The SCAS is a organization that is established in the 1957 to provide a different kind of education, services like rehabilitation, vocational training and employment that are gainful for both children and adults who are suffering from cerebral palsy.

Mission/Vision

The vision of the committee members is to be the main leading centre in the region to provide care and concern for people with cerebral palsy and allowing them to unleash their potential fully.

The mission  of the committee members is they believe in providing their clients with creative, professional and service with quality and support for them in areas such as early intervention, education, vocation and also to bring people of different race/ethnic groups into unrestricted and equal association.

Current Situations

Web Presence? Good?/bad?

When i had my first look on this website, i wanted to just get off the site quickly as the web itself is pretty boring and bland. Just because of this issue, it definitely will not attract potential clients.

Effective?Practical?

No. This is because everything is aligned to the top of the page which causes a lot of free space not being used. This space can actually be used to add in social media tools like twitter,face book or youtube but they did not. There is lack of updates also and information provided on the website is not a lot.

Website up to date?

No, from the website, the latest update was around the month of june 2009. This meant that the website is not up to date for nearly 1 year.

Any updates?

No

What is lacking?

Frequent updates the website often so as to keep visitors up to date with the latest information. There is also no social media tools used which i think they should have used.

Area for improvement?

They should update  more often and collaborate with other organization that are providing similar services.

Advantages of social media tools

With the use of social media tools, companies or organizations is able connect with their clients and build relationships and conversation with them.Companies/organizations are able to build trust with clients if they connect with them on both professional and personal level. Since social media tools is all about sharing information too so with those tools, clients is able to know the companies/organizations better and this benefit the a lot. It is also free to use social media tools and good for marketing an service online as they are able to scout out potential customers with merely a few clicks.

Basically to sum everything . The survey(http://mashable.com/2008/12/29/benefits-of-social-media-marketing/) below shows the main benefits of marketing using social medial tools.

The guest speaker is a free lancer and he talk about how different is it to work as a free lancer compared to working as an employee. As a free lancer, the person might not be able to complete projects for clients on time because of personal life .etc. He suggested that for people who are just starting and  should start as free lancer first.

He designed blog templates for a number of sites including Singapore most popular blogger, xiaxue who have more than 20,000+ hits to her blog daily and also Nuffnang, which is Asia Pacific’s first blog advertising community. He mentioned about how easy is it for almost anyone to create a website compared to last time.

When i heard about how much he can earn from designing blog skins and web hosting, i was quite stunned because the price is very steep and can cost few thousands.

The one thing he said that make me gain much respect for him is he do all things not purely for money and more towards what he love to do.

Having a guest speaker to speak to us during lecture is a good way for us to gain more knowledge and this prepares us when we are in the industry next time.

The Mission of the National Archives and records administration is to serve american democracy by protecting and preserving the records of the government so that people can discover, use, and also to learn from the documentary heritage

The National Archives is the nation’s record keeper. Only up to 3% of the documents and materials created during the process of business conducted by the United states Federal Government are very important for legal and historical reason that they are kept by the National Archives lifelong. The important records are preserved and are available for people, whether they would like to see if they contain any clues about their family’s history, need to prove a veteran’s military service or when researching on any historic topic that they are interested in.  The organization supports democracy, promote civic education, and facilitate historical understanding of the people’s national experience.

They used social media and  web 2.0 technologies such as online videos on the website to educate the visitors, twitter to update visitors with real time valuable information.

Not long after, blogs was even upgraded where people can add things such as widgets(applications), music player or even a chat-board on their blog so viewers can comment on their daily post or even chat with the blogger himself. This has made everything more convenient.

In the recent years, something called blog shop has been invented. A blog shop is a blog that contains the catalog  of the items that is available for sale. Now, people would be able to buy stuff online in blog shops. There is a fair share of supporters and haters for blog shop because even though customers can buy clothes that are imported from other countries, there might be some dishonest sellers which claims to sell authentic clothes from other countries when they are fake and and is even sold at a high price. However, more and more sellers tend to sell stuff such as contact lenses in the recent years but it was banned not long ago because of fake contact lens being sold online. For those customers that have bought those fake contact lenses, some have causes damage to their eyes and some even turned blind but still, some people chose to still buy contact lenses on blog shops because of the variety of choices.

Next, the recent trend of blog is having “freedom of speech” on blog. Those people write what they want , even to the extend of scolding people on their blog, using vulgarities but when asked, they said it’s their freedom of speech and this is their opinion so why can’t they say it out since its  their blog(online diary). Some people agree to this but the other group feels that their blogs are viewable for public so they have to be careful of what they write on their blog. Because of this “freedom of speech” on blogs, quite an amount of people have be sued because of what they write and some is because they wrote political stuff but ironically, isn’t this their blog where they express their feelings?

One recent case of online blog wars was between asia or shall i say, Singapore most popular blogger, xiaxue and another less famouse blogger dawn yang.

This is one of the blog post i saw on xiaxue’s blog (http://xiaxue.blogspot.com/2008/09/my-idol.html). This online “war” went on for several months and dawn yang even sued xiaxue for defaming her on her blog but it backfired and xiaxue won the case. The lawer’s letter can be viewed at http://xiaxue.blogspot.com/2008/07/lawyers-letter.html .

For xiaxue , she loves to  exercise “freedom of speech” because she feels that in a blog, she can say what she want and she doesn’t want to show a fake side of herself online as compared to real life .

Not just for xiaxue, alot of bloggers you see everyday have online “war” with other bloggers or their ex-friends. etc.

Thus, because of the invention of blog, it has led to a lot of problems although it makes writing a diary more convenient and easily accessible. People wanting to prove that they are the same when online and real life so they use “freedom of speech” on their blogs but of course, with a certain group of people disagreeing with that. Also, people being duped of the clothes they seen on blog shops believing its authentic and some even got scammed of their money and did not receive their items after sending out the money.

What i can conclude is that, for everything that is invented, there is both good and bad points and when there is supporters, there is bound to be haters so it affects differently for people in the society, some in a good way, some in a bad way.

Sources: http://xiaxue.blogspot.com/2008/07/lawyers-letter.html

Xiaxue’s blog :www.xiaxue.blogspot.com

http://www.web2weblog.com/50226711/blogs_vs_freedom_of_speech.php

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_348017.html

http://www.moh.gov.sg/mohcorp/mediaforums.aspx?id=21110

http://www.asiaone.com/Business/SME%2BCentral/eBiz%2BHub/Story/A1Story20090814-161136.html

Just turned 18 on august

Currently studying in poly IMI….

Love singing and edit my own recording

Here is one of my latest cover of a “song”

http://www.imeem.com/people/UL8wrb/music/BMvqT2KS/ktvmp3/#

Currently taking music lessons at bugis/ tpy every saturday

\\Always do nothing at weekends’ night//

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