social media sites
Social
media includes
web-based and mobile- based technologies, which allow users to create their own
content and share the content of others. Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define
social media as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the
ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the
creation and exchange of user-generated content." Following is a sampling
of social media sites, explanations of the site and when it was launched and
suggested users or pages to follow, please note that these lists are not
exhaustive. There are dozens of great
social media sites out there, this is just to give you a flavor of what is out
there—please explore and be social and share!
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched
February 2004. http://www.facebook.com
Facebook
page insights explained here: http://ads.ak.facebook.com/ads/FacebookAds/Page_Insights_en_US.pdf
Pages to Like: EIFA, Early
Intervention Parent Leadership Project, National Dissemination Center for
Children with Disabilities (NICHCY), Division for Early Childhood, Center for
Early Literacy Learning (CELL), Disability Scoop, Family Voices, Inc, (national
and your state’s chapter), Disability.gov, Special Olympics, AMCHP, TACSEI, The
Arc of the United States, AAPPD,
Friendship Circle of Michigan, Community Catalyst, PlayAbility Toys,
Reach Out and Read, Zero To Three Policy Network, The National Association for
the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), Special Education Advisor, Helen
Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults, Helen Keller National
Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults,
Google+
Google+ (pronounced and sometimes written as Google Plus, sometimes
abbreviated as G+) is a multilingual social networking and identity service
owned and operated by Google Inc.
Google+ was launched June 28, 2001.
http://www.plus.google.com/
Groups to Follow: Special
Education Advisor, NICHCY,
Linked in
LinkedIn is a professional social networking website. Founded in December 2002 and launched in May
2003, it is mainly used for professional networking. http://www.linked.com/
Groups to Join: Council for
Exceptional Children (CEC), Early Intervention Professionals, Association for
Childhood Education International, ZERO TO THREE Policy Network, Parents of
Special Kids, Parents Helping Parents, President’s Committee for People with
Intellectual Disabilities, Early Intervention Therapists,
Pinterest
Pinterest is a pinboard-style social photo sharing website
that allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections. Launched in March 2010 it is currently one of
the fastest growing social sites. http://www.pinterest.com/.
Pinterest requires an invitation at the time of this writing, you can request
an invite from someone you know who is already using Pinterest.
Pinners to follow: Pedia
Staff on Pinterest, SPDBN, 5m4SN (5 Minutes for Special Needs), Special Needs
Homeschooling, Caseywaid, Apraxia KIDS, Rick Smith (aka Noah’s Dad), NICHCY,
Tumblr
Tumblr is a micro-blogging platform and social networking
website, owned and operated by Tumblr, Inc.
The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a
short-form blog, named a “tumblelog”. Users edit their content from the
“dashboard” interface, where the option to post content and review posts of
followed blogs appear. Tumblr was
launched on April 27, 2007. http://tumblr.com
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking service and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and
read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, known as “tweets”. Users can group posts together by topic or
type by use of hashtags – words or phrases prefixed with a "#" sign. The
"@" sign followed by a username is used for mentioning or replying to
other users. To repost a message from
another Twitter user, and share it with one's own followers, the retweet
function is symbolized by "RT" in the message. Twitter was created in
March 2006 and launched that July. http://twitter.com
Tweeple to follow: EIFAorg, Family
Voices of IN, DissemCOP (Dissemination COP), SpecialEdAdvice, aecfkidscount
(Kids Count at Annie E. Casey Foundation), NDSC (National DS Congress), DSAInfo
(Down Syndrome Association), ASHA, earlyautism, NCWD/Youth,
Inclusive_class, edcocp, EducationNext,
DissemCoP, NICHCY, IntervenersDB, OfficeofEdTech, StephenLukeEd
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