Social Web

Slide 1: Web Basics: Saving Time and Effort Joan Vinall-Cox, Ph.D.

Slide 2: Useful Web Applications • Word and Styles, Captions, and Comments • Social bookmarking, • Automatic bibliography generators • RSS/syndication = Blog Readers • Blogs • Wikis for collaboration • Twitter Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 3: Word Processing: Headings Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 4: Word Processing: ToC Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 5: Word Processing: Captions Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 6: Word Processing: Comments Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 7: Social Bookmarking • Most of the links for this presentation – available on my home computer and my work computer – Quickly found using del.icio.us – Tags allow personal labeling, which is easier to remember Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 8: Del.icio.us – Free & Easy http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 9: Del.icio.us Sign-up Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 10: My Account • Available anywhere to anyone • Tags for my purposes Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 11: My Tags • Some sites - one tag • Others - multiple tags • My own personalized sort-of Google Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 12: Social • I see others have saved the same site • I click on the link Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 13: Finding Others with the Same Interests • I see the account names of the others who share my interest and have linked to this site. • I click on that link. Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 14: Research Assisstance! • I can explore what they have saved! Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 15: Add 2 Icons to Address Bar • The square box is the link to your collection • The one with the word “TAG” allows you to save the link Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 16: Adding a Link & Tags • Straightforward Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 17: Web Bibliography Generators • http://www.bibme.org/ - free& easy Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 18: Fill in the Blanks Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 19: RSS/syndication - Readers • Create your own personal magazine or newspaper • What to look for – the RSS icon Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 20: Bloglines • Where you keep all the blogs you subscribed to in one site! Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 21: Bloglines Sign-Up Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 22: Subscribe Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 23: Bloglines Subscriptions Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 24: Bloglines Showing Article Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 25: Google Reader – An Alternative to Bloglines Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 26: Blogs for Many Purposes • Demonstrate expertise – http://joanvinallcox.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/tip • Inform and call for action – http://www.michaelgeist.ca/ • Business – http://trafcom.typepad.com/blog/ • Community – http://freelanceswitch.com/general/write-your-hou Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 27: Freelancers’ Blog Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 28: Creating a Blog • Easiest - https://www.blogger.com/start • Popular with sophisticated bloggers - http://wordpress.com/ • Visual editors with icons • However, some learning to do Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 29: Visual Editor - Blogging Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 30: Wikis – http://pbwiki.com/ • My Professional Site - • http://jnthweb.pbwiki.com/ • Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 31: Wikis - http://wikiwhy.wikispaces.com/ Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 32: Visual Editing Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 33: Wiki - Behind the Scenes Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 34: Google Sites - New Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 35: Google Site – Front Page Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 36: Twitter & Microblogging • http://twitter.com/home Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 37: Twitter-like – for Business Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 38: Web 2.0 (Read/Write Web) • Word and Styles, Captions, and Comments • Social bookmarking, • Automatic bibliography generators • RSS/syndication – Readers • Blogs • Wikis for collaboration • Twitter Joan Vinall-Cox

Slide 39: For more information • http://joanvinallcox.wordpress.com/my-e-port • Screenshots via Skitch - http://plasq.com/skitch • Creative Commons Attribution- Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License Joan Vinall-Cox