The document discusses various technological blogs, business/financial blogs, and entertainment blogs that provide relevant information on their topics. It also covers collaboration tools like Google Docs, features of LinkedIn, and how to create a blog using WordPress as part of Web 2.0 which allows for more dynamic and collaborative sharing of information online compared to static HTML websites. The document provides an overview of popular blogs and online collaboration tools as well as how to build a blog.

1. Juan Carlos Aguilar
Management Information Systems
November 13th, 2015
Professor Eduardo Orozco

2. Part One
 Technological Blogs
1. Lifehacker
Lifehackers' motto says it
all: "Don't live to geek, geek
to live.“ Lifehacker is a
technological blog with
relevant and interesting
information for geek and
other persons who just
want to learn something
new.

3. 2. IT Toolbox Blogs
IT Toolbox has a number of "in the trenches" IT pros who talk about
technology and management issues. There are specialist blogs
dealing with security, databases and project management, among
other subjects.

4. 3. Macrumors.com
MacRumors.com is a website focused on Apple news and rumors.
MacRumors attracts
a broad audience of
both consumers and
professionals
interested in the
latest technologies
and products.

5.  b) Business/Financial
1. Free Exchange
The blog is strong on reasoned argument, links to evidence and avoids
the nasty and fruitless polemics that bog down so many other parts of
the Web. Most posts have a sharp and thoughtful point about a public-
policy issue.

6. 2. Economix
Most publications would probably assume they had their economic blog
needs covered after signing up their Nobel Prize–winning economics
columnist for the job. Not the New York Times: in Economix, the paper has
added a second must-read economics blog.

7. 3. Real Time Economics
Real Time Economics is the Wall Street Journal's blog looking at the
world of economics. It covers a wide range of issues, from Federal
Reserve governors to gas prices. But unlike other blogs that roam
into food or wine, RTE stays focused on its topic.

8.  c)Entertainment
1. Gothamist
There are incisive reviews and alerts and interviews about all
manner of cultural events: theater, music of all kinds, movies,
readings, art shows, and unusual performances.

9. 2. Time Out New York
You want tons of ideas about what to do, what to eat, what to see,
where to go, tonight, tomorrow, this weekend? You want the Time Out
New York NYC blog.

10. 3. The Huffington Post
HuffPo is an American online news aggregator and blog, that has
both localized and international editions.

11. Part two:
 Collaboration tools: Google Docs

12. Google Docs serves as a collaborative tool for editing documents in
real time. Documents can be shared, opened, and edited by
multiple users simultaneously and users are able to see character-
by-character changes as other collaborators make edits.

13.  Main Utilities (Google Docs):
 Google Drawings allows users to collaborate creating, sharing,
and editing images or drawings.
 Google offers an extension for Google Chrome Office editing for
Docs, Sheets and Slides that enables users to view and edit
Microsoft Office documents on Google Chrome, via the Docs,
Sheets and Slides apps.
 A simple find and replace tool is available; there was no ability to
do the search in a reverse direction in the original release, but a
later version allowed reverse search and reverse replace.

14. Part Three
 Linkedin

15.  LinkedIn’s Features:
 Recommendations – A key benefit is giving and receiving personal
and business recommendations.
 Groups- LinkedIn features hundreds of groups with members joining
up to 50 groups related to industry, location, keywords, and content.
 Applications – This section allows importing of your business content
from several sources, including slideshows, blog feeds, Twitter
updates, and published content.

16. Profile – Your profile is the basis for searches on and off the LinkedIn
platform. Fill out all sections, include a professional photograph,
remember keywords in each section, and avoid keyword stuffing or
any other spammy information.

17. Part Four:
 Creating a Blog (Wordpress):
Web 2.0 is the term given to describe a second generation of the World
Wide Web that is focused on the ability for people to collaborate and
share information online. Web 2.0 basically refers to the transition from
static HTML Web pages to a more dynamic Web that is more organized
and is based on serving Web applications to users.

18. The main uses of Web 2.0 are the following:
Social software: There are applications classified as social media who
allow people to communicate, interact, collaborate in the creation
process of online information.