Thursday, 25 August 2011

Online Presence week 4 ( Reading - Economics in networked citizens )

Liquid Labor- 
from what i had learned in class, now we can do work in distress environment, it has another way to present in working, no longer work from working hour, the employees have the authority to choose the shift they want. Now the working place i s flexible, last time people must work in office, today people can work at house. 
Now, the ideal job is no longer work to peoples, most of the people will pick a job as the leisure personal, peoples are become more demanding, they are concerning about environment and the facilities in the working place rather than other. And, the young boss tend to make their office became a fantasy work, as long as it's doesn't look like a working place. Refer to pic 1.
what is this giant egg for??
There are from GOOGLE Engineering headquarters in Zurich.
Can't you like working here as well?? 
Resources from http://www.fashioncappuccino.com/2011/01/work-with-me.html 

Pic2 : Do you know what place is this? It's not an office,it's a:
_Microsoft Bus_
Economy
Business today is not about alone.
we can play at the same time at the same time while enjoy our work
 "Technology is only part of the answer to why it is that networks have remained in such sharp focus, and have occupied thinking around work and business. "

In this sentence referred to the advance of technology today, technology itself no longer work itself anymore, the growth of technology make our life more easier and also become important to our life, we can access to internet anytime and everywhere,as long there is a WIFI connection or Unif connection. we can access to internet to do anything as we want, we can go for social networking, surf information, now we can even make your own business through online. Since that everyone using the same tool to communicating , We need Network to communicate with World, know new knowledge and so on. Network become important to business nowadays. 



one question for every college student, do u spend your time one internet everyday? I'm sure the answer pretty obvious, I'm think the majority of the students will say, "I can't live without the internet." 

human being use technology applied for their business
now, people,technology and business was link together. 


Past few year we talking about e-business, Online banking, online shopping and so on.. 
From the improve for the social networking, people got a new idea for run their business. As we know Social networking is the communicating tool for us, it allow us to communicating with peoples around the world. we can know a new friend and also find our old friends over there, we get to know our friends latest update,we can get to see they photo. it's about sharing and informing among friends. Today, there are the new tool for run a business. 

For me, the social networking provide a good perform stage for the peoples interested to be an "entrepreneur" , some people they might have some special talent for doing something, its could be handmade beg or hand drawing shoes and so on; now they can make they interest as a small business, you can create a fan pages on facebook, making your own page without any payment. Facebook now is not only for the socializing, we can even run own little business over there, it's a good experience for the beginner who with the low budget.
  
There are a lot of social networking. one of the most popular and the most  users ,
__Facebook__
For instance, the marketer updated to online business. For those big company or institution , they own a page on facebook as well. They know the teenager or most of the people own a facebook account, the higher chance will look at their product. This also one of the advertising tool, for using Facebook, i think they can spend less for advertisement. For the business perspective, the company can keep a good relationship with the customer, throughout the page ,everyone have their right to voice out the opinion toward the product, it allow the user to open a discussion forum for dealing with the company or sharing with other user. 


I believe everyone can recognized this icon. yes, now we can see this icon almost every where,
in the bottom of the print ads, in the corner side of the flyer, did u hear that before in the radio ads or see in the TV ads? 


The best example- McDonald own a fan page in facebook as well.
Through facebook, they can always promoting the latest promotion, festival promotion.
sometime, they might provide the voucher and coupon for the McDonald's fans. 
This is really an interesting way to advertised.
Katerina Rudiger has argued in a report for the Work Foundation, "this shift to “intangibles” is underpinned by modern economic growth theory, which acknowledges the vital role thattechnological progress and knowledge play in generating long term growth."

Beside that, the company going to move on to new technology era, but there is another issues happened. The senior employees might not know how to function the high-technology, the used to the traditional method, the old employees got to learn new software and how to function the new technology. therefore a professional training is needed to teach them how to used it.


"There is some evidence that individuals are demanding work with a clearer purpose and meaning, and choosing employers with a higher moral standard. "
Now people are knowledgeable, no one like to work under peoples. As they know they are smart, they might behave certain personal attitudes. There are certain people work with very demanding, because they expect on certain area, for a good employee attitude is important. of course as a employer, if you want people to work with you, you must have a good manner with soft tone when speck to the employee. 


In conclusion, few years later they are more online purchase, as we know that now we can almost buy everything through online, in US they can even buy the groceries through online, especially during winter, to avoid the snow war and the breaking cold weather outside the room. how if everyone purchase everything online? what going to happen to road? no longer jam~ 






Bradwell, P., and Reeves, R. (2008) Economies. In Networked Citizens (pp. 25-31). London: Demos. [ URL:http://www.demos.co.uk/files/Network%20citizens%20-%20web.pdf ]

3 comments:

  1. The illustrations you showed is exactly the ones that we discussed in class!

    Indeed, now that the world is so advanced, the line of work and personal is getting blurred. You don't know when to be consider work when to consider personal. In fact, when you're taking bus, you're still on the way to the office. It's yet to be working time. But, now once you stepped on it, it's work already. Sometimes I really impressed with the technology. Like fighting for the time second by second. Never ends.

    And now that all business is up on Facebook as well, make people have more excuse to go on Facebook. I do think that, we are the ones that made ourselves so addicted to social networking sites.

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  2. Hi Siew Mun,

    I agree with your discussion that relates liquid labor with the lifestyle of students like us today. It has provided a clearer insight and it is definitely easier for me to understand.

    In my opinion, the blurring lines between personal and working lives has been mercilessly taking over our lives today. Even students like us work around the clock in order to catch up with classes and also our assessments. Personally, I feel that this kind of lifestyle is also engulfing our personalities senses in the same time, in which we are now aware that working = personal life and leisure time = more work. The technological development has indeed been taking advantage of our abilities to be constantly connected online and somehow, we know we are more capable to doing more things. The question now is - are we willing to indulge in our work even when we are suppose to relax ourselves?

    It is indeed hard to juggle between both lives. The technology that has invaded into our lives is making us losing our responsibility senses. Thus, we must constantly remind ourselves to be aware in managing our lives between personal and work :)

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  3. The faster you communicate, the more you obtain. That is basically what i got through this article, the current networking is growing and improving in a light speed and if we do manage to master the skill and knowledge in the communication world, the faster we can beat our competitor. As what Siew Mun has mentioned, we cant live without the internet. It provides all the information we need day by day.

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