project in ICT

2.  Platform to Host Newsletters and Similar ICT contents.
 A news letter is a regularly distributed publication that is generally
about a main topic of interest to its subcribers. Newspaper and leaflets
are types of newspaper and leaflets are types of newsletters but today, a
newsletter may be hosted in different online platforms as follows:
1.Presentation/Visualization
(e.g.prezi, mindmeister)
2.cloud computing
(e.g.Google drive, dropbox)
3. Social Media
(e.g. Facebook pagers, Tumbir)
4. Web page (e.g. Wix, Weebly)
5. Blog sites (e.g. Blogger, Wordpress)
Collaborative Development of ICT Content
collaboration is working together to achieve a goal. Synthesize previous
learnings into an integrated ICT content through collaboration with
classmate and teacher as both peer and partner.

3. 1.Planning and conceptualizing the content- Generate content ideas and identify
content opportunities based on the target audience. Have a clear plan of action,
persons responsible, work required timeframe and budget.
2.Resources- Find the online collaborative tools that you will need for the
development of the ICT content, speially if the team is working from the different
places.
3.Research for content- identify the current trends, what competitors are doing,
what formats are working, popular authors , and popular topics.
4.Audience profiling- Considder the demographics and psychograpics of your
intended audience.
5.Copy writing for ICT projects- To write the webpage of your website, you should
be able to express yourself, write creatively and with passion to promote the
advocacy you are promoting.
6.Designing the layout- Layout is the arrangement of elements (type, art and
graphics). The layout should be easy to read, functional and organized.
7.Developing and constructing the ICT project- Learn the skill of search engine
optimisation on how to rank highly with search engines.
8.Curating content- Process of gathering information relevant to a particular
topic or area of interest. Use alert to curate contents and RSS feeds.

4. Team structure
A project is a team whose members usually belong to different groups, function
and are assigned to activities for the same project.
Team structure-consists of a persons involved in creating the contents of the
project.
1. Team Manager- or Content strategist sets priorities, communicates with the
executive team at the same time contributes/creates content.
2. Editorial Manager-implement the strategy. Maintains an editorial calendar
and hires/guides content writers and contents producers (video and audio
creators) and designers.
3. Content curator- inputs ideas into the organization by searching the web for
any interesting news, developments, and resources regularly watching and
listening for information, and filtering the best material.
4. Content syndicator- does the process of sharing out the content with third
party sites in social media.
5. Analytics expert- constantly looking for data to determine what is working.
6. Website manager- organizes and puts the content onto the website, or
uploads it to YouTube, or syndicate podcast on iTunes.
Writer- writes long or short from content. May be a staff or a hired copy writer.
Editor- edits the work of a writer. May be freelance or staff.

5.  Online collaborative tools-there are various collaborative
tools that may be used for the development of ICT content.
Collaborative online tools allow writers, editors, designers,
and team manager to take part in collaborative work in real
time.
1.Voicemail- is a computer based system that allow users and
subscribers to exchange personal voice message; to select and
deliver voice information and to process transaction.
2. VoIP/Video Call- is a methodology and group of
technologies for the delivery of voice communications and
multimedia session over internet protocol (IP) networks,
such as the internet.
3. E-nail- is a method of exchanging digital messages
between computer users.
4.Instant Messaging- is a type of online that which offer real-
time text transmission over the internet.

6. Social chat
The team can collaborate and interact using online social chat, examples
are;
1.Google chat- allow you to send and receive instant messages with
anyone in a group or team.
2.Google hangouts- Allows you to talk face to face from your computer.
Make free video calls with up to 10 people.
3.Skype- provide video chat and video call services. Users may exchange
digital documents such as images, text, video, and others.
4.Vibers- instant messaging and voice over IP (VoIP) app for
smartphones.it can also exchange images, video and audio media
messages.
5.Kakao Talk- is a free mobile instant messaging application with
smartphones with free text and free call features.
6.We Chat- is a mobile text and voice messaging communication service.
It is one of the largest stand alone messaging apps by monthly active
users.
7.Line- Windows Apps on Microsoft Store. In windows 10, you use free,
high quality voice calls and video calls whenever and wherever you are.

7. Social Media- another way of collaborating with the
team is by the use of social media.
1.Facebook- allows users to have access to messaging,
connect with different pages and groups with the site,
respond to discussion, polls and interactive
presentations. Outside information can be linked for
discussion, images and videos can be embedded in the
discussion.
2.Blog- allows users to produce daily information quickly
or developed as content management system.
3.Microblog- allows users to make short, frequent post,
link videos, photographs, leave comments and share
posts.

8. Cloud based collaborative tools
1.Google Drive- is a free collaborative tool that allow you to create and edit
documents, spreadsheet, presentation online while collaborating with
others users in real time. It can store document online and access them
from any computer.
Google drive allows the team to chat and interact simultaneously, while
working on a content.
2.Zoho- is a web based free collaboration tool containing word processing
spreadsheets, presentations, databases, note-taking, wikis, web
conferencing. Costumer relationship management (CRM), project
management, invoicing and others.
3. Prezi- is a cloud based presentation software based on a software as a
service model. The product employs a zooming user interface (ZUI)
which allows users to zoom in and out of their presentation media.
4.Microsoft office online- presents a suite of applications that allows it to
collaborate with others in word, excel, or PowerPoint, as well as sharing
files to SkyDrive, video chatting in Skype.
5.Adobe Creative Cloud- where all the adobe products like Photoshop,
Dreamweaver , InDesign are available.

9. Project Management for ICT Content
Content management system (CMS)
CMS is a computer application that supports the creation and
modification of digital content using a common user
interface , thus usually supporting multiples users working in
a collaborative environment.
1. WordPress- is a free and open source content management
system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL.
2. Drupal – a free and open source content- management
framework written in frame work for at least 2.2% of all
website world wide ranging from personal blogs to
corporate , political and government sites.
3. Joomla- is a free and open- source content management
system (CMS) for publishing web content.

10. Curating Existing Content for Use on the Web
Content curate is the process of gathering information or
content like blogs, news, images, audio, or videos, relevant to
a particular topic or area of interest from different sources.
Examples of Tools to Curate Content Social Media or
Newsletters
1.Pinterest- is a web and mobile app company that operates a
photo sharing website.
2.Trapit- is a comprehensive content curate service for
business that offer content discovery, curate, and publishing
to a web, iPad, and social channels through its web
application.
3.Feedly- is a news aggregator application for various web
browser and mobile devices.