The Web Economy/Forums and Blogs

Resource type: this resource is a course.

Educational level: this is a tertiary (university) resource.

Email and Mailing List

This is a lesson part of the module The Web Economy out of the Open Source ERP/Executive Diploma course conducted by a private university.

Topics

• If things are not said in a forum, then it is not considered said at all. Forums play an important role in putting all discussions in one place and public. For Open Source, forums are vital.
• Blogs or social sites activity can segregate online activity into a more focused and personalised structure.
• However social sites also allow segregation where certain members kept to their own culture and norm without interfacing with anyone else.

Assignment Tasks

• Suscribe to popular social sites such as FaceBook and BlogSpot.
• Create your own Wiki User page.
• Link your online assets to your User Page.
• Track and monitor the activity through your email box.
• How much are cultural differences affecting the way you interact with strangers on the Web?

Activities

• Publish your works in an attractive manner in your user page, stating your own views and findings providing links to your sources. Use the talk page here to score marks.
• Create or edit sub-pages of course materials within wikiversity.
• Discuss in the forum (link shall be provided) by offering your ideas and answering or comment on others' postings.

Links to Student Notes

(Provided by Students - subject to edit ranking by tutor)

Notable Links to Resources

(Provided by Students - subject to edit ranking by tutor)

Sub-Pages

(Done in wikiversity as course material by the students under the guidance of the tutor)