11. Now that we’ve got that
out of the way here are
21 social tools to play with
12. 1. Animoto
• Make videos from still images, text and video
• Free videos if they are 30 seconds or less
• Subscription model for longer, higher
resolution video
• Different formats
• Can be downloaded, used locally, put into
YouTube etc
• Licenced music available
13. 2. Dropbox
• Free (up to 2 gb) service for
– Uploading documents
– Sharing documents
– Back-ups
– Files accessible anywhere including via mobile
• Good for
– Collaborative work
– When travelling
• Watch out for
– Not all apps on iPhone/iPad work with dropbox
14. 3. Eventbrite
• Online service for organising events
– Handles payments and ticketing
– Free events are free to list
– Events can be public and listed on Eventbrite
– Or they can be private – invitation only events
• Good for
– Promoting events
– Managing responses
– Looking professional
– Integrating into websites etc
• Analytics – get data about your event
• iPhone app to check attendees in – smarter than paper!
• Don’t forget to check out the site for events to attend!
16. 4. Facebook
• Very large social network (800+ million users)
• Use Pages for marketing
– New students
– Potential students
– Alumni
• Groups (open or closed)
– Collaboration
– Discussion
– Feedback
• Adverts
– Promoting courses, events etc
17. 5. Flickr
• Photo and video sharing site
– Repository of course, school, establishment
pictures
• For students
• For staff
– Useable image bank – many are uploaded under
Creative Commons licence
– Locate images using the map function
18. 6. Foursquare
• Location-based mobile platform
• Allows users to ‘check-in’
• But what’s it good for?
– Can be used as part of a marketing strategy
• Special offers
• Contests
• Engagement
• The Foursquare api can be used to build other apps –
for example this one from Harvard University
19. 7. Google docs
• Word processing, slideshows, spreadsheets
etc
• Online
• Shareable
• Free
• Accessible anywhere
20. 8. Google +
• Google’s 3rd attempt at social media
• Attempting to take on Facebook
• Allows you to arrange contacts in circles
depending on what you want to share
– Facebook’s response is Lists
• They are adding functionality in stages
• Huddle – web video conferencing
• Organisational pages not available yet
• The jury is still out on this one!
21. 9. Jing
• Screen capture – stills or video
– Free (with a premium version)
– Made by Techsmith who make Camtasia
– Very simple
• Downside:
– You’ll need to convert it from .swf if you want to
upload into YouTube
– Alternatively upgrade for $14.95 per year
• Also check out Screenr
22. 10. Lanyrd
• A social conference directory
• See who’s attending
• Track the conversation whether you are there
or not
• Add conferences, workshops etc
• Keep in touch with a conference or find
conferences to attend
23. 11 LinkedIn
• Professional profiles
– Organisation profiles
– Groups
– Q&A
• Why use it?
– Encourage students to get promote themselves
professionally
– Start their network of contacts now
– Job hunt
– Get applicants to apply for jobs via LinkedIn
– Promote the organisation properly
– Research other people and other organisations
25. 13. Posterous
• A very flexible blogging site
– You can email your posts in or add them on the
web
– You can notify out via a range of other social
media sites like Twitter and Facebook
– You can be public
– Or you can create private groups
26. 14. Prezi
• Non-linear presentation tool
• Looks way cooler than PowerPoint ;)
• Can make you feel sea-sick!
• Also take a look at the PowerPoint plug-in
pptPlex which does a similar thing
• Take a look at an example of Prezi here
27. 15. Quora
• Questions, questions and yet more questions
– Relatively new social Q&A site
– You ask a question and other people provide
answers and also rate them up
– Theory is that the best ride to the top
– You can also edit other people’s questions…
– The site monitors can be somewhat pedantic
• Big question – will be it be more reliable than
Yahoo Answers?
28. 16. Scribd
• Social publishing
• From single sheet docs to books
• As well as being a good place to publish to it is
also an excellent resource
• A lot of free content however…
• There is an increasing amount of paid for
content these days
29. 17. Slideshare
• Upload and share
– Slide presentations
– Documents
– Video
• Share publicly or privately
• Huge resource although the search function
isn’t the best
30. 18. Storify
• Turn tweets, video, news, images into a story
• Pull together via drag and drop
• An example
• You can add text and commentary and
rearrange the content
31. 19. Twitter
• Microblogging service
• More than just about breakfast!
• Use it for
– Gathering information
– Disseminating information
– Sharing conversation
– Tracking particular subject areas/keywords
– Promoting events
– Answering questions
32. 20. Xtranormal
• Text to speech
• Create cartoon videos with a script
• Can be incredibly simple
• Or very complex
• Free version online plus subscription service
• They have an education safe version (via
cookie)
34. 21. Youtube
• Video uploading and sharing
• Use channels to keep things together
• Great resource - someone, somewhere will
have made a video of whatever you want to
do!
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