the brave new world of the social web

Brave New World ofthe Social Web

Are You Participating Yet?

Michael Yue, M.Ed.

Project Coordinator

Vancouver Community College

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Background

Project Coordinator, Vancouver Community College

Managed a federal government-funded employment resource centre for 5 years, during which time I began to learn and adopt Web 2.0 tools in my work.

I’ve presented on this topic in various training sessions and conference workshops.

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The Social Web (Web 2.0)

Community: Building relationships, networking Collaboration: Working together to achieve

common goals Contribution: Adding to the common knowledge

base

Are these functions relevant to career service and education?

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Common Web 2.0 Tools

Blogs (or weblogs) Wikis Social Networks

Has anyone used or heard of these tools before?

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Blogs

You don’t need to be “technically savvy” to create and operate a blog.

Blogs are like journals - messages are posted and organized in chronological order (most recent posting first).

You can post text, audio, video, picture. Viewers can comment on your postings (if you let

them). Blogs can be managed by one person, or a group

of people.

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Examples of Blog

Western Edge (U of Western Ontario Career Centre Blog) http://atwestern.typepad.com/western_edge/

Career Experts (UBC Career Services Staff Weblog) http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/careerexperts/

The Career Services Informer (SFU Career Services) http://blog.lidc.sfu.ca/careerservices/

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More Examples of Blog

IMDIVERSITY Career Center Blog http://diversitycareers.blogspot.com/

Bold Career Blog http://www.boldcareer.com/blog/

Recruiting.com (A Recruiting Community Portal) http://www.recruiting.com/blogs

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More Blog Examples

Career Centre Blog http://www.careercentre.org/blog/

COMPASS: Setting Career Directions http://workprospects.typepad.com/

Labour Market Information Blog http://lmi.careeropportunities.ca/

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Blogging Tools

Free web-based hosting Blogger (http://www.blogger.com) WordPress (http://wordpress.com) BlogSavy (http://blogsavy.com/) - powered by

WordPress

You can also pay blog hosting service to have fuller control of your blog, such as having a unique URL (web address).

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Wikis

The famous Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org) Collaboration and sharing at its best and

easiest wiki wiki = “fast” in Hawaiian language The tool allows a community of people to

work together by adding to or modifying (i.e. eduting) one another’s contributions

Check out the various examples to see how wikis are used

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Examples of Wiki

Library Success (A Best Practice Wiki) http://www.libsuccess.org

Human Resource Management Wiki http://competencywiki.ihrm.ca

EduWikis http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com

Service Provider Joint Marketing Project http://jointmarketing.wikispaces.com

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More Examples of Wiki

Wiki-Teacher http://www.wiki-teacher.com

National Society of Experiential Education http://nsee.pbwiki.com

CareersWiki (by the Biology Careers Development Group @ the University of York, UK) http://bioltfws1.york.ac.uk/PhDwiki/

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Wiki Tools

Wikispaces http://www.wikispaces.com

BluWiki http://bluwiki.com

PBWiki http://pbwiki.com/

EditThis.Info - powered by MediaWiki http://www.editthis.info/

MediaWiki (needs to be downloaded and installed) http://www.mediawiki.org

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copy

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paste

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Social Networks

Online communities that integrates various web tools to facilitate exchange and interaction in a more closed-knit and secure environment.

Build your profile first, and link with the others.

Different systems offer different functions.

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Social Network Examples

LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com

EduSpaces http://www.eduspaces.net

Facebook http://www.facebook.com

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3 degrees of connection

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End Notes

Online tools do not replace the human connection. On the contrary, it strengthens the human connection by extending our capacity across time and space.

Learning by doing - you won’t understand these tools unless you use them.

To download this presentation, go to: http://www.slideshare.net/mcbyue/

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Embrace Technology

Your Sandbox http://embracetechnology.bluwiki.org Use this to share your experience with Web

2.0 tools in your work

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Connect With Me

myue@vcc.ca http://www.linkedin.com/in/mcbyue http://eduspaces.net/mcbyue Also on Facebook :) - email me an invitation

at mcbyue@hotmail.com