why i hate facebook (or what social network shall we use today?)
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A look at social network tools that allow you to get your data out.TRANSCRIPT
Why I Hate Facebook
Or what social network shall
we use today?A presentation by Peter Fleck
Agenda
Mingle Present Discussion Small groups Report & Discuss
Goals & Objectives
Intro social web tools Discuss collaborating Discuss marketing Raise questions! Open your minds Learn cool words like "twoosh" and "tweet” Find out why Peter hates Facebook
Social network universe
Social Networks
Construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system
Articulate a list of other users with whom you share a connection
View and traverse your list of connections and those made by others within the system
Share stuff
Danah Boydhttp://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html(1)
What can I do?
Find long-lost high school friends Make new friends Find work Collaborate Market Connect by sharing
It’s still a frontier
Work culture
Is your work culture social media friendly?
How private & sensitive is your data?
facebookfacebook
60,000,000 active users
(My) problems with FaceBook
Invites Clunky, non-intuitive interface Slow Irritating applications Advertising
Facebook applications
IT’S A SILO
Facebook doesn’tshare well
Ning
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Blog Photos Forum Groups Premium service
Docs Maps Gmail Reader All of them have a social and collaborative
aspect
Google OpenSocial
Apache 2.0 license opensocial.org will hold the license
(nonprofit) Build once and use across compatible web
sites MySpace, NY Times, Nike, LinkedIn, PayPal,
Ning, Facebook NOT!
What has your attention? 140 character limit Access via web, cell, instant messaging,
custom clients or widgets API
Using Twitter
Coordinate activities on the ground (demonstrations, protests)
Provide status reports to a closed group Tell me what is interesting on the Web Announce blog posts and podcasts (careful!) Aggregate and publish links from many
sources
Twitter widgets
Twitter LAFD
RSS
Video tweeting: seesmic
Friendfeed
Questions &Discussion
Questions
Your group must make a recommendation on whether your organization uses social networking or not. What is your decision?
What social media tool looks most interesting to you today?
How can you leverage the tool for the benefit of your organization?