Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Week 3 - BLOGGER!!


Blogger.

Creating your first post.
Create a new post on your blog. Include at least one working link (using the insert link button in the posting window) to a web page.


After you have created your first post, create a link of your post, and submit it as a comment to this post (not of your blog).

remember to link from a post, click your post heading and it will open up your post on a separate page, you can then copy the URL from the Address bar in your browser.

And then paste the URL into the url spot in this code '
href

create the 'link text' under this naming convention: name, blogger post.
eg: Matt Barron, week 3 Blogger post

post all of this, as a comment on this master blog post

Blogging 101

Things you may not know about Blogs

- A new blog is created somewhere in the world every half a second. That goes on to prove how popular blogging is on the Internet.

- Blogs have influence. Surveys suggest that lot of Internet users prefer reading reviews published on blogs before making a purchase.

- You don't need to spend a single penny to publish a blog. All you need is a computer and an Internet connection. You may even write blogs from a mobile phone.

- You don't need any technical skills to create a blog. If you know how to write an email on the computer, you are good enough to write a blog.

-If you are worried about sharing your details on the Internet, you can create personal blog that can only be read by your close friends and family members.

- You can put advertising on your blogs and make some decent income. There are people who have quit their regular jobs to become full-time bloggers.

- You don't need to know English to write a blog. There are free tools available to help you publish blogs in any Indian language including Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bangla, Tamil, etc.

- If you like clicking pictures with your digital camera, you can join the growing community of photo bloggers in the world who display pictures on their blogs.
44% of all bloggers are parents, 70% have college degrees, two-thirds are male and 50% of them lie in the 18-34 age group.

- You'll find an audience if you write what you’re passionate about. - Mark Frauenfelder

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Welcome to MPI104!!!



Welcome to a new session of study at Charles Sturt University.

This subject provides an introduction to the elements and scope of multimedia. It covers underlying concepts, takes an overview of multimedia operations, introduces some of the structures and processes of off-line and online interactive multimedia creation.

This is the MasterBlog, this will be the hub for all news, information and weekly tasks for this subject.