More social media

Last week in class, we talked a lot of tech. Amazingly enough my students didn’t run screaming from the room. More on that in another blog.

But as a result, I didn’t get a chance to include just a bit more on social media. So here that bit is:

• To check your digital footprint try 123people.com. Use the usernames and real names that you put out there on the web. This site will search up lots of information. It is very revealing.

• Negative things abound on the web. Removing them is not an easy task. There are 2 methods of dealing with this: making sure enough good information outweighs the bad and asking authors to remove bad information. If these things don’t work, and the information must be removed, you have to seek professional help.

• Creative commons is a way to copyright your material on the web. Using this little graphic and link, you can tell your users what uses they have for your material. It is usable in pictures as well as text.

• We talked about namechk to help you see what accounts are out there, and whether or not certain name are taken.

• Twitter is a good way to interact with people through a few characters at a time. It seems to be useful in ‘backchannel’ conversations. It is the pulse of the web, somewhat

Social media will continue to grow, so I guess we are kind of stuck with it. I suggest we hang on and enjoy the ride.

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