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Part II of Connecting and Sharing Online.
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Connecting and Sharing Online - Part IIBryan Sippel
IntroductionGeneral
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Agenda
• Review of Part I– Take up homework
• Connect with family and friends to share information, pictures, talk, and more
• Skype and Facebook…• … Facebook and Flickr
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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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Technology is a tool
Not hard and forgiving
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 in two sessions…
• Enable you to explore…but what we can do is provide the information you need to understand the basics and explore on your own
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Who am I?
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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
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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 need to have mutual "agreement"
before 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 on the Internet
• Creating an account
• Username
• Password
• Personal Information
• Mandatory vs. Optional
An Account…
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HomeworkAre you serious?
• Pick a service
1)Skype
2)Flickr
3)Facebook• Create an account and explore• Write down questions
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Assignment
Assignment: Q&A
• I will record questions and answers here during the session.
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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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Photos
Photo album
- share with family and friends
- record information about the picture (date, location, etc.)
computer
Skype
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• Share View photos online instead of physical photo album
• Tag Keywords to describe the photo (e.g. family, animal, winter, etc.)
• Community Community of users sharing photos
• Others Picasa, PhotoBucket, SmugMug
Online photo album
• Magical Feature Tour
• Upload pictures
• Tag pictures
• Share pictures with others
Demowww.flickr.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
• Explore Click and don’t worry about making mistakes
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Referencesalphabetical by title
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_networkinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0