The document discusses how the internet provides access to information that meets many human needs and allows for new levels of productivity, organization, and leisure activities. It provides examples of how social networks, blogs, cloud computing, and other internet technologies can help people share information and stories, collaborate remotely, back up and access data from anywhere, and find answers to questions by tapping into collective knowledge online. Finally, it outlines best practices for maintaining internet security and protecting personal information online.

1. The Internet’s Value to
The Average Person

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7. Pre-Industrial Revolution
Muscle Power

8. Pre-Industrial Revolution
Muscle Power

9. Post-Industrial Revolution
Muscle Power

10. Internet
Revolution:
Brain Power

11. Sounds interesting but
relevant to my life right
now?

12. Maslow’s Human Needs
Pyramid Simplified

13. Information is
core to
meeting our
needs

14. Information is exchanged, processed and
stored on the Internet

15. From Big Media to You Media

16. From Big Media to You Media

17. From Big Media to You Media

18. Internet Technologies
Meeting Our Needs
• Online presence
• The new productivity paradigm
• Beyond Googling to answer questions
• Leisure time on steroids

19. Organizing It All
• Tracking your data with ease
• Internet security tips
• Look ma no computer

20. Is this you on
the Internet?

21. You don’t
want this Text

22. Reasons to be
Online
• Businesses increasingly
looking online
• 2006 survey shows exec
search firm Execunet
looked online 77% of
time
• Easier to network
• Easy to update and share
personal info with many

23. Gist to Getting Online
• Get domain name
• Setup simple website
• Who you are
• What you do
• Setup blog on that website
• Setup social networking site

24. Create Your Web ID in 5 Mins

25. Online Presence
Continuum

26. Not on Facebook? Take
Notice
• Web designer posted concert pics gets
discovered by Rolling Stone
• Joe Ford ran for congress using MySpace
• 31 year old school teacher loses 30 pounds
through Peertrainer.com

27. Why Care
about
Facebook?
We’re familiar with networks

28. Why Care
about
Facebook?
Here is a road network

29. Why Care
about
Facebook?
A network of people

30. Why Care
about
Facebook?
Tough to know who is in the
network and the connections

31. Why Care
about
Facebook?
An internet social network
allows true potential of
network

32. Just Think How They
Can Help You

33. Social Network References
• LinkedIN - Business
• GoodReads and Librarything - Books
• Flickr and Fotolog - Photos

34. Telling Your Story/Info with
a Blog

35. Blog Defined
• Websites organized by
blog posts
• No technical skills to
enter posts
• People can leave
comments
• Gives average person
power of the media

36. Blog Sites
• Wordpress
• Google’s
Blogger
• Weebly
• VOX

37. Cloud Computing
• Remote computer
processing and a lot of it
• Only need a web
browser
• From email to
spreadsheets and
beyond

38. Clouds and Me
• Cheaper computers
• Use blackberry to run
super duper financial
model
• Much less IT reliance

39. The New Productivity
Paradigm
• Gmail
• Google Docs
• Google Notebook
• Wiki
• Concierge Services

40. • Organize with tags and search
• Use for many email accounts
• Work with Outlook
• Practically unlimited space
• Access anywhere

41. Google Docs
• Google Document
• Google Spreadsheet
• Google Presentation

42. Google Docs
over MS Office
• Collaboration
• Online storage
• Access from any machine
• Quickly improving and gaining
• Easier integration with the web

43. Google
Notebook
• Browse, clip and organize
• Add comments
• Organize with search and tags
• Accessible from any computer

44. Planning a Conference
with a Wiki
Famous Wiki:
Wikipedia
• Create a wiki site
• Wiki has three buttons: edit, save and link
• Judy starts with lists of attendees
• Inger edits and adds more attendess etc,

45. Concierge Services
• Tim Ferriss, “4 Hour Work Week”
• Typical activities
• Data entry
• Online research
• Admin assistant and personal secretary
• Asksunday.com

46. Beyond Googling to
Answer Questions
Go to the people to get
answers
• Wikipedia.com (Wiki encyclopedia)
• Del.icio.us.com (Social bookmarking)
• Technocrati.com (Blog search)

47. Leisure Time on
Steroids
• Apple TV ($230)
• Antenna for best FREE High Def
• Buy/rent other content
• Store videos/pictures on one hard drive
• Access everything from any room and any
location

48. And Relax Some More
• Video and radio shows Itunes/Podcasts
• TV Shows on Hulu
• Music
• Pandora (You’ve got to try this!)
• Last.FM
• Travel
• Tripadvisor
• Kayak.com

49. Internet Technologies
Organizng It All

50. To Much Data?

51. Tracking Your Data with Ease
• Just set it and forget it
with RSS reader
• iGoogle
• Netvibes
• Super customized
with Yahoo Pipes
• Mashups

52. All In One Spot

53. Mash Wikipedia +
Google Maps
=Wikimapia

54. No Hassle Data
Backups
• Online backup is cheap and efficient
• Mozy
• Amazon S3
• Synchronize with external hard drives
• Foldershare
• Allway Sync

55. Web Security at Home
• All about personal behavior
• Most viruses come through email
• Don’t open sites/files within emails
• Surf the net under limited account
• Use a router
• Download files from trusted sites

56. Protecting My Stuff on
The Net
• Safer to bank at the branch or online?
• Password strategies
• Security tools
• Roboform
• Paypal security key

57. Look Ma No Computer
• Cell phone services to keep linked
• Jott
• Twitter phone
• Kindle
• Amazon NowNow