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=Web 2.0 - 21st Century Communication Tools=

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Facebook & MySpace

 * [|Facebook]
 * Connect with friends and colleagues.
 * Leave messages, post status updates, and chat.
 * Join networks, add applications, post photos.
 * [|Matt's Photo Galleries>]
 * Check this out.
 * [|MySpace]
 * Similar to Facebook.
 * Allows for more customization
 * Tends to be used more by teens
 * Other Social Networking Sites
 * [|LinkedIn]
 * [|Ning] - Create Your Own Social Network
 * [|Classroom 2.0]
 * Social Networking Components to Presidential Campaigns
 * [|My.BarackObama.com]
 * [|McCainSpace]
 * Social Networking in City Government?
 * [|My West Sacramento]

Twitter

 * [|Twitter Site]
 * "Microblogging" or social networking.
 * Send a message of 140 characters or less to your followers.
 * Tweets or messages can be sent and received via text message.
 * Tweets can be searched
 * [|Twitter Search]
 * View Trending Topics
 * LA Times Blog - [|SoCal earthquake has everyone a-Twitter]
 * News Agencies on Twitter
 * [|KPBS]
 * [|KCRA]
 * [|Fox 40]
 * [|CBS 13]
 * [|San Jose Mercury News]
 * [|Sacramento Bee Breaking News]
 * [|LA Fire on Twitter]

YouTube/Google Videos

 * [|ShakeOut 2008 Channel]
 * [|Couple Witnesses Earthquake]
 * [|Summer School Students just after the Earthquake]
 * [|Teen at Home Witnesses Earthquake]
 * ====Saving YouTube Videos====
 * [|Keep Vid]
 * [|YouTube Downloader Plugin] for [|Firefox 3]
 * [|4 Other Ways - Make Use Of]

Flickr - Photohosting & Sharing
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 * [|Flickr]
 * [|Cal OES Photosets on Flickr]
 * [|San Diego Wildfires Group Flickr Pool]
 * [|Photos on Flickr from 7/29/2008 Earthquake] (posted within the first hour)

Podcasting

 * Software
 * [|Audacity] for Windows or Mac
 * [|Garageband] for Mac only
 * Hosting Sites
 * [|Gcast]
 * At Gcast you have the ability to phone in a recording and it will be automatically published to your listeners.
 * [|Podomatic]
 * Agency Server
 * Finding & Subscribing to Podcasts
 * iTunes
 * [|Government & Agencies]

Blogs

 * Formerly, online diaries. Now used for any type of information that will be updated regularly.
 * Sites for Setting Up Blogs
 * [|Blogger]
 * [|Wordpress.com]
 * Wordpress is also open source software which can be downloaded and installed on a server.
 * Searching for Blogs
 * [|Technorati]
 * [|Top 100 Blogs]
 * [|Google Blog Search]
 * Find a blog and check their "blog roll" or links for similar sites.
 * Subscribing to Blogs
 * [|Bloglines]
 * [|Google Reader]
 * [|Vienna]
 * Subscribe via email.

Wikis

 * A website "anyone" can edit. Online collaboration.
 * Wiki Examples
 * [|Wikipedia]
 * [|Davis Wiki]
 * [|California Wikis on WikiSpot]
 * [|Show Us a Better Way - UK Government]
 * [|Intellipedia]- US Intelligence Community
 * [|Diplopedia] - US Department of State
 * [|Innocentive]
 * Wiki State of Mind
 * [|Wikinomics by Don Tapscott]
 * [|From Wikinomics to Government 2.0] - Wall Street Journal Article
 * Places to Create a Wiki
 * [|Wikispaces]
 * [|PB Wiki]
 * [|WikiSpot] - Free for nonprofits
 * [|Government Agencies editing Wikipedia]

Google Maps

 * [|Google Maps Website]
 * Creating Your Own Map Handout
 * [|Cal OES 2008 Interactive Fires Map]
 * [|San Diego Fires Google Map]
 * [|NPR Story - KPBS Radio Covers Wildfires Using Multiple Sources]
 * [|San Francisco Oil Spill Google Map]
 * [|Google Earth Blog Coverage of SF Oil Spill]
 * [|Fishing in Arizona]
 * [|Boating in Arizona]

Google Earth

 * [|Cal OES Google Earth Feed]
 * [|World Oil Consumption in Google Earth]
 * [|Rising Sea Level Animation]
 * [|USGS Realtime Earthquakes Feed]
 * [|San Francisco Oil Spill in Google Earth]