John Burke's Education Project: How to Avoid Death by PowerPoint

John Burke's Education Project: How to Avoid Death by PowerPoint

Pre-retirement workshop - 19 December 2007

Tools for socialnetworking - keep in touch and share accross the Internet with friends and family

If you go to my del.icio.us you will find links to the sites we will be using at: http://del.icio.us/redsontour/preretirement

In Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/) you can set up a profile for yourself and share it with only those you wish to see it. This can be a good way of keeping in touch with family, planning a trip with a group or networking with others who have a like minded hobby.

Facebook scores over email by allowing groups of individuals to have a picture of what other members are doing. You can see all your friends / family in one place and you are alerted to all the activities - information they add. You can also join groups to keep in touch with people all round the world who share an interest with you.

Skype (http://www.skype.com/) is a free piece of software that allows you to speak over the Internet with anyone anywhere in the world who has also installed the Skype software. It has a webcam function so you can see whoever you are talking to if you wish.

Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/) allows you to share photographs with who ever you like where ever you are. They can be public for all in the world to see or private for only those you wish to share them with. My Flickr portfolio can be seen at (http://www.flickr.com/photos/redsontour/) but you can only see my public photographs.

Bolgger (http://www.blogger.com/) is the application you are using to read these note on the workshop. It can be used to create you own online diary and is simply a way of creating your own web pages with out any specials skills or software.