STAFF SOCIAL MEDIA TRAINING

Session 1: Social Web Overview

Basic links

Content

• http://www.themovieblog.com
• http://www.lamp.edu.au/watercooler
• http://www.gizmodo.com
• http://www.supervirals.com
• http://www.youtube.com
• http://www.slideshare.net
• http://www.flickr.com
• http://www.personalizemedia.com
• http://www.silkcharm.blogspot.com
• http://www.ted.com
• http://www.revver.com

Connectivity

• http://www.facebook.com
• http://www.myspace.com
• http://www.triggerstreet.com
• http://www.ning.com
• http://www.linkedin.com
• http://www.bebo.com
• http://www.crowdstorm.com

Distribution

• http://www.digg.com
• http://www.iGoogle.com
• http://www.flock.com
• http://www.technorati.com
• http://www.stumbleupon.com
• http://www.redbubble.com
• http://www.tubemogul.com

Collaboration

• http://www.crowdfire.net
• http://www.wikipedia.com
• http://www.pool.org.au
• http://www.moodle.com
• http://www.drupal.org
• http://www.docs.google.com

The Live Web

• http://www.search.twitter.com
• http://www.twitter.com
• http://www.ustream.com
• http://www.qik.com
• http://www.mogulus.com
• http://www.skype.com
• http://www.secondlife.com
• http://www.worldofwarcraft.com

Session 2: Research Techniques

Morning with Debbie Sander

RSS Feeds and Alerts

• http://www.australia.gov.au/RSS_Feeds_and_Podcasts
• http://australianscreen.com.au/feeds/latest/
• http://www.google.com/alerts?hl=en

Google Reader, Advanced Search & Scholar

• http://www.google.com/intl/en/googlereader/tour.html
• http://www.google.com.au/advanced_search?hl=en
• http://scholar.google.com.au/advanced_scholar_search?hl=en&lr=

Research and Statistics

• ScreenAustralia - http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/research_and_statistics/GW_Research-And-Statistics.asp

Blogs

• http://www.technorati.com

Libraries

• Libraries Australia - http://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/apps/kss
• Worldcat.org - http://www.worldcat.org
• Online libraries - 25 places to read free books online http://educhoices.org/articles/Online_Libraries-25_Places_to_Read_Free_Books_Online.html

Search Engines and Directories

• Gigablast - http://www.gigablast.com/
• Educause - http://www.educause.edu/

Credibility of Websites

• http://whois.domaintools.com/

The Invisible Web

• DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals - http://www.doaj.org
• Infomine - http://infomine.ucr.edu

Databases

• http://www.aftrs.edu.au

Later with Gary Hayes

Blog Search

• http://www.technorati.com/
• http://blogsearch.google.com/
• http://www.icerocket.com/
• http://keotag.com/

Twitter

• http://search.twitter.com/advanced
• http://www.twing.com

YouTube Fast Search

• http://www.yvoschaap.com/youtube/

Google Earth Layers

• YouTube, Wikipedia, Google Books, Google News, NY Times
• http://www.abc.net.au/apps/earth/

AV Search

• http://www.blinkx.com/
• http://www.pluggd.tv/demo?play=1
• http://www.truveo.com/
• http://video.aol.com/
• http://www.odeo.com/
• http://search.everyzing.com/
• http://video.google.com/videoadvancedsearch
• http://www.delvenetworks.com/

Image Search

• http://www.live.com/
• http://pixsy.com/
• http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/
• http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/

Semantic Style Search

• http://www.riya.com/
• http://www.searchme.com/
• http://www.metacrawler.com/
• http://www.answers.com/
• http://live.grokker.com/
• http://www.qrobo.com/

Search Engine Aggregators

• http://www.jux2.com/

People

• http://www.zoominfo.com/
• http://www.linkedin.com/

Travel

• http://www.farecast.com/
• http://www.kosmix.com/

Music

• http://liveplasma.com/
• http://music.yahoo.com/
• http://music.google.com/
• http://www.biggerboat.com/

Serendipity

• http://digg.com/
• http://www.stumbleupon.com/
• http://www.slideshare.net

Design

• http://www.iconlook.com

Full List of Search Tools

The full links are not included below, however, you should just be able to put the following into the address bar of your browser. Failing that, just search for the search tools!

General

• Alexa Internet
• Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves)
• Baidu (Chinese)
• Cuil
• Exalead (French)
• Google
• Live Search
• Sogou (Chinese)
• Sohu (Chinese)
• Wikia Search
• Yahoo! Search

Geographical Limited Scope

• Accoona, China/US
• Alleba, Philippines
• Ansearch, Australia/US/UK/NZ
• Araby, Middle East
• Baidu, China
• Daum, Korea
• Guruji.com, India
• Goo (search engine), Japan
• Leit.is, Iceland
• Miner.hu, Hungary
• Najdi.si, Slovenia
• Naver, Korea
• Onkosh, Middle East
• Rambler, Russia
• Rediff, India
• SAPO, Portugal
• Search.ch, Switzerland
• Sesam, Norway, Sweden
• Walla!, Israel
• Yandex, Russia
• ZipLocal, Canada/US

Business

• Business.com
• Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
• Thomasnet (United States)

Enterprise Search

• AskMeNow: S3 - Semantic Search Solution
• Concept Searching Limited: concept search products
• Dieselpoint: Search & Navigation
• dtSearch: dtSearch Engine(SDK), dtSearch Web
• Endeca: Information Access Platform
• Exalead: exalead one:enterprise
• Expert System S.p.A.: Cogito
• Fast Search & Transfer: Enterprise Search Platform (ESP), RetrievalWare (formerly Convera)
• Funnelback: Funnelback Search
• ISYS Search Software: ISYS:web, ISYS:sdk
• Microsoft: SharePoint Search Services
• Northern Light
• Open Text: Hummingbird Search Server, Livelink Search
• Oracle Corporation: Secure Enterprise Search 10g
• SAP: TREX
• TeraText: TeraText Suite
• Vivisimo: Vivisimo Clustering Engine
• ZyLAB Technologies: ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform

Job Search

• Bixee.com (India)
• CareerBuilder.com (USA)
• Craigslist (by city)
• Eluta.ca (Canada)
• Hotjobs.com (USA)
• Incruit (Korea)
• Indeed.com (USA)
• Monster.com (USA)
• Recruit.net (International)
• SimplyHired.com (USA)
• TheLadders.com (USA)

Legal

• WestLaw
• Lexis (Lexis Nexis)
• Quicklaw

Medical

• Bioinformatic Harvester
• Entrez (includes Pubmed)
• EB-eye EBI's Search Engine EMBL-EBI's Search engine
• GenieKnows
• GoPubMed (knowledge-based: GO - GeneOntology and MeSH - Medical Subject Headings)
• Healia
• Searchmedica
• WebMD
• PubGene
• Nextbio (Life Science Search Engine)

News

• Google News
• Daylife
• MagPortal
• Newslookup
• Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
• Topix.net
• Yahoo! News

People

• PeekYou
• Ex.plode.us
• InfoSpace
• Spock (website)
• Spokeo
• Wink
• Zabasearch.com
• ZoomInfo

Real Property

• Fizber.com
• Home.co.uk
• HotPads.com
• Properazzi
• Rightmove
• Zillow.com

Video Games

• GenieKnows
• Wazap

Blog

• Amatomu
• Bloglines
• BlogScope
• IceRocket
• Sphere
• Technorati

Multimedia

• blinkx
• FindSounds
• Picsearch
• Podscope
• SeeqPod
• Veveo
• YouTube
• Pixsta

Maps

• Géoportail
• Google Maps
• MapQuest
• Live Search Maps
• Yahoo! Maps

Price

• Google Product Search (formerly Froogle)
• Kelkoo
• MSN Shopping
• MySimon
• PriceGrabber
• PriceRunner
• Shopping.com
• ShopWiki
• Shopzilla (also operates Bizrate)
• TheFind.com

Question and Answer

• Answers.com
• AskMeNow
• BrainBoost
• eHow
• hakia
• Lexxe
• Lycos iQ
• Powerset
• Live Search QnA
• Uclue
• Yahoo! Answers

Social Search Engines

• ChaCha Search
• Eurekster
• Mahalo.com
• Rollyo
• Trexy
• Wink

Metasearch Engines

• Brainboost
• ChunkIt!
• Clusty
• Dogpile
• Excite
• HotBot
• Info.com
• Ixquick
• Kayak
• Mamma
• Metacrawler
• MetaLib
• Mobissimo
• Myriad Search
• SideStep
• Turbo10
• WebCrawler

Visual Search Engines

• ChunkIt!
• Grokker
• Kartoo
• Pixsta
• PubGene

Session 3: How to Write Winning Blogs

Technorati Most Popular Blogs

• http://www.technorati.com/pop/blogs/

Technorati Top Blogs

• Breaking News and Opinion on The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com Authority: 26,739
• TechCrunch http://www.techcrunch.com Authority: 22,206
• Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide http://gizmodo.com Authority: 21,018
• Engadget http://www.engadget.com Authority: 18,429

Top Australian Blog List

• http://blogpond.com.au/top-100-australian-blogs-index/

Top Female Australian Bloggers

• http://www.crazymeezer.com.au/top-100-australian-womens-blogs/