Thursday, November 19, 2009

Week 9: Social Bookmarking and Cloud Computing

Social Tools and Cloud Computing are topics very new to me, but seem to be extremely helpful. It helps with communication between people, groups and teams. Things like Google Docs make working on group projects much easier because people can be invited to view the document and even make changes to it. This helps avoid multiple copies of the same document float around and miss someone’s input. Social Bookmarking is another interesting topic that was introduced to me this week. It is a way to share sites with others as well as save your own without relying on one computer. You can search through different topics to see other sites that people have tagged about it. Social Bookmarking is a great way to communicate with others because it makes so many resources available on the Internet for everyone.

These resources can be extremely helpful in my field of accounting. It gives me the ability to connect with my peers on projects and share information and papers in group projects and presentations. In addition sharing resources through sites like Delicious can be helpful to learn new findings and developments in the international accounting world.

Here is an interesting site for social bookmarking. It is called eZdia. It is a site where people can share information, get expert advice, become an expert to give advise and go through the “knowledge bucket” where they can search tags.

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