San Diego Mac Users Group Presentation 7 2

Slide 1: YOU, ME, AND US: WEB 2.0 What the Social Internet can do for you.

Slide 2: What is Web 2.0? A brief overview (as a tag cloud) of Web 2.0 concepts. Try searching wikipedia.org for more information on each concept.

Slide 3: Tonight Focus on what these technologies can do for you:  Blogs  Wikis  Collaborative Workspaces (Most of all, we’ll follow your interests)

Slide 4: Blogs

Slide 5: Blogs  Blogs organize your information chronologically  Your posts appear from oldest to newest  When you think ‘Blogs,’ think ‘time’  However, they have other properties  Posts(small, frequent updates)  Pages (permanent pages, like a website)  Tags (attached to pages, organize information)  Searchable

Slide 6: Blogs  What they can do for you:  Modern HTML is really hard to learn and write  There are always more bugs to fix, more features to add  Browsers read web pages differently  Blogs look the same in every browser, and come with many templates With a little finesse, you can turn a blog into a full featured, reliable, beautiful website.

Slide 7: Blog Links  Blogspot.com/Blogger.com  Pros:  Available for free through Google  Wide variety of templates and formats (key!)  Useful for: journals, diaries  Cons:  A more traditional blog, not as useful for websites

Slide 8: Blog Links  Wordpress.com  Pros:  Available for free, with great FAQ archives  Clean, professional templates  Easy to create a website using Pages, and to update using Posts  For $20, you can host your own videos (no need for YouTube), up to 8 gigs of space  Useful for: portfolios, photo blogs, and multi-media  Cons:  When features don’t work, the developers say ‘be patient’

Slide 9: Blog Links  My own Wordpress portfolio/blog Daniel-novak.com Some key features: Searchable Tagged Hierarchy of information (key)

Slide 10: What would YOU do with a blog?  Let’s throw out some:  Ideas  Projects

Slide 11: Wikis

Slide 12: Wikis  Wikis create relationships amongst your content  Your entries can be hyperlinked together  Anyone (you choose) can contribute  Communities of interest  Any task is easy if you chop it into small enough pieces  Or spread it out across enough people  New concept: “Aggregated Thought”

Slide 13: Wikis  Five things that YOU can do with a wiki: 1. Micropedia Wookiepedia FAQ Consensus document Information Management Exegesis (Dissection) and Criticism

Slide 14: Wiki Software  Wikipedia’s software is free!  What you’ll need:  Hosting  MediaWiki software  Time (a lot of it)

Slide 15: Wiki Software  Wikispaces.com  An easier alternative to the Wikipedia format  Free  Hosted on their servers  Stores your images and movies  You can choose who can read or write  Makes collaboration easy

Slide 16: What would YOU do with a wiki?  Let’s throw out some:  Ideas  Projects

Slide 17: Collaborative Workspaces

Slide 18: Collaborative Workspaces  Collaborative workspaces allow you to easily work and share information with others.  Version Control  Documents ‘live’ on the Internet  All editors have access 24/7  No more emailing files back and forth!

Slide 19: Collaborative Spaces  GoogleDocs  Word processor, spreadsheets, and presentations  You can add participants as editors  Usually:  One or two people act as editors/organizers/assigns  Several people contribute  Document is roughed into a final form  View this presentation through GoogleDocs

Slide 20: Collaborative Spaces  Ning.com  A web service that allows you to create a social networking site for any purpose  Comes with:  Instant messaging  Community blog  Forums  User profiles  Personal example: SD One-Laptop-Per-Child Group

Slide 21: Collaborative Spaces  Second Life  Second Life is a 3D virtual community where users can learn and communicate in a virtual ‘space’  Some properties:  Users can move freely in the environment  Personalized avatars  Voice/text chat  Personal example: The Inevitable Room

Slide 22: What would YOU do with a collaborative workspace?  Let’s throw out some:  Ideas  Projects

Slide 23: Thanks! If you have any questions, feel free to email me!