Social Media: Life, the Universe and Hippopotamuses
NWLP Workshop held at Deeside College, 24th August 2011
PowerPoint presentation (8 MB)
Exercises (Word document)
Fact sheets
Web 2.0 from strategy to implementation, UKeiG Factseet by Phil Bradley http://www.ukeig.org.uk/factsheet/web-20-strategy-implementation
Getting Started with Twitter (Word document) Compiled by Karen Blakeman
Introduction to Blogs (Word document) Compiled by Karen Blakeman
Getting Started with Blogger - Old Interface (Word document) Compiled by Karen Blakeman
Getting Started with Blogger - New Interface (Word document) Compiled by Karen Blakeman
Articles
Barriers to using Web 2.0 technology and how to overcome them, Phil Bradley http://www.philb.com/articles/barrierstoweb2.htm
Social Media: Essential for Research, Marketing and Branding, Karen Blakeman and Soott Brown, ASIST Bulletin October/November 2010 http://www.asist.org/Bulletin/Oct-10/OctNov10_Blakeman_Brown.html PDF version available at
http://www.asist.org/Bulletin/Oct-10/OctNov10_Blakeman_Brown.pdf
Videos
Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey stuff. Presentation given at CILIP Wales AGM, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HECUTJ-BCpY
YouTube - Organizations should ban social media
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MOvB7OXJXQ
The excellent Commoncraft "in plain english" videos e.g. RSS in Plain English, Twitter Search in Plain English are on Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/user/leelefever but visit the Commoncraft web site to purchase high quality videos for presentations and training.
On a lighter note Bubble by the Richter Scales can be found on Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I and those of you who are fed up with Facebook might appreciate the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre's Facebook Song
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