Slides for Online Social tools Workshop at Science Online London 2011 conference.

1. Alan Cann School of Biological Sciences University of Leicester Find me here: bit.ly/AJCann alan.cann@gmail.com

2. Google Social? Google can’t do social? alan.cann@gmail.com

3. Google+ is different Familiarity Integration alan.cann@gmail.com

4. Features Games - quarantined (vs. Facebook) Photos, Video (no audio) Mobile (not there yet) Sparks - sub RSS, disappointing. Hangouts - chat/video with up to ten people at a time, share YouTube videos. alan.cann@gmail.com

5. Privacy - Profiles Real names – nymwars Companies/Entities - e.g. RRW, MicrobiologyBytes, AnnBot alan.cann@gmail.com www.flickr.com/photos/botgirlq/sets/72157627430877022/

6. Circles Different Circles for different communities But Circles are broadcast not read - architecture dumps you back into stream Public cuts across - Public is the de facto default (Twitter model) Still need two I.Ds for teaching & "RealMe" alan.cann@gmail.com

7. A work in progress Search not working (apart from people) No groups like Friendfeed Groups/Facebook pages - you can't join someone else's circle No APIs (yet) No tagging (yet) alan.cann@gmail.com

8. Spinal Muscular Atrophy site:plus.google.com <search term> http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aplus.google.com+Spinal+Muscular+Atrophy&num=100&sa=Google Public versus private alan.cann@gmail.com

9. alan.cann@gmail.com Visualizing Student Engagement via Social Networks

10. alan.cann@gmail.com Females score higher marks than males (Wilcoxon rank sum test, p < 0.001). Although females make more contributions than males, males are strategically focussed on assessment criteria.

12. Internalized group (purple)

13. Inactive group (blue)alan.cann@gmail.com