Invisible team

When I was in South Korea last year, I actually did virtual team in my business class.

In my home university, they have some online classes that professor appear on the computer screen then we have to log in the class and listen what he/she said. So we don't need to go to school, I think it saves our time and money.

Last year I heard the class "Principles of Marketing" on the PC screen. In that class, professor made groups and one leader for team project, then he made online space to exchange our opinion. Even though we were living in the same city, not that long distance, we use the internet as our main communication tool. We met in the MSN messenger or NATE ON(Korean famous messenger because it is connected to Cyworld) once a week. Team leader assign a part of the work and I researched my jobs during the week, then integrated our works together.

(He was my Marketing professor, and the class was really fun. Actually he was fun)

According to the "Coworking is (also) : Working Together Online", the writer said about various kinds of coworking communication tools.

With document sharing provided by mainstream services like Google, video chat
supported by Yahoo, conference calling, combined with chat and peer-to-peer file
transfer available for free via Skype, audio and video blogging, coworking tools
are becoming more and more ubiquitous, and people are beginning to use them with as little forethought as picking up a telephone - a telephone which, of course, is Internet-compatible, GPS-enabled, and can capture photos and video.

Because we were all students, we couldn't use such various tools for communication. But through the internet, I just uploaded my assignment whenever I wanted and met them without any traffic expenses. I think this kind of team is more effective and can cut cost a lot.

My team made good project and achieved our goal successfully. I actually met our team member once, face-to-face, in another class. Because he's name was rare name in Korea, I can recognized him easily when a professor called his name. I knew that he also recognized me, because of my rare name. It was so embarrassed!!!!

I Can Be a Journalist !!

Social News??
Social Publishing??

I first heard about "Social News" this week through Sixdegrees, so I tried to find out what is social news. I visited many social news website such as "digg" "reddit" and "newsvine". According to "A Beginner's Guide to Social News Websites", there is good definition about social news.

Social News websites are communities which allow its users to submit news stories, articles and media (videos/pictures) and share them with other users or the general public. Some of these articles will be given more visibility, depending on various factors such as the number of user votes for each item.

But I didn't understand the meaning clearly.
When I first visited those websites, I don't know why people try to update already posted news in other news sites, because we can read the news on official news site like CNN, Washington Post.

But...soon I fall in love with "digg". People can see the number of other's digg so readers can recognize what is the most popular to others and other people's interest. I think this happens because people always want to know about other's feedback. That is, Social Networking.

I found that "newsvine" is very different from other websites. Users can create their own news. Anyone can be a reporter and write their opinions or news. This is really good for people to get as much as information, however, I think it would be also dangerous tools because anyone can get power through articles.

In Korea, one of the famous model / actress "Byun Jung Soo" was the victim of social news.
One college girl write a article that she die from car accident. It was definitely lie. That college girl faked the name of famous reporter, and she make the article like one of Korea's official news website. This faked news spread through internet and blogs, so many people believe the news and felt sorry to her.

But soon she's alive!! She came up to TV and said she still alive.

She was really shocked about her death rumor news, but she forgave that college girl because she thought she was young girl, and she did it just for fun not knowing how much the article would be problem.
Anyway..In this web2.0 age, we can be anything we want such as journalist, doctor, singer and photographer without having professional sense. We can choose anything but use our power in good way.

Every Jack has his Gill on internet.

How can we find our life partner??

Who is your soul mate??

It's the most difficult things to figure out our "one" for the rest of our life.

When someone decide her or his marriage to another person, he/she become really careful.

"duo.co.kr" If you have interested in Korean guys or girls, visit duo! :)

In Korea, "Duo" is the most famous matchmaking website. It's purpose is not just dating but marriage. When someone doesn't have boyfriend or girlfriend although their age become marriageable, then they can sign in the site. Even Duo requires admission fee that cost is about from 1000$ to 8000$, but many people want to join.

According to "Will the Web Replace the Business Lunch?", article says that

"After signing up for membership, users can run searches on companies they've
worked for in the past to find and contact former co-workers, or they might
search companies that they've done business with and find old business
associates. The goal is to make the longstanding practice of glad-handing at
conferences, collecting business cards and remembering faces as easy as signing
in and sending an e-mail."

When I first read this paragraph, Duo's matchmaking system came across my mind. Duo and LinkedIn has many similarities. Duo's matchmaking system also needs to gether as many as people and information through their past experiences. So they are collecting profiles and classifying all the member's style and conditions of membership. If one man and woman's needs are matching each other, then Duo's manager make an appointment to introduce each other in off-line. So I think matchmaking networking in Duo works similary to professional networking, also it provide marriage consults for their membership to get more satisfied marriage.

"Networking for Students: Step-by-Step Guide - Boston.com" says that..

Every professional networking contact, electronic or face-to-face, needs to be carefully crafted, planned, or practiced. One misspelled word, one uncapitalized pronoun “I”, one lapse of over-familiarity or unprofessionalism, and your best chance of making a positive impression may have been wasted.

Because it is professional networking contact, you should't type your profile or career faked like facebook or other private blogs' profiles. All your information is important to your connection with other people and chance to get a job. In this point, Duo's matchmaking networking also needs user's honesty and it's information should be accurate.

But actually LinkedIn doesn't require any accurate information when someone try to sign in. They don't require user's real name and real career. I became wonder that there are must be some possibilities to try to fake other people. So I try to find some policies about this problem. After all, I found information from Korean website "Naver". One Korean IT company Intervewed with one of LinkedIn's employee,Liz. (http://www.hedgeplus.net/tag/professional%20networking%20service)

She said that basically they don't regulate any personal information but it is surely prevented by collective intelligence. Certain user who has bad intention might say that he/she graduated Harvard University, but in the end other members will find out his/her untruth through broaden social networking. Members can add comments and report faked user as a spam. Therefor it has been solved by self-purification.

So I think Professional networking is very different from other private networking. It should be more careful and it's impact is much more important.

In professional networking, act professionally.

I Know What You Did Last Summer..

"I know what you did last summer..."

This horrible things happen to you and me on the internet..

In Korea, many people use cyworld as their main blog.

Sometimes I got notes from someone I don't know who he is...

One of those note is from my old friends ( Primary school, middle school or high school friends)

then it can be very glad and exciting greeting :) Actually I had been met some old friends who couldn't contact for about 10 years. We talked about our childhood and it was great time..

But....some notes from stragers..it scared me so much..and sometimes they know about me..

Actually, in cyworld, I can find anyone I want by name of profile.

I try typing my name on the search engine

Because my last name is so rare in South Korea, people can find me so easily.

I got just 8 people having same name..(My blog is second one :) )

It also shows the date of birth, so anyone can find me for just 10 seconds.

From the article, Teens, Privacy and Online Social Networks, writer says

At the same time, nearly two-thirds of teens with profiles (63%) believe
that a motivated person could eventually identify them from the information they
publicly provide on their profiles.

I really agree to this opinion, through cyworld profiles anyone who try to detect me can get my information just in 2~3 clicks..They also know what I did this vacation or this weekend.

Even I didn't allow access to my pictures and posting to anonymous, they can see my pictures through my friend's which had no restrict to anyone.

Actually, I did it sometimes to find out when I have interesting in someone.

According to the video, "Can Privacy Exist on the Internet?", It can be more serious when my employers visit my Facebook or Cyworld because they can affect my future career and promotion. Then we should act like right and diligent person even on the Internet. Sometimes we want be more freely out of office.

I think many people think that it's okay when I try to find some information from someone because it is just for curious, but it's the invasion of privacy when other people do that.

This is problem and can be serious privacy invasion without any guilty.