Hospice – Social Networking Sites

My part of the project was to research on social networking sites that can help create awareness of Hospice Care Association (HCA). During this research, I’ve found the top ten social networking sites and statistics for each site.

Figure taken from TopTenREVIEWS

From the figure above, it can be seen that the top 5 social networking sites are Hi5, Friendster, Bebo, MySpace and Facebook.

I’ve research on these top 5 sites and found out that Hi5 is only popular in United States, therefore, I did not compare Hi5 with the rest of the sites.

#4 Friendster

The figure above shows the number of people visiting Friendster daily.

Friendster is a social networking site that used to be popular in both Asia and the United States, but now, it is only popular in Southeast Asia.

However, the figure shows that from 2009 to 2010, the daily visits for Friendster have been decreasing. Therefore, Friendster will not be recommended to create awareness for Hospice.

#3 Bebo

The figure above shows the number of people visiting Bebo daily.

Bebo is a social networking site that is popular, however, most of it’s content are targeted towards the United States.

Looking at the figure, it can be seen that, like Friendster, the daily visits for Bebo is decreasing since before 2009. Therefore, Bebo will also not be recommended.

#2 MySpace

The figure above shows the number of people visiting MySpace daily.

MySpace is popular in both Asia and the United States. In the past, before Facebook was founded, MySpace was the top social networking site. However, in recent years, MySpace started losing to Facebook.

The figure above shows that the daily visits for MySpace is dropping as well, therefore it is also not recommended.

#1 Facebook

The figure above shows the number of people visiting Facebook daily.

Comparison

Unlike the first 3, Facebook is the only social networking site that has an increasing amount of daily visits, therefore it is the best social networking site to create awareness for Hospice.

Credits: Alexa and TopTenREVIEWS

HCA Hospice Care

Who are they?
HCA Hospice Care (HCA) is a registered charity that provides comfort
and support to patients with life-limiting illnesses and their families.

Vision
To be the centre of excellence for Hospice Home Care.

Mission
Ensure the best quality of life for the patients by delivering professional palliative care and providing compassionate support for their families.
Nurture the dedicated individuals who make our work possible and serve our community through continuing learning and development.

what do they do?
They take care of patients with life-limiting illnesses and their families and also they provide training and support for people who look after them.

What do they provide?
Provide nursing and medical care for patients
Provide medical prescriptions
Coaching families on how to care for them
Assisting patients and their families with the emotional and social aspects of coping with death, grief and loss.

What do they need?
More Donors

Week 11. Lecture – New Media Landscape

When I first saw the name Ripplewerkz, I felt that it was very familiar until the speaker, Lionel Chin, mentioned Xiaxue’s blog and Nuffnang.

Ripplewerkz is an all in one design house which offers high quality Web, Blog, Print, and Corporate ID development.

I had always thought that designing one website can only earn around $100~$200 depending on how hard the design is. But Lionel said that it is possible to earn around $1000~$10000 per design. I never knew that designing website could earn that much.

He also mentioned that in the past, only people who have the knowledge of html or css codes are able to create a website. However, now it is possible to create one without the knowledge as some hosting websites have a very simple interface.

Web 2.0 and the old Web. He said that Web 2.0 has many other widgets and applications that the old Web is unable to have. Like twitter, “I like it” button and photo of the moment in Xiaxue’s blog.

Someone asked whether would it be better to freelance right after graduation or get into an agency. Lionel replied that it would be good if we started freelancing currently when we are still in school as it would be better to get into an agency after we graduate.

When Lionel mentioned that he was in this job industry not for the money but for the work satisfaction when the client is happy with their work. That hit me as I used to design blogskins and I’m happy when people use my designs, even though I’m not getting paid.

Bringing a guest speaker to school to share their experience and tips is good as students will know what to expect in the working world.

Creating Awareness

Diabetic Society of Singapore (DSS) is a non-profit organisation affiliated to the International Diabetes Federation and the National Council of Social Service.

Their objectives are to provide services for people who have diabetes, people who are interested in diabetes and to promote and remove ignorance of diabetes.

In order to make people aware about diabetes, campaigns or advertisements may be used.

However, as most people use the computer, the best possible way to create awareness about diabetes is through the internet.

Advertising through the television will bring awareness to adults who watches the news daily, but it will not get to the teenagers.

Using the internet will bring awareness to not only teenagers, but everyone who surfs the internet.

Good websites to advertise are social networking websites like Facebook, MySpace, Youtube etc.

Twitter and blogger is also a good choice as it you can get people to read your message and ask them to spread the message around which will then reach to hundreds or thousands of people.

The internet is therefore the best way to create awareness.

National Archives of Singapore (NAS)

National Archives of Singapore (NAS) was formed in 1968 and used to be called the National Archives and Records Centre (NARC).

In the past, the NAS had different locations before moving into a permanent one, which is now located at 1 Canning Rise, where Anglo-Chinese Primary School used to be.

Who are the NAS?
The NAS keeps many old newpapers, documents, videos and books that holds history to Singapore.

What do they do?

Archives Services – the NAS preserves national records and historical significance which includes records of citizenship rights and allows public to access them.

Archives Conservation Laboratory – paper documents which are teared or suffers from insect and fungi infestation will be preserved.

Records Management Services – preservation of important public records and management for civil service.

Image Preservation Laboratory – images from books and papers are scanned into the computer and placed onto microfilm and digital media.

Audio-Visual Archives and Exhibition – videos and sounds of the heritage of Singapore is captured and preserved.

Oral History Centre – influential people and people who have a role in Singaporr’s history are interviewed and recorded.

What type of services they provide?

Records Management and Preservation – important records are scanned and placed onto microfilms to preserved them in climate-controlled conditions.

Providing Access – the public is able to access NAS collections for reserach and understanding Singapore’s history.

Sharing Knowledge – NAS have regular seminars on archival resources, records management and oral history methodology.

Archives Conservation Services – conservation services are provided for paper records such as anoxic treatment, deacidification, leafcasting, mechanical cleaning, manual repair, tissue mounting, encapsulation and rare binding.

2) Do they use any Social Media & Web 2.0 technologies for public communication & education?
They use A20 to allow the public to access their collections.
ww.a2o.com.sg.

Literature Review

For my literature review, I have chosen the article “Hunt for Black Friday Deals from Your iPhone” written by Barb Dybwad 4th of November 2009.

Black Friday is a term, use in United States, for a mass Christmas shopping on Friday after Thanksgiving.

This article is about surfing through shops and sales just by using the iPhone. The iPhone consist an application that shows users advertisements, both public and private.

According to the article, users are allowed to see details or even make purchases and they can even save their shopping list.

This application is convenient and user-friendly as users do not need to go down to the shopping malls or squeeze through huge crowds to get items for Christmas and other celebrations.

From this article, it can be seen that handphones are used for almost everything now. Handphones are capable for taking photos or videos, listening to music, surfing the net, checking information and even sending messages.

In the beginning, handphones were only able to receive and dial calls. In 1991, where SMS (Short Message Service) started. The multimedia content, ringtones, internet, GPS, Bluetooth and others was then added.

As time pass, handphones have evolved to a stage where everything that’s needed can be found within it causing people are over reliant on the handphone.

resources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones

http://gadgets.softpedia.com/news/History-of-Mobile-Phones-3578-01.html

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