Notes from the first 3-hour session of my "Business and the Social Media Age" class at IPFW's Warsaw Center.

1. Business and the Social Media Age Session 1: Web 2.0, in Theory and Practice Jerry Richardson

2. @jerry Chief Technologist, Disruptive Ventures, Inc. jerry@jerryr.com

3. @you

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

6. Twitter: Why and How

7. Twitter Apps

8. Business in Real-Time - search.twitter.com

9. Linked In

10. Location-Based ServicesTopics Not On the List? Send me an e-mail or bring it up at any point.

11. Clay Shirky “emerging technologies enabling loose collaboration will change the way our society works”

13. Driven by Hierarchy

14. Text and Pictures

16. Driven by Collaboration

17. Audio and Video

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

28. Custom Domain Names

30. Talk about Things You Care About

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/

34. Web 2.0, ChronologicallySocial Links Delicious, Stumble Upon

35. Sites http://delicious.com/ http://stumbleupon.com/ See also, URL Shorteners http://bit.ly/ http://tinyurl.com/

36. Web 2.0, ChronologicallySocial Media You Tube, Flickr and iTunes

37. Sites http://flickr.com/ http://youtube.com/ http://vimeo.com/ http://www.slideshare.net/ http://www.ustream.tv/theowlbox

38. Web 2.0, ChronologicallySocial News Digg, Reddit, The New York Times

39. Other Topics Game-Changing Sites are purchased and smothered. User-Generated Content is Profitable, but fickle. Corporate Policies