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Connecting and Sharing OnlineBryan SippelFriday, November 5, 2010

IntroductionGeneral

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Agenda

• Social Networking• Skype: Talking online• Facebook: Sharing information online

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Prerequisites

• Basic knowledge of how to use a computer• Internet, keyboard, and mouse• Home high speed Internet is ideal but not necessary

• Email address• Comfort with accessing and sending email

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Assumptions

We will have fun

Willing to try, maybe fail, try again

Stop me – ask questions???

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Technology is a tool

Not hard

It is different and will change tomorrow

Need an understanding of the basics

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Goals

• Provide a foundationCannot cover all aspects and areas of connecting and sharing online today

• Enable you to explore…but what we can do is provide the information you need to understand the basics and explore on your own

Beyond Today

• Drop-In Help

• Sign Up Help Sessions– Check the Vista or speak to Nicki Long for

details

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Who am I?• Born in Surrey, England• Grew up in Oakville, ON

• Education:– BAH, Psychology– MSc, Organizational Behaviour

• Job: – Senior Functional Analyst, Queen’s

University

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• New addition to our family

• Love technology

• Sports: Montreal Canadiens fan

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IntroductionSocial Networking

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“Yes, you.

You control the Information Age. Welcome to your world.”

Time MagazineDecember 13, 2006

Historyand

Structure

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• Online communities

• People who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of othershttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking

Structure

Internal Social Networks (ISN)

• a closed/privatecommunity thatconsists of a group of people

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External social networks (ESN) • open/public and available to all web users to communicate• can be smaller specialized communities or they can be large generic social networking sites

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Common Features

• Users can upload a picture of themselves

• Create a “profile”

• Can often be "friends" with other users– Typically you need to have a mutual

"agreement" between friends

• Privacy controls: who can see your profile, contact you, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking

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How does it work?

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Use a computer to access the Internet

Use the Internet to connect to other people using online services

• Create an accountUsernamePassword

• Connect with other users

• Share content

Steps

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Talk

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What is Skype?

How does it work?

How do I sign up?

What is Skype?• A free service to communicate over the Internet

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Features

Skype offers all the features of regular phone service and many are free!

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Call Plans

http://www.skype.com/prices/callrates/?currency=CAD#allRatesTab

Free!

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VoIPVoice Over Internet Protocol

How does it work?

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Webcam

• small video camera

• either external or internal

• can be one way video or two way video

• can also be used to take pictures and share

External

Internal

What do you need?

• Skype account

• Microphone

–Internal

–External (Audio In or USB)

• Webcam (optional)– Internal or External

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Download Skype softwarewww.skype.comInstructions will be provided

Install Skype softwareInstructions will be provided

Create Skype Namee.g Bryan.Sippel

How do I sign up?

Demo

• www.skype.com

• Click on ‘Download’

• Scroll down to see ‘Download now’ button

• Click on ‘Run’

• Click on ‘Run’ again

• Welcome screen: select ‘Options’

• Change options if needed (not necessary)

• Read and review License Agreement

• After clicking ‘I Agree – Install’ select or deselect the Google Toolbar (no impact on Skype)

• Will take 2 – 5 minutes to install…

• … still going …

• Click ‘Start Skype’

• Create a Skype account• Remember your password

• After completing the information, click ‘Next’

• Enter your Email and Country and City (optional)

• After clicking “Sign In” it will take a few minutes for Skype to create the new account and launch the program

• If you do not see Skype, click on the ‘Skype’ button in the bottom taskbar

• Search for Contacts using the Skype Directory

• Once you add a Contact you will be able to call them using Skype

• Click on ‘Call’ to start a conversation

• To start Skype later, click on Start > All Programs > Skype > Skype

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Information

350 million active users3.5 billion pieces of content shared each month

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Facebook

• Status Updates– What are you doing right now?

• Profile– Information about yourself, as little or as much as you

want (e.g. Birthday, Marital Status, Location, Education, Employment, etc.)

• Wall– Short comments to each other, like a public bulletin

board

• News Feed– Summary of Friends activities

• Messages– Similar to email in Facebook

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Piece by piece…

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Toolbar

Pages and Status Update

News Feed

Advertising

• Currently how Facebook makes money

• Free service = advertising

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/five-tips-to-manage-facebooks-new-privacy-settings/article1417501/

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Privacy

1) Control what is public2) Maintain friends list

e.g. Family, Friends, and Colleagues3) Protect your photos4) Read the fine print on apps5) Say bye for good

Best rule: Don’t post anything you wouldn’t want your mother to see

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Tourwww.facebook.com

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Summary

• Foundation My hope is that you can use this presentation as a foundation and build on it as you explore online

• Tools An introduction to tools available for you to connect and share online with other people

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References

Computer Messaging History

http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/09/04/computer-messaging-before-the-web-%E2%80%93-a-visual-timeline-1960-1990/

http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/09/11/computer-messaging-history-part-2-%E2%80%93-a-visual-timeline-1990-2009/

Google Images

Enter a search at http://www.google.ca and when viewing the results you will see an Images button in the top left corner. Clicking on ‘Images’ will display the pictures/images Google has found matching your search. I used Google Images search to find most of the pictures/images used in this presentation.

Informationhttp://blog.compete.com/2009/02/09/facebook-myspace-twitter-social-network/

Time’s Person of the Year: Youhttp://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html

Wikipedia Articleshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0