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Unit 14: Web Portal

Virtual Seminar Notes

A seminar delivered online with a live instructor. The instructor and attendees communicate with
each other as if they were in the same room. Also called a “Webinar,” virtual seminars tend to be
replicas of classroom workshops, whereas the Webinar is often a short presentation with limited
participation. A workshop or lecture delivered over the Web. Webinars may be a one-way Webcast,
or there may be interaction between the audience and the presenters

Task State your views how audio video conferencing acts as a tool in communication.
Self Assessment

State whether the following statements are true or false:
8. A bulletin Board System or BBs, is a computer system running software that allows users to
connect and log in to the system that allows users to connect and log in to the system using
a total programmer.
9. Ward Christensen coined the term a Bulletin Board system as a reference to the traditional
core-and-pin bulletin board.
10. Amiga program skyline BBs web the first in 1987 featuring a script mark up language
communications protocol called sky pix.
11. In 1979 a computer based bulletin board software released into the public domain by
word Christensen.
12. Whiteboard programs allow multiple participants to share diagrams and text via com-
puters.

14.7 Summary
A web portal or links page is a web site that functions as a point of access to information on
the World Wide Web.
A vertical information portal (VIP) is a specialized entry point to a specific marketplace
and or industry niche.
A personal portal is a site on the World Wide Web that typically provides personalized
capabilities to its visitors, providing a pathway to other content.
The traditional media rooms all around the world are fast adapting to the new age tech-
nologies.
Stock Market portals or stock exchange portals are Web-based applications that facilitates
the process of informing the share-holders with substantial online data such as the latest
price, ask/bids, the latest News, reports and announcements.
Electronic journals, also known as e-journals, e-journals, and electronic serials, are schol-
arly journals or intellectual magazines that can be accessed via electronic transmission.
Listwashing is the process through which individual entries in mailing lists are removed.

14.8 Keywords
Collaboration : Collaboration is working together to achieve a goal. It is a recursive process
where two or more people or organizations work together to realize shared
goals.
Web Portal : A web portal or links page is a web site that functions as a point of access to
information in the World Wide Web. A portal presents information from
diverse sources in a unified way.

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