Why context is important

Absolutely everything that is introduced in the digital world cannot be deleted, even if you own a web site and deleted some stuff or you posted something and deleted it right away there will be someone who took a screenshot of that before you deleted it.

En because of that many things that happens on the internet can be misinterpreted if you don’t know about the context where it was published. Many comments and opinions can be found in the internet but not all of them means exactly what it says because some are answers or feedback that are linked with past discussions and if you do not know about it you can find it weird, out of place or misunderstood it with something unsatisfactory.

The context in a post is really important because you introduce the reader to what you want to talk about and that way he would be able to send you constructive comments or feedback that can enrich the topic and get it to a different level of discussion.

 

 

 

What kind of user are you when using social media?

When using the social web, there two types of interacting with it: one is the visitor and the other is the resident.

The visitor, which is the most common use, is when you use the internet as if it where a tool box, you open it and use the information to solve any problem and then you close the box and leave. In other words, is when you navigate in the internet and the social web to get information that you can use without providing something useful for the community; is not a bad thing though and the footprint you are leaving is small.

In the other hand the resident type is about leaving a bigger impact in the internet community; because is kind of difficult to explain, I’m going to put an example: When you have a blog and post about things regularly, or when you comment in other post providing something useful or when twitting or commenting on Facebook. Those are examples of using a social web as a resident type.

The resident type usually leave a stronger digital presence, and by presence a mean by how other people sense you in the social web. It has it advantages, one of them is that it creates opportunity. This happens when you find people with the same ideas and interest like you and by helping each other you can fin any kind of opportunity that can benefit you in many different ways.

Whether the user type you are, there two uses for them, one is personal and the other professional. The two concept are kind of obvious, the first ones is when you use the social media for your own purpose, for example, entertainment; and the professional is for work and probably for education.

I will leave here an interview of someone talking about how he uses and classify the social web.

 

 

Digital presence

Digital presence or digital identity, what is the difference?

Digital identity is who do you call yourself in the internet which include the information you make visible for others, while digital presence is how do you make yourself visible for others. If you are not present in the internet there’s no way people can get information about you which is impossible, so digital presence and identity are two things the have to be together.

How do you make yourself visible in the internet?, one example is social network like Facebook, Twitter, etc. You interact with others with the internet and you also have to have an identity so other people can recognize you.

Other way to place your blueprint in the internet is with the help of blogs. In a blog you post your opinion, ideas, your thoughts or whatever you like about something in particular; is the same as when people publish their opinions on the columns of the newspaper, but instead, a post is published on the internet. People can also write opinions about what you wrote and that way you create conversations and discussion that take the topic to a new different level.

How can I start a post? For example, today in one of the iTec activities, we made a photo Safari in which we took photos about something we found interesting or about thing that could identify us. Here are some of the photos that I took:

 

 

 

I’m not very good taking pictures and I tried to fix some with my basic knowledge of Photoshop, and also I’m no very good with design but that is not the point here. Some of those words may be kind of cool but in the end I only cut some random words that I found interesting form a magazine and took a photo of any view that caught my eye.

That is also the way how a post is made (including this one), just write about random things that are interesting for you and will create something cool at the end, you don’t need a purpose to write blogs, what you need is only to write what you think is correct and expand that knowledge with the help of comments and discussions from other users.

There is no rule about posting, you can do it anytime, there is no deadline or restrictions that could make your post poor; the only thing that is important when writing in the internet is to make sure that you are not hurting someone feelings, or criticizing other people and things like that; just make sure that you are respecting everyone.

The reason why I learned about blogging and posting, and why I’m putting this meme at the end is because of: