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Improving Your Web Life
Using the web, social networking and other tools to improve communications
Evelyn McCormack Evelyn on Facebook SWBOCES Public Information Coordinator School Communications 2.0 April 30, 2008
Why Are You Here?
The Web sent you.
Web 2.0, that is.
What We'll Discuss... We're all pretty good at navigating the Internet, sending emails, and doing a lot of work online. Right? We're omnivores, connectors, etc.
Social Bookmarking & RSS Feeds
Online Press Releases & eNewsletters
Working Online
Tools
Web 2.0
A way to work more efficiently, with less paper and fewer email attachmentsA way to work collaboratively rather than in isolation. An alternative to print media in getting the word out.You can be on the train when it leaves the station.
You can run for the hills, or not.
What Will This Do for Me?
There's a learning curve. Take baby steps or you'll be overwhelmed.Learn from your kids.Learn online. Tutorials, videos, etc.
Take Baby Steps
Let's Start at the Beginning
Your ToolboxFirefox
Google Web 2.0 Apps
RSS FeedsSocial Bookmarking Sites *Blogs & eNewsletters
*Online Press Releases
*Your 21st Century Tools
RSS: Start Your Day with iGoogle
RSS feeds into your own customized home page.
Read your favorite newspapers and blogs.
Get the latest news -- you choose.
Tabbed categories -- News, Education News, etc.
Similar services -- pageflakes, bloglines, etc.
Other tools -- Google Alerts, Yahoo alerts
Are you overwhelmed yet?
What's Social Bookmarking(and why should I care)?
Promotes you, your superintendent, your school district.
Tools to store & share bookmarks on the web, instead of inside your browser.
Find other people who have interesting bookmarks & add their links to your own collection.
See how many people have chosen to remember a link -- helps you to find useful things.
Access from any computer -- home, work, Australia.
Social Bookmarking in Plain English
Digg, Delicious, Stumbleupon, etc.
Let's Get Social...
The 30 Most Popular Social Bookmarking Sites
Coffee Break!!
Using Facebook
Facebook -- 69 million active users
MySpace, LinkedIn, etc.
Online Documents & Services
Google Docs -- create your own documents with Word, Excel, Powerpoint. All web-based and private unless you decide to share, publish or email it. This Powerpoint presentation was
created with Google Docs.
Helipad -- online document and notes tool
Writewith -- cooperative document editing
Scribus.net -- creates documents
Photo courtesy of Tom Foremski
The Online Press Release
The online press release discussed by Nora Carr in her recent eSchool News article. Would this work for you?
Shift Communications Template in Use
MarketWire's Social Media 2.0
PRX 2.0
Die, Press Release. Die, Die, Die! From Silicon Valley Watcher blog. Worth reading.
Letterpop.com
Online Press Releases?
Let's Get Real...
Use a combination of online releases and old-fashioned MS Word releases disseminated via email.
Use online releases for larger stories that aren't being picked up by the local media but might benefit from more exposure online, via bookmarking sites.
Look for online news sources like westchester.com.
Create a blog in the form of an eNewsletter to disseminate news. Send it to all the local media.
A Few eNewsletters
Wordpress, Blogger -- create a blog with these tools and turn off comments. Then email it to constituents.Debra Kaplan's blog.St. Petersburg Times Blog -- joint blogsSupt's Blog Platte County, WyomingBryan, Tex, Blog w/RSS feed and social bookmarksEdublogs
Really Cool Web 2.0 StuffTools:
The Complete Web 2.0 Directory
PR 2.0
Media Bistro
Letterpop
Snipshot (edit your photos online/alternative to Photoshop)
A-Z Glossary of Web 2.0 Terms
The Journalist's Toolbox-API
Common Errors in English
The Common Craft Show (video how-tos)
PBWiki
Writewith.com (group writing/editing)
Inspiration:
Slate Poynter Online
The Onion Wired
Salon
Just Plain Fun:
MizPee
Project Virgle
Shelfari
gramlee.com (site that checks your grammar)
Whatever Happened To?
This Presentation now available online!
Other resources: Westpra/Rockspra Facebook
PBWiki Site
