Web 2.0: Managing Information Overload

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Brenda DyckTechnology

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Four categories of online adults based on online footprint concern:

1) Confident Creatives are the smallest of the four groups, comprising 17% of online adults. They say they do not worry about the availability of their online data, and actively upload content, but still take steps to limit their personal information. Young adults are most likely to fall into this group.2) The Concerned and Careful fret about the personal information available about them online and take steps to proactively limit their own

online data. One in five online adults (21%) fall into this category.3) Despite being anxious about how much information is available about

them, members of the Worried by the Wayside group do not actively limit their online information. This group contains 18% of online adults.4)

The Unfazed and Inactive group is the largest of the four groups—43% of online adults fall into this category. They neither worry about their

personal information nor take steps to limit the amount of information that can be found out about them online.”~ Pew Internet & American Life

Project’s Digital Footprint Study (2007)

"Having a digital footprint is a good thing! You are in charge of your presence on the web – it’s up to you to make it what you

want it to be. Presenting yourself as yourself, sharing your thoughts, developing

deeper understandings about your professional learning, is what your digital footprint should (and can) be about." ~

Silvia Tolisano

Delicious

"You probably have a personal library of professional books. You

keep these books together and organized in one place because they have information that helps you do

your job... Keeping a personal digital library is just as important and for the exactly the same reason." ~

David Warlick

Social Bookmarking Tool Delicious

• Delicious is a new concept/tool for me

• I have used a Delicious before

• I have used Delicious and created my own Delicious account

• I have taught some one else to make a Delicious account

• I have some experience with Delicious and would be willing to share my experience with using it

Place a check mark beside one of the following:

Delicious

1) First register for a Yahoo account

2) Register for a Delicious account at http://delicious.com/

Twitter

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+ Twitter Names to Add to Your Twitter Account

NeilStephensonwillrich45

karenszymusiakbethanyvsmith

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Twitter Ideas

Tweet Deck (organizing your Tweets)

Twitter Fall (researching on Twitter)Type in a keyword (ex: Web 2.0 Tools)+ Watch the results come pouring in

Twt Poll (create a poll)

Paperli (read Twitter as a Newspaper)  

Google Reader

Get automatic feeds and updates from your daily online reads sent to your inbox with Google Reader.

Will save you time spent weeding through unrelated posts or newsOrganizing Google Reader

Setting Up Your Google Reader Account

+ Beginning Suggestions for Your Reader (Blogs) 

David WarlickWesley Fryer

Will RichardsonCool Cat Teacher Blog

Neil Stephenson

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