Social Connection Strategies For The 21st Century Classroom

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Social Connection Strategies For The 21st Century
Classroom

• Keys, Locks, Deadbolts Social Bookmarking and
  Networking

Howie DiBlasi Emerging Technologies Evangelist
Digital Journey howie_at_frontier.net www.toolsforth
eclassroom.com Presentation 2009
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There's something going on here that's hard to
explain.Bob Dylan Quote .. on a visit to
Israel in the early 1970s
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What is Social Networking ?
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• What Can Social Networking Do For Me?
• What Can Social Bookmarking Do For Me?
• What is Social Media?

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American teenagers today are utilizing the
interactive capabilities of the Internet as they
create and share their own media creations.
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What was Web 1.0 ?
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What Makes a Web 2.0 Application?
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Web 2.0 What Is It Really?

• Web 2.0 is about connections
• The Web 2.0 revolution puts people first
• Web 2.0 is about allowing people to manipulate
  data, not just retrieve data
• Web 2.0 is about doing stuff on the Web that
  can't done in any other medium
• Students as content creators

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Rich User Experience

• Easy to use
• Build social networks
• Rich user interface
• Functions like a traditional application
• User created data and owns their own data
• Providing a service, not a product
• Encourage user contribution (reviews, comments)
• Make it easy to re-use and re-mix
• Customer self-service Community and sense of
  ownership

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• What Can Social Networking Do For Me?

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• A social network service focuses on building
  online communities of people who share interests
  and/or activities, or who are interested in
  exploring the interests and activities of others.
  Most social network services are web based and
  provide a variety of ways for users to interact,
  such as e-mail and instant messaging services.

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• Chris Hughes, today only 25 years old, helped
  create two of the most successful startups in
  modern history, Facebook and the Barack Obama
  campaign.

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Jon Favreau, 26, head speech writer for US
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
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SOCIAL NETWORKING 

• Imbee
• Sudent Social Site (Imbee) www.imbee.com

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Imbee http//www.imbee.com/
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http//clubpenguin.com/
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http//www.gottaquirk.com/2007/04/18/social-networ
king-kids
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• SOCIAL NETWORKING
• Ning - This is definitely one to watch.
  http//toolsfortheclassroom.ning.com/
•  
• Imbee imbee is the first social network for
  young people.
• (Imbee) www.imbee.com

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http//www.classroom20.com/
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All Members (20,305)

• Classroom 2.0 - This is where most of my
  networking beyond my regional area started for
  me. I joined this Ning network early this year
  and found that the sharing created richer
  opportunities to find out what was happening in
  our Read/Write Web. http//www.classroom20.com/

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Steve Hargadon steve_at_hargadon.com
www.stevehargadon.com

• Tomorrow, Tuesday night (March 24th), at 5pm
  Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12midnight GMT, I'll be
  hosting a panel discussion on "Open Source
  Software in Education." We'll look at the current
  state and the future potential for Open Source to
  make a difference in educational environment. Log
  in by either visiting the page above or directly
  in Elluminate at https//sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp
  ?passwordM.C3F01072603D2A369829632EF6905D

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http//iconnectilearn.ning.com/
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• The focus of iConnect iLearn is to enhance the
  relationships while sharing of resources and
  expertise.
• Goal of iConnect iLearn is to expand the
  framework to continually collaborate, network,
  learn, and share throughout the year.
• iConnect - iLearn will build and expand the
  structure for collaborative planning and delivery
  of educational opportunities to meet the diverse
  needs of the charters throughout the state.
• iConnect - iLearn is to be participant-driven.
  Participants are allowed to choose topics of
  interest and take control of their own learning
  and the connections being forged with other
  participants.

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http//podstock.ning.com/
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This network is for educators who are interested
in educational podcasting and transforming
learning with technology!

• http//podstock.ning.com/video/the-revolutionary-w
  ar-newscast

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http//podstock.ning.com/video/the-revolutionary-w
ar-newscast
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Yack Pack

• Internet-based voice communication tool that
  works a lot like voicemail for the Web. Users
  define a "pack"--a group of individuals they want
  to communicate with--and then record messages for
  the group, an individual, or even a subset within
  the group using a standard computer microphone.
  When members of the pack log in, they can listen
  and respond to the messages.

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Curriki

• a community of educators, learners and committed
  education experts who are working together to
  create quality materials that will benefit
  teachers and students around the world. An online
  environment with free distribution of world-class
  educational materials http//www.curriki.org/xwik
  i/bin/view/Main/ Lesson plans, teaching
  activities, works

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• Welcome to Classroom20.com, the social network
  for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative
  technologies in education.We especially hope
  that those who are "beginners" will find this a
  supportive community and a comfortable place to
  start being part of the digital dialog.

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http//globalambassadorsinteract.ning.com/

• Hello INTERACT Ambassadors!I am excited to
  begin our new online social network. Please use
  this site for all of our communications. Your
  ideas and imagination should make this site be
  and do everything we all want it to. As soon as
  this site is complete we will add new ambassadors
  in India ,Canada and Mexico.Let's all get into
  good habits. Be responsible, respectful and
  mindful that many people will be reading and
  looking at what you publish. Edit what you post
  and think about what you are putting out there in
  public! Choose your screen name wisely as it
  directly reflects who you are and how you will be
  representing yourself to your peers locally and
  around the world.I want you all to know that I
  am sincerely honored to be working with such a
  passionate and talented group of young people. I
  can't wait to see what we all do together!!Ms
  Kennedy

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http//globaleducation.ning.com/
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Global Ambassadors
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Video Clip herehttp//www.quantumshift.tv/v/120
2258478/

• Student leaders at Eastview Middle School in
  White Plains, New York demonstrate the power of
  communities in action both locally and globally. 
  Students use a host of technologies to
  collaborate,communicate and become active global
  citizens. The Global Run, now in it's third pilot
  year, demonstrates the power of global
  communities in action as they learn together
  about global issues.

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The Teachers Life Nation
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• Hi Howie,I'm a founder cum chairperson of a
  school. I run this school for poor family
  children. It lies in Bhaktapur Nepal, land of mt.
  Everest.Shantideep Adarsh Vidhyasadan is one of
  the English Medium Schools established in 1998
  with 13 students in a backwarded countryside of
  Bhaktapur district of Nepal. The name of the
  village is Bageshwori (altitude approx. 1500
  metre). It lies in the eastern part of Bhaktapur
  district. It was established when the parents
  were not so aware of their children's education.
  We (school Management) had to struggle a lot to
  achieve the sympathy of the parents / villagers.
  They weren't convinced in the very beginning and
  didn't send their children to this school
  thinking that we can't run the school
  continuously for the long run. As a founder
  director, I tried my best to build up and uplift
  the situation of the school. By the end of that
  year, we were able to impress them showing the
  out put of our teaching techniques and
  methodologies. As a result the number of students
  reached 78 in the beginning of the second year.
  The number of students has been increasing
  gradually. Now we have 137 students. But we can't
  enroll all the new comers due to the
  infrastructural and financial problems. We hope
  we can fulfill the need and desire of our
  parents/ villagers (target groups) if your
  contribution on the infrastructural or/and
  academic sectors can be entertained.Hope you
  like to share your ideas for making school better
  and facilitating school children. Hope u'll add a
  brick in the process of bringing school age
  children to school and check drop out.If you
  like to chat with me and get more information u
  can get my skype address govinda.prasad.panthyhop
  e u like helping poor family children.

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Retailer Best Buy internal social network gives
employees voice and management insights

• Retailer Best Buy internal social network gives
  employees voice and management insights
• http//www.providentpartners.net/html/podcast/2008
  0129_blue_shirt.mp3
• Gary Koelling and Steve Bendt were Best Buy
  advertising guys in search of better information
  about the customer experience. Their first stop
  was the blue shirt sales associates on the floor
  of Best Buy stores who interact with customers
  everyday.

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Blue Shirt Nation

• Blue Shirt Nation is the online social network of
  25,000 Best Buy employees that gather around the
  cyber water cooler. Every time I visit Best Buy
  HQ there are several new powerful
  internet-enabled initiatives to build communities
  and generate value. In the future Best Buy won't
  just be an electronics retailer. It will be a
  company that enables people to self-organize and
  co-innovate value.

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What happened April 8, 205 pm

• 200 million users of Facebook.
• More than population of Japan
• More than population of Brazil

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What is Facebook ?

• Facebook helps you connect and share with the
  people in your life.

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Comscore Facebook Hit 220 Million Worldwide
Uniques in DecemberJanuary 23rd ,2009 - Report
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• Most of Facebooks user growth, however, has been
  in international markets - Facebook has 36
  million monthly uniques, up from 23 million a
  year ago.
• Facebook added 75 million monthly uniques over
  the last twelve month, but just 13 million of
  those visitors are located in the U.S. MySpace
  added 5 million U.S. uniques during that period -
  at this rate it will take 4 years for Facebook
  to catch up to MySpace in the U.S. market.

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LinkedIn strengthens and extends your existing
network of trusted contacts. LinkedIn is a
networking tool that helps you discover inside
connections to ...

• Over 35 million professionals use LinkedIn to
  exchange information, ideas and opportunities

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The Global Education Collaborative

• http//globaleducation.ning.com/
• This is a community for teachers and students
  interested in global education. Contribute by
  adding media, conversation, and collaborative
  project ideas. Make sure you post an intro in the
  forum!

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We hail from....
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• A message to all members of The Global Education
  Collaborative Our second meeting this weekend is
  starting now for those in other time zones. (10
  AM CST GMT-6) http//fm.ea-tel.eu/fm/11e392-16043
  For a replay of yesterday's meeting, go to
  http//fm.ea-tel.eu/fm/ef9e68-16042 . Next month,
  we are going to focus our meetings on using video
  conferencing and chat! Thanks, Lucy Visit The
  Global Education Collaborative at
  http//globaleducation.ning.com

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Twitter

• What is it ?????

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• Today, I thought I'd follow up by sharing the
  sweet, funny, interesting results of a Twitter
  experiment. It's
• Conference in Las Vegas. The topic was Web 2.0,
  with all of its free-speech, global-collaboration
  ramifications.
• So I flipped out of PowerPoint and typed this to
  my Twitter followers "I need a cure for
  hiccups... RIGHT NOW! Help?"

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I hit Enter. I told the audience that we would
start getting replies in 15 seconds, but it
didn't even take that long

• florian Put a cold spoon on your back \
• pvd Put your head between your knees and swallow
  hard.
• bethbellor Packets of sugar.
• michaeljoel drop a lit match in a glass of
  water to extinguish it. take out match. drink
  water.
• rgalloway Have someone slowly softly count
  backwards from 10-1 in Russian for you. Works
  every time!
• erlingmork Peanut butter on a spoon.
• squealingrat With a popsicle stick or something
  clean, touch the little thing at the back of your
  throat. This causes the muscles to change.
• JuanluR eat a full spoon of crushed ice.
• tiffanyanderson Rub both of your ear lobes at
  the same time. Hiccups will go away.
• DyingSun That is an amazing example of the
  power of Twitter! I wonder what was the crowd's
  reaction to that.
• Good questions, dear Twitterers. And now you have
  the answers.

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Social Bookmarking in the classroom?!

• What is it?

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List of social bookmarking sites

• http//www.kaboodle.com/
• http//www.reddit.com/
• http//www.mixx.com/
• http//www.propeller.com/
• http//www.fark.com/

• http//www.digg.com/
• http//buzz.yahoo.com/
• http//www.technorati.com/
• http//www.stumbleupon.com/
• http//del.icio.us/

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20 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites  Posted
03/01/2009  eBizMBA

• 1 digg.comCompete Monthly Visitors
  12,200,000
• 2 Yahoo! BuzzCompete Monthly Visitors
  4,000,000
• 3 Technorati.comCompete Monthly Visitors
  2,300,000
• 4 StumbleUpon.comCompete Monthly Visitors
  978,000
• 5 del.icio.usCompete Monthly Visitors
  325,000 -
• 6 kaboodle.comCompete Monthly Visitors
  3,400,000
• 7 reddit.comCompete Monthly Visitors
  2,100,000
• 9 Propeller.comCompete Monthly Visitors
  773,000
• 10 Fark.comCompete Monthly Visitors
  1,300,000
• 11 newsvine.comCompete Monthly Visitors
  768,000 -

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Social Bookmarking 101http//newtools.pbwiki.com/
SocialBookmarking101David S. Jakes, Community
High School District 99Downers Grove, IL  60516
dave_at_jakesonline.org

• I use del.icio.us and furl.net extensively.  The
  most important use of these tools for me is that
  I can build an online personal library related to
  my interests, that I can call upon when I need
  access to information.  That information, because
  it is located and organized into these two
  onlines sites, follows me-wherever I have a
  connection to the Web, I can connect to my
  personal information resources.  With the
  proliferation in handheld devices, this access is
  never more easy.

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What Social Bookmarking Does for Students

• When teachers have a collection of course sites
  as part of a social bookmark group
• Gives students a live link to select instead of
  fumbling through typing a long URL into the
  address bar.
• Lets students choose from a variety of acceptable
  links, making for productive research that still
  allows for variability.

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Lesson Plans Ideashttp//wiki.classroom20.com/S
ocialBookmarksLessonPlans

• Social Bookmarks Lesson Plans
• Submitted by Sue R., aka "Bookwyrmish"Level
  Intermediate or Middle School (depending on
  student experience).ObjectivesStudents will
  apply technology tools and peripherals to support
  personal productivity, group collaboration, and
  learning throughout the curriculum. Students
  will select and use appropriate tools and
  technology resources to accomplish a variety of
  tasks and solve problemsMaterials Internet
  access, a browser with del.icio.us plugin
  installed, a group del.icio.us account and group
  password, a research problem.

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Whats Next for Social Bookmarking?

• Social bookmarkingsharing lists of Web finds
  online to be accessed from anywhere, by
  anyonehas been a great tool for librarians to
  gather, organize, and disseminate the best of the
  Net. Though an improvement over storing such
  files on a computer, bookmarks stored online are
  still a digitized version of the classic print
  index or directory. Like so many reference tools,
  they are great for librarian use, but dont
  always work so well for our patrons or students.
  There is, however, a new breed of tools emerging
  that can provide a better end-user experience.

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Del.icio.us

• Del.icio.us - This social bookmarking engine
  serves a very basic function (online
  bookmarking), but it connects people to websites

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Webnoteshttps//www.webnotes.net/Register/BasicRe
gistration.aspx?inviteCodeslj

• http//www.webnotes.net/
• This tool feels like it was custom designed for
  use by librarians with support for Web clipping
  text, organizing clips into folders, and
  publishing HTML or PDF reports of clips and
  notes. The tool works best through a lightweight
  toolbar that installs on either Firefox or
  Internet Explorer browsers. For schools that
  cannot download, an available bookmarklet
  provides full functionality with no installation
  required. The full toolbar adds additional tools
  such as a sidebar explorer that lets you quickly
  review saved annotations or place new research
  into folders. Reports are generated from the
  contents of one or more folders, so it would be
  best to create a new folder for each new question
  or project for easy publication. WebNotes is
  designed for research, and as such focuses on
  organizing text from sites. It does not offer
  clipping of images at this time.

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For image clipping along with text, there are
other options such as the popular and powerful
Evernote or the newer Thumbtack from Microsoft.
Both of these sites are built around a page
layout onto which clips of text and/or images are
placed a feature that is certainly slick, but
also more confusing than the simple WebNotes
interface. Evernote and Thumbtack publish
collections of clips to a site, but only Evernote
has a printable format like WebNotes.
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StumbleUpon http//www.stumbleupon.com/

• StumbleUpon helps you discover great websites
• Whether it's a web page, photo or video, our
  personalized recommendation engine learns what
  you like, and brings you more.

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Recommended Sites from 7,327,087 members
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e-Pals Projects

• ePals The home for meaningful learning through
  global collaboration
• Safe and Protected E-mailSecure,
• Award Winning Blogging
• TechnologyConnections with other classrooms
• Collaborative Projects Language Practice
• Robust Tools and Learning Resources for Schools
  and Districts

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Classroom Matchhttp//www.epals.com/about/tour/cl
assroommatch.tpl
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e-Pals Language and Learning Portal
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• You can find a classroom in several ways
• Find a classroom by searching on a topic or
  interest.
• Find a classroom using maps.
• See all the new classrooms that have joined
  ePals.
• There are many more options in our advanced
  search
• When you find a match, click the "Contact" link.

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E-mail from a teacher

• Howie,
• Thank you for keeping in touch. I have to share
  one thing that I have done this week. Out of all
  of the suggestions you shared last week I was
  most intrigued with the ePals program.  I
  immediately registered and posted a profile. I
  literally got goosebumps when I sent my first
  international email-----which was to Greece. Over
  the last few days I have heard back from schools
  in Japan, Germany, and Colombia.  I cannot even
  begin to tell you how excited my students are
  about this project! Thank you for telling me
  about it.  I will share more projects as we go.
  Beth Still

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Exploring Social Media Social Media Tools
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Definition

• Social media are works of user-created video,
  audio, text or multimedia that are published and
  shared in a social environment, such as a blog,
  wiki or video hosting site.www.capilanou.ca/help/
  active-cms/glossary.html

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Voice Thread
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http//voicethread.com/q.b45226.i236813
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• 2) Bloglines - This is my aggregator of choice
  still, despite trying many others. While Google
  Reader may be newer and shinier, its still
  missing one feature that I deem to be important
  in the world of Web 2.0, and thats the ability
  to connect people together. With Bloglines, you
  can see who else has subscribed to a blog you are
  a fan of, and follow the trail along to see what
  they read as well. I find it invaluable to be
  able to see what people like Will Richardson and
  Bernie Dodge are reading, which really sets
  Bloglines apart.

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Pageflakes http//www.pageflakes.com/
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why animoto?
MyJugaad.in
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Memories On the Web
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Top 5 Social Media Tools

• The meme is what are your top 5 social media
  tools? Im assuming that this really refers to
  any social software.
• In order of importance/frequency of use
• Facebook
• Newsgator
• Wordpress
• Meebo
• Flickr

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