Monday, May 26, 2008

For your last question, think about the organisation you visited recently and described in your last assignment. How do you think that organisation co

I would have to say that Art West a charity organisation that works with local artist to sell their work could do a lot more with their web site than they have now. They have a poor quality web site and despite the fact that they deal with many interesting people an communities they have completley failed to have any discussion or exchange of ideas on their site or have any interesting matterial.
I would recommend a blog for their leading artists and links to youtube interviews with those artists as ways of having a sort of Virtual Brochure for the Art West project instead of a boring static site they have now.

This is Q9 and will test your search and find skills!

My personal favourite is BBC radio, in fact many radio stations including NZ National Radio podcast their best programmes over the net. and Shoutcast.com for example gives you acess to 100s of pod cast "radio" stations, catering to any taste.

For Q8, see if you can find any uploads that might have been created by an activist public. How do you think you could test the veracity of the source

Here is a posting on youtube by P.E.T.A

http://youtube.com/watch?v=d-kvZq4ARg4

Appart from going to the veriety of P.E.T.A websites and seeing the work they have done over the years the biggest testiment to the veracity of the source is the footage itself, would be hard to fake something like this really.

For Q7, find the page on public relations. If you were going to add or amend that page, what would you write?

In the defenition paragraph I would probably add something about Public Relations also being refered to as 'communication management"

Q6 Name 3 trend examples from Google Trends

bcbg, bebe
mike tyson, muhammad ali
spring break

Q4: Can you name another blogging platform other than Typepad, Blogger and Blog?

Boast Machine

Life Type

Word Press

Read Write Web

If you wanted to monitor environmental issues, which feeds would you subscribe to?

I guess you would subscribe to any RSS feed that was linked with an organization that was involved in that particular subject. Many websites have their own RSS feeds so you could subscribe one from the Green Peace website for example.