Assignment:

1. Your posting should be a minimum of 150 words, fully describing your website.
2. Include a leading photo with your story that is linked to the actual site. See below, demonstrated in class.  All graphics are available at: http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0
3. Include a source hyperlink to the actual website at the end of the story. See below, demonstrated in class.
4. Add HW3 as a tag.
   

In Monday's class, be prepared to orally discuss your topic and share the significance of this concept with the rest of the class. We will be audio recording your comments.  Each person needs to speak for a minimum of 2 minutes and a maximum of three minutes. The resulting audio podcast will be incorporated into your blog as part of HW4.

My example in Ning: Google Docs & Spreadsheets

Actual code used in my posting:

<p><a href="http://docs.google.com"><img style="float:left;" src="http://www.seomoz.org/user_files/web20/logos/763.jpg"/></a>Google Docs & Spreadsheets is a free web-based word processing and spreadsheet program. It allows users to create and edit documents and spreadsheets online while collaborating in real-time with other users. You also control who has permission to view your documents/files. Once you are finished editing a document, it can be saved to your computer in various formats, including MS Word and HTML. It can also be published to the Internet with a web address that others can access.</p>

<p><a href="http://hcs.osu.edu/virtual/podcast/trhodus.mp3">Hear this</a> - - Not required in HW3.  This will be part of HW4</p>

<p>Google Docs requires you to register with Google. It is not complicated and can be used with other Google services. Google Docs has some useful editing tools like spell checking, image inserting, hyperlinking, bolding, indenting, ordered and unordered lists, plus left, right and full justification.</p>

<p>Google Docs is a great idea for getting people together quickly and working on a shared writing assignment. Things like homework reports, qroup reports, project proposals, or even news stories can get done quicker and easier when everyone involved is allowed to edit the paper directly on Google and do not have to send email attachments back and forth.</p>

<p><a href="http://docs.google.com"><strong>Google Docs</strong></a> started out as Writely, an individual web-based word processor. It was created by the software company Upstartle. In early 2006, Google acquired Upstartle. Google announced Spreadsheets on June 6, 2006, and initially made it available to only a limited number of users. The limited test was then lifted, and replaced with a beta version available to all Google Account holders. Google Docs & Spredsheets is part of the Collaborative Writing & Word Processing category of Web 2.0 award winning websites.</p>

<p><a href="http://hcs.osu.edu/podcasts/display.qtl?id=178">Guided tour of Google Docs & Spreadsheets</a>  - Not required in HW3.  This will also be part of HW5.</p>

<p>Source: <a href="http://docs.google.com">Google Docs & Spreadsheets</a></p>