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Published: Dec. 4, 2006, 11:48 a.m.

Intro
According to wikipedia.com:\nSocial media describes the online tools and platforms that people use to share\nopinions, insights, experiences, and perspectives with each other. Social media\ncan take many different forms, including text, images, audio, and video.\nPopular social mediums include blogs, message boards, podcasts, wikis, and\nvlogs.

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In this session we'll take a\nlook at a few of the common social media applications including mySpace,\nFacebook and Flickr. We'll also look at some applications that are designed\nspecifically for academic use.

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Gordon, can you tell us a little more about\nwhat these social media tools?
\xe2\ufffd\ufffdWhat we want to express\nwith the term social media is the fact that in media design we are aware of the\nexistence of others and the collaborations we see happening through the\nso-called social software. Concrete examples of social media are online\ncommunities, social networking places, social sharing tools (flickr),.... \xe2\ufffd\ufffd

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Source: Belgian Master\ncourse in Communication & Multimedia Design: http://listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/air-l-aoir.org/2006-April/009573.html

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How about some examples?

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\xa0mySpace: http://www.myspace.com/

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Eons: http://eons.com

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Flickr: http://www.flickr.com

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\xa0Digg: http://www.digg.com

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MyHeritage: www.myheritage.com

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del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us

\n\nFacebook is probably a good example of what\nmany of our students are using. Can you use as an example of how these work\nwith some detail? \n\n

(www.Facebook.com)

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Let\xe2\ufffd\ufffds take a look at the\nFacebook website site tour. [Source: http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/]

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I\xe2\ufffd\ufffdve heard about social media applications that extend beyond the\ndesktop. Can you give an additional example?

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Dodgeball: http://www.dodgeball.com/\n

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Mobile\nlocation-based service that functions using \xe2\ufffd\ufffddevices formally known as cell\nphones\xe2\ufffd\ufffd and text messaging. See website for demo.

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Are there any specific academic applications?

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CiteULike: http://www.citeulike.org/\n

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Is there a good comprehensive list of social media application\nlinks?

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Sure \xe2\ufffd\ufffd Wikipedia maintains a great list that\nis linked up in the shownotes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites

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How about academic applications?

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Blackboard/WebCT (www.blackboard.com) \xe2\ufffd\ufffd RSS not available yet

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Moodle (www.moodle.org) has a basic blogging tool.\xa0 It has\nthe capacity to add tags and create RSS feeds for the other people in your\ncourse/class.

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\xe2\ufffd\ufffd\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\nMoodle is an \xe2\ufffd\ufffdopen\nsource\xe2\ufffd\ufffd application\xe2\ufffd\xa6\xe2\ufffd\xa6

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ANGEL Learning (commercial)

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Brihaspati (Open source,\ncommercial version also)

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eCollege (commercial)

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Desire2Learn (commercial)

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Dokeos (open source)

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Edumate (commercial)

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LON-CAPA (open source)

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.LRN (open source)

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Sakai Project (open source)

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Scholar360 (commercial)

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WebCT (commercial, owned by Blackboard Inc.)

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Vuepoint (commercial)

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