Good afternoon folks,
I'm Caleb Smith, Junior here at the University of Arizona studying Business. I was born here in Tucson, Arizona however I travel to Maryland during the summer.
Its a new year, 2017 and the world is changing. Our President uses social medias to keep in touch with the people and through social media we are able to connect with the world in a much easier manner than even just a few years ago. What may this be useful for? Communication and Collaboration. Communicating and collaborating aids in knowledge being shared as well as the ability to work with one another when you are far apart. From the reading "What is Collaboration Anyway" it discusses the different ways that collaboration is for filled through electronic means. Wikipedia is mentioned as a way that people collaborate, as well as aggregation. Information is added to an Article of wikipedia by the means of the people, and if information is pulled from areas that were not intended to be used in collaboration are aggregated for this sort of use (cited obviously).
There are aspects of working together that we read about in the Tina Fey's Rules of Improvisation that I agree with fully, its a group effort to do something. You can't just not contribute during collaboration, you need to add to something and continue going along. Final little tidbit I'd like to mention about things we've learned in class was from the TedTalk and the digitization of books from his RECAPTCHAs. Its amazing how its possible to get all of these people to work towards immortalizing human knowledge, even if they do not know that they are helping. The power that the internet has given us can allow for some really amazing feats.
New year, new semester, it should be pretty interesting, looking forward to working with everyone and having an enjoyable class.
Caleb
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