Flat World Strategies: Social Media Tools

IntroAccording to wikipedia.com: Social media describes the online tools and platforms that people use to share opinions, insights, experiences, and perspectives with each other. Social media can take many different forms, including text, images, audio, and video. Popular social mediums include blogs, message boards, podcasts, wikis, and vlogs. In this session we'll take a look at a few of the common social media applications including mySpace, Facebook and Flickr. We'll also look at some applications that are designed specifically for academic use. Gordon, can you tell us a little more about what these social media tools?â��What we want to express with the term social media is the fact that in media design we are aware of the existence of others and the collaborations we see happening through the so-called social software. Concrete examples of social media are online communities, social networking places, social sharing tools (flickr),.... â�� Source: Belgian Master course in Communication & Multimedia Design: http://listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/air-l-aoir.org/2006-April/009573.html How about some examples?  mySpace: http://www.myspace.com/ Eons: http://eons.com Flickr: http://www.flickr.com  Digg: http://www.digg.com MyHeritage: www.myheritage.com del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us Facebook is probably a good example of what many of our students are using. Can you use as an example of how these work with some detail? (www.Facebook.com) Letâ��s take a look at the Facebook website site tour. [Source: http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/] Iâ��ve heard about social media applications that extend beyond the desktop. Can you give an additional example? Dodgeball: http://www.dodgeball.com/ Mobile location-based service that functions using â��devices formally known as cell phonesâ�� and text messaging. See website for demo. Are there any specific academic applications? CiteULike: http://www.citeulike.org/ Is there a good comprehensive list of social media application links? Sure â�� Wikipedia maintains a great list that is linked up in the shownotes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites How about academic applications? Blackboard/WebCT (www.blackboard.com) â�� RSS not available yet Moodle (www.moodle.org) has a basic blogging tool.  It has the capacity to add tags and create RSS feeds for the other people in your course/class. â��        Moodle is an â��open sourceâ�� applicationâ�¦â�¦ Other Course Management Systems [samples from www.wikipedia.org] ANGEL Learning (commercial) Brihaspati (Open source, commercial version also) eCollege (commercial) Desire2Learn (commercial) Dokeos (open source) Edumate (commercial) LON-CAPA (open source) .LRN (open source) Sakai Project (open source) Scholar360 (commercial) WebCT (commercial, owned by Blackboard Inc.) Vuepoint (commercial)