How many of these phrases have you heard lately?



When I refer to "social" media tools in this course,
I mean any online tool that has some kind of social element to it, such as:

People other than the author can contribute comments or content
You can connect with other people through the tool
People come together online for a purpose, using this tool
The tool is used to search other social tools

For the purposes of the course,
we will consider all of the following as social media tools:


Blogs - - - - - Wikis - - - - - Online video - - - - - Facebook
LinkedIn - - - - - Second Life - - - - - Delicious - - - - - Social search engines