This document provides information about various technology, business/financial, and entertainment blogs as well as web-based collaboration tools and features of LinkedIn. It lists popular technology blogs such as Mashable and Gigaom that cover digital innovation and emerging technologies. It also lists business/financial blogs focused on online marketing and the online world. Entertainment blogs mentioned include ones focused on juggling and music. Webex Teams and LinkedIn are described as tools for online collaboration and professional networking with features like recommendations, groups, jobs, and following companies.
2. Technology Blogs
• Mashable www.mashable.com
Mashable is a leading source for news, information & resources
for the Connected Generation. Mashable reports on the
importance of digital innovation and how it empowers and
inspires people around the world.
3. • GigaOM www.gigaom.com
Gigaom is the leading global voice on emerging technologies. Our
news, research and events humanize technology and provide deep
insight on disruptive companies, people and trends.
4. • Zdnet
Is a business technology news website published by CBS
Interactive, along with TechRepublic and SmartPlanet, The brand
was founded on April 1, 1991, as a general interest technology
portal from Ziff Davis and evolved into an enterprise IT-focused
online publication owned by CNET Networks.
5. Business/Financial Blogs
• Seth’s Blog
Seth founded both Yoyodyne and Squidoo. His blog
which you can find by typing "Seth" into Google is one
of the most popular in the world.
6. • Chris Brogan
Chris Brogan explores how people use content and
community to build marketplaces around areas of
belonging.
7. • ShoreMoney
ShoeMoney.com, shares ups and downs in the world of
online marketing to a loyal daily readership of over
30,000 people. ShoeMoney.com has been named the
Best Affiliate Marketing Blog and ranks in Technorati’s
top 50 blogs for the past three years.
8. Entertainment Blogs
• Juggling. TV
JTV is based in the UK, and was born from an idea hatched at the European
Juggling Convention in Slovenia 2005. Our aim was to create an online archive
for all the great juggling footage both old and new. The site finally went live in
April 2007, just in time for the British Juggling Convention in Nottingham.
Committed to the sharing of juggling videos worldwide, JTV is proud to serve
the juggling community.
9. • The Burning Ear
The Burning Ear is a music blog for people who don’t have
time for music blogs. TBE sifts through tons of new music
and bring the best of the best right their TBE focuses on
new music. While other music blogs pillage through the
interwebs to shove new updates out, TBE is only about the
good stuff.
10. • Slash Films
Peter Sciretta created Slash Films after a stint writing
full time for the AOL-owned movie blog Cinematical.
On August 23rd 2005, the site launched with a posting
by Zach Lawrence, chronicling his Top 10 Movies of All
Time.
11. Web Based Tool
Is a web and mobile application designed to enable teamwork without
email. Main user focus is to plan and manage projects and tasks online
without the use of email.
13. Features
• Recommendations
Is a comment written by a LinkedIn member to recognize or
commend a colleague, business partner, or student. Viewers of
your profile often view the recommendations you've received on
your profile to see what others have to say about your work.
14. • Following:
Is a tool job seekers can use for researching companies
and for seeing who they are connected with at
companies where they would like to work
15. • Groups:
LinkedIn Groups provide a place for professionals in the
same industry or with similar interests to share
content, find answers, post and view jobs, make
business contacts, and establish themselves as industry
experts.
16. • Companies:
You can follow or stop following a company from its
Company Page. You can follow up to 1,000 companies
and get updates on key developments that are posted.
17. • Jobs:
347M+ members engage with products like Profile,
LinkedIn Today, Jobs to set themselves up for success,
both in their current job and for the future.
