What are the essential tools that every IT person should have in the modern IT world? That is the idea behind a new Kingston University module called IT Toolbox. Over a 12 week semester, first year students will be guided through a series of activities such as blogging, running a server, client and server side scripting, search, social networking and problem solving. Each of those activities will be published here and anyone is welcome to join in.

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Computing is going social (Toolbox lecture 5)

Written by: Jonathan Briggs

October 26, 2009 [1444 views]

Video from Jonathan Briggs on Vimeo.

This session will introduce social computing including social networking, crowdsourcing and open source and ask you to think about how this will affect your future as an IT professional.

Here are the slides: Social For Toolbox (1.9 MB)

We'll spend some time thinking about how you add social elements to your own sites and how businesses will need to respond to mobile.

Here are some ideas for you to think about?

Is social networking just a fad?
What happens to computer salaries in a world of outsourcing and crowdsourcing?
How has working with clients changed as a result of social?
Which networks should you be a part of?
What are the dangers of social computing?

Suggest your answers to these questions below.

Recent comments:

On October 27, 2009 at 6:12 PM, abdul bilal wrote:

will the lecture be avaliable later on? i'm assuming it was recorded

Jonathan replies: yes - it takes about 5 hours to process each hour of video - up before the end of the night.

On October 28, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Ahmet wrote:

No activity this week?

www.ahmetabdi.com

Jonathan replies: The activity will be published tonight (Wednesday) as it still needs polishing. You will have more time than usual to complete it because next week is a non-teaching study week.

On November 3, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Ricardo wrote:

I wasn't sure where to put this, but I thought I would display it on your webpage. I'm actually finding this module the most interesting. Educational work has never been this interesting!

Anyways, I'm trying to gain a bit more traffic for my website. I have signed up to www.linkreferral.com. They're quite great, I already have 15 reviews on my webpage, offering help and advice and helps with gaining more traffic too! I have been a user of both Facebook and Twitter, so that helps too! I'm just thinking of ways to gain more traffic. Do you have any more suggestions?

And one last thing, maybe people should consider installing the wibiya toolbar widget. It's really amazing! Intregrates Facebook and Twitter into your websites in one little toolbar.

http://ricardosmith1990.connecttojigsaw.com/ricardo20/

Jonathan replies: Thanks Ricardo!

First tip is not to shorten your URLs - I lengthened it again for you - Google does not necessarily follow the redirects involved with trimmed addresses.

Secondly, you need to start finding other sites that are about the same things as yours and get links from them (via comments, forums whatever) to start to improve your reputation.

Don't be impatient - its a long slow process.

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