A presentation about the impact of YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia, TripAdvisor and other online communities. Why traditional advertising agencies cannot respond. Power of community opinion.
It also links to a site which is interesting www.globalchange.com. There you can find all different kind of information about how the world is changing in any kind of way.
donderdag 29 oktober 2009
dinsdag 27 oktober 2009
Travel Page
In my second blog about the CTTG i mentioned that i had created my travel page, which shows to which countries you have been to, want to visit of have lived there. I was curious about what more functionalities this travel page has and what other community members have on their travel page.
For each country you can write a review, as they name it: 'Create your 'country name' travel page'. I wanted to try this so i created a travel page for Belgium. After i was finished with telling my story about the lovely Antwerp i wanted to see how it looked liked. But it looks exactly the same as 'my homepage'. And the map (which i really like) with the overview of placed is not on this page too. But when i go back to my travel map i see a sign 'new' by Belgium. So if community members look on my page the do see that i have changed something in the belgium travel guide. But they don't see what. Prette weird..
Because i don't have any travel buddies yet ( :( ) i am just looking around to people who seem interesting to me; where are they going and where have they been to. They seem to have a lot of information on their Travel Page. Users place articles and blogs about experiences of places they have been to and expand this with pictures they made themselves. Also they place tips about for example restaurants and hotels, which they think are useful to other community members.
It is interesting to read and also useful when you are looking for more information of a certain place. It is easy to search to community members who have been to certain places which you like.
A person's Travel Page
For each country you can write a review, as they name it: 'Create your 'country name' travel page'. I wanted to try this so i created a travel page for Belgium. After i was finished with telling my story about the lovely Antwerp i wanted to see how it looked liked. But it looks exactly the same as 'my homepage'. And the map (which i really like) with the overview of placed is not on this page too. But when i go back to my travel map i see a sign 'new' by Belgium. So if community members look on my page the do see that i have changed something in the belgium travel guide. But they don't see what. Prette weird..
Because i don't have any travel buddies yet ( :( ) i am just looking around to people who seem interesting to me; where are they going and where have they been to. They seem to have a lot of information on their Travel Page. Users place articles and blogs about experiences of places they have been to and expand this with pictures they made themselves. Also they place tips about for example restaurants and hotels, which they think are useful to other community members.
It is interesting to read and also useful when you are looking for more information of a certain place. It is easy to search to community members who have been to certain places which you like.
A person's Travel Page
vrijdag 23 oktober 2009
The Youtube Community
dinsdag 20 oktober 2009
Building my homepage
Last time i created my profile to let other people see who i am, where i'm from and what i like/dislike. After logging in the second time i got this message:
"You haven't started building your Homepage yet. You'll have much more fun on VT, when you do. People are much more likely to welcome you, help answer your questions, or just say 'hi'. It's Fast, Easy, and Fun to make a Member Homepage. Our super templates will walk you through the simple steps. In no time you'll have a sharp looking page that you can show the world!"
Than sounded interesting! Creating my own homepage.. I was curious about what this homepage exactly means and what kind of information i can put on it. Can i place pictures? Edit colors and style? Video's? Edit links etc.. ? Can i totally customise it myself? If so.. Yes! I want to :). I didn't know what to expect, so that's when i clicked: 'Build your homepage now!'
I had to give a homepage titel, chapter title and chapter content. I really did not know what the purpose of this information was. Do i just tell my story like in a blog or book on my homepage? But to find out i had to fill in the questions. So i did..
After filling in the questions i got the opportunity to choose my lay- out. But after selecting my lay out they sent me back to the starting page of the 'Build your homepage now' section. That was not what i expected to see! So i clicked on 'my homepage' to see what my homepage exactly means. Well.. To be short; it means that you can put some stories on it which look the same like on a blog. People can give comments on your posts etc.
My homepage
It was totally not what i expected to get from building my homepage and i was kind of disappointed. If i want to tell my story or want to hear specifc things i will post this on the forum. But.. When i put some stories on it people know who i am and why i am joining this community.
"You haven't started building your Homepage yet. You'll have much more fun on VT, when you do. People are much more likely to welcome you, help answer your questions, or just say 'hi'. It's Fast, Easy, and Fun to make a Member Homepage. Our super templates will walk you through the simple steps. In no time you'll have a sharp looking page that you can show the world!"
Than sounded interesting! Creating my own homepage.. I was curious about what this homepage exactly means and what kind of information i can put on it. Can i place pictures? Edit colors and style? Video's? Edit links etc.. ? Can i totally customise it myself? If so.. Yes! I want to :). I didn't know what to expect, so that's when i clicked: 'Build your homepage now!'
I had to give a homepage titel, chapter title and chapter content. I really did not know what the purpose of this information was. Do i just tell my story like in a blog or book on my homepage? But to find out i had to fill in the questions. So i did..
After filling in the questions i got the opportunity to choose my lay- out. But after selecting my lay out they sent me back to the starting page of the 'Build your homepage now' section. That was not what i expected to see! So i clicked on 'my homepage' to see what my homepage exactly means. Well.. To be short; it means that you can put some stories on it which look the same like on a blog. People can give comments on your posts etc.
My homepage
It was totally not what i expected to get from building my homepage and i was kind of disappointed. If i want to tell my story or want to hear specifc things i will post this on the forum. But.. When i put some stories on it people know who i am and why i am joining this community.
zondag 18 oktober 2009
Did you know 4.0
'In February 2008, John McCain raised $11 million for his U.S. presidential bid. That same month, Barack Obama attended no campagin fundraisers. Instead, Obama leveraged online social networks to raise $55 million in those 29 days.'
While looking at some movies at youtube I came by the 4th 'Did you know' video. It was the first time I saw this version and i really enjoyed watching it. So for those who haven't seen it before.. Enjoy!
While looking at some movies at youtube I came by the 4th 'Did you know' video. It was the first time I saw this version and i really enjoyed watching it. So for those who haven't seen it before.. Enjoy!
maandag 5 oktober 2009
Trust needs to be earned
After the discussion we had in class last week I was curious about trust on the internet. On which aspects do we base our trust in online people?
I found this really interesting article about trust and social networking. According the Charles H. Green there are four archetypes: Zagat’s, Amazon, eBay, and LinkedIn. I think we all know those websites and they all four have found another way to gain trust.
"1. Zagat's started off-line. It presents reviews by the "regular folks"—we trust it because the reviewers are presumably unbiased, in a way that commercial directories presumably aren’t. Zagat’s gains trust through clean motives of “people like me.”
2. Amazon has a recommender system—we trust it because we believe their massive databases dependably predict our likes.
3. eBay developed seller ratings. You can trust the person you buy from online because of their reputation among other previous buyers.
3. LinkedInnetworks you to others by degrees of separation (a la the Kevin Bacon game) to others. You know Bill, I know you, ergo you can introduce me to Bill’s cousin’s friend. This works on the principle of personal relationships."
On http://trustedadvisor.com/trustmatters/118/Trust-and-Social-Networking you can find the whole article. I think it's really useful to read what makes us trust people online. Because in class it was really unclear about our reasons to trust someone online.
Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did!
I found this really interesting article about trust and social networking. According the Charles H. Green there are four archetypes: Zagat’s, Amazon, eBay, and LinkedIn. I think we all know those websites and they all four have found another way to gain trust.
"1. Zagat's started off-line. It presents reviews by the "regular folks"—we trust it because the reviewers are presumably unbiased, in a way that commercial directories presumably aren’t. Zagat’s gains trust through clean motives of “people like me.”
2. Amazon has a recommender system—we trust it because we believe their massive databases dependably predict our likes.
3. eBay developed seller ratings. You can trust the person you buy from online because of their reputation among other previous buyers.
3. LinkedInnetworks you to others by degrees of separation (a la the Kevin Bacon game) to others. You know Bill, I know you, ergo you can introduce me to Bill’s cousin’s friend. This works on the principle of personal relationships."
On http://trustedadvisor.com/trustmatters/118/Trust-and-Social-Networking you can find the whole article. I think it's really useful to read what makes us trust people online. Because in class it was really unclear about our reasons to trust someone online.
Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did!
First experience
Since a few days I'm an active member of the Cape Town Travel Guide (abbreviation: CTTG). First action was of course to register as a new member of the community. I'm used to get a lot of questions when I want to sign in as a member on a new website, so I was kind of prepared to that this time. But hej! This time I only needed to give my user name, my password and my e-mail adres. That was easy! I received a confirmation e-mail within 1 minute and I was ready to go.
Only thing was that I didn't have a profile after signing in; what are my interests? why do I join the cttg? age, gender, ...? To me those things seem pretty useful when joining a community about travelling. At least I am really looking forward to see which experiences people have with Cape Town and why they join the community. I hoped I could personlize my profile when I was actively joining the community. And yes, that was the case. On my personal homepage I can put everything I want. The thing I like the most is the traveler network; here you can see your travel 'buddies'. I hope I am going to find a few before I go to Cape Town :). Also the Travel Map is really great! I can put all places I've been to in there and by a few clicks I can show either I've been there, lived there or I just want to visit the place one day. I'm curious about where other people have been to:).
Places I want to visit? Is there an option 'All of them' :)?
Places I want to visit? Is there an option 'All of them' :)?Now I'm really curious about the content that's on it. The head 'travel guide' sounds really promising.I'm looking forward to explore this section this week!
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