Describe Internet communication channels, including social networking, forums, newsletters, blogs, podcasts, videos, webinars, mailing lists, chat rooms, instant messaging, and text messaging

Internet communication channel:

It is an application, a tool or a process used online on the internet to convey information from sender, or to a receiver, or a transmitter. Using a particular communication channel the information is transmitted to the receiver.

Social networking:

Social networking allows people to connect and communicate with friends, relatives and employees. Some of the popular social networking sites include Facebook, Twitter and Linkedln.

Forums:

A forum is an electronic version of bulletin board that addresses the subjects and areas of interests and offers online discussion for them. It is a great way of getting knowledge and experience and provides opinions from a large community. Yahoo! and Google allow to create new such groups and to join thousands of groups.

Newsletters:

Newsletters provide a way to keep the topics of interest up to date. There are many online groups and online magazines that provide free newsletters to their subscribers according to their area of interest.

Blogs:

Blogs are considered as online journals or web-based logs. Blogs are written by some experts on a topic that others can refer to. We can write our own blogs as well.

Podcasts:

Podcasts are the audio blogs which can be compared to different radio shows that we can listen anywhere and anytime.

Videos:

It is an electronic device used for recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media.