Ava Klinger's blog

In this course, I have learned a lot about web tools and how to use them in classroom and professional settings. I went into the course not being very confident with technology, I am now much more comfortable with using web tools and demonstrating my abilities with them.      In this class I was taught how important it is to network. As a Communications major,networking is very important to my future field. In terms of Networking, I was introduced to Linked in and was instructed to make an account.Linked in makes networking very easy.I am happy that I made a Linked In account and was able to experiment with the website and be taught how to use it. I learned how to connect with professionals in my future field and how to network effectively. This helps me build my professional network and make connections that could help me in the future.   Another webtool that I was introduced to was Canva. I was recently elected as the social media manager for PRSSA. I am responsible for making post

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  For my good website I selected Youtube and for my bad website I selected Vimeo. These two websites are designed for one to watch and post videos.When comparing these two websites I was mainly focusing on two things- accessibility and audience. Youtube is free to watch and post videos. The user is also given an unlimited amount of videos they can post for free. Vimeo costs money to post and has different plans with restrictions on how many videos the user can post (according to the plan they selected).  When talking about the audience Vimeo has 70 million active users. Youtube is the second most popular search engine behind Google, ringing in 2.6 billion active users. When choosing vimeo over youtube, you are losing a big chunk of potential viewers. From the perspective of someone who is going into the Public relations and Advertising field, audience is everything. When selling or promoting a product you want as many eyes as possible as these eyes belong to potential consumers. I k