Social networking and social media How can we use them in the Wits libraries Prof Derek W. Keats Deputy Vice Chancellor (Knowledge & Information Management) The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

In ancient times people used computers to send and...

... to surf the Web in web browsers that only opened HTML pages Feb 1998

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Social networks

Mobile technologies

Society – technology co-evolution

Derek's big five Subject to rapid evolutionary change in response to selection pressures

Narcissism StalkingADHD

Syndication RSS

Syndication & RSS Information from a website is made available in XML form (feed), including a link for more information Two common formats, RSS and Atom You subscribe to the feed, so it is PUSHED to you instead of you having to GO FETCH IT

What is CHISIMBA? Chisimba – Chichewa (Malawi) word for the framework used to build a traditional African house An object-oriented framework for rapid development of distributed software applications A suite of applications built with the framework, including the KEWL3 eLearning application

Today Register on Facebook Add each other as friends Register on Twitter Follow each other Make some tweets Login to I add you to the bloggers group Create a blog post Add your blog post to twitter using twitterfeed Add your twitter tweets to your Facebook status Add your twitter tweets to a blog post automatically

Today (cont'd) Find a video on YouTube Add it to a blog post Find a RSS feed you like Add it to your blog post Find a presentation on SlideShare Add it to your blog Upload a presentation to Add it to your blog Have fun with other social networking and social content

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