My experiences with Social Networking

To date, my experiences with social networking have been enlightening but I am still skeptical about the exposure this brings to someone's life. For example, I would love to share the interactions and experiences with my daughter that I have filmed, but I would NEVER put her image or anything about her on social media sites for fear of exposing her to unwanted attention.

I have come to learn that although I find my life quite boring and nothing much to talk about, there is someone, somewhere that has something in common and would start a dialogue; someone who I would probably never speak with in day to day life.

All in all my experiences have allowed me to put some of my negative connotations abouts social networking to rest. I see the benefits of this from an educational standpoint and have enjoyed exploring my options of communication with people all over the world.

Locating Communities

How do we find an audience?

I think there is always an audience. The beauty of the internet and having social media is that there is someone in the world that finds you and your life interesting even if you do not.

How do we find an audience that we wish for?

I think if you network within in broader topics you may find a niche and will get to the audience you wish for, however there really is not filter for this. You have to take the bad with the good when it comes to using the web.

What is the difference between a blogger on youtube and JoshLeo?
In my opinion, I felt like I was experiencing someone's diary with Josh Leo. I don't feel that way with YouTube. I see YouTube mostly as entertainment although there are many educational benefits to you tube. I felt more like I was experiencing something with Josh Leo.

Feedburner

I am not exactly sure what I am suppose to do with this but I did sign up.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/Dkrblog

Online Video Part 3

How small should our file be when we upload to the internet?

I am not sure, but usually if an upload takes more than 2 minutes something is wrong and I abandon the upload.

What are common compression standards?

I found this website which was interesting and gave some explanation of compression standards regarding jpeg and mpeg files. There is a lot of technical information regarding what compression standards mean. http://www.vmspdg.com/Compressionstandards.php

What is the legal situation when we publish video, audio images?

I stay way from uploading images that are not my own. I think a lot of the legal situation is similar to piracy, trademark and copyright laws.

My YouTube- using MovieMaker

This is a You Tube movie I had to create for a class this summer. I used Movie Maker to do this but it is a bit sketchy. This is NOT my job. The person did not want to be on camera for this interview so I decided to 'act' as the interviewee and used MovieMaker to ask the questions.

http://www.youtube.com/ITFinalProject