social on the edge: the best social tools you may not have heard of
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Presentation for the Special Library Association (SLA), November 15, 2011. This presentation covers some of the lesser-known social tools for finding business, competitive, and industry information.TRANSCRIPT
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The Best Social Tools You May Not Have
Heard Of
Scott Brown, Owner
Social Information Group
November 15, 2011
SLA - ClickU
CC BY 3.0
SOCIAL ON THE EDGE
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AGENDA 2
Google + : What up with that? I lied to you
Specialized social networks Expertise and information
Miscellaneous Twitter tools and a hack
Apps
The future
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GOOGLE +
WHAT UP WITH THAT?? © fotolia
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Google + Pages
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Google + Pages
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Google + Pages
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Google + Ripples
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Google + Sparks
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Google + Sparks
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I LIED TO YOU
© fotolia
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I LIED TO YOU
I am going to cover
some “known” tools
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YouTube – “Haul” videos
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Slideshare
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Flickr – Groups and People
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Flickr – Groups and People
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Flickr – Groups and People
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Flickr – Groups and People
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DEMO
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SPECIALIZED SOCIAL NETWORKS
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What’s going on around me – or
in my locations of interest?
Where can I find – and actually
meet and talk with – experts?
MEE
TUP
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Ability to search by topic and/or location
Use tags to find additional Meetup groups
Even if no events are coming up, you can
still see the people associated with that
Meetup
MEE
TUP
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Meetup
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HASTAC
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HASTAC
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AngelList
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AngelList
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CapLinked
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CapLinked
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EXPERTISE AND INFORMATION
© fotolia
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Kindle for iPad/iPhone
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• Questions and answers • Manage and organize topics • Find experts • Promote your expertise
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Quora
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Quora
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Quora
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Quora
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Quora
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JIG
• Similar to Quora • Agree with answers • Questions actually closed!
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Jig
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• Journalists and reporters • UK focus • Search journalists or articles • Source of topic expertise
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DEMO
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MISCELLANEOUS
38 Jim – posterous.com
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Kindle for iPad/iPhone
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DO
OR
• Company reviews • What’s it like to interview with a
company? • Was the interviewee hired? • Salary
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KET
• Searches blogs, Twitter,
Facebook, images • Compare up to five searches
over time (up to 3 months)
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• Text analysis that looks great
• Find trends and common themes
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.IT • Search via Google Advanced Search
• Find top stories, specific topic groupings • Could do something similar with paper.li
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Twitter “activity” – new feature
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Directories
To find key industry and topic feeds
• Twellow: http://www.twellow.com
• Wefollow: http://www.wefollow.com
• Listorious: http://www.listorious.com
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RSS hack:
Create a Twitter hashtag RSS feed:
http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%23hashtag
Replace hashtag with the hashtag you want
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A few sources:
• Twubs • Hashtags.org • Tagalus • Tagdef
Alternatively: Google search for topic + hashtag
Example: medical conference
hashtag
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• Twitter “groups” • Ability to read and respond to
the entire group
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Analysis tools WhatTheTrend – Trends by country
Trendsmap – Where are the tweets happening?
Tweet Topic Explorer – key words in any Twitter stream
Twtrland – Top followers, content of tweets
TweetReach – showing influence, top contributors
Twazzup – great for specific, real-time updates
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DEMO
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APPS 53
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Layar
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Layar
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Layar
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THE FUTURE unprofound - Jim
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The “already” Future
• Social product development – Quirky, Adobe Labs Ideas
• Elements of gaming, competition in crowdsourcing - Kaggle
• Proprietary products incorporating information available in LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. – Spokeo, InsideView
• Increasing incorporation of social elements in vendor tools
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The “already” Future
• The growing implementation of the idea of social capital – as evidenced by HASTAC, “influencers” in LinkedIn
• More ownership of content – WhoSay.com, Diaspora
• Specialized social networks – CapLinked, AngelList
• Social networks as an information platform – First Street
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DIASPORA
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Kaggle
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First Street http://firststreet.cqpress.com/content/video.aspx
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First Street http://firststreet.cqpress.com/content/video.aspx
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Will social tools change? Yes
Will the dynamics change? Yes, but also stay the same
Will Facebook or Google + be around in 1 – 2 years?
No one knows.
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Scott Brown
Social Information Group
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @scbrown5 and @socialinfo
Skype: scbrown5
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottrbrown
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THANKS
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• Google + : http://plus.google.com
• Slideshare: http://slideshare.net
• Meetup: http://meetup.com
• HASTAC: http://hastac.org
• AngelList: http://angel.co
• CapLinked: http://caplinked.com
• Quora: http://quora.com
• Jig: http://jig.com
• Journalisted: http://journalisted.com
• GlassDoor: http://glassdoor.com
• IceRocket: http://icerocket.com
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• Wordle: http://wordle.net
• ScoopIt: http://scoop.it
• Twellow: http://twellow.com
• WeFollow: http://wefollow.com
• Listorious: http://listorious.com
• Twubs: http://twubs.com
• Hashtags.org: http://hashtags.org
• Tagalus: http://tagal.us
• Tagdef: http://tagdef.com
• Twibes: http://twibes.com
• WhatTheTrend: http://whatthetrend.com
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• TrendsMap: http://trendsmap.com
• Tweet Topic Explorer: http://tweettopicexplorer.neoformix.com
• Twtrland: http://twtrland.com
• TweetReach: http://tweetreach.com
• Twazzup: http://twazzup.com
• Layar: http://layar.com
• Quirky: http://quirky.com
• Adobe Labs Ideas: http://ideas.adobe.com
• Diaspora: http://joindiaspora.com
• Kaggle: http://kaggle.com
• WhoSay: http://whosay.com
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• Google + social network lets firms have their own pages:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15625577
• With Facebook in crosshairs, Google + opens for businesss: http://adage.com/article/digital/google-open-business/230862/
• Google Plus pages for libraries: http://joemurphylibraryfuture.com/google-pages-for-libraries
• Hacking an RSS feed for Twitter hashtags: http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/hacking-an-rss-feed-for-twitter-hashtags/35895
• The verticalization of professional networks begins: Is it a threat to LinkedIn? http://www.businessinsider.com/the-verticalization-of-professional-networks-begins-is-it-a-threat-to-linkedin-2011-11
• First Street gives Washington insiders their own social network: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/160/first-street
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