sex::tech conference

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sextech conference January 23, 2008
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A project of The Internet STD Center of
Excellence
Benton Westergaard, Terri Sapp-Jones Cornelis
Rietmeijer Denver Public Health
Rachel Kachur Mary McFarlane Division of STD
Prevention, Centers for Disease Control
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DefinitionSocial Networking Web Site

• A social network service focuses on the building
  and verifying of online social networks for
  communities of people who share interests and
  activitiesand which necessitates the use
  of software.
• Most services are primarily web based and provide
  a collection of various ways for users to
  interact, such as chat, messaging, email, video,
  voice chat, file sharing, blogging, discussion
  groups, and so on.

Source Wikipedia 1/14/2007
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The rise of social networking web sites
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Source Boyd, d. m., Ellison, N. B. (2007).
Social network sites Definition, history, and
scholarship. Journal of Computer-Mediated
Communication, 13(1), article 11. http//jcmc.indi
ana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html
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Top 10 web sites -- 2003

• Yahoo
• MSN
• ?? Daum (Korean portal)
• ??? Naver (Korean portal)
• Google
• Alexa Internet
• Passport.net
• Yahoo! Japan
• Sayclub
• Microsoft

Source Alexa.com via the Internet Archive for
Feb 8, 2003
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Top 10 web sites -- 2008

• Yahoo
• Google
• Live.com
• YouTube
• MSN
• MySpace
• Facebook
• Wikipedia
• Hi5
• Orkut

Source Alexa.com 1/9/2008
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Source Alexa.com 1/9/2008
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Source Alexa.com 1/9/2008
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2192 blogs on social networking web sites Source
Technorati 1-11-2009
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Why have social networking sites become so
popular?
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Coming of age of modern standards-compliant
browsers
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The growing availability of social software

• Blogs
• Wikis
• Instant messaging
• Internet Relay Chat
• Bulletin Boards/Forums
• Social bookmarking
• Virtual worlds, e.g., Second Life

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The Web has always been about collaboration
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How have medical professionalscapitalized on
this trend?
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Biomedexperts.com
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Sermo.com
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WithIn3.com
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• Technology is ready
• More comfortable with the idea of participating
  in social networking
• Theres a need

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• demo

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Usage stats

• 400 members organizations
• 43 states
• 8 countries

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There is one big distributed pool of information,
where we are the resources, where we tap into
each other for information. This is in contrast
to searching around for the right database and
then messing about in that database. Instead we
can now, in no time at all, find the right person
to point us in the right direction as we are
connected, and we may get more than a document,
that is, we maylearn more in depth and
peripheral aspects of our task.--John Tropea,
Librarian Technology Blogger
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sextech conference January 23, 2008