SOCIAL NETWORKING

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SOCIAL NETWORKING
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Social Networking - Definition

• Social networking via the WWW enables
• people to create a network of connections to
  other individuals. This can be done through
  individual Web pages, blogs, or Internet
  communities

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Personal Web Page

• How many of you have a personal
• Web page and/or site?

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Personal Web Page

• An initial step in publishing online
• Personal expertise
• Create at your own pace edit as you wish
• More control you choose interaction
• More control you set the parameters
• Its YOURS!

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Blogs

• How many of you have a blog?

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Blogs

• A popular means of communication, a blog (or
  weblog) is a website in which items are posted
  and displayed with the newest at the top.
• Affecting public opinion and mass media around
  the world
• Many blogs are individual thoughts and/or
  reactions to issues, events, experiences

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Blog Creation

• Creating
• Blogger
• https//www.blogger.com/start
• Blog.com
• http//blog.com/
• Clear Blogs
• http//clearblogs.com/

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Blog Creation

• A blog entry typically consists of the following
• Title - main title, or headline, of the post.
• Body - main content of the post.
• Comments - comments added by readers
• Permalink - the URL of the full, individual
  article.
• Post Date - date and time the post was published.
  
• A blog entry optionally includes the following
• Categories (or tags) - subjects that the entry
  discusses
• Trackback - links to other sites that refer to
  the entry

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Blog Retrieval

• Retrieval
• Technorati
• http//technorati.com/
• Google Blog Finder
• Top Site on Technorati Huffington Post

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Blogosphere

• Blogosphere is the collective term encompassing
  all weblogs or blogs as a community or social
  network.
• Many weblogs are densely interconnected bloggers
  read others' blogs, link to them, reference them
  in their own writing, and post comments on each
  others' blogs.
• This interconnection of blogs has grown into a
  culture of its own.

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Microblogging

• Numbers of microbloggers???

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Microblogging

• A form of blogging that lets you write brief text
  updatesabout your life on the go and send them
  to friends and interested observers via text
  messaging, instant messaging (IM) email or the
  web.

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Microblogging

• Maximum of 140 characters per post
• Updated frequently, multiple times per day
• Items too insignificant for an essay (blog) or
  e-mail(direct communication)

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Microblogging

• Information providers
• Friends with
• status updates
• chatter and conversations
• share information
• link to interesting web links
• Report news

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Microblogging

• Organizational uses
• Mobile learning
• Sharing conference presentations
• Collaboration
• Team updates
• Troubleshooting
• Marketing and promotion

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Microblogging

• Sites
• Twitter http//www.twitter.com
• Jaiku http//www.jaiku.com
• Plurk http//www.plurk.com/

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Wikis

• DO YOU?

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Wikis

• A type of website that allows anyone visiting the
  site to add, remove, or otherwise edit all
  content, very quickly and easily.
• However, this depends on the restrictions set by
  the owner.
• A collaborative tool.

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Wikis

• MOST FAMOUS
• OF ALL?

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Wikis - Creation

• Like blog services easy to create
• Media Wiki created for Wikipedia
• http//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
• PBWorks
• http//pbworks.com/
• TiddlyWiki
• http//www.tiddlywiki.com/

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Social Networking Services (SNS)

• On these virtual social networks, people can
  contact others they would like to know for
  personal or professional reasons but whom they
  might otherwise be unlikely to meet.

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Social Networking Services

• Bring users together around some shared interest
• Music, Sports, Movies,
• Business
• Dating
•  For many teens, MySpace or Facebook are the
  first asynchronous messaging systems that they
  use regularly.
• How do we meet people?
• What is a friend?
• This is going on Facebook

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Social Networking Services

• How Many Friends Do You Have?

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Social Networking Services

• Most Popular SNSs
• Facebook
• Classmates
• MySpace

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Social Networking Services

• How many friends
• does Tom have?

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Social Networking Services

• Tom has   friends?
• 2/2010 -274,192,447
• 9/2009 - 268,231,171
• 3/2008 - 212,052,210

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Social Networking Services

• Privacy issues Facebook
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vwogtTQs8Kzw

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Other SNS Activities

• Publish your videos online YouTube
• http//youtube.com
• Share your pictures - Flickr
• http//flickr.com/
• Social Bookmarking - del.icio.us
• http//del.icio.us/