Week 10 Social Networking

Social Networking Haiku

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Social Networking

My Space, Facebook, YouTube, and

"You're my friend, right?"

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I found that websites other than libraries are using social networking to communicate with their viewers. For instance, the state of Virginia offers the following ways to stay connected: Live Chat, RSS Feeds, Podcasts, Virginia YouTube and Get and Share. Get and Share is a Virginia widget that can be added to web pages, blogs, or social profiles. On California's website one can subscribe to podcasts, RSS, Text/E-mail, Accelerators, and Bookmarks (Digg, MySpace, Facebook, Yahoo Buzz, Delicious, and many more including Yardbarker). Vermont's website has RSS, Twitter, Linked In, Digg, Delicious, Facebook, StumbleUpon, and Google.
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Universities are also using social networking. The University of North Dakota offers Facebook, a Flickr album, ITunes UND, UND RSS feeds, and YouTube-Updated. The University of Oxford has RSS, science blogs, a Facebook group (OxSciBlog), and is heavily into video and audio articles.