Information Networks: Blogs and Microblogs
- 1. Information Networks Blogging and Microblogging
- 2. Sorting through it all… Photos, Videos, Art, Livecasting, Audio/Music Personal, Professional, Events Journals, Social Bookmarking, Reviews/Opinions, Info, Forums, Aggregators Virtual Worlds, Game Sharing, Online Gaming, Browser Games Social Information Entertainment Media
- 3. Blogging/Vlogging 1994: First Blog created by Justin Hall 1999: Blogger created. Free, user friendly blog creation Web site. Term “Blogging” is coined. 2005: Huffington Post: Blogs become more than just opinions. 2002: Blog Ads, Bloggers turn blogging into $
- 5. Blogging Etiquette Be Honest Disclose, disclose, disclose Be Genuine Would you say it to their face? Be Nice ! Attribute Respond to Comments
- 6. Successful Blogging Blog with a Purpose and Focus Participate in the Blogging Community Live Blog Connectivity (RSS, Blog Roll) Respond to Comments
- 7. Strategic Use Tracking and Searching the Blogosphere Technorati Google Blog Search Ice Rocket Twitter Examples Mashable Huffington Post
- 8. Microblogging Plurk Jaiku (Google)
- 9. Why is it called Microblogging?
- 10. Twitter Jargon Tweeter/Twitterer Tweeple/Tweeps Tweeting Tweet Twitterverse/Twitosphere Twitterati Tweetup/TweetIn Twitter Stream Collection of tweets, in reverse chronological order Twitter User Posting messages on Twitter Message posted to Twitter A-List Twitterers, often celebrities. People on Twitter; Twitter + People Twitter + Meetup; social gathering organized via Twitter The entire collection of Tweeters using Twitter; the Twitter community
- 11. Opinions Questions Information Needs Conversation Ideas Sharing
- 12. Tweeting 140 Characters including spaces Post thoughts, ideas, comments Post video ( Twiddeo ), photos ( TwitPic ) or links ( tiny.url or bit.ly ) Have a conversation (Reply) Direct Messages (DM) Retweeting (RT)= re-posting other peoples tweets
- 13. More on Tweets Hashtags -Tagging Tweets. Include #topic to add your tweet to a category. Searching Trending Topics Favorites: You can favorite posts and view other peoples favorites
- 14. Following and Being Followed Finding people to Follow Who are other people following? Searching (Twitter and Twellowhood ) Blocking Followers Removing tweeters your following Follow Friday
- 15. Managing Twitter Twhirl: Desktop application. Tweet Deck: Organize Twitter. Also connects to Facebook. HootSuite: Manage multiple Twitter accounts Seesmic Desktop
- 16. The Fail Whale
- 17. Twitter Applications & Help Applications