social media for collaboration and information management

Social Mediafor collaboration and

information management

Suw CharmanSocial Software Consultant

Information is everywhere

• There is more information available now than ever before

• How do you organise it?

• How do you store it?

• How do you re-find it?

• How do you share it?

What do you do?

reading

email

breakfasttalking

communicate information

meeting

chats

shared documentediting

writing

searching for info

Types of tasks

• Collect and organise information

• Talk to people

• Collaborate

• Share information

• Find people

What tools do you use?

email

search engine

phone

skypechat - IM

web publishing

ICQ

social network

feed readers

pen & paper

laptops

audio/vide recorder

Is there a problem?

too much info

technology (settings)

internet downtime

access

traveling issues losing paper

viruses

lost laptops

wiki

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Demo time!

• Wordpress.org & Wordpress.com

• Ecto

• Socialtext

• Google Docs

• Del.icio.us

• Flickr

• Viddler

• Netvibes

• Net News Wire

With thanks to

★http://www.flickr.com/photos/caseywest/346329776/

★http://www.flickr.com/photos/12148520@N00/360505392/

★http://www.flickr.com/photos/observers_pov/158778047/

★http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogmuseum2/174206835/

★http://www.flickr.com/photos/mshades/559652022/

★http://www.flickr.com/photos/mandj98/273301364/

Suw Charmansocial software consultant

suw.charman@gmail.comstrange.corante.com

suw.org.uk+44 (0)7809 718877