Social Software for Business Communication

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Social Software for Business Communication

• Kelly McGee
• WRT 380
• 11-27-07

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What is Social Software?

• Web-enabled software programs
• Interact
• Share
• Meet other users
• Computer-mediated communication
• Information sharing systems
• Collaborative Work functions

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Online Videos Broadcast Yourself

• What are some of the ways you use YouTube?
• How can you see businesses using it?
• YouTube for businesses
• Professional Advertising
• Website additions Commercials
• How-to Instructional Videos
• Mary Kay- Business Service Management
• Web 2.0- A five minute intro.

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Social Documentation

• Wikipedia
• Create
• Edit
• Link
• Create collaborative
• Power community
• Provide intranets

• WindowsLive
• Connect
• Email
• Messenger
• Toolbar
• Share
• Photo Gallery
• Writer
• Events
• Protect
• Family

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Collaborative Projects

• Wrike
• Manage from e mail
• Organize tasks
• Work Together
• Get things done
• Basecamp
• Task oriented
• Simple to use
• Business Customer Oriented

• JotSpot
• Application wiki
• Create
• Publish
• Share

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Collaborative Writing

• Google Docs
• Documents
• Presentations
• Spreadsheets
• Access Online
• Revisions
• Unlimited Storage
• Lessens hassle

• Writeboard
• Write
• Share
• Revise
• Compare

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Social Networking

• Facebook
• MySpace
• YouTube
• Flickr
• Product design
• Store photos
• Customer/Competition
• Candids

• del.icio.us
• Keep
• Share
• Discover
• Ning
• Free full social network

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Additional Resources

• The following slides contain a variety of
  websites that can be categorized as Social
  Networking sites. These sites have various tools
  and applications that can be used for personal or
  business use. Many of them are worth getting
  acquainted with.

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Mashups

• Global Incident Map
• A Global Display of Terrorism and Other
  Suspicious Events
• Yahoo Pipes
• A composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and
  mashup content from around the web.

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Virtual Environments

• World of Warcraft
• SecondLife
• a 3-D virtual world entirely created by its
  Residents
• Ryze
• Business networking site
• XING
• one of the leading professional online networking
  platforms

• LinkedIn
• Reconnect
• Power your career
• Get ?s Answered
• Meetup
• Have an interest
• Find a local group
• Meet Discuss
• Wikis
• Collaborative Websites

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Resources

• http//www.youtube.com
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v76oitNsCtmofeature
  related
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vrDqGQ59jw_Yfeature
  related
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikipediaAbout
• http//get.live.com/
• http//www.wrike.com/quicktour.html
• http//www.basecamphq.com/tour
• http//www.jot.com/google/faq.html12
• http//docs.google.com/
• http//www.writeboard.com/tour/

• http//www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/flickr-a
  s-a-business-tool.html
• http//del.icio.us/about
• http//www.ning.com/about/businesses.html
• http//www.globalincidentmap.com/
• http//pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
• http//www.worldofwarcraft.com/
• http//www.secondlife.com/whatis/
• http//www.ryze.com/faq.php
• http//www.XING.com
• http//www.LinkedIn.com
• http//www.Meetup.com/tour/
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

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Any Questions??

• The End