What is Social Media?

This is a presentation I gave on 22 November to the Kur-ing-gai Rotary Club.

What is Social Media

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OK, so some of the people who attended this talk (including my parents) are relatively new at the interwebs, so I decided to list the websites I referred to in case they are too hard to find. Here we go, in the order they were used, mind the step:

commoncraft video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpIOClX1jPE

Gary Hayes" Social Media Count http://www.personalizemedia.com/garys-social-media-count/

Twitter http://twitter.com/

LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/

Kongregate http://www.kongregate.com/

iTunes U via http://www.apple.com/au/itunes/

Flickr http://www.flickr.com/

Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/

Last.fm http://www.last.fm/

52 Suburbs Blog http://www.52suburbs.com/

LibraryThing http://www.librarything.com/

Delicious (social bookmarks) http://www.delicious.com/

UTS Library's YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/UTSLibrary#p/a/u/2/iLelhZHb3G8

My Blog "FromMelbin" http://www.frommelbin.blogspot.com/

Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ & Bob Brown http://www.facebook.com/Senator.Bob.Brown

craigslist (Sydney) http://sydney.craigslist.com.au/

foursquare (for smart phones) via http://foursquare.com/

Expedia (for travel) https://www.expedia.com.au/

Brooklyn Museum community exhibition page for "Click" http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/click/

British Libraries BIPC http://www.bl.uk/bipc/ & Growing Knowledge exhibition http://www.growingknowledge.bl.uk/

Flickr Commons http://www.flickr.com/commons/ & the Library of Congress http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/ & the Australian War Memorial's handsome man image http://www.flickr.com/photos/australian-war-memorial/2863670139/in/set-72157607335488831/