This document discusses the rise of social media and how people consume information online. It notes that social networking sites allow users to create profiles and connect with other users. Over 70% of Canadian households are now online, and Canadians spend more time online than other activities. Canada has a significant number of Facebook users. The document asks how people view websites, such as through browsers, email, devices, or social networks. It also introduces RSS feeds as a way for websites to publish frequent updates that people can subscribe to for updated information.

1. Web 2.0
and Beyond
BPAA 2008
Banff Centre

2. Social Media is
the use of
technology to
serve social
purposes

3. Social Networking Sites are bounded web
services that allow users to 1) create a
profile, 2) articulate a list of “connected”
people and 3) allow viewing and traversing
of these lists
“Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship”, Danah M.
Boyd, http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html

4. 70% of
households online
Canadians spend
more time online
After the US,
Canada has the
most Facebook
users in the world

5. how do people view a website?

6. in a browser?

7. in email?

8. on a device?