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

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)