This document provides summaries of various social media and networking platforms and tools, including: - Google Social Search which highlights relevant content from a user's social connections in search results. - Social gadgets in iGoogle that allow users to see what friends are doing and collaborate on projects. - A user's +1 social network which includes Gmail contacts and Google Reader followers. - How Posterous can be used to autopost content to multiple social media services with one email. - Basic functions on Facebook like profiles, friends, and sharing content. - Using LinkedIn beyond recruitment to promote events, market with groups, and strengthen networks.

1. SMMP Stage 2 Additional Notes 20 June 2011 Sydney

2. Social Data & H2H profiles (who you are) friends (who you're connected to) activities (what you and your friends are doing) human-to-human connections friending following activity feeds gadgets components

3. Google Social Search If logged in to Google search results highlight relevant content created by or shared by your social connections. Social Search experience is personal and the highlighted content is unique to you and your social connections. Here are some of the types of content you might see: Websites, blogs, and other content shared by or created by your friends Images shared by your social connections Relevant articles from Google Reader subscriptions Profiles of people beneath results for social sites e.g. Twitter and Flickr Web content recommended or shared by others using the +1 button

4. Social Objects –> Social Gadgets via iGoogle Updates show you what your friends are up to by sharing gadgets, photos, ratings, and more from the social gadgets on your iGoogle page Social gadgets post to updates page Share info: Play games: play friends and track high scores across a group of players Work together: To-Do List gadget See same information as friends and collaborate on projects

5. Your +1 Social Network When you enable +1 People in your Gmail & Google Talk chat list People in your “My Contacts” group in Google Contacts People you follow in Google Reader

6. PostRank Analysessocial statistics from readers online (like you) to determine what is worth reading. Whether professional or personal interest aim is to minimiseinformation overload.

7. Google Reader – Cheats Help Video tutorials (www.youtube.com/GoogleReaderHelp) googlereader.blogspot.com/ “?” help at any time for short cuts Track real-time updates to web sites, social networksand blogs via RSS feeds Trends ( read,click,share,email, mobile and lifetime) Capture any web pages via notes Share with friends via shared item page (public or private) Browse for stuff (feed bundles) and create your own bundles to share or embed in blog Add subscription (left sidebar) and review (right side) delete via manage subscriptions New items bold Expand/list View all posts or only unread posts “new items" or “all items” Reader player – new, all, star, like, share or by category and shows recommendations Feedly web (application) wrapper for Reader

8. Interesting RSS Sources and Bundles Bundles (samples) http://www.google.com/reader/bundle/user/15427156273978935247/bundle/Travel%20Bloggers http://www.google.com/reader/bundle/user/15605101198529024869/bundle/LeTourneau%20Land%20Trains ABC feeds by subject and network http://www.abc.net.au/services/rss/ Australian Gov by portfolio http://australia.gov.au/news-and-media/media-release-rss-feeds http://australia.gov.au/news-and-media/government-media-releases/media-releases-by-portfolio Australian top feeds/SkyNews/Nine http://www.theaustralian.com.au/help/rss http://www.skynews.com.au/rss/ http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article/443157/rss-feeds-ninemsn-news Australian top restaurants (De Groots) http://www.bestrestaurants.com.au/xml/rss/ http://www.bestrestaurants.com.au/xml/feed/dining-specials-australia.xml Directories http://au.feedzilla.com/rss.asp http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/rss-directory.htm

9. Posterous Usage Email photos, videos, text, documents, audio, music just about anything to : post@posterous.com The username in the email address (left hand side) determines where email gets “Autoposted” posterous@posterous.com(no autopost) Email a service twitter@posterous.com to Autopost to service type. multiple services twitter+facebook@posterous.com to Autopostall services listed Creative use e.g. www.punchpizza.com/, chevrolet.posterous.com/ & Tweetdeck Posterous Groups applications SME intranet, team planning, VIP-advocates, volunteers

11. Securing Facebook

12. Edit profile

13. Profile photos

14. Pokes

15. Notifications

16. Friends, Unfriends & Lists

17. Like/unlike Pages

18. News Feed

19. Wall

20. Status Updates

21. Notes

22. Tagging (status and notes)

23. Apps

25. Twitter Found Data and Predictive Google Flu Trends

26. When does Aus/NZ Tweet? Count of Tweets Hour of Day

27. When is Aus/NZ Most Happy? Proportion of Tweets with +ve emotion Hour of Day

28. Which City Swears Most? Proportion of Tweets with profanity City

29. Which City is Sad ? Proportion of Tweets withsadness City

30. Which Archetype ? Proportion of Tweets Witharchetype count of tweets

31. YouTube Leanback YouTube interface designed for Google TV or any other big screen. The great thing about YouTube Leanback is that it doesn't require interaction, so you can quickly watch the videos added to the queue or the latest videos from your subscribed channels.