This document discusses various social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, blogs, and YouTube. It provides statistics on Facebook usage, describes how Facebook allows members to connect with friends and view status updates. LinkedIn is described as focusing on professional relationships. The rapid growth of tweets on Twitter is noted. Examples are given of teachers who blog and tweet. Overall social networks are analyzed in terms of how they allow forming communities online through sharing content and updates.

1. Who, What, When, Where & Why of Social Networking CUE 2010 Cynthia Sistek-Chandler, Ed D National University, cchandler@nu.edu SDCUE President Twitter: CynthiaChandler Continue the Conversation at: www.my-ecoach.com/blogs/php?blog=3446

2. What is a social network? Trends Social Network Research My Space Facebook (Quincy Catholic School) Linked In Twitter Blogs, YouTube and others Organizations Examples Agenda

3. Free video that explains Social Networking) Common Craft (LeFever, L.)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_KF7TYKVc Social Networking

4. Are social networks a fad? http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd062307s.gif

5. Exploring the Social Network Phenomenon

6. Social Networks http://www.v4technical.co.uk/images/v4_social_networks.jpg

7. Most members join a network, which can be either a geographic network (city, state), a college or university network, or a worksite network (employer of the member). Members may add as many friends as they like. A Facebook member is given a news-feed page, which consists of status updates of the member and their friends. Probably the most popular aspect of Facebook is the built-in chat program that allows friends to chat in real time. Description of Facebook

8. More than 400 million active users More than 60 million status updates posted each day More than 3 billion photos uploaded to the site each month More than 5 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each week More than 3.5 million events created each month More than 3 million active Pages on Facebook More than 1.5 million local businesses have active Pages on Facebook More than 20 million people become fans of Pages each day Pages have created more than 5.3 billion fans Facebook Statisticshttp://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics

9. (James, R., 2009) Using Facebook to Create Community: The SAA Group Experience

10. Should we keep it professional? LinkedIn’s simple philosophy: Relationships Matter Your professional relationships are key to your professional success.

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12. 10,000,000,000 20 Billion in July “But tweet Number 10,000,000,001 likely won’t impress those who consider it a hotbed of meaningless chatter." Thursday March 4th, 2010 http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/05/twitters-mysterious-10-billionth-tweet/

13. http://twitter.com/mrcermak http://twitter.com/VJasztal http://twitter.com/brentcoley http://twitter.com/tonyvincent Examples of Tweeting Teachersby Brent Coley, 5th Grade TeacherMurrietta Valley Unified School District

14. Tweets: Cynthia Chandler SDCUE Social @ CUE San Diego CUE Members:Going to CUE? Join us in the Oasis Lounge for our Affiliate Social, Friday, 5:30-7:00Guest Speaker: Roger WagnerThat was then, this is now….Rub elbows with other famous TechEducators! Cynthia Sistek-Chandler, Ed DPresident of San Diego Computer Using EducatorsAssistant Professor, National Universitycynthiaedtech@gmail.com Originally posted March 3rd, 2010 by June Dodge Twitter

15. Blogging http://www.innovationfactory.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/blogging.JPG

16. Monthly blog readership up more than 300% from 2004 to 2008 Majority of blog readers use blogs to find purchase information Which purchasing decisions? 31% Technology and Consumer Electronics 15% Media and Entertainment 14% Games/Toys and/or Sporting Goods 12% Travel 11% Automotive 10% Health 48% of blog readers are 18-34 years old 45% of blog readers from households with $75k+ annual income 25% of all blog readers trust ads they see on blogs 40% of all blog readers click on ads they see on blogs But you need to know about blogs October 2008 JupiterResearch study of United States users, conducted for BuzzLogic http://profy.com/2008/10/28/study-proves-blogs-influence-online-population-once-again/

17. Technology Blog / News Aggregators

18. How many?

19. Do you care to comment? http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/youtube.png

20. New Media Consortium

21. Communities of Practice http://my-ecoach.com/blogs.php?blog=3446

22. Non-profit Facebook since 2008 Blessed Sacrament Catholic School - Quincy, IL.BlessedSa... - 236 views Quincy Catholic Elementary Schools

24. The World is Open