Post on 04-Jan-2016
Social Media Definition/Types
• Social media employ web- and mobile-based technologies to support interactive dialogue … between organizations, communities, and individuals.
• Classifications/Apps (Applications):– Internet forums/Message Boards– Blog e.g., Twitter– Wikis e.g., MyFamily/MyHeritage– Social Networks e.g., Facebook/Google+/LinkedIn– Podcast e.g., YouTube– Photo Sharing e.g., Pinterest
• Can be altered almost instantaneously by comments or editing.
Internet forums/Message Boards
• A message board or a forum is an online discussion done through posting messages back and forth as if in a conversation. The actual conversation is known as a “thread” and one can follow that thread back to the very beginning and pick up all the clues and information along the thread to reach a conclusion or an answer to a problem.
• RootsWeb/Ancestry (the same now)– Keywords– Surnames
• Family Search - discontinued while I made this presentation in favor of FaceBook and Wiki
Blog often associated with news letters
• Anglo-Celtic Connections• The Genealogy News • Twitter - I have never found a genealogical use for a 120
character messing service
Wiki
• Family Search• MyHeritage (Israeli company) Scovern Example• MyFamily - division of Ancestry• Wikipedia
Podcast / Webinars
• One direction with text feedback
• YouTube - Ancestry• Legacy
• Family Tree Magazine• BBC - Tracing Your Roots• Genealogy Guys
Photo Sharing
• Pinterest PLEASE read the terms of service before placing you pictures on this service, you transfer ownership to them
• Instagram - faces first civil lawsuit for changes in Terms of Services
Recirculating Email
• The oldest form of social media and still in use today.• A process where all the interested parties are copied on a series
of e-mail’s discussing a specific subject.