Talk in a seminar "Environments and Tools for Networks - Social Media" organized by University of Helsinki (Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Petro Poutanen and Sanna-Marja Heinimo) on 15 April 2015. (PowerPoint [that I seldom use] style copied from the Teachers' Academy presentation set.)

1. It’s All about Presence
- a long term and active social media user on several platforms
Kimmo Vehkalahti, D.Soc.Sci
Adj.Prof. of Applied Statistics
Researcher Networking
in Social Media
15 April 2015

2. My (given) title: It’s All about Presence
- a long term and active social media user on several platforms
encourages me to propose an Outline:
1) ”Long term”?
2) ”Active user”?
3) ”Several platforms”?
and (hopefully) takes me to some Conclusions:
1) What is the point of using social media?
2) Really - is it all about presence?
3) Matters and effects, chance encounters…

3. View of my very 1st SoMe profile from April 1992 (UH, PortaCOM):

4. My PortaCOM profile (use in 1989-1994), continued (some parts skipped):

5. The groups I followed and/or organized in PortaCOM – just 23 years ago:

6. www.helsinki.fi/~eisaksso/lyskom-faq.html

7. www.helsinki.fi/atk/toimkert/tk96/tietoliikenne.html

8. Tyyppiarvo, the Statistics students’ journal in 1994:
http://issuu.com/tyyppiarvo/docs/typy394/4

27. S o … a n y conclusions?
1) What is the point of using social media?
2) Really - is it all about presence?
3) Matters and effects, chance encounters…

28. THANK YOU for your attention!

29. THANK YOU for your attention!

30. THANK YOU for your attention!