Social Media Examiner: Twitter Tips

 Social Media Examiner is an excellent site to monitor to help you improve your social networking. A good example is the page on twitter: Twitter Tips from Copyblogger’s Brian Clark (video) | Social Media Examiner

Computer Tips From A Computer Guy

Computer Tips From A Computer Guy 
The best source for technical information I have found. It covers just about anything from web development to problems with spyware on your computer. Try it! The seach box is for the site and not just a Google list. He writes in English and not techese.

Tips on Making a Website

Yola's tips on making a website.

Create a Google Store App and PayPal

Google Store App
The Google Checkout store gadget allows you to quickly and easily create an online store using a Google Docs spreadsheet. This is a gadget that is placed on your site.

Two major ways to accept payment (except, of course checks) are Google Checkout and PayPal. There are good and bad points for each. This article from Best Shopping Cart Reviews should help you with the choice.  It also suggests some other shopping carts.

Use Change.Org Create a Petition

If you want to help make change for the better, create a petition on the web using Change.
You can also sign up for other causes.

Using YouTube to Increase your Traffic

YouTube Can be used to help make your brand and increase your traffic. Create informative or entertaining videos about your niche topic. Yachts 
How about: How to use your scanner as a camera; Lobster Pot Marriages; What is a Land Trust; or A Quick Tour of Maine Farmhouses?
Even a good, interesting ad can get some traffic. Lowes

Google Friend Connect

Google Friend Connect
Enabling Friend Connect on your website couldn't be easier. All it takes is entering your website's URL and name when first signing into your Friend Connect account.

Put a Snazzy Header on Your Website

Headers are the first thing the reader sees on your websbsite so they need to grab the readers interest.  You can make your own with a drawing program or use interesting fonts with or without flashes. Their are many sites offering free or ones you can purchase. One example is freewebpageheaders.com

Google Maps for Your Website

Put a map on your site with full functions with GOOGLE MAPS.

Make Your Own Gadget

Google Gadget Maker.
You can make a gadget for your social or business sites. It will open up ON your page. It may contain a map and information. It may just give your readers a pleasant surprise or the ability to do something easily as gift, e.g. a game.

Domain Names

Your site will require a unique domain name. Some of the services that develop sites provide a domain name. Try not to get one with a free service attached to it.
Unique and short, but one that makes it clear what your site is all about is best.
For more info see Wikipedia below. There are many companies that can get you a domain name. They are fairly similar. GoDaddy is a popular one. You must register it every year.       
Domain name - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

GoDaddy.com

General		First Year Price
.com	The most popular domain! Do you have yours?	$10.69*
.info	Put your information on the Web.	$10.69*	$0.89*
.net	The perfect complement to a .COM.	$12.99*	$9.99*
.org	Perfect for your non-profit.	$14.99*	$9.99*
.me	A domain that's all about YOU.	$19.99	$8.99
.mobi	Give customers on-the-go access to your site.	$14.99*	$7.99*
.us	Get your hands on the all-American domain.	$19.99	$9.99
.biz	A domain that means business.	$14.99*
.ws	An all-purpose Web Site Domain.	$14.99
.asia	Reach the growing Asian market.	$19.99*
What's a Domain Name? Want a Web site? Personalized email? How about an easy, affordable way to promote your business, class reunion or favorite hobby? A unique, memorable dot com domain name is the first step to doing all this and more. It's your 'address' on the World Wide Web, and along with your Web site, serves as your 'online identity,' reflecting your purpose and personality. Friends, family, customers - anyone in the world with Internet access - can type your domain name into their Web browser and visit your Web site.

Etsy :: Your place to buy and sell all things handmade

Etsy :: Your place to buy and sell all things handmade.
Do crafts or photography that you wish to sell? Then this is a must see site.

Create custom products and photo gifts from your photographs, images and designs at Zazzle

Create custom products and photo gifts from your photographs, images and designs at Zazzle
No store, but you can sell products online. Again very popular.

Lunarpages Education Program | Free Web Hosting

Lunarpages Education Program | Free Web Hosting
A nice freeby only for schools and teachers. Why not offer your services to a local school?

websitewizard-guidebook.pdf (application/pdf Object)

websitewizard-guidebook 
A helpful PDF worth reading.

Stock Photography: Search Royalty Free Images & Photos

Stock Photography: Search Royalty Free Images & Photos

Sell stock photos

Yahoo! Merchant Solutions

Yahoo! Merchant Solutions

Set up your own store

Ecommerce Software Comparison with Volusion Social
Compare this to Yahoo Stores

About AdSense for Your Blog - Blogger Help

About AdSense for Your Blog - Blogger Help

Site Build It! Video Tour

Site Build It! Video Tour

Very interesting half hour video if you want to start a business based on your interests. Hand holds you through the whole business development process. Uses the Social Networking Approach that we have pursued. If you really want a successful web business you should really listen to this video even if you do not want to use their services.

Amazon and eBay Stores

The Amazon Stores
Gain the power (and cost) of Amazon with an easy to make store.
WebStore by Amazon: Online Store Feature Tour

What's an eBay Store
Set up store and have your items posted as the famous "buy it now" items. Lots of visibility.
Some interesting information available on these pages.

CafePress.com : Sell Your Designs, Photos and Images on CafePress.com : Introduction

CafePress.com : Sell Your Designs, Photos and Images on CafePress.com : Introduction
They provide the blank products. You put your imprint on it and sell it. The number one site of this kind. Clubs, teams, and online merchants use them.

Make Your Own Website

WIX 
We will Start with Wix.  It has no surprises and is fairly easy with fantastic capabilities for a novice. You may need to finish on your on computer to have easy access to your own information/images. I have started a site called Contig-Variations. It is not complete.  Also just a fun site. Sorry the slide show only held a few phtos.

WIX Support


Weebly
Another free site that is powerful and one you might like. 
Weebly Support  
Weebly Blog


Yola
Yola and Weebly are quite similar. There is a lot of discussion about which people like best.
YOLA Tutorials
 

Web.com costs $11.99 and is an easy setup with very complete support. Sort of a classic site of its kind.

Homestead by Intuit is only $4.99/month after 30-day free trial.I suggest this site for making an effective business/charity site easily. This is probably the fastest to set up if you find a template that suits your purposes.

Godaddy is a domain and/or website builder. Lowest $4.99/mo. Very Popular site that has lots of other features. Good site to build both business or personal site.

WordPress is a free blog builder. These can be very impressive blogs. They have pages that are really regular web pages.

Lunarpages Quicksite Web Hosting Plan
Another popular easy website builder.

DreamWeaver
I use DreamWeaver, the most popular program, to build my sites. It is costly, but very effective. They have a free trial offer.


Kompozer
A free program that is similar to DreamWeaver. If you plan to make and manage a number of sites this is the free program you will want. Must be downloaded

Joomla  is a free website developer and content management progam. It is especiall good if you need to change content frequently or put in a larrge number of "products"


CoffeeCup is free to schools and there is a free trial. Excellent for a quick store on the net. Program must be downloaded to your computer.

Mobile Phone Store Put your whole store on your mobile phone quickly and easily.

Google for Webmasters

Google for Webmasters 
If you are realy serious about your site use these tools. They often come with the site-builders. Not useful if you just want a site that friends can pull up using your URL.

How to Create Your Best Website Layouts Ever |

How to create your best website layouts ever | News | TechRadar UK
This is for the serious designer who is willing to use a little HTML. The idea of using a sketchpad and creating a map of the site is useful for those developers who do not use a pre-made template. First, look at lots of websites to see what you like.

Photos/Images: Photo Programs,Online Photo Albums and Photo Editors

If you are going to use your own photos/graphics you will need some place to edit and store them. You have My Pictures on your computer. I suggest you keep a separate folder for each site labeled images. Also it is a good idea to put backup copies on the web or a CD. Images placed on the we are usually jpg.

You can edit pictures in Paint by right clicking on the picture and clicking on edit.

You also have Windows Photo Gallery on your computer. Very basic but makes it easy to tag, caption and burn to CD's'  Also Windows Media Center.

I really like Irfanview as an editor and viewer. It is free to download and is a most complete editor. You can scan and do batch editing and change your photos in a great number of ways.For Photoshop effects free download Gimp. 

InkScape is illustration software similar to the commercial packages Adobe Freehand and Adobe Illustrator, but without the cost.

Godaddy: Photo Hosting Made Easy
by Godaddy.com has a small cost. If you like Godaddy it is worth it.

Picasa is a free site that must be downloaded to your computer. It is very complete and gives you an online web album.

Snapfish is free online site that is quite complete. Not as good editing, but you can do all sorts of things with your photos.

Photobucket is another excellent free site that has a very interesting feature, Scrapbooks.

There are other good sites, and many of the free editor sites, like Godaddy, have image storing and editing capabilities included.

Tools to Boost Your Social Media Productivity � SocialOomph.com

Tools to Boost Your Social Media Productivity � SocialOomph.com

Advanced. An integrated set of apps. Free or Premium.

TwitterLocal

TwitterLocal
TwitterLocal is a purely Adobe AIR based application that allows you to filter Tweets by location. Download required.

Welcome to the Local Business Center

Welcome to the Local Business Center
A must for business sites social  or regular sites.

Twellow :: Twitter Directory, Twitter Search, & Twitter Yellow Pages

Twellow :: Twitter Directory, Twitter Search, & Twitter Yellow Pages

**TweetDeck

TweetDeck
Have your SN sites all at one place with lots of special features.

See also Flock.com

Twitter - Business Exchange

Twitter - Business Exchange

Articles about using Twitter in business. Good source if you plan on any commercial or charitable enterprise.

***Beginner’s Guide to Twitter @ Using Twitter: The How to Twitter Guide

Beginner’s Guide to Twitter @ Using Twitter: The How to Twitter Guide
We should go over this guide.
Not the same as more extensive Mashable Guidebook to Twitter. (See earlier post.)

Twitterfeed.com : Feed your blog to Twitter

twitterfeed.com : feed your blog to twitter
Also other social sites. You need to post only once to have the post on each site. Posting is by set times, e.g., by the hour.

Twitter and Facebook as Instant News Service

Ping - How High Will Real-Time Search Fly? - NYTimes.com

" When a US Airways plane landed in the Hudson River in January, the first picture appeared on Twitter. In June, Twitter users were mourning Michael Jackson before major news outlets reported his death. And, this month, as much of the nation was riveted by images of a balloon believed to be carrying a 6-year-old boy, every twist and turn was tweeted and retweeted instantaneously, drowning out just about everything else on the site.

As major events unfold, Twitter, Facebook and other similar services are increasingly becoming the nation’s virtual water coolers. They spread information quickly, sometimes before the mass media do, and their ricocheting bursts of text and links become an instant record of Americans’ collective preoccupations."

Twitter Fan Wiki / Hashtags

Twitter Fan Wiki / Hashtags
Hashtags are tags that connect topic across the social sites.
Examples from Twitter Search.

YouTube - Flutter: The New Twitter: a Parody- Maybe

YouTube - Flutter: The New Twitter
While this is playful, don't be surprised if there is not something similar in a year or three.

HOW TO: Retweet on Twitter

HOW TO: Retweet on Twitter
A Mashable guide.

Twitter Post Update

I corrected the links and added a link to Mashable' online Guide to Twitter.
I can see more value to twitter, but I am still no fan.

AddThis - The #1 Bookmarking & Sharing Service

AddThis - The #1 Bookmarking & Sharing Service 

Share across sites. For the serious SN worker. Seriously increases traffic. (Good or Bad?)

Revised List of Active Social Networking URLs

SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES


URL

http://www.bebo.com/

http://www.blogger.com/

http://www.bravenet.com/

http://www.broadbentpage.blogspot.com/

www.commoncraft.com/video-social-networking

http://www.craigslist.com/

http://www.delicious.com/

http://www.digg.com/

http://www.drupal.org/

http://www.facebook.com/

http://www.flickr.com/

http://www.flock.com/

http://www.frank-broadbent.blogspot.com/

http://www.friendfeed.com/

http://www.furcadia.com/

http://www.gather.com/

www.gimp.org/

http://www.gmail.com/

http://www.google.com/sites/help/intl/en/overview.html

http://www.groups.google.com/grphp?hl=en

http://www.google.com/intl/en/googlereader/tour.html

www.google.com/talk/

http://www.grandparents.com/

http://www.imeem.com/

www.irfanview.net/

iWeb

iPone and others

http://www.kompozer.net/

http://www.linkedin.com/

http://www.mashable.com/

http://www.mashable.com/2007/10/23/social-networking-god/

www.mashable.com/2009/01/13/free-social-media-iphone-apps/

http://www.meebo.com/

http://www.meetup.com/

http://members.suscom-maine.net/?body=support&cat=webspace

www.myfamily.com/welcome/tour/

http://www.myspace.com/

www.units.muohio.edu/psybersite/cyberspace/cmcreal/index.shtml

http://www.opensocial.org/

www.irfanview.net/

http://www.orkut.com/

http://picasa.google.com/  

http://www.pixlr.com/

http://www.photobucket.com/

http://www.regroup.com/

www.shutterfly.com/

http://www.snapfish.com/

http://www.spoke.com/

http://www.tweetdeck.com/

http://www.twitter.com/

http://twitter.com/fbroad

http://www.typepad.com/

http://www.vimeo.com/

http://www.weebly.com/

www.wetpaint.com/

http://www.wikipedia.com/

www.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites

http://www.wix.com/

www.microsoft.com/windows/rookies/kylie4/?ocid=ftp_rookpmk_wl_281

http://home.live.com/

http://www.fbroad.spaces.live.com/

http://www.wordpress.com/

http://groups.yahoo.com/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/broadbentclass

http://www.yola.com/

http://www.youtube.com/

Yahoo Broadbentclass

Jim set up A Yahoo page for us: .http://groups.yahoo.com/group/broadbentclass/

The Finer Points of Facebook - butterscotch

The Finer Points of Facebook - butterscotch
A series of videos that help you become more expert in Facebook.

Advanced Twitter Tips - butterscotch

Advanced Twitter Tips - butterscotch
A series of instructional videos to help you make better use of Twitter.
Note that the site contains a large number of instructional videos that are very helpful.

Twitter

Twitter is a miniblog and getting to be one of the most popular SN sites. A good number of people do not tweet themselves very often, but rather they follow celebrities, news, information, etc.
Some college students use it for group  work and note taking or note sharing.
Some people just twitter inanely. High school students often gossip on it or some even share answers with it comfortably out of sight on their phones. Many companies and organizations use it for PR and advertising. Others just use it to keep up with what is current (most twetted topic). It has been useful to get news out of Iran and other places along with other SN sites.

As with other texting there is a whole new abbreviated vocabulary:  
8:] a Gorilla
and smilies


You will notice that many tweets contain links to other sites and are sort of bookmarks.

Twitter has many apps that expand it beyond just a miniblog. See the post below.

Help with Twitter

Mashable has a very comprehensive online Guide to Twitter.

Twitter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Twitter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

List of Twitter services and applications - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

List of Twitter services and applications - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Facebook Apps

Lots of plug-in apps that can be very helpful or just cute. Read reviews, etc. before you put them on your page. Sometimes they spread to more people than you want.
See Facebook Widget post below for more additions to you site and ways of connecting.

Create a Custom Toolbar | Conduit

Create a Custom Toolbar | Conduit
Get traffic and leave visitors with a piece of your site. Allows you to run sweepstakes or contests, etc. Small monthly cost therefore mostly for commercial use.

Facebook & Wave: Why Facebook Should Clone Google Wave

Face book is facing competition from a new super email site from Google called wave which is in Beta at the moment. This article explains why Wave and Facebook should be combined.
Basically all e correspondence will become social and multimedia. A selection about Facebook
is interesting to us as we start Facebook.

Facebook does a lot of things, and with over 300 million active users, they do a lot of things for a lot of people. But the two things they might do best are enable sharing, and co-opt good ideas from companies that target early adopters.
According to some data, Facebook is the most popular way to share information online, more popular than older technologies like email. Which probably shouldn’t come as a surprise given that Nielsen Online reported earlier this year that social networking now has a broader global reach than email, and that among social networks Facebook is experiencing the most most growth.
While Facebook certainly hasn’t killed email, something that has been has been a recurring meme since 2007 (see here, here, here and here, for example), people are spending more and more time on the site.


Facebook and Wave

OUR BLOGS

Below is a list of our blogs. You may want to associate with them.
http://www.CoryGardiner.blogspot.com
http://jimtoddsblog.blogspot.com/
http://www.kconnors123.blogspot.com
http://www.skiprobinson.blogspot.com
http://www.fortheloveofhouses.blogspot.com/
 http://www.jmftravelgirl.blogspot.com
http://www.richarddevito.blogspot.com
http://www.myanika-myanika.blogspot.com 

Fancy up your Profile

If you want to make your profile fancy try link below.  You will have to do this at home since the audio is very important.

http://www.fbexpressions.com/videos.html

Vox.com is Fun, Easy Blogging with Powerful Privacy and Multimedia Features

VOX is an easy alternative to Blogger that you might like better especially if multimedia and privacy are your prorities.
Vox.com is Fun, Easy Blogging with Powerful Privacy and Multimedia Features

Introduction to FaceBook

FaceBook has become a phenomenon. Please read the Atlantic article.

President Obama's Facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/barackobama?ref=nf

FaceBook article on FaceBook.

FaceBook

FaceBook is actually easier to use than Blogger. It is a lean site set up only for social networking and not designed after the diary. It is very easy to use because of this. If you want to pimp up your site, you will find it more difficult to do. You will notice that other sites are usually "plain Jane."

A note about a quirk in FaceBook is that to get to your wall (where public messages are displayed) you need to click on your name on the top right side of the page. After all the setup is done the wall will come up each time you enter FaceBook.  Also note that they are sending you email that you should read. (If you do not know how to get your email, try Mail2Web. You will need your address and password.)

You will begin to receive emails asking you to be a friend. My suggestion is to decline them, unless you know them. ( The teenager love to have hundreds of "friends")

If you belong to a group, be sure you friend them. 

FaceBook Help is very complete so we will not spend so much time in class on building our page, Rather, we will network with each other since this is what FaceBook is all about.

For those who desire to fancy up their page, I can make suggestions or you can Google your questions. Information about FaceBook is plentiful.

FaceBook Worm Warning

This will not effect us now. It could as you enter feeds on your FaceBook and should serve as a warning.
http://mashable.com/2009/09/25/warning-facebook-worm-spreading-via-news-feed/

FaceBook Widget and Applications

http://www.facebook.com/facebook-widgets/ is like Blogger widgets. There are only Two.

Some very interesting applications and other things to create interest. Fun.
http://www.fbkit.com/

Creating Events

Blog on using Events. Invite people to participate in your event.

Try Causes to Help a Cause or Create a New One

Causes is a way of contributing to or starting a new cause.
 

Getting help on FaceBook for Causes.

Inroduction to FaceBook

FaceBook has become a phenomenon. Please read the Atlantic article.
FaceBook article on FaceBook.
NYT article on FaceBook.

Make the Title of Your Blog Look More Interesting!

You can put a picture into the title rectangle of your blog.

Go to customize, then the Page Elements page.   Click on the small Edit in the lower right hand corner of the Header box.   When the next screen comes up, you have the choice of selecting an image from the web or from your computer.   From your computer, you can just browse and click on the location of the image, but it appears that you have to type in the URL if you're using an image from the web.  I couldn't get a copy and paste to work....   The image should show up on the page.

Be sure to click on the instruction to put the picture behind the title, so  you can still read the title, and also click on Shrink to Fit, so the picture squeezes into the space of the header.

Voila!  You have a personalized header!

Photo Buffs Try Splashr and Photoshow

Splashr takes the photos you have on Flikr and makes a great presentation.

You may like Photoshow better. Why not check them both out?

I will have more on this later, if anyone requests it. You can follow the instructions yourself if you are a photo buff or are considering a commercial or a site for a cause.

This could be a class or group project by making a show about Senior College.

Sidewiki

Sidewiki is valuable if you wish to interact with certain websites, wish to cut/paste material from the web, and/or have multiple blogs.

"Google Sidewiki is a browser sidebar that enables you to contribute and read helpful information alongside any web page. It is available as a feature in Google Toolbar.
To get started, simply download the latest version of Google Toolbar and enable the Sidewiki button in the Toolbar Options menu. Learn more about enabling Sidewiki. "

Some Thoughts

Have you looked at the suggested list of SN sites for ones that serve your purposes?

Have you tried Yahoo groups(e.g. Portland groups), Grandparents groups, or Craigslist forums to find people with similar interests?

Do you think the class should undertake a class project?

I would like to do a video of the class doing a skit or something. Any ideas?

If you have suggestions for the class please lets hear them. Our purposes are to become familiar with social networking and create our personal space on the web.

Checking Backlinks

Wanto know who linked to your blog? Use Back Links: Back links help

Monetize or Add Ads

Personally, I do not like these. If you only have a few people viewing you blog it is not worth it. If your blog gets hundreds of viwers you might want to consider it. Monetize is one of the tabs and more info is in MONETIZE.

Using Labels

You can indes you posts by topic using LABELS. For instance, if you want to find all of your
posts about Maine you will be able to if you put Maine in the Label box of each post. For more information: LABELS.

Souping up Your Blog

Here are some more advanced things you might want to add to your blog. They require a bit more work and use other sites.

Tagboards, Guest Books, Smilies and Emoticon, Recieve Voice messages via your blog and Post Messages via your blog.

Putting Sound on Blogger

Blogger does not offer sound and getting it is not easy, but it can be done. Follow this HELP.

Publish your Book

Check out Blurb if you want to compile your image materials into a book inexpensively.

On-Line Editor Pixlr

Pixlr can be used as a free Photoshop substitute. Plus it is free, fast, and online. There are add-ons for Firefox if you use a lot of images.

Adding an Image Using New Editor

Adding an image from your computer:

Follow same steps as in old Editor except be sure to click on the picture that appears in the window.

Adding an image from the web:

For now, it is easier to to go to settings and select the old Editor and then upload the image.

If you do need an image from the web, work around it by uploading the image to your computer:
Right click on selected image.
Select Save Image as...
Type in a meaningful file name.
Save.
Go to New Post.
Click on image and download the image from your computer

GOOGLE-411

I know this is not a Blogger item, but it is rather neat.
GOOGLE-411 is a free service to get information about local businesses using your phone.

What is BlogThis!

What is BlogThis! ? - Blogger Help

Go to site and add this to your toolbar so you can blog without getting your blog.
Obviously, if you want this feature, you will need to do it on your own computer.

Adding a Video to Your Blog

Sample video from computer.

Sample film: Star

First make sure toolbar has film icon.
If it is not there, you have selected the new editor. For this class go to Settings and under Global Settings select old editor.

Click on film icon.
For uploading your own videos, browse to where I you have filed your videos.
Add a title.
Agree to terms.
Click on Upload Video.
Wait!
Publish Post.

For getting films from Youtube or other websites, use this url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcMeXCpRIUA

Adding a Picture (old Editor)

Most times you will add picture from your "My Pictures" on you computer or from a photo site you have subscribed to such as Picassa or Flikr.

To add a picture from your computer:
Go to New Post.
Click on the picture icon in the toolbar.
Go to Brouse.
Select your picture.
Choosea Lout and Image Size.
Click Upload.
Your image should appear.
Click Done


To Add a Picture from the Web.
We will get a picture from my Picassa Web Album.
Select a picture
Copy its url by right clicking on the image.
Click Properties.
Copy the URL
Return to Blogger Post
Paste the url into the box.
Select the Location and Size
Click Done.
The picture should show.

Pictures added to your blog should be fairly small or else they will take forever to load and in some cases be rejected if too large. Irfanview will resize pictures and make sure they are in JPG or TIFF format as will Picasa and some other programs.

Graphics and photos can be edit using the free program GIMP.

The New Post Tool Bar

Note that this is a fairly complete word processor. Try it out with a post.
WOW !!!!! GOOD www.google.com

Blogger Mobile

If you have a cell phone with a built-in camera, you can post pictures and text using Blogger Mobile. (I do not have a camera phone.) First send a picture from your cell phone to: go@blogger.com. They will text message you back a claim token. Then, on your computer go to: http://www.blogger.com/mobile-start.g  Enter your claim token. You will have the choice of a complete new "Moblog" or making entries in your blog.

I suggest you read the instructions carefully and then sign up at home.

Using Mail-to-Blogger

I am posting an entry using my mail program. It will post the entry and send me an email message that it has posted successfully.The directions are on Mail-to-Blogger.

Again, this is best done on your own computer at home.

Getting a Gadget

Go to new Posts
Go to Layout
Click Add a Gadget
Find gadget and click
Follow instructions
Preview

SOCIAL NETWORKING COURSE

WHAT IS SOCIAL NETWORKING?

http://www.commoncraft.com/video-social-networking (Good plain English, non-technical intro)

PURPOSES AND ADVANTAGES OF SOCIAL NETWORKING

Friends—Old and new

Sharing interests

Family unity

Business and organization

Getting Involved

Entertainment

Education and news

WHAT ARE YOUR INTERESTS NOW?

EXPORING SITES AND FORMATS

See our Social Networking blogs: http://www.broadbentpage.blogspot.com/

http://seniors-blogging.blogspot.com/

http://mashable.com/2007/10/23/social-networking-god (Fairly complete listing of links)

Youtube

FaceBook

GMAIL

TALK

Blogger

OrKut

picasa http://picasaweb.google.com/frank.broadbent4/GETTINGYOURPLACEONTHEWEB#a

flickr

myfamily.com/welcome/tour/

Twitter

linkedIn

Imeem

Bebo

RSS and Gadgets/widgets (AJAX)

opensocial (Google)

MySpace

Wikipedia

Wikis

Blogs

Craigs List

Furcadia (Role playing game)

Usenet, MUDs, listserves, chat rooms, forums, bulletin boards

GETTING ON LINE WITH BLOGSPOT, FACEBOOK AND TWITTER

SELECTING YOUR OWN MEDIUM OR GROUP PROJECTS

SHARING (Will you be my friend?)

Share ideas, discoveries, and questions on the Class blog

Share project with class.

http://www.grandparents.com/gp/content/expert-advice/long-distance-grandparenting/article/get-splashy-with-it.html

LIST OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES

Family is invoved in internet

My son, Bill, has run successful internet businesses starting with T-ShirtKing and now www.apppublishing.com
My daughter has done grahics on many sites and has some art sites including, www.broadbentdahlquist.com , and is developing Apps for iPhones at www.susanbroadbentapps.com.
I have developed sites for the Maine School Science Volunteers and www.navyleaguecascobay.org , plus others and blogs.

USEFUL INFORMATION FROM FORMER COURSE ON BLOGING

This is a blog used in a previous course. It has some tips on blogging and pictures of Sr. Collegers you may know:
http://seniors-blogging.blogspot.com/