30 clicks: information tools at your fingertips jody shulnak service-learning & volunteer...
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30 Clicks: Information Tools at Your Fingertips
Jody ShulnakService-Learning & Volunteer Program Manager
Twitter Hi5 Friendster MySpace LinkedIn – business-oriented social networking ASmallWorld- an exclusive invitation-only network Cyworld – South Korean social network service; uses
“avatars” XING- social networking for professionals Tagged – based in San Francisco; games & share
gifts Orkut – owned/operated by Google Inc.; most
popular in India & Brazil
Social network/utility service – launched in February 2004
Started by Harvard college students More than 500 million users Controversial & blocked in several countries
(ie: China, Syria, Pakistan, Iran, Uzbekistan…) A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked
Facebook as “the most used social network by worldwide monthly active users, followed by MySpace.” (Vandersluis, 2004)
1. In the macro sense - connection to the rest of the Facebook world;
2. In the micro sense -user-to-user connection with direct communication;
3. & Everything in between! [ie: Facebook’s organization of users by geographical, school, and company networks.]
**CAN BE USED TO ENCOURAGE SOCIAL ACTION & SOCIAL CHANGE! **
Managing social information (ie: photos & events)
Indirect & direct communication Information gathering & character
assessment made more efficient Construction of virtual identities and perform
them through profiles and Facebook features Consideration of appropriateness when
identity performance occurs with an unknown audience
93 Dollar Club Parfait in Haiti – a blog
A woman at a Trader Joe’s checkout stand had lost her wallet
The woman behind her in line paid her grocery bill: $207
She received a check from first woman for $300 & asked Facebook friends what to do with extra $93
Response = donate to charity! $112,000 has since been raised for Second
Harvest Food Bank The “93 Dollar Club” is born!
93 Dollar Club
http://www.facebook.com/93dollarclub
Volunteered with UN World Food Program in Haiti
Youth outreach through music Posted blog on Facebook Coming to Clark College on November
16th !!
Parfait in Haiti
Clark Service-Learning
