What is Social Networking? Del-icio-us Chat Ning Second Life Sharing Content Online Wikis Google Docs  Slideshare Scribd jing Podcasting RSS Feed

What is Social Networking?

Social networking means connecting with people online. Social Network can also be used effectively in a workplace.  It provides a tool for particpants or employees to effectively collaborate on projects. It includes chat, messaging, email, video, blogging, file sharing and discussion groups. Here is an overview of the tools used.

 

Del-icio-us

http://del.icio.us/ - is an online social bookmarking web service for storing and sharing your bookmarks. Use of Del.icio.us is free.

 

 

Chat

 

Any kind of communication on the internet. Popular chat include Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live Messenger.

 

Ning

http://www.ning.com/ 

Ning is an online service where you can create, customize, and share your own Social Network for free in seconds.

 

Second Life

http://secondlife.com/

Second Life Grid is a platform that enables your organization to create a public or secure private space using the leading 3D online virtual world technology. You can create your own group space for communication, learning and collaboration. 

 

 

Sharing Content Online

 

Wikis

are websites that allows visitors to add, remove, edit and change content with ease. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites. You can create a wiki for free.

Here are some free wiki sites -

Wikispaces.com   Or    http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/

PBWiki.com         Or     http://lwtclearningcommons.com/

WetPaint.com

mediawiki.org

TikiWiki.org

 

Google Docs 

http://www.google.com/google-d-s/b1.html

• Import Create, Edit, Upload  or Import your existing documents, spreadsheets and presentations, or create new ones from scratch.
• All Access from anywhere, all you need is a Web browser. Your documents, spreadsheets and presentations are stored securely online.
• Invite people to your documents and make changes together in real time.
• It is Free

 

Slideshare

http://www.slideshare.net/

Create and share your presentations with the world, either publicly or privately.  

 

Scribd

 http://www.scribd.com/

Scribd is a free social document sharing website. You can easily add documents online, either for public or private use.

 

jing

http://www.jingproject.com/

Capture images and record video from your desktop and share online via email, IM or blogs for free.

 

Podcasting

A podcast is a media file that is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and personal computers. Create a podcast and upload that to Angel. Add this file in the Lessons Tab.

 

RSS Feed

RSS is a method of distributing links to content in your web site that you'd like others to use.  Build a Feed using Free sites

• Feed2JS  -  http://itde.vccs.edu/rss2js/build.php