Learning in ICT

                                                     WHAT IS BLOG AND FORUM Key Difference:  Forums or an Internet Forum is a message board that is online placed by a company, a website or a non-profit organization. A blog is more of a personal page, where it belongs to a single person or a small group. With the advance in technology almost everyone is online to express their feelings. Internet has become the basic need for today’s people, where everything can be done online. A bunch of tools have been developed in order to allow people to express their views and opinions online. Prior to these tools, it was difficult for people to reach other people with similar tastes, likes and dislikes as during that time, people would have to create a website using programming language and then add content on that website. Programming language such as Java...

6 types of social media -social network -bookmarking -social news -media sharing -micro blogging -blogs and forums

                                                 SOCIAL   NETWORKING  Social networking  is the practice of expanding the number of one's business and/or  social  contacts by making connections through individuals, often through  social  media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+. A  social network , in technology parlance, is a website or other application where people, often of similar interests, come together to communicate with each other and share information including photos, videos, audio and written messages. creadits/ whatis.techtarget.com › Topics › AppDev › Internet applications

WHAT IS BOOK MARKETING In general, the function of  book marketing  department in a traditional publishing house is to help the various sales departments get your  book  in front of bookstore buyers, book  distributors and other channels, to make sure your book  is available and (ideally) displayed and promoted through them to the consumer public.              credit by:https://www.thebalance.com/about-book-marketing-2799981

what is social news A  social news website  is an  Internet   website  that features  user -posted stories. Such stories are ranked based on popularity, as voted on by other users of the site or by website administrators. Users typically comment online on the news posts and these comments may also be ranked in popularity. Since their emergence with the birth of  Web 2.0 , social news sites have been used to link many types of information, including news, humor, support, and discussion. All such websites allow the users to submit content and each site differs in how the content is moderated. On the  Slashdot  and  Fark  websites,  administrators  decide which articles are selected for the front page. On  Reddit  and  Digg , the articles that get the most votes from the community of users will make it to the front page. Many social news websites also feature an online comment system, where users discuss the ...

What is a media sharing site? Media sharing sites allow you to upload your photos, videos and audio to a website that can be accessed from anywhere in the world. You can then share that media with the world or just a select group of friends. Many media sharing sites also allow you to place media on other sites by 'embedding'. This is where you copy and paste a small snippet of HTML code into the web page and it tells your browser where to find the media. This makes the media appear like it's on the new website. Here are the main two forms of media sharing sites. ​ Video One of the most popular forms of media sharing sites are video sites, the most popular of which is YouTube.com. YouTube allows members to upload videos for free that can then be viewed by anyone on YouTube.com or embedded on another website or blog. YouTube has such a massive audience that people have actually become world wide stars after having videos posted there! Some of these internet celebriti...

Microblogging From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Status update" redirects here. For the upcoming film, see  Status Update . Microblogging  is a  broadcast medium  that exists in the form of  blogging . A microblog differs from a traditional blog in that its content is typically smaller in both actual and aggregated file size. Microblogs "allow users to exchange small elements of content such as short sentences, individual images, or video links", [1]  which may be the major reason for their popularity. [2]  These small messages are sometimes called  microposts . [1] [3] As with traditional blogging, microbloggers post about topics ranging from the simple, such as "what I'm doing right now," to the thematic, such as "sports cars." Commercial microblogs also exist to promote websites, services and products, and to promote  collaboration  within an organization. Some microblogging services offer features such as privac...

what is ict? ict- is using digital technologies such as cellphone,computers,internet etc.. to find,save,edit and send information

The  Internet  is the global system of interconnected  computer networks  that use the  Internet protocol suite  (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide. It is a  network of networks  that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked  hypertext  documents and  applications  of the  World Wide Web  (WWW),  electronic mail ,  telephony , and  file sharing . The origins of the Internet date back to research commissioned by the  federal government of the United States  in the 1960s to build robust, fault-tolerant communication with computer networks. The primary precursor network, the  ARPANET , initially served as a backbone for interconnection of regiona...