National Archives reflection

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National Archives of United States

1. Background information

Located at College Park, MD, NARA is the nation’s record keeper who keeps and preserves Federal records of the nation. They allow people to acess to their records through the electronic records archives (ERA) so that it will remain retrievable, readable and authentic. These records can be used to claim the rights and entitlements of people, hold elected officials accountable for their actions and document the nation’s history.

2. Use of social media and web 2.0 technologies for public communication and education

NARA launched some web 2.0 technologies like blogs, RSS feeds and created NARA sites on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Flickr. It used these tools to create new ways of public communication and feedback.

New Media Landscape reflection

5 key points

1. Difference between freelance and a company – The difference in working life whereby freelancing have less pressure but maybe unable to hand work on time. Start with freelancing first until one have good customer base
2. How do one charge for a website – portfolio, skills and how can one increase the clients’ site traffic or earnings.
3. Ideas about the working world – There is huge difference between school and working, Prepare to cope with client demands. If client dislike the work, it may result in redoing the work. Pressure to hand in work on time.
4. How to market your company- advertising on google, website banners and blogs.
5. Incorporating social networking – twitter to increase site traffic of the website.

3 things that inspired me

1. The well done websites that the guest speaker showed – inspires me to be a designer.
2. The pay of doing the websites – encourages me to take up such a job.
3. Inspires me to be innovative and creative.

I think it is useful for a guest speaker to share their expertise, experience and “tips & tricks” of the trade as it gives me ideas on how the job is like and important tricks about the job like how to incorporate new media into the websites to which is useful for my future. It also inspires me to be innovative and creative and how to cope with the working life.

Literature review

Hello everyone! This is a review I made for my assignment.
Article: http://www.masternewmedia.org/guide-to-online-video-for-business/
Originally written by: EyeView team

This article tells us how to create good online videos on the websites. It states the types of videos that people use that can attract customers to boost their sales.

In the past, before invention of the internet, advertisments have to be printed and it is not as efficient and they have to be transported. When the internet is created, loading of videos are still slow and takes up alot of space. However, today, media trends have changed.

Nowadays, people use online videos to market their goods. The use of internet for business allows more people around the world to know about your business. It allows people to see their videos at any time and place as long there is internet connection. People can also search anything more about the company. It is frequently used, as people nowadays have changed their way of consuming information and information technology have since improved tremendously. Improvements in storage spaces, loading time of videos and user friendliness have made it easier to watch videos online. Thus creating a trend for today’s society to watch videos in the internet.

A recent statistic from ComScore shows that in April 2009, viewers in U.S have watched over 16.8 billion online videos.

A recent survey from Visiblegains states that 70 per cent of executives surveyed believed that online video could increase their brand awareness.

These shows that online videos have become very popular over the years.

I feel that online videos, is powerful tool to reach out to the masses, that many companies made great use of and rely on. It have created another great opportunity for people to advertise their busninesses. Companies rely on it as it grabs the masses’ attention, saves time and bring the advertisements to life. It is more pleasing and entertaining. People like the thill of videos.

As the demand for better videos grows, people have to create more interesting, engaging and user friendly videos. The places to market their items on the internet grows over time. For example, online social networks like Facebook can also be a place for business. In the future, I hope to see more of these new media trends.

New media terms

Hi all,

this is my tag cloud for new media terms. It shows my ideas about new media.

introduction

Hi everyone! I’m a freshman from Temasek Polytechnic taking Interactive Media Informatics as my course. My name is yong shuang and I’m eighteen years old this year. I am a girl with short hair and wears a black coloured spectacles.

I love listening to music. Most kind of music, although intrumental music is my favourite. I feel that it is relaxing and can help to soothe the mind. Reading magazines is my other hobby too. I like to read magazines such as readers digest and national geographic. I find them interesting and informative.

School has already started and the first week of school is interesting! I have been learning new stuffs which are fun and engaging. Although assignments and projects are being assigned,  I’m still in my holiday mood of wanting to relax. Got to start working!

This cool blog is created for New Media Trends and I look forward to learning more about it!