Last pratical before project submission! Ok so i'll start with my impression of Smithsonian Institute’s Website http://www.si.edu/

I had a good impression about this website the first time i visited it. I gave it a 8/10. Its nicely done with good presenation and arrangement of cotents in a logically and consistent manner. Its also very user friendly with tabs and links clearly visible. There are also site map and search facility to aid in the usability of this website. It got an eight over ten and not a full marks because i think that although its well arranged and presented, theres too much information on the homepage itself overwhelming the readers.

The most important lesson I learnt throughout the developing of my portfolio is the evaluating of websites. It helps me differentiate the good websites from the not so good ones and what kind of information i can use. I also learnt how to use boolean operaters in my search to enhance the result of searches which really saves alot of time for me. On the whole i think UIR is a very good subject because its not as stressful as some other CDS but its really very helpful especially since i'm from BIT so doing researches are part n parcel of the course.

Evaluate another three websites from my bibliograhpy for practical 7. This time its easier because I knew what to look for and where to look for them after doing it the first time the last pratical. Evaluating websites helps alot in doing researches as I learnt that not all information presented can be used as some maybe bias or the write personal opinions. As two of the three websites evaluated are blogs, I find that sometimes a blog isn't a very good source for information, but they certainly are a good source to find links to some very good websites about the same subject.

Evaluation of Internet Resources

URL: http://www.advancedbusinessblogging.com/

This is my 1st time evaluating internet resources in terms of purpose, coverage, authority, accuracy, currency, accessibility, presentation and usability. After evaluating the website, I know how to differentiate good websites from not so good ones. I also learnt how to find and use information on the world wide web more efficiently. I think that the most important factors are currency, purpose, coverage and authority as they determine the quality of the information provided.

http://rightweb.wordpress.com/business-blogs-primer/
Information
A blog that aims to encourage right usage of the web to properly communicate with people. In this case, is the use of blogs for business. He written a series of posts on business usage of blogs which i find is very helpful.

http://www.nevillehobson.com/2006/04/03/business-blogging-hills-to-climb-in-europe/
Information
Another blog that talks about blogging for business in Europe. Provides tables, charts and statistics. Helpful in letting us understand more about business blogging in Europe.

http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?1003396
News
An article on eMarketer.com which talks about the use of blogs in business, either as a corporate marketing or communications tool, as an advertising medium for marketers, or a publishing format for media companies.

1st time using Meta searcg engine, and only after this exercise did i know that Yahoo is actually a subject directory and not a search engine. Common search engine and subect directory such as Google and Yahoo are easy to use have give relevant results. I find meta search engine not as useful as search engine or subject directory such as Google and Yahoo. Perhaps its because it is the 1st time im using one but i find that the results they gave are not as relevant as results yield from using Google or Yahoo.

http://www.corporateblogging.info/
Personal website
A personal blog created by Fredrik Wackå, a web communicator based in Sweden. This blog is now an archive as he is no longer updating it but it’s still useful nonetheless. It talks about the impact on blogging on organization and offer links to other blogs about corporate blogging.

http://www.backbonemedia.com/blogsurvey/index.html
Business website
A website by Backbone Media Inc, an Internet Marketing consultancy based in Waltham, Massachusetts. Talks bout the survey the company did on corporate blogs, the findings and the analysis of the results.

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2006/tc20060214_402499.htm
News article
An article on BusinessWeek.com dated 14th February 2006. The article talks about the how organizations ranging from Macdonald to Cannondale uses blog to help them both internally and externally.

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52380,00.html
News article
Article on wired.com talking about how Macromedia uses their “blog strategy” to help them with their operations and their relationships with the users of their new released version of their famous products like dreamweaver, flash, cold fusion and fireworks.

The 4 websites above are of different purposes, namely news, business and personal. Knowing the purpose of the website can help alot in finding relevant information about certain topic. Of cause, news article tend to be more accurate and more objective as compared to information on personal website.

http://www.businessblogconsulting.com/
Subject-based website
A site devoted to demonstrating how effective blogs can be for communicating with customers and marketing to new customer prospects. Lots of examples of business and corporate blogs, as well as resources to help us understand more about the business blogging.

http://www.advancedbusinessblogging.com/
Personal website
A website by Deborah and John-Paul Micek where they teach people how to use New Media tools (e.g. business blogging, vlogging) to transform their marketing, sales and management

http://blogbusinessworld.blogspot.com/
Subject-based website
A blog by Wayne Hurlbert where he showcase the different blogs in business, marketing, public relations, and SEO search engine optimization for successful entrepreneurs

http://www.asia.socialtext.net/bizblogs/index.cgi#
Organizational website
This is a directory of Fortune 500 companies that have business blogs, defined as: active public blogs by company employees about the company and/or its products.

http://www.smallbusinessbrief.com/forum/index.php?
Forum
Community of over 7,000 small business folks from around the world who support and encourage each other as we grow our businesses. Includes topic like blogs and blogging.

The above are the 4 different types of websites, namely personal, subject-based and organisational. The 5th one is a forum which i think will be helpful for the topic im doing on. I used Google to find the websites using keywords such as business blogging and corporate blogging. Both yield me relevant results.

Blogging has a big impact on the businesses all around the world today and i think that the impact is just going to get bigger as more and more people are IT savvy and blogging is getting more common.

Ok so now im suppose to find 2 exciting websites using any search facility that are particularly interesting to me.

1st one, TeamTalk
I frequent this rather than soccernet because i find that this websites provide more information about the game and also they update more often. There are also news that cant be found on soccernet here. They also have a section called papertalk which shows all things bout soccer found in the various newspaper in the UK.

2nd, The DugOut
As im playing the FM07 now, this is the best forum imo that provides information from and for the game. Also includes other users opinon on the game which i find very useful.

1st post ! Ok hi everyone Im Jinghui and im born in the year 1998, do your maths and figure out my age yourself will you? Can call me Jing for short, as somehow I think the hui doesnt sound nice =\ im stuyding in TP Business school, diploma in BIT.

My hobbies? Hmm lets see.. I like to catch live EPL matches every weekend with one or two friends at the comfort of my own house. I also play games during my freetime(most of the time im free), from MMORPG like maplestory and trickster to RTS games like Warcraft (DOTA!) to manager stimulation games like Football Manager 07, which im currently playing. I also watch anime and manga like deathnote, bleach, naruto and so on. Oh ya and i love to watch nba matches too. Its good having cable TV =)

Regarding my family, Besides the obvious mother and father =.=, i got a brother in Sec 1 now.

Thats all for this 1st post about myself =)