My presentation on the future of social media for the National Archives.

1. The past, present and future of social media Alex Howard Government 2.0 Correspondent O’Reilly Media

2. What is social media?

3. Postal Service (550 BC)

4. Telegraph (1792)

5. Pneumatic mail (1865)

6. Telephone (1890)

7. Radio (1891)

8. Email (1966)

10. Commercial online services (1969)

12. Bulletin Board Services (BBS) (1979) Ward Christensen and the First BBS [Credit: Wikipedia]

14. Online chat rooms (1980)

16. World Wide Web (1991) Credit: http:// www.radford.edu/srabago/links/text.html ]

19. America Online (1995)

20. Social networks (1997)

21. P2P/ Social filesharing (1999)

22. Livejournal … and Blogger (1999)

23. Wikipedia (2001)

24. RSS (2002)

25. Friendster (2002)

27. Second Life (2003)

28. Facebook, Digg, Flickr and LinkedIn (2004 )

29. YouTube (2005)

30. Twitter (2006)

32. First YouTube Presidential Debate (2007) [Credit: HowStuffWorks ]

35. #IranElection (2009) [Credit: UPI ]

36. Foursquare (2009)

37. Posterous (2009)

38. DoD Social Media Policy (2010)

39. Google Plus (2011)

41. The Future?

42. China

43. Russia

44. Augmented reality

45. Augmented overload! Image Credit: Daonk.org

46. Digital tools for open government NY Senate on iTunes

47. Social audits

48. Social memories Image Credit: Portal To Your Dreams

49. We’ll need better filter/browsers Image credit: PC World on Aurora

50. Privacy challenges

51. The stream