S is for coincidence - the topic of the Powerpoint is "Social Media for Family Historians" - a presentation I am preparing for a gig at Wyong Library next week. So my topic for this week has to be Social Media.
In my talk I'll be covering these points:
¡What is Social Media?
¡What does one need to engage via Social Media?
¡Social Media Categories
¡How can Social Media help my genealogy/family history
research?
¡A closer look at Blogs, Facebook, Google+, Twitter
¡How does one get started in Social Media?
¡How does one manage Social Media?
¡SEO Zodiac – Social Media is simply people having conversations online
¡
¡Online Schools – Social media is technically a means for social interaction through the web
¡
¡Answers.com – The online forms of communicating to the masses, which include blogs, microblogs, social networking sites and podcasts
¡Webopedia – A term used to describe a variety of Web-based platforms, applications and technologies that enable people to socially interact with one another onlinebe covering these
And these are the categories of Social Media I will highlight:
¡Blogging
- Blogger, Posterous, Weebly, Wordpress
¡Bookmarking
- Delicious, Evernote, Pinterest
,
¡Commerical sites - Ancestry, Geni, MyHeritage, etc.
¡Genealogy
Community Projects -
Genealogists for Families Kiva Project
¡Genealogy
Networking Sites - GenealogyWise
¡
¡Microblogging - Tumblr, Twitter - (140
characters on Twitter)
¡Office packages with online
collaborative functionality - Google Docs
¡Photo
Sharing – BillionGraves, Find a Grave, Flickr, Instagram, Picasa
¡Professional
Networking Sites – Linkedin
¡Sharing
Sites for Books, Documents, Presentations - Librarything, Scribd, Slideshare
¡ Social
Networking Sites - Facebook, Google+, Second
Life
¡Video
sharing – Vimeo, Youtube
¡Wikis - Familypedia, Familysearch Wiki
If I was to continue with this post I would just be preaching to the converted as you, dear readers, have demonstrated your commitment to Social Media by reading this post.
Hopefully by next Wednesday afternoon there will be a group of family historians from Wyong who share our passion for Social Media.
During the course of this blog series I have mentioned Social Media in these earlier posts:
Family History Through the Alphabet – B is for …Billion Graves
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Family History Through the Alphabet - R is for ... Online (Reading that is)
Hopefully by next Wednesday afternoon there will be a group of family historians from Wyong who share our passion for Social Media.
During the course of this blog series I have mentioned Social Media in these earlier posts:
Family History Through the Alphabet – B is for …Billion Graves
e
Family History Through the Alphabet - R is for ... Online (Reading that is)
It really was there in front of you wasn't it. ;-)
ReplyDeleteWhile I am 'into' social media to a degree, there's still an awful lot I could learn from attending your sessions. So I really need to book my spot when I'm also at a place where you're speaking.
They will be dazzled by such a range of information...there's so much to learn (sigh). What about Lost Cousins (in the commercial section) or doesn't it fit the social networking side of things?
ReplyDeleteI'll have another look at Lost Cousins, Pauleen. It's a great resource but I'm not sure if it's a social medium.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jill... I so much enjoyed this post, especially your strategy of beginning with a "definiion".
ReplyDeleteFlipped me right back to all those teacher "staff meetings"/ "professional development" conferences and my own "presentations" where we always began in this way and rightly so :-) ... Cheers, Catherine.
I notice that in your definition that you mention Podcasts as an online form of communicating to the masses. I find Podcasts an invaluable source of information and a great way to communicate with other Family Historians.
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