Name: Katheryne Vargas

MIS Assignment

Professor: Eduardo Orozco

I. Identify at least 3 blogs related to technology, business and

entertainment blogs.

II. Research about web-based collaboration tools

A. open an account for your selected tool and explore the main utilities

offered.

B. make a review on how important is each of the utilities.

III. Create an account on LinkedIn and complete the profile.

A. include student experience

B. connect with at least 5 people

C. send the professor an invitation

D. understand the features of recommendations and following groups

companies.

IV. Create a blog using blog tool such as wordpress.com

*Technology

GIGAOM:

One of the largest blogs worldwide that focus on news analysis on web 2.0 technologies and startups

social media.

II.ZDNet

Founded in 1991 formerly on CompuServe and prodigy. It focuses on report Varity of tech news. ZDNet

like Apple and Microsoft also features products reviews, software downloads and analysis on tech

business and issue.

TechCrunch

It is younger than ZDNet but not less influential in the world 2.0 and tech startup news. It is the second

largest tech blog. It has its own network of sites including MobileCrunch.

*Business/Financial

I. Investopia

It is a business/financial blog where you are allow buying stocks and providing you with enough

information about how to invest in the stock market and sell your shares through internet..

Business insider

It is a blog that provides economic news, as well as Wall Street gossip and what's hot on the

Web; Business Insider is the best place to go. Business Insider, which is headed by former Wall Street

analyst Henry Blogged, does a good job of picking its stories.

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Business/ Finance

Finance Geek:

This blog helps visitors to understand the finance world by providing information about events occurred

in the finance sectors and provide with information such as how Software Aims to Prevent Foreign

Corrupt Practices.

*Entertainment

I. E! Online:

Eonline is the most popular entertainment news source, providing us with information about

almost everything that deals with the entertainment world. Eonline delivers breaking entertainment news

and in-depth coverage on television, movies, music, celebrities, fashion, beauty and Fashion.

Mashable:

It takes the world of twitter, Facebook, entertainment, news. So, this blog is a mix all these blogs where

you can be in touch with the world and get entertained with news.

Celebrity Gossip: TMZ

TMZ’s meteoric rise followed its exclusive on two of the biggest stories in entertainment: Mel Gibson’s

DUI arrest and subsequent encounter with law enforcement, and Michael Richards’ ill-fated trip to the

Laugh Factory. TMZ also broke the news of the breakup of Britney Spears and Kevin

Federline’s marriage. TMZ altered the entertainment news landscape by changing the way the public gets

its news.

Identifying different blogs helped me to know

more about crucial blogs where I can navigate

in order to get a trustful information. Also, It

helped me to know websites where I can get

information about the stock market such as

Investopia. In addition, I discovered websites

where I can navigate in order to be informed

about news and around the world.

Wikipedia: It a essential tool where you perform several function such

add an article that you would like to share with others. In other words,

Wikipedia has a option called Sandbox where you can write and an

article that you would like to share to acknowledge others about a certain

subject.

Wikipedia also function as tool since it is useful since you can collaborate

with others interchanging ideas and information of important topics of

characters that had an impact in the society such as the biography of

certain characters.

LinkedIn: It has become the most important connecting tool for professionals. In other words, this tool is very crucial to let others know about your professional experience in order to share with others your strengths. In addition, it has important features such as the jobs where you are allow to add where you are interested to work and who you are interested to work with.

By creating my own blog , I learned the importance of having a blog. Having your own blog helps you to comment and transmit your knowledge about any topic such as news to others individuals.

1. learn about different crucial blogs and the importance of them.

2. Even though, I passed through difficulty to create a blog and LinkedIn since I have not done that before, thanks to this project I learned how to create a blog and linked to share my experience in order to be discovered by companies.

3. To learn about web-based collaboration tools where I learned that Wikipedia is a web tool that allows you to edit , add and collaborate by sharing essential information that might be useful for people.

1. Figuring out how to create a LinkedIn since this was the first time that I created one.

2. Figuring out how to create my own blog and the importance of having your own blog such as sharing information with others and interchange ideas.

3. knowing the different advantages that the collaboration tool called Wikipedia has to be used.

In conclution, it is very crucial to know different

websites such as business blogs where I can

navigate and get essential information, and

entertainment blogs to see news around the world.

Also, it is important to have an account in linkedin

in order to provide your information to outstanding

companies for a future career. In addition, it is very

important to have your blogs to share your

knowledge with others. In other words, this project

teached me many things as the importance of the

web2.0.