NETWORKING

NETWORKING

What comes to your mind when you read this word?

 The main thing about networking is obtain mutual benefits

Better jobs

Offer your services

According to Merriam-Webster dictionary: it is the exchange of information or services among individuals, group, or institution; specifically, the cultivation of productive relationship for employment or business. 

Business Networking

The primary purpose of business networking is to tell others about your business and hopefully turn them in to customers.

BENEFITS

  • New contacts and referrals.
  • Your business can be up-to-date and people are going to see you.
  • Problem solving and sharing knowledge and experience.

Networking is useful to extend our knowledge nowadays because we need to know every single day new thing about, how to grow in the networking area.

Working in the internet is something important.

Be a freelancer!

Someone who offer their services or products for a fee for a particular clients

A freelancer is self-employed person offering services in different areas and often to multiple clients at a time.

Freelancing is so flexible, you can set your own hours, working full or part-time on the projects of your choice.

While clients can offer specifications.

ADVANTAGES

  • easy to start
  • affordable
  • High demand for help
  • Choose your own schedule
  • Pick and choose clients
  • Payment is via PayPal in most of them times. 

Best Options

FREELANCER.COM

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 UPWORK.COM

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KAHOOT!

Kahoot! is a tool for using technology to create quizzes, discussions or surveys.

There are different ways to create games or quizzes with this tool but you have to pay for some of them. However exist two ways how you can create for free and that ways are:

The first one is that you can create a quiz and the another it is the option to create true or false.

Also, this tool give you the option to create your own questions or you can choose one that is already created.

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BITEABLE

Biteable is a online tool for create videos, but what have biteable different?

Biteable is the World simplest video maker that exist because just take around five to 10 minutes to create a video where you can add images, music and something good it is that you can add your own music.

Thias tool have some disadvantages that are that you can not download the video, also you can not write more than 80 characters and just give you the opportunity to create just 10 videos but something good is that you can eliminate and old video and create a new one.

click HERE to access to an example.  

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POWTOON

 is a web-based animation software that allows users to create animated presentations by manipulating pre-created objects, imported images, provided music and user-created voice-overs.

In this tool you can create videos and presentations. you don’t need to be an expert editor video, you need to be super organized with this tool. 

advantages: you don’t have limits of characters, you can download the video.

disadvantage: you always need internet connection. 

click HERE to access to an example of a video created in powtoon.

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information resources vs fake information

how many time you had tried to look for reliable information but when you said this is the correct one, you realized that is not. this is a common problem nowadays but why? because we just look for information without checking very well the website or checking the citations of it, but what can we do to get reliable information?

first,you need to use the acronym CRAP that means:

Currency – has it been updated recently?

Reliability – Does it provide references or sources? Is the content primarily opinion or is it balanced?

Authority – what are the credentials? 

Purpose – is it biased? 

but what about to some tips to find reliable information:

RELIABLE INFORMATION 

  • google scholar 
  • check the author’s credentials
  • look at the statistics
  • check the website itself

and how can you realize that it is a fake information:

FAKE INFORMATION  

  • the author doesn’t appear on the website
  • it doesn’t have any bibliography reference 
  • it may be grammatically incorrect, and it may lack of punctuation marks

here you have an example of fake information. please click on the image.

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but why is not this website reliable? because the website does not have real information, also the the author id not in the website so you can realize that it is fake information, also if you want more key point to know that it is fake the website has some grammatical mistakes and do not have a bibliography.

google docs

Google Docs is a free Web-based application in which documents and spreadsheets can be created, edited and stored online. Files can be accessed from any computer with an Internet connection and a full-featured Web browser. Google Docs is a part of a comprehensive package of online applications offered by and associated with Google.

Users of Google Docs can import, create, edit and update documents and spreadsheets in various fonts and file formats, combining text with formulas, lists, tables and images. Google Docs is compatible with most presentation software and word processor applications. Work can be published as a Web page or as a print-ready manuscript. Users can control who sees their work. Google Docs is ideal for publishing within an enterprise, maintaining blogs or composing work for viewing by the general public.

Google Docs lends itself to collaborative projects in which multiple authors work together in real time from geographically diverse locations. All participants can see who made specific document changes and when those alterations were done. Because documents are stored online and can also be stored on users’ computers, there is no risk of total data loss as a result of a localized catastrophe. However, the Internet-based nature of Google Docs has given rise to concerns among some authors that their work may not be private or secure.

This information comes from: Social Networking Privacy: How to be Safe, Secure and Social. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://privacyrights.org/consumer-guides/social-networking-privacy-how-be-safe-secure-and-social

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google drive

Google Drive is a file hosting service that help people to save documents in the cloud with this google tools you have the opportunity to have 15 gigabytes of free space to store your files, but you have the opportunity to expand through different payment plans. It is accessible through the website from computers and have applications for Android and iOS.

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google

google is nowadays one of the most famous browser in the world, google started as a simple tool to search thing but nowadays google have a lot of tools that are so useful for the users.

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google scholar

google scholar is one tool that google have, this tool is centered in provide to the user academic information, information that it is correct like articles or documents about wherever topic.

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Cool Text

Cool Text is a website where you can use your imagination and create many kinds of logos for many topics, in this tools you have the opportunity to create your logo and also modify it changing the fond, the color, the shadow and also the size of your logo.

here you have an example of a logo made in cool text

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Cyber Security

What is Cybersecurity?

Cybersecurity is the way of protecting all kind of system like computers, cellphones, tablets, and all kind of devices or networks like social networks. also it is include systems.

What is the main problem of people who do not know about cyber security, they are exposed to all kind of danger when they are using technology. exposed to hackers or all kind of virus in the red.

What can you do to avoid virus of hackers who can stole your information, you can use antivirus and also you do not need to click in a strange website that offer something interesting things because sometimes that kind of links have a lot virus.

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Implementing effective cybersecurity measures is particularly challenging today because there are more devices than people, and attackers are becoming more innovative.

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