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What facilitates effective online collaboration and organisation?

Online collaboration is the process where individuals engage within a group using Web 2.0 technologies to achieve a common goal (Blau, 2011, pp. 22-23). Participants within these online collaborative groups expand upon each other’s contributions through tools available via the Internet. To facilitate effective use of online collaboration and organisation, institutions and groups need to…

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Create a Business Facebook Page – No Personal Profile Required!

So you don’t have a personal profile on Facebook but see the need to have a business page? Want to avoid your staff being distracted by personal Facebook accounts while managing the business presence? Follow these 5 basic steps to create a new business page on Facebook without using a personal profile.   This video…

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Don’t Set and Forget! 4 Things Every Business Owner Should Do with Their Web Presence

When you started your small business, you were probably told you need your own website. Having a web presence is very important to help people find out more information about what your business is and what goods and/or services you offer. But as social media increasingly grows in popularity in all age groups, adding social…

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We are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists – Brian Knappenberger

This documentary by Brian Knappenberger is “an informative film that begins to unravel the mystery of Anonymous” (JustCuriosity, 2012). It explains the philosophy of Anonymous, what they believe and why members risk their own freedom to speak out against governments, religious groups and other public figures that they believe are suppressing free speech. There are…

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4 Great Articles on Twitter and Political Protest

For an assignment for Net308 for Internet Communications, we were asked to find 4 articles on certain case studies. I chose Twitter and Political Protest as my topic. Below are 4 articles and a critic on each for you to ponder. 1. The Revolution will be Digitised – Wired UK Heather Brook released a book…

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Spliced Together Article

For Katrina Comyns study in Internet communications, she was asked to create a page where she collected information from around the web on any topic of her choice, following the theme “face the music”. She focused on celebrities who do anything to avoid facing the music. Click here to read her instalment

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Social Media – Include it in Your Next Marketing Strategy

Are you not convinced that Social Media is here to stay? Watch this short clip and maybe you will rethink your view. Talk to us to help set up your full web presence and to take control of your digital shadow.

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Top 8 Favourite Adobe Photoshop Text Effects

In the spirit of all things typography as inspiration at the moment, I thought I would gather together in one place some of my favourite photoshop typography effects to share. Click the images in each sample to be taken to the tutorial. Enjoy! Easy Furry Text in Photoshop Create a fluffy and cuddly text effect…

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What roles does curation play in creating and maintaining a Web presence?

“Curation is about adding value from humans who add their qualitative judgment to whatever is being gathered and organized” (Rosenbaum, 2011). Curation gives users of the Internet the capability to control the flow of information that they receive and to cipher the most relevant information to read, watch or listen to. With many different flows…

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Web207 Reflective Web Media Creation

In this post you will find my final piece for the unit Web207 Web Media. The following has been created using the online tool Prezi. It’s a jungle out there when it comes to Stock Photography. There are thousands of images and hundreds of online libraries to choose from. This presentation helps graphic designers take…

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