Good Design for Good Genre

According to Reep (2006), the principles of design are qualities significant to any visual presentation in spite of of subject or audience. The common principles most designers believe are balance, proportion, sequence, and consistency.

Proportion

Proportion refers to the size and position of text, graphic supports, and arrangement elements on the slide. Both slides has the same amount of space for headings, an experienced designers would rarely use an equal amount of space as it would cramped the long headings and making the short headings loose.

Sequence

Sequence refers to the arrangement of design features so that readers see them in the best order for their use of the document. Both slides has reflected the effective design as readers would scan these slides from top left and bottom right, follow by reading the important point to important point. However, this slides might be unsuitable for the country which read from right to left.

Consistency

Consistency refers to presenting similar features in a similar style. Some important elements are margins, typeface, and indentations. Both slides have the same headings style, margins, and uniform indentations. But the contents size fonts is different from the first slides, consistency should be maintain to helps readers in emphasizing similar types of information and their similar importance.

Reference:

Reep, Diana C. 2006, ‘ Principles of Document Design,’ in Technical Writing, 6^th ed., Pearson Education Inc., New York, p173-190

New Form of Media Publishing

Twitter is the latest forms of media publishing.

Twitter is a social networking that enables it’s user to read and send messages called tweets. Tweets are posts that are displayed at the author’s profile page and only the author’s subscriber/ followers can read the tweets.

Twitter is being use for many different purposes from educations, for examples: The University of Vienna, Austria, used Twitter as an evaluation platform for student ratings. Every student had to send a tweet after each course unit with feedback to the teacher

During emergencies, for example: During the 2008 Mumbai attacks eyewitnesses sent an estimated 80 tweets every 5 seconds. CNN called this "the day that social media appeared to come of age" since many different groups made significant use of Twitter to gather news and coordinate responses.

Use in protest and politics, for example: In June 2009, following allegations of fraud in the Iranian presidential election, protesters used Twitter as a rallying tool and as a method of communication with the outside world after the government blocked several other modes of communication.

These is just some of the usage of twitter, there are still many different purposes of twitter from individuals, organizational to corporate purposes.

Beside, we can use twitter to introduce our blog!

So, our blog is known by a lot people and we can get more readers.

Is that wonderful..??

Let's introduce your blog in twitter...

References:

Stefan Stieger; Christoph Burger. "Let's go formative: Continuous student ratings with Web 2.0 application Twitter". Mary Ann Liebert Inc – Cyberpsychology and Behavior. Viewed April 14, 2010.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19839733

Busari, Stephanie (November 27, 2008). "Tweeting the terror: How social media reacted to Mumbai". CNN. Viewed April 14, 2010.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/27/mumbai.twitter/index.html

Berman, Ari (June 15, 2009). "Iran's Twitter Revolution". The Nation Viewed April 14, 2010.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/443634

What is Blogging community and how to build it?

According to White (2009), there are three types of blogging community:

- Single blog/blogger centric community

Readers begin returning to early bloggers’ sites, commenting and getting to know not only the blogger, but the community of a hub and spoke model.

- Central connecting topic community

Blogs are linked by a common passion or topic and subjected to a combination of subject matter and membership. This is the wider and most invisible network of readers.

- Boundaried communities

A collection of blogs and blog readers hosted on a single site or platform. This is where members join and offered to create their own blog. Example: www.blogspot.com

According to Vinson (2006), blogging communities are groups of people who share the similar and ordinary interest in a blog. When people share their hobby by commenting and replying on other people blogs and provide the links in order for other people to visit those blogs. These activities are creating a blogging community.

How to build blogging community

· Start with comment

· Reader centered posts

· Interactive tools and projects

· Invite readers and generated content

· Become a cheer leader

· Give readers jobs

· Set readers homework

· Give multiple avenues to ‘join’ or be a ‘member’

(For more information : 8 Tips to build blogging community)

The example of blogging community is www.student.com. This is a kind of blog where consists of students, they can linked each other because there is a forum and chat room for them to interact among students. They can share everything like education, student life, homework, scholarship, even about drugs and alcohol which prevent for them.

References:

Vinson, J. 2006, ‘Blogging and Communities’, viewed April 14 2009

http://blog.jackvinson.com/archives/2006/06/26/blogging_and_communities.html

Rowse, D. 2009, ‘8 Tips for Building Your Community on Your Blog’, viewed April 14 2009

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/02/28/8-tips-for-building-community-on-your-blog/

Classification of Blog

There are three types of blogs:

1. Personal Blogs

2. Corporate blogs

3. Organizational blogs

The types of how the contents are delivered:

By genre

Political blogs, travel blogs, house blogs, fashion blogs, Project blogs, education blogs, Music blogs, Gossip blogs, News Blog, Technology blog, and etc.

By Media Type

Vlog -- A blog comprising videos

Linklog -- A blog comprising links

Sketchblog -- A blog comprising a portfolio of sketch

Photoblog -- A blog comprising photos

Thumbleblog -- A blog with shorter posts and mixed media types

Examples:

Vlog

Linklog

Sketchblog

Thumbleblog

By devices

Mobile device is usually called a moblog. Besides, blog was wireless webcam, text, video, pictures transmitted live from wearable computer and Eye Tap device to a website.

Margaret Simons define the types of blogs currently exists :

Pampheleteering

Digest

Advocacy

Popular Mechanics

Exhibition

Gatewatcher

Diary

Advertisement

News

(For more information you guys can open this site : A Taxonomy of Blog)

There are different types of blogs and its content. It’s very hard to define what type of blog is the most appropriate classification approach because it depends on what people need and people have different perspective when they classified the types of blogs.

The bloggers should choose what kind of blog they want to write and make it consistence and make it interesting and for the reader in order to make them easily know what topic they are in and attract them to read more because that the reasons we make a blog.

References:

Brown, S. 2009. ‘Leading Average: Top Blog Trends’, viewed 13 April 2010

http://modernl.com/article/leading-average-top-blog-trends

Simons, M. 2008 . ‘Towards a taxonomy of Blogs', viewed April 13 2010

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2372882.htm#transcript

Current Phenomenon of Blogs and Its Benefits to the Communities

Blog is a kind of website and usually created by an individual with ordinary posts of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as pictures or video which is consumed by public.

Currently, blogs are considered as new phenomenon and turn into tendency among us. As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112,000,000 blogs. According to Anne Helmond (2008), it is tracking over 112.8 million blogs, a number which obviously does not include all the 72.82 million Chinese blogs as counted by The China Internet Network Information Center.

According to Technorati CEO, Jalichandra:

· 2/3 of professional bloggers are male

· 60% are between 12 – 44 years old

· 75% have college degrees

· 40% have graduate degress

· Half have household incomes of $75,000 or more

· 17% of them say blogging is their primary source of income

Benefits

There are a lot of benefits of blogging to community such as blogs can make government and corporation more open by allowing more interaction between government and its citizen, blog can support and drive a cultural change program towards a more open, blog creates an opportunity for a conversation between you and community because public can comment on the blog posts, blogs are also an excellent way to keep the communities informed about the latest information, blogs can be an excellent way to share and explore a lot of things like innovation/product/service/communities development concept and enhance learning and strengthen interest, becoming a power, gaining a universal audience.

References:

Helmond, A. 2008, ‘How Many Blogs are there? Is Someone still Counting?’, online, viewed April 8 2010

http://www.blogherald.com/2008/02/11/how-many-blogs-are-there-is-someone-still-counting/

Arrington, M.2009, Techcrunch 2009, State of the Blogosphere: the Full Blog World Presentation, viewed April 11 2010

http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/16/2009-state-of-the-blogosphere-the-full-blogworld-presentation/

The purpose of my blog

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I write this blog is to give some information about blogging such as the benefit, classification, types of blogging communities, methods to build blogging communities. Besides, I am going to explain new form of media publishing and good design for screen genre. My blog is targeted for people who interest in publications and designs issues.

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