1. Social Networking
Web 2.0
New Lebanon Library
June 18, 2009
Marcia Mayper – info@innovative.net
518.793.8012
2. Agenda
• What is Social Networking?
• The Networks
• Some Terminology
• A look at the major players
• Search for you or your organization
• Set up a Facebook account with photo/image
• Q&A
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3. Social Networking
School
Friends
Family
Work
Yes, this is an old photo, of a younger Marcia
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4. The Networks
Most Popular Social Networks
• Blogging: • MySpace
– www.blogger.com – www.myspace.com
– www.wordpress.com • YouTube (Google)
• Facebook – www.youtube.com
– www.facebook.com • Wikipedia
• Flickr – www.wikipedia.com
– www.flickr.com • LinkedIn
• Twitter – www.linkedin.com
– www.twitter.com
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5. Profile = information about you, photos, videos, can be kept private!
Tags = descriptive words – helps to group like items = photos, friends
Mashups= combination of various applications – links to other social
networks
Folksonomy= social tagging – Project = steve.museum
SOME TERMINOLOGY
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