Edu 03 Slides
- 1. Edu 03 Seminar By Adarsh SP James
- 3. Online Forum
- 4. Online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. Differ from chat rooms, messages are often longer than one line of text. Posted messages might need to be approved by the moderator before it becomes publicly visible. A simple conversation is called “thread”. A forum can contain number of subforums, each of which may have several topics. A new discussion started is called thread, can be replied to many people as so wish.
- 5. History Early internet forums – described as web version of an electronic mailing list or newsgroup – allowed people to comment messages an comment on other messages. Later dedicated forums were developed for particular topics. Some of the first forums Planet forum – 1970 EIES System – 1976 KOM System – 1977 Delphi – 1983, still active with four million members.
- 6. Delphi Forum
- 7. Programming languages used in forums: PHP Java Perl ASP
- 9. Administrator Manages the technical details required for running the site. Promote or demote member to moderators or from moderators to members. Manage the rules Create sections and subsections Performs any database operations Often act as moderators
- 10. Moderator Granted access to the posts and threats of all members for the purpose of moderating discussion and also keeping the forum clean. Common Privileges: Deleting and merging of posts Moving and splitting of posts and threads Locking Renaming Banning and unbanning of members Suspending and unsuspending of members Warning the members
- 11. Members A forum is driven and updated by them Information related to the topics are updated by them
- 12. Examples REDDIT – Social news collection of web content. STACK OVERFLOW – Computer programming related queries. QUORA – Question and answer community, users can ask logical and absurd questions. INDIA – FORUMS – Television serials, Bollywood celebrity interviews, Internet radio, Fans Club etc. TRIP ADVISOR – Travel related queries.
- 13. Quora
- 14. India Forums
- 15. Trip Advisor
- 16. Blog
- 17. About Blog Discussion or informational website. Informal diary – style text entries, called posts. Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order. Most recent posts appears first, at the top of web page.
- 18. Types of Blogs Personal blogs – Online diary entry or commentary written by an individual. Collaborative blog or group blog – Written and published by more than one author. Corporate and Organizational Blogs – used internally and only available to employees via an intranet.
- 19. Micro Blogging Posting small pieces of digital content Text, pictures, links, short videos, etc. Became popular, easy to read on the go when waiting Example – Twitter
- 20. Types of blogs Vlog – Blog comprising videos Link log – Log comprising links Sketch blog – Site containing portfolio of sketches Photo Blog – Site containing photos Tumblelogs – Blogs with shorter posts and mixed media types
- 21. Reverse Blog Composed by users rather than a single blogger Can be written by several contributing authors on a topic or opened up for anyone to write. Limited entries are allowed in order to keep it from operating like a web forum.
- 22. Examples Greatist – Health and fitness Blog Nomadic Bratt – Travel Blog CoinDesk – Cryptocurrency Blog ArsTechnica – Technology based Blog Apartment Therapy – Home Design and Décor Kitchn – Blog about food Digital Spy – Movies, TV, Entertainment Petapixel – Photography
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