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My presentation on the future of social media for the National Archives.
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The past, present and future of social media
Alex HowardGovernment 2.0 Correspondent
O’Reilly Media
What is social media?
Postal Service (550 BC)
Telegraph (1792)
Pneumatic mail (1865)
Telephone (1890)
Radio (1891)
Email (1966)
ARPANET (1969)
Commercial online services (1969)
Bulletin Board Services (BBS) (1979)
Ward Christensen and the First BBS [Credit: Wikipedia]
Usenet (1979)
• Conceived of by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis.
• Usenet let users post articles or posts to newsgroups.
Online chat rooms (1980)
Internet Relay Chat (1988)
• IRC was followed by ICQ in the mid-90s.
• First IM program for PCs.
World Wide Web (1991)
Credit: http://www.radford.edu/srabago/links/text.html]
Blogs (1994) First blog? Links.net
Wikis (1994)
• Ward Cunningham was inspired in part by Apple’s Hypercard
• He developed Vannevar Bush’s ideas of “allowing users to comment on and change one another’s text”
America Online (1995)
Social networks (1997)
P2P/ Social filesharing (1999)
Livejournal
…and Blogger (1999)
Wikipedia (2001)
RSS (2002)
Friendster (2002)
MySpace (2003)
• Friendster (2002)• MySpace (2003)
Second Life (2003)
Facebook, Digg, Flickr and LinkedIn (2004 )
YouTube (2005)
Twitter (2006)
Livestreaming (2006)
• uStream.tv• Justin.tv• Livestream.com
First YouTube Presidential Debate (2007)
[Credit: HowStuffWorks]
Tumblr (2007)
• Lifestreaming + microblogging platform
My.Barack.Obama.com (2007)• 2 million+ members. Most contributed to
nearly half a billion dollars raised online.
#IranElection (2009)
[Credit: UPI]
Foursquare (2009)
Posterous (2009)
DoD Social Media Policy (2010)
Google Plus (2011)
The Future?
China
Russia
Augmented reality
Augmented overload!
Image Credit: Daonk.org
Digital tools for open government
NY Senate on iTunes
Social audits
Socialmemories
Image Credit: Portal To Your Dreams
We’ll need better filter/browsers
Image credit: PC World on Aurora
Privacy challenges
The stream