Technology Tools

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E-mail

• Technology Tools

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What is E-mailing?

• Fast and convenient method of communication where
  the sender and receiver dont have to be
  available at the same time.
• Reduces costs of postage and long-distance phone
  charges.

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Parts of an E-mail Message

• To - Who is receiving the message
• Use the complete e-mail address.
• Subject - What the e-mail is about
• Always put a subject
• CC - Carbon Copy This is when you send a copy
  of your message to someone else.
• BCC - Blind Carbon Copy This is when you send
  a copy of this message to someone else without
  the other person knowing it.
• Message - This is where you type what your
  message is going to be.

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E-mail Message

• Always address the person you are emailing.
• Dear____________
• Mr. or Mrs. ___________
• Just type their first name
• Message needs to be typed with
• Complete sentences.
• Free of spelling and grammar errors.
• Short and to the point.
• Well organized
• Signature
• All messages need to be signed with your name.

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Rules/Guidelines to E-mailing

• Avoid large attachments
• DONT USE ALL CAPS SHOUTING!!
• Dont use slang or inappropriate language.
• Reply in a timely manner.
• Use good judgment of e-mail content.
• Do not use abbreviations or emoticons
• BTW (by the way) or -)

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Keep E-mails Organized

• Outlook or Eudora are examples of e-mail programs
  that allow you to manage your inbox.
• You can organized by
• Task
• Sender
• Priority by assigned color codes
• Organize into designated folders within your
  Inbox.
• Delete unwanted message right way.
• Beware of viruses - Dont open up items you dont
  know who they are from

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Types of E-mail Accounts

• Client-based e-mail e-mail account provided by
  your ISP and a client software program. Connect
  to your ISP and configure your computer with
  Outlook.
• EarthLink, Bright.net, Wcnet
• Web-based e-mail uses the Internet as the
  client therefore, you can access the account
  from any computer with Internet access.
• AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail

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Differences Between E-mail Account Types

• Web Based
• Good to have when traveling.
• More permanent.
• Can be used for personal information at work.
• Limited storage space
• 2-4MB, free
• 20 for 10 MB to 60 for 100 MB of storage.
• Cant organize and manage email as well

• Client-Based
• Great for work
• Can manage files with the special e-mail software
  like Outlook.
• More storage space.
• Could change ISP provider and have to change
  e-mail address.

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SPAM

• Sending out unwanted or junk e-mail.
• Why is it called SPAM? pg. 85
• Companies purchase lists or use software to
  search for e-mail addresses on the Internet.
• If you buy items on-line or participate in a
  newsgroup or chat room.
• Some ISP providers and Web-based providers do
  scan e-mails for SPAM email and they are marked.

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Prevent SPAM

• Install antispam software.
• www.download.com free block spam programs.
• Before registering on a Web site, read its
  privacy policy to see how it uses your e-mail
  address.
• Dont reply to spam to remove yourself from the
  spam list.
• By replying you are confirming your e-mail
  address is active and could lead to more spam.
• Subscribe to an e-mail forwarding service.
• www.Emailas.com or www.Sneakemail.com
• Screen email messages, forwarding only those
  messages you designate as OK.

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Internet Hoaxes

• Emails that contain information that is untrue.
• May request that you send money, or pass on bogus
  information, and chain email letters.
• Hoaxes cost millions in lost opportunity costs
  due to time spent reading, discarding, or
  resending the message.
• Clog up the Internet.
• Go to http//hoaxbusters.ciac.org U.S. Department
  of Energys Hoaxbusters site to see if the
  message is a hoax

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Chat Rooms

• An area on the Web where many people come
  together to communicate online.
• Real Time and are visible to everyone in the chat
  room.
• Address a specific topic of interest.

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Identity in a Chat Room

• Sign in with a username and password.
• Hide behind a username to protect your privacy.
• www.chatdanger.com
• Website that talks about ways to protect yourself
  in a chat room.

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Netiquette

• General rules that exist across chat rooms and
  other online forums.
• Standards of Behavior
• Introduce yourself when you enter the room
• Specifically address the person you are talking
  to.
• Refrain from swearing, name-calling, explicit or
  prejudiced language
• No harassing other participants.
• No repeated posting of the same text with the
  intent to disrupt the chat. (scrolling)
• No typing in ALL CAPS

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No flooding

• Flooding consists of excessively repeating
  topics/posts, repeating the same sentence over
  and over again, abusing the use of smileys or
  posting giant pictures or a lot of pictures
  simultaneously.

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No trolling

• Trolling is simply being annoying. Spamming and
  flooding everywhere, reviving several topics,
  insulting everyone for no reason, etc. Throlls
  are not welcome on the forum and will be banned
  pernamently.

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No flaming

• Flaming means fighting with other members or
  throwing insults at other members. Getting in big
  fights can get you banned. Messing with people
  just for fun is okay to a certain level. Just use
  common sense. The mods and admins are not here to
  solve your fights, they are here to stop them.
  Also comments that are discriminating towards
  certain specific groups of people (Race, origins,
  gender, sexuality, etc.) are strictly forbidden.

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No hacking threats

• Hacking threats will cause you to get an instant
  ban. Hacking threats include, but are not limited
  to Posting about willing to hack the site, or
  being able to hack this site and putting
  informations in your profile related to being
  able or wanting to hack this site. It's better
  not to joke about this.

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Instant Messaging

• Services or programs that enable you to
  communicate in real time with friends who are
  also online.
• Similar to sending an e-mail and having a live
  phone conversation with them.
• Set up a list of contacts or Buddy List
• Can accept or reject communication
• If you want to chat with more than one person,
  can hold simultaneous individual conversations or
  create a custom IM chat room.

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Instant Messaging

• Who are the providers of IM accounts?
• Yahoo, AOL, MSN, ICQ, Odigo, Omni, CNET, Tucows
• Is there a cost for these accounts?
• How do I get started?
• Download the software
• Create an account with your IM nickname or screen
  name (Privacy)

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Instant Messaging Buddy List

• List of special contacts with who you want to
  exchange messages.
• Find out their e-mail address and if it is the
  same IM provider you can add them to your list.
• Could change software or add new software to the
  one you already have if e-mail addresses are
  different.
• Ask permission for you to add this person to your
  buddy list and have them do the same.

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Rules to Instant Messaging

• Dont use IM for confidential or sensitive
  conversations.
• Never give anyone permission to add you to their
  buddy or contact list unless you are certain you
  know who they are.
• Explore the security options available on your
  software and set them to tight.
• Be careful about personal information you enter
  onto the systems.
• If you are ever pestered or harassed, let your IM
  software provider know.

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Newsgroups

• Online discussion forum in which people post
  messages and read and reply to messages from
  other members of the newsgroup.
• Exist for more than 30,000 topics.
• Games, hobbies, science, computers, current
  issues, and debates
• www.tile.net best directory for newsgroups
• Goggle groups newsgroups through google.com

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Difference Between IM, Chat Rooms, Newsgroups,
Emails

• IM you have private conversations with people you
  know.
• IM is more immediate than e-mail
• Chat Rooms allow anyone in the room to take part
  in conversation. Can be talking to total
  strangers.
• Newsgroups are more discussion forum instead of
  general conversation like chat rooms.
• E-mail is the most formal of all of these, allows
  you to communicate private but not in real time
  with one or more individuals.

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Today Tomorrow we are going to learn about
Blogging!

• Take notes on What is Blogging
• What is Blogging
• History of Blogs
• Who uses Blogs
• Why use a Blog
• How to create a blog
• Go out to www.blogger.com and go through the tour
  of what is blogging.
• Create a Blog

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What is Blogging?

• The act of writing in one's blog.
• A frequent, chronological publication of personal
  thoughts and Web links.
• A blog is often a mixture of what is happening in
  a person's life and what is happening on the Web,
  a kind of hybrid diary/guide site.

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Blog Terms

• Blogger one occasional author
• Blogosphere All weblogs or blog-related
  websites.
• Large amounts of activity, information, and
  opinion erupts around a particular subject in a
  blogosphere it is called a blogstorm or blog
  swarm.
• Blogroll list of other blogs that are linked
  separately on your blog.
• Thread add your own comments to someone elses
  blog.

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History on Blogs

• Started in 1997 and was called weblog
• In 1999 the word weblog was broken into the
  phrase we blog but the term blog was not
  caught on until recent years
• 1999 over 2000 diaries
• Sept. 2005 near 400,000 diaries

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MySpace

• MySpace creators came up with the idea based on
  the blog site friendster.
• MySpace creaters sold MySpace in 2005 for
  580,000,000 dollars.
• A year after MySpace was purchased, its net
  worth nearly tripled to 1.5 billion.
• MySpace hit 200 million users in September of
  2007.

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Why Use a Blog?

• Political blogs
• Link articles from news web sites and post their
  own comments
• Long essays about current political topics
• Politicians are blogging as a part of their
  campaigns
• Personal
• Online diary or LiveJournal
• Day-to-day experiences, complaints, poems,
  thoughts and more often allowing others to
  contribute.

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Why Use a Blog?

• FriendBlog
• Distributed networked journal on the web,
  composed of short frequently updated posts
  written by friends connected through their
  similar interests.
• Creates a chain of blogs.
• Topical
• Specific topic blogs Google Blog covers nothing
  but news about Google.

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Why Use a Blog?

• Health
• Personal accounts of living with a specific
  health issue.
• Health care professionals write about his or her
  work experiences, medical news, and even actually
  patient cases.
• Literacy
• Travel
• Famous explorers wrote their journeys down but
  now they can share their stories and photos, even
  while they travel around the world.

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Why Use a Blog?

• Research
• Blogging research notes to gather public
  discussions.
• Professors blog on issues related to academia.
• Legal
• Discuss law and legal affairs.
• Media
• Serve as media watchdogs to report falsehoods or
  inconsistencies that are presented in the mass
  media.
• Religious
• Discuss religious topics.

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How to Create a Blog?

• www.blogger.com
• Click on the link to create a blog
• Create a username, password and answer a few
  simple questions.
• Once an account is created you pick your style of
  blog.
• Begin to enter text and click post work when you
  are done. Similar to creating a web page.

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