MIS: Web 2.0

Web 2.0 project is one of the most beneficial projects that gave me many benefits. I believe that training others makes big deference in understanding something, just like I did benefited from some training which conducted by others and some were not powerful in giving or training us in a proper way.  In my training I prepared a training plan in which I specified the outline, time and resources was the main reason that enabled me to perform very well during my session. The lovely thing about MIS course is that finally we have to practice the tools by ourselves and write about them in our website. This is my post for my blog and I am posting my reflection on web 2.0 tools organized from the most preferable tool to the least favorite one.

   Google Sites

Was fun to learn how to create a website and add all our learning from MIS project. I was able to create my own themes.  I think in the future if I will have a business I will design my company’s website.

   Google Searching

This tool helped me to find out what I am looking for through following specific tips. After learning the techniques, I applied them in all my research topics to save my time and efforts. Also was useful for our project when we were looking for resources from the web.

   Blogs

Is my best tool and I and my friend gave the training to our class.  We started our own blogs and learned many things and delivered it to our class.  I will continue my blog and will always post something useful to my readers about families, children, good habits, UAE and many things.

   Gmail

I is the best thing I learned after the blogs and I used my Gmail for all my other tools which I needed to loge in.  Very pour full tool in since of connecting to other tools such as Facebook, Blog, Twitter and other Google tools.  All my friends will communicate after the college through Gmail accounts.

   Google Docs

During our studies we used Google docs and shared a document with others to work on our projects.  Also we create other applications (such as presentations, word documents and spreadsheets) through and edit them together.  I believe that Google docs is a safe place for storing my documents and can make people edit or comment on my work.

   Google Chrome

I have put all my applications which I use most in there when I open it, such as Google sites, Facebook, Twitter, Google search, Google drive and blog.  It is fast and easy to find what I want to log in by bookmarking my needs.  But still I am using Windows Internet Explorer to search for what I need.

   Google Picasa

It is great software that enables me to edit my photos, add text to them and create movies very easily in a short time and make albums. I found it much better than using Photoshop.  There is some small problems in editing my original photos where it makes the changes in it and do not keep the original.  I travel every year and with this software I can make a short video of my photos.

   Twitter, Facebook and blog:

I connected them by when I found any videos in YouTube I send it to my twitter, Facebook and blog at the same time.   In twitter I always post short messages about useful things. I like it a lot and use it in a daily basis to post my tweets and view others’ tweets.  Also from the Facebook I found my old friends and connected with them and know about their life little more and share videos and photos with them.  This three tools will continue using them every day.

   Google Earth

Fun in finding places and locate roads.  Also will use it in future to locate the place I will visit to see places and take maps of cities.

   Google Calendar, Google Reader, Google News and Google Finance

Are the ones did not understand much from the trainers but still can use them in future in projects or for personal use.

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• By Christine Fieldhouse, Friday magazine
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Six steps to unshakable confidence

US hypnotist and author Kent Sayre was once painfully shy, but after discovering a series of tips to overcome a lack of confidence, he went on to write Unstoppable Confidence (McGraw-Hill). Here are some of his best pieces of advice.

1. Study confident people
Find a role model, a person with real self-belief and study their lives. If possible, buy their books, or CDs, go to their seminars or shows, or watch them play their sport. Once you’ve done your research, close your eyes and get an image of their speech, movement and behaviour. Then step into that vision and let it take you to five different situations, such as a job interview, or staying in a hotel alone, or making an entrance at a party. Then step out of the role model’s body and take your confidence with you.

2. Rewrite the past
Rather than beat yourself up about a diet that didn’t work, or a job you didn’t get, rewrite the past and give those experiences a more positive ending. Go back to a mistake and re-run it in your mind, stopping just before you made the mistake. Then imagine what the perfect ending could have been – maybe losing 6 kilograms or going out and meeting the man you were to marry. Replace the old ending with your new one and rerun it in your mind ten times.

3. Create a circle of confidence
Think back to a time when you felt confident and on top of the world, maybe your wedding day or the day you got some great exam results. Imagine a circle on the floor, noting its size and colour. When you step into the circle imagine your most confident moment. See what you saw at the time, hear the noises around you and feel that lovely confidence again. Adjust your body language to match your confidence, then walk around outside the circle.

4. Talk to yourself
When you talk to yourself, say “you” instead of “I” so your conscious mind can tell your unconscious mind what you want and how to behave. Stand tall in front of a mirror and say: “You are supremely confident”; “You go for what you want and you get it”; and “You are completely powerful.”

5. Amaze yourself!
Think of something so far outside your comfort zone that you would be amazed if you achieved it. It may be a skydive or a public-speaking engagement or an application for your dream job. You will start to believe that if you can skydive/speak in public/get your dream job, you can do anything and other challenges won’t seem so scary. Choose a big challenge and take immediate action towards making it happen.

6. Put yourself in the movies
Picture yourself at the height of your success – you may have thrown a huge fund-raising party or collected an award for new novelists or led a board meeting. See yourself bright and close-up on a big screen, add some sound or music and turn up the volume. Just before the success is yours, stop the film in your mind’s eye and ask why it is so important to you. Then restart the movie, jump back into your on-screen body and enjoy the pleasure. While you’re on that high, write down five immediate actions that would take you closer to your dream.

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