Kevin Kearney's List: Social Networking

With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install.

A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.

Users can doodle while commenting, use multiple identities, and pick which comments are shown through moderation. VoiceThreads can even be embedded to show and receive comments on other websites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archival movies.

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"A quick and plain English intro the micro-blogging service Twitter. Follow us:

http://www.twitter.com/commoncraft

This video comes in an
unbranded "presentation quality" version that can be licensed for use in the
workplace."

"Twitter – A Teaching and Learning Tool"

CasesBlog - Medical and Health Blog: Video: Teaching With Twitter

"Why Twitter Is a Teacher's Best Tool"

"These resources actually provide over 110 ideas for, and examples of,
using
Twitter in the classroom."

"Flickr
is an
image
hosting
and
video
hosting
website,
web
services
suite, and
online
community
that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by
Yahoo!
in 2005. In addition to being a popular website
for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by

bloggers
to host images that they embed in
blogs and
social
media
.
[2]

Yahoo reported in June 2011 that Flickr had a total of 51 million registered
members and 80 million unique visitors.
[3]
In August 2011 the
site reported that it was hosting more than 6 billion images and this number
continues to grow steadily according to reporting sources.
[4]

Photos and videos can be accessed from Flickr without the need to register an
account but an account must be made in order to upload content onto the website.
Registering an account also allows users to create a profile page containing
photos and videos that the user has uploaded and also grants the ability to add
another Flickr user as a contact. For mobile users, Flickr has an
official app
for
iOS
,
[5]

Android
, and
Windows Phone 7

operating systems.
[6]"

"Wondering what Flickr is and why you should use it? We'll tell you."

"A
folksonomy
is a system of classification derived from the practice
and method of
collaboratively

creating and managing
tags
to annotate and
categorize

content
;
[1]

[2]

this practice is also known as
collaborative tagging
,
[3]

social classification
,
social indexing
, and
social tagging
.
Folksonomy, a term coined by
Thomas
Vander Wal
, is a
portmanteau
of
folk
and
taxonomy
."

"Posting too much information on social networking sites may be dangerous"