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/

Deus Cycle Swap Meet, November 2010

Sculpture by the Sea, Bronte-Bondi, 2010

I wandered around with a friend just after dawn on a week day to get a better view of some of these amazing installations. And recently I've been going through all of the images and adding the titles and artists' names. I'm nearly finished.

Sydney Open (architecture tour)

This tour was organised by the Historic Houses Trust of NSW. I'm very grateful to them for encouraging us to get out and see these buildings and stunning views.

Google's (free) Staff Cafe

Cafe
Originally uploaded by Mal Booth

My thoughts on Google's staff cafe. Open up the image in Flickr to read more.

I will be lobbying for something like this in our new Library for UTS, but already I can hear the nay-sayers.