A social (media) network experiment

How I used social (media) networks to tell you about social (media) networks

Kosie Eloffhttp://bit.ly/keloff

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Do you recognize any of the following?

Or does anyone close to you?

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There are many more examples of social (media)

networks

These were just for fun. 

By the way, tweet your questions to @kosieeloff, use #ictsa2011 tag if

you can. 

Definition(s)

A group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that

allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content.

Social media are media for social interaction, as a superset beyond social communication. Enabled by ubiquitously

accessible and scalable communication techniques, social media substantially change the way of communication between

organizations, communities, as well as individuals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mediaAlso, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media#Distinction_from_industrial_media

Social (media) networks aren't just for entertainment

Though that's a fine enough purpose!

Why I became involved with social (media) networks

Have you Googled yourself?

Have you Googled someone you know?(Everyone does it)

I Google myselfView slide notes for an explanation of each result. 

So I started thinking...

1. I want my web presence to be controlled by me, not by anyone else 

Of course, this bring in all kinds of considerations: privacy, the nature of identity online & responsibilities for educators. Here's where lolcats become serious.

2. Integrating social (media) into my life has been an interesting experience

I've been living on the internet since I was a kid, so I'm fully aware of the dangers. "Here be dragons", in cyberspace, translates to "here be trolls, flamers and griefers"

    

I'm connected to lots of networks now

How many are you connected to?

I ask, because this is what I found when I connected:

I've only started experimenting(example follows)

But there are so many connections still to be made & media to share.

First step: added Google+ and Twitter widgets

I decided to make a QR code to paste on my door (or wherever else)

Links to http://bit.ly/keloff

So that's the (hopefully) inspirational part

Popular social (media) networks

- Facebook- Twitter- LinkedIn- Google Plus (Google+)

Google+

Facebook

LinkedIn

Twitter

Issues related to social (media) networks

No-one has the all the answers to these issues, but people are working on them

Challenges for higher education

Teaching

How do we connect to students? Should we connect to students? Should we use existing social (media) networks, or use our own? How do we create/share digital media responsibly & effectively?

Research

How do we connect with other researchers / institutions? Which aspects of social (media) creation are related to our own research? 

Organizational

Can social (media) networks improve the way we do our everyday work? Do we have the technical infrastructure and media expertise to support all of this? 

Social (media) network criticisms

Privacy

How much about your life do you want to expose to not only others, but to the data centres of large multinationals?

Behavioural effects

Is the use of social (media) significantly changing how we communicate / work / play?

Usability

Can't leverage the most promising aspects of SMN if they aren't simple to use. 

Sustainability

How much can these networks scale? Twitter's overflowing, for instance. How can digital media formats persist / be archived? Who owns these media (especially user information)?

Shall we connect?http://bit.ly/keloff

My social (media) networks on 19 October (date of release)Network Shared to Connections Sharing

since...Notes

Facebook Public Friends: 139 A few months after launch

I think that most of my shares will go through here.

Twitter All followers Following: 129Followers: 51

24 November 2010, but only active since May 2011

Challenge: communicate intent in 140 characters or less.

Google+ Extended circles In my circles: 107Have me in their circles: 99

Around July 2011

LinkedIn Connections only Connections: 71People in my network: 3 338

October 2011 I decided just to share with connections (not "anyone" to see what happens). 

Scribd Followers Reads: 0Uploads: 0Followers: 21

N/A; not very active (yet)

Here, I didn't just share a link. I shared a derivative work.

Slideshare N/A, as I'm sharing this presentation via all the other networks. 

Following: 6Followers: 2Social media: 594 views

September 2011

Let's see how this experiment goes! Share this with anyone you think will find it useful.