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Greetings Fresno State Faculty and Staff!We are happy to share with you ten social tools that are changing the way people and society access, share and communicate today. These ten social tools are also known as Web 2.0 technologies or emerging technologies.If you're wondering How, Where, Why or What Web 2.0 is, we highly recommend this video: The Machine is Us/ing UsThis program is loosely based

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STEP 1: IntroductionSocial networking is extremely popular and the sites can be broad or narrow in focus. Social networking sites are predicted to be the portal of the 21st Century. PC Magazine gives a brief history of web social networking:"Introduced in 2002, Friendster was the first social site, followed by MySpace a year later. Started by two friends, MySpace became extremely popular, and its

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Step 2: IntroductionVideo hosting services is a fancy name for video-sharing Web sites like YouTube, MetaCafe and Blip.tv, etc. The basic functions of video-sharing Web sites are nearly the same: They allow you to search for and watch existing videos and upload your own.YouTube may be the biggest and most popular site, but it is not the only one. Many others host videos of every description

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STEP 3: IntroductionPhoto-sharing web sites such as Flickr, Picasa and Photobucket are great places to upload and share photos. Flickr has become one of the most popular, with more than two billion images loaded.Photo-sharing sites offer more than just sharing your pictures with grandma. Many of them are also online communities of photographers, both amateur and professional. Some sites are more

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STEP 4: IntroductionA tag is a relevant keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information (a picture, a geographic map, a blog entry, a video clip etc.), thus describing the item and enabling keyword-based classification and search of information. Source: WikipediaTags are read and used by major search engines, social bookmarking and social media sites like Delicious, Flickr,

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STEP 5: IntroductionDelicious is a social bookmarking website/service, which means it is designed to allow you to store and share bookmarks on the web, instead of inside your browser.This has several advantages:First, you can get to your bookmarks from anywhere, no matter whether you're at home, at work, in a library, or on a friend's computer.Second, you can share your bookmarks publicly, so

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STEP 6: IntroductionLibraryThing is a site for book lovers. It helps you create a library-quality catalog of your books including thumbnail pictures of books covers. You can “catalog” all of your books or just what you’re reading now and because everyone catalogs online, they also catalog together. LibraryThing connects people based on the books they share/read. · Take a look at how it works.·

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STEP 7: IntroductionFirefox is a free, open-source web browser that looks and acts very similar to Internet Explorer and most other Web browsers but with lots of neat, cool features. You may already have Firefox installed on your computer, but if you don’t have the brand new Firefox 3, follow instructions to download it hereNote: If you download and is installing Firefox on your work--university

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STEP 8: IntroductionTwitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" (text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (e.g. on a cell phone), instant messaging, or a third-party application.Basically, Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people using the web, your phone, or IM.

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STEP 9: Introduction How do you keep track of all the news, sports, weather and blogs you follow and still have time for play, family and hobbies? Answer: RSSIntroduced in 1997, RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication". RSS is basically a way to subscribe to a source of information, such as a Web site or blog and get brief updates delivered to you. Discovery Exercise1. View this Common Craft

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STEP 10: Introduction The term blog comes from “web log” and can be defined as an online journal or a chronological publication of personal thoughts, web links, photos and more.Authoring a blog is called “blogging”; individual entries are known as “blog posts”; and the person who posts these entries is known as a “blogger”.Did you know? Influential blogs are now being licensed and indexed in

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