PCOM - FINALS

• Use of technology is the application of technology to further your cause is a challenging undertaking to begin with. Living in a digital climate requires us to become more sensitive to their uses to be able to stay on track.
• Use of technology should be knowledgeable of the many options available to convey messages that are presentable and engaging.
• PHOTOSTORY 3, MOVIE MAKER, IMOVIE Allows users to integrate images, narration and sound
• Animoto combines images, sound, and print
• Audacity lets you record, edit and mix narration and music
• Voicethread uses along with documents, snapshots, diagrams and videos
• Digital storytelling is the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling... using digital media to create media-rich stories to tell, to share, and to preserve. Digital stories derive their power through weaving images, music, narrative, and voice together, thereby giving deep dimension and vivid color to characters, situations, and insights.
• Digital stories

  1. Personal narratives
  2. Stories that examine historical events
  3. Stories that are primarily used to inform or instruct
• Communication is the creation or exchange of thoughts, ideas, emotions, between senders and receivers. It is essential in building and maintaining relationships in the workplace.
• Communication is an avenue for dissemination of information in order to be understood.
• Communication in the workplace transpires when there is transmission of information between one person and group of persons in an organization. Examples of this kind of communication are minutes, memo, requests, business/ technical/ incident reports, letters, emails, text messages, voicemails, notes, etc.
• Grapevine is an informal channel of business communication.
• It is Grapevine is called because it stretches throughout the communication in all directions irrespective of the authority levels. Despite existence of formal channels in an organization, the informal channels tend to develop when one interacts with other people in organization.
• Grapevine exists more at lower levels of organization.
• Minutes are written or recorded documentation that is used to inform attendees and non-attendees about what was discussed and what happened during a meeting.
• The meeting minutes are generally taken or recorded by a note taker/ minute taker during the meeting.
• ELEMENTS OF MEETING

  • Heading
  • Attendees
  • Approval of previous minutes
  • Action items
  • Announcement
• A meeting agenda is a road map meeting. It provides the plan for meeting and a sense of direction and purpose.
• Detailed Minutes provides a record of all information not necessarily word for word but a summary of the discussion and action on all agenda items.
• Verbatim Minutes are recorded information of exact words of participants during the assembly.
• Quorum refers to the required number of participants in a meeting.
• Caucus pertains to an informal assembly of small group that concerns decisions, policies and mainly preparation of agenda.
• The most widely used medium is electronic mail or e-mail.
• Communication via computers is a known fact most of us rely more on computer-mediated communication than that of the traditional way of transmitting information.
• KISS - Keep it short and simple
• The purpose of a memorandum is to inform, but it occasionally includes an element of persuasion or a call to action.
• Business Letter is a formal communication used by a company for internal or external purposes.
• A business letter is sometimes useful because it produces a permanent written record, and may be taken more seriously by the recipient than other forms of communication.
• Heading - There are 2 types of heading
• Modern heading (Letterhead) - used by the

  company
• Contemporary heading - used by individual
• Date - this is placed for the purpose of recording business events

  ex: July 2, 2009
• Modified block style

  
• Block style

  
• Semi block style