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Email

Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices. Invented by Ray Tomlinson, email first entered limited use in the 1960s and by the mid-1970s had taken the form now recognized as email. Email operates across computer networks, which today is primarily the Internet. Some early email systems required the author and the recipient to both be online at the same time, in common with instant messaging. Today's email systems are based on a store-and-forward model. Email serversaccept, forward, deliver, and store messages. Neither the users nor their computers are required to be online simultaneously; they need to connect only briefly, typically to a mail server or a webmail interface, for as long as it takes to send or receive messages.

Originally an ASCII text-only communications medium, Internet email was extended by Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) to carry text in other character sets and multimedia content attachments. International email, with internationalized email addresses using UTF-8, has been standardized, but as of 2017 it has not been widely adopted.

The history of modern Internet email services reaches back to the early ARPANET, with standards for encoding email messages published as early as 1973 (RFC 561). An email message sent in the early 1970s looks very similar to a basic email sent today. Email had an important role in creating the Internet,and the conversion from ARPANET to the Internet in the early 1980s produced the core of the current services.

Write an email

1. On your computer, go to Gmail.
2. In the top left, click Compose.
3. In the "To" field, add recipients. If you want, you can also add recipients in the "cc" and "bcc" fields.
4. Add a subject.
5. Write your message.
6. At the bottom of the page, click Send.

How to Download Records to Google Drive

You can download Infobase Database Platform records to your Google Drive account. Downloading to Google Drive is offered as a free service.  To download a record to to Google Drive:  Click on the Download button in the page tool bar.  A pop-up box will appear. Click the Google Drive Save button in the pop-up box. If you are not signed into your Google account, you will be asked to sign in first. When you are signed into your Google account, you will see a pop-up confirming your logged-in account. Click the Save to Google Drive button. A pop-up window will appear confirming the name of the file you are downloading and the location within Drive where it will be saved. By default, files will download to the root of your Drive account.  If you have created folders within Drive, you may click on the change link to select a different folder. After choosing where you would like to save your file, click Save. Once the download process has started, you will see a status bar and animated icon on the Drive button. After the PDF file of the record has downloaded to your Google Drive , the Save to Google Drive button will turn gray and say Saved.

What Is Instant Messaging? 

Instant messaging is a one-to-one conversation—almost always with someone you already know—during which your computer or mobile device is connected to another person for the purpose of exchanging text and images. An instant message is usually between only two individuals, not a conversation involving groups of people. Instant messaging dates back to the 1960s, when MIT developed a platform that allowed up to 30 users to log in at a time and send messages to each other. The concept grew in popularity as technology advanced, and now we take instant messaging for granted and consider it a part of our everyday lives. 

Popular instant messaging platforms include: 

• Facebook Messenger
• Snapchat
• WhatsApp

What Is Chat? 

A chat usually occurs in a chat room, a digital forum where multiple people connect with others for the purpose of discussing a shared interest and sending text and images to everyone at once. You might not know anyone at all in a chatroom. While the concept of a chat room hit its peak in the late '90s and has since declined, there are still applications and platforms that enable people to participate in chat rooms.

While instant messaging was born in the 1960s, chat followed in the 1970s. The ability to chat with groups of people was developed at the University of Illinois in 1973. At its beginning, only five people could chat at a time. In the late '90s, a technological advancement occurred that forever changed the digital landscape. Before this, using the internet was a costly proposition, and in most cases, charges were incurred based on the length of time you spent online. After AOL made staying online affordable, people realized they could stay online as long as they wanted, and chat rooms flourished. In 1997, at the height of the chat room craze, AOL hosted 19 million of them. 

Some popular platforms that offer chat rooms are:

• Twitch (similar to a chat room in that you watch videos and talk about them together)
• Moco
• Migme

Internet Forum

An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.They differ from chat rooms in that messages are often longer than one line of text, and are at least temporarily archived. Also, depending on the access level of a user or the forum set-up, a posted message might need to be approved by a moderator before it becomes visible.

Forums have a specific set of jargon associated with them; example: a single conversation is called a "thread", or topic.

A discussion forum is hierarchical or tree-like in structure: a forum can contain a number of subforums, each of which may have several topics. Within a forum's topic, each new discussion started is called a thread, and can be replied to by as many people as so wish.

Depending on the forum's settings, users can be anonymous or have to register with the forum and then subsequently log in to post messages. On most forums, users do not have to log in to read existing messages.

Social Medias

Social media are interactive computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks. The variety of stand-alone and built-in social media services currently available introduces challenges of definition; however, there are some common features.

Characteristics

Users typically access social media services via web-based technologies on desktops and laptops, or download services that offer social media functionality to their mobile devices (e.g., smartphones and tablets). When engaging with these services, users can create highly interactive platforms through which individuals, communities, and organizations can share, co-create, discuss, and modify user-generated content or pre-made content posted online. They "introduce substantial and pervasive changes to communication between organizations, communities, and individuals." Social media changes the way individuals and large organizations communicate. These changes are the focus of the emerging fields of technoself studies. Social media differ from paper-based media (e.g., magazines and newspapers) to traditional electronic media such as TV broadcasting in many ways, including quality,reach, frequency, interactivity, usability, immediacy, and performance. Social media outlets operate in a dialogic transmission system (many sources to many receivers). 
This is in contrast to traditional media which operates under a monologic transmission model (one source to many receivers), such as a newspaper which is delivered to many subscribers, or a radio station which broadcasts the same programs to an entire city. Some of the most popular social media websites are Facebook (and its associated Facebook Messenger), Instagram, WhatsApp, Google+, Myspace, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, Tumblr, Twitter, Viber, VK, WeChat, Weibo, Baidu Tieba, and Wikia. These social media websites have more than 100,000,000 registered users.

Pros 

1. Messaging on social media sites can lead to face-to-face interactions when plans are made via the sites.
2. Social media increases voter participation and facilitates political change.
3. Social media helps reduce loneliness of senior citizens who are socially isolated.
4. Social media allows for quick diffusion of public health and safety information during crisis events.
5. The U.S. military and the Department of Veterans Affairs use social media to help prevent suicide.
6. Social media can help disarm social stigmas like anxiety or depression.
7. Crowdsourcing on social media allows people to attain a goal, empowering users to achieve positive change.
8. Social media provides academic research to a wider audience, allowing people access to previously inaccessible educational resources.
9. Social media sites can help improve overall well-being by providing users with a large social group creating a “contagion” effect.
10. Professional networking sites like LinkedIn greatly assist companies to find personnel and job seekers to find work.

Cons

1. Social media posts cannot be entirely deleted.
2. Social media can endanger our military, journalists and activists.
3. Social media use is associated with personality and brain disorders.
4. Students who are heavy social media users tend to have lower grades.
5. Social media can exacerbate feelings of disconnect and put children at higher risk for anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, eating disorders and even suicide.
6. Criminals can use social media to commit and promote crimes.
7. Social media can be a drain on time and use up hours that you can’t get back.
8. Advertising practices of social media sites may create an invasion of privacy.
9. Social media facilitates sexting, which can lead to revenge porn, criminal charges and a proliferation of personal images.
10. Social media use can cause personality and brain disorders, ADHD and self-centered personalities—particularly in youth.

Blog

A blog (a truncation of the expression "weblog")is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order, so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page. Until 2009, blogs were usually the work of a single individual,^{[citation needed]} occasionally of a small group, and often covered a single subject or topic. In the 2010s, "multi-author blogs" (MABs) have developed, with posts written by large numbers of authors and sometimes professionally edited. MABs from newspapers, other media outlets, universities, think tanks, advocacy groups, and similar institutions account for an increasing quantity of blog traffic. The rise of Twitter and other "microblogging" systems helps integrate MABs and single-author blogs into the news media. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Characteristics

1) Make Your Post Pertinent

No matter how well-written, or how informative the blog post, without relevant content it is wasted breath.

Relevance should be your number one priority when writing a blog post. Know your audience and gauge what will not only be appropriate, but pertinent. Find important information that's missing, and share your unique perspective.

This is absolutely vital for building authority within your chosen niche. If your company specializes in the food industry, your readers will likely be uninterested in a blog post about the latest fashion in footwear. Likely, you’ll lose branding power as well.

2) Include Useful Information

It’s not enough that a blog post be relevant to a subject. It also needs to be useful and important information. Your blog should aim to help and educate your audience, offering valuable takeaways. People appreciate information they can do something with, and will return to your blog if you consistently offer posts that are not only relevant, but useful.

Why do most blogs fail? The simple truth is most blogs are too self-absorbed.

It is not uncommon to find blogs that become a podium for the authors every thought and feeling. This pulls them away from solid, useful content, and suddenly the blog flounders and fails. Check out this good-natured video about the reason why blogs fail.

3) Make Your Post Engaging

A blog post must be well-written. And it’s not enough to have perfect grammar and spelling; it needs to be personal, interesting, and interactive.

Try to let your personality shine through in your writing. Don’t be afraid to write in a conversational tone. Personal stories and anecdotes are a great way to make a blog post more engaging. Southwest’s blog does a solid job of being personable.

4) Spark Discussion

This goes along with engaging your reader. It is extremely important to generate as much conversation and discussion as possible in your blog. Great posts should generate discussion, so don’t forget to include your readers.

Ask for feedback, thoughts, opinions, or even just comments. Include a call to action at the end of article to garner a response. And don’t forget to participate once the discussion starts; respond to comments, emails, and questions!

5) Keep it Readable

We’ve all seen the blog posts known as the old wall o’ text. No one reads these. They can be the best, most interesting, well-written articles, but if they’re not easily digestable they get skipped over. This isn’t prose, so keeps your thoughts succinct and to the point.

Bullets, lists, graphs, and images are a great way to make sure your content is easy to read. Always preview your work before you publish, and make sure it’s scannable. Check out this blog for a great job of making a hard to write subject extremely readable.

6) Appropriate Length

This is a bit trickier. Some say good blog posts should hover right around 500 words. Others say anything less than 1,000 doesn't cut it.

The truth is both simpler and more complex.

A blog post should be as long as it needs to be. By this, I mean that it should be as long as it takes for you to succinctly and clearly explain your idea, concept or thought.

If you can write a well thought out, complete article in 400 words, that’s great. If you can keep it interesting, engaging, relevant and informative all the way to 1,500 words, then it’s still a great blog post.

In the end, as long as you offer quality, pertinent information in a readable and engaging manner consistently your blog should do well, hopefully fostering a sense of online community along with helping build a personal connection with your readers.

History

The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog", was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May 1999. Shortly thereafter, Evan Williams at Pyra Labs used "blog" as both a noun and verb ("to blog", meaning "to edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog") and devised the term "blogger" in connection with Pyra Labs' Blogger product, leading to the popularization of the terms.