SOCIAL NETWORKING

Social Networking - Definition

• Social networking via the WWW enables

people to create a network of connections to other individuals. This can be done through individual Web pages, blogs, or Internet communities

Personal Web Page

How many of you have a “personal”

Web page and/or site?

Personal Web Page

• An initial step in publishing online

• Personal “expertise”

• Create at your own pace – edit as you wish

• More control – you choose interaction

• More control – you set the parameters:

It’s YOURS!

Blogs

How many of you have a blog?

Blogs

• A popular means of communication, a blog (or weblog) is a website in which items are posted and displayed with the newest at the top.

• Affecting public opinion and mass media around the world

• Many blogs are individual thoughts and/or reactions to issues, events, experiences

Blog Creation

• Creating • Blogger

• https://www.blogger.com/start

• Blog.com• http://blog.com/

• Clear Blogs• http://clearblogs.com/

Blog Creation

A blog entry typically consists of the following:• Title - main title, or headline, of the post.

• Body - main content of the post.

• Comments - comments added by readers

• Permalink - the URL of the full, individual article.

• Post Date - date and time the post was published.

A blog entry optionally includes the following:• Categories (or tags) - subjects that the entry discusses

• Trackback - links to other sites that refer to the entry

Blog Retrieval

• Retrieval• Technorati

• http://technorati.com/

• Google Blog Finder

• Top Site on Technorati : Huffington Post

Blogosphere

• Blogosphere is the collective term encompassing all weblogs or blogs as a community or social network.

• Many weblogs are densely interconnected; bloggers read others' blogs, link to them, reference them in their own writing, and post comments on each others' blogs.

• This interconnection of blogs has grown into a culture of its own.

Microblogging

Numbers of microbloggers???

Microblogging

A form of blogging that lets you write brief text updates…about your life on the go and send them to friends and interested observers via text messaging, instant messaging (IM) email or the web.

Microblogging

• Maximum of 140 characters per post

• Updated frequently, multiple times per day

• Items too insignificant for an essay (blog) or e-mail(direct communication)

Microblogging

• Information providers• Friends with

• “status updates”

• “chatter” and conversations

• share information

• link to interesting web links

• Report news

Microblogging

Organizational uses:Mobile learning

Sharing conference presentationsCollaboration

Team updatesTroubleshooting

Marketing and promotion

Microblogging

Sites

• Twitter http://www.twitter.com

• Jaiku http://www.jaiku.com

• Plurk http://www.plurk.com/

Wikis

DO YOU?

Wikis

• A type of website that allows anyone visiting the site to add, remove, or otherwise edit all content, very quickly and easily.

• However, this depends on the restrictions set by the owner.

• A collaborative tool.

Wikis

MOST FAMOUS

OF ALL?

Wikis - Creation

Like blog services easy to create :

• Media Wiki – created for Wikipedia• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

• PBWorks• http://pbworks.com/

• TiddlyWiki• http://www.tiddlywiki.com/

Blog WikiInformation flows mainly from creator to reader

Information flows between carriers

Often takes the form of short blurbs Often takes the form of longer, more detailed documents

Emphasis on immediacy, frequency of updates

Emphasis on ability for many users to add and edit content

Diaries—News—Opinions Bylaws—Project Documentation—”How-to Guides”

Social Networking Services (SNS)

On these virtual social networks, people can contact others they would like to know for personal or professional reasons but whom they might otherwise be unlikely to meet.

Social Networking Services

• Bring users together around some shared interest• Music, Sports, Movies, • Business• Dating

•  For many teens, MySpace or Facebook are the first asynchronous messaging systems that they use regularly. • How do we meet people?• What is a “friend”?• “This is going on Facebook”

Social Networking Services

How Many Friends Do You Have?

Social Networking Services

Most Popular SNSs

• Facebook

• Classmates

• MySpace

Social Networking Services

How #### many friends

does Tom have?

Social Networking Services

Tom has  #### friends?2/2010 -274,192,447

9/2009 - 268,231,171

3/2008 - 212,052,210

Privacy issues – Facebook http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wogtTQs8Kzw

Social Networking Services

Other SNS Activities

• Publish your videos online – YouTube• http://youtube.com

• Share your pictures - Flickr• http://flickr.com/

• Social Bookmarking - del.icio.us• http://del.icio.us/