Professional Development Committee Workshop
A Computer Offering Given by Maureen Greenbaum
Social Networking Sites: Linkedin, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube

Description

These sites enable users to post pictures, links, sound and videos and then comment on them with more pictures, links, sound and videos.  These Web 2.0 social networking sites can be frivolous, but can also be put to good pedagogical use.

Student
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www.youtube.com/results?search_query=linkedin&search_type=&aq=f

Social Bookmarking    
Social Networking in Plain English
note
Common Craft has some of the best videos


Social Bookmarking in Plain English


Lee LeFever on Travel Technology
Social Media in Plain English
Network World

22 slides with comments about each networking site

More YouTube  Videos on Social Networking SuperNews! - Social Networking Wars
Fun Cartoon 5:34
Social Networking
Panel Discussion at Zeitgeist '07
31:15
 
YouTube Tutorials
Playlists
VideoJug, which though mostly with a British accent, provides a transcript
Del.icio.us Social Bookmarking
Facebook & MySpace Penn State Professor Will Use Facebook.com to Teach Class
One page Sept '06 article about
"Brian Smith, a Penn State Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology and Education recently announced his plan to utilize facebook.com this fall in a class that focuses a significant portion of its time on human interaction with technology."
LinkedIn video  What is LinkedIn? 02:29

Announcing LinkedIn News
Allen Blue, co-founder LinkedIn talks about LinkedIn News, a new feature on LinkedIn's redesigned homepage

YouTubes on LinkedIn

Twitter
bullet Tweetizen: Monitor Tweets
bullet   WeFollow: Twitter Directory
bulletTwellow: Twitter Directory
bulletTweetBeep: E-mail Alerts
bullet  TwitterFeed: RSS to Tweet
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TweepSearch: Search Profiles

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TweetLater: Times Tweets

Twitter in Plain English Twitter in Plain English 2:25

Twitter: Simple Social Networking

Article Note: On Facebook, Teachers,
and Self-disclosure
March 14, '07 blog entry on The Gypsy Librarian

Facebook love: it's complicated

Dec 4 - For the Facebook generation, love now comes with a drop down menu to define a relationship.

The current generation has replaced varsity jackets and class rings with links on social networking sites like Facebook.

Professors join Facebook, keep in touch with students  23 October 2007 survey of Profs at William and Mary
Students and Social Networking Applications (University of Dayton) Video from the University of Dayton shows students discussing in their own words how and why they use social networking applications such as Facebook. It streams from the University of Dayton Web site in Windows Media forma
EDUCAUSE Home > EDUCAUSE Major Initiatives > ELI Home Page > ELI Resources ELI videos help you explore an emerging trend or major challenge in teaching, learning, and technology, as well as what your campus might do about it. Each video developed by ELI is accompanied by a set of discussion questions you can use to start a campus dialogue or begin a professional development workshop on the given topic.

This week's Web Winners: social-networking sites for grownups.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) Publication Date: 31-JUL-07 Byline: Reid Kanaley

Social-networking sites aren't just for children and college students. At least that's the pitch at places like LinkedIn, Ryze and Xing, which have positioned themselves for job hunters or business climbers.

CLASSMATES.COM
www.classmates.com

From their ads featuring animated kissy-face yearbook photos, you'd think this site is about locating an old high school flame. Well ... it is. But it also boasts tools for planning class reunions, keeping old military buddies in touch, and expanding business contacts. The Workplace area has members in 2.3 million companies, where you supposedly might find someone who can get you a job.

LINKEDIN
www.linkedin.com

At this site, you build a network of people you know, then get linked to the people that they know, and so on _ you become "linked-in," get it? We're not sure we do. In a two-day period, there were 12,246 new people in our network. What if they all want to drop by for coffee?

XING THING
www.xing.com

Xing is a German firm with another variation on the six-degrees-of-separation theme. Curiously, the sign-up process requires prospects to aver that they have not only read the terms of service, but downloaded and "saved them or printed them out." "Ja! Truly bizarre was the dropdown menu for choosing your time zone. The list presented to us began with Adak and ended with Menominee. We had to look them up to discover Adak is in Alaska and Menominee is in Michigan.

RYZE UP
www.ryze.com

"You probably know people in here already," says the home page. To find them, you may first want to join the "virtual handshake network." Other interesting groups include an eBay sellers network, one called "outside of the box," and another named the "inflammation fighters."

EONS AND EONS
www.eons.com

How did we know we had landed on a networking site for the "mature" crowd? Maybe it was the slogan, "Lovin' life on the flip side of 50," or the prominent home page link to obituaries.


Reid Kanaley: rkanaley@phillynews.com  (c) 2007, The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Listen to NPR

Wikipedia's List of social networking websites

Wiki

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WetPaint

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PBWiki

Blog

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bulletArticles on how to do it
bulletA List Apart: Articles: How to Write a Better Weblog
bulletHow to Write Killer Blog Posts & More Compelling Comments
bulletHow to Write Compelling Blog Posts| MarketingProfs.com
bulletAnyone can write a blog, but will anyone read it? | csmonitor.com
bullet Blogging for Beginners
bullet Seth's Blog: How to write a blog post

WebPage

bullet googlepages.com
bullettripod.com

 

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