Chapter 7:

For this chapter I thought it would be useful to highlight the informational goals.

1) To Persuade

2) To Entertain

3) To Enable Transactions

4) To Create A Sense of Community

5) To Inform

6) To Teach

I also liked the concluding paragraph where the text book says, "By clearly defining your user and goals, you can then use the most effective techniques to achieve those goals." So before writing my informational proposal I am determined to know the exact users and goals the site is meant to achieve. By doing this I hope to be more successful in the project.

Chapter 4:

This was a very interesting chapter. As a writer it's easy to get caught up in your own work. When working on a multimedia project, you will often, if not always, have a team to work with. Reading this chapter gives great insight into the exact members of the team, who they will be, and what their jobs will entail. There are many possible production team members, which means that working collaboratively is going to be a necessary skill in the world of multimedia writing.

Chapter 1:

Thinking interactively and knowing the user were key points in this chapter that I found interesting. Thinking interactively referred to the different mindset one has to have in working with multimedia. There is not one option. As a writer or designer you have to be open to the many options that your user may have, which then plays into knowing the user well. If you are well acquainted with the user of the product, you will then be successful in creating options, giving information, and making a product that will be valuable to them.

Digital Autobiography

I first learned to use the computer in elementary school. I attended school at one of the better public schools in the Alpine  School Distric in Orem, Utah. The school had an incredible computer lab, with close to 50 Apple computers, where we were required to take keyboarding starting in the 4th grade. The best part of the class was playing Oregon Trail once we had finished our keyboarding assignments.

It wasn't until high school that I started using the internet. Remember dial up through AOL? I took one class in high school where we used the internet on a fairly regular basis. I also got my first email address in high school, athought I didn't really  use it until I started college.

Social networking started for me after I had been married about 3.5 years, and had a new baby at home. I had more time on my hands to explore all that the internet had to offer. I started a myspace account first, and in 2007 I started a Facebook account and rarely, if ever, log on to myspace.

The internet and the ability to get online support has changed everything. That point is being made as I currently sit at a computer desk, writing a blog post on the internet as my first assignment.