Effective Commenting Skills

This blog is set up to be interactive, your comments and questions are very important to us. Unlike written communication where access to your material or writing is limited to whoever has access to the paper, web communication is more open and access can be unlimited. One of the most important guiding principles of commenting on a blog post should be respect  for the author and other web users.  Below are a few tips for quality commenting on a blog post.

1. Read the post carefully.

2. Read other peoples comments to make sure that you are not repeating what others have said earlier

3. Think before you comment

4. Compose meaningfully

5. Respect other peoples opinion. This is not an avenue to pick up a fight.

6. Avoid a back and forth with another user.

7. Remember we are here to learn, you don’t have to have the last word.

8. Remember to check your Grammar, spellings and punctuation.

9. Remember the goal of this blog is to teach and learn about library resources and services.

10. Interactive learning is fun, enjoy the experience!

Welcome to the Library!

In the digital age, the college library is everywhere and open 24 hours 365 days a year. This is because a lot of our resources and services can be accessed just by visiting our website or downloading our Apps onto any of your mobile devices. Look out for information on Finding and using ebooksfinding articles and journals, streaming media and getting help from the library. Remember, the physical library is still open. Check out our hours of operation and lookout for workshops and seminars on how to survive college level research.

Information Timeline

In this age and time, when an event or a story breaks, one need not wait for the evening news or the morning newspapers to follow what is happening. Social media tools such as “Twitter”, “Tumblr ” has made it possible for people to report first hand if they are part of the event or even follow the latest news about the event on news media twitter page or Tumblr page. In 201, this is how the information timeline was before the complete takeover by social media in the mid 2000’s.

Information Timeline in 2011

Okay 9/11 was a little while ago, but compare how we were able to follow the news of the missing Air France 447 in 2009, with how we are following the recent news of the missing Malaysian airline MH370 in 2014. On Twitter, and on Facebook. It would also be interesting to see how News media such as the National Public Radio (NPR) or the cable TV such as CNN and MSNBC, and even Newspapers  are trying to cover the story as well as use social media to keep the conversation going.

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking newsworld news, and news about the economy