Social Media In an EH World: What Is

This Stuff Anyway?Steven J. Lipton M.Ed. LEHP CP-

FS

President, Biotest Services Inc.

Des Plaines, IL

Delivering the mail

Delivering the e-mail

Reading e-mail in one place

Reading in many places

Server side operations: Multimedia

Blogs

Podcasts

Podcasts:

Server side: streaming MediaClient Side: MP3 playersAn ongoing audio or video program with episodic content.

YouTube: Server Side Video

Server side operations:

Single document available for many people

Minimal storage and processing requirements.

Cost effective client sideMultiple platformLocation independent

Can I get My friends together?

Can I Make new Friends?

MySpace

Web Pages for membersContent determined by member

Static elementsStreaming media elements

No notification to others of changes

Facebook

Facebook

User creates profileStores and shares information and media with other “friends”

Keeps friends up to date with status messages.

Allows gifting applications

Facebook: Organization Pages

Facebook: Networking par excellance

The Mobile Revolution

Mobile data networks

Wi-Fi: close-range wireless internet connections

3G & 4G: Voice Cell phone systems used for data transfer.

Text Messaging

Data transfer of text and some media thought the cel phone.

Cost often set by the number of messages.

Often Limited to cel phones, Blackberries

Very Mobile

Twitter: a really silly Idea

What is Twitter?

Micro blogging? Conversation? Advertising? Exhibitionism? News source?Cynical one-liners?

What is Twitter?

Twitter is what you make it and what people read on it.

Twitter can be searched, so it is also research and information gathering.

Twitter Clients: Desktop

Twitter clients: Mobile

Real-time search engine:search.twitter.com

Real-time search engine:Monitter.com

Your Turn

Learning lab exercise:

Sign up for a Twitter account.Follow EH_SocMed to follow the conversation.

Make comments or ask questions via Twitter by including @EH_SocMed in your tweets and #nehaaec

Questions?Steven Lipton M.Ed. LEHP CP-FS

Biotest Services Inc.

E-Mail: Sjlipton@biotestservices.com

Twitter: @Biotest, @EH_Socmed