Thursday 21 June 2012

h.w mr bush how has the internet...?

  • nature of information

"Advances in communication technology offer new and exciting opportunities to empower individuals and groups in relation to their health." Esther ThomasThis is right as health advisors and anyone in a health occupation can receive quick and reliable information within a few minutes. Also, with the internet and advanced technology it makes it easier for people to store data and compare with other sources.
“Digital media, including electronic health information, social networks and telehealth, have the potential to provide more effective health care and information to citizens throughout the world, Thorson said.”
·         “The role technology can and will play in health communication”
This article focused mainly on how new and digital media is able to help and advance the health communication. The writer talks more in depth of a particular occupations advantages of having access to new and digital media and how it can become improved in the future. There naming it a “digital media revolution” and saying that “communication” is “the heart of their health care”.

"smaller world through instant communications"
The talk is now about virtual reality (VR) in communications, which in one version of the near future has us looking at holographic friends standing on our desktops (scaled down, hopefully!).
The ability to bring together teams from around the world to work together, even in real-time on a shared document, has changed the whole notion of teamwork.


privacy : "Similarly, Internet email users generally consider their emails to be private and hence would be concerned if their email was being accessed, read, stored or forwarded by third parties without their consent."
"Because Facebook is by far the most popular social networking platform and the language of "privacy settings" is part and parcel of the Facebook experience, the term "privacy" is used throughout this report to refer to the choices users make to restrict the information they share through their profile."
http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Privacy-management-on-social-media/Overview/Social-media-has-changed-the-public-discussion-about-managing-privacy-online.aspx




online safety: http://powertochange.com/world/onlinesafetips
"Another major area of concern has to do with sharing personal information online, whether in chat rooms, instant messaging, blogs or emails. We attempt to make the interactive areas of our sites as safe as possible. We have a Privacy Policy for information shared within our sites."
http://www.parentsprotect.co.uk/internet_safety.htm
"A world has opened up which offers many positive opportunities – ten years ago, who would have imagined that we would be ordering our weekly shopping, booking our holidays or talking to and forming relationships with people we have never met – all online?"
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/pew_71_of_young_adults_change_online_privacy_settings.php
"According to the study, 71% of young adults have changed their default social network privacy settings to limit the information they share with others, compared to just over half of the users aged 50-64. Additionally, 47% of young adults said they have deleted comments from their profiles, and 41% say they have removed their names from photos that they were tagged in."



Business: http://briangosur.hubpages.com/hub/The-Internet-Has-Completely-Changed-The-Way-We-Do-Business world economy
"Targeting specific markets can be identified, reached and serviced with the same kind of quality of service, whether a company consists of thousands of employees, or just a couple of guys working out of a garage.That's how Amazon.com got started."
"No matter what your business is, it is difficult to succeed today without internet marketing."
http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/how-has-internet-changed-business
"You know, billions of communications per year, conversations with customers per year -- the way we share and collaborate internally inside the organization."
"You know, billions of communications per year, conversations with customers per year -- the way we share and collaborate internally inside the organization."
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_has_the_Internet_changed_business_in_positive_ways
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Thursday 14 June 2012

What percentage of households have access ro broadband in the UK?



In may of this year, it was stated that 63% of UK households have access to superfast broadband. It was quoted that exactly "Customers who are unhappy with their current speed could also consider switching to a faster package or provider, particularly if superfast broadband services are available to them (63% of UK households now have access to superfast broadband )."