Social Networking Technologies

Jason Rhode, PhD

www.niu.edu/~jrhode

June 2008

Social Networking in Plain English

Facebook: More Popular Than Porn

7 Things to Know About Facebook

Growth of Facebook since December 2006

http://techcrunchies.com/growth-of-facebook-since-december-2006/

College Students: Facebook Top Site, Social Networking

Really Hot

Top 10 Websites

http://www.marketingcharts.com/interactive/college-students-facebook-top-site-social-networking-really-hot-1914/

Males vs. Females

http://www.marketingcharts.com/interactive/college-students-facebook-top-site-social-networking-really-hot-1914/

Participation in Multiple SNS

http://www.marketingcharts.com/interactive/college-students-facebook-top-site-social-networking-really-hot-1914/

Why?

Personalized

Unorganized

Dynamic

Rapid

Mobile

Convergent

Connective

Notifications

Evolution of Online Conversation

Groups vs. Networks

Educational Social Software

Group

http://www.slideshare.net/terrya/educational-social-software-edmedia-2007/

Network

Collective

Blackboard Sync

blackboardsync.com

Application in Facebook

Install Application

What’s New

Announcements

Forums

Materials

Grades

Course Maps

Twitter

Twitter in Plain English

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o

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Ning

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