This document discusses various social media and networking sites and tools that allow users to connect and share information online. It outlines the types of sites, including those for blogging, message boards, bookmarking, wikis, and social networks. Some key points made are that social networks enable grassroots sharing of user-generated content and experiences, information spread rapidly through social networks can be credible, and building links from other sites can help increase a site's popularity and allow for research.

1. Social Life on the Web

2. Social Sites… … have moved online!

3. Social Networking Software… Community Based User built content User Shared Experience/Advice Relatively self-regulated … enables grass roots content.

4. With tools for… Blogging (Blogger.com) Message Boards (LawGuru.com) UserGroups (groups.Yahoo.com) ListServs (AAJ Litigation Groups) Bookmarking (Digg.com) Community Knowledge (Wikipedia.com) Personal Web Pages (FaceBook.com) Videos and Photos (YouTube.com) Topical Expertise (Squidoo.com) … sharing information.

7. Building Links is Like Shaving… If You Don’t do It Every Day, You Look Like a Bum!

8. Blogs are like… we B LOGS Blogger.com (free) WordPress.com (free) TypePad.com (paid) LiveJournal.com … a Diary

10. We publish many blogs… … some on our own web sites and some off-site

11. Message Boards, Bulletin Boards & ListServs are... … applications where people post questions and answers.

12. There are many types of Message Boards and ListServs. Groups.google.com AAJ Litigation Groups Craigslist.com Lawyers.com/community Chat.lawinfo.com boards.findlaw.com answers.com healthboards.com LawGuru Groups.yahoo

13. Bookmarking sites … allow users to store bookmarks online and enter comments about the sites they visit. Digg.com StumbleUpon.com De.licio.us Furl.com BlogMarks.com

14. Wikies are not… A wiki is a collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. The most commonly known wiki is Wikipedia. … mean witches.

15. A facebook no longer is where … … you find a date for Friday Night! However, inspired by the booklet typically handed out to college freshman with pictures and names of their new classmates, FaceBook.com has grown into one of the largest online social networking sites.

16. There are many social network web sites… … that allow users to publish information about themselves and share with their friends. LinkedIn (professional networking) Facebook (personal profiles and interest groups) MySpace (personal profiles and interest groups) YouTube (share videos) SlideShare (share PowerPoints and PDF's) Squidoo.com (topical web pages)

17. How do you utilize a social network site? … and participate by providing substantive information Open an account Build a profile Subscribe to features which you wish to monitor