Friday, September 11, 2009

Thing #1: Welcome - this will be fun!

Watch this video:



Welcome to the Monash Department of Marketing "23 Things" program. It's great to have you involved in this exciting learning initiative. Together we'll be learning more about emerging technologies on the web that are changing the way that people, society, and in particular, students and teachers are accessing information and communicating with each other.

Over the next nine weeks we will provide instructions here in this blog to help you complete the 23 short exercises, so that you become familiar with blogging, RSS news feeds, tagging, wikis, podcasting, and many other online applications.

If at any time you have any questions or suggestions, then simply contribute right here, in the "Comments" section of any of the blog postings. Together we'll be able to help each other on this journey of discovery!

Make sure you come back here regularly, for the next "thing" - or even better still, subscribe to the RSS feed and you'll be notified when a new "thing" is posted!

10 comments:

  1. Hello Peter, this sounds really fun!

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  2. Good one Wags! I'll look forward to the journey ... let's see how that saying 'you can't teach an old dog and new tricks' goes. Yep ... I'll be the one asking the questions!! Starting with what 'profile' should I select?

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  3. Hi Peter

    Also looking forward to the journey. On-line blog searching tools (such as Nielsen's Blogpulse) are becoming biggest business in the marketing research industry. So it will be good for me to explore these technologies further.

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  4. Peter - watched your 'video' -do we still use that term in the WEb 2/0/era? - a 'star' is born!! Like Sandra need to know which profile to chose and what is my URL??

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  5. OK I am on my way! Peter I've have seen this clip before. I think in a class somewhere?

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  6. Lots of questions - and so good to see everyone getting involved so enthusiastically!

    One of the principles of this program is that you will "learn by doing". If you're not sure how to do something, then just give it a go... you can't break anything, and you'll very quickly work it out.

    Has everyone been able to work out what the various online profiles all mean when you reply to a blog posting? Have you set up your online profile? How do you do it? Why should you do it?

    See if you can work out the answers to all of those questions. Good luck!

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  7. cool clip - that i would like to learn
    jan

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  8. Can we have a better-looking presenter next time please wags? (for example, click my name...)

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  9. Videoing a welcome message is a really good idea Jan. It would be great to include in your MUSO sites at the beginning of Semester, especially the online units!

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  10. @jan and @tapp: Towards the end of the program we'll be challenging you to create a simple video message, so stick with it!

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