This document provides an overview and schedule for a course on Web 2.0 technologies including blogs, wikis, tags, and social networks. The course will introduce new Web trends and features of Web 2.0, examine tools like blogs, wikis, Twitter, Flickr and social networks, and cover related concepts like tagging, social characteristics of users, and network theory. Students will gain hands-on experience using these tools for the course and do a final presentation of their work.

1. Web 2.0 blog, wiki, tag, social network: what are they, how to use them and why they are important

2. This material is distributed under the Creative Commons "Attribution - NonCommercial - Share Alike - 3.0", available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ . Part of the slides is the result of a welcome distance collaboration with prof. Roberto Polillo, University Milan Bicocca ( http://www.rpolillo.it )

3. Program * Introduction, course program and start course tools * New Web trends * The "old" Web and Web 2.0 * Web 2.0 in general * What is a blog * Microblogging - Twitter * What is a wiki * Wikipedia in theory and in practice * Technical Web 2.0 Specifications (Ajax, RSS, ...) * Tagging and social networks (Flickr, facebook, ...) in theory and in practice * The Google World: the algorithm, docs.google, Android, ... * Web 2.0 and Social characteristics : users number and characteristics * Social bookmarking and mash-up in theory and in practice Some theory: * Metcalfe's Law, Reed and Pareto, power curves, long tail, network theory, ...

4. Presentation Course organization: Web 2.0 and others about communication Web 2.0 experiences: blogs, wikis and social networks (R/W) Use of 2.0 tools for the course: starting from the wiki http://camerino20.wiki-site.com/index.php Evaluation based on - your work during lessons - exercises on web sites of the course - final presentation of your work (use “understandable” nicknames!) Language: if you have any doubt or any question: please stop me!

5. Presentation Facebook

6. MySpace

7. Linkedin

8. Twitter

9. Flickr

10. YouTube

11. Slideshare

12. Google+ Blogger

13. Wordpress

14. Wikimedia