Social Media

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Social media is a collection of web-based media that allow users to connect with each other, participate in discussions, develop collaborative content and publish what is developed on the web. The type of collaboration or outcome helps determine the type of social media or technology ==option that best fits.


Definitions, examples and links for Social Media.

Contents

Blogs

Defined
Blogger
Typepad
WordPress
Blogs

Micro-blogging

Defined
Twitter
Pownce
[http://jaiku.com/ Jaiku

Podcasts

Defined
Yahoo Podcasts
Podcast Alley
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Meet the Press
How-to guide on Wikihow
Jason Van Orden's excellent podcast guide
Podcasting for Dummies
Audacity audio production software
Prevention Podcasts

Wikis

Defined
JotSpot
Kansas Prevention Wiki
SocialText
Wikispaces
CoP Research Wiki
Wikia
Wikihow
Wikinews

Social Networks

Defined
MySpace
LinkedIn
Facebook
Ning
Learn for Change Ning Site

Social Bookmarks

Defined
Furl
My Furl
Delicious Home Page
My Delicious

Content/Online Communities

Defined
YouTube
Flickr

Google

Maps
Docs & Spreadsheets
Gmail
Calendar
Notebook
Google Earth

Online Communities

Second Life

Multimedia Tools

Chinswing
Example of Chinswing in Action
Voice Threaads

Webconferencing

Go To Meeting
WebEx
Microsoft Live Meeting
Elluminate
My Elluminate
iVocalize
PictureTalk

Voice-over-Internet-Protocol VoIP

Online Learning Systems

Angel Learning (commercial)
Desire2Learn (commercial)
Moodle (Open Source)
Sakai Project (Open Source)

Tech Quotations

"Internet research firm Gartner Group predicts that wikis will become mainstream collaboration tools in at least 50% of companies by 2009...At DrKW, (CIO JP) Rangaswami says that among the earliest and most aggressive adopters, e-mail volume on related projects is down 75%; meeting times have been whacked in half." --Business Week, November 28, 2005
80% of digitized information in organizations is stored in personal folders on employee PCs and less than 5% of employee knowledge is actually captured and made accessible across an enterprise.--Soren Kaplan, Ph.D., Co-Founder, iCohere


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