I don’t believe email is dead even with myspace and facebook, because being a student it’s the easiest and one of the fastest ways to communicate with tutors, lecturers and other students. In the lecture we discussed spam and the types of email scams that are spammed through email, particularly Nigerian email scam. I often receive surveys through spam and also shopping website spam. I personally have never received a Nigerian scam email but have heard of it through friends. We got the results back from the survey and majority of people don’t believe email is dead. As a marketing student I found that email is one of the best new ways to market something as most people in society have an email account and the survey showed they used it daily.
Handbook for bloggers:
When reading the Handbook for boggers, I didn’t find the material very interesting to read, though I was able to see the usefulness of the material for someone wanting to create a more journalistic serious blog. It gives a lot of good advice like how to get your blog picked up by search engines, which is a major factor if the blog is about current events that may affect society. The best piece of advice I found was keeping a blog short and to the point, its how people want their information these days and I strongly agree with this.
