreneur in future, blogs help them in seeking advice and feedback from experts, and can act accordingly. It may be possible few from outside community get highly impressed with your ideas and want to be the part of your enterprise as an investor or co partner.
4. Like earlier I had not written any blogs but I am regular visitors to the blogs on http://www.mouthshut.com. I visit here to see what others think of particular product or service available in market. Not only bloggers but also other visitors to the blog posts may find interest in the budding professionals.
5. You may create a blog in which your super seniors who are working in the industry can also participate to discuss regarding current opening in their company, job profiles, and seek their advice on particular issue.
Debasish Das
ITBM – IT 052034
(email: debu8888@gmail.com)
I forgot to Give my Roll no.
PANKAJ DHAWAN
ITBM-IT052081
SCIT
Advantages of blogging for students and professionals
Blogging is a collaborative tool widely used by the Internet users. Blogging technology allows users to create
knowledge by means of collaborating with others. Communication and collaboration is central to the
constructivist theory in education. Constructivist theory states that we create and apply new knowledge through
collaboration with others. Blogging technology allows users to construct new knowledge as well as apply and
analyse existing knowledge by sharing their own knowledge with other users.
Imagine a classroom where: Students read and write daily journals that will later be transformed into a polished
paper published on the Internet. Teachers post the day's activities and assignments for students and parents to
view online. Students collaborate on solving a problem or creating a knowledge network. Students maintain
journals for easy access, editing, and teacher feedback online instead of paper-based. Students view, listen to,
and share videos and podcasts. Students create multimedia portfolios to demonstrate learning. Research notes
and links are compiled and shared among an entire school. All of the above examples are just a few examples of
how blogs can be used to enhance learning. But why should we use blogs in education?
Possibly the strongest argument for the use of blogs is their constructivist nature. Blogs support constructivist
models by offering ways to communicate, organize, reflect, create, and collaborate. Constructivist theorists argue
that we learn through others and by applying new knowledge to preexisting knowledge. By including
collaboration in the classroom, we can help students question and construct their own knowledge, apply and
analyze what they’ve learned, and build a strong foundation for lifelong learning. The types of learning that
result from blogs and their ease of use should endorse their inclusion in the classroom. For instance, blogs can be
set up quickly and easily as individual or group blogs, allowing users even more flexibility in how they are used.
Blogs eliminate the need to understand complex html code or pay for web space. Blogs offer many attractive
templates to choose from which enhance and personalize a student’s work. And blogs make accessing and
working on your writing convenient, since everything is stored online.
Advantages of blogging for professionals
The consumer and citizen are potentially better informed and this can only be good for the long-term health of our societies and economies.
Blogs have potential to help the organization develop stronger relationships and brand loyalty with its customers, as they interact with the ‘human face’ of the organization through blogs.
Blogs, in an intranet environment, can be an excellent way of sharing knowledge within the organization.
Blogs can be a positive way of getting feedback, and keeping your finger on the pulse, as readers react to certain pieces, suggest story ideas, etc.
Blogs can build the profile of the writer, showcasing the organization as having talent and expertise.
Advantages of blogging for students
• Fostering the fringe - ideas are evaluated based on merit - not on source of origin.
• Filtering - ideas with merit are filtered through various blogs. Significant thoughts or posts receive multiple-links and spread viral-like across the internet.
• Multiple perspectives - one-sided perspectives of newspapers are replaced by passionate debates exploring virtually every facet of an idea or concept.
• Barrier elimination - society is about barriers - actual or unspoken.
• Free flow - any idea can be expressed...and accessed by any one. The process of blogging separates good ideas from poor ideas. The process itself has built in quality control - try that in traditional media!
• Real time - discussions and interactions happen right NOW. Waiting for tomorrow's newspaper or radio program seems like an eternity compared to real time blogging.
• Links and connections - the complexity of an information heavy society requires specialization. Yet specialization is futile if a process is not created to link specialties. Blogging serves this purpose extremely well. Disparate fields of interest and thought are brought together (and dissected) in the machinations of bloggers
Mandar Dharde
SCIT-ITBM
IT052063
mandy.dharde@gmail.com
My understanding on the various dimensions of blogging-
At the outset, it is undoubted that with the gaining power of the internet, a blog has emerged as an easy publishing media for collaborative purposes. It is being used to publish anything on the web including text, images, and audio or video without writing any computer code or by using any complex application/tool. Moreover, a blog can be used as an interactive medium capable of initiating conversations and exchange of ideas in a democratic way.
A blog is something that is best written on a regular basis: once a day, once a week, or once a month as per the purpose and criticality of the content. It’s easier for the writer to keep a routine and it’s better for the reader to have a conversation in the comment space of each post and see the blog writer respond shortly afterwards.
Blogging in the field of education needs to be looked upon from two perspectives. One from the teacher’s perspective and the other from the students perspective.
From the teacher’s perspective
1. the key use for blogs in education is in keeping the teacher’s log about their conduct of course in the classroom. This is about reflecting on the day-to-day work done in the classroom and how it might be done differently, better or in collaboration with someone else from the student community.
2.Sharing ideas – blogging in education is a compassionate practice where everyone involved are always willing to contribute with advice, tips or just provide reassurance on any particular topic of everyone’s interest. They are also ready to share resources and good links.
From the students perspective
1.Student journal - Keeping a log of work is an effective way for students to reflect on what they have learned. It’s an excellent use of homework time where the students are asked to explain, in their own words, what they learned that day in language class.
2.Student interaction - Senior students and/or students from various specializations may contribute by writing a summary of their learning’s of any particular topic of their interest or from any book, including links to websites that explain further and photographs from the film or the setting of the book. All the student blogs can also be put together and provide links to other students’ blogs. This way, students from various backgrounds can help each other out and leave constructive comments on each other’s posts. Further still, they can provide links that they believe the students should be consulting.
3.creative writing blogs – the students can share their knowledge through online web journals, can publish articles from their area of interest, can publish their research about a particular technology, or can use the web platform to share their experiences about sports, travel, hobbies and leisure.
Advantages for professionals can be summarized as
1.global platform to express ideas, views and comments
2.publishing of papers related to research in technology field
3.discussion in technology forums
4.a powerful medium to collaborate with peers across the world
5.cross cultural exchange
6.effective marketing tool
Sanjay Deshpande
ITBM - IT52105
sanjayrd@gmail.com
“Blog” was a question a year or two back, but this word has caught up so much with the young generation that now day it’s like a craze with everyone.
I heard about the word “blog” from one of my friends a year back. Before that I was fully unaware from this word “Blog”. After that I read different blogs and I realized that writing in a blog is like talking with someone and discussing something. That’s why it is also called a user generated website or diary. Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as, education, food, politics, or local news, as per the interest of bloggers; some function as more personal online diaries.
When we write in a blog we can also give images, other blogs links, website links and other topics. Blogs allow us to create our own private niche in the big and not-too-bad world of Internet. Today’s environment is more demanding about communication and knowledge sharing factors and blogs are about these two things only. It’s a two way communication. Bloggers write and readers can comment. Commenting on blogs is probably the most effective functionality provided. It shows us that the reader is interested in the content of the blog. But responding to these comments the blogger assures a come-back audience.
Blogs are used for education purpose in various manners. Students use them to cater new trends, share ideas and knowledge. Professors use blogs to replace the standard class Web page. Instructors post class times and rules, assignment notifications, suggested readings, and exercises. Blogs are used to organize in-class discussions. Students get to know each other better by visiting and reading blogs from other students. They discover, in a non-threatening way, their similarities and differences. The student who usually talks very loud in the classroom and the student who is very timid have the same writing space to voice their opinion. The process of reading online, engaging a community, and reflecting it online is a process of bringing life into learning.
Blogs, which resemble personal journals or diaries and provide an online venue where self–expression and creativity is encouraged and online communities are built, provide an excellent opportunity for professionals to advance literacy through storytelling and dialogue. In their busy routine, professionals use blogs to get in touch with new upcoming trends and to update themselves in their own area of expertise.
For professionals, blogs are used to create communities to interact with peers and organize content based on their interest. Professionals start blogs with the aim of being able to reach a wider range of participants for discussions on the topic. As it has turned out, the blog is somewhere serving their need of self-expressions. It also helps people to find jobs according to their expertise. Unlike most web sites, which generally combine static and dynamic features, a blog is produced with an active writer in mind, one who creates an online writing space designed to communicate an identity, a personality, and most importantly, a point of view.
Pooja Singla
ITBM – IT052143
[email - singlapooja@gmail.com]
Not my cup of tea…
“Blogging” the meaning is very wide and vague in todays scenario,the concept is not new
but its form has changed with the changing trends.according to me it’s a new mode of knowledge sharing with others,not only knowledge, you can even share your experiences with your friends and folks.
Today in this information age at any point of time and ample amount of the people are endlessly searching for the information which is relevant to them,this trend encouraged the concept called blogging as well as portals which support blogging.some portals among them are Blogspot.com,Yahoo 360 which have good number of users are persistent and are continuously writing blogs to safeguard their interest as well as the interest of others readers also.
To discuss about the probable benefits of blogging to the readers and the honourable writers.we can look upon blogging as another form of Knowledge Management. Knowledge management is something which is being talked about in todays world a lot.
If you have gained something over these years while working in some field or while serving in some organization or we can say that you gained knowledge about some thing
For Eg. About some particular legacy technology which is specific to your organization,so you can prepare a document which can be referred by the other employees who will be joining the organization later,and the good is that you even get paid for it by the organizations What Else ???. People also come to know about you just because of the job you have done and the content that you written.
Blogging is generally related to many areas, generally depends on the persons interest or the purpose that it will going to serve.A blog can be a Corporate Blog,well it is a blog published by the company and used by it to reach its organizational goals. Again the corporate blogs are divided into different categories like internal and external blogs.
Corporate blogs can be very strong communication tools within or on behalf of a corporate community.these blogs will serve purposes like if people are sperated by distance and there is a constraint in conducting meetings,here the internal blogs can play a vital role.
As we know blogs are open to the community, the problem and hesitation of sending invitations to the certain number of related people is removed. Also fewer people will feel that they are segregrated from the decision making process. As every post is open to the community, anyone can take part in the process, simply by adding his/her comments. A talking community creates the healthiest environment in the decision making process with collective intelligence of the elite crowd.
In some cases the blogs have an added advantage over emails because usually people receive lot of them in the form of useless forwards and most of the people delete them
without even having a look at them.
As the technology has advanced with the time,the idea blogging has changed or we can say has added new features to its cap.the rise of terms like Podcasting just say this thing has a great future ahead.to tell you more about podacasting,its nothing but a mode to share audio files with other people in the community.this audio file shared over the internet can be paid or unpaid.the term Podcastin is derived from the apples music player
called Ipod.the person who posts the files is called Podcaster.
As the time progressed and the blogging became popular,there is a set of terms which have emerged directly related to blogging,it is not feasible for me to put those terms here
as it will be a risk that my blog may be rated as Plaguerised.
Varun Mudgal
IT052132
PGDM-SDM 2nd
Blogging doted as the ‘killer app’ or the next best thing is a phenomenon already. The very fact that 150 students are assigned the task of writing a 500-word essay on the same goes on to prove this.
On a serious note a blog is defined by Blogger.com as “A personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soap-box. A breaking news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world.”
'Blogs' have evolved along similar lines to other forms of human communication in that they are a
product of convenience rather than design.
I knew what a blog was and I did not care. Until the lecture given by Mr. Parag Shah on new media technology. The very same day I came to the lab and I started reading one of the blogs he recommended. I tried not to go too far and started with reading one of my very good friend’s blog. I had read it before but this time it caught my attention since I knew some new concepts and facts related to the world of blogging. I couldn’t keep myself from reading different blogs from the previous page; links to other blogs on the same page added as the blogger’s favorites and hence started my journey with trying to reflect on how a blog could help me as an individual, a student and a professional. All of this because it was easier to comment on what someone had written but when it came to writing myself I realized just how difficult it was to pen down my thoughts since I had never spared a thought to my own thoughts- myriads of them. Whoa! Blogging was an absolute reflective endeavor that I had started on but contributing my thoughts and having my own blog would take a little longer.
Since I’m in the last few days of college let me start by penning down my thoughts on the possibilities that blogs extend to students. To start with the very predictable, a blog fosters an environment of immense learning and sharing among students. Anything from submission of assignments, knowledge management, sharing personal knowledge, sharing course related information, facilitating team spirit can be achieved through blogging. It’s a daily diary so a student can jot down the happenings of the day on his blog. These might be used by other batches. Other than studies:
1.Helps the students voice their opinions on issues they might not be able to talk about openly for the fear of being criticized or their ideas being rejected by the often orthodox methods of teaching.
2.It is important for a student to be an all rounder. Instead of focusing only on studies he can actually use blogging to find out what he’s good at and what he would like to do apart from cramming the thoughts and ideas which are other’s. Many a time we don’t reflect on our likes, dislikes or talents. This is where blogging can fill the gap.
3.Creates zeal in the students towards writing and the art of expression. When you know that you have your own blog and that you are responsible for it you will write sensibly mostly for being liked by others and being sought after. Everyone craves for appreciation specially for something that’s discretely their own.
4.Youngsters are the leaders of tomorrow. They can create awareness for issues that the obsolete politicians or celebrities feel ashamed to talk about. Issues like social causes, fatal diseases, community service groups etc can be brought to notice of the readers of the particular blog. Who knows we might just change the world by doing so!
5.The links on a particular blog lead to other blogs and hence can lead to a discovery of a lot of information that was never thought of or was difficult to find. E.g. unknown bands get discovered.
6.Blogging gives a sense of responsibility since it is not very private and what you write in a blog can hurt someone in a particular fashion. It gives a sense of responsible journalism.
7.It empowers students. They can focus on being original rather than reproducing crammed answers like in an exam. Blogging promotes a sense of independence and creativity is explored to the fullest.
8.It also helps faculty to post course material, assignments, knowledge management, networking and hence being able to teach better. It can also bring teachers and students together since students can go on the teacher’s blog and probably better relate to the faculty as a person and not as a teacher.
In the professional environment, participatory media and blogging can be of immense benefit to both the individual as well as the organization. Many a time job seekers find solace in such social networking sites and land themselves in the employed state. Ideas, thoughts and problems discussed on a blog can actually help clear doubts and concepts of employees which in turn helps the organization as a whole since in some way the employee’s productivity takes a leap. Also for venturing in a different field or starting your own setup, sharing of ideas on a blog can facilitate thinking in the right direction and avoidance of mistakes you could have made otherwise.
IT is continually evolving and changing by the day. To keep at pace with the latest technology or new features in a product discussions on blogs can do wonders. Since its all about sharing your otherwise trademark knowledge and getting recognized for it, people tend to put their best thoughts and knowledge on the blog.
In short a blog is a canvas waiting to be smeared with colors and ideas that are yours. Go paint it!!!
Submitted by:
Neha Sharma
Systems-IT052075
Blogs - earlier considered as ‘online diaries’, have now evolved to mean much more than just diary entries. A blog is a website where entries/posts are displayed in reverse chronological order, so that the most recent posts appear at the top of the page. Often the blog entries occur as short, quick snippets – a link to something cool found on the web, an opinion, an idea, a rant. And sometimes they are longer, thoughtful essays. It all depends on the author and what she or he wants to express and its true power comes from its interactivity with visitors and other blogs. Blogs are being used by large and small companies, as well as artists and freelancers, as a powerful business tool for promoting their work and interacting with customers and clients.
Current blog technology is easy to use, with a very simple learning curve. If you can create a Microsoft Word document or send an email, you can create a blog post. Any and all organizational users can participate. Blogs support infinite archiving of information, both by topic (category) and date. Most blog platforms allow content to be searched as well, making blogs the perfect tool for managing the intellectual property of an organization.
Blogging matters to both professionals and students. Blogging helps students:
• To keep up-to-date information on what’s going on in the class and other news and information about their related field.
• To think and write more critically and in turn learn to be responsible. This helps them communicate outside the boundaries of the classroom and the institution.
• These web-based forums for discussing ideas, experiences or opinions allow students to discuss publicly what they are studying with other students and experts outside their own university.
• It also helps them get new perspectives which is not possible in a normal lecture.
• Blogging opens up assignments beyond the teacher-student relationship, allowing the world to grade students and provide encouragement or feedback on their writings.
Blogging is an excellent research and learning tool for professionals, significantly better than most alternatives.
• Professionals engage in a great deal of professional discussion - not merely specific cases but also generalized issues. They read and often write on professional literature, write to each other informally, and also exchange resources and information.
• Blogs are well suited to serve as on-line personal journals for professionals, particularly since they normally enable uploading and linking of files.
• Bloggers have the tendency to promote each other. Therefore, if professionals create a great business blog that people find useful and relevant, they have a built-in PR staff who will help spread the word about their business.
• Blogs act as a way of getting positive feedback through the reactions of readers to certain pieces and new ideas posted etc.
Blogs are of limited good unless there is an audience, at least some of whom are prepared to provide thoughtful critical commentary, and the blogger needs to be open to those. The comments on blogs enable people to point out incorrect information immediately. The idea behind blogging is that learning occurs when the learner immerses him or herself in a community of pratice, learning by performing authentic tasks, learning by interacting with and becoming a member of the community.
The old saying ‘I don’t know what I think till I hear what I say’ is often very true of blogging. It helps in learning a huge amount from other bloggers on a daily basis - about technology, ideas, business and people.
Meghna Bareja
ITBM - IT052069
meghnabareja@gmail.com
By writing a blog and putting your ideas ‘out there’ on the web you are making yourself more visible, not just to other bloggers but to anyone using the web for business or pleasure. Blogs are definitely not the place for hard-sell messages; they are about sharing useful information and interesting ideas.
A blog is a frequently updated, personal website featuring diary-type commentary and links to articles or other Web sites. Blogs range from the personal to the political, and can focus on one narrow subject or a whole range of subjects. They have a main content area with articles listed chronologically and often organized into categories. It is an archive of older articles and has a list of links to other related sites, sometimes called a "blogroll".
I believe that blogs are quite useful to both professionals and students. Talking about the advantages to professionals:
• Blogs are not a replacement for mailing lists or visits to trusted Web sites. However, they can be an excellent source of information and perspectives.
• They have potential to help professionals develop stronger relationships and loyalty with their clients as they interact with the ‘human face’ through blogs.
• They also can be a positive way of getting feedback, and keeping your finger on the pulse, as readers react to certain pieces, suggest story ideas, etc.
Blogging is a novel technology when it comes to educational uses.
• In the past bulletin boards and courseware were used to allow students to discuss topics. The dialogue was always situated around the classroom and the course content. And usually, when the course was over, the content was erased. Blogging now looks at communication in a different manner. Blogging is all about me. The location of the discussion is on the individual, not the class. As a student blogger, I would write about my personal experiences within the learning moment; how the lectures, discussions in class, readings intertwine with my own reflections and thoughts on the topic. The result is that a blog post can become a unique document of the learning process.
• In university, blogging can become the start of a lifelong learning experience, as the student’s blog can follow her from class to class, year to year, and then follow off into the world of work.
• Blogs also have an important place in the classroom. Teachers use blogs as to learn what their students think is important and what they need to focus on in their lectures.
• When the blog is an academic, personal and social tool for communication, students learn about the variety of ways they can express themselves, and they learn to negotiate between personal, private and public forms of communication. They also get experience, in a safe environment, in controlling the information that is made public about them, which can help keep them safe, but can also help them in their careers.
Unlike other online networking at universities, such as email lists and intranets, blogging is unique because it is public and not restricted by passwords. Blogs are also extremely useful for categorising and managing a large collection of thoughts, whether they are from lecture notes, a student's own ideas, or comments on the ideas of others. Blogs are not an inexpensive strategy. It is relatively inexpensive to start one up, but it takes time and discipline to continue to keep the site updated and focused.
Megha Sandal
ITBM - IT052068
meghasandal@gmail.com
Blogging – Electronic media to communicate and share knowledge
A blog by definition is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger.” Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog. Postings on a blog are almost always arranged in chronological order with the most recent additions featured most prominently. What distinguishes blogs from other types of web pages are the usually short, focused writings that are each headed with a title covering the topic of the content.
Blogs provide an excellent way to communicate and share knowledge with the world. It can be rolled out on internal private network, so that is useful for the students if a college is taken into consideration. This can be useful for those students who are not good at communicating or in their presentation skills but has the knowledge as they can write their opinions and views electronically i.e., in blog and share their knowledge with rest of the class and can become active student of the class.
Blog can be created and is helpful in the following ways.
• Blogs can be used to make blog groups these groups can do research work in different subjects and can manages guest lectures and national seminars in every subjects so that it is useful for everyone, review and feedback posted in blog is useful for continuous improvement.
• Blog about interns project is not only helpful for juniors giving them the knowledge about the types of project in summer internship and experiences but also is helpful for placement dept to update there database.
• Research papers and different assignments can be posted so can be used as reference by students and also query can be asked and discussed.
• With the help of blog students can take action and go for research which requires years to complete as it can be continue by students of different batches.
•
Blog can be created about different events like sports and cultural activities so is helpful for students who want to join college as it let them know about the environment of college so they don’t face difficulties in adjusting.
Blogs can be of great help for the budding professional too. They can write blogs about the subjects, they are interested in and can comment and give opinion and discuss about their interested topic and that’s how they can show the world how much they know about that subject and topic. As many company executives checks the blogs and look for fresher who are appropriate for their company. With the help of blogs new openings and market trends can be searched and same can be applied. People interested in marketing and sales can talk and discuss about new product and services in order to show the knowledge and help others. Blogs are also useful for those who are interested in innovation as they can have ideas and can discuss about it, post queries because inventions takes shape from the vague idea only, with the blog one can get the sponsors for their invention also.
Blogging can be taken as an alternative career option or as a parallel one, as there are many people who have earned a lot of money with it. Blogging is helpful in making decisions about the career as many queries can be resolved related to the career by the sensible industry personality.
So, blogging not only helps student but also budding professional, it’s a media to share and communicate to whole world.
Blogging – Electronic media to communicate and share knowledge
A blog by definition is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger.” Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog. Postings on a blog are almost always arranged in chronological order with the most recent additions featured most prominently. What distinguishes blogs from other types of web pages are the usually short, focused writings that are each headed with a title covering the topic of the content.
Blogs provide an excellent way to communicate and share knowledge with the world. It can be rolled out on internal private network, so that is useful for the students if a college is taken into consideration. This can be useful for those students who are not good at communicating or in their presentation skills but has the knowledge as they can write their opinions and views electronically i.e., in blog and share their knowledge with rest of the class and can become active student of the class.
Blog can be created and is helpful in the following ways.
• Blogs can be used to make blog groups these groups can do research work in different subjects and can manages guest lectures and national seminars in every subjects so that it is useful for everyone, review and feedback posted in blog is useful for continuous improvement.
• Blog about interns project is not only helpful for juniors giving them the knowledge about the types of project in summer internship and experiences but also is helpful for placement dept to update there database.
• Research papers and different assignments can be posted so can be used as reference by students and also query can be asked and discussed.
• With the help of blog students can take action and go for research which requires years to complete as it can be continue by students of different batches.
•
Blog can be created about different events like sports and cultural activities so is helpful for students who want to join college as it let them know about the environment of college so they don’t face difficulties in adjusting.
Blogs can be of great help for the budding professional too. They can write blogs about the subjects, they are interested in and can comment and give opinion and discuss about their interested topic and that’s how they can show the world how much they know about that subject and topic. As many company executives checks the blogs and look for fresher who are appropriate for their company. With the help of blogs new openings and market trends can be searched and same can be applied. People interested in marketing and sales can talk and discuss about new product and services in order to show the knowledge and help others. Blogs are also useful for those who are interested in innovation as they can have ideas and can discuss about it, post queries because inventions takes shape from the vague idea only, with the blog one can get the sponsors for their invention also.
Blogging can be taken as an alternative career option or as a parallel one, as there are many people who have earned a lot of money with it. Blogging is helpful in making decisions about the career as many queries can be resolved related to the career by the sensible industry personality.
So, blogging not only helps student but also budding professional, it’s a media to share and communicate to whole world.
By
SWATI SINHA (swatis14@gmail.com)
IT052142
ITBM
A Dreamy blogger
"Human beings are unique, sometimes weirdly unique"- I guess I would use this phrase more aptly for myself. The reason to this self inflicted criticism is the way I this article came into existence. A perfectly balanced assignment became the base for my flights of fantasy!!
I know I am again being uniquely and weirdly incomprehensible, hence it is in best interest that I start elaborating from the very foundation of my thought.
Unfortunately or fortunately I am an extremely imaginative person. It does not at all take me seconds to detail a dramatic plot within this 20gms of a brain or something. All I need is a motivation. Such was the motivation during the workshop on participatory media, that despite my constant disciplinary teachings, my 20gm something decided to hatch a plot. It went as such-
“Bidisha Panda, ( I ) a student of Symbiosis Center for Information Technology, Pune was attending a seminar on ‘participatory media’. In more of a dramatic language I would hear, gleam and would surely become the mistress of internet’s revolutionary newspapers called Blogs and Pod casts. Such would be my enthusiasm over my newly acquired expertise that I would decide to start with a blog of my own. With the decision made, a new set of questions shall arise. What possibly could be the subject of the blog? Aaha!!! There it was shining bright on the projector screen. Why not! Oh why not should I start my own blog on SCIT? I already have this perfectly cute name for it too!! ‘bidisha4scit.someBlogServiceProvider.com ’. I would write on SCIT. About my daily classroom routines, lecture summaries, feedbacks and summation of seminars, my projects and research papers, the best presentations in a classroom, an interesting example stated by a professor, naughty pranks, share batch photographs, reminders for submissions for my dear classmates( shhh!!! including myself), oh and since I was senior I would also add something for my juniors -my various experiences at SCIT, my internship experience, paper patterns, tough papers to be concentrated on , easy papers which were like merry go rounds, and also warn them about strict teachers !!!.For the ones who were aspiring for SCIT, how the placement season was this year, what are the courses that are offered in our institute, the fees structure, the education environment etc. it would be a wonderful blogspot. A site which seniors and juniors, super seniors and super juniors all would visit and appreciate it alike. Comments would pour in. A thank you note here, and a note of reminiscence there, a query, or an additional informative piece- all would fill in my blog page! Having given back at least a part of what I have received from my SCIT, I would walk out into the world! What a beautiful day it would be. “
“Outside the real world would surround me; treat me as a professional but amidst all my new responsibilities I would not let go of my blogging interests. Every weekend I would write about my current job scenario, my newly discovered strengths, weaknesses, and the type of projects that I would be working on, entrepreneur idea’s that I would like to embrace. I would query other blogger’s on their expertise and add more information to my knowledge bank, appreciate people and suggest articles to my readers; before publishing my own thoughts I would phrase and rephrase them, be sure that what I am putting through is genuine and sensible enough. Oh my creative ideas would flow like a waterfall on those pages, and some day an affluent entrepreneur would find me, cherish me and turn one of my dreamy ideas into a possibility. I would be the cynosure of the entire world, a visionary, an achiever! All would be feasible just because I blogged. “– and thus ended the creation of my 20gm something.
Alas a dream shall be a dream, oh what a beautiful dream it would be to live! Well dreams are easy to dream but very difficult to achieve. It was so easy to live a fantasy within 500 words (approximately 50mins) but it would take an individual more than 5000 days to achieve the credibility of a true blogger- The impartial and genuine which would make people refer and follow you. It is tougher than what it seems but not impossible. The first step to achieving this is to dream, dreams of such an impossible possibility. Then what lies ahead is perseverance, exactly the way Kathy Sierra states in her blog- “The only thing standing between you-as-amateur and you-as-expert is dedication”
Wishing all the newbie bloggers the very best in their future endeavors-
Bidisha Panda,
SW June 2005-2007
Prn No : IT052029
( Bidisha.Panda@gmail.com)
A note: I have under no circumstances been deliberately sarcastic or critical about the enthusiasm of blogging. The above article is a child's imagination, the wings of flight of the child in me!!
What are Blogs?
Having heard the term previously but not having paid much attention most are just to afraid to show their ignorance and ask the question, what is a blog? Lets face it; the term blog does not conjure pleasant images.
Blogs are web logs that are updated regularly, usually on a daily basis. They contain information related to a specific topic. In some cases blogs are used as daily diaries about people's personal lives, political views, or even as social commentaries. The truth of the matter is that blogs can be shaped into whatever you, the author, want them to be.
Where Did Blogs Come From?
The roots of blogging can be traced back to the mid 1990's. Who the very first blogger actually was is unclear, as the art of blogging did not really take hold until 1999. The original "weblogs" were link-driven sites with personal commentaries. The very first blogs were human guided Internet web tours. While initially thought of as diaries or online journals, blogs have evolved into the latest fresh web content.
Blogs & Your Business
The bottom line is you need to determine how a blog will benefit your business, determine a schedule and adhere to it. Let your readers know what to expect and when to expect it. Blogs provide great supplemental content and direct attention to areas of your business that you want to showcase; you direct the content but let your readers guide you.The consumer and citizen are potentially better informed and this can only be good for the long-term health of our societies and economies. Blogs have potential to help the organization develop stronger relationships and brand loyalty with its customers, as they interact with the ‘human face’ of the organization through blogs. Blogs, in an intranet environment, can be an excellent way of sharing knowledge within the organization. Blogs can be a positive way of getting feedback, and keeping your finger on the pulse, as readers react to certain pieces, suggest story ideas, etc.
Blogs can build the profile of the writer, showcasing the organization as having talent and expertise.
HELPING EVERYBODY!!
1.Blogs are easy to create:
You don't need expensive or complicated web editors or web design software to create a blog. Blog vendors offer you a variety of templates you can choose from. Most likely you will find among them one that offers the look and feel you're looking for. Your only web design expense may very well be to pay a graphics artist to design an attractive logo that makes your site unique.
2.Blogs are easy to maintain:
Blog software allows you to post online, which means that you won't need to bother with FTP software. This also means that you can post anywhere, not just from your own computer. You may be in a hotel room in China, and if it has an internet connection you can log in and update your website from your web-based control panel. Your blog's software will automatically move your most recent post to the top, while archiving older posts by date or by topic, so you don't ever have to bother to move web pages around
3.Blogs are search-engine-friendly:
Since blogs assign each post an individual URL address, each of them will have it's own, separate web page. If you take care of making each post very focused on a specific topic and carefully choose the keywords that best describe your post (using them in the post title and post body), they will stand a very good chance of ranking well with the search engines. Also, since blogs tend to be updated regularly, search engines will crawl them often (search engines love fresh content), adding your new posts to their index.
4.Blogs allow you to interact with your customer base:
The best websites allow your customers to interact with you and give feedback. Since blogs offer you the option of enabling a "comments" field after your posts where readers can give you feedback, your visitors will not only be more inclined to come back, but you will have at your disposal an effective and inexpensive way to get to know your customers better.
What are Blogs?
Having heard the term previously but not having paid much attention most are just to afraid to show their ignorance and ask the question, what is a blog? Lets face it; the term blog does not conjure pleasant images.
Blogs are web logs that are updated regularly, usually on a daily basis. They contain information related to a specific topic. In some cases blogs are used as daily diaries about people's personal lives, political views, or even as social commentaries. The truth of the matter is that blogs can be shaped into whatever you, the author, want them to be.
Where Did Blogs Come From?
The roots of blogging can be traced back to the mid 1990's. Who the very first blogger actually was is unclear, as the art of blogging did not really take hold until 1999. The original "weblogs" were link-driven sites with personal commentaries. The very first blogs were human guided Internet web tours. While initially thought of as diaries or online journals, blogs have evolved into the latest fresh web content.
Blogs & Your Business
The bottom line is you need to determine how a blog will benefit your business, determine a schedule and adhere to it. Let your readers know what to expect and when to expect it. Blogs provide great supplemental content and direct attention to areas of your business that you want to showcase; you direct the content but let your readers guide you.The consumer and citizen are potentially better informed and this can only be good for the long-term health of our societies and economies. Blogs have potential to help the organization develop stronger relationships and brand loyalty with its customers, as they interact with the ‘human face’ of the organization through blogs. Blogs, in an intranet environment, can be an excellent way of sharing knowledge within the organization. Blogs can be a positive way of getting feedback, and keeping your finger on the pulse, as readers react to certain pieces, suggest story ideas, etc.
Blogs can build the profile of the writer, showcasing the organization as having talent and expertise.
HELPING EVERYBODY!!
1.Blogs are easy to create:
You don't need expensive or complicated web editors or web design software to create a blog. Blog vendors offer you a variety of templates you can choose from. Most likely you will find among them one that offers the look and feel you're looking for. Your only web design expense may very well be to pay a graphics artist to design an attractive logo that makes your site unique.
2.Blogs are easy to maintain:
Blog software allows you to post online, which means that you won't need to bother with FTP software. This also means that you can post anywhere, not just from your own computer. You may be in a hotel room in China, and if it has an internet connection you can log in and update your website from your web-based control panel. Your blog's software will automatically move your most recent post to the top, while archiving older posts by date or by topic, so you don't ever have to bother to move web pages around
3.Blogs are search-engine-friendly:
Since blogs assign each post an individual URL address, each of them will have it's own, separate web page. If you take care of making each post very focused on a specific topic and carefully choose the keywords that best describe your post (using them in the post title and post body), they will stand a very good chance of ranking well with the search engines. Also, since blogs tend to be updated regularly, search engines will crawl them often (search engines love fresh content), adding your new posts to their index.
4.Blogs allow you to interact with your customer base:
The best websites allow your customers to interact with you and give feedback. Since blogs offer you the option of enabling a "comments" field after your posts where readers can give you feedback, your visitors will not only be more inclined to come back, but you will have at your disposal an effective and inexpensive way to get to know your customers better.
What are Blogs?
Having heard the term previously but not having paid much attention most are just to afraid to show their ignorance and ask the question, what is a blog? Lets face it; the term blog does not conjure pleasant images.
Blogs are web logs that are updated regularly, usually on a daily basis. They contain information related to a specific topic. In some cases blogs are used as daily diaries about people's personal lives, political views, or even as social commentaries. The truth of the matter is that blogs can be shaped into whatever you, the author, want them to be.
Where Did Blogs Come From?
The roots of blogging can be traced back to the mid 1990's. Who the very first blogger actually was is unclear, as the art of blogging did not really take hold until 1999. The original "weblogs" were link-driven sites with personal commentaries. The very first blogs were human guided Internet web tours. While initially thought of as diaries or online journals, blogs have evolved into the latest fresh web content.
Blogs & Your Business
The bottom line is you need to determine how a blog will benefit your business, determine a schedule and adhere to it. Let your readers know what to expect and when to expect it. Blogs provide great supplemental content and direct attention to areas of your business that you want to showcase; you direct the content but let your readers guide you.The consumer and citizen are potentially better informed and this can only be good for the long-term health of our societies and economies. Blogs have potential to help the organization develop stronger relationships and brand loyalty with its customers, as they interact with the ‘human face’ of the organization through blogs. Blogs, in an intranet environment, can be an excellent way of sharing knowledge within the organization. Blogs can be a positive way of getting feedback, and keeping your finger on the pulse, as readers react to certain pieces, suggest story ideas, etc.
Blogs can build the profile of the writer, showcasing the organization as having talent and expertise.
HELPING EVERYBODY!!
1.Blogs are easy to create:
You don't need expensive or complicated web editors or web design software to create a blog. Blog vendors offer you a variety of templates you can choose from. Most likely you will find among them one that offers the look and feel you're looking for. Your only web design expense may very well be to pay a graphics artist to design an attractive logo that makes your site unique.
2.Blogs are easy to maintain:
Blog software allows you to post online, which means that you won't need to bother with FTP software. This also means that you can post anywhere, not just from your own computer. You may be in a hotel room in China, and if it has an internet connection you can log in and update your website from your web-based control panel. Your blog's software will automatically move your most recent post to the top, while archiving older posts by date or by topic, so you don't ever have to bother to move web pages around
3.Blogs are search-engine-friendly:
Since blogs assign each post an individual URL address, each of them will have it's own, separate web page. If you take care of making each post very focused on a specific topic and carefully choose the keywords that best describe your post (using them in the post title and post body), they will stand a very good chance of ranking well with the search engines. Also, since blogs tend to be updated regularly, search engines will crawl them often (search engines love fresh content), adding your new posts to their index.
4.Blogs allow you to interact with your customer base:
The best websites allow your customers to interact with you and give feedback. Since blogs offer you the option of enabling a "comments" field after your posts where readers can give you feedback, your visitors will not only be more inclined to come back, but you will have at your disposal an effective and inexpensive way to get to know your customers better.
What are Blogs?
Having heard the term previously but not having paid much attention most are just to afraid to show their ignorance and ask the question, what is a blog? Lets face it; the term blog does not conjure pleasant images.
Blogs are web logs that are updated regularly, usually on a daily basis. They contain information related to a specific topic. In some cases blogs are used as daily diaries about people's personal lives, political views, or even as social commentaries. The truth of the matter is that blogs can be shaped into whatever you, the author, want them to be.
Where Did Blogs Come From?
The roots of blogging can be traced back to the mid 1990's. Who the very first blogger actually was is unclear, as the art of blogging did not really take hold until 1999. The original "weblogs" were link-driven sites with personal commentaries. The very first blogs were human guided Internet web tours. While initially thought of as diaries or online journals, blogs have evolved into the latest fresh web content.
Blogs & Your Business
The bottom line is you need to determine how a blog will benefit your business, determine a schedule and adhere to it. Let your readers know what to expect and when to expect it. Blogs provide great supplemental content and direct attention to areas of your business that you want to showcase; you direct the content but let your readers guide you.The consumer and citizen are potentially better informed and this can only be good for the long-term health of our societies and economies. Blogs have potential to help the organization develop stronger relationships and brand loyalty with its customers, as they interact with the ‘human face’ of the organization through blogs. Blogs, in an intranet environment, can be an excellent way of sharing knowledge within the organization. Blogs can be a positive way of getting feedback, and keeping your finger on the pulse, as readers react to certain pieces, suggest story ideas, etc.
Blogs can build the profile of the writer, showcasing the organization as having talent and expertise.
HELPING EVERYBODY!!
1.Blogs are easy to create:
You don't need expensive or complicated web editors or web design software to create a blog. Blog vendors offer you a variety of templates you can choose from. Most likely you will find among them one that offers the look and feel you're looking for. Your only web design expense may very well be to pay a graphics artist to design an attractive logo that makes your site unique.
2.Blogs are easy to maintain:
Blog software allows you to post online, which means that you won't need to bother with FTP software. This also means that you can post anywhere, not just from your own computer. You may be in a hotel room in China, and if it has an internet connection you can log in and update your website from your web-based control panel. Your blog's software will automatically move your most recent post to the top, while archiving older posts by date or by topic, so you don't ever have to bother to move web pages around
3.Blogs are search-engine-friendly:
Since blogs assign each post an individual URL address, each of them will have it's own, separate web page. If you take care of making each post very focused on a specific topic and carefully choose the keywords that best describe your post (using them in the post title and post body), they will stand a very good chance of ranking well with the search engines. Also, since blogs tend to be updated regularly, search engines will crawl them often (search engines love fresh content), adding your new posts to their index.
4.Blogs allow you to interact with your customer base:
The best websites allow your customers to interact with you and give feedback. Since blogs offer you the option of enabling a "comments" field after your posts where readers can give you feedback, your visitors will not only be more inclined to come back, but you will have at your disposal an effective and inexpensive way to get to know your customers better.
What are Blogs?
Having heard the term previously but not having paid much attention most are just to afraid to show their ignorance and ask the question, what is a blog? Lets face it; the term blog does not conjure pleasant images.
Blogs are web logs that are updated regularly, usually on a daily basis. They contain information related to a specific topic. In some cases blogs are used as daily diaries about people's personal lives, political views, or even as social commentaries. The truth of the matter is that blogs can be shaped into whatever you, the author, want them to be.
Where Did Blogs Come From?
The roots of blogging can be traced back to the mid 1990's. Who the very first blogger actually was is unclear, as the art of blogging did not really take hold until 1999. The original "weblogs" were link-driven sites with personal commentaries. The very first blogs were human guided Internet web tours. While initially thought of as diaries or online journals, blogs have evolved into the latest fresh web content.
Blogs & Your Business
The bottom line is you need to determine how a blog will benefit your business, determine a schedule and adhere to it. Let your readers know what to expect and when to expect it. Blogs provide great supplemental content and direct attention to areas of your business that you want to showcase; you direct the content but let your readers guide you.The consumer and citizen are potentially better informed and this can only be good for the long-term health of our societies and economies. Blogs have potential to help the organization develop stronger relationships and brand loyalty with its customers, as they interact with the ‘human face’ of the organization through blogs. Blogs, in an intranet environment, can be an excellent way of sharing knowledge within the organization. Blogs can be a positive way of getting feedback, and keeping your finger on the pulse, as readers react to certain pieces, suggest story ideas, etc.
Blogs can build the profile of the writer, showcasing the organization as having talent and expertise.
HELPING EVERYBODY!!
1.Blogs are easy to create:
You don't need expensive or complicated web editors or web design software to create a blog. Blog vendors offer you a variety of templates you can choose from. Most likely you will find among them one that offers the look and feel you're looking for. Your only web design expense may very well be to pay a graphics artist to design an attractive logo that makes your site unique.
2.Blogs are easy to maintain:
Blog software allows you to post online, which means that you won't need to bother with FTP software. This also means that you can post anywhere, not just from your own computer. You may be in a hotel room in China, and if it has an internet connection you can log in and update your website from your web-based control panel. Your blog's software will automatically move your most recent post to the top, while archiving older posts by date or by topic, so you don't ever have to bother to move web pages around
3.Blogs are search-engine-friendly:
Since blogs assign each post an individual URL address, each of them will have it's own, separate web page. If you take care of making each post very focused on a specific topic and carefully choose the keywords that best describe your post (using them in the post title and post body), they will stand a very good chance of ranking well with the search engines. Also, since blogs tend to be updated regularly, search engines will crawl them often (search engines love fresh content), adding your new posts to their index.
4.Blogs allow you to interact with your customer base:
The best websites allow your customers to interact with you and give feedback. Since blogs offer you the option of enabling a "comments" field after your posts where readers can give you feedback, your visitors will not only be more inclined to come back, but you will have at your disposal an effective and inexpensive way to get to know your customers better.
What are Blogs?
Having heard the term previously but not having paid much attention most are just to afraid to show their ignorance and ask the question, what is a blog? Lets face it; the term blog does not conjure pleasant images.
Blogs are web logs that are updated regularly, usually on a daily basis. They contain information related to a specific topic. In some cases blogs are used as daily diaries about people's personal lives, political views, or even as social commentaries. The truth of the matter is that blogs can be shaped into whatever you, the author, want them to be.
Where Did Blogs Come From?
The roots of blogging can be traced back to the mid 1990's. Who the very first blogger actually was is unclear, as the art of blogging did not really take hold until 1999. The original "weblogs" were link-driven sites with personal commentaries. The very first blogs were human guided Internet web tours. While initially thought of as diaries or online journals, blogs have evolved into the latest fresh web content.
Blogs & Your Business
The bottom line is you need to determine how a blog will benefit your business, determine a schedule and adhere to it. Let your readers know what to expect and when to expect it. Blogs provide great supplemental content and direct attention to areas of your business that you want to showcase; you direct the content but let your readers guide you.The consumer and citizen are potentially better informed and this can only be good for the long-term health of our societies and economies. Blogs have potential to help the organization develop stronger relationships and brand loyalty with its customers, as they interact with the ‘human face’ of the organization through blogs. Blogs, in an intranet environment, can be an excellent way of sharing knowledge within the organization. Blogs can be a positive way of getting feedback, and keeping your finger on the pulse, as readers react to certain pieces, suggest story ideas, etc.
Blogs can build the profile of the writer, showcasing the organization as having talent and expertise.
HELPING EVERYBODY!!
1.Blogs are easy to create:
You don't need expensive or complicated web editors or web design software to create a blog. Blog vendors offer you a variety of templates you can choose from. Most likely you will find among them one that offers the look and feel you're looking for. Your only web design expense may very well be to pay a graphics artist to design an attractive logo that makes your site unique.
2.Blogs are easy to maintain:
Blog software allows you to post online, which means that you won't need to bother with FTP software. This also means that you can post anywhere, not just from your own computer. You may be in a hotel room in China, and if it has an internet connection you can log in and update your website from your web-based control panel. Your blog's software will automatically move your most recent post to the top, while archiving older posts by date or by topic, so you don't ever have to bother to move web pages around
3.Blogs are search-engine-friendly:
Since blogs assign each post an individual URL address, each of them will have it's own, separate web page. If you take care of making each post very focused on a specific topic and carefully choose the keywords that best describe your post (using them in the post title and post body), they will stand a very good chance of ranking well with the search engines. Also, since blogs tend to be updated regularly, search engines will crawl them often (search engines love fresh content), adding your new posts to their index.
4.Blogs allow you to interact with your customer base:
The best websites allow your customers to interact with you and give feedback. Since blogs offer you the option of enabling a "comments" field after your posts where readers can give you feedback, your visitors will not only be more inclined to come back, but you will have at your disposal an effective and inexpensive way to get to know your customers better.
blog (blŏg)
noun
a shared on-line journal where people can post diary entries about their personal experiences and hobbies; "postings on a blog are usually in chronological order" [syn: web log]
verb
read, write, or edit a shared on-line journal
Up until a few months back, the above was all I knew about blogging, till I, on a whim, clicked on a link to a blog of one of my friends, Mr. Umesh Gopinath (http://blog.umeshgopinath.com/). I had known this friend for quite sometime now and thought that I knew everything about him, but as I read more and more of his blog I realized I knew very little. My curiosity made me parse through the site and find out a lot about his life, personal and professional. In my further interaction with him and his blogs, I found out how he has used his blogs as a tool to network with people across the globe for personal and professional purposes.
Alms for the blogger…
Blogs have emerged as a new channel for an organization to promote its public relations/publicity, customer service, leadership, and business technology and increase its span of influence. Knowledge is power, the more knowledge a client/vendor has about your organization, the more empowered he will feel. A Corporate blog can help an organization develop relationships with numerous prospective clients and vendors. Trust, faith and loyalty are the founding stones of any relationship, and a corporate blog is a psychologically powerful way of building afore mentioned factors. The reasons are simple and straightforward; by giving out information about the organization, its goals, the progress, we are providing the transparency all clients/vendors look for. Also, by allowing to comment on the blog we make them feel like a part of our organization. By inviting comments the visitor’s sense of importance is validated, this participation makes them feel incharge. Consultants or freelancers can use it to position themselves as experts and draw more business. They can advertise their products and services via their blog, or they can simply promote stuff they like, because potential clients also get attracted to the personality of an organization/individual. The biggest advantage, however, is that it is an economical way of removing the intermediary between the client and the business, i.e., a professional can simply update his blog rather than waiting for his web-designer to do so. The blog can act as his personal web page.
For Conventional Classroom teaching, the bell tolls …
Blogs has proved to be a boon for the education sector in this age of technology because it has been effectively used for Knowledge Management. The use of blogs has come a long way from the time professors just posted ‘homework’. It has become more interactive with students participating and sharing knowledge by commenting on a blog by the professor, it also bridges the gap between the teaching methodology of the professor and the learning preferences of the students. This method increases participation and generates a two-way dialogue which will help the whole class. Blogs can be a powerful tool for distance learning. Use of blogs is a mutually benefiting way of learning. I feel it is a good medium for interaction between the students and industry experts.
With great power comes great responsibility’
– Spiderman’s Uncle
There is no other medium for an individual where the whole world can be his audience, the thought is both exciting and sobering, and it inculcates a sense of responsibility on the part of the blogger.
People might tell you a thousand things about blogs but what goes unnoticed is that they can play a huge role in the personality development of a student. The reasons are simple, one feels empowered, involved and responsible when given a medium like blogging in their hands. People use it to share their opinion on anything from current affairs, social events and causes to politics, showbiz; it acts as an open forum where a perspective is formed through global interaction.
A special mention goes out to the other participatory media, e.g., vlogs, podcasts, photoblogs because they can play an able side-kick to MR.BLOG (the superhero, if u please).
I would like to conclude by repeating what a famous man once said:
‘BLOG: One small step for man, A GAINT LEAP FOR MAN-MIND’
– Anurag ‘Niel Armstrong’ Varma
Anurag Varma
ITO52020
ITBM.
The first thing that I did to know more about blogs was to google the meaning of blogs. It came up with a wide range of definitions like “it's an online journal comprised of links and postings in reverse chronological order, meaning the most recent posting appears at the top of the page”, “an on-line diary or frequently updated personal web page” etc etc.
I feel it is not just the capture of knowledge or information but the capture of people’s thoughts. I would define a blog as an online library of thoughts - documenting current thoughts. to reflect and to converse with others.
It is an excellent way of showcasing your talents to the world and is the closest you can get to having yourself in words. The great beauty of blogs is their versatility. They cater for a wide diversity of interests and uses and there is no rule that states a blog has to be owned and operated by an individual.
Writers of blogs, called bloggers, can add to the sum total of knowledge for research projects, share industry and product knowledge, capture and disseminate pertinent news from outside the enterprise, and contribute valuable insights on specific subjects
Let me share my first experience with blogging. During my internship, I was involved in a project where I had to find out what people from the industry and academic background thought about software architecture as a profession. Since such information was not readily available, I thought I would have to interview people or send questionnaires to the concerned persons to get such information. I even interviewed some people and sent questionnaires but it was becoming very tedious and I had limited time. Then I came across blogs on software architecture where I found around 100 people sharing their experience and opinions on software architecture. The amount and quality of information was so great that I could not have found them in any of the books or in any discussion. This is because here not only did I get a chance to know others people’s opinion but also ask them doubts that I had and discuss and share my work with them. In return I gained some valuable suggestions for my work, which helped me to do my work much more effectively.
Blogs helps in
Knowing yourself - It is observed that when we write we tend to think more than when we speak. So this will help a person to reflect upon his personality and improve himself. When new to a subject, the extra thought time that blogging provides can really help students sort through some of the issues in our own head, before providing them for all to see. Writing a blog assists because it forces a person to confront their own opinions and contemplate how their views might be interpreted and reflected upon by others. This makes a person more responsible.
Broaden your knowledge - Life is all about learning. A blog can provide up to date information about anything; be it about technology, art, poetry, psychology anything. By participating in the discussions a person can learn a whole lot more about other things apart from what is there in his curriculum/area of expertise.
Eliminate barriers - It is the best way for a person who generally does not express his views in the public, to share his with rest of the world.
Create empathy-look at things from others perspective
Learn from other people’s experience - If all the seniors at SCIT start sharing their experience during their internship and at SCIT, the juniors would benefit a lot from it. Lets say If seniors paste their presentations, class room material, learning’s, problems they faced on a topic, questions expected in a particular exam etc then juniors do not have to look anywhere else to get the information. This will not only help juniors but also create a knowledge base where any one can go back and retrieve the information they want.
Get the expert opinion - we can interact with the industry people and learn more about how the industry is booming and the current industry requirements as through this we can correlate with what we are studying and what is happening in the industry. We can also get expert opinion on any topic, which interests us.
Establishing and maintaining a network
Improve your skills - While writing blogs we not only improve our writing skills but also our thought process and interpersonal skills (how we react to others comments). Blogs develops skills among active participants in critical thinking and argument creation.
Document your thoughts - We generally do not remember what went through our minds a while ago. So it is good to document the thoughts, which we would like to come back to and think about them later.
Share your new ideas and opinions with others – you can share your ideas with others and get their feedback. This way you can test your idea before implementing it.
Make it as a portfolio that will help you showcase your skills and help in the job market. Blogs, in an intranet environment, can be an excellent way of sharing knowledge within the organization. The customers can be targeted efficiently and can be potentially better informed through blogs.
At its best, blogging is all about change. Link to everyone and change the world with your thoughts……..
K Shivani
IT052055
Systems
Submitted By:
Manpreet Chaddha
PGDM - NITI(2005-07)
Kindly visit my blog "Thought Garden" (meet-mann.blogspot.com) and follow the post "Why do I blog?"
Happy Blogging...
Interactive web-access has led to the growth in blogging, a process whereby authors publicly post messages, respond to others, and are allowed to publicly offer their thinking to the public.In the beginning of 2004, there were an estimated 3.8 to 4.5 million weblog sites in existence, created by both individuals and institutions . Weblogging has its greatest instructional potential for those who maintain a weblog throughout their college careers, using it as a knowledge log and personal content management system . Blogging has emerged among a variety of web-based instructional possibilities as a leader, in part because it allows students the ability to interact in a more public venue, sharing their thoughts, ideas, interpretations, hopes, and fears with anyone willing to spend time looking on the internet . According to the research its clear that a large number of students in the age group of 6 –22 spend a lot of time on the internet every day, for them blogging might be an effective tool for supporting college level instruction.
Blogging as a process is different from other forms of search-retrieve-comment on discussion boards, as the blog is open to the wider public to view. This ability to be read by a wide variety of people requires the writer, or ‘blogger,’ to present their thoughts in a way that perhaps more accurately reflects personal views or arguments. Because of this personal nature, students are afforded the opportunity to reflect on what they are learning and share personal views and opinions. As students are conducting research into content areas that they are studying, they can add hyperlinks to articles, URLs, or other research into their blog to aid visitors in understanding the development of their conceptualizations. Blogs helps students become subject-matter experts, increases student interest and ownership in learning, gives students legitimate chances to participate, and provides opportunities for diverse perspectives both inside and out of the classroom. Blogging also help students in their research work. They can collect the views of different people through comments on blogs. Weblogging is perhaps the easiest way to get students writing online in an electronic space that is outside of courseware,
We can also make money through blogging. Advertising perhaps is the most obvious changes in the past few months have been with the addition of a variety of viable advertising options for bloggers. No longer are bloggers only presented with the Adsense and/or BlogAds choice, instead they now have a massive array to choose from. For the past one year RSS advertising is also emerging as money making option for the professionals. Sponsorship is also a way to make money through blogging. It is happening on a post-by-post basis with some bloggers being paid to write on certain topics by companies either in one off or a regular fashion.
Increasing numbers of bloggers have been developing other digital assets to support and add revenue streams to their blogs. By this I mean that we are increasingly seeing e-books, courses and tele-seminars being run by bloggers. I have seen numerous examples of bloggers running courses. With the rise in popularity of Blog Networks bloggers are also being presented with more places to earn an income from their blogging by writing for and with others. As blogging has risen in it’s profile as a medium more and more businesses are starting blogs. Many of these companies have internal staff take on blogging duties but an increasing number of them are hiring specialist bloggers to come on and run their blogs. Also becoming more common are bloggers being hired to write in non-blogging mediums. As bloggers are increasingly being approached to write for newspapers, magazines and other non blog websites.
Tip Jars and donation buttons have been a part of blogging for years now but this last year saw a number of bloggers go full time after fundraising drives.Blogger can sell merchandise through their blogs for example they cab sell T-shirts through their blogs. While it has been popular for established consultants to add blogs to their businesses we’re also starting to see bloggers with no consulting background earning money by charging readers for their time in consulting scenarios.So these are the present possible way through which blogger can earn money. As we discussed earlier that blogging is also use full for students. This advance technology is has a bright future.
Divya
IT052042-NITI
SCIT
That’s what keeps the wheel of knowledge moving- Keeping in Touch & Sharing Information. You shouldn’t stay cocooned in your own small world of what’s happening immediately around you while rest of the word whizzes past. Go out there, and find new ways of spinning the wheel of your knowledge while striving to strengthen your intellect. Do something different, individualize yourself with something distinctive and for doing things differently one need to have a better understanding of the subject. Conversation is a way to enrich understanding. If you give to the world the best you have, the best will come back to you.
Blogging, a new media technology like other participatory media facilitates this conversation, where various participants can discuss & share their thoughts over the topics that interest them in common. Wikipedia says- A Blog is a user generated website where entries are made in journal style & displayed in a reverse chronological order, but according to me its much more than what people in general think; its about how much you know & share about a topic & what others think about the same.
Blogging is not just writing a comment, its about expressing oneself, & telling others what you think be is it related to anything in the universe.
Blogging facilitates the informal learning, as participants share their experiences, their knowledge & by communicating with then & reading their blogs & learning from the same.
Blogging can be helpful for all including students & budding professionals, anybody who’s a budding professional or a student always want to achieve success, for which one have to Strive for the Ultimate & face every Challenges of life with Courage & make sincere Efforts to Scale great heights & Succeed in all sphere of life, and in process of achieving success. Blogging acts as a catalyst. If you as a student know something about something which others might not know just blog it, there is a chance that in sometime you’ll know everything about everything. As a budding professional one can have theoretical knowledge about the practices in corporate world, but via blogs you can learn about the various practicalities of the corporate world from people blogging about their experiences. The students & professionals rely on internet & see it as a portal of information available worldwide, in addition to this I would like to quote that Blogging is a journal of information, expression, emotions, experience & much more, that too available worldwide.
Students working on different projects & researches etc can blog their area of concern & can get new inputs from other bloggers on the same. Blogging is now-a-days becoming so popular that students, professionals & people in general can see many benefits of it like sharing views, thoughts & learning, enhancing the skills in the area of interest. Its not just a platform for conversation rather it has also been a platform to show your talent and share new ideas. Today many tiny ideas have been built on after blogging & getting feedback from bloggers.
The world of blogging is not small, and space on web for this world to survive is infinite, so the beginners can learn a lot from the people in this world. Blogging can also be considered as a source of earning cash, knowledge & information. Blogging is the best teacher for any student; student can post their doubts & get the solutions to them as feedback and comments from other bloggers. Through blogging one can stay connected to millions of bloggers 27/7 & 365 days continuously sharing information & enhancing ones knowledge base.
Not just blogging, other participatory media like podcasts, webcasts etc are also fulfilling similar purposes. Podcasts being a small downloadable audio-video clip can be highly informative on a relevant topic for students & professionals.
Thus to conclude I would like to say that now the students & professional need not just rely on Google, or other physical sources for information rather Blogging and other participatory media can be looked upon as a source of information enhancing ones knowledge of any concern.
MONIKA GOYAL
PGDM- ITBM
IT052070
SCIT
(email: monika.itbm@gmail.com)
BLOGS.....A TOTAL CRAP??
How on earth do people have time for such nonsense stuff!!
Why can't they talk to their friends or other people around them, instead of asking the whole world?? Isn't the human or emotional touch going away from this kind of communication??
That's what I used to think earlier about blogs.
But my views regarding blogs have changed drastically.
Guess what, I have started blogging......but not big time.
And a little bit credit goes to Sabeer Bhatia.
Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhatia has launched an Internet-based toolbar, Blogeverywhere.com that enhances the speed and functionality of e-mail browsing and allows users to post their comments on any website in the world.
Say for example, you visit www.rediff.com, and like an article that's posted on their website. You want others to read the same thing. It's like spreading the good word. What do you do? You can simply write your comments about that article on the toolbar. So whoever has downloaded that toolbar and visits www.rediff.com will be able to see your comments posted.
BlogEverywhere is a simple way for you to log your thoughts and comments on any web page. It enables you to have a conversation with other readers of that page.
One can get reviews from others on topics ranging from movies, sports, music........the list goes on.
I was a little dicey about watching the movie Swadesh. I got a mixed reaction from my friends. But I took the risk of watching it. And did I like the movie?? I simply loved it and watched the movie twice!! I immediately posted my views on the net. I wanted everyone to watch and admire the movie.
On a serious note…… Blogs can be more fruitful / helpful than this. It can help change one's attitude towards life or society. One's confidence can get boosted because of blogs. Sometimes one feels secluded from one's peer groups. It may prove to be disheartening for that person. After all man/woman is a social animal. How long can a person stay away from society? But then what can he do? Blogs can come to a rescue. Really!! He/She can post their frustration or comments on the net. Similar thoughts can be prevalent elsewhere. Blogs help to connect the two people, or more. Thus they form a group and express their views on a common topic. The person starts feeling a sense of belonging towards society / life. This is necessary for the person to overcome depression.
For students, blogs can be of great help. They can discuss on topics of their interest with people around the world. This will help them to be updated about new developments. A lot of knowledge can be shared and gained through this. It’s better than cramping books. This will help in one’s research projects.
For budding professionals, blogs can prove useful too. It can help them be aware about new developments in the industry.
Many websites provide space to create your own blog space. This can act as your resume and let people know more about yourself.
Till now I have used blogs only for entertainment and general purpose (commenting on social issues...etc). I didn't feel the need for academic purpose. But I know for sure, whenever I feel the need, blogs will be there!! So happy blogging.......
Sanjiv Mahato (sanjivmahato@gmail.com)
IT052106
NITI
Beauty of thought will go unnoticed until you express it. It is important to express your thoughts and views so that the whole world can admire the beauty of your thought. The power of expression lies in the way you express yourself or various means/media you adopt to express yourself. Internet has given the people the power to express themselves freely without any fear or inhibition through various participatory media and enabled the whole new world of blogging to change the way people express themselves.
Blogging, as defined in various sites, is a process where authors publicly post messages, respond to others and are allowed to publicly offer their thinking to the public. Blog is an abbreviation of word weblog and is one of the several outcomes of the interactive web access. Today there are around 60 million blogs on the internet which show how much blogging has penetrated into our life.
Participatory media such as blogs where we can exchange our point of view with the world and not just immediate environment is a very powerful media where one can express his views on various issues, can write about his or her experiences, talk about new and emerging technologies, share various learning with the outer world, can add hyperlinks to articles, URLs, or other research into the blog to aid visitors in understanding his views on particular subject.
Earlier I was not much fascinated by the blogs. But during my pilot project where we were to prepare a business plan for CRM consultancy firm, my group members decided to create a blog that will help us to be in constant touch with one another and also remain in contact with our mentor and get his valuable feedback regularly. It was during this time that I realized the importance of blogs and power of the participatory media as we used to interact with our mentor using that blog and also we were getting some valuable suggestions from various friends who visited the blog.
As I mentioned earlier, blogging is a self expression where you can freely share your ideas, interests, topics and learnings. For a student blogging can be very helpful as it gives them a platform to express themselves freely without any fear and also knowing other people views on a particular topic. It is very easy to express and share your knowledge with outer world using blogs without putting in much effort as you can directly publish your articles on the internet. Also readers can post their comments on your article and hence provide you with the valuable feedback which can help you understand your talents and weakness and hence maximize the learning experience. Thus you can get valuable feedback from a large no. of people across the globe, thus increasing your sphere of interaction.
Blogging can help students in their learning process by stimulating various ideas and improving their creativity. Also it provides the platform whereby student can express what is being learned in the classroom to the real world. Thus blogging can help overcome the fear of expressing yourself outside of the safe environment of the classroom.
The use of blogs helps students become subject-matter experts, increases student interest and ownership in learning, gives students legitimate chances to participate, and provides opportunities for diverse perspectives both inside and out of the classroom. - (‘The Perceived Benefits of Instructional Blogging’ - William F. Brescia, Jr., Michael T. Miller)
The whole idea of blogging revolves around free expression and with all the benefits that students can get out of it can help them to continuously improve themselves and evolve as professionals. The kind of reach blogs can provide you, not any other media can even think of coming near to it, thanks to internet. Thus internet has provided us with a tool through which we can share anything we want, can write about anything we like, can comment on anything, get opportunity to interact with such a large internet community, without any inhibition or knowing any boundaries. SO START EXPRESSING…
SACHIN AWASTHI
ITBM – IT052103
SCIT
(email: sach.awasthi@gmail.com)
Blog – Share it… Gain it
Blog, the latest epidemic that has struck the mankind off late and for countless people this is on the top of their "Crush List" (including me… be aware guys!!!). It is a medium for freely sharing your ideas and to be tweaked by others can create all sorts of opportunities for deeper learning.
As it address all kind of audience, like student to share the knowledge, businessman to improve his business etc. what has also helped is that the comments have worked as a feedback and acts as an imperative for any improvement. Blogs can make this easy.
I came to know about blogging during my interns, where in the initial days I hardly did something. I use to read my friends blog where they wrote about their daily happenings. Though it started like this, when I actually started exploring about blogs I found lot of interesting things which helps the budding professionals. Out of Various types of blogs, in organizational type we have,
- Internal Blogs - owned by company & exposed to all employees only.
- External Blogs - third party blogging sites like blogger.com, wordpress.com etc.
1. Post information about their competitors that includes, about the feature set they offer, their USP, mode of marketing (tie-ups, partnerships if any) and more importantly about the licensing and pricing models they adapt. it could also provide details about their revenue courtesy to yahoo & google finance. Acts as a centralized point for expression views among geographically dispersed individuals.
2. Servers as a medium to discuss about the issues faced and arrive at a best possible solution.
3. To certain extent "Top Management" can track the growth and development of ideas in a single location. This would help in generating ideas for new avenues & birth of new products.
4. Share about their experience regarding their recent visits to customer site and how their solutions are been deployed and used to debug their problems in real time.
5. It is great for recording the development and progress of projects.
6. To post details about the latest technological developments in the market etc.
Apart form the above it, inherently opens up the boring formal mode of communication that prevails in the organizations to a simpler, informal mode that appeals to many young employees. They will often turn to Internal blogs before looking for more “formal” channels of information.
For Students
As many of the above friends (shahbudin) discussed, blogging can help them in knowing the current trends, and the outside world.
1. First of all,if we struck in any problems, you can share it with the rest of the world and the feedback that you get might solve the problem easily.
2. It helps to think us, which means after understanding you will express it in your way. Indirectly it helps the person to think critically.
3. Also, during the workshop as parag sir mentioned blogging would be the excellent way to showcase the talents.
4. Sharing his /her (seniors/alumini) work experience ,knowledge,in the company can direct them (juniors) for correct decision.
Above all, once expressed it reach out to millions there. They are used to discover by layman and it speaks about your interest and attitude. If you have a blog you stand a better chance of being discovered by someone.
Vinothika
IT043016
PGDM(SDM)
Blogging…A new dimension to learning
Want to be a part of the spectrum of creativity?? What do you look for, just a few things - thoughts, creativity, fanaticism to express, whether it is expressing yourself through your voice, through your visual gesticulation or most common and popular mode "writing", and the electronic media is in front of you with oodles of approach to put it in front of the millions of users online any moment, any time. This is what is as a result of New Media as part of the Emerging Trends.
Whether it is student communication, knowledge contented release, student guiding, expert growth, teamwork or information management, blogs can make a difference everywhere.
"A recurrent, sequential journal of individual belief and Web Links"- Perhaps this is what a blog is. Thoughts flow without a glitch, and so do blogs come everywhere!!
Talk of any topic, whether it is Company blogs, Sports blogs, Marketing blogs, Finance blogs, Funny blogs, Movie blogs, Shopping blogs, Podcasting, Videoblogs, Music blogs, Complaining blogs, NGO blogs… blogs are everywhere with all the types of fulfillment of necessities one has.
You can find blog on any topic you want, name it and you have it. You can find blogging on cooking to painting.
For more information on blogging click here
Blogs, Students and Budding Professional
The creation of experimental project blogs and letting it go online, or the use of blogs as learning journals or semi-structured interviews to gain information and views about user satisfaction and analysis, blogs and the opportunity both exists for the communication at either ends.
What ever new you want to look for, online industry and Internet research is in front of you to give the latest information and share your views to get it better. Just add clients to your roster and expand much faster than initially expected in anything you do and get best of everything.
Staying on the cutting edge of technology, presenting webcasts and podcasts is also a way out. Now experiencing the world of podcasts provided, just have an iPod, iShuffle, or other MP3 player and stay connected.
Want to go professional through blogging – Here are the ways that blog can get money for you and helps in advertising. Get paid for Post.Bloggers from certain region. Everyone is eligible for it. BlogBurst, the blog content syndication service owned by Pluck, is one among many who are paying bloggers and giving blogging altogether a different edge. It helps to promote web site, product, service, or company through the network of bloggers.
Few Universities have introduced weblogging as part of its curriculum for their new media course. It is acknowledged with the same doses of bouquets and brickbats.
Although considering the positive instances till now, there are many blogs that are often rarely updated, boring or filled with useless rubbish, but finding a few which are generally interesting and gives a good picture of what you are looking for is really helpful. But at the same instance, some professionals have found that blogs are posing a significant threat to corporate reputations stating that disgruntled employee pose certain threats through these measures. Some of them even attracting legal actions.
Whatever are the cons but blogging is an interactive form of information sharing.
So go ahead and start writing now.
You can find the list of terms related to blogging click here
Prasun Kumar Singh
PRN. NO. IT052087
prasun.singh@yahoo.com
Submitted by:
Dhawal K. Sharma
PGDM (NITI-2005-07)
PR NO- IT052040
please visit my blog site,D.H.A.W.A.L.
http://dhawal-heartz.blogspot.com/
and refer to the post
"How can Blogging help students and budding professionals?"
Regards Dhawal
Blog…
Heard about it many a times but the word it self was unable to catch my attention.
On December 13th, 2006, Gartner, Inc. released 10 key predictions that showcase the trends and events that will change the nature of business and IT in 2007 and beyond. These predictions are for general technology areas rather than specific to industries or roles within an organization.
And Guess what…This year’s predictions include:
The peak number of bloggers will be around 100 million at some point in the first half of 2007.Less than 2% of all Internet users are frequent content contributors, while between 10% and 15% contribute occasionally and more than 50% are reading or watching what the communities are discussing, Gartner reports.
Traditionally blogs have been used for social purposes, such as communicating with friends and family members, but now-a-days people are realizing that blogs have very useful business applications.
Jack Welch of GE says: “We soon discovered how essential it is for a multibusiness company to become an open, learning organization. The ultimate competitive advantage lies in an organization's ability to learn and to rapidly transform that learning into action. And, in GE's boundary less learning culture, the operative assumption is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has that better idea, learn it, and put it into action fast.”
Someone, somewhere, has a better idea, may or may not. So, why not to find out? Why not to put into an action?
Human intelligence involves gathering, formulating, modifying, and applying effective knowledge --often in the form of ideas, images, sensations, patterns of response and sense-making .A process we refer to with words like learning, problem solving, planning, visioning, intuition, understanding, creativity, etc. So,a talking community can create the healthiest environment in the decision making process with collective intelligence of the elite crowd. It will speed up the transference and transformation of knowledge to make ideas flow easily and take learning into action.
What I think, blogging can be stated as an Online public dissemination tool that facilitates two-way communication anywhere anytime!
A blog is a combination of textual information, audio and video contents, links, links to different blogs etc It’s a tool that formalise your thought process. It allows for easy creation of new pages-new data is entered into a simple form (usually with the title, the category, and the body of the article) and then submitted. It helps in complete understanding of the subject when it is written in your own words (or language). It’s not only about writing, but it gives you options to audio and visualizations too. Yes, I am referring to pod casts and web casts.
According to Rosabeth Moss Cantor “To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.”
To put your ideas in words is somewhat more important, both for students and budding professionals; blogging is an open unbiased platform to share the huge knowledge pool. Some of the benefits can be listed as-
Most important is that it allows easy filtering of content for various presentations -by date, category, author, or other attributes.
Blogs are becoming a new place to post your resumes. Company executives check out the blogs and deserved budding professionals might get their dream company.
Many professionals use blogs as a tool to develop their careers and promote themselves, to create their identity on Internet.
Blogs can also help students in keeping them updated about all the recent happenings across the world as in seminars and guest lectures.
Acts as a diary or area for recording events and topics that one is interested in.
Networking - connecting with local developers and business people.
Internal Collaboration: project members keep each other updated without the need to write reports or through email.
A blog environment creates practically any number of small or large virtual meetings that community members can participate at any time of the day (or night). Anybody can share their views regarding political issues with complete freedom. It refines the thought process for a public audience. It allows integrating conversations with a shared vision.It improves participation spirit, collaboration, and the capabilities of team learning. Students can debate and discuss on technical and non-technical topics also. It is easy to implement and maintain.
As blogs are open to the community, besides demarcation of boundaries,cast and creed, it helps in uniting the world(people) together on a common and comfortable platform.
So,everybody is invited here to share your knowledge and ideas .
I really appreciate the initiative taken by Mr. Parag Shah who has taken our workshop on “New media and technology” and let us to get an insight into world of blogging.
Deepika Bansal
ITBM (IT052037)
A couple of months back; I had a black and Pessimistic picture of a blog. I used to think that it’s just wastage of time and hence never even thought of writing a blog as there were many other important things to do. Sooner or later I found out that Blogs can be very informative too, though there are many people who couldn’t properly understand its use.
Thereafter I started reading a lot on and of blogs.
It is now that I could find out what actually a blog is and its use for students (in terms of learning) and many budding professionals. I found out that a blog is a website where entries are displayed in a chronological order, so that the most recent posts appear at the top of the page.
For students, the most important thing in the current environment is that they need to be very creative in order to be successful in their fields. Creativity happens a lot between people. By connecting and conversing with others students and budding professionals would encounter new ideas and refine their old ones. The most important learning is that one can clarify a lot of his thinking by writing blog posts and responding to feedback from others. And, since learning is a continuous process, so he keeps learning a huge amount from other bloggers on a daily basis about technology, ideas, business and people.
Another good reason why students can blog is, for fun. Although blogging involves a lot of work, it can be quite enjoyable too. While working on your blog, you’ll discover a lot of pleasure in creating a valuable resource for yourself and others. And if you like talking to interesting and stimulating people, you’ll connect with plenty of them via your blog.
From a business perspective, we can say that a blog tends to increase your visibility. By writing a blog and putting one’s ideas on the web he can make himself more visible, not just to other bloggers but to anyone using the web for business or pleasure. When you are talking and networking with talented people in your industry or related fields, there is a good chance that ideas and opportunities for collaboration may emerge from the discussion. This is another way in which blogging could help professionals in a big way. They help in building up your business. Blogs are actually not the place for hard-sell messages, rather they are about sharing useful information and interesting ideas. But many bloggers report that the more they give out, the more they receive in return whether customers, clients, collaborators or other useful contacts.
By interacting with others online one can connect with a large number of people and expanding the network of contacts far beyond a given geographical location and usual social circle. You don’t need to be a programmer or web developer to write your own material. Once you’ve installed the blogging software on your web space, it takes care of most of the technical side of things, leaving you free to concentrate on the text, images, sounds and video you are publishing.
YOGESH ARORA
ITBM-IT0138
Blogging – What’s on your mind??
That’s what blogging is all about!! definition of blogging –
“A blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person's life and what is happening on the Web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site, although there are as many unique types of blogs as there are people".
Blog is all about blogging. It could be better explained as a platform for sharing thoughts and views over common interest and involve in a kind of a discussion with others. Such interactivity leads to greater learning among the participants. The basic advantage of such a learning style is the depth of exploration and the revealed insights of the topic being talked about Blogs are becoming a new place to post your resumes. Company executives check out the blogs and deserved budding professionals might get their dream company. Then they can share some talks about business and networking tips. Few years ago if some one wanted to slag off their boss he/she used to do it among their friends or in parties only behind their boss’s back but today people stick it up on their blog. So it is a place to put your true feelings and let others know about them. Many professionals use blogs as a tool to develop their careers and promote themselves. Blogs can be a perfect place to create your self as a thought leader. The two also happen to have a symbiotic relationship: Blogs make content creation more accessible, and aggregators give greater control to readers of the ongoing proliferation of Web-based content. These tools are gaining attention in the media and the marketplace and hold great promise to transform the way the Web works. They are also starting to make inroads within corporations as collaborative and content management tools that can be used in conjunction with existing systems or as replacements.
Blogs are probably the easiest way to have a website. With blog software, it literally takes minutes to have a professional looking site up and running. These are the five things I like the most about blogs:
Blogs are easy to create:
You don't need expensive or complicated web editors or web design software to create a blog. Blog vendors offer you a variety of templates you can choose from. Most likely you will find among them one that offers the look and feel you're looking for. Your only web design expense may very well be to pay a graphics artist to design an attractive logo that makes your site unique.
Blogs are easy to maintain:
Blog software allows you to post online, which means that you won't need to bother with FTP software. This also means that you can post anywhere, not just from your own computer. You may be in a hotel room in China, and if it has an internet connection you can log in and update your website from your web-based control panel. Your blog's software will automatically move your most recent post to the top, while archiving older posts by date or by topic, so you don't ever have to bother to move web pages around.
Blogs are search-engine-friendly:
Since blogs assign each post an individual URL address, each of them will have it's own, separate web page. If you take care of making each post very focused on a specific topic and carefully choose the keywords that best describe your post (using them in the post title and post body), they will stand a very good chance of ranking well with the search engines. Also, since blogs tend to be updated regularly, search engines will crawl them often (search engines love fresh content), adding your new posts to their index.
Blogs allow you to interact with your customer base:
The best websites allow your customers to interact with you and give feedback. Since blogs offer you the option of enabling a "comments" field after your posts where readers can give you feedback, your visitors will not only be more inclined to come back, but you will have at your disposal an effective and inexpensive way to get to know your customers better.
Many great blog hosts are free:
There are several excellent services that offer blog hosting for free. The most well known of them is Blogger, a free blog service owned by Google. Signing up takes minutes, it offers many different templates and customization options, and also gives you the option of tying your blog with your Google Adsense account. That way, not only is the service free, but you can also make money. The downside to all these great advantages is that they have encouraged the creation of a huge number of me-too and low quality blogs that don't add value and hardly get any traffic. Don't fall into that trap. Before jumping to create a blog, remember that to be successful you must write about a focused and original topic, or offer a unique perspective on a common theme. In the end, as the cliché says, it all boils down to quality content.
Now blogging has certain disadvantages as well:
Most people don’t have very much to say that’s interesting, and/or are unable to write down their ideas in a compelling and clear manner. I have often found that the people who have most time to write have least to say, and the people who have most to say don’t have enough time to write it. Thus, the real expertise within the organization lays hidden, as you get drowned in trivia. Like practically everything else on the Web, blogs are easy to start and hard to maintain. Writing coherently is one of the most difficult and time-consuming tasks for a human being to undertake. So, far from blogs being a cheap strategy, they are a very expensive one, in that they eat up time. As a result, many blogs are not updated, thus damaging rather than enhancing the reputation of the organization.
Organizations are not democracies. The Web makes many organizations look like disorganizations, with multiple tones and opinions. Contrary to what some might think, the average customer prefers it if the organization they are about to purchase from is at least somewhat coherent. There’s money in words; real value, real worth. I’m not a blogger but I do have this newsletter and I can tell you that these 500 or so words that I publish every week have seen a major return on investment for me. As an individual, I would highly recommend that you have some sort of publishing strategy, whether it be a blog, newsletter, writing articles for magazines, website or whatever.
This is an age where you will build your professional reputation word by word. Start off by finding something people care about and that you care about.
Meenal Gupta,
IT052067,
ITBM,SCIT.
Blogging for students and budding professionals
Honestly speaking, even being a B.E in Computer Science I have never been very tech-savvy. So, I was obviously not much conversed with the concept of blogging as well. Though I did get involved in some kinds of discussions on blogs with people of my type but that was mainly because they didn’t know much either and it was easy to say anything. But it was for the first time in the class of “New Media Technology” I realized how useful and voicing a blog can be. Also, that I was one of the very few who didn’t make use of this highly simple and yet effective mode of communication.
So here I am trying to share what I could learn about it. And since the assignment focuses mainly on the uses of blogging for students and budding professionals, the timing couldn’t have been more perfect since I am (along with all the others who are doing this assignment) on the threshold of becoming a professional from a student. The very first destination on my quest for knowledge about blogging was the definition itself. Out of all the definitions I could find, I would like to quote one of them, “Blogging is a format constant (archives, links, time stamps, chronological listing of thoughts and links), personalized, community-linked, social, interactive, democratic, new model innovation built on the unique attributes of the Internet”. The reason why I have quoted this is definition is because I feel it is absolutely holistic but full of jargon as well. My understanding from this definition is that blogging is a technical advancement which is sooner or later going to be the need of the hour.
After referring to a lot of websites and also the comments posted by others I can safely make a statement that at the stage where we are, blogging can be of immense help. This is mainly because of these few reasons:
1. It helps in building a business network of people with similar areas of interest. And at the beginning of the career, what more can one ask for.
2. It helps in thinking and writing critically. With blogs students not only communicate within the classroom or college but with the whole world.
3. It also helps students understand plagiarism, ethics, copyrights, privacy and other legalities while communicating with the world.
4. Most importantly, it’s sharing of not only knowledge but personal views and opinions. And these can further be commented upon by others who also happen to know something about the topic. Thus, serving as a forum known as ‘blogosphere’ wherein there can be a brainstorming of ideas and concepts.
5. It also helps students in making themselves known to people in the relevant field before they enter the industry which is called ‘self-marketing’, very important from the point of view of budding professionals. The benefits of this could be manifold: They could be found by potential recruiters, they can get insights by the experts and choose the right kind of domain for themselves based on their interests and last but not the least they can become better conversed with the field of their interest before they actually starting to work on it.
Apart from the benefits listed above, if our juniors can regularly keep posting blogs about the activities in college like seminars, guest lectures etc, as alumni we can be better informed and provide valuable industry inputs and help in the growth of the college and students.
Though the points I enumerated above were just few drops in the ocean of benefits these new media technologies can offer but from the point of view of students who are about to become professionals, I hope, these would be motivating enough to start blogging as a regular activity and form it a habit.
Parul Rastogi
IT052082
ITBM
(parulrastogi06@gmail.com)
World is using it………. Why not we?
BLOG., In a very layman language means setting mind free to spread ones thought to let world know about it. And technically , it is a web-site created by the user to share different people knowledge, thought, views or opinions about anything. This 'anything' can be a piece of news or comments on a particular subject, may be hobbies, touring, coding, hacking, food, online diaries etc. A blog is a combination of textual information, audio and video contents, links, links to different blogs etc. So it’s an open space to share the huge knowledge pool available on the internet. But one question arises in my mind or may be in yours too by now is when we
Blogs are taking hold within corporations as well, especially in the technology sector. Microsoft employees have created more than 700 of them to facilitate communications with customers outside the firewall. IBM developed Blog Central to enable its employees to create blogs inside the firewall, and thousands have responded.
How and where to start with………?
Writing a blog has got many implicit advantages which are almost as useful as reading from blogs on the Internet.But as i said, the advantages are implicit and hence are often taken for granted or underrated. For a beginner it is difficult to grasp the true advantages of taking out time to write a blog. Hence the motivation for doing so is usually very small.Why write a blog? well, for beginners Ill say writing about some trip that you have made or new place you have visited, which one would like to share with friends. Such things come naturally and don't require much thinking or editing. In fact its fun to do so.After one has a little experience then one can start with the more serious stuff.Why? well- it has the same advantages as you would have when you share knowledge with your peers when sitting in a group
Why Blog…………?
Blogs Plays the the role of the e-teacher, meta-learning, and more. Blogs maintained by individual students enable teachers to assess their students’ thinking patterns and depth of understanding. In the future, students may learn by assembling personal digital portfolios. It is more multi layered approach than traditional formal education. It seems that you are doing an apprenticeship under scanner of various experts. Blogs make experts, gurus, and beginners accessible to you.
More Serious thought……….
Blogs can help a you and your company and its clients in promoting its products and services, participate in the conversation related to its products and services, convey the image of a pioneer and thought leader and make and sustain contact with important user groups and other blog authorities. Blogs open up another whole world of doing things that may bring new learning habits and a more eager and committed clientele. Knowledge Management is the current focus of professionals, Web logging is seen as a story-telling device in KM and an environment that unfolds on a daily basis
So, without wasting a moment…….. Start Blogging
Vijayta Jain
IT052134
SCIT
Benefits of Blogging for students and Professionals:
Students are in the mode of learning new things. It is the time when a student wants to know about various fields, domains and Concepts. Eventually he starts liking one field and that becomes his profile, more accurately profile of his interest.
But to actually understand the concepts, we need to see, analyze and judge them from various angles and also critically.
When we blog,
• We start thinking critically.
• We start analyzing concepts with various perspectives. So we develop our horizons.
• A student of IT especially needs to be in touch of latest trends. And blog is a very helpful in doing that.
• By good blogging, Professionals can easily raise their profile on the web. This is cheap and professional way of marketing.
• With Blogging, Professionals can do collaborative learning and collaborative work. This will help them to be more productive and better managers.
• Through blogging, we can meet a number of senior people in our domain.
• Blogging keeps you in touch with a lot of interesting people and helps you expands your view of the world, providing new ideas for your profession.
• Whenever you have a problem, especially a technical one, you can post it on you blog or someone else’s and you might get an informed answer within 24 hours. It’s like a large performance support system.
• If you are able to maintain regular and demanded hits, you might turn up as a good Consultant. And hence you are making up your profession.
• Like e-mail, blogs are practical tools for everyday business. There are abuses of both (spam) but I think that blogs are one more tool that give the small business operator a real competitive advantage.
The things that we read, write and see in blogs remain in our mind for long because of the discussions done on the topic.
It’s nothing but your own Knowledge Management Tool. The way you will use it will give an insight into yourself, a view of where you are, where will you be, where are you thinking about being in years to come ahead. It may be 5 years down the line or 10 years. You start managing your own ideas and information in an organized fashion. When you track back on a topic you had been writing on you will get to know about your way of structuring your ideas. A feeling of happiness and confidence will arise in you because of the increasing number of hits you will get for your blog.
In short I feel it’s a very good platform to share our thoughts and to reflect your reviews. IT Students and Professional will know it very well that in IT we keep reviewing our works very frequently...Now just think if you are already acquainted with this style of working on blogs, wouldn't you fond yourself at a better end. So, if you want to be Leaders and not just followers, then blog and be a part of what I call competitive intelligence.
What is a Blog?? A Blog is an online journal consisting of links and posts, with the most recent post on top. In short it is in reverse chronological order. Blogging is a way of organizing your thought process, what you feel or what is your point of view. Now blogging helps students to think and write more precisely, this also helps students to share their thoughts, be responsible and communicate outside the boundaries of the institution and more importantly get noticed. They can even show how talented they are, by their out of box thinking.
Students get to know and share ideas among each other. There is a knowledge transfer that takes place. Most importantly you get a feedback from the masses about your master piece (BLOG). Unlike other forums or e-mail lists blogging is public and is not restricted anyone and everyone can share his/her thought, they are even free to comment on your Blog.
Blogging apart from building vocabulary, know each others’ interests, it also helps students to perform well in debates. They know what is going on and what the hot issues are. Now for someone to write a Blog is much difficult than reading it. Students you are new to the blogging space can share an idea online like what they like or dislike, whatever that comes to their mind. They can share their thoughts on their latest interest, the place that they visited. By doing this activity in the beginning would help them to think and express their ideas.
Whenever you write a mail to some company there is an auto response that follows, here it is not an auto response which means that the other person has taken some time to read what you wrote. Hence Blogging is some different. Budding professionals can share and gain knowledge from other experts in the industry. They can even write what they feel about a particular issue. A budding professional can blog his idea or his thoughts and ask for feedback. This feedback would be valuable for him to climb up the ladder. He could indeed get to know what people think about the new idea that he has come up with. Budding professionals can know through this blogging what is going on in the market and keep themselves updated with the current trends. There are so many blogs that exists on the new media technologies that are coming up. In short blogging can bring out an artist among the professionals, the talent that they have, how creative can they be. Every professional wants to be on top and wants his voice heard. What better way can it be..!!
Blogging can help the peers to gain knowledge from their mates, and know what talent that they posses.
Everyone today is competing against the best and wants to out perform the other to reach to their goal, so Blogging is the way to be updated and be at par with the trends and new technology, in short aspire to be Ever More and Better Ever.
Pranab Madan
IT052086-NITI
SCIT
Blog, as it is defined is a sort of weblog or journal published and updated frequently on net. That what some definitions on net says. However, there is more to blog than just this definitation. Blogging is an evolution in communication. Blog is an emerging concept that has already begun to find its roots in Human Netwoking community. It not just a mere place where indviduals put their thoughts and beliefs and their experences, their creativity etc. It has become a platform of learning via retrospecting and analyising experiences of other individuals. Some people blog for timepass, some for sharing their experiences, some blog to promote their business just like a sales man publicising the products he sells. Most of us blog for some or other need of ours. For students, blogging is helping them to think and write more critically. They are learning to be responsible and are communicating outside the boundaries of the classroom and the institution. Unlike traditional way of class room teaching, students refer to blogs and study forums to get to the understanding of concepts. These web-based forums for discussing ideas, experiences or opinions allow students to discuss publicly what they are studying with other students and experts outside their own university. Blogs are also extremely useful for categorising and managing a large collection of thoughts, whether they are from lecture notes, a student's own ideas, or comments on the ideas of others. A perfect example of one such blog is of my friend and batchmate Shahabuddin who has posted his Research and Development Synopsis on his blog at http://www.shahabuddin7.blogspot.com, to get feedback from the fellow students who have interest in the same domain. Besides students community, blogs are helpful in more than one way for budding professionals. There are Career Blogs, which provide loads of information redarding various career options for individuals. Not only these, there are many blogs which act as information exchange and thought sharing platforms and discussion forums to analysye technical and business problems and discuss business issues. Many business minded people have come up with their blogs publicising their business products and their benifits. Blogs as knowledge forms have become an esay access to the solutions of day to day common problems that individuals face at work. All in all the concept of blogging has brought a new dimension to thought sharing environment.
Priyankur Malik (IT052090)
Networks & IT Infrastructure
SCIT, Pune
Blogging-Emerging New Media Technology and how can it help students and professionals:
Blogs are everywhere!!! Everybody can be seen blogging!!! So what is a blog??
A blog is a user generated web-site where anybody can share knowledge on practically any topic!!!
It is often used to present your views and ideas on any topic or discuss on any particular subject; be it politics, any new discovery or local news. A typical blog consists of text, images or links to other related blogs and web pages. So what is it that makes blogging so special that it is considered as one of the new media technology?? One of the most important aspects of blogging is its interactive nature. It is a medium to connect people and groups. Blog is a great tool to air ones thoughts clearly as well as exercise writing skills. It’s like a two way street…whether you write or not, you can just look around and do some reading to learn what people are saying.
Blogs are like journals or diaries….. It is medium through which people can express themselves especially those who would not engage in discussion or debate.
It can be used as a knowledge management tool in education…a new teaching methodology!!!!! It is useful to students as well as teachers. Teachers can use it for posting and updating study materials for students. It serves as an informational resource with more and more tech savvy and educational experts creating their own weblogs to share their findings and thoughts.
In conventional teaching, students depend on the material provided by the teachers as their source of ideas and for feedback on their work. But blogging can help them find information from any corner of the world. They can interact with other students and can share their experiences. It is helping students to think and write more creatively and critically.
Students can any time ask for help on any topic, discuss their projects etc.
It can also act as a portfolio that will help them to showcase their skills and help in job hunting.
Blogging provides various tools to students. One such tool is pinging, which involves a person posting a comment about someone else’s work on their own work. They use the ‘track back’ tool to notify the author when they have published the comment, basically inviting them to discuss it.
Not just students but professionals too can take advantage of it!!! Professionals can use “Business blogs” which is a corporate tool for communicating with customers or employees to share knowledge and expertise.
One can ask for professional advice and feedback from experts on any topic. Those who are starting their career can also seek advice on their doubts. One can also use blogs as a platform to promote their products and services, and in turn ask for feedback.
Professionals can also use it as a personal brand image builder by raising ones online profile!!!
Those facing any problem in their field can post queries and ask for help.
It can also provide a chance to share your expertise and knowledge with larger audience.
Blogging is a low-cost alternative to having a web presence. For small business owners without the time to learn web html or the money to hire a designer/developer, blogging offers an inexpensive method to get your company's name out on the Internet.
There are still many more benefits and uses of blogging which need to be explored!!
So keep blogging to keep yourself updated!!!
Navjot Kaur.
ITBM-IT052073
PGDM II
A particular Sweet(Mithai) could not be commented for how good and bad it is, without tasting it.
The situation is same for me right now while righting a blog for the evaluation of my subject. As I just started writing, I’m just looking at this time as a thing that should be more than 500 words long. So let me filled out something that I feel.
While attending the lecture on New Media Management, I got to know the various advantages of blogging but at the same time, I was looking at the Lecture as a marketing Media for promoting ITvidya.com. After all, the workshop was on New Media mgmt, which was not of my interest.
This is my perspective that could be wrong or right.
Before righting a blog, I had a talk with my classmate who is a great fan of blogging. I was suggesting him that I can’t comment on the topic that is given to me, as I don’t have any views on it. But according to him, if I just start writing, I will start thinking on it to come up with some opinion on that topic.
I was just surprised after I started writing, I was not by any means short of word. I got to know, I was bit lazy towards it because it’s part of our assignment and who likes the assignment…..not me. So I decided to write whatever comes in my mind.
While attending a lecture, our Lecturer explained the professional as well as Personal advantages of blogging, where blogs can be used by professionals for promoting their business, making money or sharing knowledge. At the same time it can be our personal diary where we can share my thoughts and expressions with the rest of the world.
I like the other one, I will take it as my personal diary to write whenever I get spare time. As I’m just a student right now, I don’t feel any professional use of it.
Word count = 322, I just saw in my MSword. It is really poor, I think, someday this will change at some point of time where I’ll become more use to write about myself and my thoughts. How often we are shy or uncomfortable on writing whatever we think. I think blogging can become very good exercise for me to improve my thought process and writing skills. Just a second ago one of my friend point out one mistake in my writing that was the first line, it was a spelling mistake, I have written “testing” in spite of “tasting the sweet”. He just cracked a joke on me, he said that it was not “testing a sweet on a router”, it was “tasting a sweet by your tongue”. As there is a general misconception about me in my friend circle of me being good in technical subjects as we are in a Network specialization, So whenever I make any mistake, they always crack a joke on some technical terms like Router testing in this case. But that was true, For nearly two years I was just documenting the technical documents, the router, switches and protocols…So it’s now suddenly become very difficult to write something general, I even forgot the spelling of “TASTE”, I think I spelled right at this time. This is my achievement for today………Ya……Hoooooo.
I think that benefit from anything we does, lot depends on how we do a particular thing. So definitely Blogging can become very helpful for anybody in various ways depending upon their scope of interests but the matter of fact that it should be genuine and true otherwise it is a mere waste of time.
Word Count = 631 ….Hurray…. I also can write few things which are not technical ……….I’m Surprised!!!!
Ajay Raut
IT052007
NITI-PGDM II
We are living in an era where internet is touching everyone's life. It does not matter that you are a busyness man or a farmer you are connected to internet somehow. Today we have information about stock exchange on internet at the same time there are e-chaupals which are providing information to the farmers. In last decade the kind of change we have seen in the medium of communication is great. We have so many mediums to communicate. It provides the liberty of being aware of the happenings around the world and sharing of thoughts on different topics. The best part is it does not have any location constraints you can be a part of it from any where in the world. When I was in school computer education was not so popular, but today it is one of the most important part of any school's course structure which is very good. Today at the age of 10 children start using internet, which shows that how impact full is this on our society.
There are different kinds of people in the world with different interests. Internet has facilities like forums and communities to bring such people on a single platform, where they can share there knowledge. Such kind of communication is very healthy and very helpful to achieve more prosperity and knowledge. In the same manner there is another technology which is getting very popular day by day is bolg. In last few years people have shown great interest in this form of communication.
In simples words we can say blogs are your own newspaper or your personnel diary. You can write whatever you want in your blogs. You don’t have to think about others. It is possible that your thoughts get appreciation at the same time one should also be prepared for criticism. But it's all up to you what you want to write in your bolgs.
I would say it is very useful for the students. When you write about something it takes a lot of thinking about that thing. That makes students to think more critically. Blog writing will give a very prominent thinking to students if they start writing blogs. At the same time if you have written about something in your blog, then it would be read by many people, they might have different opinions. Ii means it will provide different kind of views, which will help you to think in a much better way. Blogs are also very useful to showcase your talent such a huge audience. It can create a lot of opportunities for you. By writing and reading blogs you will get huge knowledge base, from which you can enhance your knowledge.
Blogs are really very good medium of communication and knowledge sharing. But in many cases it has been seen that people who have great knowledge, they don’t have time to write blogs. And who are writing blogs do not have such kind of expertise. It means still the best is not coming to blogs. It is very easy to write first blog but it has been seen that people do not update their blogs for long periods. This means they have acquired the resources but not utilizing it properly.
Ritesh Kumar Pandey
NITI
IT052099
Benefits that can be reaped by Blogging
When I first attended the class on blogging, I was in a prenotion that this won’t add any value to me as I was a regular blogger. But after two days of session on blogging and podcasting I did learn a lot of new things. To my amusement blogging has evolved from a craft to an art. Now as we were asked, how blogging can be useful for students and professionals, I would like to explain the benefits that can be reaped by blogging with few examples from my experiences.
1. Receiving feedback: By blogging we can get instantaneous feedback for our work. We can see if our ideas are resonating with our readers or not. Several of these feedbacks will also lead us to fruitful post ideas. During my final year engineering I have posted my curriculum vitae as blog and I have got constructive comments from the users which helped me in making necessary changes. Recently it was mentioned in several survey reports that organizations are searching for candidates on social networks which can be used as an effective medium for job searching.
2. Acquiring knowledge: Blogging offers a medium of interaction. We can interact with people who are smarter than us and can learn from them. During my internship when I was given the task of listing various Storage devices of different companies, I started by reading the blogs on various storage products which helped me to gain insight of different products.
3. Gaining readership: Keeping on blogging affords us to maintain readership. We can also gain new readers who stumble onto our blog. In this context I would like to reiterate the statement that Mr Saha told us in his session, that to gain user readership we should be posting at least once in a week. But from my experience I would like to state that many people who want to improve their readership are including keywords within their blogs which is unethical.
4. Keep you inform: Blogging continuously will help us to keep up-to-date on the latest happening of the industry where our blog belongs. I have been following the series of “Diggnation” ( http://digg.com/podcasts/Diggnation) which is a weekly tech/web culture show based on the top digg.com social bookmarking website. I would like the viewers to watch the diggnation videos of the months October, November and December. The excellent scobleshow will let us through the latest technology breakthroughs. (http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/technology/1210/google-reader-demonstrated)
5. Gaining relationships: Blogging can lead to new friends, many of whom we may never have met face-to-face but with whom conversation is both frequent and stimulating. Like minded people can share their knowledge with each other and can exchange their thoughts.
6. Self improvement: Blogging makes us better at what we do. Yes, regular blogging will definitely improve our writing skills which is a must now days. We will also get to know about the developments in various fields such as science, technology, business, health, and sports etc. I like to think of myself as creative, but I haven’t created much in my spare time lately at SCIT. The last thing I want to do is allow my writing to stagnate. I don’t know what I have been doing lately, but I just don’t have time at this point. I think, if I force myself to write at least once or twice a week it will develop into something of a habit.
7. Community: Blogging creates robust, multi-way communication networks among bloggers and respondents that may benefit the community. Community based blogging websites such as ITVidya.com has helped in sharing of IT knowledge among its members. As the member of PLUG (“Pune Linux User Group”) we have been thinking to start a dedicated Open Source blogging Community. Also there are excellent platforms for open source blogging such as http://www.bloggerguide.net/help/lifetype-opensource-blogging-platform.html.
8. Gaining variety of viewpoints. Blogging may give you variety of viewpoints on a given topic, including some views or points you may not have thought of. As we have to do Research and Development in our final semester, I have registered ISO27001 as my topic. I thought of mapping various compliances like SOX, COBIT with ISO27001. After two weeks I came through a blog which explained me that I was behind something which was practically impossible. In this way blogs can be useful for getting variety of viewpoints.
These are the few benefits that I thought of sharing with students and Professionals who want to start with blogging. Hey guys don’t forget using “Google Reader, http://del.icio.us/ http://www.technorati.com/, http://digg.com/ ”. In the end I want to conclude by saying “HAPPY BLOGGING”.
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SCIT
Blog is short for weblog. If you go and search the internet for the definition of a blog you will see so many different kinds of them, for example
“A weblog is a journal (or newsletter) that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption”.
Another one
“A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links.”
I found most of these definitions don’t bring out the true meaning of a blog, these definitions are just too defined.
In my opinion a blog is your personnel space in the World Wide Web where you can express whatever you want and share your thoughts with rest of the world. A blog basically reflects your personality.
A blog can take any shape you want, it can be used as a personnel diary, it can be used as collaborative space, it can be used for academic purpose as we are using, so your blog is whatever you want it to be.
Talking about how blogging can help students and budding professionals? I would say yes it can help and in a big way. For example there is a student who wants to know about a particular field or technology but since it is new technology there are no books available for it and if at all available those are too expansive to afford. I am sure all of us must have faced similar situations. Now there is another person who is a master in that particular field or technology and he wants to share his knowledge with other likeminded people. To solve his purpose he can create a blog and write everything that he knows about that field. Now this would be a win-win situation for both of them because this will solve the purpose of both these people also since anyone can see and comment on a blog, other people can also join and share their experience about that field.
You can think of how quickly this medium can revolutionize the process of knowledge sharing.
As I said earlier a blog can take any shape you want you can convert your blog in form of lectures wherein you can write in small parts on frequent basis just like you take a lecture and people can ask questions in the form of comments. Just think about it, there would be no need to be physically present in the class, students and teachers all can work on a time and a place that they are comfortable with.
Students among themselves can use blogs for knowledge sharing purpose. They can create different communities for different subjects and field.
Professionals can also get benefited by blogging in a great manner. Again I would like to raise an example lets say you are a professional and you are planning to start you own venture but to start off u want some likeminded people with you so what you can do is you can start your blog and with the help of that you can share your plans. Now there is a huge possibility that other people who might be having similar plans as you, would visit your blog and comment on the same. After that you can discuss with those people and decide further proceedings. Again it’s a win-win situation for everyone.
Moreover if you are a marketing or sales person you can use your blog as a good marketing medium. Using your blog for marketing is like receiving free publicity, all it takes is to just write a few lines about your products and services.
These were one of the very few ways in which blogging can be beneficial, you can think of zillions of possibilities. One more thing is blogging encourages you for innovative and out of the box thinking because all the possibilities that I talked about earlier are resultants of innovative thinking.
So keep blogging and keep thinking innovative and out of the box.
Rajat Sadana
IT052092
NITI
"Every reader is a writer, every writer is a reader." -- Jay Rosen
‘Blogging’, as dyed-in-the-wool citizens of the blogosphere would define it, is more than just writing. Blogging in this wider sense is a way of life, and to do with the collective construction of ideas. It involves reading other blogs as well as other sources of information critically but in a collaborative frame of mind. They are discursive rather than merely assertive. Blogs can and are used in this way by cross-referencing and aggregating.
A blog can be public (allowing anyone with Internet access to read it), private (only the creator has access), or restricted to the audience the creator selects. Public blogs often have the capacity for visitors to the blog to make comments on the blogger's postings.
Blogs do what personal home pages were supposed to do, but didn't; they give a large number of people a place on the web that’s uniquely theirs. I have to confess to have been skeptical about blogs in an educational context. We see blogs only in one of their many manifestation; as diaries or simplified personal web pages; one-way publishing. In theory, it is easy to see the potential of blogs as a reflective learning or research journal.
Community blogs, which form around a common interest and tend to discuss related topics, Study tools, allowing individuals or groups to keep track of the progress of their work, at various stages. Professional blogs, where journalists and writers can publish work and their opinions unencumbered by the usual editorial process.
Many of upcoming companies have internal staff take on blogging duties but an increasing number of them are hiring specialist bloggers to come on and run their blogs. Also becoming more common are bloggers being hired to write in non-blogging mediums. As bloggers are increasingly being approached to write for newspapers, magazines and other non blog websites.
I would suggest my juniors to replicate their lectures, understanding, knowledge and project to become part of these blogosphere. This would not only enhance their knowledge but also their hemisphere around. If you as a student know something about something which others might not know just blog it, there is a chance that in sometime you’ll know everything about everything. As a budding professional one can have theoretical knowledge about the practices in corporate world, but via blogs you can learn about the various practicalities of the corporate world from people blogging about their experiences. Though, writing professional blogs by beginners is a mare nightmare, but sometimes nightmare comes true. So earning money by the blogs can also be looked into when they work on it.
Let me explain how the blog and the network I hope develops from it will work. I want this blog to become a clear to point readers to other blogs which focus on fixing problems. I don’t have specifics yet as to which topics might be covered, but a few that come to mind include blogs focused on my core competencies as networking, software etc. I may include blogs that don’t necessarily fit my world-view, but that is yet to be determined. I have to do what aligns well with my conscience.
The critical factor at this point at last is that they have something to do with helping mankind…..and I think Blogs are doing same in good way.
Ankur Ahuja
IT 52017 - NITI
SCIT
Blogs & more
The term "blog" is derived from "Web log." "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. Blogs are a powerful promotional vehicle both online and offline. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format forms an important part of many blogs. Just some amongst the innumerable benefits of blogginng are freedom to express, react & learn .No one dominates the conversation.People make thoughtful insightful statements since they have time to reflect.People can read all the comments of the other people and then make general or specific reaction comments
Students and professionals both derive benefits from blogs .
Benefits to the students
Personally I feel that this blog excersice could be of help to people like me. Why I say this because I think I can’t write and still I’m writing, that’s weird right, even I think so but once you start writing you yourself can’t stop. It really helps to give your views on any topic in this vast world. Students can take a look at different blogs written by others and learn some new stuff. Blogs provide learning away from the traditional classroom. This provides a wide platform for the students to voice themselves as well as for learning. Web logs act as a fantastic outlet for creativity. Supports differentiation. It even gives verbally reserved students an assembly for their thoughts. This indirectly encourages reading as to make a meaningful update, or to choose their favorite post, the student’s first need to read what’s out there. Blogs also encourages and teaches research skills. This encourages students to extend their research beyond the assigned work.
Benefits to the professionals
The adavantages of web logs to business/professional is also immense. Through blogs professionals can make new contacts with people across the world. It may open up new opportunities for the professionals. Professionals can put their thoughts and can demonstrate the quality of their thoughts. It may help in their professional life. Blogs have potential to help the professionals in turn the organization they are working in to develop stronger relationships and brand loyalty with their customers, as they interact with the ‘human face’ of the organization through blogs. The frequent visits of the blog readers to read the latest blog postings, indicate the relationship building. Professionals can get feedback from the viewers and can enhance their skills based on that.Professionals can share knowledge through blogs that will be of benefit for the viewers.A blog is a customer attractor for a professional in turn to the company and its products and services.
Below is the link for my blog.
http://antrixmarketing.blogspot.com/2007/02/why-blog-what-do-we-get-out-of-this.html
Kunal Gupta
SCIT - ITBM
PRN No. - IT0-52060
Idea behind Blogging - Yet to be realised
In the emerging world of internet sharing of data is universal thing and to make things more clear I would say internet, over the years has grown rapidly around the concept of sharing data. We have been sharing data over internet by various means like email, chat, communities & user groups, search engines, message boards, news groups etc. This sharing of data focused on one particular subject like sports, science, politics, technologies, medicine etc.
It never focused on personal lives of individuals. Back in early 90’s people started showing willingness to share information based on their personal lives, day to day routines. They found a need to share what they were going through and how did they feel about things around them. This need resulted in maintaining online personal diaries which is accessible by every one and commendable by the readers. This gave birth to a new word “Blog” and blogging has evolved swiftly over the years from personal diaries to news blog, remonstration blog, travel blog, educational blog, technology blog etc. The concept has further developed in the form of “Pod Casting”, where people share audio conversations. Speeches, videos and accept comments on the same.
In general, blogging is just another type of sharing of data. They are just little different than message boards in that there is a main contributor who starts a blog and others post comments, which is optional. While a message board has back and forth communication on a topic.
There are lot of pros and cons attached with blogging. The good side of it is that you get to post your view/work/idea in public. It is mostly free so no need for investment at least to get to the media. Search engines bring people to your blog, but only if it is worth, so no need to spend money to let people know you are there. Now a days you find lot of Blog search engines to search blog content to name some of them such as blogdigger, feedster etc. There are sites which tell you the most popular blog so if you use those blogs, mostly you make sure you don’t spend time and efforts reading bogus stuff. The main advantage with blogging is that you can earn money with zero investment. If you blog gets a lot of hits, you may get some money out of it via advertisement. Google has launched this concept recently which is called Google Adsense. Google Adsense is a powerful tool to show Google Ads related to what your website visitor is currently viewing on your webpage or something related to his interest, which automatically gets a lot of hits on the advertisement on your webpage and gets you lot of money. Blogs can be created in any form, it can be created to help your project mate by putting up a research and development topic on board for open discussion or creating a forum to provide guidelines on a new technology for others etc. Many a times a blog takes a political turn where voices are raised against inhuman activities, wars, corrupted political leaders, mismanagement in the city by the ruling party etc., which in some way very helpful for people of same society/community to share their thoughts on the ongoing problems.
Educational institutions are finding blog as a great source of communication between students and teachers, where teachers start a blog with an assignment and students post their answers as an comment to that. Teachers or students can also start online tutorials on technologies or subjects they have specialized in and provide immense knowledge and help to other new comers.
One big disadvantage is that there is 99% bogs (not authentic/at your own risk) stuff posted on blogs. What I would advise students is to be a part of an existing blog which focuses on day to day news or some subject which is a part of their curricula, to understand the actual usage and power of blogging rather then writing blogs on how exciting was the dinner with their girl friends other night or how did they feel about their last trip/trecking.
Students can learn about many topics and views of others. But it is not particular to blogging. In nutshell, all the good and bad stuff about having a community applies to blogging.
Kushan Thakershy
IT043010
PGDM (SDM JUNE)
Blogs and its benefits for students and budding professionals
The experience of the outsiders brings advancements—“No field of study can advance significantly unless outsiders bring their knowledge and experience to that field of study”. I can’t find more appropriate phrase for the concept of blogging.
So what exactly is blogging and why is it the hottest topic around these days? Well the technical definition of the blog would go some what like this:
A blog is a web-based space for writing. Blogs can be thought of as an online journal where all the writing and editing of information is managed through a web browser or a handheld device (PDA). However if you ask me, it is a your personal space on the internet where you can share your thoughts, findings, research, and what ever comes to your mind with the outside world and moreover they can even respond back to you with their thoughts. At its simplest, a blog is a personal web site managed by an individual who compiles lists of links to personally interesting material interspersed with information and editorial. The user can instantly place their words and thoughts onto their own web log site through one of the many pieces of blogging software available. Like a journal, a blog can be a continually updated resource that grows over time with the accumulation of writing and other content. This archived information is accessed using a simple calendar that highlights the dates on which entries were made. Some sites have a basic text search engine to assist finding appropriate material.
Now that we know what is a blog let us understand its importance. There are many ways in which blogging can help students professionally as well as in the personal development. It can be a pleasant change in the present ctrl v ctrl c culture that students have adopted these days. Although this option is wide open in blogging, however people doing that would never understand the benefits of blogging and would end up learning nothing. Students aspire of making a difference to the society, but until now it was very difficult to find a medium through which they can express their views to the society. The mediums that were earlier available were expensive or far from the reach of students. With advancement in internet and blogging students have found a medium in which they can express their views independently. I remember once I wrote an article in the school on ‘How following traffic rules would eliminate half of the traffic problems in city’. It was appreciated by my teachers and also printed in the school journals. However now I think it could have reached to larger audience only if there were blogs in those days. Some of the advantages that students would have by blogging are:
1. Students have access to your complete notes on the Internet. Students have the option of previewing the class material before class and reviewing the material after class.
2. Because students are connected to the Internet, they have access to online English dictionaries. Students can easily look up words they do not understand by cutting the unknown word and pasting it into an online dictionary.
3. Because the class material is organized into sections, students can easily find information.
4. Students can read comments for the class as a whole and comments directed at them individually. This maximizes feedback and contact with the teacher.
5. Students can observe how their writing has changed over time.
When students graduate from university and begin their careers, the bulk of their writing will not be done with pencil and paper, but rather on a word processor. Therefore, writing classes ought to be set in realistic environment utilizing the writing aids of a computer. Since most universities have computer labs with Internet access, writing teachers can easily create classes utilizing blogs that allow students the chance to write and submit assignments in class. Combined with essential discussion and lecture from the teacher, the utilization of both class and student blogs can effectively maximize student access to class materials and exposure to teacher feedback.
Just as animated gifs were once cool, blogging is the trendy thing to do. That does not mean that it is not beneficial to businesses or individual professionals. Webmasters struggling to keep fresh, attractive content on their websites to lure visitors back have found blogs the answer. Content is a necessity for online businesses, both for purposes of being found by search engines but also because it gives visitors a reason to come back. Individual professionals found a way to grab the attention of the top management officials who are also on the same blogging network. It is not possible to understand the depth of the knowledge that an individual has from the resume. Blogging will help individual to show his in-depth knowledge to the rest of the world. Some of the advantages that a professional can have with blogs are:
1. All professionals need to practice their skills. Celebrated advertising copywriter David Ogilvy said: 'I am a lousy copywriter, but I am a good editor.' Treat a blog as a playground for ideas and styles.
2. It's a new medium, and there are some new lessons to be learnt: about the virtue of links, about RSS, about the merits of posting comments, and about Google PageRank and other web metrics.
3. As with all writing, you first need to read, read, and read some more. This is the most important lesson you can learn.
4. You are looking to make a name for yourself, and blogs give Google plenty of current content to be indexed. This will help you appear on a Google search result. I predict that more and more employers will adopt this technique before interviewing candidates on the grounds that if you can't make a name for yourself, you probably can't do it for them either.
5. You'll learn valuable lessons applicable to the real world. You'll realise that Rome wasn't built in a day: a blog is no instant route to fame and fortune, but nor is a public relations campaign.
6. Conversely, you'll learn that it is possible to have your thoughts and ideas picked up by others (real world public relations). It should give you a buzz.
7. You'll make connections: of ideas and with people.
We have seen how a student and a professional benefit from blogs. Let’s complete the cycle by analyzing how an organization benefits from blogging. Companies that lose touch of their customers stumble. And conversely, if you look at the success of WalMart a lot can be attributed to the fact that they are closer to the customer than their suppliers. They are eating these manufacturers for lunch and are rapidly introducing their own store brands with the first-hand knowledge they’ve gained of the market. Apple is firmly connected to the creative graphics community, Nike has a support system of athletes, and Patagonia is connected with outdoor adventurers. Not only are Apple, Nike, and Patagonia connected, but they each become a vital part of their network’s community, allowing them to find inspiration for both products and marketing consistently and much faster than their competitors. CEOs care about the growing the top line. Coming from a product management point of view of marketing, there is absolute value in a dialogue with customers that helps you to truly understand your customer and step inside their shoes. And thus build and create and tweak and refine the product or service itself to ensure sales downstream because you have perfectly met those often unstated needs and wants. Too many product managers have built products or selected features for the next model in a vacuum. Virtually no one speaks of this value of blogs to help discover, create and deliver the right product, but product managers from companies like Microsoft starting to do just this.
The advantages of blogs from an organizational perspective include the following:
1. The consumer and citizen are potentially better informed and this can only be good for the long-term health of our societies and economies.
2. Blogs have potential to help the organization develop stronger relationships and brand loyalty with its customers, as they interact with the ‘human face’ of the organization through blogs.
3. Blogs, in an intranet environment, can be an excellent way of sharing knowledge within the organization.
4. Blogs can be a positive way of getting feedback, and keeping your finger on the pulse, as readers react to certain pieces, suggest story ideas, etc.
5. Blogs can build the profile of the writer, showcasing the organization as having talent and expertise.
Apple, Firefox, and Google have, this year, proven to be the best at getting people to talk about them. How? Cause they've been the best at listening to what customers want and giving it to them. Hints on how to do that are here on the blogs. This is where blogs will really prove their worth. Teams are now planning on how they'll take feedback on their blogs to improve their products quickly. That's really where blogs will turn into a competitive weapon. It's the companies who communicate to customers that'll really succeed.
Knowledge is the best wealth that one can possess and it only increases by sharing.
K.Subbarao (Systems-IT052058).
What Is Blogging?
A web log, often shortened to "blog," is a web page that contains dated posts, by one or multiple users, often pertaining to a particular topic. "Blogging" is the act of writing in a blog.
Blogs could only be created by someone who already knew how to build a website. In recent years, however, many build-your-own-web-log tools have come on to the market, some of them free, and now, anyone with Internet access can create their own blog.
The short answer is, anything. You can start a blog on any topic, including your own blog. Most blogs are a mix of commentary, personal notes and links to other websites. You can write detailed essays on serious subjects, or you can use blogging as a form of journal writing, posting thoughts on the movie or education you saw last night or something you thought of on the way to work. You can also upload graphics, video and sound files.
Some blogs contain links to websites you think your readers would be interested in, or to a post on someone else's blog that pertains to what you're discussing in your blog. Bloggers can even hold "conversations" between their blogs, with each other.
If you already have a website, you can assign one or more of its web pages to your blog. There are also several blog communities that allow you to create a blog on their site. Many of these are communities are free, but they usually offer the option for paid service, which will give you additional features such as a photo journal, an email address for your blog.
Does blogging sound like fun? It is! Share your thoughts with the world, and start your blogging today.
• Build Community: Business blogs provide your small business with a chance to share your expertise and knowledge with a larger audience. An opportunity to connect with a wider audience and build a community is a strong benefit for consultants and knowledge workers.
• Easy Web Publishing Solution: Blog software is easy to use. Simply write your thoughts, link to resources, and publish to your own blog. Blog software companies such as TypePad or Blogger.com offer easy blogging tools to get started. Updating the weblog is a faster process than contacting a web designer with changes or doing the coding and uploading yourself.
• Higher Search Engine Rankings: Search engine marketing is hot. “The search market has become the Holy Grail of Internet advertising and continues to grow faster than our expectations. We believe search is actually gaining some market share from other types of online marketing.
The cost of generating traffic from search engine marketing is much lower than traditional media. Search engine marketing has the lowest cost-per-lead and the highest return on investment.
• Lower Costs: Blogging is a low-cost alternative to having a web presence. For small business owners without the time to learn web html or the money to hire a designer/developer, blogging offers an inexpensive method to get your company's name out on the Internet.
• Better Communications: Blogging provides several communication benefits. Use logging as a time saver instead of providing many interviews blogging gets his message out to many people at once.
The biggest benefit of RSS for your web audience is a better solution for notification than websites themselves or email. As indicated by Bill Gates in a speech at the Microsoft CEO Summit 2004 in Redmond, Washington: “if you just put information on a Web site, then people don't know to come visit that Web site, and it's very painful to keep visiting somebody's Web site and it never changes. Getting away from the drawbacks of e-mail -- that it's too imposing -- and yet the drawbacks of the Web site -- that you don't know if there's something new and interesting there – this [blogs & RSS] is about solving that.”
Manish Agarwal
PGDM – II
NITI
IT 052064
Blogging:-
Frankly speaking, I heard this term for the first time about an year back, from one of our classmates. It was not so appealing (may be because I didn’t appreciate the person much). Also I have attended Parag sir’s lecture on Java, and highly appreciate his involvement of the latest technology in his teaching methodology.
This time it was “Blogging”. I feel this lecture on blogging really made me change my perception about Blogging. I always used to feel that it is a smart way to chat and send mails to friends.
Here is my understanding about the concept of Blogging:
Blogging called as a user generated website, to online diary has today become the host of information. All this only because of active participation of Internet users, their interest in sharing knowledge and quest for gaining knowledge.
The following are the ways in which we can benefit from Blogs:
1.Personal Notepad – for penning down own thoughts and views to the entire universe.
2.Forums were we can interact with other people in the world, ask questions, Answer queries, debate, and Market ourselves.
3.Improve the writing Skills – possible a very neat and professional way of putting things across.
4.Acts as a notice board in case we need to notify people of something.
5.Act as a platform for making friends with like minded people. This is the best way you can get in touch with people whom you feel are the best person to attain guidance.
6.Can be a useful tool in case we wish to become an entrepreneur.
For Budding Professional the following benefits can be noted:
1.If a person wants to open up his/her new venture or business, then blogging can come handy, as we can interact with people who already are in this field. They can exchange there thoughts, experiences, and share their valuable guidance and comments. This can be a boon to the new business.
2.The beginner can advertise his new venture in the Internet world. If the blog really clicks, there would be no end to the prospective clients. As blogging today can become a “Word Of Mouth” advertising therapy, there would be a lot of response from the community.
3.This might take a long time in terms of setting a good rapport, but in near future it will benefit the business.
I would recommend each one of us to create a blog, and use it for a constructive purpose.
Pallavi Arora
IT052079
Systems 2005-07
"God!! I don't even remember what he taught me in class. I wish i could have videotaped it" Well, we all have been in this dilemma so many times in our learning experience i can't even remember. i would have opted for the video recording option if i had that kind of cash. Alas! i do not. Audio recording a math or science lecture without the diagrams or the numbers would sound like a joke. so you must be wondering "is there any hope?" well there is hope and it comes from BLOGGING.. that's right written text is the best source of readily available data for us in this internet age and we shall use it to our betterment. only when my microsoft office beta software expired did i understand how productive and cool the freely available inbuilt Wordpad was. The reason i am saying this is we do not realise what we have at hand and try to always use conventional methods in life. when i realised this fact, i immediately knew that there was definitely a different way of solving my learning problems. Vallah!! i found a way and it has been very productive and efficient. blogging can be used by the entire classroom full of students and the professor at the same time, we all have the internet and our computers at hand. So blogging is definitely very useful and efficient.
Today my entire class has solved the learning problems that we had. our professor hands in all the key points and some times the entire lecture on the blog followed by some questions. we discuss all this data and pool in all our knowledge. in the end what we have is one huge repository of information, well researched well documented on each of the topics we studied in our lectures. blogging also increases the kind of communication between friends. when we are all online most of the time even after school we communicate with out friends and this definitely inproves the rapport we have with our friends and also get an oppunrtunity to bond with people, understand them and communicate effectively.
When i graduate out of college and move to the job industry communicating effectively will be of the utmost importance. blogging is of importance to the working professional as well. It is a communication channel that is freely available and is very useful. Sharing of all information across this channel, that would help in discussions and address the issuses at hand to find a solution best suited to the organisations. People working in the organisation can also start a blog to talk about how the organisation can benefit by implementing some different strategies. Improving the organisation is no longer the job of one specific department. All the people working in the company are now entitled to help in the improvement process. blogs can be used to provide suggestions, ideas and also register complaints. Senior management can then look into the qestions, suggestions and comments written in the blogs and accordingly help make the working environment as per the liking of the employees. Other than that blogs in the organisationcan be started just as a social meeting point for all the people in the organisation. This type of community building and encouraging more number friendships definitely increases the productivity and will also help in retaining the customers. All in all, students as well as working professionals or any anybody on this planet can use blogs to effectively communicate and learn.
Pradeep Butani
IT052084
NITI
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Please visit the post "bloggin'" at
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Thanks
IT52018
I would just like the readers to recall the first time they had sent a letter to the editor of a newspaper, regarding say a sports event or a political/social issue. And wished from the bottom of your heart that it may be published. And if it ever did, I am sure you remember the day to date and how your friends admired your efforts and some were jealous.
Well now in hindsight don’t you people think that in some manner we were at mercy of the editors? Let us take this to another level, just comprehend the feeling of not finding any people of your passion/interest in your own institution be it professional or educational. This time we are being at mercy of the environment around us. Well, with participatory media technologies, it doesn’t have to be that way. Just write a blog entry and you are a publisher in your own right. Also if what you are writing is good then be assure that you will have a audience, it can’t go any other way.
There are so many blogs that were mentioned by sir, and there are many more 1000’s, which are good at what they write. If we as students make a good habit of writing blogs just like any other good habit like eating with your mouth closed or wearing clean socks. It reflects well on you and definitely your friends will come and read about what is going on in your life. Also we tend to earn one of the most important things in life, which is reputation that somewhere down the line (If you are good) can be monetized.
For the second question on how it can help us as professionals, well we all know that all the companies are launching their own blogs, be it for customer feedback or for just to tell the outside world on what is going on in the company. If we as students learn the art beforehand, we will be 1 step ahead, because as fresher we will know what people learnt after coming. Also if we have a sound opinion on certain area/vertical/function/domain, out posts itself can become our resume. As sir told, there is more than one instance where people were hired because of what they wrote on their blogs.
The third point I would like to highlight is once we start posting your views we tend to become more accountable. Before writing a blog we may have 70% knowledge of it. But once we know that people are going to read about it you tend to develop a reasonable opinion on it, because it a story you are telling. And 5 years down the line when you have a decent stream of visitors you don’t want a chink in your Armour by someone pointing out that so many years back you had written a bad post ( trust me people do remember a bad experience) just because that day you were feeling lazy just to do a little more research.
I guess that’s it. So all the bloggers, keep blogging and to others at least give it a try.
Dhaval Shah
IT-043006
SW- June 2005-07
www.striderblogs.blogspot.com
www.watblog.com
Blog – True Democracy in practice.
Democracy can be defined as : by the people, of the people and for the people.
Blogging , in my view, is democracy in its purest of forms.. People all over the world have the freedom to express their opinions or seek one from the entire world without any inhibitions through a blog. Moreover, in a conventional classroom, we get to know the thoughts and views of a few people (compared to 6 billion all over the world). A blog helps you reach out to the entire world – making “Vasudhaiva Classroomam” truly achievable. ( remember “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam”?)
A blog is very helpful to people irrespective of the role they play and the responsibilities a person handles. It increases knowledge of a person. Be it history, science, technology, art, music, psychology a student can share thoughts and ideas which can be viewed by experts, colleagues, teachers and have their feedback regarding the same. Who knows you might end up with a partner and start a business of your own!. You will have a number of brains thinking and commenting upon your idea. Thus, one can get opinion from others and at the same time improve one’s thinking ability.
After academic life, comes the professional life, wherein you are assigned responsibilities and are held entirely accountable for them. Many a times, the domain you are working in may be new or still in its nascent stages or the organization you work in may not have the necessary knowledge and/or experience about it. Through your blog you can put in your opinion and get the knowledge of experienced people on it. This also will help in building a network with people around the world as well the organisaiton can improve/define the business processes of the domain.
On the personal front too (the most essential of all rather!), a blog can be of immense help. Competition is very high in the world we live today. It is very essential for a person to be visible and known for an interest or knowledge in a domain. The best way perhaps is a blog where in you can air your interest, your initiative and your inferences about a domain. This may be viewed by anyone (expert, recruiter etc) and might change the course of one’s career.
In a classroom, many things are theoretical and abstract. People who visit your blog can quote their true life /professional experience on a subject and help one arrive at a solution. This is helpful for the student as well as the professional to gain information about the facts and figures in a specific scenario and help one weigh the pros and cons for the alternatives for a solution.
One more feature of the blogging culture is the ethics followed in here. If any of the material put on a blog is copied without any acknowledgements of the source, the author is almost immediately reprimanded by the entire community. Hence, in a way piracy is controlled and credit is given to the deserving person.
Resumes do play an important role when seeking a job or career shift. But if one has a blog which is visited and commented by a large number of people, it also becomes a proof of your interest in the concerned domain.
Blog- a means of revenue
If blog is a career for you and your blog attracts a good traffic, Google’s Adwords and Adsense can help you churn a lot of money. You could earn a lot (in $$!) from people visiting your blog and clicking the advertisements.
Moreover, when you are an entrepreneur, a blog is a very noble way to promote your organization and the services offered by you. Just imagine the amount of investment it could save!(no more print media ads, or visual ads). People visiting your blog will automatically become your promoters(provided you are good enough to impress them).
Hence, blog is a must for anyone who aspires to make a difference!
Balachandra Emani
IT052046
Systems
BLOG and its benefits…
Blogs are user log files on the web, like a diary entry..this being not in your traditional diary but on the web pages. Its easy to use and only next thing is you should be computer thing is one should literate to have your own blog.
Blog software is easy to use. Simply write your thoughts, link to resources, and publish to your blog, all at the click of a few buttons. Blog software companies such as Blogger.com blogspot.com, wordpress.com offer easy blogging tools to get started. Updating the weblog is a faster process than contacting a web designer with changes or doing the coding and uploading yourself.
Benefits of blog to a student
One can have it as his daily diary entry. Just to enter his daily learning and confessions
..
One can keep entering his data, learning and thoughts about any topic of his interests thus building up his own knowledge resource/ database, which he can refer later whenever required. This also helps in people of same interests in finding you and share their knowledge. Its creates a win-win situation for all as people of same interest s meet and share their knowledge.
Blogging forces one to think and reflect in order to write, so that just an idea in ones mind becomes more clear and concrete. Your blogs might help your prospective employer to spot/find you. Thus helping him locate somebody with good knowledge in some domain and for you getting a job in the field of your interest.
Your blogs might help you earn from some of the sponsors of your blogs-by placing their ads on your blog.
You can use your blog to express your views, keep in touch with your friends, relatives and family.
Benefits of blog to a budding professional..
Blogs provide a way for you to speak directly, openly and honestly. It has made web more lively and democratic. I enables you to meet more and more people of same interests and helps you expand your social circle. It helps you building up your own network in the corporate world.
Blogs are inexpensive, cheap or rather have no cost to set up, operate and maintain. Blogs are the cheapest means to have one’s own web presence.
The information one gets from bloggers is usually much ahead of the mainstream press. This is called competitive intelligence.
Blogs allow you to build personal, long-lasting relationships with your friends, relatives and customers.
Blogs give you an higher and better presence on major search engines, like Yahoo, and Google. The blog should be well-written, updated routinely, have more and more keywords.
More keywords in blog helps give one better ranking on the search engine. This helps one in building ones own Knowledge database. This helps in building up ones image and projecting oneself as a domain expert to the world.
There are millions of bloggers around the world and many are coming up with their blogs daily. And yes if you have a blog then you are also “TIME person of the year” and so are the people using different new media technologies to to their own and others benefits.
Participatory media is also known as ‘Social Media’. According to Wikipedia, Participatory media has many types but these distinctly different media share three common, interrelated characteristics,
Many-to-many media make it possible for every person connected to that network to broadcast and to receive text, images, audio, video, software, data, discussions, transactions, computations, tags, or links to and from every other person. The asymmetry between broadcaster and audience that was dictated by the structure of pre-digital technologies dictated has changed radically. This is a technical-structural characteristic.
Participatory media are social media whose value and power derives from the active participation of many people. This is a psychological and social characteristic.
Social networks amplified by information and communication networks enable broader, faster, and lower cost coordination of activities. This is an economic and political characteristic.
Participatory Media include (but aren't limited to) blogs, wikis, RSS, tagging and social bookmarking, music-photo-video sharing, mashups, podcasts, participatory video projects and videoblogs.
For students blogs can be helpful for various reasons. It gives them a tool to communicate in a constructive manner.
Blogs can be effectively used to seek or provide help on some research project, study material exchange etc. They can be used to discuss social, personal problems and seek advice for example career planning, job search, tips and hints about exams and interviews. they can be used to collaborate and contribute from a distance.
Blogs can be used as an interaction tool between faculty and students and most importantly among students themselves. This approach is very important because it provides an opportunity to students to understand, criticize and learn from each other’s views towards a same problem. And in the process student develops an ability to take multiple views and find the most appropriate. While doing assignments as blogs, students don’t have the restrictions of form and templates. They get the freedom to explore and experiment. This provides them the space to grow, reach out.
For professionals or businesses there are many benefits of blogging. Here I’m listing down which I found of importance.
Search Engine Marketing / Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Blogs give you an increased presence on major search engines, like Yahoo! and Google. A well-written, routinely updated, keyword-oriented blog can enhance your chances of garnering high rankings on search engine return pages.
Stay Fresh In Mind of Customers
A company blog that is constantly updated and uses RSS feeds to distribute content is capable of staying fresh in the minds of their target audience. Companies are always trying to win mindshare by plastering ads of themselves almost everywhere along with getting publications to write about them. With a blog you always get this exposure and major publications are more likely to write about your company since the information is readily available.
Direct Communications
Blogs provide a way for you to speak directly, openly and honestly with your customer. The blogging is emerging as a new marketing tool. The companies like Sixappart are coming up with products to support enterprise level blogging.
Low Cost
Blogs are inexpensive to set up, operate and maintain.
Sense of Community
When a company can get their audience to feel as though they are part of a community then they are more likely to succeed in selling their product or service. The Apple community scoops up every new technology that Apple brings out. Very few companies could say the same since it has become to easy for us to switch to the competition.
Blogs (along with other online communities) can help build the feeling of being part of a group. When people feel as though they belong to something, they are more likely to remain loyal. A loyal customer also becomes your best salesman.
Instant Feedback
Companies are learning that shipping products without listening to customer feedback is becoming dangerous. However, getting people to openly provide feedback can become a hassle. If you had a blog you could easily write an entry on the product and customers could anonymously (if they wish) provide feedback without feeling as though they were signing up for a junklist.
A great example of this is SixApart. They have recently released their third iteration for their product licensing scheme and each time it has improved due to customer feedback. Without their blog this would not have been possible.
Word of Caution
While blogs can be an effective marketing tool, it should not turn into a “Splogs” (short for Spam Blogs). Splogs aside from not making any sense, carry certain keywords over and over again just for the sake of search engine optimization.
Blogging is emerging as a new profession by itself. People normally provide their services as a part time Blogger for a price. Companies are coming up with tools like TypePad to give better tools which include themes and templates to make blog more attractive.
So it can be easily concluded that blogs are a new a wave of media which has just started rising and has yet to reach its peak. Till that time everybody can make use of the blogs and at same time contribute b sharing their knowledge.
Amit Shinde
(Systems - IT052012)
BLOG and its benefits…
Blogs are user log files on the web, like a diary entry..this being not in your traditional diary but on the web pages. Its easy to use and only next thing is you should be computer thing is one should literate to have your own blog.
Blog software is easy to use. Simply write your thoughts, link to resources, and publish to your blog, all at the click of a few buttons. Blog software companies such as Blogger.com blogspot.com, wordpress.com offer easy blogging tools to get started. Updating the weblog is a faster process than contacting a web designer with changes or doing the coding and uploading yourself.
Benefits of blog to a student
One can have it as his daily diary entry. Just to enter his daily learning and confessions
..
One can keep entering his data, learning and thoughts about any topic of his interests thus building up his own knowledge resource/ database, which he can refer later whenever required. This also helps in people of same interests in finding you and share their knowledge. Its creates a win-win situation for all as people of same interest s meet and share their knowledge.
Blogging forces one to think and reflect in order to write, so that just an idea in ones mind becomes more clear and concrete. Your blogs might help your prospective employer to spot/find you. Thus helping him locate somebody with good knowledge in some domain and for you getting a job in the field of your interest.
Your blogs might help you earn from some of the sponsors of your blogs-by placing their ads on your blog.
You can use your blog to express your views, keep in touch with your friends, relatives and family.
Benefits of blog to a budding professional..
Blogs provide a way for you to speak directly, openly and honestly. It has made web more lively and democratic. I enables you to meet more and more people of same interests and helps you expand your social circle. It helps you building up your own network in the corporate world.
Blogs are inexpensive, cheap or rather have no cost to set up, operate and maintain. Blogs are the cheapest means to have one’s own web presence.
The information one gets from bloggers is usually much ahead of the mainstream press. This is called competitive intelligence.
Blogs allow you to build personal, long-lasting relationships with your friends, relatives and customers.
Blogs give you an higher and better presence on major search engines, like Yahoo, and Google. The blog should be well-written, updated routinely, have more and more keywords.
More keywords in blog helps give one better ranking on the search engine. This helps one in building ones own Knowledge database. This helps in building up ones image and projecting oneself as a domain expert to the world.
There are millions of bloggers around the world and many are coming up with their blogs daily. And yes if you have a blog then you are also “TIME person of the year” and so are the people using different new media technologies to to their own and others benefits.
SAURABH SONI
IT052108
Blabber Loud Onto the Globe
We are a generation of independent assertive individuals who prefer to take their own stand on issues. We have an opinion, an idea, a suggestion, and we want to be vocal about it and share it with the world. This is perhaps the trigger to the existence of blogs, where every person is able to address whatever touches his heart or just what he wishes to share with the readers.
Another perspective could be that in this age where people don’t have the time for anything, blogging is an effort to find a listening ear. You know what you write can be read by millions of people scattered over the globe; if even one person sends you back a comment for your post, the purpose is served. Atleast you know that someone probably miles away has heard you out.
Well, whatever be the reason, today blogs are an indispensable part of our lives, and rightly so. Blogs give us what no other media ever did: freedom of speech. We needn’t be right in order to blog it. All we need is, to be sure that we feel what we have written. This according to me is the greatest advantage of blogging. Think of it from a student’s point of view. A student is learning, he may not be sure if his understanding of a particular subject is correct. However, he blogs it because he thinks it is correct. Since the blog is open for the world to see, chances are that a veteran in the same field stumbles over this article and sees him mistaken…. here comes a comment correcting the student’s concepts.
It is human tendency to perform well when you know there are people watching. The hard work that goes in, the diligence is more because you obviously do not want to exhibit your ignorance in front of the universe. In the bargain, there is a lot of time spent understanding the subject, knowing all the facts about it. This improves the quality of study and provides a sound knowledge on the subject.
Considering the ease of access and wide usage of blogs, it can very well be used in the education system as a parameter of evaluation. If students need to publish their assignments in the form of blogs this would arrest the number of plagiarized assignments as all of them will be out in the open for the world to see. After all, no student wants his blog to be a replica of one of the top searches of Google! This in turn would enhance the thinking skills of every student and also propel him to take a stand over any topic.
Woven within the concept of blogging is commenting. Commenting is not as unimportant as it may seem at a glance. If the comment is just “I like your style of writing” or “very good job”, it may not be significant. However, comments may be used to point out a particular thought presented in the blog, disagreeing with it, or questioning it. This could lead to discussions, brainstorming, clarifications, or many times ideas that give rise to inventions or discoveries. The worth of commenting in blogging can be understood by the fact that Sabeer Bhatia’s product BlogEverywhere gives equal importance to commenting. This product is well accepted among the blogging community for the fact that it allows the user to add comments to another’s blog while staying on the same page.
Commenting is what makes blogs open for discussions. In the present scenario where globalization is the key to any business, collaboration among geographically disparate teams is challenging. Blogs may be used as a medium of communication in such cases. Workgroups may have discussions over the net using blogs, commenting on each others views and thus taking decisions. If every group updates the blog whenever a particular task has been completed, synchronization can be achieved. If a new technology has to be imbibed, a self-learning tutorial may be posted on the blog open for all employees to read.
Besides all these, blogs are essentially a vent to each one’s thoughts. Reading a series of personal posts from a particular person helps you understand him better. You get to know your co-workers well, what they feel, what they are, what they want; it improves your proximities and makes them your ‘friends’ and not just ‘colleagues’.
Archana
IT052021
ITBM
First we had emails, then SMS and now blogs. It seems the communication paradigm is shifting from body language and endless conversations to endless words on a screen. It's a common saying that there's a book inside everybody. The blogs are the means through which this book is published. Blogs are true example of democracy through which we can hear all sorts of unbiased voices, opinions without any fear. Blogs are kind of web sites that are frequently updated most often with the links to other sites and commentary on the other sites’ content. Blogs combine musings, memories, jokes, rants and essays. The topics for majority of blogs are devoted to what an author is interested in writing at a given time. There are different kinds of blogs including multi author or community blogs, single author blogs (like the one’s which we have), business blogs, and Intranet blogs. Like any other creative invention blogs too have their negatives but the positives outweigh them.
I feel after having a good introductory paragraph about blogging now let me turn the direction of this write-up on how blogging is helpful, if it is after all according to me? Why we should blog?
Blogging I feel do sacrifice some depth of thought but provides in turn a freedom and flexibility that no other means of publishing can match. As connectivity to the Internet has reach homes so one the most important advantages of blogging is that a blog post is published immediately after the blogger hits the post button. Academic blogs are especially important to students as they give an unparalleled opportunity to share their knowledge, express viewpoints and make their voices heard. I think that blogging is also a very creative way of learning things away from traditional classroom environment. Blogs can act as good medium for conduction survey on opinion of different group of people regarding a certain discussion. One of the other major advantages that I see is that I can use my blog space as a place to share my experience, some of the interesting projects done by me which can be of help to me in future as well as others. They also present a distinguished advantage in a sense that professional certification holders for prestigious and recognized exams can be tracked easily and their experiences can be known. They also helps in what is commonly referred in consultancy firms as “Reinventing the Wheel” by providing details on the kind of projects that one might be interested in. Blogs can also be used for budding professional as blogs are open to everyone. One can get professional carrier help using blogs as people who are experienced in the field shares their knowledge, experience and provide guidance to people who are new in that particular field or want to know about that field. Blogs can be extremely helpful in community building as people with similar views and opinions can come forward and collectively put some effort for the same cause for either benefit to them or people around them. Blogs also can be of great help in raising awareness.
At the conclusion also I’ll write one more advantage of the blogging and that is it can build the profile of the writer, showcasing his or her talent and expertise.
Shreyansh saroha
PGDM II (NITI)
IT052112
Blog - Just do it
You have a one rupee coin and your friend has one, you give your one rupee coin to your friend and you take his, you still have a rupee each; you have an idea and your friend has one, you exchange your ideas and now you have two ideas each.
Moral of the Story: Importance of knowledge & information sharing.
I believe that every individual reading this blog understands the importance of sharing thoughts & ideas and therefore I skip to bore you over the same. I will instead share with you some very interesting and exciting pros of blogging. (Any similarities with other blogs posted by my 100+ batch-mates are purely co-incidental and any actions relating to the same will not be entertained).
In the cut throat competition that we are facing today it is important that we should know something about everything and everything about something. The best source of information available to students or to any individual for that matter is our very own Google. No doubt it is a very effective source but we need to understand the underlying fact that world wide web (www) has many more things to offer. Blogs is one such source of sharing ideas and knowledge. I will limit the scope of my blog discussing the benefits students and budding professionals can derive out of blogging.
How about a word of wisdom - some of the most significant ‘revolutions’ of the last twenty years have all had to do with writing. First we had email, then webpages, then mobile phone texting, and now blogs.
21 ways how blogging helps students and budding professionals:--
• You can earn some pocket money by writing blogs. (One may not see the relevance of writing this as the number one point unless he/she a student)
• It is often found that the people who have most time to write have least to say, and the people who have most to say don’t have enough time to write it. Blogging provides a best remedy by providing very fast means of communication and easy publishing.
• It allows you to share your thoughts with the rest of the world thus increasing the scope beyond your classroom or organization.
• Blogging helps in building up creativity and writing skills.
• It enhances your knowledge when you read other blogs.
• Allows you to engage with others in meaningful conversations and build a network.
• Keeps you updated with news and friends.
• Blogs provide a way of free expressions to thoughts and ideas.
• Language and grammatical errors are not considered while blogging. To put forth your point is the main concern. (Applies to this blog as well)
• You are better informed with the happenings of your interest.
• Blogs can be a positive way of getting feedback, and keeping your finger on the pulse, as readers react to certain pieces, suggest story ideas, etc.
• Blogs build the profile of the writer, showcasing the talent and expertise.
• You can share your personal feelings over blogs.
I know I am not done with 21 points but then this is pretty much I have to say. Plus the punch line looks catchy (21 ways of doing something) so I don’t intend to change that either and I stop here.
Scarcity of data is not an issue anymore, abundance of data sure is. I have tried my level best to clarify the benefits of blogging not making my blog redundant, the rest I leave to your understanding.
Submitted By,
Amit Kate
IT052010
ITBM
A "weB LOG" or what we popularly call a "BLOG" has certain characteristic features which differentiate it from other communication media. The characteristic features of a Blog are self-explained through the following terms:
• personalized
• user-generated
• mini-website
• journal/internet-diary
• chronological order
• intended for the consumption of a relatively smaller audience
Most of the definitions for a Blog that are available from multiple sources focus solely on the technical aspects or factual characteristics of a Blog. I would rather define a Blog as an ICT (Information & Communication Technologies) tool to facilitate knowledge dissemination through interactive communication between a relatively small & homogeneous group of individuals(blog visitors) in the form of a dialog.
This information is aimed at sharing the thoughts, ideas, discoveries, views etc. to add to the collective knowledge of the group while also acting as a platform for intra-group interactive communication.
Currently, there are several different forms of Blogs in use like the Photoblog, Sketchblog, vlogs(video blogs), & audio blogs(podcasting).
In the recent times, Blogs have emerged as a popular & powerful platform for knowledge dissemination through online communication in the form of a dialogue directed towards the visitors. Some of the unique features of Blogs which separate it from the conventional websites are their interactive nature & a more focused & chronological approach to the communication process which gives it a hue of a dialogue.
Due to the chronological order of the posts, a Blog provides an updated or fresh look & feel as compared to a conventional website. As a thumb-rule, blogs are more focused in their handling of the subject matter.
Blogs are a natural extension to the conventional websites as a result of the technological evolution of the ICT tools. They add some new capabilities while retaining the advantages of previous media such as the websites. With the integration of the multimedia technologies into the standard PC browsing environment, media such as vlogs, podcasts & real-time video-conferencing are but a natural extension to this evolutionary process.
Blogs are a great information & communication tools in the hands of the students as well as the budding professionals. Blogs can be used both ways: for seeking information for oneself as well as for providing knowledge to others. Already there are numerous blogs existing on the internet covering everything ranging from academics, politics, philosophy, to travel, fashion etc. Blogs provide an innovative platform for sharing the thoughts, ideas, discoveries, views etc. with other like-minded people around the world in the form of an interactive dialogue. This 'interactive' component adds to the charm of 'blogging' & the feedback acts as an inspiration or a moral booster for the 'blogger'. It further fulfills the basic human need of bonding with like-minded people & forming homogeneous groups or associations around the world in an online environment.
Further, Blogs provide a platform to the students & the budding professionals to fulfill their quest for knowledge on any topic/problem under the sun & share the results with others thereby spreading the awareness. This media provides a seamless access to massive amounts of information on a 24x7 basis from around the world at a fraction of cost compared to other informational resources such as books. Thus, Blogs are a great asset to the students as well as the budding professionals in their quest for knowledge at a personal as well as the professional level.
Submitted By:
SAURABH KAPOOR
IT 052107 - NITI
SCIT
To start with lets consider both categories together; if you are a student or a budding professional, core thing that you need to be successful in ones career is Information. And blogs are the best place to find Information. Most of us surfing the Internet are not willing to buy information and nearly everyone expects to get it free. Apart from huge pool of available knowledge lets talk about the costs involved. Since there is mostly no cost involved in reading anybodies articles published on blogs; so no money spent. One might find many e-learning sites, tutorials etc; but baring few, most of them charge for the knowledge they have, which is many a times not justified.
If you want to share something, you can get lot of free blogging sites waiting for your contribution. All you have to do is register for free, this will give you ones own page. It reflects ones personality and being a student or professional it allows showcasing ones intellect. You can put any information and be appreciated / rectified / thrashed by others. It’s a good place to enhance ones knowledge, be it general or any domain expertise. One may argue about the fact that there are many places where one can get free knowledge, like Wikipedia or forums, but the major difference is you get advantages of both forms with unrestricted freedom to express yourself. One can publish any content and at the same time get into discussion on any topic with visitors.
It is not that one cannot earn for sharing knowledge, there are ways of doing it.
This is likely the most common means of leveraging a blog to generate income. If yours happens to become a well-known blog, or one that is well received in a particular niche, it's always possible to sell ad space on your own. For lesser-known blogs, services such as Google's AdSense or BlogAds enable bloggers to establish ad programs.
Here is another click-through opportunity. Affiliate programs enable your blog to serve as a conduit between readers and online sites offering various goods and services. One popular choice is Amazon.com. If, for instance, you offer book reviews or even just mention a book in passing in your blog, an affiliate program provides a means for your readers to click directly from your blog to Amazon to obtain further information about the book. If they break out the checkbook or charge card, you get paid as well.
If you've attracted a group of regular followers who simply enjoy reading what you have to say, they may be willing to underwrite their loyalty with a little financial help. Programs such as Pay-Pal make it easy to establish a simple on-site contribution collection button. There are lots of worthy 'cause' blogs that would qualify for donations from grateful members of the blog community.
Finally to conclude, I must say if not actively participating blogging, one can still enrich from Blogs by others, and the knowledge should go where it belongs, to the people.
B.MOHAN VENKAT SHESHENDRA
IT-052027 ( SDM-JUNE )
First of all the session was more of an eye opener for people like us who are always confused as to how to find and post the desired information without paying a heavy price for it.
Weblogs, or blogs for short, are easily published, personal Web sites that serve as sources of commentary, opinion and uncensored, unfiltered sources of information on a variety of topics. Each new entry is called a “post,” and posts appear on a blog page in reverse chronological order. Blog posts typically are characterized by numerous links to other pieces of information, including other blogs, news stories, images/photos, commentaries, videos and audio clips. Blogs also have other distinguishing characteristics, including a calendar or archives and a permanent Web address for each post (called a permalink). While primarily a one-way communications channel, many blogs do allow readers to post comments and many blogs expand their reach by being linked to other blogs on related topics. This collective conversation is called the blogosphere and it’s one of the fastest growing areas of new content on the Internet. The term Web log was coined in 1997 by Internet writer Jorn Barger, with the shorter term “blog” first appearing in 1999.
For more information on blogs and influence on the media landscape, go to //www.edelman.com/insights to download our first white paper called “Trust ‘Media’: How Real People Are Finally Being Heard.”
Foster Internal Collaboration
Use blogs as a workspace where project members keep each other updated without wasting time writing reports or searching the Outlook inbox.
• Bolster Knowledge Management
Blogs work in two ways. First of all, they’re an easy way for the readers to find information and resources they want or need. That’s obvious and is used internally in many organizations. Second, blogs are a kind of “university lite” for the blogger, because blog posts engender conversation in which knowledge is developed and shared. Blogging is community on-the-job learning.
• Enhance Recruitment
If blogs establish a company as a thought leader, people in that business will pay attention. They’ll read and discuss what you have to say. Chances are good they’ll see the company as an attractive employer.
• Test ideas or products
A blog is informal. It’s part of a conversation where people (often) can comment, and the blog can provide a measure of value. Publish an idea and see if it generates interest. Does anyone link to it? What do they say?
• Rank high in search engines
Google and other search engines reward sites that are updated often, that link to other sites and most importantly, that have many inbound links. Start a blog at a regular Web site and the ranking should improve
CEO BLOGS
An interesting aspect of the rise of employee bloggers is that still relatively few
of them are C-level executives. While the number of senior executives who blog has
risen from nearly zero in 2004 to a bit less than 10 percent of companies surveyed in a
2005 study done by Edelman6, they still comprise a very small part of the blogosphere. Those CEOs who have dipped their toes into the blogosphere waters have done so for a variety of reasons, including creating a new marketing channel to customers and potential
customers, and providing a platform for thought leadership. In addition to Jonathan Schwartz at Sun Microsystems, others are making their voices heard in the blogosphere.
Alan M. Meckler of Jupitermedia (weblogs. jupitermedia.com/meckler) is a pioneer in
the area of CEO blogs. Since early 2003, he has been blogging on technology marketing
in general, and his fi rm’s endeavors in this area in particular. He said he views blogging
as a marketing opportunity. “But it doesn’t work unless you have some personality in
it,” he says. Closer to home, Edelman CEO Richard Edelman was among the fi rst CEOs of a prominent fi rm to launch a blog (www. edelman.com/speak_up/blog). He uses it to
articulate industry-wide positions, to discuss his company’s objectives, to surface issues the company is discussing, and to talk about personal passions such as Civil War history. His blog, which currently receives over 2,500 hits daily, is read by numerous audiences, including employees of the firm. One of the few CEO blogs that is restricted to
employee-only audiences is that of Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel. Blogging behind Intel’s
firewall, his posts candidly discuss developments at Intel and comment on competitors and industry trends. While Otellini doesn’t talk about his internal blog to external audiences or release its content, parts of posts have made their way into the
blogosphere. One post from January 2005 characterized his candor: “While I hate
losing share, the reality is that our competitor has a very strong product offering.”
Even more traditional companies such as General Motors are getting in the game
of blogging. Its vice chairman Bob Lutz blogs regularly at fastlane.gmblogs.com in
a blog called “Fast Lane.” His posts deal with major issues facing the automaker,
offer sneak peeks at new designs and products, and feature a good mix of corporate and consumer news. His blog puts a human personality to an otherwise faceless huge company.
Sprint Nextel Business Solutions recently launched a blog (businessblog.sprint.com)
that’s also authored by a prominent senior executive, Vicki Warker, vice president of
product management and marketing. The site, entitled “Things that make you go wireless,” is designed to “discuss the development and applications of Sprint
wireless products and services.” After witnessing a very active blogging community of Sprint consumers,
Students can use blogging to learn, unlearn and express their erratic views without actually paying for what they are learning.
Gunjan Mitra
IT052050
PGDM Systems
http://youvegotjust24hoursaday.blogspot.com
Submitted by,
Kanchi Agrawal
IT052139
ITBM
About Blog: During the past year blogs have become a worldwide cultural phenomenon. Once the preserve of technically-minded enthusiasts, blogging has begun to transform key areas of society such as journalism and politics and now seems set to rival e-mail as a medium for personal communication. The number of blogs is increasing exponentially. In March 2005, Technorati, a blog search site, was tracking close to eight million blogs, up from four million just five months before. The number of blog readers is also on a sharp upward curve. In January 2005, the Pew Internet and American Life Project reported that blog readership had increased by 58% in 2004, claiming that 'blogs had established themselves as a key part of online culture' The Harvard Business Review named blogs as one of its 'Breakthrough Ideas for 2005', commenting that 'blogs are the most conversational of all the forms of media, and marketers can't afford to be left out of the talk'. Businesses are also beginning to appreciate the power of blogs, a trend reflected in the business press. In fact, some global companies have been using blogs for a number of years. In 2002, the software firm Macromedia was among the first to encourage its employees to start blogging. The company realized that blogs could provide a forum for its managers to discuss new products with developers and answer their questions. The response was very positive. In February 2005, Microsoft had over 1,400 blogs listed at blogs.msdn.com. Even Bill Gates himself was reported to be thinking about starting a blog. Interest in the blog as a business tool has coincided with a growing realization that traditional marketing methods are no longer suited to today's fragmented markets and increasingly cynical customers. The nineties saw the introduction of new forms of marketing, including relationship marketing, buzz marketing, word-of-mouth marketing, one-to-one marketing, opt-in marketing, guerrilla marketing and viral marketing, to name but a few. Blogs have the potential to fulfil many of the aims of these new marketing methods. They are a form of instant publishing which enables companies to 'have conversations' with their customers while projecting a more human face. Since blogs first appeared, they have undergone a number of technological transformations resulting in the addition of new features such as comments and trackback. What started as a written medium is now developing into new areas with the appearance of audioblogging and videoblogging. Moreover, RSS and podcasting are allowing users to access content in different ways.
Why Do I Blog?
The reason why I blog is to share whatever knowledge I have as well as to know what others do think about the upcoming technologies. I have just started with my blog- http://www.blogranjan.blogspot.com/. With this I want to promote my recent R&D project which is published at- www.softwarearchitectureportal.org/resources . When people will visit this page they will come to know about different tools they can use to improve their processes. The next thing I wish to share is my hobby of Shayaries (Hindi & Marathi). Third thing I want to publish is my current R&D project- “Global Challenges Faced By Indian IT Product Companies”.
This is all what I know about blogging. I will be glad to know what are the other ways I can use my blog and share knowledge with more and more people.
Ranjan Revandkar
IT052094
Systems PGDM
A blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order. Well this is the technical definition of blog. But if we talk about blogging in a layman's term then it is all about what one has in ones mind. It can be anything such as food, politics, or local news, functions as more personal online diaries or anything that one wants to share with others. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual although some focus on photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), or audio (podcasting), and are part of a wider network of social media. That is a bit about what blog is but if we discuss how it helps students and professionals then there are many points that signify its importance.
Blogs are probably the easiest way to have a website. With blog software, it literally takes minutes to have a professional looking site up and running. It builds ones professional reputation word by word. Bloggers are people with attitude. They say there’s a book inside everybody. Well, the Web and blogs have let the book out! There has literally been an explosion of opinion. Everyone is potentially better informed and this can be good for the long-term growth of ones own personality. Blogs have potential to help in developing stronger relationships, as everyone interacts with others through blogs. Blogs, in an intranet environment, can be an excellent way of sharing knowledge with others. Blogs can be a positive way of getting feedback, and keeping ones finger on the pulse, as readers react to certain pieces, suggest story ideas, etc. Blogs can build the profile of the writer, showcasing the talent and expertise. Reading blogs written by industry experts, experiences shared by umpteen people, information about the upcoming events, updates on the latest technology can add a lot of value to the student’s personality. Especially for students; blogs empower students to be co-publishers of the course and to easily comment on, react to, and debate any (teacher or student) contributed element. They can have an easy-to-use tool that provides faculty and students an authentic online classroom previously dominated by syllabi and class notes. They can have an effective way to share professor's powerpoint slide, word document, and other forms of traditional "course content."
Hence these are the few points that signify the importance of blog for students and professional. There are many other advantages also like:
1. Blogs are easy to create
2. Blogs are easy to maintain
3. Blogs are search engine friendly
4. Blogs allows you to interact with similar thinking people
5. Many great blog hosts are free
Chhavi Tiwari
IT052033
NITI
Blog is a word which means collaborative learning,expressing one’s views, taking others opinion, building a community and there by gaining knowledge having insights of new ideas. After this workshop of new media for the learning professional i thought of creating a blog of my own and start blogging. The potential of blogs in education and career is almost limitless. A blog is a writing space to organize thoughts and share information with others. The emergence of blogs as a component in the two-way flow of information on the web has opened up exciting new avenues for the educational community.
Blogs creation and maintenance: any website acts as blog vendors, they provide free space to create a blog. One just needs to create a account and can start blogging. Blog vendors offer you a variety of templates you can choose from. Blog software allows you to post online from anywhere. blog's software will automatically move the most recent post to the top, while archiving older posts by date or by topic, so one don't ever have to bother to move web pages around.
Advantages
1) The blog opens new opportunities.
Through blogging one can create contacts as there may be HR or senior officials of a company commenting to the blogs which may offer a job or some project to the student writing the blogs. Internet is a free place where importance is given the knowledge rather than the person. So many contacts can be built by regularly posting the blogs.
2) It significantly increases our credibility by demonstrating the quality of our thoughts.
Posting the blog daily shows the persons capability his thoughts and views and even shows the consistency of a person as this is something which one doesn’t copy paste but rather write as if one is actually speaking and expressing his thoughts. There by judging the credibility of the blogger.
3) It builds a community of people having same area of interests.
Blogs are easily linked and cross-linked to form learning communities. One can post the blog and then comments can be given by any blogger. They help small groups communicate in a way that is simpler and easier to follow than email or discussion forums. They promote cohesiveness and group culture. The blogging community is a large one, but a lot more personal than you think. One may find students, professors, professionals working in the same area of interest and having immense knowledge. They may directly give their feedback and help a student. It's a strange bond, but a nice one. You're sharing something in common with people all over the world, which is pretty amazing. Edublogs are kind of specialized blogs used for educational purposes. Its an accumulation of writing and other content maintained by a community of Webloggers who share a common interest.
4) Blogs are flexible enough to allow a dialogue, a conversation, a sharing of ideas, the revelation of the parties true insights and resources without corporate filtering. That, and only that, encourages and develops a relationship based on trust. Teachers can use blogs to provide an area to point students to useful resource and discuss issues arising as part of a teaching and learning program.
5) It has given us a much better two-way conversation with our consumers than we'd have without it. While working in a professional environment one may not be able to express his views, but by blogging one can easily express views and even get feedback on them.
6) Gives our participants a 'human face' for our community; also allows us to share ideas and insights into our products and the way we architect solutions. Blogs allow you to interact with your customer base. If a student or a professional is developing a software or a product he may directly interact with the users and can proceed accordingly.
7) Blogs are search-engine-friendly. If quality stuff is posted on the blogs and appropriate keywords are used then the traffic to the blog may increase there by even few dollars. A professional or a student can make his website popular by quality material and then earning money from the advertisements which can be used for a great weekend party. Since blogs assign each post an individual URL address, each of them will have it's own, separate web page. If you take care of making each post very focused on a specific topic and carefully choose the keywords that best describe your, they will stand a very good chance of ranking well with the search engines.
8) Knowledge mangement tool and Ideas for project, entrepreneur for the future
For students or budding professional one can take opinions of established people in their fields and can prepare a roadmap for their future. This easy interaction facilitates the development of learning communities. It can be a useful resource for educators to find information related to their particular discipline or interests. In effect the blog allows colleagues to act as filters or judges of content form many sources and to allow as many editors as they like.
It's affordable - You can set up a blog completely for free if you like. Bloggers and other contributors to user generated content are behind TIME magazine naming the 2006 person of the year as "you". Many people have been seeing success with their blogs, whether they're looking for personal growth, monetary growth, or both. So students and professionals jump on the bandwagon and start one for you!
By:
Upma Sharma
IT052131
Systems(2005-07)
Benefit of blogs for Students and budding Professionals
"Blog".... Initially I was just aware of what blog was and why do people write blogs but had never written any blog. In fact I never felt the need of writing the blog. Some of my friends used to write the blog and from them came to know that blogs are the virtual diaries which contains information which might be personal and would like to shared among people having similar sort of experience. Some of my friends told that blog shares news, information about latest happenings, new trend in technology. All this things made me a little confused that why someone would like to share their personal experience and information by writing blogs when other form of advanced media is available. That was the sole reason Blogs never excited me. But thanks to the lecture attended and the assignment given I started to have an inclination towards blog as I found it an exciting way of sharing information, although I had to make a little effort of researching.
Blog is an easiest way of using our right of writing freely. It helps in meeting people of same frequency and to share the knowledge with them. People of any age n hierarchy can write a blog and meet people of similar thoughts. There is no hindrance to it. Most blogs are primarily textual although some focus on photographs (photo-blog), sketch-blog, videos (v-log), or audio (pod casting), and are part of a wider network of social media. The term "blog" is derived from "Web log." "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
Blogs are beneficial to students of all streams particularly web and media. As it address all kind of audience, like student to share the knowledge, businessman to improve his business etc. what has also helped is that the comments have worked as a feedback and acts as an imperative for any improvement.
How students are benefited by blogs?
1) Knowledge is a continuous evolution, which continues till humans survive on the planet. Student’s life is the best to gain the knowledge. Here, you crave for having more and more knowledge and be aware of the new technologies, news, events, and more such information on the social circuit. Reading blogs written by industry experts, experiences shared by umpteen people, information about the upcoming events, updates on the latest technology can add a lot of value to the student’s personality.
2) With the medium of blog a student can interact with lot of experts and can resolve his problem with ease. Blogs learn to gain an umpteen-numberof thing about the day-to-day happenings.
3) Feedbacks and suggestions can be asked from experienced people on projects and hurdles.
4) Blogging is also a good platform for students to show their skills and the hidden talent, which they might not be able to show earlier.
5) Blogging makes all of us senior to share various experiences in the college, our four months Industry Internship experience, and our Research and development project. Even the juniors can let the seniors know what current happening in the college, and request for their comment on the issue. Blogs have a huge benefit and it only depends upon the individual how he utilizes the vital information which is freely available.
How Professionals are benefited by Blogs?
1) Blogs are inexpensive, cheap or rather have no cost to set up, operate and maintain. Blogs are the cheapest means to have one’s own web presence.
2) Blogs contribute to the growing business by helping to maintain long lasting relationship with the customers.
3) Blogs give you a higher and better presence on major search engines, like Yahoo, and Goggle. The blog should be well written, updated routinely, have more and more keywords. More keywords in blog help give one better ranking on the search engine.
4) For one starting his career, he too can post his questions about current openings, the market trends and relate to his career path.
5) Not only bloggers but also other visitors to the blog posts may find interest in the budding professionals. The professionals may find suitable partners, venture capitalists, investors who may be interested in the upcoming business.
Thus by proper use of the blogs everyone would be able to share the knowledge and give a helping hand. It all depends upon the selfless attitude every bloggers follow.
Vinay Kolhar
IT-052136
SCIT- SYSTEMS.
Well now, as an assignment I have to write the advantage that blogging would give a student and a budding professional. Now to understand the advantage anything would give, you first have to understand the thing itself.
“The internet”, something that is growing at an enormous rate, something that is helpful, very huge, with various offerings, and also something that everyone not only has to know, but something that everybody need and should know. The knowledge of the internet can give you entry into areas that were not possible and into areas that you never knew existed.
Now back to the topic at hand- “Blogging”. The most resent explosion or advent in the internet is personalization. Everybody is trying to provide people with a little space of this vast abyss called the internet. The first to do this was the various mails clients, like Yahoo, Gmail, and Hotmail etc. They allowed you to keep a little bit of yourself on the internet in the form of mails- small textual, pictorial and video communication between you and the people you know and who are making use of the same facility. After this was the advent of creating groups on the internet. Something that allowed you to club yourself with your friend on the internet in the form of groups, e.g., Yahoo Groups, Gmail groups etc. Next was the revolution of blogging (will explain later). Later, it was time for the rise in popularity of community sites. Something, that allowed you to keep in touch with all of your friends in a form of a scrapbook. Some of the most popular ones are Facebook, Orkut etc.
If you make use of the internet, then I suggest you go and find the meaning of the word “Blogging”. You will get a variety of definitions all telling you the various things that you can do with the help of a blog. But for some one like me- a first time blogger, all the functions and options all boil down to one simple thing—Freedom. This facility allows you to write whatever you want, on which ever topic or domain you want at whatever time you want and from wherever you want. Now isn’t that a great deal, and I almost forgot that you don’t have to shed out any cask to make you of the facility. Thus you can write about you field of work, you hobbies, your emotions, about various events that have occurred in your life and much more. But the one thing that you have to remember is that since it is on the internet, your blog could be read by any person on the face of this earth.
At the starting of this post had mentioned that I had to describe what are the advantages that blogging would offer students and professionals alike. Now through the entire description of what exacting blogging is, I have touched on some of the advantages, that blogging, for more read on.
For students and professionals this gives you a unique platform to firstly try out your writing skill, by posting a blog on the net. People will read it and you will be able to ask them for their feedback on the article. Then learning form the criticism and praises that you get, you can develop your writing skill and the fine turn it to become into a well known writer. Who know, you could become the next J K Rowling or Sidney Sheldon. Secondly this facility allows you to talk about you favorite things and topics and discuss it with other people that have the same interest. Blogging can also be used as a very innovative learning tool. There are a lot of people, who are experienced in various domains and, who come and write about the field that they are working in. Thus this allows you to interact with the directly and get information, as they say- directly form the horses’ mouth. At the same time you could also start writing about various academic or work related topics and then give important information to the various people that read the blog. Besides these there are countless more benefits of blogging and the only way you can find them out is by getting online and writing or reading blog on the net.
The basic thing is that if I can use this facility then anyone can. Remember- a first time blogger, and this is my very first blog.
Posted By-
Elton Barretto
PGDM II System- IT052045
Any comments?
The most striking changes in the world of the last two or three
decades were to do with writing! First there was email, followed by
web pages…then came mobile texts and now, the BLOGS. Blog is a
truncated form of the word "weBLOG", which is nothing but a virtualdiary created to publish views and comments for the world to read! It is a space that gives freedom of an unedited expression in the boundary-less world of Internet.
So here I am, talking straight about the on-going revolution in the world, to which everyone right from students, professionals to
organizations are associated (even addicted) to, called blogging!
Blogging is an excellent way of sharing knowledge about any topic
under the sun. Blog is also a place to interact with like-minded
people, and the people further up the ladder getting together for
meaning purposes. Students and professionals can exploit this amazing medium of communication to the best of their use.
As social networking is gaining relevance for businesses of today, the importance of blogs will grow as well. Increasing more corporations and executives around the world are using the blogs as a medium to build an image about themselves their organization. Blogs are used as an effective medium for marketing about your products/company/service etc. Blogs are a great medium to create interests about your products
and draw potential customers. It also can be a very positive and
straight way of getting the feedbacks directly from the
users/customers.
When ever I feel lonely and find no one around to get the comfort, I usually write a blog which is nothing but a diary but with one huge difference. Diary’s can be read by any one if found under your bed …or inside the cupboard … hmmm…but blogs?????? They are only Yours. You and only You can read it.
I, as a student, about to enter the corporate world would love to read the experiences of my future colleagues about their 1st day at office. This will help me adjust myself in the new environment very easily.
When I was thinking to search such blog, for a second I laughed on myself ….what crazy thing I m expecting from the world of blogs as my search was very specific to the company I got placed… but when I found a blog of one of my college senior placed in the same company, I was very happy and felt quite relaxed after reading it. Now that new JOB FEVER is very much in control.
Like every coin has two sides, blogging can also be used and misused.People having grudge can spread rumors and can publish false facts as a vindictive move on this free communication channel. Organizational
marketing blogs can also be counter-productive, and may communicate incorrect information to the perspective buyers.
Inspite of the negatives, blogging remains a very effective medium
which can be used in a useful manner. Ultimately searching for blog will be like what computers are and will be- GIGO. (Gold-in, Gold out.Or Garbage-in Garbage-out)
Shalaka Ranade
IT043012
PGDM[SDM]
Kindly visit my blog "Inscrutable World"(pankajbindlish.blogspot.com) and see the post "BLOGGING!! My first blog"
Submitted By:
Pankaj Bindlish
PGDM- NITI(2005-07)
A blog is a personal tool whereby the reader can gain an understanding of the weblog author's personality, style, and opinions. A blog is also on the web where it is cheaper to publish, and can be updated frequently. A blog is published through templates through which the process is automated and relatively easy to perform. Finally a blog is usually a part of a community.
This idea of "community" in weblog is easy to see by visiting some of the more popular blogging sites on the web including blogspot.com, weblogs.com. Through these sites anyone can sign up, create their own blog site, and begin writing about anything they want. These sites also feature tools whereby the reader can see what the most popular posts for the day are, or see what kinds of discussions are dominating people's minds at a given time. All of these personal sites feed off of each other by linking to each other and building communities of specific strains of thinking and ideas. There are so many blogs out there (some estimates are at over 100,000 ) MIT has begun research into gleaning out what kinds of issues matter most to the blogging world at any particular time. Through Blogdex, and other tools like it, a reader can see what links are getting referred to the most on blogs around the world.
Blogging and Academia
Thanks to blogs, academia is having a bigger influence on public discourse than ever before. The advantages by far outweigh the negatives. Blogs offer faculty, staff, and students a freedom of tone impossible in scholarly journals or even the student newspaper. Blogs offer an immediacy of publishing unheard of in academia, as well as an easy, and sometimes, fun way to do it. Blogs also put faculty, students, and staff at an even playing field; essentially your opinions are judged on the merits of your writing and arguments, not you’re standing in your academic field. Blogs offer a way to rapidly discuss opinions, issues, and ideas, and allow people from across the country, and campus, to connect with each other. Blogs are also lowering the cost of publishing while at the same time raising public awareness concerning academic issues. Institutions will soon be forced to look at this new medium as more than just a fad.
Advantages of Blogs to Students
• Students have access to your complete notes on the Internet. Students have the option of previewing the class material before class and reviewing the material after class.
• Because students are connected to the Internet, they have access to online English dictionaries. Students can easily look up words they do not understand by cutting the unknown word and pasting it into an online dictionary.
• Because the class material is organized into sections, students can easily find information.
• Students can read comments for the class as a whole and comments directed at them individually. This maximizes feedback and contact with the teacher.
• Students can observe how their writing has changed over time.
Enterprise Blogs.
It is amazing to note that business blogging has come of age and organizations are now beginning to understand that blogs as both a concept and a technology can extend far beyond a simple online diary. Companies can take advantage of blogs to save time and money, while improving their strategic positioning. The enterprise blog is the perfect vehicle for taking the data most critical to strategic decision making, and turning it into valuable, actionable information. The enterprise blog takes the benefits of corporate intelligence and puts it into a truly useful format.
To be sure, blogs can have some special advantages for budding professionals
• Blogs can be useful sources of information for business, particularly as each one may present information from a different point of view;
• Blogs can be used for communication within the enterprise as well as for communication with clients and others outside the enterprise. Like other collaborative tools, blogs are effective for companies that encourage cross-functional communication. They provide individual workers and teams with easy-to-use tools to deliver critical real-time intelligence to customers, partners, investors, and indirectly to internal decision-makers;
• Blogging can be a tool for project management. Good blogging software provides facilities for organizing and managing timelines and information from a variety of sources;
• Blogs can be used as a competitive intelligence tool, particularly for carrying out research to support new business proposals or product development;
• Blogs can be used for marketing, for example as a way to connect with potential customers. Customers who check in regularly will be more likely to purchase a new product or be faithful users of the services offered. Blogs can be used as an alternative to email marketing, or as a marketing tool in their own right. Marketing -oriented blogs enable enterprises to provide information and discussion about new products and about developments within the enterprise;
• Blogs have been promoted as a toll for knowledge management and knowledge sharing. They can help capitalize on a wide variety of areas of expertise within a group, encourage contributions from different people, and provide a basis for internal data feeds so that they can be viewed in context. The recognition provided by signed blog entries provides motivation for people to participate; they get credit for their ideas;
• Customer service is an area in which the potential of blogging is being explored. Blogs could provide customers with information about products, assessment of the value of the products in particular settings, contact information and direct contact with people who are using the product, tracking of updates to the product and new versions or functions;
• A blog can be used as a newsletter or can take the place of a newsletter; it is a form of online publishing. This is particularly the case with one-way blogs, but nevertheless the capacity for users to comment does make a useful addition to the traditional newsletter format.
SUDHINDRA DEVARAKONDA
ITBM ( IT052124)
SCIT
The role of the blog is probably best expressed by Stefan Glanzer, one of the founders of blogging system 20six: "If you want to reach millions you book an ad on TV and if you want to reach one person you use e-mail or the telephone. But if you want to reach between 5 and 500 people a blog is the ideal tool to communicate."
Blogging is the frequent, chronological publication on the Web of personal thoughts and opinions for other Internet users to read. The name, coined in the late 1990s, derives from “Web logging.” The product of blogging is known as a “blog.” There are millions of blogs on the Internet. In addition to thoughts and opinions, many bloggers also use their blogs to recommend books, music, and links to other sites on the World Wide Web. Weblogs (blogs), often published by one person or a small group of writers with a shared interest, feature brief, informal commentary studded with hyperlinks to related material on the Web.
1. How blogging (and participatory media) can help students?
Blogging is quite helpful for the students. In today’s environment, which is also known as internet era, most of the knowledge a student can gain is through internet. On line web-portals are available to clear any doubt in the mind of the students. “Pagalguy.com” is such a web-portal which provides information regarding MBA. People can register on the portal and can post their queries required to make their career decision. Many students discuss their thoughts on the portal, and make their decisions based on reply on their posts. Similarly students can get latest write-up for their current subjects. They can discuss on-line with experts what they have learnt in the class. They can share their thoughts with thousands of students through out the world. So a student can share his thoughts with a student thousand miles away from him. And most of the open source knowledge is available over the net in the form of white papers and blogs. Students have found the material exhaustive and helpful. Thus blogs have helped in self study initiatives taken by the students.
2. How blogging (and participatory media) can help budding professionals?
In today’s world technology changes are so quick that if you think of shifting to a new technology, you can not be sure that it will remain in the market for more than a month or even more than a week. A techno person needs to be aware of such a quick changing market trends. A professional is also required to show his knowledge in order to prove his capabilities in the market. It is helpful in his career growth. It is also helpful for professionals to increase their knowledge base by consulting with experts of their fields with the help of web-portals. Today many organizations have started their online knowledge base which is available to all the employees of the organization, to share their knowledge with their colleagues as well as with future employees of the organization.
Thus, Blogging can be considered as such a media which keeps students and professionals up to date with their knowledge base as well as help all of us to increase our knowledge database with the accurate and latest information.
Lokesh Joshi
Systems (IT052061)
SCIT
lokeshmbmec@yahoo.com
As a student, I remember the first time when i used internet, i was very happy and excited after creating an email account for me in Hotmail. It used to be pretty expensive those days and there used to be a serious choice between the Movie tickets and Cyber cafe to shell out the major chunk of pocket money. After a few days when i connected again, the Inbox sadly said 'You have no new messages'. That was the instance i realized that i need to send e-mails to all the people i know to get replies from them. Suddenly, i realized the need to connect with people, or else who am i going to send e-mails, or who will mail me in the first place, it is two-way, right !!!
We always think that internet is the biggest resource for finding information, on virtually everything, but have you ever given a thought to who puts in those Tera-bytes of information into it for you to 'Google' out all your research pages or complete your homework. its YOU ... the power of collaboration .. the power of collective information. Its us who keep putting in whatever information we have and thats the only way everyone gets to know what everyone else have to say. This is where blogging comes into picture.
Blogging, in its real sense, is truly a mirror that reflect your ideology. It speaks volumes about your heart and the way you express your feelings. I see blogging as not only a communication medium with outside world but also an inner journey to your soul. It forces you to think and reflect upon your own ideas and opinions and after fighting with yourself for long, you let the one side within you and then show it to the world.
It is much more than a personal diary, or a self journal, for that matter. It is like a teacher giving you his bits of knowledge instead of you reading a whole book to get the gist out of it. The ideas you right or read are straight from the mind. It is really interesting to read blogs of people who are experts in their own field.
In my whole life, 23 years to be precise, i would have met probably 10000 people, and directly talked to almost 2000 people ... but blogging gives me an opportunity to talk to hundreds of thousands of people directly, whom i might never meet at all. In that way, it brings the world closer and let you know people who will, otherwise, remain unknown to you forever.
Now, as i'm about to leave college and enter the real life (i prefer to say it that way) where i'll have to deal with sharks everywhere, i have to find my way around in the corporate world and also find time to contribute to this ocean of information which has given so much to me. It will also help me keeping in touch with friends who are stepping out of college with me. I can keep them informed about what i'm doing through blogs and would also love to read their blogs.
It basically gives us a common knowledge sharing platform. Most importantly it provides a feedback loop, which is essential. Anyone can post comments on the blog that i write, so even if a friend thinks twice about putting a negative comment, a stranger would be straightforward in doing so, and that is where i gain. As a professional you definitely needs to get alternate points of view, you can not afford to keep a closed mind.
Just one more thing ..
I taught my dad to use internet, to use e-mails and pay bills online and he was really happy with the time saving and convenience. Now i'm going to teach him Blogging.
Nishant Agarwal
IT052078 (Systems)
PGDM (2005-07)
What is a Blog? The question that has unlimited answers.
The can be: ‘A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links’.
To put it as simply as possible - a blog is a type of website that is usually arranged in chronological order from the most recent ‘post’ (or entry) at the top of the main page to the older entries towards the bottom.
Blogs are usually (but not always) written by one person and are updated pretty regularly. Blogs are often (but not always) written on a particular topic - there are blogs on virtually any topic you can think of. From photography, to spirituality, to recipes, to personal diaries to hobbies - blogging has as many applications and varieties as you can imagine. Whole blog communities have sprung up around some of these topics putting people into contact with each other in relationships where they can learn, share ideas, make friends with and even do business with people with similar interests from around the world.
Blogs usually have a few features that are useful to know about if you want to get the most out of them as a reader. Lets examine a couple briefly.
Archives - You might look at the front page of a blog and think that there is not much to them. A few recent entries, some links to other sites and not much else. However its worth knowing that there is a lot more going on under the surface that might initially meet the eye. For example in addition to the main page of this blog - at the time of writing this post there are over 520 other pages or posts below the surface that I’ve written over the past few months.
Comments - Not all blogs use comments - but most do. This blog is not a monologue but a conversation. You can give me feedback on almost everything I write simply by clicking the ‘comments’ link at the bottom of each one of my posts. This will take you to a little form where you leave your name, email and a link to your own blog if you have one as well as your feedback, comment, critique, question, essay on why you love my blog, promise of money…. etc). Try it now. Scroll to the bottom of this page, click ‘comments’ and fill in the blanks with a little introduction to yourself.
"Blogging is a way of organising your thought process. And journalism or any professsion, or for that matter, writing, is essentially an art of organising your thoughts and putting them across in reader-friendly way. The exercise also helps to cultivate an individual style."
§ Variety of topics are discussed in blogs including blogs as a personal image builder, what makes a great blog, their practical use, and whether blogs are changing the face of information.
§ For students "Blogging is an excellent way of showcasing your talents to the world. It is the closest you can get to having your own paper".
§ Students are given the liberty to choose the subject for their blogs. In addition, they are encouraged to create collaborative blogs.
§ It gives current information as blogs are updated regularly and helps bringing out creativity in students, helps in building a well-networked community of people.
“Enjoy Blogging”
Mala Singh
ITBM – IT052062
What started as a personal diary, mainly describing action that takes place during online gaming, by an American student named Justin Hall (Justin's links from the Underground) has today become a phenomenon of a sort known as weblogs or simply blogs.
In earlier years web communities ran through Usenet, e-mail lists, Bulletin board systems and later internet forum software such as Webex. Then people started writing online diaries which took the form of blogs that we see today. RSS feeds made the blogs simple to view, write on to and helped them arranging in a reverse chronological order.
How blogs are useful for students?
1. Information
Blogs dealing with specific or very niche issue can provide with great amount of useful information.
2. Discussion platforms
Various views originating from different students can lead to value added discussions.
3. Knowledge sharing
Easy feeding and retrieving of information helps in sharing knowledge among the students.
4. Thought Process
A particular line of thinking or a perspective based on facts or innovation can be propagated among the groups and communities.
5. Ideas
New ideas can come for discussions and like-minded students can come together to build on to them with their inclination and zeal.
6. Fraternities
As in America, web based fraternities can come into existence trough blogs that can lead to constructive work.
7. Social causes
Students can voice their opinions about social causes to the fellow students and to the world. (Jessica Lal murder case took up by a high school student although there was no use of blogging but in future it can help)
8. Awareness
The key to the reforms and development. Students can make themselves aware trough blogs by posting facts and figure.
How blogs are useful for Professionals?
1.Blog based business
A full fledge business is possible through blogs as providing people with tips, information they seek, technical support etc.
2.Communication
Most important for a professional of any sort, with fellow professionals, customers, experts.
3.Product and Services information
Products and services that are to be provided can be communicated in detail to anyone who would be interested in availing them.
4.Feedbacks
Very useful and at times critical. People using products and/or services are able to voice their opinions, ask questions, and suggest improvements or customizations.
5.Knowledge sharing
Specific expert information in some areas can be made available to public or to the competitors in order to start a knowledge sharing process and also to entice them to suggest value adds.
6.Consulting
People can be provided with consulting on the issues they ask for. A professional consultancy also can be run in the are like Finance, stock brokerage, portfolio management etc.
7.Referral networks
Professionals can add to their contacts and build a referral network for themselves or service providers they avail services from that can prove beneficial for the business or profession they are into.
8.Awareness
Any issue related or unrelated to business can be raised and people can be made aware of it for the sake of society or even profit in some ways. Corporate Social Responsibility.
These are the prominent uses of blogs that come to my mind, with many more that are in the phase of realization or may be realized in near future. In the end blogs can be seen as a great enhancer of public expression of views as well as knowledge sharing among the communities. It is up to the person who wants to create a blog to use it the way it cannot only be of individual use but for a larger good as well.
Varun Deshmane.
ITBM-IT052133
SCIT, Pune
vvdeshmane@yahoo.com
Check out my blog at http://kalyat.blogspot.com.
Sreejith Kalyat
IT052121
Blogging is useful for students
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Empowers students
Student blogging is incredibly empowering in the following ways:
1) Instead of writing as a mechanized approach to empowerment where we learn to write well enough for school and work, we learn to write for life-long learning purposes.
2) Writing and blogging and life are intertwined as difficult issues are exposed and dealt with in a transparent community of voices. Although this type of writing entails risk and trust, growth and teamwork naturally result.
3) Writing and blogging encourage students' initiative to write, to be engaged at more than just the head level. It involves writing from head and heart. Children often have not learned to do more than live from the heart, while adults have concentrated their efforts on more cerebral approaches. This means adults and children can bridge the gap that exists by writing together, creating a community of writers in their classrooms where there is no pseudo-community, only community where humans write.
Helps them find a voice
Another benefit to educational blogging (and wiki-writing) is the opportunity for the student to find a personal "voice" and to develop individual interests. Much like journal-writing, blogging gives wings to ideas that otherwise may can stay trapped in the mind. Many individuals find that blog-writing changes their lives in a significant way by allowing them to express their ideas in a medium that appears to have life and longevity--and that might find a kindred audience.
Engages students in conversation and learning
Educational Blogging is more than just being about writing, just like writing is more than just writing business correspondence or a lab report for Chemistry class.Unlike traditional forms of publication that are one-way, when the work is done at the end of the publication process, students can be engaged in ongoing conversations about their ideas and thoughts. This can be threatening for some administrators afraid of endangering children, yet, it brings a reality to the classroom that was not previously possible.
Creates enthusiasm for writing and communications
It is not expected that all students will take to blogging (just as not all students enjoy writing), but it is believed that blogging has a unique ability to create enthusiasm for writing and the communication of ideas.
Provides an opportunity to teach about responsible journalism
Because students who are posting blogs reach an audience with their posts, whereas a personal diary can be kept private, students have the opportunity in blogging to learn about the power of the published word. Whereas they might be tempted to criticise or make fun of someone in private conversation or in a diary, they can be taught about responsible journalism, and that the consequences of these kinds of remarks in the new world of the read/write web can be serious and long-lasting.
Tushar Garg
PGDM-Systems
IT052129
SCIT,Pune.
What is a Blog? The question that has unlimited answers.
That can be: ‘A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links’.
To put it as simply as possible - a blog is a type of website that is usually arranged in chronological order from the most recent ‘post’ (or entry) at the top of the main page to the older entries towards the bottom.
Blogs are usually (but not always) written by one person and are updated pretty regularly. Blogs are often (but not always) written on a particular topic - there are blogs on virtually any topic you can think of. From photography, to spirituality, to recipes, to personal diaries to hobbies - blogging has as many applications and varieties as you can imagine. Whole blog communities have sprung up around some of these topics putting people into contact with each other in relationships where they can learn, share ideas, make friends with and even do business with people with similar interests from around the world.
Blogs usually have a few features that are useful to know about if you want to get the most out of them as a reader. Lets examine a couple briefly.
Archives - You might look at the front page of a blog and think that there is not much to them. A few recent entries, some links to other sites and not much else. However its worth knowing that there is a lot more going on under the surface that might initially meet the eye. For example in addition to the main page of this blog - at the time of writing this post there are over 520 other pages or posts below the surface that I’ve written over the past few months.
Comments - Not all blogs use comments - but most do. This blog is not a monologue but a conversation. You can give me feedback on almost everything I write simply by clicking the ‘comments’ link at the bottom of each one of my posts. This will take you to a little form where you leave your name, email and a link to your own blog if you have one as well as your feedback, comment, critique, question, essay on why you love my blog, promise of money…. etc). Try it now. Scroll to the bottom of this page, click ‘comments’ and fill in the blanks with a little introduction to yourself.
"Blogging is a way of organising your thought process. And journalism or any professsion, or for that matter, writing, is essentially an art of organising your thoughts and putting them across in reader-friendly way. The exercise also helps to cultivate an individual style."
- Variety of topics are discussed
in blogs including blogs as a personal image builder, what makes a great blog, their practical use, and whether blogs are changing the face of information.
- For students "Blogging is an excellent way of showcasing your talents to the world. It is the closest you can get to having your own paper".
- Students are given the liberty to choose the subject for their blogs. In addition, they are encouraged to create collaborative blogs.
- It gives current information as blogs are updated regularly and helps bringing out creativity in students, helps in building a well-networked community of people.
“Enjoy Blogging”
Mala Singh
ITBM – IT052062
Not one more comment: its anguish, anger and irritation combined on the evaluation system of Indian education……………………. Huh!!! one more 500 worded essay
Blogging….. Waste of time, web space, creativity…. What not?
Keeping these views in mind, am starting to write in one of the most boring language: ENGLISH on one of the boring topics I had ever written on: B (ore) LOGGING.
Let’s see how it turns out!!!!
I assure all the readers of this stupid piece of writing that I ll try to put in all my efforts to make it worth a read, but I am not sure if it turns out to be one such interesting mani ratnam’s ( one of best Indian film director for those who don’t know) kind of script or one more boring college lecture and submission kind of stuff…..
BUT
1) It is your sole choice to read and don’t curse me later….
2) Anyways if you want to praise, then I would be the sole owner of all that gratitude….
I did some home work on the topic before this, for the longest half an hour of my life… wats blogging ? why is it great? Wats the history? How to create a blog? Wats the stuff all the students of the college are so fascinated about? What does the lecturer want me to do? And finally how many marks is it evaluated for? How many words should it be precisely so as to get the maximum grade? .... Were all the questions I found answers for…
1………. 2 ………….. and 3… its done……….SIMPLE PLOT
Its simple…. Yes really is… three simple steps
• Surf some blog site
• Go for the (free) create blog option
• Fill the formalities and submit
That’s it, you need not know asp.net or java or vb.net , you need not create a web portal…. Its magic like the old hindi movie hero…. Just in the span of 5 mins (mostly an inspirational song in the background) from “care of platform” to a million dollar home… you have a BLOG in your name and you have built your own (web)space to play with … if you want to be a “feeling lucky name” on google you can do it as mr.paragshaw, by giving innovative names on its blogspot….. hmmm A BIT INTERESTING???
Now that you got the plot all we need to do is …………BUILD
Its your own plot (blog) so its up to you to construct whether it’s a concrete wall, a brick made home, a bungalow , or a multi storied apartment…. Its all up to you….
What I mean is whatever subject you want to talk on or share your views on has no limits… after all its your blog and “the trespassers can always be prosecuted”!!!....
Hence it may start with your schooling stories to Abraham Lincon’s time in white house(Clinton also but I don’t want to go into it)… it may be on Diana or on Theresa or ms.shaila kagal (she is the director of a prestigious b-school called SCIT)… it may be on karl marx or on jyothi basu or on dawood ibrahim………… yesss you can talk or share all the views , previews, reviews, single views, interviews, ………and ultimately Its your view on all other views… its getting BIT MORE INTERESTING!!!
Now that you built the house you can ……………………..bring up the FAMILY:2 ways to build it.
for the blogger to build up the family I mean is to build the community of choice…. You may do it in two ways
1) go join the group of bloggers who share the same interest, i.e., get attracted to the birds of same feathers.
You can search and invite other people who share the same area of interest as you do.. This as any other forums would help as a tremendous knowledge base on the particular topic or idea……….. It also allows us to get the 360 degree view on the topic
2) The other way is that you attract others to your blog…. Stand as the flower that attracts the bees.
For that you need to have the colorful petals(creativity innovation and of course loads of knowledge on the subject) , I mean the comments on the blog should be worthy enough for others to read and seek some kinda communication with you………..this creates the visitors of your own and there by you can share views on any subject …. This would be difficult to be a stand out when there is so much info available on net but always there is a chance to be different……
So now that we are able to understand the whole art of how and why to blog and we also have a family!??
Lets understand the ADVANTAGES of this process to some of the family members like
1) students
2) professionals
there are I think 100 more comments before me on the same blog about all the advantages of blogging…DO NOT BORE THE READERS is the first lesson I learn t …….
.so to keep it simple it all boils down to
• create a plat form for like minded people sharing common interest
• share ideas
• maintain knowledge bank
• updating and upgrading the accounts in that bank
• exposure for the new entrants
• knowledge at a glance and informal and friendly ways of sharing
• innovation at ideas and creativity in presenting are a part of the menu
• ease to search the stuff
• ease in maintenance
BUT………..
all these are under certain assumptions…..
• bloggers are genuine in providing the content
• all of them are spending quality time (no unnecessary comments)
• the identity and the expertise of the bloggers are proper
failing in any of the above would be fatal to the whole concept and spirit of blogging
DISADVANTAGES :
Ya I find some of them as I go through this whole concept
• there is already the “anti” community wave that’s at the top of the tide
• a blog like “how to kill yourself” kind may prove fatal
• the genuineness of the content and the author is skeptical
• one misconception can lead to chain
To be frank the number of disadvantages or negatives is outnumbered by the advantages of blogging…………… at least I have to say this so that I score a better grade for the submission…….. I hope mr. parag shah ll read the above 2 lines carefully ….
FEED BACK is the best that you would get as it strips down the entire piece of writing in front of the whole community but always allow you to improve .
So guys and girls and lecturers and EVALUATORS sorry if I kind of bored you on my way to pass in the subject……..
what can I do ??? I am small creature in this VISCOUS CIRCLE of EVALUATION and GRADING of EDUCATION system………. Thanks to mr. shah and ms.kagal that I am going to be a part of the blogging space……I find it as a waste of nothing if properly utilized and also FINALLY ITS INTERESTING…
Naga chaitanya kolli
IT52071
ITBM
SCIT
Abhishek
Parzania, Hey guys I just saw it today and liked it and will recommend you all also to watch it. Just in order to avoid landing for a wrong movie and going through a torture for two or probably three hours if a hindi movie , I most of times take advise from a group of close friends spread all across the country who are my most trusted critics.
Thankfully my access to their views has improved with the advent of new media technologies like blogging and Podcasting. Infact Parzania is a good example of it because I had read a blog from a close friend on it just day before yesterday. You are just a few clicks or minutes away from all the reviews you needed about movies and music. Keep yourself informed about them through the blogs of your friends who although physically away, have their views to offer you(only if u trust them). They will keep you well informed if they happen to come across great movies, music and anything they feel is worth telling you through blogs.
Blogging according to me is frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links. In case you are writing about your daily experiences regularly or frequently then:
1) Helps you to understand what you have been up to.
2) Helps you introspect what you are doing or are up to.
3) Helps you to set goals and track if you are on the right path or not.
4) You can reminisce all that you have been up to if u have been blogging regularly or frequently.
5) Helps you find answers to difficult questions cause I believe, u see a problem better when in words in case of confusion.
The above benefits were for you. Incase you have come across something that’s really exciting then you can share it with your friends through your blogs. These may include information about movies, music, computer games, indoor and outdoor sports, the common traits in your last three girl friends etc. anything you want to write about.
And above all it may sometimes help you with your projects and professional life. You may search for blogs, join or make a community which helps you with your passions, projects and job. Through this you will have views from people in that field which will help you learn more about it.
Thus I believe blogging is amazing platform to voice your views and experiences. Sometimes they may help others too. So start it now if you don’t.
Abhishek Jaitly
IT 52002
Systems
My answer is, "Sure, why not? - at least if they have a point of view they want to share, and the desire to share it."
But I'd also add, and this is the important part - But they shouldn't stop there. Blogging is great when you have a point of view and you'd like to share it. But all learning professionals need to exchange ideas with others, to test their ideas, to question their assumptions, to learn from each other in ways that come with dialog.
And, as the saying goes, if your only tool is a hammer, the whole world looks like a bunch of nails. Blogging is great for publishing one's opinions, and for forming networks based on weak social ties.
Using blogs for deep, sustained dialog - described further in my own linked blog post - is like trying to drive screws with that hammer. You can probably do it, but why not use the right tool for the job?
Anish Thambi ( Systems- 52015)
Blogs are dynamic web pages that can be created, written and updated regularly with new articles, thoughts and opinions through a simple content management tool. Web logs or blogs are a type of Web content typically created by independent writers. A web log is updated frequently and sometimes groups links by specific subjects, such as politics, news, pop culture, or computer issues. Blogging is a kind of networked literacy. We are going to step out in a distributed, collaborative environment and it's a brilliant way of associating with the world outside. One very interesting thing, which I came across while going through several blogs, is equal citizenship...which everyone desires. A blog can help in bolstering Knowledge Management. Blogs work in two ways. First of all, they’re an easy way for the readers to find information and resources they want or need. Secondly, blogs are a kind of “university lite” for the blogger, because blog posts engender conversation in which knowledge is developed and shared.
Advantages of blogs for students:
1.A student interested in projects, research & development can blog his interests and help relevant patrons.
2. A student can also consider blogging to sell his skills. A fresh graduate out of college can show off his skills, interests, and make blogging a selling commodity. He can possibly attract the employers with his relevant skills and experiences.
3. Blogs are effective forums for collaboration and discussion.
4. One could talk about shared classroom experiences.
5. Blogs are powerful tools to enable scaffolded learning or mentoring to occur.
6. Well blogs can be created for any thing, which you feel that is important and useful to the world. You can create a blog about the placements of your seniors and discuss about the packages and the profiles offered to them.
Advantages of blogs for professionalls:
1.one can gain knowledge about other technologies- expanding boundaries.
2.blogs facilitate collaboration toward shared practice.
3.They help in building connection with experts and knowing their viewpoint.
4.Readers can comment directly onto your blog, creating interaction and interest.
5. No more waiting for your web designer to update your web site.
6. You can post to your blog yourself, about any issue, daily if you wish, and get it broadcast into the blogosphere instantly.
7. Blogs are an effective marketing tool.
Anish Thambi ( Systems- 52015)
Harini Chamarti (IT052030 - Systems)
A weblog, or simply a blog, is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger”. Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog. Postings on a blog are mostly arranged in chronological order with the most recent additions featured most prominently.
The advantages of blogs from an organizational perspective :
• The consumer and citizen are potentially better informed and this can only be good for the long-term health of our societies and economies.
• Blogs have potential to help the organization develop stronger relationships and brand loyalty with its customers, as they interact with the ‘human face’ of the organization through blogs.
• Blogs, in an intranet environment, can be an excellent way of sharing knowledge within the organization.
• Blogs can be a positive way of getting feedback, and keeping your finger on the pulse, as readers react to certain pieces, suggest story ideas, etc.
• Blogs can build the profile of the writer, showcasing the organization as having talent and expertise.
Advantages for Students:
• Reflective or writing journals
• Knowledge management
• Assignment submission and review
• Dialogue for group work
• E-portfolios
• Share course-related resources
• Students have access to instructor’s notes on the Internet. Students also have the option of previewing the class material before class and reviewing the material after class.
• Because students are connected to the Internet, they have access to different dictionaries and bibliographies.
Man is a social being and sharing at all levels has been a characteristic of mankind. Restricting the scope of this comment to informational sharing, we can see its examples on the cave-walls by Paleolithic hunters, in sculptor inscriptions and in the holy bible. Many examples and media channels can be cited for this type of sharing. The information age radically redefines the extent of information sharing and suddenly almost every piece of information is available online.
The Internet age gave rise to many new media technologies and one of the recent most addition to this is the Web Log or popularly known as BLOG. According to online resources blog is defined as a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order. As a techie I want to agree with the statement but there is much more to Blog than what meets the eye!
For me, Blog is a personal brand image builder, a knowledge management tool and a way to reach out to many people who might share insights on my views. Blogging is a way of organizing my thought process and putting them across to readers from varied background (cultural, intellectual, regional, political, business) in a friendly way. It also helps to cultivate an individual style of writing; and reading – an art that has long been forgotten. I would like to think of my blog as a personal advertisement on the web and of course as a tool for social & professional networking as well!
When I come to think of it Blogging had its own merits and demerits. First of all, almost every individual can find a plethora of blogs which reflect current topics & match their own interests. If not, they can start one of their own. As a person I really like the fact that the comments on a blog are from common folks and not some philosophical extravaganza from a hot shot writer which I can read; even appreciate but cannot understand much!
Blogs are a great platform to write publicly and get instant feedback. Also, personal blogs can be used effectively to remain in touch with distant friends and family members. But there’s a downside to personal blogs – privacy issues and stress due to commitment towards posting comments on the blog even when you don’t feel like or in short “chronic procrastination”.
There are several other ways individuals can use weblogs. Blogs are a very effective tool enabling us to collaborate on projects, promote events, market the school, communicate with the community, and go job hunting – a very popular sport with fresh post graduates like me! It gives us an alternative way to showcase our talents and skills outside a resume, and to provide employers insights about the candidate (“me”!). Many bloggers with entrepreneurial spirits are using web logs to make money and earn a decent living from blogging.
Apart from that blogs are used in a variety of areas like in politics (used in 2004 U.S. election campaign), and in businesses as a marketing tool to create awareness about a new product or service or technology. However unethical blogging for example blog with incorrect information about a person or product can lead to harmful consequences.
Blogs are great as marketing tools, for advertising and for helping establish a new website. But, they require time, effort, personality and a great writing voice. You can even go ahead and buy a blog for a small amount of money! However, it can be a risky venture especially if the blog is centered on a small number of contributors. Also, blogging itself is fairly accessible; many of the back-end tools that allow connectivity are not. The basics of posting and linking are easy enough, but the stuff that enables blogs to be really useful is still somewhat a personal property of the digerati.
Some of the advantages of blogs in the professional arena that I came across through my research are that they personalize the business and give a human touch to what is seen as steel and concrete! It is also easy to create and manage contents on a blog thereby enabling the smallest of organizations to have online presence and use this channel to increase its turnover. Moreover since a blog has dynamic contents, it translates into repeat visits by prospective clients and brand loyalty towards the organization. And since most of the search engines have an affinity towards sites that are updated regularly blogs generally rank higher than websites in the search results and hugely increases the touch base with new customers!
And here’s the part about blogs which I just learned and loved a lot! We can earn some money by running ads and joining affiliate programs and using them on our blog! A common tool used is Google’s adsense! So friends make a blog and make some money, and you might even end up getting an offer from a book publisher asking permission to print the blog in form of a hardcover (kindly read as “FAME & MORE MONEY”).
Happy blogging!
Summit Sharma
Blog has coming up very rapidly in the last 4-5 years on Internet. Blogging has taken the Internet by storm. This is becoming popular at a very tremendous rate. This has become the most popular topic among the youngsters.
But what is a blog??? A blog is a website on which the entries are made and displayed on it. Blogs have become the best way to express his/her own thoughts. Many Blogs are primarily textual, but it can also contain things like photographs, sketch blog, audios and videos.
Text Blogs are frequently updated and written in a personal tone, a blog can be a diary or any journal where the writer writes his/her observations about various things. Different bloggers write about different themes on which they feel comfortable. Any one can start writing a blog, as it does not require any special training. It’s language can be formal or informal, any thing which the blogger prefers. For the people who are reading the blog, they can also post comments on the blog itself. The comments will be shown in the chronological order. In today’s world blogging has become a new way to express personal feelings.
I am new to blog; after attending the workshop conducted by Parag Shah Sir I got interested and I decided to start my own blog. Actually this was a wake up call for me to know the power of the blog. As I am joining this continuously evolving IT industry, so I have to be aware of it.
Personally I am writing my diary since long time. As this is the time of admissions in our institute (SCIT) I decided to start a blog and put all my experiences related to SCIT on a blog, which I am going to start very soon. This will help people get their views clearer, about SCIT. This would also help them to get their doubts clear about things in SCIT. Also I would like to share my experiences with my juniors about my internship, studies, exams, presentations, vivas and also the most important the placements.
Blogging can also be useful for working professionals. It is making people visible on the Internet. A blog can become a face of people. If many people visit blog of a person and once blog of a person becomes popular this will help in making a reputation or credibility for that person. If the information posted by that person in authentic and is helpful for other his/her blog will become popular. For professionals specially budding professionals this will be very helpful, with the help of a blog they can interact with other people and can get some new information. There are possibilities that his/her blog can provide a platform to interact with the top most professionals of that particular field. For professionals their blog can become face of them.
In the workshop, sir also discussed about pod casts and video casts. Pod casts are audio transmission technique through which the media file is distributed by subscription (paid or unpaid) over the Internet using syndication feeds, for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. Podcast has beconme a new way of communication between the people. This is like a radio for which the content is available online. Like radio this has content and the method of syndication.
Podcast has become very popular in people, as it’s initial appeal was to allow individuals to distribute their own "radio shows," but the system quickly became used in a wide variety of other ways, including distribution of school lessons. This has become a new tool for communication between the students and their faculties. It has now given freedom to students from attending the classes and also to the faculties from giving lecture at a bounded time. Univesities has now started podcasting their lectures. So that students can listen to them at their convenyance.
Video podcast is an evolution specialized for video, coming from the generally audio-based podcast and referring to the distribution of video on demand. This is latest thing which is coming up in blogs.
All the above things I have written I have learned after attending the workshop of Parag Sir. Sir I would like to thank you for introducing this amazing thing to me. All the things I mentioned in this article are things I read on various sites, and also experenced a few, m trying to experience these things one by one.
At the end I would like to say that blogs will be the face of people in future, they will become more popular like ‘Orkut’ or even more than that. Also I would like to say that every one of us have to have a blog and express his/her thoughts through this medium.
Abhishek Sharma
IT52005
SCIT-Systems
At the onset, it seemed a novel experiment. One had what seemed an offer of new modes of conversation, expression, and sharing -- evolutionary steps toward a new social imagination. The possibility of creative cross currents unevacuated by petty egoisms, status plays, the usual. – that’s what the blog is all about.
When I was in 8th standard, most of my friends had only one way of utilizing their free time, chatting. And it was not only my friends but internet users from all age groups, professions and various interests were interested in this new way of communication. Apparently, at present chatting is not much in scene now. Then, what the people are doing now a day? Are they not interested in communication and sharing of thoughts anymore? Answers to above questions are limited usability of chatting made it obsolete for wide communication and multiple sharing of thoughts. So people are doing that by blogging.
Blog - Originally meant to be an online diary. A weblog (or blog) is a web-based space for writing where all the writing and editing of information is managed through a web browser and is immediately and publicly available on the Internet. Blogs provide like-minded people with an endless stream of timely stories and links. This helps bring information, news, and web sites to readers in a quick and efficient way. Slashdot, probably the most popular blog on the web today, covers "News for nerds, stuff that matters." With topics like Bugs, Compaq, Star Wars, Spam, and Anime, the nerd in all of us can find a story of interest and join in some great discussions.
Scope:
Recent research conducted at the RMIT in the Faculty of Art, Design and Communication has explored the range of potential applications of blogging technology in education and training for student communication, learning content delivery, student mentoring, professional development, collaboration and knowledge management. The focus of this article is on the use of blogs by students as learning journals. Blogs are able to integrate the personal aspect of a traditional learning journal or diary that documents a student’s journal through their leaning with the immediate publishing capability of the web. A blog site was developed specifically for the research and groups of students from three learning contexts developed online learning journals as part of their studies. Qualitative interviews were conducted with participants using informal open ended questions. Participants reported enthusiastically about the use of blogs for storage and safekeeping of learning, maintenance of study routines, encouragement to structured thinking and revision and the possibilities for transformation to meaningful knowledge from learned information. The use of blogs as e-learning spaces is supported by this research which offer the possibility of a new tool to add to the more familiar forms of online communication and extends the body of evidence that support the use of learning journals as part of the education process.
Above mentioned benefits are few to name from the list of benefits of blogging. As users are so overwhelmed of the use of blogging, blogging in their own words:
Amrita Kriplani, an engineering student, who has been blogging since 2002, says: "Blogging is an excellent way of showcasing your talents to the world. It is the closest you can get to having your own paper," she says.
Anand started his personal blog after the topic was introduced in the course. "I have found blogging to be extremely useful not just as a personal publishing tool, but in building a well-networked community of people. In fact, after sensing the possibilities in blogging, I wonder how did I not know about it before," he says.
So blogging have many positives for students, but if it so for them then it must also be of same value to their seniors i.e. professionals. Yes, even professionals are accepting to the fact that blog is of great use in collecting and sharing ideas. And it is not only about ideas but also source of some concrete information like useful contacts, links and other similar stuff. As we discovered, that blogging has so many benefits, still there is a question in mind.
What effect is all this blogging having on the brains of bloggers?
Why ask this question? The primary reason can be found in one of the central tenets of modern neuroscience: "The neurons that fire together, wire together." What this basically means is that our mental activities actually cause changes in the structures of our brains--not only what we think, but how we think as well. Given such activity-directed change, it always makes sense to ask whenever large numbers of people start using their brains in new and different ways, what effects these new activities are likely to have on brain structure and function. Blogging, which only seems to be accelerating in popularity, is a prime candidate for such investigation. After surveying the general range of materials that the blogosphere has to offer, we believe the following basic largely supportive conclusions are warranted:
1. Blogs can promote critical and analytical thinking.
First, there are blogs and there are...well, blogs. Posts can form "threads" or links to other Web materials where readers can examine primary source material or articles that offer competing ideas and views. Blogs that follow this format are far from simple substitutes for television or video games. In fact, they are an ideal format for promoting critical and analytical thinking.
Because blogs are text-based, bloggers must write and visitors must read (rather than passively view) the postings. In research comparing newspaper and television news, public policy experts have previously found that consumers are far more likely to question what they read than what they see in pictures or on TV. There are several likely reasons for this: First, text can be assimilated in a self-paced fashion, allowing time for analysis and reflection. Second, words must--by their very nature--be analyzed, organized, and interpreted before they can be understood, providing more time for critical reflection. In contrast, pictures and music have more direct access to brain areas dealing with emotion and motivation, thereby potentially avoiding or even subverting reason and reflection. Third, pictures and music not only have the potential to alter our interpretations of the words we hear, but can actually alter our perceptions of the words we believe we have heard. Because our perceptions are formed by combining our sensory input with contextual cues from other inputs or stored memories, strongly arousing visual or sound images have a profound ability to alter the words we hear.
2. Blogging can be a powerful promoter of creative, intuitive, and associational thinking.
To remain popular with readers, blogs must be updated frequently. This constant demand for output promotes a kind of spontaneity and 'raw thinking'--the fleeting associations and the occasional outlandish ideas--seldom found in more formal media. (Fortunately, the permanence and easily searchable nature of archived posts helps maintain some sense of decorum.) Blogging technology itself fosters this kind of spontaneity, since blogging updates can be posted with just a few clicks whenever a new thought or interesting Internet tidbit is found. Blogging is ideally suited to follow the plan for promoting creativity advocated by pioneering molecular biologist Max Delbruck. Delbruck's "Principle of Limited Sloppiness" states we should be sloppy enough so that unexpected things can happen, but not so sloppy that we can't find out that it did.
3. Blogging is a powerful medium for increasing access and exposure to quality information.
Because blogs link many facts and arguments in branching "threads" and webs, and append primary source materials and reference works, they foster deeper understanding and exposure to quality information. In turn these sources can seed other creative projects.
4. Blogging combines the best of solitary reflection and social interaction.
Research using the Lemelson-MIT Invention index found that invention is best fostered in solitude (66%); yet other research has shown the beneficial effects of brainstorming with a community of intellectual peers. So blogging may combine the best of "working by yourself" and "working with other people." Bloggers have solitary time to plan their posts, but they can also receive rapid feedback on their ideas. The responses may open up entirely new avenues of thought as posts circulate and garner comments.
Looking at above benefits one cannot keep himself/herself entirely alien to this latest trend, as it has the potential on which you can count and it is the way things are going to be worked.
In conclusion, it looks as if blogging will be very good for our brains. It holds enormous potential in education, and it could take societal communication and creative exchange onto a whole new level.
Submitted by,
Rahul Jain (IT 52091)
ITBM
Blogging is way to synchronize your thought.
For students its really essential to blog as it helps them to frame their ideas well both by creating their own blog or reading other people’s blog.The originality in the blogs makes students put in efforts before putting any new matter into their blogs.a fake idea is very soon rejected amongst the blogging community.
Besides this students can showcase their talents through blogs.every students have the right to choose their own topic of blogging and it can even be topic like which is the best way a subject can be taught.
collaborative blogs help students share their ideas.
One of the major issue would be information sharing like students who want information about foreign university or about career in a particular field which is not very known can go to corresponding blog and can seek guidance.
Blogs speaks more than resumes so this way also students can showcase their talents to the companies through their blogs.
Bloggs are easy to make as there is no specific methodology to do it so it is easier for students to work with.
A budding professional severly lack in
1. Idea
2. Experience
Idea is the mother of every future venture, to excel in our professional career we must have excellent ideas. When ever we look for idea then we look towards the world around us and try to extract the idea from it. blogging can be one place to look for ideas.
We can just read the blogs of other people and try to filter the ideas of our advantage. Many times a minute incident of any person’s life can give us a billion dollar idea. Many example are there.
Now after getting the idea we need to refine it, for that we need to discuss it with experts in that area. This also can be done through regular blogging. We just need to share our idea and people will give their feed back for that.
Many people write their experiences, this is of great use. We learn from others experiences what not to do and this is very useful for newcomers.
Kaweri
IT052059
NITI
AN INSITE INTO BLOGGING
A blog can be: “An online Journal.”
“Blogs are the new phenomenon which has changed the way we look for information.”
Blogging has become a buzzword among students as well as professionals. Blog is short for Web log and is a Web page that has short, frequent updates made to it. Similar to a Web journal or "what's new" page.
A weblog (usually shortened to blog, but occasionally spelled web log) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally in reverse chronological order). Although most early weblogs were manually updated, tools to automate the maintenance of such sites made them accessible to a much larger population, and the use of some sort of browser-based software is now a typical aspect of "blogging".
A blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person's life and what is happening on the Web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site, although there are as many unique types of blogs as there are people.
People maintained blogs long before the term was coined, but the trend gained momentum with the introduction of automated published systems, most notably Blogger at blogger.com. Thousands of people use services such as Blogger to simplify and accelerate the publishing process.
"There are three main features of a blog: the first is reverse chronological order, the second is unfiltered content -- the second somebody filters or edits the author it's no longer a blog -- and the third is comments. A final identifying attribute of the blog might be the flip, informal, ironic tone so common to bloggers.
Most communicators have a preference (or at least have better skills in one form or another). If speaking is more your thing you might want to consider Podcasting or even a Video based web site.
23 Questions for Prospective Bloggers.
1. Do you enjoy writing?
2. What’s your Message?
3. Are you a good communicator?
4. Are you better at writing or speaking?
5. Do you want to be the central voice on your website
6. Are you a self starter?
7. Are you disciplined?
8. Do you have time?
9. Are you thick skinned
10. Are you willing to be in the public spotlight?
11. Do you have any technical ability?
12. Do you take yourself too Seriously?
13. Do you have a blend of humility and Ego?
14. Are you willing to learn?
15. Do you enjoy reading?
16. Are you an organized person?
17. Are you a Social person?’
18. Do you enjoy ‘virtual relationships?’
19. Are you a creative person?
20. Do you have Stick-ability?
21. Are you Consistent?
22. Are you honest and transparent?
23. Are you willing to work hard?
Benefits of Blogging
Well, as is the way of things, blogging found its place pretty quickly: as a pre-formatted online journal, it offers a form of communication familiar from pre-online days, making it quicker and easier for people to communicate directly and personally, without the mediation of other editorial priorities, whatever a journal - or journalism - can communicate. My initial sniffiness (below) overlooked exactly the benefits of that familiarity.
So blogging has made an impact as a source of first-hand on-the-ground reportage in dramatic and fast-moving events, such as the Asian tsunami and the Iraq war, but also on everyday realities in particular jobs, such as the police, or the NHS (though there has been much speculation as to whether the more eye-catching professional blog is a work of fiction). Clearly it helps communities of interest to keep up with each other's occasional notes on new developments and ideas, and it's been used to 'pre-edit' a book (on blogging, of course) - I'd be interested to see how soon it could start to shade into formalised academic colloquia on ongoing research (no doubt it already has). And you can use it to save on holiday postcard bills and (with a digital camera) the slide-show evenings of old.
The distinctive feature of blogging is journal-style entries, in chronological order. What's caused the fuss is form-based updating through the Web, as developed originally by Blogger.com, which
- allows you to do without a direct dial-up or network connection to the host
- offers self-assembly pages, requiring no knowledge of HTML
- allows you concentrate on what you want to say rather than on the slog of creating a look for it.
“Start Blogging Now”
Vipul Maheshwari
ITBM – IT052137
Prerna Koli (IT-052088- Systems)
The internet with its evolution has created and given enormous power to individuals which were either restricted to the official print media or government officials. Blogs are an extension of the entire gamut of services given by the internet to an average individual. It gives him the most fundamental right of an individual to express his thoughts and feeling about anything and everything without any supervision. I would say it is one of the greatest things happening to human evolution where people anywhere in the world have the right to express their thoughts without any control.
Blogs are way to express oneself in the electronic media. Students get exposure to the real world by reading about other people’s experiences. Educational blogs (blogs written by students and teachers) helps students to quickly catch up with a missing lesson, offer teachers to introduce course plans, record experiences of class excursions and information about various academic topics.
A PEW/INTERNET survey says 19% of the online teens are bloggers and 38% actively read blogs, which shows growing importance of blogs in the society. Regulation must be imposed on the blogs, which are written by students to make sure they are educative and does not influence the students in a wrong way.
American teenagers today are utilizing the interactive capabilities of the internet as they create and share their own media creations. Fully half of all teens and 57% of teens who use the internet could be considered Content Creators. They have created a blog or webpage, posted original artwork, photography, stories or videos online or remixed online content into their own new creations. Teens are often much more enthusiastic authors and readers of blogs than their adult counterparts. Teen bloggers, led by older girls, are a major part of this tech-savvy cohort. Teen bloggers are more fervent internet users than non-bloggers and have more experience with almost every online activity in the survey.
Blogs in the professional scenario is very useful for the individual as well as the organization. It helps the individual to express his/her thoughts and experiences in a subtle and relevant manner for everyone around. It helps individuals to achieve a lot of things, like
It helps Leaders to communicate directly with customers, suppliers and investors, as well as employees, helping disseminate and explain strategy. Blogs give the writer an opportunity to answer critics in a controlled forum. Compared with conference or printed memos to all staff, enterprise blogs are highly cost effective. Sharing their ideas freely in an honest voice brings the blogging companies new connections and generate trust which will lead to business opportunities galore. Blogs have a broad impact on the nature of online media by giving an opportunity to publish words, pictures and - ultimately - multimedia to the web without specialised geek skills.
A well written blog can give a human face to an otherwise anonymous enterprise. People are far more likely to give great feedback if they know someone specific is listening. The power of these feedback loops can generate big benefits.
And last but not the least it gives an individual the recognition worthy to him/her, which would earlier be the sole right of a Times of India or a Indian Express reporter.
Time changes, world changes and so do we…
20 years back, very few of us knew what computer is. Time changed with microsoft which said a computer on each desktop. But then again the world changed its face by showing the internet way to connect with people and now the road is showing a great turn ahead leading people to express themselves, to share things, interests, ideas and topics… blogging.. the sign reads.
Its a useful place to record information that you want to share with others and to which you want to invite comments. It is possibly seen and checked by more than 100 million eyes. It is democracy at its best, because people are writing what they want, no one is telling them what to write … unlike journalists, who are limited to their news agency. There has literally been an explosion of opinion.
There are no courses taught on blogging. But bloggers do write and share their experiences, point of views and interests on line and as a source of education
How blogs can be used by students
• post their project proposals and get input from peers on these proposals
• post findings on an issue they were each researching (each student assumed responsibility for researching an issue and keeping the class informed on what they were learning)
• develop writing, share ideas and reflect on work being undertaken in the classroom.
All this can help in achieving the depth of exploration and the revealed insights of the topic being talked about.
Not only education, but it has business advantage too. The business blogs is that they are there to support you in your business activities – consider them simply as tools to help you to achieve business goals and work forward from there. Once you manage that, then a whole range of potential uses will start to appear.
The uses for blogging in businesses are extremely wide because it can impact at so many different levels - so whether a company is focusing on improving relations with customers, increasing internal communications, developing and testing new products or “simply” raising its profile (and sales) in the marketplace then blogging has a role to play.
Some industry examples to mention here-
• Cadbury Schweppes where they have been using blogs as a way of promoting their graduate recruitment.
• IBM's employees use blogs not only to ocmmunicate with each other, but also to share appropriate news and information about IBM products and services with the outside world - with the rest of us.
But then as every coin has two sides, there is a darker side to the blogging too. It’s impossible to tell how much editorial control is going on but that isn’t the point. The point is, do they achieve their goal of giving people interested in working an additional insight into what it is like to work for the company and whether they should consider it. I believe that it does!
Priya Agrawal
IT052147
ITBM
Me on Blogs:
• Blogging is just to jot down whatever you have in your mind about the topic of discussion. That’s it.
• Technically though, blogs are web logs that are updated regularly. Generally they are updated on a daily basis. They contain information related to a specific topic. In some cases blogs are used as daily diaries about people's personal lives, their political views, or even as a space to post their social comments. Ultimately blogs can be shaped into whatever the author want them to be.
• A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic.
ADVANTAGES FOR THE STUDENTS:
1. As an individual, it is highly recommend that one has some sort of publishing strategy, whether it be a blog, newsletter, writing articles for magazines, website or whatever. This is an age where professional reputation is built word by word.
2. As a student one has to manage everything from his pocket expenses. Blog vendors offer you a variety of templates you can choose from. Most likely you will find among them one that offers the look and feel you're looking for. You don't need expensive or complicated web editors or web design software to create a blog.
3. As a project doing student one would need a realistic feedback on his/her efforts. Blogs offer the option of enabling a "comments" field after your posts where readers can give you feedback. Thus you will have an effective and inexpensive way to get the required guidance.
4. Blogs, in an intranet environment, can be an excellent way of sharing knowledge within the Institution.
5. Blogs can be a positive way of getting feedback and moving in the right direction while doing a Research Project on a relatively unexplored topic.
6. As a PG student you would want your Project Work to be advertised in the Corporate, so that one may get the right break or the right value for the product. While you may initially create a blog for your existing Corporate Associates, you may find that you can attract newer Corporate by illustrating your expertise in a specific field.
ADVANTAGES FOR THE PROFESSIONALS:
1. Content is a very important factor for online businesses for purposes of being found by search engines and also because it gives visitors a reason to come back. Since blogs are not only trendy but also beneficial to businesses, its important to understand how they can be used to your advantage.
2. The blog gives professionals the opportunity to tell potential, or existing customers industry news, updates, or generally how their expertise can be used in specific situations to alleviate problems.
3. As a professional you might need to travel at times and not have the luxury of your workplace. Blog software allows you to post online. This also means that you can post anywhere, not just from your own computer. You may be at the remotest place, and if it has an internet connection you can log in and update your website from your web-based control panel.
4. As a Consulting Professional you would need your customers to interact with you and give feedback. Since blogs offer you the option of enabling a "comments" field after your posts where readers can give you feedback, your visitors will not only be more inclined to come back, but you will have at your disposal an effective and inexpensive way to get to know your customers better.
5. Blogs have potential to help the organization develop stronger relationships and brand loyalty with its customers. Thus, the blogs also represent the human picture of the professional’s organization to the customer
6. And last but not the least; blogs can build the profile of the writer, showcasing the organization as having talent and expertise.
Apart from their potential advantages blogs are becoming a very dependable offline communication medium, for the specific topic, narrowing the gap over the different Geographies !!!
Me on Blogs:
• Blogging is just to jot down whatever you have in your mind about the topic of discussion. That’s it.
• Technically though, blogs are web logs that are updated regularly. Generally they are updated on a daily basis. They contain information related to a specific topic. In some cases blogs are used as daily diaries about people's personal lives, their political views, or even as a space to post their social comments. Ultimately blogs can be shaped into whatever the author want them to be.
• A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic.
ADVANTAGES FOR THE STUDENTS:
1. As an individual, it is highly recommend that one has some sort of publishing strategy, whether it be a blog, newsletter, writing articles for magazines, website or whatever. This is an age where professional reputation is built word by word.
2. As a student one has to manage everything from his pocket expenses. Blog vendors offer you a variety of templates you can choose from. Most likely you will find among them one that offers the look and feel you're looking for. You don't need expensive or complicated web editors or web design software to create a blog.
3. As a project doing student one would need a realistic feedback on his/her efforts. Blogs offer the option of enabling a "comments" field after your posts where readers can give you feedback. Thus you will have an effective and inexpensive way to get the required guidance.
4. Blogs, in an intranet environment, can be an excellent way of sharing knowledge within the Institution.
5. Blogs can be a positive way of getting feedback and moving in the right direction while doing a Research Project on a relatively unexplored topic.
6. As a PG student you would want your Project Work to be advertised in the Corporate, so that one may get the right break or the right value for the product. While you may initially create a blog for your existing Corporate Associates, you may find that you can attract newer Corporate by illustrating your expertise in a specific field.
ADVANTAGES FOR THE PROFESSIONALS:
1. Content is a very important factor for online businesses for purposes of being found by search engines and also because it gives visitors a reason to come back. Since blogs are not only trendy but also beneficial to businesses, its important to understand how they can be used to your advantage.
2. The blog gives professionals the opportunity to tell potential, or existing customers industry news, updates, or generally how their expertise can be used in specific situations to alleviate problems.
3. As a professional you might need to travel at times and not have the luxury of your workplace. Blog software allows you to post online. This also means that you can post anywhere, not just from your own computer. You may be at the remotest place, and if it has an internet connection you can log in and update your website from your web-based control panel.
4. As a Consulting Professional you would need your customers to interact with you and give feedback. Since blogs offer you the option of enabling a "comments" field after your posts where readers can give you feedback, your visitors will not only be more inclined to come back, but you will have at your disposal an effective and inexpensive way to get to know your customers better.
5. Blogs have potential to help the organization develop stronger relationships and brand loyalty with its customers. Thus, the blogs also represent the human picture of the professional’s organization to the customer
6. And last but not the least; blogs can build the profile of the writer, showcasing the organization as having talent and expertise.
Apart from their potential advantages blogs are becoming a very dependable offline communication medium, for the specific topic, narrowing the gap over the different Geographies !!!
ANIRUDDHA DESHPANDE
NITI - IT052014
SCIT, Pune.
Blogs & more
The term "blog" is derived from "Web log." "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. Blogs are a powerful promotional vehicle both online and offline. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format forms an important part of many blogs. Just some amongst the innumerable benefits of blogginng are freedom to express, react & learn .No one dominates the conversation.People make thoughtful insightful statements since they have time to reflect.People can read all the comments of the other people and then make general or specific reaction comments
Students and professionals both derive benefits from blogs .
Benefits to the students
Personally I feel that this blog excersice could be of help to people like me. Why I say this because I think I can’t write and still I’m writing, that’s weird right, even I think so but once you start writing you yourself can’t stop. It really helps to give your views on any topic in this vast world. Students can take a look at different blogs written by others and learn some new stuff. Blogs provide learning away from the traditional classroom. This provides a wide platform for the students to voice themselves as well as for learning. Web logs act as a fantastic outlet for creativity. Supports differentiation. It even gives verbally reserved students an assembly for their thoughts. This indirectly encourages reading as to make a meaningful update, or to choose their favorite post, the student’s first need to read what’s out there. Blogs also encourages and teaches research skills. This encourages students to extend their research beyond the assigned work.
Benefits to the professionals
The adavantages of web logs to business/professional is also immense. Through blogs professionals can make new contacts with people across the world. It may open up new opportunities for the professionals. Professionals can put their thoughts and can demonstrate the quality of their thoughts. It may help in their professional life. Blogs have potential to help the professionals in turn the organization they are working in to develop stronger relationships and brand loyalty with their customers, as they interact with the ‘human face’ of the organization through blogs. The frequent visits of the blog readers to read the latest blog postings, indicate the relationship building. Professionals can get feedback from the viewers and can enhance their skills based on that.Professionals can share knowledge through blogs that will be of benefit for the viewers.A blog is a customer attractor for a professional in turn to the company and its products and services.
Ashish Verma
NITI
IT52025
SCIT, Pune
Blogging benefits.
The meaning of Internet what we were using two years ago has been changed now.
Today web also has been evolved to its next version that is Web 2.0.
Earlier web was more and more static in nature that is whatever content publisher has published on their website, is available to you. Now web is going to be more and more interactive with the emerging of new media technologies like social networking sites, podcasting, blogs, online book-marking, Wiki etc. These all together form the web 2.0, which is the next generation, user driven, intelligent web. Now people start adding contents on the web and make it available for the others hence it is going to be more interactive in nature.
Among all these, blog is one of the most simpler and popular medium to share your information.O’Reilly Media Inc. says “One billion people around the globe now have access to the Internet and by the second quarter of 2006, 50 million blogs were created—new ones
were added at a rate of two per second”
Lets first understand what is a blog? The term blog comes from the web-log that is the log of user generated content. Most of the blogs are textual but it could also be in the form audio (Podcasting), photographs (photoblog), videos (vblog) or sketchblog.
Let me describe you how Blogging is beneficial for you as a student.
Blogging is really helpful for improving your academics. You might be thinking of reading blogs related to your subjects, not only in that way it is improve your academics.
Writing blogs as compare to just reading it is more beneficial for a student.
Since most of the examinations are usually subjective in nature where you have to express yourself by your written skills. There are students who know the concept but are unable to express it because of poor written communication. Believe me friends Blogging is really helpful in improving your written communication because when you blog, you have to think a lot (hence improving your thought process) and have to frame it into the simple words and sentences so that everybody can understand it. While Blogging you very well knows that it is going to be public hence you always try to give your best. All these practices are really helpful in improving your written communication hence helpful in getting good marks in your examination.
Besides this students can share their live project experience, their industry experience during internship, educational tours, seminars they have attended, new concept of their favorite subjects, good practices for preparing various competitive exams, their daily day to day learning with in school or college, Information about their institute, their views on certain topic etc. Hence posting and reading such blogs are beneficial for student.
Lets see how Blogging is helpful for professionals.
Since blog is the informal way of communication, that’s make it more beneficial for the professionals. Since professionals are really fade up of following processes which are really very time consuming and hectic. These informal means of communication are solution of their problem, like blog where you don’t need to follow any unnecessary process but just go to the blog and convey your message. People can share information about their profession, their company and befits others who want to change their profession or switch their company.
A person can also makes money with blogs. He can put Google sponsored links (AdWord) on his blog page and get paid on every viewers click. But for making money you have to be a famous blogger. Once you famous in a blogging community you can make a lot of money by online advertising and also become popular among the peoples. Hence one can adopt Blogging as a profession.
I have shared my thoughts about the benefits of Blogging but Benefits of Blogging are manifold, you cannot understand it just by reading this particular blog. To understand it you have to experience it by reading and writing blogs, so get up and start reading and writing blogs and develop this culture among others. You can start with just by giving comment to my this blog or simply share your today experience or any thing you want
Blogging benefits.
The meaning of Internet what we were using two years ago has been changed now.
Today web also has been evolved to its next version that is Web 2.0.
Earlier web was more and more static in nature that is whatever content publisher has published on their website, is available to you. Now web is going to be more and more interactive with the emerging of new media technologies like social networking sites, podcasting, blogs, online book-marking, Wiki etc. These all together form the web 2.0, which is the next generation, user driven, intelligent web. Now people start adding contents on the web and make it available for the others hence it is going to be more interactive in nature.
Among all these, blog is one of the most simpler and popular medium to share your information.O’Reilly Media Inc. says “One billion people around the globe now have access to the Internet and by the second quarter of 2006, 50 million blogs were created—new ones
were added at a rate of two per second”
Lets first understand what is a blog? The term blog comes from the web-log that is the log of user generated content. Most of the blogs are textual but it could also be in the form audio (Podcasting), photographs (photoblog), videos (vblog) or sketchblog.
Let me describe you how Blogging is beneficial for you as a student.
Blogging is really helpful for improving your academics. You might be thinking of reading blogs related to your subjects, not only in that way it is improve your academics.
Writing blogs as compare to just reading it is more beneficial for a student.
Since most of the examinations are usually subjective in nature where you have to express yourself by your written skills. There are students who know the concept but are unable to express it because of poor written communication. Believe me friends Blogging is really helpful in improving your written communication because when you blog, you have to think a lot (hence improving your thought process) and have to frame it into the simple words and sentences so that everybody can understand it. While Blogging you very well knows that it is going to be public hence you always try to give your best. All these practices are really helpful in improving your written communication hence helpful in getting good marks in your examination.
Besides this students can share their live project experience, their industry experience during internship, educational tours, seminars they have attended, new concept of their favorite subjects, good practices for preparing various competitive exams, their daily day to day learning with in school or college, Information about their institute, their views on certain topic etc. Hence posting and reading such blogs are beneficial for student.
Lets see how Blogging is helpful for professionals.
Since blog is the informal way of communication, that’s make it more beneficial for the professionals. Since professionals are really fade up of following processes which are really very time consuming and hectic. These informal means of communication are solution of their problem, like blog where you don’t need to follow any unnecessary process but just go to the blog and convey your message. People can share information about their profession, their company and befits others who want to change their profession or switch their company.
A person can also makes money with blogs. He can put Google sponsored links (AdWord) on his blog page and get paid on every viewers click. But for making money you have to be a famous blogger. Once you famous in a blogging community you can make a lot of money by online advertising and also become popular among the peoples. Hence one can adopt Blogging as a profession.
I have shared my thoughts about the benefits of Blogging but Benefits of Blogging are manifold, you cannot understand it just by reading this particular blog. To understand it you have to experience it by reading and writing blogs, so get up and start reading and writing blogs and develop this culture among others. You can start with just by giving comment to my this blog or simply share your today experience or any thing you want.
First thought that comes to mind when thinking about blogging is “personal internet space” that is dedicated to me. Where I have opportunity to express my ideas to world in the field I am good at, share my views on different topics, having a single place to post my all work, opportunity to bring people close who share the same interests, expertise or even hobbies as me, to get advice from my audience for different areas, and also sometimes making some bucks with my own small innovations. There are hundreds of uses of this concept for the fertile, smart and ethical brain. Here I am constrained to discuss some of its applications for my dear juniors at SCIT and business professionals.
First I will discuss about relevant blogging application for business and technology
Students
To have a project blog which all team members and guide can share. Anyone from anyplace will be able to get the updates on work and can contribute too. Guide will be well informed about the students approach to work , work in progress and advice at right time for avoiding lot of ineffective work. This will also reduce the no. of meeting with guide and make the team more efficient and effective due to time saving and right communication.
To have a personal blog for student where all his work like projects. Research work and other reports are posted. This will maintain the data at one place and also act as a resume.
Blogging can be dedicated to one particular area where all members can share there views on the particular topics. This will help to improve the knowledge on different areas and know the current updates.
You can use it for making some bucks and help you to frequently rush to parties if you make it attractive and interesting for some target audience. This will need to explore your expertise in some field, work a little and some small innovative idea.
Now we will see how blogging can help business professionals in their respective fields.
• Business blogs provide your small business with a chance to share your expertise and knowledge with a larger audience. Blogs help to find some very interesting facts on the different business benefits that you would be able to get while adopting web logging as another way to get involved in the conversations.
• Blogs help in Brand Building, Competitive Differentiation, Relational Marketing, Exploiting the Niches, Media & Public Relations, Position You as an Expert, Reputation Management.
• Blogs provide an Easy Web Publishing Solution. Simply write your thoughts, link to resources, and publish to your blog, all at the push of a few buttons.
• Blogging is a low-cost alternative to having a web presence. For small business owners without the time to learn web html or the money to hire a designer/developer, blogging offers an inexpensive method to get your company's name out on the Internet.
• Blogging provides several communication benefits. Blogging is a time saver as instead of providing many interviews, blogging lets the message out to many people at once.
KALYAN GARUD
ITO52057
ITBM
Written word has the power of making you think and articulate the points clearly. I remember once writing a letter to a friend on something and delivering it by hand. I felt that would be better because I could never say exactly in those words while I am talking.
Going through what Mann had written in his blog http://meet-mann.blogspot.com, I was struck by a line.. A blog forces you to enunciate your vague thoughts and put it up in black and white. Perhaps that is the greatest charm of blog.
A written record of your thoughts. I have read lot of blogs. Most of them are just a form of catharsis for the author where he/she is just pouring out their feelings and the very telling it to someone makes them feel better. A creative outlet to their frustrations.
Then there are people who use it for business. One blog I follow is Joel Sposky's "Joel on Software." www.joelonsoftware.com. It’s a very well written and thought provoking. That for me is the key when I am reading opinions written by others as opposed to facts. The opinions should always be like a conversation starter; A putting a point across for debate. Then when you analyze it you feel either agreeing or disagreeing to what they have said or even thinking up more points which you feel is relevant or which disproves what they have written.
The youtube phenomenon is now very well documented. Time magazine for the person of the year for 2006 had put up a small silver paper instead of the traditional picture of the person of the year. The person of the year for 2006 is "you". The millions of users of the internet who have made it into such a wonderful interactive media it is now. Earlier when it was conceived it was a fail-proof method of communication. Now it is a place where all kind of information is being stored and exchanged. The users have come up with the innovative ideas. The companies have gone along with the flow.
Blogging is such a phenomenon. No body needed to invent blog. The tools were already there when someone had the bright idea of making an easy to use content management system for the lay user. Now the idea is with the masses away from the high alters of technicians. And the masses turned the idea on its head and invented their own personalities like lonelygirl (which incidentally turned out to be good marketing) and the washingtonienne Jessica Cutler burst upon the scene.
From the perspective of the students, blogging and participatory media provides you with an unparalleled opportunity to book your own space in the internet; to highlight their achievements and maximize opportunities out there.
If Anne Frank lived in our times, I am sure her diary would have been an online blog instead of a diary written by an unknown teenager. So here is to the Ann Franks of our time. Here’s to blogging. Keep it coming.
Rajeev Kumar
NITI
IT052093
55 million BLOGS right now on the Internet……………!!!!!!!!!
Sounds so large isn’t it? Hearing this I thought to find out what exactly is this BIG stuff!!
Well… in a simple laymen’s language: When a person wants to share with the world his knowledge, his ideas and wants to bring in a CHANGE then this is
”The right place”. In addition to this blogging is done :
• To promote work/business.
• To make money.
• To increase awareness on issues close to the world and many more………
Evangelists, Teachers, Experts, CEO’s, Writers..all write blogs. Few of the well known bloggers that I came across are Kathy Sierra. You will find her in link: headrush.type.url and she writes in a very simple and friendly language. She is also the author of ‘Head first java’. Among others are Martin Fowlers Biki, ITVidya, Old Daily, Jonathan Schwartz, Konard Glogowaski, Auto Repair, Dan Pink and many more.
Now how can Blogs help my SCIT juniors (students)?
• Blogs gives a very good means to share students opinion on classes, campus events (cultural, educational, sports), local or world news thereby sharing each others views and knowledge. As a result various measures can be taken for its improvements.
• Blogs can be used as a research tool. The more people we have logging in and posting opinions, the richer the search results will become.
• It can help to keep track of links to important web sites used in classes, or keep track of library index and database citations for papers and speeches.
• Blogs can be used for any student organization, club, or group you might belong to and easily keep other students up to date on your group's activities, events, or views on a particular topic.
• Blogs can help to keep friends and family up to date about what you are up to.
• Blogs can be used for Knowledge management.
• Used for Dialogue for group work.
• Blogs can be used for E-portfolios and to Share course-related resources.
• Used for Assignment submission and review.
Now how professionals can benefit through blogs:
• Blogs can be used to track areas of research interest, web sites about a particular topic, or happenings in a particular field. Thus,with the help of categorization functionality of blogs they can quickly and easily manage entries on all research interests. In addition, each blog comes with its own search engine so you can quickly find past entries.
• For professionals seeking job this is good news. Many companies ask for blogs as a part of recruitment process as it helps in knowing the applicants for a job in a better way. Thus, you can get an upper edge if you post your blog with your resume.
• Through blogging, professionals may find suitable partners, investors, venture capitalists who may be interested in the upcoming business.
• Business blogs provide your small business with a chance to share your expertise and knowledge with a larger audience.
• Blogs can be used to create a newsletter, or a faculty group blog to keep everyone up to date on departmental matters.
• Blogs can be used to rapidly publish new ideas and areas of research to a much wider audience than ever before, and receive comments on your entries.
• Blogs can be used to create specific classes, and attach the students of those classes to the blogs as authors, in order to encourage discussion and debate.
• For faculties, blogs can be used to Encourage students to create their own blogs, and create assignments that give students the option to use their blogs as the mechanism for completing those assignments.
• Blogs can be used to provide Instructional tips for students, course announcements and readings and annotated links
• Networking and personal knowledge sharing : Use blogs to keep in touch with current and former students, or with colleagues around the world. With blogs notification functionality you can have the blog server automatically email specific people every time you update your blog.
• Blogs can be used for Knowledge management.
• Blogs can be used by Librarians as a way to share information, to encourage feedback from their patrons, to highlight services or new materials, and more.
• Blogs can be used for advertising and making money.
THINGS TO BE TAKEN CARE OF:
There are many blogs whos links are nearly entirely self-referential which take you to a maze of other pages on the same site, no doubt designed to drive up the fake-blog's page rank in Google search results. If they do link to outside sources, they will link to one or two anti-spyware products that either aren't worth a fraction of what they cost or have earned a reputation for marketing by scaring people into thinking -- often falsely -- that they have massive spyware infections on their computers.
A number of the fake blogs include links to a program called "Viral Instigator," which claims to help users automate the process of creating these pseudo-blogs and to game Google's AdSense program to make oodles of cash littering the Web with completely useless sites. It is this kind of activity that makes me worry about the future viability of the online advertising industry. It is difficult to see the benefit that these fake blogs hold for anyone but their creators, and I sincerely hope Google and some other companies are taking serious steps to keep these kinds of sites from diluting their search results.
CONCLUSION:
In short, concluding this article I would say that “KEEP BLOGGING and EXPLORE NEW BLOG WORLD”.
DIVYA MAKHIJA
ITO52044
SDM
The workshop on New Media started off with a definition on blogging. So, I believe, so should this assignment. There are many definitions of what a blog is. One of the simplest definition goes like this:
‘A blog is a website in which items are posted on a regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological order. The term blog is a shortened form of weblog or web log. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called “blogging”. Individual articles on a blog are called “blog posts,” “posts” or “entries”. A person who posts these entries is called a “blogger”. A blog comprises text, hypertext, images, and links (to other web pages and to video, audio and other files). Blogs use a conversational style of documentation. Often blogs focus on a particular “area of interest”, such as New Delhi’s political goings-on. Some blogs discuss personal experiences.’
Students can benefit a lot from this blogging phenomenon. Their learning becomes a two-way process. For them, it essentially flattens the world. They no longer need to depend on their conventional/traditional sources for their learning process. For ex, for an Indian student researching on a particular topic, there might be someone in the US who can help him better than his professor who might not be as well-versed in this particular topic. So, location & distance are no longer a constraint on a students learning process. The other kind of learning process involves blogging letting students read each other's work, develop skilled reflection on learning and the self. Since a blog is a time lined repository, it helps loop back seamlessly to drafts and past learning experiences while looking forward to future learning.
Another perspective of how blogging helps students learn about personal experiences of their peers in a more informal & personal manner. Case in point, I have a blog (http://ravitejk.blogspot.com) where I posted my experiences of doing my interns in Mumbai. This helped some of the juniors who read it, on how Mumbai treats people who are there to work for a short span of time, what surprises it holds for you, how you must be geared to face the challenges & things like that. Since some posts in blogs are straight from heart, the posts are very much straightforward & forthcoming in nature. These candid posts many a times paint a more authentic picture .
It also helps working professionals in more ways than they can imagine. Infact, inspite of being an prolific user of the blogs, the workshow on New Media was an eye opener. We tend to think we know many things until we get an opportunity to learn something new. Same applies to working professionals. They can use blogs to post thier day-to-day experiences of the coprporate world. The value of this kind of information can be invaluable for people like us, who are on the verge of stepping into the corporate world. Also, working professionals can find like minded people or people working in similar domains, exchange views, opinionms & perspectives. Since these tate-a-tates are open, like minded peers can also air thier views & makes up for a lively exchange of ideas among people who hardly know each other, thus removing the need for judging the other person. These discussions are devoid of prejudices. Hence, they lead to greater learning.
In this manner, blogging helps people from different realms of life in mare ways than they can imagine. This workshop really been an eye-opener. Thank you sir(s).
K Ravi Tej,
ITBM,
IT052056.
“ of the people, by the people, for the people” the basic concept of Democracy, the form of government, prevalent in most part of the free world , then why is not the media Democratic? We still live in a world of mass media where one person speaks and thousands listen. A world where the flow of information is in the hands of a selected few, something that can be molded to suit them and their benefactors. The time has come for greater participation of citizens in the flow of information, time has come for citizen journalism, and time has come for Participatory media. A type of media where participation of the general public is the core essence. Media that encourages a two-way dialogue, a thought provoking conversation rather than a one-way monologue. Participatory Media allows one not just to think but also to react, debate and voice a point of view. It allows one to agree or disagree, but most importantly it allows one to express his/her opinion without fear, it is FREEDOM of EXPRESSION in its real sense.
Just as an individual needs air to breath, for a society the ability of its people to express their opinion is important not just for the survival but for the intellectual growth of its people. The youth is an important part of this Society and it’s extremely important to extend this newfound freedom of expression to them.
Participatory Media are social media whose value and power derives from the active participation of many people. It’s a many-to-many media, which makes it possible for every person connected to the network to broadcast and receive text, images, audio, video, software, data, discussions, transactions, computations, tags, or links to and from every other person. It includes blogs, wikis, RSS, tagging and social bookmarking, music-photo-video sharing, mashups, podcasts, participatory video projects and videoblogs.
Blogs and other participatory media are very important tools for Students as it gives them the liberty to express issues that concern them and increase their knowledge by constant debate and reading the views of different people. Blogs give the reader as well as the writer of the blog a view into a different perspective. Students can help themselves by forming Formal or Informal groups and discuss about various topics - academic as well as non-academic and also at the same time interact with like minded people from around the world. They give them todays students an advantage over the previous generation in terms of news, views and reviews.
In todays world of cut throat competition it is very important for one to be aware of the arious technologies and products in the market and also the market trend. It is next to impossible for an individual to keep up and test the all the products in the market hence blogs and other participatory media serves as a breather to all.
Akshay Tiku
PGDM(NITI)
IT052009
SUDEEP ASTHANA(IT052123-SYSTEMS)
What is a Blog?? A Blog is an online journal consisting of links and posts, with the most recent post on top. In short it is in reverse chronological order. Blogging is a way of organizing your thought process, what you feel or what is your point of view.it is a diary entry which you present to the world.
There are different kinds of people in the world with different interests. Facilities like blogs helps to bring such people on a single platform, where they can share there knowledge.
Students get to know and share ideas among each other. There is a knowledge transfer that takes place. Most importantly you get a feedback from the masses about your BLOG.
Blogging apart from building vocabulary, know each others’ interests, it also helps students to perform well in arranging their thought process.
It helps one to keep them selves aware of the latest and current happenings around the world and also present their views freely about the topic.
Blogging provides various tools to students. One such tool is pinging, which involves a person posting a comment about someone else’s work on their own work. They use the ‘track back’ tool to notify the author when they have published the comment, basically inviting them to discuss it.
Students can any time ask for help on any topic, discuss their projects etc. It helps students present the world the piece of their research and get feedback and reviews on them. It also give an a opportunity discuss their work with the experts in the domain.
Professionals can also get benefited by blogging in a great manner. Again I would like to raise an example lets say you are a professional and you are planning to start you own venture but to start off u want some likeminded people with you so what you can do is you can start your blog and with the help of that you can share your plans. Now there is a huge possibility that other people who might be having similar plans as you, would visit your blog and comment on the same. After that you can discuss with those people and decide further proceedings. Again it’s a win-win situation for everyone.
Moreover if you are a marketing or sales person you can use your blog as a good marketing medium. Using your blog for marketing is like receiving free publicity, all it takes is to just write a few lines about your products and services.
These were one of the very few ways in which blogging can be beneficial, you can think of zillions of possibilities. One more thing is blogging encourages you for innovative and out of the box thinking because all the possibilities that I talked about earlier are resultants of innovative thinking.
Enhance Recruitment
If blogs establish a company as a thought leader, people in that business will pay attention. They’ll read and discuss what you have to say. Chances are good they’ll see the company as an attractive employer.
Test ideas or products: A blog is informal. It’s part of a conversation where people (often) can comment, and the blog can provide a measure of value. Publish an idea and see if it generates interest. Does anyone link to it? What do they say?
Rank high in search engines:Google and other search engines reward sites that are updated often, that link to other sites and most importantly, that have many inbound links. Start a blog at a regular Web site and the ranking should improve
So keep blogging and keep thinking innovative and out of the box.
Sudeep Asthana
IT052123
Systems
"Blogging??!! me??!!no ways!!"
was my reaction when I came to know that I need to write, being a person who has always faced difficulty even just to express herself explicitly. I have been scribbling since long but only when I am mad at something or sad with something. But never shared that thoughts with anyone. The things which I felt to give tongue to. Seldom I have been able to express myself.
But now while writing this blog, I feel a little more surefooted for it. Trying to learn to blog or maybe blogging to learn. Not yet sure about it.
If asked why am I writing then my answer would be "to share my perception about blogging". There is so much to share today's world. But due to our fast pace of life, we hardly get time to sit and share our views on abstract things. I would love to use blog as a medium to express when nobody is listening to me, its like talking to myself; or just a shoulder to cry, or just a pat on my own back.
No matter how great you are, your career depends on communicating. The way to get better at anything, including communication, is by practicing. Blogging is the best one to start your practice with. You need to get noticed to get oppurtunities in your career. It really impresses people when you say "Oh I've written about that, just visit my blog or google xxx and I am on the top page".
Knowing more is a career advantage. Knowing more also means you are more like to hear about different oppurtunities in different domains. Bloggers are one step ahead in this than non bloggers. Whenever we tend to learn something new, we never know in what perspective to take it. A beginner obviously never has a tact to learn a new thing. Its always that someone's experience helps to learn a new thing effectively. Experience can be of personal or someone else's. Instead of having Knowledge transfer sessions, why not make the tips available online to everyone. Today knowledge management is becoming a major concern for the IT professionals. Blogging can be an informal solution to it too.
In an engineers terms I would say " Blogging can put you in intimate contact with a worse-is-better 80/20 success story. Understanding this mode of technology can ONLY help you."
Lastly quoting example of Ellsworth Toohey from Ayn Rand's famous book "The Fountainhead", I would like to say "its a lot harder to fire someone who has a public voice, because it will be noticed. So better be a BLOGGER than a BOOGER"
Priya Bathija
IT052089
Software Development & Management
With technology advancing so fast,
Internet penetrating all drawing rooms,
And computers getting so cheap,
Society has devised a new channel for communication.
Blog
Blog or a digital dairy is the tool which is on every net savvy's mind,
All of a sudden blogging has become a channel for communication.
Now the question arises is this mechanism worth its hype?
Well frankly. Yes it is.
This grants me an opportunity to justify my answer.
At times there are several creative ideas budding in your mind,
That you would love to share and express out to the world,
But you couldn’t do so might be for the fear of being laughed upon or the in competency in the surrounding,
Blog appears for your rescue here.
Type your ideas.
And let the world read them,
Appreciate them,
Condemn them,
And help you nurture your dreams.
Blogging is your gateway to the world
It’s the stage where you have the liberty to express
A place where you can really be yourself
Speak your mind and heart
Express your creativity
Listen and speak
And where others come upon to comment that let you excel in your endeavors.
We humans being intellects have the capacity to think
Continuously some or the idea is running in our head
These ideas could be a poem, a story, a technological advancement, etc.
And we always don’t have resources to get the right medium
As a beginner none would agree to print your poem or a story
As a beginner none would agree to invest on your technological idea
Also there are huge chances of errors creeping in our own effort
This is where Blog stands tall
Let your horses get free
Imagine the wildest
And simply Blog it
Several would come up to you
Will suggest you
Help you improve
And few may even provide a platform.
There might be a situation where you would want to sell a business idea
Now how would you know its feasibility, whether its approach is right or not and if it needs some change?
The easiest way out is publish and wait for responses.
One more advantage of blogging can be
Using blogging as a self appraisal tool
Over a blog a student or a person can keep track of his personal shortcomings and weaknesses.
This way he could easily seek help or advice from others
And also keep a track of how well have u developed in a stipulated time period.
Blogging is the best way for knowledge sharing
It should always be looked at as a tool
Where senior students can share their experiences
Their methods and approaches
And also guide juniors about the upcoming events and trends
Blogging can be used as a platform where seniors put up solutions for generally faced problems be it regarding academics or labs or routine day to day hassles.
Also there happens to be a hidden quality of blogging
It helps students and all professionals improve their expressing capabilities
Student should use blogging to improve upon their written skills
In turn this enhances their communication skills.
Hence blogging no doubt helps students increase their vocabulary.
The benefits of blogging are plenty,
Hence students should definitely adhere to blogging.
ABHISHEK SINGH
IT052006-NITI
SCIT
Blogging !!!
The next generation "ing"
you think of a topic and you have it !!!
WEbsites are generally intended to GIVE information and not exahange the views.
on the other side..FORUMS are a dependent on the people connected to it..
One time visitors dont visit forums for information and they have no access to Share something until they Log in..
Blogging , an online revolution started in 1994..
Started with an intention of Personal Profiles and people with hobby for personal diary writing..
in 2004..it was a way to communicate political issues....
now in 2007.. Blog has been evolved as one of the most Efficient and Democratic way to share.....
as far as Blogs' contribution to a Students life is concerned..!!!
and as the debate about blogs changing the face of journalism rages on..
Students have already started attending online lectures on Professors' personal Blogs...and Students also have the ease to submit their Assignments online
(THIS BEING A EXAMPLE IN ITSELF)
People are confusing Blogging with Journalism.... but experts had to say that..
""Blogging is a way of organising your thought process. And journalism, or for that matter, writing, is essentially an art of organising your thoughts and
putting them across in reader-friendly way. The exercise also helps to cultivate an individual style""
blogging is taking pace and Students have started relying on Information Posted on blogs rather than websites..
Blogs gives the features of Sharing your suggestions about the topic and even suggesting an improvement..
Helps expands Business as well as Social Networking.
Students having a Rare Area of Interest , spend less time on Self Learning and Trial n error techniques. as they have a Blog with people sharing views about
the Idea generated by him.
Blogging doesn't require any methodology, it comes down to the students to blog as a means to develop their skills.
universities have already started including "Weblogging" as part of their curriculum.
How can Professionals benefit from Blogs !!!
it might be helpful for beta versions of software when one
can see comments on and rectify before the release.
GOne are the days when Internet was primarily accessible to people in the IT industry. The reach of internet is ubiquitous and touching the life of every
professional in its own unique way. For instance, there are Professionals with a Niche area of interest (E.g Atomic Engg, Aeronotics, nano technology etc)
who might not be aware of all the R&D work done worldwide, and spend years starting from Scratch evenif the same has been done in some other part of the
world as the number of people are very few in such area's..Forums and websites are not a Easy way to extract information.
What else? You could also garner some easy money by being an accomplished blogger or as simple as posting comments being in the shoes of a reviewer.
One simple scenario could be when you as an end user comment your feedback on technical blog coming from any xyz organization, say regarding the beta version
of a new product it launches. In such a case the organization may appreciate you with some monetary accolades.
In a second scenario, when a person adept in intricacies of any product of a company voluntarily discusses and analyses its features through his/her blog
resulting in positive feedbacks from the rest of blogger community; the product owner company may bestow the expert taking such an initiative with some
incentives.
It is through this new wave of participatory media that the knowledge barriers are fast disappearing. The focus is moving from knowledge storing to knowledge
sharing.The status quo is that every elite professional is now a 'learner' while a student could be a potential 'earner' Which frame do you fit into??
DEEPAL MADALANI
SCIT - ITBM
IT052036
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DEEPAL MADALANI
SCIT-ITBM
IT052036
To start off with i would like to define what a blog is and what is blogging...
As far as definations of Blog go its a "A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links."[1]
But what i believe is that a blog is an way of expression. Its a means of sharing information which can be personal, professional or Technical..
Blogging is an excellent way to reach out to the world let people know what you think, what your personal interests are, what is going on in your life. It is a reflection of a persons mind and his thought process....!
We at SCIT are technical people so for better understanding it is necessary for me to define a blog technically also.. So here it goes
Technically speaking a blog is a "hybrid diary/guide site”. A blog can be a combination images, links and text. The blogger can write about technology, personal feelings etc in his blog and can invite his friends to share their thoughts. It is like a personal message board where you can display whatever you want to and then ask your friends to write their feelings about that subject...Its a collaborative space where people with similar thought process come to share
By now i believe that the definition and meaning of BLOG must be quiet clear to you. But I know this may have given birth to many more questions in your mind.
Questions like:-
Why do I need to blog when there are facilities like forums and groups are available?
What are the advantages of blogging?
Why should i blog?
Will blogging help me?
I would like to answer some of the above questions so that you can consider blogging to be an essential exercise.
It’s the Information age as we call it. Exchange of information at the right time quickly is essential for all of us. There are may ways of information exchange available to us on the internet such as forums groups etc, But why I say blogging is the best is because its more expressive than all of these. A blog is a Bloggers personal and private area where he can express his feelings freely and people with similar thought process can join him and share their thoughts. Forums for that matter are very question & answer centric. They revolve aground the concept of problem solving with the means of dedicated threads to specific topics where people come and ask questions and experts or other members reply. A similar concept is of various groups as there are groups dedicated to various discussions and people with similar problems join together to help each other. On the other hand in a blog a person starts of with sharing his own idea and people with similar interests contribute to it.
Coming over to another very important question that is the advantages of blogging and its contribution to the students..
Blogs today have come a long way from being just a personal diary to a arena where people can share picture’s, videos, resumes etc. apart from personal, technical
and professional information. Is is a "Digital message board" where every one has something to contribute. The basic advantage of good blogging is that the blogger
gains valuable reputation in the blogger community. In the blogging community the boggler’s range from college dropouts to students and also high profile professionals thus gaining reputation opens the gates of opportunities for students like us..
People in the past have gained so much just from casual blogging.The advantages range from professional blogging to permanent jobs in big companies. Bloggers get invitations from big companies to join them, even review their products and start blogs about common issues in their products.
With the help of blogs you can learn so much about new technologies and emerging trends in the industry. You can find good jobs for your self. You have a chance to
meet people with similar interests and share knowledge. You can advise people and receive advice from them. You can share your personal thoughts and experiences
with your friends. You can meet new people.....and the list of advantages goes on and on......
In the end i would like to conclude by saying this that
"The emergence of such participatory media will be a boon to our society and will give birth to a whole new generation of thinkers"
[1] http://www.marketingterms.com/dictionary/blog/
Shobhit Khanna
ITO43013
SDM-June
Some things in life have become the key aspects of survival today. Knowledge is and has always been considered as a possession. If you have the knowledge, you have everything. Similarly, adaptability and change management are also equally important in order to be in control of life. Today, knowledge and adaptability have become the critical elements for success.
Many times in life, we experience moments where we are overwhelmed with emotions. All of us have some or the other kind of passion. There must be some mechanism through which we must be able to share our emotions and passions. Man is a social animal and he always has that special feeling of belonging to a community.
The world has become a smaller place today because of the ever emerging nature of technology. Internet helps us to go beyond geographical boundaries and communicate with anyone anywhere.
Blogging is emerging as a powerful tool on the internet as it enables us to increase our knowledge, share our thoughts and ideas and get feedbacks on them, and represent a community. A blog is more like a diary which isn’t personal. In some cases, it’s a textual representation of our inner self. There are different types of blogs which provide us with the power of expressing ourselves in a better manner. We can post videos (vlog), audio files (Blogcasts & Podcasts) and images (photoblog) to elaborate on our ideas. We can also read blogs to keep ourselves updated. It’s a mutual cause through which both the contributor and the reader are benefited.
Students can also gain a lot from blogging. There is a vast expanse of information available on the internet. Students can get a lot of learning from this information and increase their knowledge. Knowledge sharing is the most important advantage that students can achieve from blogging. Some sites like blogger can provide students with a common place where they can post and read each others blogs. This will enable them to share each others knowledge and collaboratively learn more in a shorter span of time.
Students can also post and read their assignments and notes. This will enable them to compare their notes, and get feedbacks. This is an excellent way of self analysis.
If a particular student has some difficult query to be solved, he can always post that and get help from the other students. So query solution is also a major advantage.
Lectures can be recorded and stored on blogs. Blogcasts and vlogs can be used for the same. Blogs can be used as a knowledge bank by students.
To summarize, students can share their knowledge and learn from each other using blogs.
Budding professionals can also make optimum use of blogging in their professional lives.
The management professionals can always keep track of the latest technologies and gadgets by reading blogs on Engadget, and can use these in their work. They can carry their entire office on PDAs and cellphones and work effectively. Blogging will update them with this knowledge. Blogging also serves as a value addition to the resume in some cases. Knowledge Process Outsourcing which is emerging as a powerful industry is a more powerful form of blogging. Technical experts can always post their blogs at a common place and help each other. IT has enabled integration of the different functions in an organization and professionals are expected to have knowledge of the other departments and their functioning. Blogs can be again used for this purpose also.
Blogging can be used to earn money also. Professionals who have some expertise can publish articles and can charge money from the readers. By keeping themselves updated on knowledge in their respective fields, budding professionals can deal with change and can adapt efficiently. And all this is possible through blogging.
The immense power of Blogging is one of its kinds. It can be used by any one anywhere and one can gain loads from this. Every one must blog and explore the capabilities of this emerging technology.
Sourabh Khambalkar
ITO43015
SDM-June
Anupam Khorgade
IT-052019
SCIT-SYSTEMS
What is Blog?
I also never knew about until I got this assignment. I had just heard about the blog, but had never written any blog. In fact I am writing the blog for the first time, so initially didn’t had any idea. I had to do some research about this thing. Initial question which struck my mind was what is blog? Why do people write blog? What is the use of blog? How does writing a blog can be beneficial? Does blog really help? There were a lot of questions running in my mind? But thanks to today’s informative internet technology, world has become a small place and with the help of blogging we can share the information, news, latest trend in technology, experience, even can talk and discuss about how Sachin Tendulkar played, why did Manchester united lost the title, is Saddam alive……..and the list continues.
In short blogging gives a full freedom of our expressing ourselves with any topic. It helps us in using our democratic right optimally. The time has come for greater participation of citizens in the flow of information, time has come for citizen journalism, and time has come for Participatory media. A type of media where participation of the general public is the core essence. Media that encourages a two-way dialogue, a thought provoking conversation rather than a one-way monologue. Participatory Media allows one not just to think but also to react, debate and voice a point of view. It allows one to agree or disagree, but most importantly it allows one to express his/her opinion without fear, it is FREEDOM of EXPRESSION in its real sense. Just as an individual needs air to breath, for a society the ability of its people to express their opinion is important not just for the survival but for the intellectual growth of its people. The youth is an important part of this Society and it’s extremely important to extend this newfound freedom of expression to them.
Hence blogging is very beneficial to students and professionals. It gives them an platform to share new ideas and information which would help them to solve queries and make a good carrier.
Benefits to Students:
Students can benefit a lot from this blogging phenomenon. Their learning becomes a two-way process. For them, it essentially flattens the world. They no longer need to depend on their conventional/traditional sources for their learning process. For ex, for an Indian student researching on a particular topic, there might be someone in the US who can help him better than his professor who might not be as well-versed in this particular topic. So, location & distance are no longer a constraint on a students learning process. The other kind of learning process involves blogging letting students read each other's work, develop skilled reflection on learning and the self. Since a blog is a time lined repository, it helps loop back seamlessly to drafts and past learning experiences while looking forward to future learning.
Benefits to Professionals:
It also helps working professionals in more ways than they can imagine. Infact, inspite of being an prolific user of the blogs, the workshow on New Media was an eye opener. We tend to think we know many things until we get an opportunity to learn something new. Same applies to working professionals. They can use blogs to post thier day-to-day experiences of the coprporate world. The value of this kind of information can be invaluable for people like us, who are on the verge of stepping into the corporate world. Also, working professionals can find like minded people or people working in similar domains, exchange views, opinionms & perspectives. Since these tate-a-tates are open, like minded peers can also air thier views & makes up for a lively exchange of ideas among people who hardly know each other, thus removing the need for judging the other person. These discussions are devoid of prejudices. Hence, they lead to greater learning.
Ultimately it is not what blog can do for you but what you can do for blog.
Anupam Khorgade
IT-052019
SCIT-SYSTEMS
Blogging!a new buzz word around me.
Never imagined in my wildest dreams that this bug will ever hit me. I dint know about blogging until I found some very good bloggers around me. But it never motivated me so much. Even prior to attentding the workshop on "Current Trends in New Media Technology", I wasn’t really expecting it to motivate me to actually go and start blogging. That’s why I was totally taken in by surprise. And here I am actually writing a blog on blogging.
What I like the best thing about blogging is that we dont have any restrictions or rules imposed on us. I am free to let out my thoughts over an issue publicly without any ethics to be followed. I find out fun to write about things the way I see them. I as blogger can enjoy freedom from rigorous journalistic standards. The reason bloggers have more fun is simple: we don't have opinions, most of us can work in our pajamas if we want to, and we don't have to worry about being politically correct.
Writing blog makes me realise that there are too many things, which I thought doesn't matter, really matter. Sharing your experience with someone may be a small thing to you, but it is useful to the person listening it. Just by sharing thoughts with my elder brother over day-to-day matters, I do learn a lot from his experiences of life.
When we read new articles every now and then, those thing doesnt really assimilate into our mind fully unless and until we have a brief discussion on them. Blogging can be a blessing in disguise in this case. Through blogging, many junior and senior students can share their thoughts over some new upcoming technology.
The hidden benefit of blogging is that your vocabulary improves a lot. While speaking since we dont get any time to ponder upon the words which we can use, we tend to use a mediocre word which creates comparatively a less impact. But while writing we do have time to think about the impact of words we are using and can use the appropriate word thereby reflecting the idea more clearly. Thanks to thesaurus.com for such times.
A blog is characterized by its reflection of a personal style, and this style may be reflected in the form of its written content. Blogs are, in their purest form, the core of what has come to be called personal publishing. A blog can be considered as a blurred reflection of a personality. Hence they can be very well be used by organization to evaluate and hire people.
Summing up, I would say blogging makes a person more responsible towards their action. I can be held accountable for whatever I blog.
Being a networking guy, I would always create strong NETWORKed communities of bloggers....
Samir Shah
IT052104
Networks & IT Infrastructure
Since I am writing a blog for the first time so I will start with the definition of blog. After reading no. of blogs on the net, I realized that it’s a highly effective and efficient tool in the hands of today’s growing intellectual minds. So what is a blog? I think for me its like an online diary or journal which is not private but public.
For some, blogs are strictly valueless thing as they aimlessly move around their daily observations to family and friends. For others, blogs have a deeper meaning. Blogs can be used to make political statements, promote products, provide research information, and give tutorials. In short it’s a great marketing tool for ones thought. If there's a subject that interests you, there's a good chance someone's writing a blog about it, and also there is a chance that if you like the blog, then you can write a comment on the same topic, thereby creating a common platform for open discussion.
People from different cultures, different communities come together; share their experiences, thoughts, problems with each other without any hatred feeling for others community or cast. They can discuss common issues as well as technical problems and can help each other directly or indirectly. For example these days I.T. Professionals are discussing lots of technical problems and it is really benefiting them. One main reason for this is that it can reach the masses in short span of time and anyone who has something to say will post their comments on this.
Blogs will also help IT professionals in doing their business like they can do marketing of their products and apply various strategies to gain market attention. They can also do market research for potential buyers on the net. As a budding professional a person can learn how organizations are working around the world, what the problems they are facing and their solutions, so it’s ultimately a simulated experience with immense learning.
The professionals can track the blogs of person of their concern say, a person working in java platform can track java expertise, can learn from their blogs and simultaneously can ask questions from them, thus blog can be an interactive problem solver too. Blogs maintained by individual students enable teachers to assess their students’ thinking patterns and depth of understanding. In the future, students may learn by assembling personal digital portfolios. Student can create a blog about our Internship projects and can share our view about what we have learned at the particular company
Blog for the Lectures and Seminars that are held in our college, and can post our views about what we have learned from these activities. In the starting of our career, if someone wants of know about current openings, different market trends and different career paths, all these can be done with the help of blogs. Sometimes we have good idea to put forward that will help to gain business and increase customer retention, but your organization does not have the resources for such initiatives, u can use a blog to tell people about it.
In the end I would say that it’s a great power in today’s world and should be used only in positive sense and as a knowledge sharing tool and all the controversies rumoring around should be discouraged.
Regards,
Gaurav Gupta
PGDM-NITI
IT052141
The biggest Buzz word on internet now a days is BLOG.
“what is Blogs?”
Weblogs or blogs are personalized web pages where individuals can place anything of their liking in the form of text, links or graphics online. Don’t get too much confused its like a “Online Diary”, where reader leaves comments in interactive format. Thousands of people blog everyday.
Lets share what I learnt from two day workshops and my own explorations about blogs. It can help in education, can act as a Knowledge management tool,
and personnel image builder. As our lecturer Mr. Parag Shah mentioned that Blogs are best suited for all students specially those from IT. It is great tool for them to write their thoughts clearly and enhance their technical concepts. Beside it can act as a showcase where they can showcase their skills to the outside world.
I believe that it is very important for the students to understand how powerful the blogs are.
- Blogging gives students a way to organize the students their thought process and putting them in reader friendly way. Being from Management stream it also help us a lot in cultivating writing style. Sometimes it may happen that you get an idea in your head--however (half) baked it might be--and, in seconds, share it with the world. Immediately, you get feedback, comments and so you came to know how brilliant it was. It was not possible without this concept of blogging.
- Many of the subjects we study here require Interactive teaching methodology. Blogging promotes interactive mode of teaching. Students can express their knowledge on particular topic. And all students along with concerned faculty will comment on it.
- Blogging makes all of us senior to share various experiences in the college, our four months Industry Internship experience, and our Research and development project. Even the juniors can let the seniors know what current happening in the college, and request for their comment on the issue.
I started writing blogs after the topic was introduced in the course. "I have found blogging to be extremely useful not just as a personal publishing tool, but in building a well-networked community of people. In fact, after learning the power of blogging, I wonder how did I not know about it before.”
- Blogs Plays the the role of the e-teacher, meta-learning, and more. Blogs maintained by individual students enable teachers to assess their students’ thinking patterns and depth of understanding. In the future, students may learn by assembling personal digital portfolios. It is more multi layered approach than traditional formal education. It seems that you are doing an apprenticeship under scanner of various experts. Blogs make experts, gurus, and beginners accessible to you.
- Many times it so happen that students get group projects to work and faculty is not clear who is contributing to what. It involves collaborating with peers on group projects and involves lots of interaction with their professors. It makes the students to think more critically, and able to communicate outside the boundary of classrooms. Conventionally, students often rely more on lecturer as main source of ideas and crtical thinking.
It makes students think from different prospective and for themselves. It provide students to discuss ideas, experiences or opinions allows students to discuss any issue publically- what they are studying with other students and ask for comments from outside their college.
- If you had a group discussion in class, and you made a very good point. It may be possible that only couple of people listening to your ideas and comment over it. But when they write on their weblog many can read it. They have a voice and the other students read it and respect it as well.
I being a student get totally different prospective of things which were not there earlier in normal lectures.
Not only as a student, blog will also help us when we will enter into the corporate world, where blog help us to recreate the same learning environment of college.
a) Blog can be used as a tool to collaborate, manage knowledge, develop communities. It allows collaboration between teams and departments, making them easier to plan and schedule meeting.
b) When you enter into the professional world, as a employee it will help you to manage your ideas, which can be categorized in future. The interactive nature of blogs used to promote online knowledge sharing communities.
c)Many of us think of becoming an entrepreneur in future, blogs help them in seeking advice and feedback from experts, and can act accordingly. It may be possible few from outside community get highly impressed with your ideas and want to be the part of your enterprise as an investor or co partner.
d)Like earlier I had not written any blogs but I am regular visitors to the blogs on http://www.mouthshut.com. I visit here to see what others think of particular product or service available in market. Not only bloggers but also other visitors to the blog posts may find interest in the budding professionals.
e)You may create a blog in which your super seniors who are working in the industry can also participate to discuss regarding current opening in their company, job profiles, and seek their advice on particular issue.
NirajKumarSharma
IT052144,ITBM
SCIT
(email: Kumarnirajsharma@gmail.com)
The hottest little thing in IT world is BLOG! Blogs are everywhere on the web, millions of it with multimedia options available like video blog, audio blog.
By definition, a blog is a user generated web-site where anybody can share knowledge on practically any topic with participation from a wide pool of people who share their viewpoints on the same!
Blogs can be personal or professional in flavor. But one thing is for sure that it is almost like a personal advertisement of one’s own personality and tastes. It is often used to present your views and ideas on any topic or discuss on any particular subject; be it politics, any new discovery or local news. So what differentiates it so much that blogs are considered as one of the new media technology?? One of the most important aspects of blogging is that it is dynamic in nature. It serves as a tool for sharing personal life with family and friends, for social and professional networking, and as a new marketing channel for business.
For students like me, blogging can be a lifesaver! I would use blogs to collaborate and discuss my projects, research and subjects with students across the world! Moreover developments all over the world and opportunities can also be shared. It can also act as a portfolio that will help them to showcase their skills and help in job search.
Blogging provides various tools to students. One such tool is pinging, which involves a person posting a comment about someone else’s work on their own work. They use the ‘track back’ tool to notify the author when they have published the comment, basically inviting them to discuss it. Such discussions can be very beneficial for both the participating parties and result in a much clearer picture of the issue at hand.
As I will soon be entering the IT industry soon I feel compelled to discuss the utility of blogs for professionals as well!
According to my research and deductions the main reasons executives should blog are many. For example: Leaders can communicate directly with customers, suppliers and investors, as well as employees, helping disseminate and explain strategy and the same time lending the communication a “personal touch”, a human face to an otherwise steel and concrete corporation. Compared with conference or printed memos to all staff, blogs are highly cost effective and help in cost-cutting and thereby making the business profitable. But corporate blogging has its downside as well. The best non-corporate blogs are spontaneous and genuine. Poorly written corporate blogs can look fake and tasteless. It is difficult for executives to write freely, particularly at listed companies where they are legally required to publish significant information to all investors at the same time and there is a risk that an ill-judged comment could be seized upon by the media or disgruntled investors.
Moreover if you are a marketing or sales person you can use your blog as a good marketing medium. Using your blog for marketing is like receiving free publicity, all it takes is to just write a few lines about your products and services. Apart from that blogs are easy to create and maintain/update the contents than a website so small and medium sized businesses can have an online presence in a very short time. It also improves the touch base with potential customers as blogs tend to rate high on the search engine results due to their dynamic nature.
Blogs can also generate decent amount of money through advertisements and affiliations and many people have started a career as professional bloggers. A well built blog with some degree of popularity can sell like hot cakes.
Ajit Kumar P
IT052008
ajitkumarp_11@rediffmail.com
Blogging In Business For Proffessionals
The current revolution in personal writing and instant publishing is called blogging. A business blog is an informal, easily maintained way to regularly communicate with your customers and employees. Unlike traditional media that require lead time for publishing, blogs are frequently updated, often daily, online journals of opinions, information and links to interesting content online.
Blogging matters to business because blogging can represent your company in a positive light. Blogs can pinpoint employees you don't want to hire and help you do market research. Yet, blogs can also criticize your company and review your products unfavorably. You need to know about business blogging. There are seven reasons blogging is important to your business or organization - to start. Here are the first four reasons blogs matter.
• A business blog is an informal, easily maintained method for regularly communicating with your customers. A business blog offers a more approachable, informal information-providing approach in which customers find enjoyment, get to know your company, and learn about your products, achievements, and innovations.
• A business blog is an informal, easily maintained method for regularly communicating with your employees. Whether you host your internal employee blog on a commercial site, on your webpage in a password protected location or on your Intranet, you have created a strong communication tool. Multiple people may post on the blog and information can be shared daily. No more waiting for the weekly one-page update or the monthly newsletter, employees can read company news every day. The blog differs from email in that a permanent record of posts is maintained by category. The second advantage is that all employees receive the same information at the same time.
• A business blog can provide a “voice" for your company that educates and informs your website visitors; it is more easily updated than traditional web pages. These are several good examples of company blogs, that are supported by the company. They tell potential employees about your company’s culture. They make customers feel as if they know your company. They inform your current employees and your customers about new products and services.
• Your employees may also be blogging. You want to ensure their blogs do not give away company confidential or proprietary information, or trade secrets.
Blogging for Students
Students engaging with each other
If students’ blogs are made accessible through a central course website and they are encouraged to read and respond to one another’s blogs, blogs are a way to reinforce the communicative bonds we often emphasize in the composition classroom. Students can learn about each other’s thoughts and lives through their blogs and relate to each other more closely than if their contact was limited to the classroom. During the limited time we have in class, we cannot touch on many of the subjects students find interesting and pertinent to their lives, but blogs give them a forum in which to discuss and connect on what’s important to them.
Conversating while Writing
Writing outside of academia is usually for a specific purpose and geared toward a specific audience. When our students write only to us as their instructors, it is easy for them to forget how an audience affects the way one presents oneself. By writing in blogs and responding to their peers, students can experience a real audience, one who is not charged with the task of evaluating them, but who will choose to respond only if they are interested. The arguments that result from a students’ original post and one or more student responses are dynamic and dialogic, attributes of writing rarely found in academia, but always found elsewhere.
Popping ideas for future papers
People see the weekly writing system of blogs as a very effective way to get their students writing and thinking, and oftentimes, the ideas for their third paper have their origins in a blog entry. Composition theory informs us that invention is hard to teach within the confines of the classroom. However, allowing students a relaxed place to practice invention outside of class may alleviate the pressure they may feel when they must develop their own topic and ideas without a prompt from their instructor. Many students develop papers from their blog entries, and because these entries are often responded to by their peers, students working with previously blogged ideas have an advantage in considering a counterargument or other complications of their argument.
Computer literacy
It is surprising to see how nervous students are about using computers. Because blogs are easy to implement and post to, they may serve as a gateway technology for some of the students who may be uncomfortable with computers. As with the practice with argument, the more our students experience low-pressure ways to experiment with technology, the more confident they will be using it in the future.
Students' thoughts
Students feel that some assessment of the blogs are necessary to encourage students to complete them, and the check-system is a good way to do that.
Sudeep Jain
SCIT (ITBM)
IT052145
Shweta Bairwa (IT052113 - SDM)
How blogging (and participatory media) can help budding professionals
A blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order. Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual although some focus on photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), or audio (podcasting), and are part of a wider network of social media.
The term "blog" is derived from "Web log." "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. Weblog software (also called blog software or blogware) is a category of software which consists of a specialized form of Content Management Systems specifically designed for creating and maintaining weblogs. CMS facilitates the organization, control, and publication of a large body of documents and other content, such as images and multimedia resources. A CMS often facilitates the collaborative creation of documents. A web content management system is a content management system with additional features to ease the tasks required to publish web content to Web sites.
A corporate blog is a weblog published and used by the organization to reach its organizational goals. Although there are many different types of corporate blogs, most can be categorized as either external or internal.
Some benefits of blogs for professionals can be listed as:
• It improves participation spirit, collaboration, and the capabilities of team learning. It is ideal to run projects and to work with heterogeneous teams. It is also useful to promote dialogue and find lateral ideas outside the team.
• It allows integrating conversations with a shared vision. It is an excellent means for the leaders to communicate.
• It is the space where interpretations and different points of view come up so that the any member of the organization can discuss and debate them.
• It is an excellent means for the employees to achieve an integrated vision of the company by joining in conversations.
• It implies an open communication platform that allows new ways relating and coordinating actions among the organizational members and between the latter and the network of external relationships.
• It becomes the written memory of the organization. Furthermore, writing conveys emotional stability which eventually promotes the process of organizational development.
They speed up the transference and transformation of knowledge to make ideas flow easily and take learning into action
Types of corporate blogs
Internal blogs
Corporate blogs can be very strong communication tools within or on behalf of a corporate community. Free from many of the constraints of traditional corporate communications, they can explore original issues and provoke thought among an audience that may tune out from other messages. Generally, anyone can write comments to any post in corporate blogs. Anyone can write a comment to any comment or simply anyone can write a new post, in internal blogs. Internal blogs are in many cases good alternatives to meetings. People may not have frequent meetings, about many important matters, for two reasons:
• distance of the meeting location and
• Availability of all the people at the proposed meeting time.
However the way community members communicate and share information in a blog environment creates practically any number of small or large virtual meetings that community members can participate at any time of the day (or night).Since blogs are open to the community, the hurdle and hesitation of sending invitations to the exact/correct number of related people is removed. Consequently fewer people will feel that they are kept away from the decision making process. Since every post is open to the community, anyone can take part in the decision making process, simply by adding his/her comments. A talking community creates the healthiest environment in the decision making process with collective intelligence of the elite crowd.
Blogs, in many cases, are more practical in use than emails.
Emails are not the best corporate communication and information sharing tools, since
• people receive too many of them and
• People are not always good enough in archiving their emails, therefore they may not find some of them, later when they need them again.
In many big organizations there are at least a few but mostly many internal blogs on their intranet, according to the aim or target of the blog.
Blogs are used at every level of the organization. A good example may be the participation of the production workers with the improvement proposals, using the network connected kiosk around the production area, in some organizations. In such organizations, any other people can make a comment on the proposal and the improvement action is triggered automatically without the hierarchical vertical confirmation process.
Even if the made proposal is not applicable for some reasons, it may still inspire some other members in the crowd for more practical solutions.
External blogs
Primary function of corporate communications/public relations today is network building. External blogs are participatory communications tools that can build complex and effective discussions. Blogs build connections and links between and among your key audiences, which help the corporations to use these networks over time to persuade people to action, to respond to a crisis, to leverage market conversations and to improve the business overall.
Effectiveness of a network depends on
1. number of users
2. connection between the nodes
and blogs are particularly well designed to help a corporation to do the both parameters, since blogs are link-heavy, and the link is the core technology for making networks visible.
The networked market knows more than companies do about their own products. This new balance of power, where consumers own marketing is aptly named "Consumer generated marketing". Blogs are not only the corporate tools but also consumer tools that promote companies who fulfill their promises, and to destroy those who break them.
Marketers expect to have product evangelists or influencers among the audiences. Once they find them they treat them like VIPs, asking those exclusive previews, product testing, consultation on marketing plan, customer services audit, etc. The business blog can have the additional value by adding a level of credibility that is often unobtainable from a standard corporate site. It gives businesses an opportunity to show a different side that doesn't have to be all suits and ties. Business blogs can interact with a target market on a more personal level while all at the same time building link credibility that can ultimately be tied back to the corporate site.
How blogging (and participatory media) can help budding professionals
A blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order. Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual although some focus on photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), or audio (podcasting), and are part of a wider network of social media.
The term "blog" is derived from "Web log." "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. Weblog software (also called blog software or blogware) is a category of software which consists of a specialized form of Content Management Systems specifically designed for creating and maintaining weblogs. CMS facilitates the organization, control, and publication of a large body of documents and other content, such as images and multimedia resources. A CMS often facilitates the collaborative creation of documents. A web content management system is a content management system with additional features to ease the tasks required to publish web content to Web sites.
Web Content management systems are often used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry-specific documentation such as news articles, operators' manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures. A content management system may support the following features:
· Import and creation of documents and multimedia material
· Identification of all key users and their content management roles
· The ability to assign roles and responsibilities to different content categories or types.
· Definition of the content workflow tasks, often coupled with event messaging so that content managers are alerted to changes in content.
· The ability to track and manage multiple versions of a single instance of content.
· The ability to publish the content to a repository to support access to the content. Increasingly, the repository is an inherent part of the system, and incorporates enterprise search and retrieval.
· Some content management systems allow the textual aspect of content to be separated to some extent from formatting. For example the CMS may automatically set default color, fonts, or layout.
A corporate blog is a weblog published and used by the organization to reach its organizational goals. Although there are many different types of corporate blogs, most can be categorized as either external or internal.
Some benefits of blogs for professionals can be listed as:
· It improves participation spirit, collaboration, and the capabilities of team learning. It is ideal to run projects and to work with heterogeneous teams. It is also useful to promote dialogue and find lateral ideas outside the team.
· It allows integrating conversations with a shared vision. It is an excellent means for the leaders to communicate.
· It is the space where interpretations and different points of view come up so that the any member of the organization can discuss and debate them.
· It is an excellent means for the employees to achieve an integrated vision of the company by joining in conversations.
· It implies an open communication platform that allows new ways relating and coordinating actions among the organizational members and between the latter and the network of external relationships.
· It becomes the written memory of the organization. Furthermore, writing conveys emotional stability which eventually promotes the process of organizational development.
They speed up the transference and transformation of knowledge to make ideas flow easily and take learning into action
Types of corporate blogs
Internal blogs
Corporate blogs can be very strong communication tools within or on behalf of a corporate community. Free from many of the constraints of traditional corporate communications, they can explore original issues and provoke thought among an audience that may tune out from other messages. Generally, anyone can write comments to any post in corporate blogs. Anyone can write a comment to any comment or simply anyone can write a new post, in internal blogs. Internal blogs are in many cases good alternatives to meetings. People may not have frequent meetings, about many important matters, for two reasons:
· distance of the meeting location and
· Availability of all the people at the proposed meeting time.
However the way community members communicate and share information in a blog environment creates practically any number of small or large virtual meetings that community members can participate at any time of the day (or night).Since blogs are open to the community, the hurdle and hesitation of sending invitations to the exact/correct number of related people is removed. Consequently fewer people will feel that they are kept away from the decision making process. Since every post is open to the community, anyone can take part in the decision making process, simply by adding his/her comments. A talking community creates the healthiest environment in the decision making process with collective intelligence of the elite crowd.
Blogs, in many cases, are more practical in use than emails.
Emails are not the best corporate communication and information sharing tools, since
· people receive too many of them and
· People are not always good enough in archiving their emails, therefore they may not find some of them, later when they need them again.
In many big organizations there are at least a few but mostly many internal blogs on their intranet, according to the aim or target of the blog.
Blogs are used at every level of the organization. A good example may be the participation of the production workers with the improvement proposals, using the network connected kiosk around the production area, in some organizations. In such organizations, any other people can make a comment on the proposal and the improvement action is triggered automatically without the hierarchical vertical confirmation process.
Even if the made proposal is not applicable for some reasons, it may still inspire some other members in the crowd for more practical solutions.
External blogs
Primary function of corporate communications/public relations today is network building. External blogs are participatory communications tools that can build complex and effective discussions. Blogs build connections and links between and among your key audiences, which help the corporations to use these networks over time to persuade people to action, to respond to a crisis, to leverage market conversations and to improve the business overall.
Effectiveness of a network depends on
1. number of users
2. connection between the nodes
and blogs are particularly well designed to help a corporation to do the both parameters, since blogs are link-heavy, and the link is the core technology for making networks visible.
The networked market knows more than companies do about their own products. This new balance of power, where consumers own marketing is aptly named "Consumer generated marketing". Blogs are not only the corporate tools but also consumer tools that promote companies who fulfill their promises, and to destroy those who break them.
Marketers expect to have product evangelists or influencers among the audiences. Once they find them they treat them like VIPs, asking those exclusive previews, product testing, consultation on marketing plan, customer services audit, etc. The business blog can have the additional value by adding a level of credibility that is often unobtainable from a standard corporate site. It gives businesses an opportunity to show a different side that doesn't have to be all suits and ties. Business blogs can interact with a target market on a more personal level while all at the same time building link credibility that can ultimately be tied back to the corporate site.
How blogging (and participatory media) can help students.
Definition
A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links.
Another Definition
Blogs are alternatively called web logs or weblogs. However, "blog" seems less likely to cause confusion, as "web log" can also mean a server's log files.
Weblogs are “post-centric” -- the posting is the key unit -- rather than “page-centric,” as with more traditional websites. Weblogs typically link to other websites and blog postings, and many allow readers to comment on the original post, thereby allowing audience discussions.
Information
A blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person's life and what is happening on the Web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site, although there are as many unique types of blogs as there are people.
People maintained blogs long before the term was coined, but the trend gained momentum with the introduction of automated published systems, most notably Blogger at blogger.com. Thousands of people use services such as Blogger to simplify and accelerate the publishing process. Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog.
Evolution of blogs
The modern blog evolved from the online diary, where people would keep a running account of their personal lives. Most such writers called themselves diarists, journalists, or journalers. Early weblogs were simply manually updated components of common websites. However, the evolution of tools to facilitate the production and maintenance of web articles posted in reverse chronological order made the publishing process feasible to a much larger, less technical, population. Ultimately, this resulted in the distinct class of online publishing that produces blogs we recognize today
Advantages of Blog
The are many advantages that Blogs offer over a web site:
· No need for installing any server software on the users' machine.
· The user has extensive control over how their blog looks and operates.
· Whenever the user edits his or her blog the results are instantly updated and available to others.
· Like any other website, blogs can be simply linked to and navigated
· You can make as many Blogs as you like on any subject.
· You can post as often as u can. I can’t imagine that I could send an email to my ezine every day but with a Blog you can post as much as you would like.
· Email spam filters do not block Blogs because they are not an email communications.
· You don't have to mess with an HTML layout. You just post your info and the info looks wonderful because the Blog uses the template that you set up.
· Ease of use, where the author can publish to the web without using any programming code.
Can blogs help students?
It's a great tool for Students to air their thoughts clearly, as well as exercise their writing skills. Besides, it can act as a portfolio that will help them showcase their skills and help in the job market."
Ø Blogs act as a personal brand image builder, a knowledge management tool.
Ø Also helps in building a well-networked community of people.
Ø Blogs encourage discussion and debate.
Ø Blogs helps to keep in touch with current and former students, or with colleagues around the world.
How using blog is advantageous for students
The reader response journal or literature log has often been used for readers to comment and reflect on the texts they are reading. These logs, after time, are shared with other class participants. In some cases, a loose-leaf notebook is made accessible to the whole class – forming a collaborative journal. Hence the notion of logs being a shared learning activity is already established as pedagogical practice. In extending the practice of learning journals to blogging there is a similarity between blogs and a traditional learning journal, except that the former is electronically published - thus making it publicly available. The blog has the potential of being immediately public. Anyone else can visit - other students or the teacher - at any time. Reflective hardcopy journals are very private, thus generating a particular private discourse. Blogs on the other hand are not private: they are openly published. The writing style and discourse will be modified as a result yet the traces of learning will remain visible.
The blog can be a record of an individual or a group: of their experiences, observations, advice, impressions, opinions, analysis, notes, and comments across a whole range of subjects – news, politics, travel, economics, journalism, computer programming. Blogs are able to integrate the personal aspect of traditional learning journal or diary that documents a student’s journal through their leaning with the immediate publishing capability of the web.
Ø There are a range of potential applications of blogging technology in education for student communication, Sharing of learning materials, collaboration and professional development for knowledge management.
Ø There are advantages to the public discourse, particularly from the point of view of shared learning experiences.
Ø Other students in the class, or other visitors, can read the logs, and in this respect, the learning is a shared experience or studying is a shared experience.
Ø Students are able to observe others’ learning through reading each other’s learning journal blogs.
Ø The blog was particularly useful to students whose personal study routines lack order and routine. The blog served to keep their lecture notes for safekeeping: a central storage bank of information, which unlike their notebook, was simple to locate, easy to manage and access, and impossible to lose.
Ø The chronology of the blog (the day-by-day linking of entries with dates) gives the students' notes an internal logic: an easy way to organizes their information. This is a definite benefit for those students whose note-taking skills are not yet developed enough to a stage where they can manage and keep a useful set of paper notes.
Ø The process of writing postings focused the students' thinking. It encourages them to review and revise their learning. The students filter the information from classes then record brief summaries onto their blogs. They record the things that seemed (subjectively) important to them – the things that were directly and immediately relevant to them – the things they want to remember for later.
Ø The students definitely feel their notes were personal, yet at the same time were happy about it being viewed 'publicly' by other students and the teacher. They didn't consider their blogs to be intimate enough to be considered private. The students were clear that this is a public presentation of their personal learning. Many commented on the good experience being gained by writing publicly, even for this limited community. Many find the daily "flushing it out" and "pumping it back" process very rewarding: some feel the process force them to improve their writing skills, and many students take pleasure in seeing their entries improve.
Ø The students use their blog for a similar purpose: as a storehouse of vital snippets of information gleaned from their lectures and their own scrawled notes. The blog helped to make meaningful knowledge from learned information.
Ø The blogs have potential in educational settings, not only to track students' learning curves, but also as a learning tool for writing and study skills
Let's ping
One of the most powerful facilities in weblogs is pinging, which involves a person posting a comment about someone else's work on their own blog. They use the 'Track Back' tool to notify the author when they have published the comment, basically inviting them to discuss it.” It alerts the original author that someone has written about them. That's powerful."
How blogging (and participatory media) can help budding professionals
A blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order. Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual although some focus on photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), or audio (podcasting), and are part of a wider network of social media.
The term "blog" is derived from "Web log." "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. Weblog software (also called blog software or blogware) is a category of software which consists of a specialized form of Content Management Systems specifically designed for creating and maintaining weblogs. CMS facilitates the organization, control, and publication of a large body of documents and other content, such as images and multimedia resources. A CMS often facilitates the collaborative creation of documents. A web content management system is a content management system with additional features to ease the tasks required to publish web content to Web sites.
Web Content management systems are often used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry-specific documentation such as news articles, operators' manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures. A content management system may support the following features:
· Import and creation of documents and multimedia material
· Identification of all key users and their content management roles
· The ability to assign roles and responsibilities to different content categories or types.
· Definition of the content workflow tasks, often coupled with event messaging so that content managers are alerted to changes in content.
· The ability to track and manage multiple versions of a single instance of content.
· The ability to publish the content to a repository to support access to the content. Increasingly, the repository is an inherent part of the system, and incorporates enterprise search and retrieval.
· Some content management systems allow the textual aspect of content to be separated to some extent from formatting. For example the CMS may automatically set default color, fonts, or layout.
A corporate blog is a weblog published and used by the organization to reach its organizational goals. Although there are many different types of corporate blogs, most can be categorized as either external or internal.
Some benefits of blogs for professionals can be listed as:
· It improves participation spirit, collaboration, and the capabilities of team learning. It is ideal to run projects and to work with heterogeneous teams. It is also useful to promote dialogue and find lateral ideas outside the team.
· It allows integrating conversations with a shared vision. It is an excellent means for the leaders to communicate.
· It is the space where interpretations and different points of view come up so that the any member of the organization can discuss and debate them.
· It is an excellent means for the employees to achieve an integrated vision of the company by joining in conversations.
· It implies an open communication platform that allows new ways relating and coordinating actions among the organizational members and between the latter and the network of external relationships.
· It becomes the written memory of the organization. Furthermore, writing conveys emotional stability which eventually promotes the process of organizational development.
They speed up the transference and transformation of knowledge to make ideas flow easily and take learning into action
Types of corporate blogs
Internal blogs
Corporate blogs can be very strong communication tools within or on behalf of a corporate community. Free from many of the constraints of traditional corporate communications, they can explore original issues and provoke thought among an audience that may tune out from other messages. Generally, anyone can write comments to any post in corporate blogs. Anyone can write a comment to any comment or simply anyone can write a new post, in internal blogs. Internal blogs are in many cases good alternatives to meetings. People may not have frequent meetings, about many important matters, for two reasons:
· distance of the meeting location and
· Availability of all the people at the proposed meeting time.
However the way community members communicate and share information in a blog environment creates practically any number of small or large virtual meetings that community members can participate at any time of the day (or night).Since blogs are open to the community, the hurdle and hesitation of sending invitations to the exact/correct number of related people is removed. Consequently fewer people will feel that they are kept away from the decision making process. Since every post is open to the community, anyone can take part in the decision making process, simply by adding his/her comments. A talking community creates the healthiest environment in the decision making process with collective intelligence of the elite crowd.
Blogs, in many cases, are more practical in use than emails.
Emails are not the best corporate communication and information sharing tools, since
· people receive too many of them and
· People are not always good enough in archiving their emails, therefore they may not find some of them, later when they need them again.
In many big organizations there are at least a few but mostly many internal blogs on their intranet, according to the aim or target of the blog.
Blogs are used at every level of the organization. A good example may be the participation of the production workers with the improvement proposals, using the network connected kiosk around the production area, in some organizations. In such organizations, any other people can make a comment on the proposal and the improvement action is triggered automatically without the hierarchical vertical confirmation process.
Even if the made proposal is not applicable for some reasons, it may still inspire some other members in the crowd for more practical solutions.
External blogs
Primary function of corporate communications/public relations today is network building. External blogs are participatory communications tools that can build complex and effective discussions. Blogs build connections and links between and among your key audiences, which help the corporations to use these networks over time to persuade people to action, to respond to a crisis, to leverage market conversations and to improve the business overall.
Effectiveness of a network depends on
1. number of users
2. connection between the nodes
and blogs are particularly well designed to help a corporation to do the both parameters, since blogs are link-heavy, and the link is the core technology for making networks visible.
The networked market knows more than companies do about their own products. This new balance of power, where consumers own marketing is aptly named "Consumer generated marketing". Blogs are not only the corporate tools but also consumer tools that promote companies who fulfill their promises, and to destroy those who break them.
Marketers expect to have product evangelists or influencers among the audiences. Once they find them they treat them like VIPs, asking those exclusive previews, product testing, consultation on marketing plan, customer services audit, etc. The business blog can have the additional value by adding a level of credibility that is often unobtainable from a standard corporate site. It gives businesses an opportunity to show a different side that doesn't have to be all suits and ties. Business blogs can interact with a target market on a more personal level while all at the same time building link credibility that can ultimately be tied back to the corporate site.
How blogging (and participatory media) can help students.
Definition
A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links.
Another Definition
Blogs are alternatively called web logs or weblogs. However, "blog" seems less likely to cause confusion, as "web log" can also mean a server's log files.
Weblogs are “post-centric” -- the posting is the key unit -- rather than “page-centric,” as with more traditional websites. Weblogs typically link to other websites and blog postings, and many allow readers to comment on the original post, thereby allowing audience discussions.
Information
A blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person's life and what is happening on the Web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site, although there are as many unique types of blogs as there are people.
People maintained blogs long before the term was coined, but the trend gained momentum with the introduction of automated published systems, most notably Blogger at blogger.com. Thousands of people use services such as Blogger to simplify and accelerate the publishing process. Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog.
Evolution of blogs
The modern blog evolved from the online diary, where people would keep a running account of their personal lives. Most such writers called themselves diarists, journalists, or journalers. Early weblogs were simply manually updated components of common websites. However, the evolution of tools to facilitate the production and maintenance of web articles posted in reverse chronological order made the publishing process feasible to a much larger, less technical, population. Ultimately, this resulted in the distinct class of online publishing that produces blogs we recognize today
Advantages of Blog
The are many advantages that Blogs offer over a web site:
· No need for installing any server software on the users' machine.
· The user has extensive control over how their blog looks and operates.
· Whenever the user edits his or her blog the results are instantly updated and available to others.
· Like any other website, blogs can be simply linked to and navigated
· You can make as many Blogs as you like on any subject.
· You can post as often as u can. I can’t imagine that I could send an email to my ezine every day but with a Blog you can post as much as you would like.
· Email spam filters do not block Blogs because they are not an email communications.
· You don't have to mess with an HTML layout. You just post your info and the info looks wonderful because the Blog uses the template that you set up.
· Ease of use, where the author can publish to the web without using any programming code.
Can blogs help students?
It's a great tool for Students to air their thoughts clearly, as well as exercise their writing skills. Besides, it can act as a portfolio that will help them showcase their skills and help in the job market."
Ø Blogs act as a personal brand image builder, a knowledge management tool.
Ø Also helps in building a well-networked community of people.
Ø Blogs encourage discussion and debate.
Ø Blogs helps to keep in touch with current and former students, or with colleagues around the world.
How using blog is advantageous for students
The reader response journal or literature log has often been used for readers to comment and reflect on the texts they are reading. These logs, after time, are shared with other class participants. In some cases, a loose-leaf notebook is made accessible to the whole class – forming a collaborative journal. Hence the notion of logs being a shared learning activity is already established as pedagogical practice. In extending the practice of learning journals to blogging there is a similarity between blogs and a traditional learning journal, except that the former is electronically published - thus making it publicly available. The blog has the potential of being immediately public. Anyone else can visit - other students or the teacher - at any time. Reflective hardcopy journals are very private, thus generating a particular private discourse. Blogs on the other hand are not private: they are openly published. The writing style and discourse will be modified as a result yet the traces of learning will remain visible.
The blog can be a record of an individual or a group: of their experiences, observations, advice, impressions, opinions, analysis, notes, and comments across a whole range of subjects – news, politics, travel, economics, journalism, computer programming. Blogs are able to integrate the personal aspect of traditional learning journal or diary that documents a student’s journal through their leaning with the immediate publishing capability of the web.
Ø There are a range of potential applications of blogging technology in education for student communication, Sharing of learning materials, collaboration and professional development for knowledge management.
Ø There are advantages to the public discourse, particularly from the point of view of shared learning experiences.
Ø Other students in the class, or other visitors, can read the logs, and in this respect, the learning is a shared experience or studying is a shared experience.
Ø Students are able to observe others’ learning through reading each other’s learning journal blogs.
Ø The blog was particularly useful to students whose personal study routines lack order and routine. The blog served to keep their lecture notes for safekeeping: a central storage bank of information, which unlike their notebook, was simple to locate, easy to manage and access, and impossible to lose.
Ø The chronology of the blog (the day-by-day linking of entries with dates) gives the students' notes an internal logic: an easy way to organizes their information. This is a definite benefit for those students whose note-taking skills are not yet developed enough to a stage where they can manage and keep a useful set of paper notes.
Ø The process of writing postings focused the students' thinking. It encourages them to review and revise their learning. The students filter the information from classes then record brief summaries onto their blogs. They record the things that seemed (subjectively) important to them – the things that were directly and immediately relevant to them – the things they want to remember for later.
Ø The students definitely feel their notes were personal, yet at the same time were happy about it being viewed 'publicly' by other students and the teacher. They didn't consider their blogs to be intimate enough to be considered private. The students were clear that this is a public presentation of their personal learning. Many commented on the good experience being gained by writing publicly, even for this limited community. Many find the daily "flushing it out" and "pumping it back" process very rewarding: some feel the process force them to improve their writing skills, and many students take pleasure in seeing their entries improve.
Ø The students use their blog for a similar purpose: as a storehouse of vital snippets of information gleaned from their lectures and their own scrawled notes. The blog helped to make meaningful knowledge from learned information.
Ø The blogs have potential in educational settings, not only to track students' learning curves, but also as a learning tool for writing and study skills
Let's ping
One of the most powerful facilities in weblogs is pinging, which involves a person posting a comment about someone else's work on their own blog. They use the 'Track Back' tool to notify the author when they have published the comment, basically inviting them to discuss it.” It alerts the original author that someone has written about them. That's powerful."
BLOGS AS A POWERFUL MEDIUM OF COMMUNICATION
It is one of the most wonderful experiences for the youngsters or the students now a days is to blog. Blogging has really changed the way we share our knowledge. Here our work becomes an open diary, people read it and if they like it, you receive comments too! But don’t get disheartened if you don’t receive any for say one or two months because blogging is not a forum. It is a media where we can throw our ideas to a large august group of people and can get the feed back at a very reasonable ease. Here I mean that with the help of the internet only the students or the youngsters get the opportunity to BRAINSTORM with large number of elite people. Being a mechanical engineer that to form a purely non IT back ground initially I did not have much exposure to the usability of IT prior to my joining in SCIT but it is for sure that I was very much convinced that IT as a tool will be playing the most powerful tool in the time to come. The day we had the seminar on blogging I was very much convinced that the blogging feature of the IT services will open the sea of opportunities for the knowledge sharing platform and this will really leverage the power of IT in making the accessibility to the knowledge.
By the help of pod casts and web casts you have the options to audio and visualizations too. Anybody can get the latest news on very specific subjects which normally would not be available anywhere and one can make a video of your own interest and you can post it on the net to be viewed by anybody having the same line of thoughts or interests.
The students in the streams of arts and media are the ones who really learn the most. These are all people with budding thoughts and ideas which need a platform to be aired from, to exercise their writing skills, and act as a portfolio to showcase their skills and creativity and help in the job market. It’s a way of organizing one’s thoughts and putting it across in a reader friendly way, which is an excellent tool for upcoming writers and journalists.
The blogging is a great way to create and increase one’s network for professionals. It’s about introducing yourself in a perfectly presentable manner to others whom you find interacting with and this can actually help stand point in the market. Even It can also help people get jobs since it gives us tag of expertise in some specific areas which is really provides a good platform to increase your marketability in the job market. It helps people to establish a virtual network with people and who knows when one can get an opportunity for a possible employment. Blogs and pod casts can be used to explain the new professionals about how to use any new programming language, any tool. Through blogging one can learn from their seniors in their field, the upcoming technologies in their field and the practical implications of these technologies. One can discus not only his personal R&D on any technology but also on the technology or domain knowledge in which they are expert.
Bloggers are usually better informed than non-bloggers. Thus professionals can learn about the latest technologies that are replacing the obsolete ones. In this manner one can stay up-to-date by learning the new technology.
Hence in the time to come the use of the blogs will be pervasive. It will complete the leverage the power of IT by making the availability of the information on any subject at the click only. This will definitely lead us to a knowledge driven age.
Tushar Mohanty.
ITBM- IT052130
Email- mohantytushar@gmail.com
Many of our friends have given good definitions on the blogs posted here. Here’s one more,
“Blogs are part of a nanopublishing revolution that allows individuals
to express themselves to the world. Blogs are easy to create, easy to
maintain and fun to read”.
Examining the history of blogging I came across some interesting facts,
• In the early days of the Internet, each new page was a cause for celebration. The early pioneers watched in excitement as the network grew, and they wanted to keep people informed about this growth. In 1992, Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee created the first What’s New page; later, another pioneer, Marc Andreesen, put up a similar page. Each had hotlinks to the new pages springing up on the Net.
• As the Internet grew and the World Wide Web came about, other programmers created hand-coded pages with their recommendations for surfing the Net – they “filtered” the Net. Justin Hall started his filter log in 1994. In 1998, Jorn Barger coined the term “weblog.”
• Soon, says weblogger and author Rebecca Blood, these “link-driven sites” were very popular, and webloggers became a community. Each weblog included a list of similar filter sites.
• In 1999, websites Blogger and Pitas began to offer a simpler way to create a weblog. These hosted services allowed any person to easily sign up, create a blog, and write numerous postings. All without having to know HTML.
• Since then, millions of weblogs have been created. The term is now pronounced web-log or we-blog, or shorted to blog. And these blogs evolved into personal diaries or journals. Many journal-blogs still do include a list of other similar sites. This is a called a blogroll.
How does blogging (and participatory media) help students? The web is a media exploding with huge amounts of data and data being added on every moment. This is Data and for any person to learn things from this media derives time which by the way is getting to be a very costly affair. No one has time to run through this sort of information. What blogs does here is create environments of people who think alike, share the same views, similar ideas and have a consensus on an a topic of discussion. This environment exists regardless of any differences, geographies and demographics. Anyone interested in the same discussion is capable of viewing these logs and if interested post their comments and perspectives on the same.
Students can find their topics of interest on various blogging sites and access these posts to enhance their knowledge on their specific areas of interest and if required even communicate his thoughts on the same and clear any doubts regarding the same from the author who would be an expert in that domain. Students who increasingly crave to have particular domain knowledge and become experts in niche areas have huge potential and improve their wherewithal of these topics.
The same is the case with budding professionals. Most of them enter into certain domains on their interests in that particular domain and their idea of increasing their knowledge is to learn on hand during the course of work. Blogs have expanded their horizon to learning not only from work but from those who’ve taken similar roles in the industry and who share their experiences through blogs.
Blogs are all about learning or upgrading your knowledge in your areas of interest and which you would want to carry forward for a career progress.
George Tomy
ITBM – IT 052049
george.tomyk@gmail.com
Well to start with I would like to apologize for submitting my blog late. The reason being the connection to the internet is down (I’m not at college but at my grand moms place). But never the less I am sitting beneath the moonlight on a hammock near the beach writing this blog on a piece of paper listening to the rhythmic sound made by waves crashing upon the sand.
This is also my very first blog and I see myself writing a lot of blogs in the future. As a fresher to the world of blogs I would like to say that whatever I write in this blog is my view of how blogging can help students and budding professionals and mostly not something that I have experienced myself.
Ok let’s start with how can blogging (and participatory media) help students-
1. Students love to be heard and what better way to express their opinion then to blog about things that matter to them like bikes, cars, music, fashion, Gadgets, and love.
2. Students can get frank opinions about something totally new to them. An example of this would be the site www.cnettv.com which is a video podcast podcasting the latest tech gadgets that release abroad.
3. Students can use it to network with other students all over the world and perhaps learn form each other make new friends and also meet long lost friends. A classic example of this would be orkut.com where in 6 months I have met many friends whom I had lost contact with for a long time.
4. You can get feedback on a particular career which you may be interested in thus helping you make a fully conscious choice before entering the industry.
Now the budding professional also has a lot to gain form blogging (and participatory media) apart form the above benefits he or she can also
1. Business network – Knowing people in the same profession can always be of great assistance. You can discuss the future prospects of that particular profession with renowned people in that profession by just blogging. Thus helping an individual cope better with changes in the industry.
2. They could market their business through this very economical means of reaching to a quality target audience.
3. They could keep abreast on what is going on in other related professions so as to know when they are going to be threatened by a new technology causing their business to get obsolete.
4. To receive unadulterated facts without any editing I would like to give an example of the news channel CNN IBN have a section where a citizen journalist reports on something that he witnessed which is straight from the citizen
5. Before going with a particular vendor you can read a review by a blogger and based on your needs and the bloggers inputs you can go ahead an choose a particular vendor.
6. It could serve as an opportunity to get noticed by a perspective employer.
To sum up this comment I would like to thank my professor Parag sir for introducing me to blogging (and participatory media) without your lecture I would have not written my first ever blog this early in my life. I am sure I will be addicted to blogging as I have been reading other blogs and can’t wait to have my own at blogspot. So all those reading this and have still not started writing your own blogs go ahead and start one now.
Cheers and Keep Blogging
Charles DeSouza
IT 52032
NITI
SCIT
Blogging my first Blog!!!
I am hearing the word ‘Blog’ continuously for past 8-10 months and I also read a lot of blogs but never tried my hands in writing blogs. At last, I got to post one due to an assignment given by Mr.Ajay and Mr.Parag. I take this opportunity to thank both of you and SCIT for providing this chance to put my first foot on this blogging world.
As the Internet becomes an increasingly pervasive and persistent influence in people's lives, the phenomenon of the blog stands out as a fine example of the way in which the Web enables individual participation in the marketplace of ideas.
A blog (sometimes referred to as a weblog) is a Web publishing tool that allows authors to quickly and easily self-publish text, artwork, links to other blogs or Web sites, and a whole array of other content. Blogs work well for students because they can be worked on at virtually any time, in any place with an Internet-enabled computer. Hence, they can be used by computer savvy teachers and professionals to create a classroom that extends beyond the boundaries of the schools and colleges.
The Blogs highly help in motivating students, especially those who otherwise might not become participants in classrooms, provides excellent opportunities for students to read and write, provides effective forums for collaboration and discussion and also provides powerful tools to enable learning or mentoring to occur. They can be used to inform students of class requirements, post handouts, notices, and homework assignments, or act as a question and answer board.
Blogs provide a space where teachers and students can work to further develop writing or other skills with the advantage of an instant audience. Teachers can offer instructional tips, and students can practice and benefit from peer review. They also make online mentoring possible. For example, a class of older students can help a class of younger students develop more confidence in their writing skills. Students can also participate in cooperative learning activities that require them to relay research findings, ideas, or suggestions.
A class blog opens the opportunity for students to discuss topics outside of the classroom. With a blog, every person has an equal opportunity to share their thoughts and opinions. Students have time to be reactive to one another and reflective. Blogs present, organize, and protect student work as digital portfolios. As older entries are archived, developing skills and progress may be analyzed more conveniently. Additionally, as students realize their efforts will be published, they are typically more motivated to produce better writing.
Last but not the least, if all seniors of an institution start blogging about their college and corporate experience, it would benefit the juniors to a large extent.
Professional blogging has become a vital part of internet business. The professional blogger gets paid to post and the blog owner has postings magically appear at predetermined intervals. Professional blogging acts as a means of communications for marketing, public relations, SEO, and business relationship building. It seems logical that an increase in the number of professional bloggers will soon follow. While many business and professional firms would like to add a blog component to their online presence, not all of them will be able to maintain a long term business blog.
Professional blogging for businesses would increase company revenue over time through the marketing and relationship building power of the blog. As a result of the additional financial gains, hiring a professional blog writer or team makes financial sense for many business owners and managers. The total cost of blogging will be much less than the added revenue, the cost of hiring an additional staff member for blogging, or from the time saving from not reassigning blogging duties to a current employee.
Hiring a professional blogger to train staff in writing, developing, and utilizing a business blog to its fullest potential is a powerful investment. The additional value of the blog to the business pays for blogging professional over and over again. Professional blogging is here to stay and would be pursued as a career by many professionals. Professional blogging pays off.
Sabarinath.N.M
IT052102
NITI
sabari84@gmail.com
Blogging has become the order of the day and it will soon become an indispensable part of our lives similar to what happened with e-mail or sms.
A ‘blog’ is essentially an extension of one’s self. It acts as a diary that records your life and it also proves to be your window to the outside world and like.
The most significant advantage it brings with it is the building of an identity for oneself in this virtual environment.
All these years, every one of us were longing for a medium, where one could share whatever is there in your mind to the outside world. With blogs, that has finally become a reality.
It is always a wonderful feeling altogether if one could directly experience what other like-minded people has to say about you and your ideas.
It is learning as well as a highly enriching experience that could not be put in words.
People blog for various reasons. For some it’s a medium of catching up with friends or peers at the workplace. For some, it acts a medium of sharing knowledge with others. It can also be used for pure academic purposes and also as a way of earning some quick bucks.
The time taken to publish your material in the public domain has considerably reduced with blogs and also the pain associated in doing so.
Blogs can be seen in the following ways by a budding professional:
• Blogs, in an office environment, can be an excellent way of sharing knowledge within the organization.
• Blogs can be a positive way of getting feedback, and keeping your finger on the pulse, as readers react to certain pieces, suggest story ideas, etc.
• Blogs can build the profile of the writer, showcasing your skills and expertise to all those sitting out there.
• Blogs have the potential to help an organization develop stronger relationships and brand loyalty with its customers and you can prove to be that ‘human face’ that the customers or clients look for.
• Blogs accelerate your learning process through the interactions and subsequent discussions with the experts in your domain.
For students like me:
• Blogs is a mode of networking and a more efficient one at that.
• Blogs doesn’t restrict one’s learning to classroom. It’s a way of finding out the solutions for your problems from the most respected and the learned in respective field.
• If you are skilled and have the much sought after expertise in any area, you can directly let the world know it through your blogs.
• Blogs help in building a highly responsible student community that surely and steadily will serve the society in the days to come.
Blogs are fast becoming a way of life and I don’t want to be left out of this race.
J Preeth Karan
ITBM
IT 052052
preethkaran@gmail.com
Every one of us will always remain a student.Oops did I hurt anyone? Dont worry. We all will be learning one thing or the other which may or may not be used in our lives. But when we all are running behind corporate laurels, we seldom understand the potential in the knowledge we have acquired over all these years. Have you ever thought back of giving it to others. Its said, knowledge multiplies when you share it with others.Though the term "Budding Professional" would have thousands of subjective meanings in reality, any dictionary theoretically limits it to a few optimal description. That itself is absurd. So rather than citing the cliched benefits of blogging by budding professionals, let us understand the depth of useful blogging.If a couple of youngsters start writing blogs forming perspectives on their areas of expertise, they are creating a sense of opinion on that subject. History has taught us one thing; for a society to mature and progress it should have clarity on its opinion. So a blog which can be used by a so called "Budding Professional" can also lead to spreading misinformation. Am I pointing towards a moral police? nopes but towards the ethical accountability of bloggers to themself and the society at a large. We know about money making full time bloggers. But shouldnt we metamorphise into spare time bloggers who use their money to support the causes they believe? We all know that the our "unity" in diversity is a brittle bone. Think the power of the blogs and it would reflect on the students led "Anti Reservation Campaign". Just imagine what it could do to a ready to break religious fabric? How is this related to a "Budding Professional"?? Hello!! can you imagine to work in a communally fired mumbai?? If this is true then the reverse should also work, isnt it?? atleast we should give it a try. Have you guys ever come across blogs that help to knitt this communal fabric authored by professionals?? Can we set apart our ego and bias against other fellow humans and then write something that could help our children see a better "sunrise"?? Or can't we write among the "professional" fraternities that would support and encourage initiatives with a wider and solid vision than just personal quest for fame, money and satisfation?? We are blessed as we have got many a chance and oppurtunities for all the above quests. Why dont we dream and blog that wouldnt limit these facets of life to us. But help us see the truth of minimality around us. If a blog had helped you take away your eyes from the work screen to the harsh reality outside, then it had just planted the seeds of awareness, what only knowledge can do. So blogs have a multitude of facets like social, knowledgable, opinion formation and much more than the blogionic vista of a "professional". Can you imagine how it can change the way you live?? After a few years, we all will get married *giggles*. You had a hot debate with your spouse and then when you went to the office your peers told you to behave properly to your spouse. Yup!! you got it right she/he blogged the debate as "How to avoid a debate with your spouse" and I am sure this would drag a lot of attention.
My intention was to create a perspective on why and how the so called "Budding Professionals" should blog by standing out of the cliched box intending to just share knowledge, make money, fame or show their egoistic level of expertise. A broader silhouette will always make it appeal to senses and sensibility.
Anish Mohan V
ITBM, IT052016
Most simply put a blog is a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger.
There are blogs on virtually any topic you can think of. From photography, to spirituality, to recipes, to personal diaries to hobbies - blogging has as many applications and varieties as you can imagine. Whole blog communities have sprung up around some of these topics putting people into contact with each other in relationships where they can learn, share ideas, make friends and even do business with people with similar interests from around the world.
Blogs are informative, entertaining, eye-openers, even scary. They can be natural, direct and informal, maybe even funny or irritating but there's always some blogs sharing your interests. You become a part of the conversation by linking to those blogs from posts of your own, stating your opinions, publishing related information or thoughts.
Another brilliant factor is that you can just speak up! You can say that people please don’t believe Mr X or that Mr. Y’s was a genius response and may be if you write something a little too annoying, chances are that the blogger you are commenting on may just block you from further postings as well as delete past comments. Well, It’s casual and you don’t have to be trained to write a blog.
The point is that blogging could be a game, it could be a waste of time, could be fun but most of all if you can’t, get your way out of silliest of problems…blogs could be the one and only solution, or at least a way to crib out the problem if not solve it. One just needs to look right….
I’m not listing down the advantages of blogging to students and professionals mostly because I will be writing nothing different from the contributors above…that the students can learn, communicate, make money, sell skills, think from different perspective, enhance creativity, share games, pictures and videos or just have plain fun and that professionals can find solutions, build a network, get fresh ideas, interact, collaborate, manage knowledge, develop communities, promote businesses, become matter experts, find better jobs and even get married.
Then there’s this making Money Online with ProBlogger Blog Tips, there are tools for managing advance blogging, programs that gather your favorite blogs and present them in one.
And if that’s not enough there are blogging jobs available!
I others too confess that this is a new concept that dawned on me only this week and that most of the above are notes to myself.
Prageti Verma
IT52085
Systems
The word BLOG has certainly changed our lives. I have been hearing it continuously from everyone. A blog is a Web publishing tool that allows authors to quickly and easily self-publish text, artwork, links to other blogs or Web sites, and a whole array of other content. Blogs work well for students because they can be worked on at virtually any time, in any place with an Internet-enabled computer. Hence, they can be used by computer savvy teachers and professionals to create a classroom that extends beyond the boundaries of the schools and colleges. Blogging has become the order of the day and it will soon become an indispensable part of our lives similar to what happened with e-mail or sms. And with the Internet technology continuing to evolve, there would certainly be a day where a large number of people start writing blogs. Blogs are easy to create, easy to maintain and fun to read”. Blogging has really changed the way we share our knowledge. Here our work becomes an open diary, people read it and if they like it, you receive comments too! A blog can be piece of news or comments on a particular subject may be hobbies, touring, coding, hacking, food, etc. In short it could be anything under the sun. I was certainly not in favour of writing blogs. But sometimes you have to change yourself with this changing world. And this change has certainly helped me a lot. I have gained a lot of knowledge reading blogs than I ever thought I could. There are a lot of advantages of blogs not only for students but also for any professional. A blog can help a person in a lot ways as mentioned:
Blogging gives students a way to organize the students their thought process and putting them in reader friendly way. Being from Management stream it also helps us a lot in cultivating writing style. Blogs also can be used as tools for creating on-line communities of people interested in the same subjects – or in each other. A number of people can describe their thoughts, activities and reactions, and thereby share them with others. As a budding professional, through blogging one can get to know what is happening in their respective fields and can even share views with some of the experts in that field, which otherwise would not have been possible. Blogs can also help people in keeping them updated about all the recent happenings across the world. Blogs ideally help people express one’s freedom of speech more than anything else. It helps as a great learning tool for all those just about to enter the industry, to know the norms and customs before actually starting it all hands on. Blogs provide excellent opportunities for students, who are not able to put their ideas into proper frame of words to read, write, discuss and ultimately grow. It can also help people get jobs and be employed since blogs give us a pedestal of being an expert in our field of expertise. It helps people to establish a virtual relationship with people. Also He can update the knowledge on his area of work with knowledge of latest developments by visiting blogs of experts in that area of work.
So one final statement that I would make is blogs only help one to enrich his knowledge on areas that are of interest to him, share his thoughts with the world
and get to know people with similar interests.
Amit Gupte
IT052011
NITI
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