It's small world after all..

Every week I learn something new with the ITEC class. Sometimes I read about stuff that I haven't heard about. This week's articles content is certainly a new info for me. And I'm thinking seriously to join one of the professional websites. I really like the Idea. Some way or another we have to admit that the advantages of the technology. I can't even keep up with the latest techniques. I feel overwhelmed by the new technology. It feels like I'm having an "info.rush hour" in my head!!.

These website would definitely help companies especially for the Human resource functions in terms of recruiting, hiring and connecting to other people to share experience. This kind of technology makes life easier for professional people to stay connected with others in the same interest of business. If I were an HR manager, I would definitely be connected with any of these professional websites as a type of informal networking.

"15 uses of prof......." lists interesting points for the uses of professional websites. I liked the idea of number 5 & 13. I've never thought that it would be this easy to socially network in a professional manner.

Time is Money

When time is gone. It's gone!. whatever you do you will never can get it back. It's really important to manage time especially in this century of "technology era". everything requires to be done fast, efficient and in an easy way. So definitely the idea of collaborative virtual teamwork by using the available technology from Internet to satellite radars is fitting the context of the fast growing globalized environment. As the population growth is increasing rapidly, our responsibilities from being an individual or an organization is growing as well to cope with the changes fast and efficient.

Just a simple imagination of how our lives would be without the Internet drives me crazy! I still can't imagine how we used to manage our hectic life responsibilities without using e-mails, for example, to confirm meetings or send documents in just seconds!.

having a collaborative teams by using the Web services from Basecamp to Wiki saves time, money and energy. It can be widely applied to different sectors from public to private.

However, maybe because I'm from an older generation, I still see face to face meetings exist on a wide bases from the political to the business environment . I really think that the technology is Superior but it's weakest point is in delivering emotions compared to face to face meetings.

Watch out!

I really had a very busy week, three midterms and 2 projects.exausted!...sorry I'm not going talk long in this blog. Anyways,regarding" startups help......" I believe that trust is highly linked to reputation. I'm not really familiar with the American culture but in my perspective I don''t think that reputation management companies will last for long.

So hiring companies should be reasonable when evaluating a persons resume for a job. It's really shame on companies to search for the applicants privacy, even if it's everywhere in the Internet. Since the company have the important info. in the application or resume I think it's more than enough for them to know about their future employee. nothing forces any company to hire a certain employee so the decision is all theirs at the end of the day.

the best of two worlds

surely this is the internet age from e-mails to blogging. however, is it really healthy for the coming generations to have an unconstrained "blogsphere"?. I believe that limit should be an aspect of every single thing we do in our life. this means that there should be a limit on the freedom of blogging to protect the users from abusers.

several questions came to my mind when reading" naked conversations".So will blog kill old media?. will the journalist be a "historical job" for the coming generations?. one should pay attention to the growing "blogsphere". sure it's a fantastic way for executives to connect truly and freely with their customers without a cost, but i don't think that it is a 100% honesty by all users. similar to media, where truth is sometimes lost. in spite of that, I believe that Media and bloggs are interrelated in a way that blogging can sometimes be used as a media tool. the key here is that blogging is threatening the weakest point of traditional journalism which is it's the lack of personal contact with it's audience.

the bottom line is that media and blogging should be combined to serve for the betterment of our society.

this is a link, related to the topic.
http://www.post-gazette.com/forum/comm/20030202edmoon02p1.asp

Free ticket .

WooooooooW, It's really amazing. The second life should be the definition of "amazing". It's the time to visit anyplace in the world, learn different cultures, meet different people , gain experience from different perspective of expertise and learn anything you've ever dreamed of without any barriers. I'm really speechless this "second life" idea is above my imagination. I hope it could be in different languages including Arabic. i believe that it's going to be the next big revolution in the world that's if it's not already the "big thing". On the other hand, I suggest that pharmaceutical companies should invent a new glasses for protecting the vision and another medicine for preventing " hemorrhoid " that people will definitely get from the long hours of sitting in front of the PC ;)here is copule of links related to the topic, hope u like it
http://secondlife.com/
http://www.kqed.org/quest/television/view/611

Blogger's team

Hi everyone here is some bloggers link.enjoy it:)
http://jkhedouri.blogspot.com/
http://colleenchatlos.blogspot.com/
http://timsblog75.blogspot.com/
http://jadis86.blogspot.com/
http://abdul-harthi.blogspot.com/

How to be a Millioner

in continuous to my previous blog, there is no doubt that blog became one of the essential elements in our daily lives from A-Z. It spread so fast all over the world in a short period of time as stated by the author and this proofs that it's indeed a healthy thing to society. For me, Blogs are considered as an " interactive encyclopedia" . people can gain their need of information and knowledge about everything they want to know even if it's personal thing. for example, one of my friends wanted to have some consultation about a law case that he had, so he joined a blog site for lawyer and he shared with them his view and this led to a beneficial conclusion.

Moreover,the realistic statistics of marketing research has proven that blogs increased the consumer awareness rapidly with a zero cost. Our human nature tends to trust people who tried a product more than paying attention to an advertisement. because advertising always gives us the advantage and the bright side of the product, nothing else. Whereas, Blogs gives us the whole perspective about the products. furthermore, blog marketing advantage doesn't stop at this point. In fact. market researchers and product redevelopers gain a huge information without even loosing one cent.

while we are talking about the advantage of blogs, we shouldn't forget the abuse bloggers. in my perspective, there can be people who get payed by a certain company just for "blogging" their needs and interests to spread whatever the company wants to sell. For example, based on true story, one of the CEO's of a well-known company spread a rumor about a very good news that in turn will rise it's share in the market and he got the rumor for his advantage in selling his own stocks.