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.

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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

ning

Blog Photos Forum Groups Premium service

Google

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!

Twitter

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

Thank you!

Peter Fleck pfhyper@gmail.com Links to the handout at pfhyper.com

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?

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