“Enabling Commerce Using the Internet”

and “Enhancing Collaboration

using Web 2.0” By

Cynthia Medrano 11 November 2015

TECHNOLOGY BLOGS

Ars Technica Blog

Ars Technica is a technology news and information website created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998. It publishes news, reviews, and guides on issues such as computer hardware and software, science, technology policy, and video games. Many of the site's writers are postgraduates and some work for research institutions. Articles on the website are written in a less-formal tone than those in traditional journals.

ZDNET Blog

ZDNet operates a network of about 50 blogs loosely aligned by its major verticals: companies, hardware, software, mobile, security and IT research. Within those general areas are blogs on gadgets, management strategy, social media, datacenters, technology law, SOA, healthcare, CRM, virtualization and sustainability.

Huffpost Tech offers news, blogs, and original content and covers politics, business, entertainment, environment, technology, popular media, lifestyle, culture, comedy, healthy living, women's interests, and local news.

The Huffington Post Blog

BUSINESS/FINANCE BLOGS

Wall Street Journal editors and reporters provide real-time news and analysis around the clock on WSJ blogs, with outside experts chosen by the Journal also contributing. Journal staff edit the blog posts for clarity and accuracy.

WSJ Blog

Reuters employs several thousand journalists. The journalists use the Reuters Handbook of Journalism as a guide for fair presentation and disclosure of relevant interests, to maintain the values of integrity and freedom upon which their reputation for reliability, accuracy, speed and exclusivity relies.

REUTERS Blog

MarketWatch operates a financial information website that provides business news, analysis, and stock market data. The company operates BigCharts.com and the stock market simulation site VirtualStockExchange.com. It also offers subscription products for individual investors, including the Hulbert Financial Digest suite of products, Retirement Weekly and ETF Trader. 

MarketWatch Blog

ENTRETAINMENT BLOGS

BuzzFeeD is a social news and entertainment company. It is redefining online advertising with its social, content-driven publishing technology. BuzzFeed provides the most shareable breaking news, original reporting, entertainment, and video across the social web to its global audience.

BF Blog

The Huffington Post is an American online news aggregator and blog, that has both localized and international editions founded by Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, Andrew Breitbart, and Jonah Peretti, featuring columnists. The site offers news, blogs, and original content and covers politics, business, entertainment, environment, technology, popular media, lifestyle, culture, comedy, healthy living, women's interests, and local news.

The Huffington Post Blog

Wired.com hosts several technology blogs on topics in transportation, security, business, new products, entertainment, video games, since, etc.

WIRED Blog

COLLABORATION TOOLS

Google Docs

I decided to use a word processor and I choose Google Docs. I found that Google Docs are more than letters and words, it brings the documents to life with smart editing and styling tools to help easily format text and paragraphs. I was able to choose from hundreds of fonts, add links, images, and drawings. But the better part is that all is for free.

Also, with Google Docs, I can choose from a wide variety of resumes, reports, and other pre-made documents, all designed to make the work much better, and life much easier.

What I liked the most is that I can get to my documents anywhere at any time. I can access, create and edit my documents wherever I go; it could be from my phone, tablet or computer. Even when there's no connection.Another aspect that catch my attention is that all the changes I made in the document are automatically saved as I type. And last but not less important, I don’t have to worry about file formats again because I can convert Word files to Google Docs and vice versa.

Even though I heard about LinkedIn before, I didn’t know exactly what it was good for. When I first started to navigate through LinkedIn, I must say it was kind of confusing. However, I learned that LinkedIn is important to stay connected to the world in a professional environment. What interested me the most is the fact that through this professional network I can find jobs opportunities easier. For instance, nowadays LinkedIn is where all the HR managers and recruiters are now hanging out. Therefore, LinkedIn gives the opportunity to connect with a company or a person within that company directly.