Web 2.0 - 21st Century Communication Tools

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Social Networking

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

Social Media

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

• 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

Geographic Software

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