1. WEB 2.0 and SOCIAL NETWORKING Mike Wood Executive Director Media Resources Center

2. BLOG The word blog is derived from the combination of the two words web and log. Blogs are virtual diaries created by individuals and stored on the internet. Blogs generally consist of text and images and can appear in a calendar-type format (www.netalert.gov.au/advice/publications/guides/a_teachers_guide_to_internet_s afety/glossary.html(www.netalert.gov.au/advice/publications/guides/a_teachers_guide_to_internet_s afety/glossary.html) Threebeanz (an example) Threebeanz Blogspot (free site to create a blog) Blogspot

3. WIKI Wiki (from the Hawaiian word for quickly) is a medium for collaboration that allows many people to participate in the production of a long-term knowledge repository or database, often devoted to a specific subject or field of interest. ( www.quantum3.co.za/CI%20Glossary.htm ) www.quantum3.co.za/CI%20Glossary.htm WIKIPEDIA pbWiki (free site to create a Wiki) pbWiki

4. FACEBOOK A social networking website launched on February 4, 2004. [1] The free-access website is privately owned and operated by Facebook, Inc. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profile to notify friends about themselves. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FaceBook [1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FaceBook FACEBOOK

5. MYSPACE MySpace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos for teenagers and adults internationally. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California, USA, where it shares an office building with its immediate owner, Fox Interactive Media; which is owned by News Corporation, which has its headquarters in New York City. In June 2006, MySpace was the most popular social networking site in the United States. According to comScore, MySpace has been overtaken internationally by main competitor Facebook in April 2008, based on monthly unique visitors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MYSPACE mySpace

6. LINKEDIN A business-oriented social networking site founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003. ( www.wikipedia.com ) www.wikipedia.com LINKEDIN

7. FLICKR Flickr is a photo sharing website and web services suite, and an online community platform, which is generally considered an example of a Web 2.0 application. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. Its popularity has been fueled by its innovative online community tools that allow photos to be tagged and browsed by folksonomic means ( www.wikipedia.com ) www.wikipedia.com Owned by Yahoo. FLICKR

8. TWITTER Twitter is a free social networking and micro- blogging service that allows users to send "updates" (or "tweets"; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service, instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific. ( www.wikipedia.com ) www.wikipedia.com Twitter

9. WSU Policy and Procedures 19.01 (Acceptable Use) http://webs.wichita.edu/inaudit Item 19: Users should understand that communications made using University computing and information technology resources are considered to be non-confidential communications and that they should have no expectation of privacy regarding such communications. Such communications may be subject to disclosure through legal proceedings and/or may also be subject to access and disclosure pursuant to the Kansas Open Records Act.