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Talk about “Social networking” at the Informatics Forum

March 3rd, 2010 | Category: Personal, Social media | Comments: 4

I received a cordial invitation by Ing. Emmanuel Alvarez, who is informatic teacher at Bachillerato Técnico #1, University of Colima, to talk about “Social networking” at the Informatics Forum. I really like the idea for some good reasons, the first one, social media (social networking, blogs, etc) is one of my favorite topics and the second one, and most important, the experience of interacting with young digitals users (NEXT generation), so I immediately accepted.

The students’ attendance was so good (438 students in total), I had to give my talk on two occasions for some problems with the size of the place, more than 200 students in each session. Each talk was around 1 hour, some general topics were:

  1. A brief introduction about the evolution of the comunication, physical and digital.
  2. What is “Social network” and  ”Social Networking”.
  3. General characteristics of social networking sites.
  4. History of social networking sites.
  5. The most important social networking sites and interesting data.
  6. the usage of social networking and difference between email & social networking sites.
  7. Advantages and Disadvantages.
  8. Desktop & Cellphone applications.
  9. Social networking and youth.
  10. Social networking and companies.
  11. Social networking and México.
  12. The future of social networking.

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Open and interoperable social networks

January 1st, 2010 | Category: Social media | Tags: , , | Comments: 1

A few days ago I went to watch Avatar, a movie written and directed by James Cameron, which I regard as one of my favorite filmmakers (Terminator, The Abyss, Aliens, Piraña).

I’m not going to review the movie, far from it, but I found very interesting how the Pandora Villagers could extract and share information from their deceased ancestors and alive people. It is interesting for one reason, the strong relationship with the current social networks and the possible future ones. The Pandora Villagers used the own nature as a database, which it was open, interoperable and linked, that means, they could used it in any physical media. Villagers could access to the information in any time and way.

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Are Social Networks rich?

December 4th, 2009 | Category: Social media | Tags: , | Comments: 0

Background

It is difficult say that Web 2.0 became the Web in social, because since the Web was born people could collaborate and communicate online, but one of the biggest successes with the Web 2.0 is simple: the easy way to do it!. Almost of the principal services of this generation are easy and free; for example, people can create a personal page with social networking sites or write online with blogs without knowledge of web programming or pay.

Status

Now we see the hit of social networkings sites like Facebook with 350 millions of users, if Facebook were a country, it would be the 4th largest in the world, amazing!, don’t you think?. And of course we’ve another good example of success but with a different type of communication, I’m talking about microblogging platforms like Twitter, that we respond a simple question: what do you doing?, and that simple question was adopted and also forgot it in the pass of the years. The different of social networks like Facebook and Twitter is in the way of people communicate (Facebook = Synchronous, Twitter = Asynchronous). The benefits of being a part of this sites are a lot, and of course you know them, but my favorites are the community, the social tools and the conversations, everything in real-time.

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