A Crowdfunding Teacher

This is a video of presentation by Alejandro Cremades, about Crowdfunding and how to use it properly.

Alejandro Cremades is a Spanish entrepreneur based in New York who co-founded the first investment crowdfunding platform for Startups, named Rock the Post.

This video is a smart drawned and comical presentation who explain all the good usable side of the crowdfunding system, where he explains that crowdfunding is basically fundraising but added to the use of social media tools to accelerate the fundraising process. He gives also advice to reach you goals if you want to collect funds for a professsional project.

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• Alone, I go faster. Together, we go further – African proverb (mysoosoo.wordpress.com)

Social media : a good or a bad thing ?

We’ve posted different articles about social media and whether they have a good or bad impact on our society but we are yet to come to a conclusion. Do you think that social media products such as Facebook and Twitter have a bad or good influence on our life? In this article we will present both the good and bad aspects of social media in order to come to a conclusion.

 First about the good aspect. There is no denying social media permit us to communicate much easily and faster, from a country to an other without difficulty. Moreover, the sharing of informations, pictures, ideas, opinion, video or every kind of content is now possible via the internet. Those two aspect are related by the idea that they create relations between people all over the world by reducing the communication barriers. The business world is also present in the social media (especially via Linked-in for example) and can represent a good opportunity to workers and employers, and also if you want to start a company for instance.

Then what about the negative aspect of social media ? Through our previous articles we talked about the idea of addiction, and it can lead to some kind of isolation for the users, the problem of “cyber bullying“ and lack of protection of our personal informations on internet (digital shadow). Further more we haven’t talk about “catfish“ in the blog but it’s also a “bad” aspect of social media, because it represent a threat to the people who use the social networks.

To conclude, the impact social media of social media is both positive and negative even though it’s more than essential in our lives since it’s getting difficult to communicate without it.

• What do you think ?
• Would you said that social media is a good or a bad thing ?
• Do you find it essential ?
• Don’t hesitate to leave commentaries to tell us your opinion ! 

Whaller , the privatized network.

         In few year the social network became ubiquitous in our life. Most of the population spend time everyday connected to facebook twitter instagram..

But many regret their user registration and think that there is a lack of security on social networks.

For us and the other there is Whaller.

Whaller is not a social network like the other one. It’s a web platform on which the user can create their own social network. Whaller allows like in real life to restrict conversation, the one with the family the other with friend, they are represented as spheres. The different social network are private and close relative to the other. A text send on a sphere can’t be view on the other one.

The plus of whaller it is his private character, indeed the site grand a huge weight to the protection of personal data. The are not use for commercial and the data are not preserved on Whaller, if the user delete it it’s delete for good.

Whaller is for everyone and specially for the compagny who want to create a network with a employee.

It’s free for particular, and it’s cost 1€ pers person for a groupe of 15 people in a compagny and 2€ for the premium offer.

 

The evolution of communication

 

 

Inthis caricature, we can see 5 men, it’s like a description of the communication’s evolution in our world. The first is writting  on a stone, the second represents the begining of prenting,  the third concerns mass publication with books and press communication, the fourth  is looking at his email and the last one is twitting. This drawing is aimed to show how we are no different from where we started, using basic words.

 So, we can tell us if this way of cummication and more particulary  internet is always good for humans and if it’s a simply new way of communication like the others ?

In our history, way of communication have never stoped evolving, and there is no denying that they have a real impact on society, on world and country’s debate and more particulary on persons. I think that with writings, newspapers there are more contacts, more charms between people and it can create real relation between people in library, cafe…

With social media we exchange a lot of informations, we can debate… But in my opinion we don’t create real link between people, it sounds wrongs ! It’s almost a process of insolation and a disparation of the dialogue and meeting.

Even if there is a lot of good points with social media, the evolution seems to go back, and people returns to basic communication. We can ask ourselves what will be the next character ? a robot ?

Caricature my Mike Koepe.

What is LinkedIn ?

LinkedIn is a social network used for professional networking; it was created in 2003 in Santa Monica by Jeff Weiner. LinkedIn has over 230 million members last year in 200 countries and territories, the member’s number are increasing especially during the recession because people think that it’s the only website of professional networking. LinkedIn is not really a social network because it’s different from Facebook we don’t have the time to discuss at length with people.

     Moreover, there are over 500 companies on this website, and there are more than one million groups. Groups allow professional exchanges that are gathered by interests to share their expertise, ideas, and feedback. In LinkedIn users can invite anyone to become a connection; there are three numbers of ways: the direct connections, the connections of each of their connections and also the connections of second-degree connections. These connections permit to find a job, opportunities and people. Having more connections is better because employers can list jobs and search for potential candidates. Users of LinkedIn can post their photos, information about their professional life; they can follow different companies and all that appears on his profile.

     Today, LinkedIn is growing up and this network launched the InApps platform with eight partners like WordPress and Slideshare. This social network has undergone several critical, for example in 2012 there are security vulnerabilities. Indeed, 6,5 million of passwords have been disclosed after hacking. But this accident doesn’t affect the popularity of LinkedIn and the majority of members are satisfied of this website.

This short video helps to understand how function LinkedIn and permits to illustrate what I say.