Category Archives: networking

50 social networking sites (the basics)

robinna/ August 12, 2008/ web 2.0+, networking, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

From social networking to blogging to image sharing…. a nice list of all the basics organized by category. A few additions:Under social networking, I would add one of the oldest social networking sites for artists, deviantart; under misc, I would also throw in sites which are more tool based, too, like slideshare (for sharing powerpoint), and some of the rss/blog

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Most popular social networking services

robinna/ August 10, 2008/ social media, networking/ 0 comments

From Digital inspiration:A survey of the most popular social networking services (I’m not sure I consider email to be truly social networking, but anyhow…) Email: 35%Facebook: 10%..Myspace: 7%del.icio.us: 4% Complete stats and graphs here

Professional networking & Web2.0 – Are you LinkedIn?

robinna/ August 6, 2008/ Libraries, social media, my projects, networking/ 2 comments

A little bit of promotion for a program on the UGA Campus. Enclosed below is the announcement with bio information. —————Web2.0+ and Professional Networking: Are you LinkedIn? Panel DiscussionDate: August 12, 2008Time: 2-3 p.m.SLC Room 148Free! Web2.0+ and Social networking tools have changed many aspects of our daily lives from how we share information to how we learn and how

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Flickr pro account — is it worth it?

robinna/ July 5, 2008/ social media, Training, web 2.0+, networking/ 2 comments

Just in case you didn’t know, Flickr now allows video upload for “pro” accounts.At this point, running time is limited to 90 seconds. Hopefully, if they want to be a full media site, they will up the time limit, because 90 seconds, well, that is not very long. To be honest, I’m losing my love of flickr quickly anyhow. “Pro”

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Librarian professional/networking site

robinna/ June 29, 2008/ Libraries, training / tutorials, networking/ 0 comments

From Libgig’s sitehttp://www.libgig.com —————LibGig is a new professional networking website dedicated to bringing together everyone who accesses, organizes, creates, manages, produces or distributes information for a living. —-Includes: Job listings, information about LS programs, blog posts, interviews of community leaders, etc.

Podcast about social networks and technical networks

robinna/ April 17, 2008/ web 2.0+, networking/ 0 comments

Author, Here Comes Everybody … The Power of Organizing Without Organizations Moira speaks with CLAY SHIRKY about the relationship between social networks and technical networks. Now with texting, and digital photos and cell phones, everything from politics to socializing will never be the samehttp://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3596.html

new things for 2008… crystal ball gazing with opensource, social networking, digital identity, and more aka the predictions.

robinna/ December 31, 2007/ social media, semantic web, opensource, that's cool, twitter, XHTML/XML/CSS, networking, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

I was poking around trying to find a better video editor, when I stumbled across an opensource project called, Jahshaka. Jahshaka is positioning itself as being a fullbodied product that can compete with such software as finalcut pro (wow!). Not sure about that, because I could never (ever, ever) get the windows installer to work properly. Maybe if I had

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will portals win the social networking war?

robinna/ October 23, 2007/ tools/tips, web 2.0+, networking/ 2 comments

Finally, some real contendors in aggregating social networking — a centralized spot to collect all of YOUR web 2.0 stuff! Isn’t it funny how there is all of this “stuff” and then the next step is to organize it and streamline it (sounds like cataloging, no)? Create the content and then organize it! 😉 Pageflakes has a lot of functionality

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