1. SOCIAL MEDIA: CREATION,
CURATION & SHARING
Dr. Rupak Chakravarty
Assistant Professor
Department of Library & Information Science
Panjab University, Chandigarh
Website: http://dlispu.webs.com

3. PRESENTATION OUTLINE:
 PartI: Collaborative Tools: Facebook,
Google+, Google Groups, LinkedIn,
Twitter, etc.
 Part
II: Media Sharing: Flickr,
YouTube, Social Book Marking

7. SOCIAL MEDIA
 Social media (SM) is
conversation supported by online
tools.
 The important thing in SM is the
real people who use it and their
social interactions

8. SOCIAL MEDIA
 Socialmedia includes web - and
mobile-based technologies
which are used to turn
communication into interactive
dialogue among organizations,
communities, and individuals.

9. SOCIAL MEDIA
According to Andreas Kaplan and Michael
Haenlein Social Media is:
 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 (UGC).

10. SOCIAL MEDIA
In the year 2012, social media became
one of the most powerful sources for
news updates through platforms like
Twitter and Facebook.

11. CLASSIFICATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA
Social media technologies take on
many different forms including
magazines, Internet forums, weblogs,
social blogs, microblogging, wikis,
social networks, podcasts, photographs
or pictures, video, rating and social
bookmarking.

12. SOCIAL MEDIA: TYPES
According to Andreas Kaplan and Michael
Haenlein there are six different types of social
media:
 collaborative projects (example, Wikipedia),
 blogs and microblogs (example, Twitter)
 content communities (example, YouTube)
 social networking sites (example, Facebook)
 virtual game worlds (e.g., Flight Gear) and
 virtual social worlds (e.g. Second Life).

13. SOCIAL NETWORKING:
Itsa online network to socialize.
Used by individuals as well as
organizations
Easy to use
Very Popular
Increases computer literacy

25. TWITTER FEATURES:
 Twitter is a free social networking and
microblogging service which –
 enables to broadcast short messages
(limited to just 140 characters) to your
friends, family, co–workers or so called
“followers” –
 in real-time.

26. TWITTER FEATURES:
 Twitter allows you to send and read
other users updates (known as tweets)
 Twitter messages(tweets) are limited to
140 characters (microblogging)
 You can send and receive updates via
the Twitter website, SMS(text
messages), RSS (receive only), emails
or a third party application.

27. TWITTER FEATURES:
 You can restrict delivery to your circle of
friends (delivery to everyone is the
default).
 You can use third party application such
as Tweetie, Twitterrific, and Feedalizr to
send Twitter messages.

28. TWITTER FEATURES:
 Youcan search for people by name or
user name, import friends from other
networks, or invite friends via email.

41. ACADEMIC NETWORKING
 Academia.edu
 ResearchGate
 Mendeley

51. WEB CONTENT CURATION:
Content curation is the discovery and
compilation of high quality content
pertaining to a certain subject.
The curator takes this valuable and
useful content, mashes it up or cites it,
then distributes it for interested parties
to read and share.

52. WEB CONTENT CREATION:
Content curation is the ongoing
finding and sharing of relevant digital
and non-digital content about a
specific topic for a specific audience.
Typically, this content will come from
a variety of properly credited sources
and will be collated in such a way that
the collection will be more useful than
its individual elements.

53. WEB CONTENT CREATION:
Content curation is the collection
of content created by others, then
filtered through one’s own point of
refer-ence.

68. How many photos and videos can I upload
for free?
When you have a free Flickr
account, you can upload 2 videos
and 300MB worth of photos each
calendar month.

80. Photobucket is the place to store, create and
share photos and videos for life.
Upload all your best pictures, images, graphics,
icons, and videos and share them by email or link
them to your favorite sites like Facebook and
Twitter.
Personalize your photos by using our photo
editor or make slideshows to share with friends.
Join our large community by entering
competitions or searching our huge photo and
video library.