ArbCamp – Social Networking 101 – 2 pm Session
Notes I took on Social Networking 101 session given by Derek Mehraban
1. Get on twitter -
- CNN breaking news on Twitter
- businesses use this for customers – deals
- plug-in to integrate twitter into your blog
- very searchable – optimized
- use your profile space for keywords you want to be found for
- Twitter groups just announced
2. Facebook – use facebook to invite all your friends to venues
- Can make profile private so only friends can see
3. Privacy questions
- Blocking on twitter
- Pounce has the ability to segment friends. Would like to see this on Twitter
- Twitters marked as private are not searchable and won’t feed into facebook
4. What are you using Twitter for?
- Increasing personal connections for business growth
5. Has anyone used video in their blogs?
- Some posted on their wall in Facebook a link
- Some are using it for file sharing
6. Video blog – with link to facebook (same with Flickr)
- Viral connections among social networking tools: Put on your own blog, facebook link to blog, then facebook goes to twitter – extends your posts to a broader group
7. Social Network sites:
- Mash
- Pounce – some customization (4 templates to chose from)
- CollectiveX – part facebook – part forum – portal with social media. Good for clubs
- A Small World – social network for very rich
- Delicious – social networking bookmarking. Tagging bookmarks – find out what other people are tagging
8. Question on what is Social Network 3.0?
- integration between sites is needed. Everything is spread out – how to collect all that?
- Gateway – netvibes to pull in social networking sites into one interface (w/ login)
- ?Opened (? What was that? Did anyone catch this tool?) – one login to integrate with everything
- Web 3.0 – not tied down to browser. Mobile device based
9. Yahoo mash – create a profile for friend – circle of trust with friends that can edit your profile. New trend for students. Kind of like a public referral board. Invitation only though 
