PSD Online Communities

Social Networking Poster Session 2007 Southern Region Program & Staff Development Conference October 23, 2007 Anne Adrian [email_address] http://blog.aafromaa.com

Notes

The poster: www.aafromaa.com/PSDOnLineCommunities.pdf

This presentation: www.slideshare.net/aafromaa/ PSDOnLineCommunities

This document in Acrobat www.aafromaa.com/PSDOnLineCommunities .pdf

The ideas will be posted on the wiki http://collaborate.extension.org/

Need flexibility

Online communities, because you …

Work outside of the office

Have communication failures

Have email overload

Don’t know it all

Are unable to keep up

Need to work together

Need to include industry, clients, and colleagues

Through online communities, you …

Learn

Communicate

Influence

Relate

Build professional reputations

Read, watch, and observe

Enhance learning and professional development opportunities

Provide better quality services and products

Build relationships

Online communities are about sharing …

Work

Knowledge

Information

Interests

Experiences

Opinions

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Technologies Blogging Keep clients informed Develop stronger relationships Share knowledge Provide mechanism for feedback Keep connected with colleagues, industry and clientele Build professional reputation Enterprise blogs Blogger Bloglines Wordpress

Technologies Collaboration Create better products by including others Google docs & presentations Wikis Enterprise wikis collaborate.eXtension.org

Technologies Resource Sharing Share: Photos Flickr Videos YouTube Presentations SlideShare

Technologies

del.icio.us

Diigo

Social Bookmarking Share web content for information and reference Share what you’re reading Have access to bookmarks anywhere

Technologies Virtual Worlds Share products and learn interactively Second Life

Technologies Social Networks Relate, connect and share interests eXtension People people.extension.org/community (testing) Facebook LinkedIn MySpace Ning

Technologies Instant Messaging AIM MSN [email_address] Enterprise IM What are you doing? Twitter Jaiku Text Messaging Presence Technologies Communicate what you are doing Know what others are doing Start (& end) impromptu discussions Find out quick answers to questions

Getting Started Most important step: Efficient & exponential

Get a News Reader

Bring changing web content to one place.

“How to use a news reader”

http://blog.aafromaa.com/2007/05/

YouTube video ”RSS in Plain English”

Getting Started

2. Seek

Find pertinent blogs.

Watch for the RSS logo.

Search Google Reader— select “Add subscription”, type a topic.

Search Technorati for blogs by topic.

Beth Kanter explains Technorati in an eXtension web conference http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p79691970/

Browse a few suggestions for Extension professionals: www.pageflakes.com/aadrian

Getting Started

Lurk

Read blogs through a news reader ( Google Reader ).

Make your news reader

( Google Reader or iGoogle your homepage).

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Getting Started

4. Converse

Get involved—learn by doing.

Comment on blogs and/or start blogging.

“ How to comment like a king (or queen!)” http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2006/08/

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Attribute, Share, Noncommercial, No derivatives

Getting Started 5. Share Use social bookmarking to share useful blogs and pages, (i.e. del.icio.us or Diigo ) eXtension social bookmarking web conferences is a good starting point for del.icio.us YouTube video “Social Bookmarking in Plain English” . Diigo is used as the example. Picture uploaded by ryancr from http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanr/142455033/ Share, Remix, Attribute, Noncommercial.

Getting Started