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Web 2.0 Tool (Venmo)

Venmo is a peer-to-peer payment system. It lets you send money to friends and family so that you don't have to deal with cash, but it also provides a social layer. For example, you can see your contact's public transaction history. Users are able to share what they spent their money on and even add emoji’s to their posts. You can then interact with their posts by liking or commenting on them. You can use Venmo to pay anyone in the US, whether or not they have Venmo, but they will need to join Venmo to claim a payment. Venmo is a super engaging and fun tool. You can get a sense of what your contacts have been up to and what they tend to do together. For instance, you might see when a friend split a lunch bill, paid half of a cab fare, or sent money to a roommate for rent. You can even remind a contact to send you money by specifically requesting it from him or her, which is handy. To create a Venmo account,  you must sign up using your email or by connecting it to your Fac...

Social Media Etiquette

https://voicethread.com/share/10726052/ Ethics, by definition, is the concept of what is good, bad, right and wrong. In social media, the right ethic equals the right perspective and the right thinking on how to leverage social media appropriately and how to engage people in the right manner. Etiquette is a code of behavior within the context of our society. In social media, the right etiquette equals acting the right way. There definitely is a right way and a wrong way to use social media.  On October 3 rd , 2016, Kim Kardashian-West was held at gunpoint in her Paris apartment and robbed of nearly $10,000,000 worth of jewelry. After handcuffing the porter, the robbers made their way up to Kim’s room, where she was sleeping. The robbers, dressed as police, entered her luxury apartment at around 2:30am. They held a gun at the reality TV star, tied her up with plastic cables, and locked her in the bathroom. They proceeded to steal two diamond Cartier bracelets, a gold and diam...

Storytelling

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Chapter 7: Sustaining the Momentum

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Chapter 7, “Sustaining the Momentum,” discusses appreciative inquiry, action research, scaling up, and assessment and evaluation. Appreciative inquiry is “a valuable approach to sustaining learning and change in communities and networks” (Nussbaum-Beach, 110). In other words,  appreciative inquiry  is a change management approach that focuses on identifying what is working well, analyzing why it is working well, and then doing more of it. The 4-D model is one of the many appreciative frameworks that exist. This model contains four steps: discover, dream, design, and destiny. During “discover,” people share stories with one another that illustrate when they feel the group or community is at its best. During “dream,” the entire community envisions the future as if the high points members found in discover are not extraordinary but everyday occurrences. During “design,” the community creates a design for the organization based on the ream stage. Lastly, during “destiny,” the c...