English 421Y: Technical Writing Online

My third research blog summarizes the information found at http://www.heatpumpcentre.org/. The site operates under the International Energy Agency and also claimed to be the world’s leading information center on heat pumps. Their goal is to speed up the use of heat pumps and related technologies. Again there could be some biased information on the site being that their goal is to promote the use of heat pumps, we will have to make sure to take only the relevant information from this source.

This document summarizes the information found at http://www.gshp.org.uk/index.htm. This is the website for the Ground Source Heat Pump Association. One of their principle aims is to represent the Ground Source Heating and Cooling Industry. The information found on this site will more than likely be accurate, but we must pay attention to any biases that we come across. We want to include much of the same information, but leave the reader completely open to make their own decision.

This document summarized the information found at http://www.geo4va.vt.edu/A2/A2.htm. This site is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s State Energy Program through the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals, and Energy.

I think this site is going to be incredibly valuable for researching heat pumps for our white paper project. The information on this website can more than likely be considered credible since it is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.

For my third research blog, I again wanted to look specifically at web browser features that companies would want and need. The place that I found information was the Univeristy of Washington who did a study to find out what the browser needs of researchers were:
http://uwnews.org/uweek/article.aspx?id=47237

While searching through these more websites I wanted to find more information comparing the Iphone and the G1, the android. I found a couple good sources that are also video feeds of direct comparison without being bias.
The websites that I found through searching on Google and using “compare IPhone + G1” are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM02qv3Jr-A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSuOmU6HdpI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8XoFdHkx7U&feature=related

The second source that I found to offer a lot of information was:
http://humanresources.about.com/od/hristechnology/a/assess_needs.htm

When I began my research, I decided to look at all three of the web browsers from a general viewpoint, to try and find their key differences and similarities. The following web-site helped the most:
http://hubpages.com/hub/What-is-the-best-browser

In this blog, I wanted to look specifically at the firewall features for a router. The routers we’re comparing support several different kinds of firewall features, so I wanted to be sure we had information on the differences of each of them for the introduction.

• Network Address Translation (NAT)

For my third research blog I decided to look to see what was wrong with using SharePoint. All programs have their flaws and I am certain this one is no exception. By reviewing the flaws we can be prepared for a couple of things. For one, we can review them to make sure that they are credible complaints and not something someone said to bring the image of Microsoft down. The second is that if they are creditable there might have been an update to the program in case someone asks.

For my second research blog I had found more information about SharePoint. The Microsoft Office website has a lot of demo videos for users to browse through to help them with any trouble they might have. This would definitely help train employees as well as get a feel on how to use Microsoft SharePoint. I watched a few of the “getting started” videos and felt that they were helpful. The voice in the video sounded nice to the ear as well as helpful. He talked slowly so that the actions on screen could match up with the user at home trying to duplicate the results.