In claas blog post 7

The databases I used were ERIC at Ebsco and ABI/INFORM Complete(ProQuest). ON both of the data bases I searched up the terms social media and employees. In the Ebsco database I found a lot of information  using public schools as an example of employees complaining about how their social media accounts are being looked at by their employers, and how they're being judged by it. Also it shows a little more negative things about the subject than the other site. In ProQuest it talked more about how it can benefit a company and it leaned more towards the big corporation than the other site and it also talked about privacy but used more business office examples. Ebsco gave me options about education, privacy, web sites and computer mediated communication and ProQuest gave me statistical data, management, and industry wide conditions. They also had similarities like both had options of social sciences and privacy. Compared to Ebsco Academic search complete looks pretty much the same. I would use both of these for sources, if I want more of the business side I'll use ProQuest if I want more on the more regular Joe I would use Ebsco, but for my search I need both of these to answer my question precisely.

Filter bubble

In some ways I do feel like filter bubbles are in some ways a good thing. The most beneficial way is that the internet is basically caters to your likes and most visited sites. If you watch a lot of T.I. videos and listen to his music and that is what you usually do on the internet, then when you search for T.I. it won't give you some random thing that has the same it will give you T.I. the rapper.  If you have sites that you usually go to and it gets deleted off the internet, when you search for it the internet will give you sites that were similar to that one. On the opposite end filter bubbles can be negative for you. If you try to research something with the same name as something that you usually look up then it will give you what you usually look up then what you are currently trying to look up. Filter bubbles can really limit your results for what you are searching for. I believe that some of the ways to get rid of filter bubbles are pretty good, but also not so good such as disabling my cookies because then I can't get on some of my sites that I would usually get on, but telling facebook and google to make it easier to see and manage my filter is a pretty good one and I will probably try that.

in class blog 6

Last week the 4 type of information sources we talked about were books, scholarly articles, magazines, and newspapers. Each one of these are sources that we would use for research, but there all use for different from one another and are used differently. In books you will find well researched material that has been looked at by a publishing company, but not all books are the same some books are fiction and even if its non fiction it can still be a popular choice source. Its best that you look up the author of the book to see if he is really qualified. You would use a book to answer questions with quotes and facts from the book if the book  was done with actual research you will have something to back it up with. A newspaper would help you find current information, but mind you that a lot of newspaper are popular choice sources or are biased, but you can still use the in your research by giving current examples to help answer your questions. Magazines are mostly used as flashy come read me type of deal, but they are fairly current. You can still use a magazine because it is pretty recent information on it, but make sure its still a decent story because magazines are usually seen as a popular choice source instead of scholarly. Scholarly articles will have well research material in there and is a very good source for research. They are a scholarly source that are very credible. You can use this in your research to give solid facts of information

Homework - February 13

After looking at the feedback from my research question homework I decided to change my research question up a little bit from my previous question. Now my research question is Why do employers look at their employees social media accounts? This question relates to the group topic very well because our topic was about this woman who was a teacher and is most likely getting fired for posting racy pictures and comments on her twitter. The principal of the found out and had put her on leave. My question is all about what happened to this teacher, why would he look at her facebook and put her on leave? Why does this matter? I will find the reasons in both of these question through my research. I shall put out the reasoning why an employer would look at someone social media accounts. I developed this new question because the feedback did show me flaws in my question so I decided to change my question into the new one that I have posted today. My new question feels better then my last and I feel like I can answer more with this one  I will point out all the good reasons why they would look at an employers facebook or twitter and also point out all the negative reasons why as well.

Blog Post 5

Well I can use what I learned in this class to my others by, when I am researching for a project in one of my  other classes I can use the evaluation criteria to help me find a credible source. This will make what I have researched for my project my legitimate and well put out then it was in my past projects. This class has also taught me how to paraphrase, so now in my papers I won't use so many quotes in them and my teachers won't think that I don't know what i'm doing. When I am looking for a book for my English class this summer I will know how to find on the Ingram library website by using the library catalog, before this class I never knew how to find a book in the library and I also now know how to do APA format so if my english teacher wants me too put my references in that format I already know how to do it

Citation

Safko,Lon, and  David, K. Brake, The Social Media Bible: Tactics, Tools, and Strategies for Business. Hoboken, NJ: Jon Wiley & Sons,2009. Print. This book is about how you can use social media to expand your market. It gives advice what type of way you should approach your audience online and etc. Show you how to succeed in business using social media even as one person or a big company. I picked this book because the book was published in 2009 which makes it still fairly recent so it was not really outdated. The  co author of the book seems qualified also he is the CEO of The Grandview and Consumer Conversation Expert. The book will help me answer parts of my question of how social media could benefit your professional life by giving a good example which is, social media could benefit you by helping you sell you brand.

in class blog #4

When I think about the difference between what my library had for research tools from high school to college I can say I had or at least knew more library research tools in college than in high school. In high school I did have Galileo and Credo Reference for sure, but we never had any library catalog or at least one as good as the I have in college now. Nothing really surprised me with what we have in college since I expect that my possible searching tools would be better than they were from high school. In high school I had some trouble using Galileo because nobody taught us how to use it, but in college they had people from some of my classes come teach us how to use the search tools the library gives us which helped very much. I learned how using and, or will give you two different searches and be pretty broad when your searching for a book in the library catalog.

Two Books

I went to the library and searched in the library catalog for two books on my topic of How could social media could be used to benefit your professional life. I typed in the search bar social media and business and saw two books that i felt like I could potentially use for my topic. one was Social Media Playbook for Business  and The Social Media Bible tactics, tools and strategies for business, I used the evaluation criteria to see which one would be better. The Social Media Playbook for Business was published in 2011 making pretty recent, the author of it was Funk, Tom who is a former MLB pitcher who played for the Houston Astros which gave me signs to maybe not use this book for my research. While the other book The Social Media Bible tactics, tools and strategies for business was published in 2009, it isn't as recent as the other, but still fairly recent so it was not really outdated. There were two authors on this book, but I could only find information on one, the co author Brake, David. K who is the CEO of The Grandview and Consumer Conversation Expert. When comparing the two it seems like The Social Media Bible tactics, tools and strategies for business would be the better choice both books were fairly recent, but one was done by someone who had a questionable background for me to use for my topic. I will use this source to answer my question how can social media benefit your professional life.