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Entries from March 10th, 2011

Tech Blog Post #7

March 10th, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech Blog Post #7 · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

This post from my tech blog called, Online Journalism, talks about the five prediction for journalism in the next 25 years. We constantly talk about newspapers fading away in our class discussions, but we have a tendency to cast the future as an exaggerated present. Prediction 1: People will still be predicting the death of […]

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Jon DeNunzio

March 10th, 2011 · Comments Off on Jon DeNunzio · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

Jon Denunzio held a lecture where he spoke of the benefits of social media and effective ways to use soical media. Social media is a valuable source for consumer feedback. It allows websites to build rapport with consumers and open dialouge. It’s always good to search for new ideas, social media allows for makes it […]

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Online Journalism Blog

March 10th, 2011 · Comments Off on Online Journalism Blog · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

Onlinejournalismblog.com made predicitions about the nature of journalism in the next 25 years. -Oddly enough the blog predicts people will “still be prediciting the death of newspapers.                Because print media is becoming less and less profitable a popular belief is it will eventually disapear. The blog writer ” Influence and status are hard to […]

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Multimedia Project Storyboard: Mindmeister Outline

March 10th, 2011 · Comments Off on Multimedia Project Storyboard: Mindmeister Outline · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

Just wanted to link to the Mindmeister outline our group (Raffi Paul, Lexie Ramage and myself) created for our Football Multimedia Project. Mindmeister is a pretty cool tool for mapping and brainstorming to help you get started with any type of planning that you may need to do. It’s basically like a virtual ‘spider web’, […]

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Local Music scene Mindmeister Story Board

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No suprise, 25 percent of audited companies have illegitimate backlinks

March 10th, 2011 · Comments Off on No suprise, 25 percent of audited companies have illegitimate backlinks · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

Summary: The San Mateo-based SEO firm BrightEdge released an audit of 1,000 companies and found that 25 percent of them back-link to sites that put them at risk of corrective actions by search engine companies. In a TechCrunch article released today, results of a two-week audit by SEO firm BrightEdge show that approximately 25 percent […]

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Mindmeister allows online collaboration and brainstorming

March 10th, 2011 · Comments Off on Mindmeister allows online collaboration and brainstorming · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

In today’s globalized age, many business partners are working together on projects that cannot be completed without some sort of visual collaboration. However, constantly playing email tag and attaching documents constantly can be tedious and unsuccessful. With these issues in mind, Mindmeister.com came up with a creative solution. By allowing users to create “mind maps” […]

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NAMI NoVA Project Description

March 10th, 2011 · Comments Off on NAMI NoVA Project Description · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

Our project’s goal is to recover NAMI Northern Virginia history and present it interactively. We will conduct interviews with past board members, do research about the institution and gather information about its history. We will be using different online platforms to organize and present the information. Our project will be constructed around an interactive timeline. […]

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My Video Conference with George Allen on C-SPAN

March 10th, 2011 · Comments Off on My Video Conference with George Allen on C-SPAN · Comm361, Facebook, Student Blog Posts

George Allen is back and on top of his game! Allen participated in a C-SPAN video conference with students from George Mason University and The University of Denver to discuss his upcoming Senate run and his new book “What Washington Can Learn from the World of Sports.” I was one of the lucky students who […]

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My Video Conference with George Allen on C-SPAN

March 10th, 2011 · Comments Off on My Video Conference with George Allen on C-SPAN · Comm361, Facebook, Student Blog Posts

George Allen is back and on top of his game! Allen participated in a C-SPAN video conference with students from George Mason University and The University of Denver to discuss his upcoming Senate run and his new book “What Washington Can Learn from the World of Sports.” I was one of the lucky students who […]

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