4. Session 1 Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 Web 2.0 in Chronological Order Social Thinking: Blogs, Bloggers and Blogging Social Links: Delicious, Stumble Upon Social Media: You Tube, Flickr and iTunes Social News: Digg, Reddit and The New York Times
19. Wikipedia Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project... Wikipedia's 15 million articles (3.2 million in English) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site. It was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger and is currently the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet.
20. What is a Blog? A blog (a contraction of the term "web log") is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog (via Wikipedia)
21. Why Blog? Communicate: Facilitate Authentic Conversation with Stakeholders Externally: Customers, Prospects, Shareholders, Media Internally: Employees, Franchisees, Suppliers
22. Why Blog? Shape The Debate: Increase Perceived Expertise Increase Perceived Transparency - window into the corporate culture Rapid Response - PR, Product News
23. Why Blog? Increase Exposure Online Substitute for or supplement to a Web Site Google rewards high-quality content and punishes phonies
32. Blogs I Subscribe To Buzzfeed: http://buzzfeed.com/ Deadspin: http://deadspin.com/ Signal vs. Noise: http://37signals.com/svn Uncrate: http://www.uncrate.com/
33. More “Shared Thinking” Sites http://answers.yahoo.com/ http://vark.com/ replaces http://answers.google.com/ http://ted.com/
39. Other Topics Game-Changing Sites are purchased and smothered. User-Generated Content is Profitable, but fickle. Corporate Policies
Notas do Editor
You can’t swing a dead cat in a Starbucks without hitting a social media expert. So I call myself a “technologist” instead. This also demonstrates the peril of letting nerds pick their own job titles. In the 15 years since I built my first web site, I’ve had the opportunity to work with multiple generations of internet technologies.
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* Blogger (http://blogger.com/) * best ratio of complexity to power * Easiest Path to Google* WordPress (http://wordpress.com/) * More plugins and themes * Self-Installed vs. Hosted (auto-updating)* Tumblr (http://tumblr.com/) * Easiest to get started, Built in Community * Comments not built in* Custom Domain Names* Sitemap.xml
* Blogger (http://blogger.com/) * best ratio of complexity to power * Easiest Path to Google* WordPress (http://wordpress.com/) * More plugins and themes * Self-Installed vs. Hosted (auto-updating)* Tumblr (http://tumblr.com/) * Easiest to get started, Built in Community * Comments not built in* Custom Domain Names* Sitemap.xml
* Blogger (http://blogger.com/) * best ratio of complexity to power * Easiest Path to Google* WordPress (http://wordpress.com/) * More plugins and themes * Self-Installed vs. Hosted (auto-updating)* Tumblr (http://tumblr.com/) * Easiest to get started, Built in Community * Comments not built in* Custom Domain Names* Sitemap.xml