Web2.0 UNIT2: Social Media Tools and Services

1. Group Productivity and Collaboration Tools
This lesson was quiet interesting, I must say. We have been introduced to various social media tools and services, and a variety of situations in which they are applied and also he role of provisioning web technology for yourself and your organization.

 2. Technology Stewardship
This lesson describes  the role of provisioning web technology for yourself and your organization. It also provide guidance on how to identify appropriate web based or self-hosted applications and on how to set up them and support their use by others. I was also impressed with the new way how to identify appropriate web based or self-hosted applications.

3. Content aggregation, curation and  syndication
This lesson taught met an easy strategy for distributing, receiving and reviewing information in a more efficient way, without visiting each Web site individually on a regular basis. I learned that, instead of constantly visiting a website to check for updates, you can actually subscribe to a content feed and get the new content delivered to their computer at the time of publication.

3. Tagging and Social bookmarking
Social bookmarking and tagging was one other interesting topic which I learned. I normally had problems when searching for information but from this course I learned the easiest way which is "tagging" by associating the item you are searching with key words that describe the content and is much faster. there are many ways of tagging which one can use. You can also bookmark your favorite pages so that you can read them later at your own time.

 4. Blogging and Micro blogging
This lesson is one that meet my expectations from this workshop, i always wanted to know how to do blogging and I am happy to say that I finally open up my blog page where i can share my thoughts and views. I was also having few problems using micro blogger such as twitter, but now I can use twitter effectively.


5.Online video and image sharing

Audiovisual is one of the powerful way of communicating, thus it can go beyond literacy and linguistic barriers. This lesson introduces us to the basic concepts related to producing, uploading and sharing digital video and photography on the web.


6. Pod casting and Online radio
Lastly, I have also learned an interesting topic "pod-casting" which is a form of distributing audio files over the Internet. this allows users to access them by subscribing and downloading them. this is a very interesting way of sharing information (in video and audio formats). the online radio on the other-hand has outweighed  the old radio system thus you can listen to it anytime, any where you are and it is much faster.



Once again, Thank you very much CTA, indeed Web2.0 is a catalyst for Development especially in Africa