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= ASSIGNMENT 1. =

HOW TO DESIGN A WEBSITE
//Web Design 101.// This website explains simply in terms of how to design, to build, and to publish a website.

//To Start:// Lists of skills needed: basic computer skills, accessing to personal computer, internet, free HTML Editor, and a place on the world wide web to publish your own page.

//The 8 Steps to publish a page://
 * 1) define your objectives
 * 2) design your web pages
 * 3) download an HTML editor from the web
 * 4) construct your site
 * 5) find a web server where your site can be published
 * 6) copy your pages to the web server
 * 7) promote your website track
 * 8) track your hits and fine tune

//Define Objectives:// 1. Make your purpose of website clear 2. Content and design is needed to drive your clear objective. 3. The ability to communicate electronically is a valuable skill to employers and this will eventually bring benefits to businesses.

//Design Web page:// 1. Determine the target audience 2. Define the mood of website (ex. whether informal or formal?) 3. Textual content. Target audience should find the information that they want. 4. Most people won't wait more than five seconds for a web page to load, so do not over-do. 5. Small is beautiful! Consider of different technical conditions of different computers.

//Structure Web page:// 1. Maintain structural consistency within your website. 2. There are two methods to structure web pages: using "tables" or "divisions" (i.e. div tags) 3. To keep your website simple, your home page should be stored under same directory as your main HTML program file is designed. This includes pictures, animations, graphics, music and etc.
 * cell content || cell content || cell content ||
 * cell content || cell content || cell content ||

//Download Editor:// 1. Need of good HTML editor downloaded from the net. 2. For professional website, purchasing Microsoft Expression Web or Dreamweaver MX could be a good idea. 3. Install the HTML Editor on your machine once you downloaded.

//Construct Web page:// 1. Train yourself for the HTML editor. They are very similar to Word Processor. 2. HTML editors helps you to insert images into the body of a document and create hyperlinks to other pages. - Hyperlinks are words or graphics on a web page that, when clicked, take the visitor to another page or another web site. - If possible, Write your HTML program using a simple text editor such as WordPad rather than using an HTML Editor.

//Find a Web Server// 1. Test all your links to external web sites. 2. The Internet service provider (ISP) will provide free web hosting. 3. There are professional web hosting companies with packages for under $10 per month. They provide you instruction guide and ID.

//Upload Web page:// 1. The host site will assist you for the name of the directory on your hard drive where your files are stored and the names of the specific files to be uploaded. It is required for you to use web browsers such as Netscape or Internet Explorer to upload files. Free FTP software such as File Transfer Protocol (FTP) could be also used. 2. Test your page.

//Promote Web page:// Web page promotion requires you to register your URL with one or more search engines and portals.There are free engines, yet most major search engines now charge fees for registration. You may add your URL to each major search engines by clicking below that are: Eventually, you can use a URL submission service to register your site with multiple search engines at once. In case building database indexes, many search engines will consider of meta tags. This is specified by the web page developer using HTML statement that are invisible to the visitors. This descriptive text is used as the page summary in search engines.
 * 1) Add URL to Google
 * 2) Add URL to Open Directory

//Monitor Web Traffic:// Statistically track your visitors. Therefore, provide information that is relevant to your website and your target audience. Good information will help you formulate great strategies that will ultimately lower your costs and increase your revenues. Good trackers will provide answers to questions that are below: Meta tags are to be used to refine information and to develop strategies that will improve your site's reputation in major search engines such as Google.
 * 1) From which countries did my website visitors come from?
 * 2) Which search engine did they use to find my site?
 * 3) Which words or phrases did they search on?
 * 4) Which sites and URLs are sending me traffic?
 * 5) How did my visitors navigate through my site?
 * 6) Which of my pages are the most and least popular?

//Conclusion:// Terminology, concepts and tools were introduced throughout the session to explain page development process.

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RESEARCH FOR I.C.T CLASS 9-3-2011

WHAT DID SOCIAL MEDIA DO FOR THE ONGOING UNREST IN THE ARABIC WORLD (TRY TO COMPARE EGYPT AND LIBYA)

WHAT DID SOCIAL MEDIA DO TO TOURISM INDUSTRY SHOWCASE SAMPLES

HOW ACTIVE ARE YOURSELF IN WEB2.0, WHAT ROLE DOES IT PLAY IN YOUR LIFE (PRIVATE, STUDENT)?

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Introducing the Newest Member of Your Hotel Marketing Team: The Social Media Manager


__ Q. What is such a social media manager doing? And why in marketing? __ A. Social media manager is a person who support marketing team and facilitate ongoing conversation with online customers, bloggers, friends and foes, and influences. There are several tasks that social manager must do, yet what is most important is to ease communications in between the company/product and the customers.

It is marketing concentrated due to the reason that after all, the dialouge is created to invite new customer and to potentially influence them. Connecting to LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, to help potential guests to help them with making decisions within raveling is to all eventually to make them become an integral part of the team, and this definitely requires social skills. Nowadays, it is more about "connections" rather than "impressions".

__ Q. What skills should he/she bring along? __ A. Skills required: - Passionate about the product - Understand the corporate culture and the excitement of building and being active in online community - Creativity - Marketing mentality - Writing ability - Media and techno-savvy - Professionalism - Able to answer specific questions regarding hotel amenities (rates, packages and attractions) - To monitor online chatter and create content to boost reputation and site traffic to the company - Define content, develop messaging, send 140-charcter messages, respond to posts, produce videos, blogs and technologies - Storyteller who got good conversation skills - Knowledge in using internet and proactive at trying new tools.

__ Q. How important do you believe such a new position to be, what average age should a candidate be? __ A. It is an important position since it requires communication skills with all members of the sales, marketing, P.R team so he/she could connect with sales manager’s client to contact press and those who are aware of communication. This requires quite an effort and therefore candidate must be someone who can take responsibility of the job tasks, with good internet skills and marketing skills.

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Using Social Media for Restaurant Marketing
__Social Network: Facebook__ Posting videos, images, or direct link to the restaurants and most importantly it could be recommended to friends.

__Social Network: Ren-ren-Wang (人人网)__ Chinese version of //Facebook//. It literally follows exactly the same format of Facebook yet it is more easier to post in advertisements

__Discuss (Skype)__ Good tool of not just online chat, yet also available to make video calls. Instant messaging, files transfer, and video conference is well known for its additional features.

__Social Network/Micro-blog (Me2Day)__ Korean version of //Twitter//. Text-based posts up. Users could use Me2Day through computers and smart phone applications.

__Micro-blog (Blogger)__ Blog-publishing service provided by Google. It allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries.

__Social-Game (Kongregate)__ One of the popular online games that host websites which allows users to post user-created Adobe Flash or 3D games.

__Publish (Wikipedia)__ Largest and most popular general reference work on the internet, it is free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia projects supposed by non-profit Wikimedia Foundations. It is written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the website.

__Virtual-Worlds (Habbo)__ Social-networking websites targeted on teenagers.

=ASSIGNMENT 6=

__What is a social media party?__ It's a mix of talking, networking, music and party.

Why does it need such (provocative question) What if different

__Do I need to be a teckie to join such a party?__ No! Embracing social media channels and technology to communicate, to get feedback... is what the party does.

__Explain the name pokeRT__ poke: comes from Facebook *poke someone RT: abbreviation for Retweet @Twitter

Some pictures and stories from your first party / or even vdo

What is the concept and the business model behind What are the topics and what is happening during such a event Who is the audience (GenY?)

How works a social media DJ (perhaps with a real life sample)

How do you promote it, traditional or through mainly social media

What is the future, what is the idea for the next 2000 year?

Guess that will give enough for 1 hour or? You can as well present the over all idea of Kuble since you as well are in online strategies Perhaps you explain how you solved your clients problems

And then it would be cool if we could a project together, like

Ideas to promote the next event web2 style reinvent such a event for their respective countries to echo the local flavor