Social media platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter have become important tools for both personal and professional networking and communication. Facebook allows users to connect with friends, join groups, and share updates and photos. LinkedIn is focused on professional networking and allows users to connect with colleagues, find jobs, and build their professional reputation. Twitter is a microblogging platform that allows users to share short updates and find real-time discussions on topics through hashtags. All three platforms provide opportunities for businesses and individuals to engage with connections, but also raise privacy and professionalism concerns that users must navigate.
2. Quick Survey How many use Facebook (personal vs. business) How many use LinkedIn (personal vs. business) How many use Twitter Disclaimer – this is not a class on how to set up a profile Class structure Video: Social Media ROI: Socialnomics This presentation can be found on Slideshare
5. Power shifting from Technology (search) to People (social)Content Distribution People Influence Media Value of Media Today
6. Social Networking: LinkedIn, FaceBook Micro-blogging: Twitter Blogs: Technorati, WordPress, Blogger, Blogspot Photos & Images: Flickr, Picasa RSS & Newsreaders, GoogleReader Wikis: Wikipedia Podcasts: Podcast.com Videos: Audacity, YouTube, Hulu Avatars: Second Life Bookmark storage: Digg, Diigo, Delicious, StumbleUpon Browsers: FireFox, Safari, Chrome Video Conferencing: Skype Presentation sharing: Slideshare Social Platform: Ning Polling: Survey Monkey, PollDaddy Synchronous webinar tools: GoToMeeting, Eluminate Course Management Systems: Moodle E-Learning development tools: Camtasia, Articulate Web 2.0 Today Apps that facilitate info sharing, interoperability, user-centered design and collaboration on the world wide web Cumulative changes in the way developers and end users use the web Transforming people from content consumers to content producers
7. Social Media: Highly interactive technology tools Many-to-Many Online communities Free, easy, fun Content producers New, more efficient way to communicate Click here for Slideshare on “Community The Real Power of Social Media”
43. Places (geotagging) #8 Tell the world where you are! Competes with Foursquare and Gowalla Only available on mobile devices when activated Adjust privacy settings – share with everyone, friends of friends, friends only, or customize
97. Hashtags # and Mentions @ #4 The hashtag symbol helps categorize Tweets by keyword – words preceded by the # symbol are grouped with other Tweets containing that same #word. Clicking on a hashtagged word in any message shows you all other Tweets in that category.