3. Hannes Jähnert
1st Myth about the
Internet
The Internet is a very new media cannel!
•First ideas for the Internet as science
fiction right after the world war II
Dr. Vanevar Bush „As we may
think“ (1945)
•First computer networks were
developed about 40 years ago
e.g. ARPAnet (1969) or CYCLADES
(1971)
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2nd Myth about the
Internet
By the way:
„It was from the RAND study that the false rumor started, claiming that
the ARPANET was somehow related to building a network resistant to
nuclear war. This was never true of the ARPANET, only the unrelated
RAND study on secure voice considered nuclear war. However, the later
work on Internetting did emphasize robustness and survivability,
including the capability to withstand losses of large portions of the
underlying networks.“
„A Brief History of the Internet“
at the website of the Internet Society
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2nd Myth about the
Internet
The Internet is the Result of a
military project during the cold war.
58 cm
2.4
to
2.9
m
•The study of the RAND Corperation
was initiated by the ministry of
defense.
… in order to develop a robust
telephone network
•The ARPAnet was the result of solving
problems of capacity and knowledge
management.
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3rd Myth about the
Internet
Since the World Wide Web, since
1991, everything changed.
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3rd Myth about the
Internet
Since the World Wide Web, since
1991, everything changed.
•The WWW as well as the whole
Internet is about decentralized data.
there were only a new standard:
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
•What really changed was the usability
of and the access to the Internet
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3rd Myth about the
Internet
With HTML the public Internet grew up nearly
exponentially
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4th Myth about the
Internet
•That was the thought of the Web 1.0
and the New Economy
The New Economy crashed in 2000
•In principle every user can become a
producer of web content
That means “produser”
The Internet is a one way info-channel.
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4th Myth about the
Internet
After the millennium the New Economy burst in a big
crash of the NASDAQ stoke exchange
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4th Myth about the
Internet
Online communication
today is more about this:
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5th Myth about the
Internet
This decentralized Web is very dangerous.
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5th Myth about the
Internet
This decentralized Web is very dangerous.
•Really dangerous is to ignore the
huge chances the Internet provides
RoI (risk of ignoring)
•It’s pretty simple to collect feedback
from your volunteers and
stakeholders
just meet them on a par online
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20. Hannes Jähnert
Volunteers & The Borg
Donna Haraway: “A Cyborg Manifesto“
at first:
„A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of
machine and organism, a creature of social reality
as well as a creature of fiction.“
We all use (we all have to use) „prosthetic devices“
to take part in modern society.
In earlier days this devices was writing with a pen
or a typewriter, nowadays it is the mobile phone
and the computer.
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Volunteers & The Borg
World Internet Stats
•~ 2 billion Internet users
•~ 1.4 billion e-mail users
•~ 500 Million Facebook users
•~ 300 Million Webpages
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Volunteers & The Borg
World Internet Stats
•~ 2 billion Internet users
•~ 1.4 billion e-mail users
•~ 500 Million Facebook users
•~ 300 Million Webpages
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Volunteers & The Borg
After Facebookwas founded in February 2004, it expanded to the
largest social networking service in the world
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Communicate with
Cyborgs
Weblogs:
•What is it?
– A regularly updated ‚mashup‘ website that
allows visitors to leave comments to single
updates and provides different netwok
functions
•What for is it?
– Originally weblogs were set up to save web
files online. Today they were also used a
diaries or private and/or professional online
journals
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Communicate with
Cyborgs
Social Networking Services (like Facebook):
•What is it?
– A Social Media platform that’s (1st
) driven by
'user generated content’, (2nd
) allows its
participants to set up a personal profile and
(3rd
) mark relations between users as
‘friends’.
•What for is it?
– The first social networking service (“WELL”)
was used as newsgroup. Today SNS provide a
platform to maintain relationships even if
there is no possibility to meet physically
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Communicate with
Cyborgs
Live or micro blogging services (like Twitter):
•What is it?
– A Social Media service that allows its users to
set up a stream of short text-based updates
(at Twitter not more than 140 characters)
and to subscribe other stream
•What for is it?
– Even if it is much faster micro blogging is
blogging as well. Mostly it is used to update
he ‘followers’ about what’s going on. But it is
also used as discussion channel
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Communicate with
Cyborgs
VoIP or ‘voice over IP’ Services (like Skype):
•What is it?
– A service that allows free telephone calls and
text messages between users. It also allows
chat, voice and video conferences with more
than two users that are related to each other
(ad to a ‘bodylist’)
•What for is it?
– Mainly it is used to communicate via chat or
voice while being online at the same time. But
it can also used to transfer files and present
slides.
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Communicate with
Cyborgs
File sharing services (like Dropbox):
•What is it?
– A tool users can install at their computers and
use as a simple desktop folder. Files that
saved to this folder are uploaded to a server
and become synced to related folders.
•What for is it?
– To work together with others that have a
Dropbox account, an Internet connection but
aren't connected to the same intranet.
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Communicate with
Cyborgs
Some Examples:
•The NPO-Blogparade
– An informal network of blogging
experts that regularly treads questions
of non-profit management
•question & answer sites
– Use mailing lists to ask questions
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Communicate with
Cyborgs
Some Examples:
•Red-Recruit of the BRK
– The British Red Cross ask young
volunteers to spread their content
and messages through different
Social Media platforms.
•Flickr Commons
– A micro volunteering platform that
contains pictures which becomes
tagged by volunteers.
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Internet, Social Media
& Volunteering
5 Myths about the Internet
Volunteers and The Borg
Communicate with Cyborgs
Be a Cyborg
42. Hannes Jähnert
Be a Cyborg
To be a Cyborg is very easy. Just use the
techniques of your days contact your stakeholders,
your volunteers, your colleagues and friedns on a
par
You easily can use the crowd to develop your own
work – you only have to take care of two thinks:
1.You should really want to take part in the
community
&
2. you should make interesting offers.
Summarize:
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Internet, Social Media
& Volunteering
Thank you for your attention!
Hannes Jähnert
Academy for Volunteer-Management in Germany
Marchlewskistr. 27 | 10243 Berlin
Tel: +49 30 2754938
Skype: der.foulder
