The document discusses various social networking tools that can help genealogists in their research, including blogs for sharing research journals, Facebook for connecting with others and sharing photos and links, Twitter for exchanging short messages, social bookmarking sites like Delicious for organizing web bookmarks, and wikis like those on FamilySearch for collaborative website editing. It provides examples of specific social networking platforms and applications under each tool, and recommends two books for further reading on using social media for genealogical purposes. The document was presented by Debbie Bloom, manager of the local history room at the Richland County Public Library.
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1. Tweeting , Blogging , Posting : How Does Social Networking Help Genealogists .
Letslook at some social networking tools.
We will cover as much as our one hour will allow!
Blogs : online journals usually maintained by an individual with regular entries.
Blogger
Google Analytics
Family Tree Magazine 40 best genealogy blogs
RSS - Really Simple Syndication is a format used to publish frequently updated works.
Facebook : used to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos.
* Applications (gadgets) are objects that allow you to perform certain tasks on a website.
igoogle : one-stop social networking tool
際際滷share : a business media site for sharing presentations, documents and pdfs.
Social networking : online sharing and communicating.
Twitte r: users send and read messages known as tweets .
Social Bookmarking : a method for Internet users to share, organize, search, and manage
Internet bookmarks.
Delicious
Google Bookmarks
Wikis: allow the easy creation and editing of collaborative websites.
Family Search
Other Social Networking tools :
Library thing
Flickr
Listservs
Podcasts: Genealogy Guys
Print references
Social Networking for Genealogists by Drew Smith
Blogs, wikis, podcasts: and other powerful web tools for classrooms by Will Richardson
Debbie Bloom Richland County Public Library
Walker Local History Room Manager
www.dbloom@myrcpl.com