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A Taste of Technology<br />Finding Function in Social Media<br />Presented to SAHRP on Jan. 19, 2011 by Jordan Epp<br />

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Objectives<br />Define Web 2.0<br />Get overwhelmed by the web 2.0 tools<br />Get our tool boxes organized<br />Categorize tools<br />Define purpose<br />Begin to build your online presence<br />

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Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 vs. Web 3.0<br />Web 2.0 applications include, but are not limited to, social networking, social bookmarking and social media sites.<br />

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Tools tools tools<br />Partial list of web 2.0 apps - Plearn<br />

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Tools tools tools<br />

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Tools tools tools<br />Tweets<br />“Friend Me”<br />l33t<br />

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Tools tools tools<br />Tweets<br />“Friend Me”<br />0MFG D00D /571N 15 T3H l_l83Я 1337 Я0XX0ЯZ<br />l33t<br />

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Organisation<br /> Most online tools, when looking at them from a professional POV, can fall under one of three categories:<br />Networking<br />Collaborating<br />Sharing<br />

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Networking<br />Facebook<br />LinkedIn<br />Bebo<br />Second Life<br />Twitter<br />Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.<br />LinkedIn strengthens and extends your existing network of trusted contacts.<br />Bebo provides an open, engaging, and fun environment that empowers a new generation to discover, connect and express themselves.<br />Second Life is a free 3D virtual world where users can socialize, connect and create using free voice and text chat.<br />Twitter is without a doubt the best way to share and discover what is happening right now.<br />

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Networking<br />Facebook<br />LinkedIn<br />Bebo<br />Second Life<br />Twitter<br />Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.<br />LinkedIn strengthens and extends your existing network of trusted contacts.<br />Bebo provides an open, engaging, and fun environment that empowers a new generation to discover, connect and express themselves.<br />Second Life is a free 3D virtual world where users can socialize, connect and create using free voice and text chat.<br />Twitter is without a doubt the best way to share and discover what is happening right now.<br />For professional development, these tools provide the opportunity to expand your network of peers, colleagues, customers and clients easily and effectively.<br />

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facebook<br />Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.<br />Benefits<br />Contacts begin to seek you out based on your profile and network connections<br />Information is easily shared through status updates which keeps you and your work on the radar<br /><ul><li>Pitfalls

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The over updater or the “breakfast club”

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“Neon sign”</li></li></ul><li>facebook<br />Getting started<br />Get an account<br />Search for contacts from the ol’ rolodex or listserv<br />Resist the temptation to “friend” Gerald your old college roommate<br />Build a network of professionals<br />Next steps<br />Build fan pages for your company, group, or unit<br />MAINTAIN your presence<br />

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twitter<br />Twitter is without a doubt the best way to share and discover what is happening right now. Micro-blogging<br />Benefits<br />Phone a friend/poll the audience<br />Constant feed of relevant research news within your discipline<br />Networking with fellow tweeters<br /><ul><li>Pitfalls

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The “breakfast club”

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Using as Instant Messaging board </li></li></ul><li>twitter<br />Getting Started<br />Get an account<br />Search for contacts from the ol’ rolodex or listserv<br />Search twitter for topics of interest (link)<br />Build network of relevant news feeds<br /><ul><li>Next Steps

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Refine “follows” through those who follow you

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Backchannel conversations at conferences</li></li></ul><li>Collaborating<br />Google Docs<br />Virtual Meetings<br />Wikis<br />Collaborative editing tools allow a group of individuals to simultaneously edit a document, see who else is working on it, and watch in real time as others make changes.<br />Virtual meetings are real-time interactions that take place over the Internet using integrated audio and video, chat tools, and application sharing.<br />Wikis are Web pages that can be viewed and modified by anyone with a Web browser and Internet access.<br />For professional development, these tools provide the opportunity to collaborate with peers and colleagues from anywhere in the world.<br />

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Google Docs<br />Collaborative editing tools allow a group of individuals to simultaneously edit a document, see who else is working on it, and watch in real time as others make changes.<br />Benefits<br />Efficient way to collaboratively work on documents<br />Accessible from any internet connected computer<br />Versioning now available<br /><ul><li>Pitfalls

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Assumes a trusted group of editors

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Formatting can require tweeking</li></li></ul><li>wiki<br />Wikis are Web pages that can be viewed and modified by anyone with a Web browser and Internet access.<br />Benefits<br />Efficient way to collaboratively work on, collect and organize documents<br />Accessible from any internet connected computer<br />Ever growing resource<br /><ul><li>Pitfalls

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Assumes a trusted group of editors

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Organization is key</li></li></ul><li>wiki<br />Video produced by Common Craft<br />

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Sharing<br />Creative Commons<br />Social Bookmarking<br />Blogs<br />Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators.<br />Social bookmarking involves saving bookmarks one would normally make in a Web browser to a public Web site and "tagging" them with keywords.<br />Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. <br />For professional development, these tools provide the opportunity to share resources, original material, and personal opinion.<br />

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social bookmarking<br />Social bookmarking involves saving bookmarks one would normally make in a Web browser to a public Web site and "tagging" them with keywords.<br />Benefits<br />social networking through bookmarks<br />accessible from any computer<br />add others as favorites and create groups<br />filter the internet for what interests you<br />Pitfalls<br />inconsistent tagging can cause false searches<br />

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creative commons<br />Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators.<br />What<br />The Creative Commons copyright licenses and tools forge a balance inside the traditional “all rights reserved” setting that copyright law creates. Our tools give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work. The combination of our tools and our users is a vast and growing digital commons, a pool of content that can be copied, distributed, edited, remixed, and built upon, all within the boundaries of copyright law.<br />

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creative commons<br />Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators.<br />Why<br />The idea of universal access to research, education, and culture is made possible by the Internet, but our legal and social systems don’t always allow that idea to be realized. Copyright was created long before the emergence of the Internet, and can make it hard to legally perform actions we take for granted on the network: copy, paste, edit source, and post to the Web. The default setting of copyright law requires all of these actions to have explicit permission, granted in advance, whether you’re an artist, teacher, scientist, librarian, policymaker, or just a regular user. To achieve the vision of universal access, someone needed to provide a free, public, and standardized infrastructure that creates a balance between the reality of the Internet and the reality of copyright laws. That someone is Creative Commons.<br />

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blogs<br />Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. <br />

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Summary<br />Web 2.0 is driven by you, the user<br />You can make use of Web 2.0 tools by:<br />Networking<br />Collaborating<br />Sharing<br />Build your online presence with tools that work for you.<br />

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Resources<br />7 Things you should know about…<br />CommonCraft Explanations in Plain English<br />10 Reasons Social Media Should Rock Your World<br />Digital Tattoo: What’s your web presence saying about you?<br />Video of this presentation (Ustream)<br />Slides of this presentation (Slideshare)<br />

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Contact<br />Jordan Epp<br />Instructional Designer <br />Centre for Continuing & Distance Education, U of S<br />Email: jordan.epp@usask.ca<br />Twitter: I_am_10_ninjas<br />Skype: jordanepp<br />Second Life: Harvey Storaro<br />Blog: edtech306.wordpress.com<br />U of S Homepage: http://homepage.usask.ca/~jte076/<br />