What the F**k is Social Media?!

August 18th, 2008 by mas | Filed under Innovation & Technology.

I’m working on our new website at the moment and playing around with Slideshare to maybe embed some of our stuff on the new site.

While playing I found the slideshow below and thought it had some relevance - not only to anyone confused by ’social media’, ’social networks’, ’sns’, ‘web 2.0′ and so on, but also relevance in relation to the ‘get on board message’ that it really has, for those involved in youth work.

Theres a lot of talk about the use of social media with young people, I tried to expand on the potential the web has beyond this for practitioners in an earlier post, this slideshow also made me think theres also an overall need for youth organisations to start seeking dialogue rather than monologue through their online presence. Perhaps this could relate back to better ‘accountability’ too - youth services provided by organisations that encourage young people (and their staff) to engage online rather than just giving out information and opening times?

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Neil Williams 1 month ago 1 point
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That's a great set of slides isn't it? I picked up on it on my blog at http://neilojwilliams.net/missioncreep/2008/08/... and had a few useful comments, including one from the slides' author.

It's certainly inspired me to give a few similar presentations, and to share them on slideshare - although finding the time to clean them up and upload them is proving trickier...

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digitalyw 1 month ago 1 point
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Hi Neil - I love slideshare. We were chatting about it a few weeks back and how its totally changed how people approach 'doing powerpoint'. I've spent years cursing at people who use powerpoint - maybe the slideshare people deserve some sort of award for making life a little less tedious!

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