3.6 TYPES OF ONLINE COMMUNITIES

Question 1

WHAT ARE THE KEY FEATURES OF ONLINE FACILITIES?

Answer 1

• Social networking
• Online gaming
• Online work spaces
• VLEs
• User generated referance sites
• User generated content

Question 2

HOW IS SOCIAL NETWORKING USED?

Answer 2

Powerful marketing tool as it contains huge amounts of information that people post about. Targeted marketing can then be done.

Question 3

FEATURES OF SOCIAL NETWORKING?

Answer 3

• PROFILES - Collection of user information. Includes biographical data.
• FRIEND, FOLLOW, CONNECT - Add someone into social network
• STREAM, WALL, TIMELINE - Posts of friends
• RESTRICTING ACCESS - Allowing/disallowing people viewing your profile. Admins of groups.
• STATUS, UPDATES, POSTS- Members of social networks can send messages to other members.
• GROUP, LISTS, CIRCLES - Create named groups
• TAGS - Categorise content on social networking communities

Question 4

FEATURES OF ONLINE GAMING?

EG - Playstation network, Xbox live

Answer 4

• Links to social media
• User profiles
• Information to find out how to complete game
• Discussion boards, forums
• Notifications of games
• Member status

Question 5

FEATURES OF ONLINE WORK SPACES

EG - Workplace by Facebook, Microsoft Sharepoint

Answer 5

• Use cloud storage and web applications
• Comments can be made on documents
• Enable multiple editors on a document
• Shared contact lists, calenders
• Messaging systems (discuss work)
• Virtual meeting spaces - have the ability to give and watch presentations, speak to eachother, use video call conferencing tools. (EG - Zoom, Google meet)

Question 6

FEATURES OF VLEs

Answer 6

• Wall/timeline
• Notice boards for announcments
• Share files, videos, images, audio
• Automatically graded quizzes
• Tools for submitting assignments
• Communication tools

Question 7

EXAMPLES OF COMMUNICATION TOOLS?

Answer 7

Forums, chat rooms, wikis, blogs, third party integrations

Question 8

WHAT ARE USER GENERATED REFERANCE SITES?

Answer 8

Made by users of a particular site/service.

Question 9

EXAMPLES OF USER GENERATED REFERANCE SITES?

Answer 9

• Wikis (Wikipedia) - database developed by multiple collaborative users. Includes: member accounts, edit button, structures language, search tools.
• Forums - users can post comments and reply to others. Includes: groups, moderators, administrators, posts, threads, ratings, DM functions.

Question 10

WHAT IS USER GENERATED CONTENT?

Answer 10

Content available online made by users of a particular site or service.

Question 11

EXAMPLES OF USER GENERATED CONTENT SITES?

Answer 11

• VIDEO-SHARING SITES - Contains user accounts, profiles, content management systems, tags, ratings, commenting, third party integrations.
• BLOGS AND VLOGS - Contains user accounts, profiles, text editors, upload tools, tags, ratings, commenting.
• SOCIAL BOOKMARKING - Users can categorise and share web documents, URLs. Contains social networking features to connect users, tags organising URLs, user accounts.