Management Information System Class

1. Name: Katheryne Vargas
MIS Assignment
Professor: Eduardo Orozco

2.  I. Identify at least 3 blogs related to technology, business and
entertainment blogs.
 II. Research about web-based collaboration tools
 A. open an account for your selected tool and explore the main utilities
offered.
 B. make a review on how important is each of the utilities.
 III. Create an account on LinkedIn and complete the profile.
 A. include student experience
 B. connect with at least 5 people
 C. send the professor an invitation
 D. understand the features of recommendations and following groups
companies.
 IV. Create a blog using blog tool such as wordpress.com

3.  *Technology
 GIGAOM:
 One of the largest blogs worldwide that focus on news analysis on web 2.0 technologies and startups
social media.
 II.ZDNet
 Founded in 1991 formerly on CompuServe and prodigy. It focuses on report Varity of tech news. ZDNet
like Apple and Microsoft also features products reviews, software downloads and analysis on tech
business and issue.
 TechCrunch
 It is younger than ZDNet but not less influential in the world 2.0 and tech startup news. It is the second
largest tech blog. It has its own network of sites including MobileCrunch.
 *Business/Financial
 I. Investopia
 It is a business/financial blog where you are allow buying stocks and providing you with enough
information about how to invest in the stock market and sell your shares through internet..
 Business insider
 It is a blog that provides economic news, as well as Wall Street gossip and what's hot on the
Web; Business Insider is the best place to go. Business Insider, which is headed by former Wall Street
analyst Henry Blogged, does a good job of picking its stories.

4.  Business/ Finance
 Finance Geek:
 This blog helps visitors to understand the finance world by providing information about events occurred
in the finance sectors and provide with information such as how Software Aims to Prevent Foreign
Corrupt Practices.
 *Entertainment
 I. E! Online:
 Eonline is the most popular entertainment news source, providing us with information about
almost everything that deals with the entertainment world. Eonline delivers breaking entertainment news
and in-depth coverage on television, movies, music, celebrities, fashion, beauty and Fashion.
 Mashable:
 It takes the world of twitter, Facebook, entertainment, news. So, this blog is a mix all these blogs where
you can be in touch with the world and get entertained with news.
 Celebrity Gossip: TMZ
 TMZ’s meteoric rise followed its exclusive on two of the biggest stories in entertainment: Mel Gibson’s
DUI arrest and subsequent encounter with law enforcement, and Michael Richards’ ill-fated trip to the
Laugh Factory. TMZ also broke the news of the breakup of Britney Spears and Kevin
Federline’s marriage. TMZ altered the entertainment news landscape by changing the way the public gets
its news.

5. Identifying different blogs helped me to know
more about crucial blogs where I can navigate
in order to get a trustful information. Also, It
helped me to know websites where I can get
information about the stock market such as
Investopia. In addition, I discovered websites
where I can navigate in order to be informed
about news and around the world.

6.  Wikipedia: It a essential tool where you perform several function such
add an article that you would like to share with others. In other words,
Wikipedia has a option called Sandbox where you can write and an
article that you would like to share to acknowledge others about a certain
subject.

7.  Wikipedia also function as tool since it is useful since you can collaborate
with others interchanging ideas and information of important topics of
characters that had an impact in the society such as the biography of
certain characters.

8.  LinkedIn: It has become the most important connecting tool for
professionals. In other words, this tool is very crucial to let others
know about your professional experience in order to share with
others your strengths. In addition, it has important features such
as the jobs where you are allow to add where you are interested to
work and who you are interested to work with.


10.  By creating my own blog , I learned the
importance of having a blog. Having your own
blog helps you to comment and transmit your
knowledge about any topic such as news to
others individuals.

11.  1. learn about different crucial blogs and the
importance of them.
 2. Even though, I passed through difficulty to create
a blog and LinkedIn since I have not done that
before, thanks to this project I learned how to create
a blog and linked to share my experience in order to
be discovered by companies.
 3. To learn about web-based collaboration tools
where I learned that Wikipedia is a web tool that
allows you to edit , add and collaborate by sharing
essential information that might be useful for
people.

12.  1. Figuring out how to create a LinkedIn since
this was the first time that I created one.
 2. Figuring out how to create my own blog and
the importance of having your own blog such
as sharing information with others and
interchange ideas.
 3. knowing the different advantages that the
collaboration tool called Wikipedia has to be
used.

13.  In conclution, it is very crucial to know different
websites such as business blogs where I can
navigate and get essential information, and
entertainment blogs to see news around the world.
Also, it is important to have an account in linkedin
in order to provide your information to outstanding
companies for a future career. In addition, it is very
important to have your blogs to share your
knowledge with others. In other words, this project
teached me many things as the importance of the
web2.0.