Facebook is the most popular social network, with over 500 million active users.
Blogs
Enhancing Communication with Web 2.0
Blogs Social Presence Instant Messaging Virtual Worlds
Blogging is the process of creating an online text diary (a blog, or Web log). Traditional media giants (e.g. CNN) use blogs. Companies increasingly use blogs to connect with their employees or customers. Blogosphere is the community of all blogs.
Social Presence
Social presence tools (sometimes called micro blogging tools) Twitter has become a source for breaking news. Example: Crash of US Airways flight 1549
Controversy of Blogs
Called the amateurization of journalism Some bloggers cut journalistic corners.
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Instant Messaging
Instant messaging (or online chat) emulates realtime written conversations. Immediate feedback from conversation partners Social networking sites, such as Facebook, have integrated instant messaging. Most instant messaging environments also support both video and voice communication. Many organizations use instant messaging for internal communications, sales, and customer support.
Virtual Worlds
Virtual worlds consist of 3D environments where people can interact and build, buy, or sell virtual items, all using their personalized avatar.
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Media Sharing
Sharing pictures, videos, audio, and presentations on the Web Flickr (images), YouTube (videos) Netcasting (or podcasting)distribution of digital media, such as audio or video files via syndication feeds Educational sector uses netcasts for lectures, lab demonstrations, or sports events.
(Example: via Apple iTunes U)
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Social Bookmarking
Users share Internet bookmarks and create categorization systems (folksonomies). Example: Delicious and Digg
Social Cataloging
Creation of a categorization system by users Contributors build up catalogs regarding specific topics; such as academic citations, wireless networks, books and music, and so on. Example: Zotero
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Tagging
Manually adding metadata to media or other content Metadata is data about data. Example: picture metadata:
date and time focal length shutter speed aperture value
Tag Clouds
The size of a word in a tag cloud represents its importance or frequency so that it is easy to spot the most important or frequent words or tags.
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Virtual Teams
Members of highly specialized virtual teams are often not colocated.
Virtual Team
Group members in different places assembled to work on a project Rush University Medical Center
Uses virtual medical teams Patients get best health care regardless of where they reside.
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Google Apps
Google Apps is a family of Web-based collaboration tools
Gmaile-mail client Google Calendarcollaborative calendar allowing users to share events Google Talkinstant messaging client Google Docsonline office suite (word processing, spreadsheet, presentation) Google Sitesgroup Web sites
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft SharePoint is a document management platform that can be used to host Web sites that enable shared workspaces and integrate other collaborative applications, such as wikis and blogs.
It also includes workflow functionality such as to-do lists, discussion boards, and messaging alerts. It is easily customizable.
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Wikis
Wiki: a Web site allowing people to
Post, edit, add, comment Access information
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Examples of Wikis
E-lancing
Posting individual projects for anyone to bid on
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Viral Marketing
Marketing-driven by word-of-mouth, similar to how viruses are transmitted Promoting a product / service via online content that can be shared.
Example: BMW short films by famous directors
Social Search
Finding relevant information has become increasingly difficult on the Web. Returning the most relevant results to each user is the holy grail for search engines. Search engines such as Google or Bing now offer social search functionality. Include content from social networks, blogs, or microblogging services. Narrow the results to content from ones online social circle. Let users annotate or tag search results.
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Syndication
Real Simple Syndication (RSS)a family of syndication feeds used to publish current blogs, podcasts, videos, and news stories.
RSS feeds typically contain a synopsis of a document or the full text. RSS feeds can be read by most Web browsers.
Web Services
Web services allow data to be accessed without intimate knowledge of other organizations systems, enabling machine-to-machine interaction over the Internet.
Web services allow any device to use any network to access any service.
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Widgets
Small interactive tools Typically for a single purpose Can be placed on desktop or integrated into Web pages Started on the MAC OS Now available everywhere
Mashups
Idea of mashups came from popular music where a song is produced by mixing other existing songs. Combination of two or more Web services Creates unique applications Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others have created mashup editors.
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Web 3.0
World Wide Database Open Technologies Open ID Integration of Legacy Devices Intelligent Applications
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Revision Questions
Why is using Web 2.0 applications an important factor for attracting and retaining employees? Explain the difference between blogging and microblogging tools. How can social bookmarking and social cataloging help in an organizations knowledge management efforts? What are virtual teams, and how do they help to improve an organizations capabilities? Explain what is meant by crowdsourcing and how the Web is enabling this form of collaboration. How can organizations use social networking to connect with their customers? What is a wiki? Why would an organization want to implement a wiki? What is tagging, and how are organizations using it in their Web sites?
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ETHICAL DILEMMA
Outdoor activities such as camping, fishing, visits to natural parks are declining Decline began during rapid growth of video games
Will nature conservation and concern for environment deteriorate if people prefer virtual nature?
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POWERFUL PARTNERSHIPS
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COMING ATTRACTIONS
The Future of TV
One day soon youll be able to call up any video-related entertainment you desire on your TV. Multiple layers of video, pictures, and text Requires a user interface:
powerful enough to find and organize the near infinite content available online easy enough to use with a simple remote control
Apple TV
small digital media receiver connected to TV view from various media services (iTunes, YouTube, Flickr, MobileMe)
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Nestl started deleting protest postings on Facebook. It was a public relations nightmare.
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INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
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Online Travel
Online travel agencies
Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz In the first quarter of 2010, Expedia accounted for 38 percent of worldwide bookings
References
Information Systems Today, Valacich & Schneider, 5th Edition