Digg.com – Originally a technology site, Digg has now branched out into a wider range of topics, including entertainment and business. Click the Digg button at the foot of an article to add the story and other community users will then "digg", or rate, your selection. The more people like your story, the higher up the digg home page it will go. Learn more about digg.com
del.icio.us – One of the most popular social bookmark websites. Delicious is a Social Bookmarking service, which means you can save all your bookmarks online, share them with other people, and see what other people are bookmarking. It also means that we can show you the most popular bookmarks being saved right now across many areas of interest. In addition, our search and tagging tools help you keep track of your entire bookmark collection and find tasty new bookmarks from people like you. Learn more about del.icio.us
Fark – Fark is a news aggregator and an edited social networking news site that allows users to comment on a daily batch of news articles and other items from various websites. Learn more about Fark
NewsVine – NewsVine is one of the leading online news communities, letting you decide which stories are important. NewsVines users can write their own articles, seed articles (which is what you’ll be doing by adding in links to our stories) or comment on existing articles on the site. With NewsVine you get to be editor of your own news by deciding which stories really matter, and your opinions will alter the overall ranking of the stories on the site. Read more about NewsVine
Facebook - A rapidly growing social networking site that connects you with people you know, allowing you to share photos and your latest news, as well as enabling a host of other activity including games and book reviewing. NEWS.com.au maintains a group on Facebook that allows you to connect with other readers and meet the staff – search for the group “NEWS.com.au readers and people”.
Kwoff - A new Australian social media site that allows you to share links and have your content voted onto the front page. It's like Digg, but much less tech-focused.Read more about Kwoff.
MySpace - Create a community on MySpace and you can share photos, news, journals and interests with your growing network of mutual friends! Read more about MySpace.
Twitter - allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.
Flixster, Flickr, Bebo, Twitterrific,
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
A user called Leash on twitters
As spoken about in our section meeting here is what I read to you provided by my sister...
twitter is a social network i guess used to keep up to date with what your friends are doing - so whereas in the past you would sms all your friends and say "hey party at mine saturday are u coming" and it would cost per sms u sent, u know just twitter it and wait for the responses. As none of my friends are actually on twitter I can't use it for this although I'm waiting and looking forward to the day that it starts to take over like facebook did. You have to keep your messages to 140 characters which can be challenging sometimes but fun. The good thing is you can link your entry to a blog page or a twitter photo page or qwik video page.
I have instant access to it via my phone and internet so wherever I am i can read twitters and post them. I have added informative and interesting people both nationally and internationally. I now find that I don’t need to watch the news or go to news.com because the twitter community tell me what is going on before the media get the info.
Examples:
The night melbourne had massive blackouts all over the city, I was sitting on Jason's balcony and read it and saw all the updates and this was exactly the same with the bushfires. I knew about them from people involved that were twittering on their mobiles before the media was across it.
The whole Ashton Kutcher thing, where the media/tabloids did a majore beat up of him yelling at his neighbours etc. He is one of my twitter friends so I knew it was a complete beat up and Ashton and Demi were actually posting wat was really happening including photos and videos.
I think as consumers and people in general become more aware of what is going on around them and stop believing the sensationalised stories from the media they look to networks like twitter as it delivers the real story.
I laugh now because about two days after something has happened (like John Mayer made some stupid joke comment - he is also in my network) Angela Bishop was reporting it as an exclusive on channel ten news. It really makes these news stories redundant as the news is now bneing told by the people that are involved in it and of course they tell u wat really happened rather than the media making it up.
Another example is Michael Phelps. He was discussing the whole bong thing on twitter before it became full scale news
Bands that have twitter pages like the grates, keep u informed of whats going on at a gig including photos and backstage gossip etc
I didnt need to watch the Grammy's the other night as I am networked to a rap artist who was sitting in the crowd and a makeup artist who was there. They gave updates including extra tidbits!
I have now noticed more and more that the media are quoting "twitter this twitter that" and they also do this with facebook. I actually feel journalists are rather lazy these days as all they need to do is look at someones twitter log or facebook and the work is done for them.
I am subscribed to Kevin Rudd Borack Obama, social media experts, normal day to day people, celebrities, bands etc and if you select a great group of twitters to follow you will stay informed and have your finger on the pulse.
twitter is a social network i guess used to keep up to date with what your friends are doing - so whereas in the past you would sms all your friends and say "hey party at mine saturday are u coming" and it would cost per sms u sent, u know just twitter it and wait for the responses. As none of my friends are actually on twitter I can't use it for this although I'm waiting and looking forward to the day that it starts to take over like facebook did. You have to keep your messages to 140 characters which can be challenging sometimes but fun. The good thing is you can link your entry to a blog page or a twitter photo page or qwik video page.
I have instant access to it via my phone and internet so wherever I am i can read twitters and post them. I have added informative and interesting people both nationally and internationally. I now find that I don’t need to watch the news or go to news.com because the twitter community tell me what is going on before the media get the info.
Examples:
The night melbourne had massive blackouts all over the city, I was sitting on Jason's balcony and read it and saw all the updates and this was exactly the same with the bushfires. I knew about them from people involved that were twittering on their mobiles before the media was across it.
The whole Ashton Kutcher thing, where the media/tabloids did a majore beat up of him yelling at his neighbours etc. He is one of my twitter friends so I knew it was a complete beat up and Ashton and Demi were actually posting wat was really happening including photos and videos.
I think as consumers and people in general become more aware of what is going on around them and stop believing the sensationalised stories from the media they look to networks like twitter as it delivers the real story.
I laugh now because about two days after something has happened (like John Mayer made some stupid joke comment - he is also in my network) Angela Bishop was reporting it as an exclusive on channel ten news. It really makes these news stories redundant as the news is now bneing told by the people that are involved in it and of course they tell u wat really happened rather than the media making it up.
Another example is Michael Phelps. He was discussing the whole bong thing on twitter before it became full scale news
Bands that have twitter pages like the grates, keep u informed of whats going on at a gig including photos and backstage gossip etc
I didnt need to watch the Grammy's the other night as I am networked to a rap artist who was sitting in the crowd and a makeup artist who was there. They gave updates including extra tidbits!
I have now noticed more and more that the media are quoting "twitter this twitter that" and they also do this with facebook. I actually feel journalists are rather lazy these days as all they need to do is look at someones twitter log or facebook and the work is done for them.
I am subscribed to Kevin Rudd Borack Obama, social media experts, normal day to day people, celebrities, bands etc and if you select a great group of twitters to follow you will stay informed and have your finger on the pulse.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Intranet resources
Cut costs by expanding your intranet
Cost cutting is a fact of life across public and private sectors.At some point every few years (or every year in some cases) organisations decide that the most effective way to improve productivity or profits is to reduce expenditures...
Step-by-step: implementing online forms
Online forms should be a key component of all corporate intranets, as they deliver clear productivity benefits and cost savings. Few organisations, however, have taken the next steps beyond simply publishing forms in PDF format...
Cost cutting is a fact of life across public and private sectors.At some point every few years (or every year in some cases) organisations decide that the most effective way to improve productivity or profits is to reduce expenditures...
Step-by-step: implementing online forms
Online forms should be a key component of all corporate intranets, as they deliver clear productivity benefits and cost savings. Few organisations, however, have taken the next steps beyond simply publishing forms in PDF format...
Intranets - Web 2.0 resources
Web 2.0
The 2nd generation of web where online content and applications are created, collaborated on and shared by the web community. It describes the web as a community controlled interactive tool rather than a publishing medium.
Wiki
Community publishing tool or website that allows users to edit and control content. Wikis are collaborative projects that can be used to create extensive databases with the resource developed and expanded by its users.
Tag Cloud
Is a visual representation of the content tags for a website, blog or community. Font size is used to indicate the relative use of the tag - with larger fonts used for the most popular tags.
Podcast
An audio file made available online for users to download and provided via feeds and syndication. Podcast content can vary from traditional music to news, reviews, presentations and audio diaries.
Twitter
Reference
Snap shots: http://www.snap.com/snapshots.php
This is tre cool!
The 2nd generation of web where online content and applications are created, collaborated on and shared by the web community. It describes the web as a community controlled interactive tool rather than a publishing medium.
Wiki
Community publishing tool or website that allows users to edit and control content. Wikis are collaborative projects that can be used to create extensive databases with the resource developed and expanded by its users.
Tag Cloud
Is a visual representation of the content tags for a website, blog or community. Font size is used to indicate the relative use of the tag - with larger fonts used for the most popular tags.
Podcast
An audio file made available online for users to download and provided via feeds and syndication. Podcast content can vary from traditional music to news, reviews, presentations and audio diaries.
Reference
Snap shots: http://www.snap.com/snapshots.php
This is tre cool!
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