http://www.FreeSocialMediaTraining.com Free Social Media training offered by Diane Hochman via My Private Classroom for Networkers. This article is written like a personal reflection or essay and may require cleanup. Please help improve it by rewriting it in an encyclopedic style.(December 2007) Social media: Participatory online media where news, photos, videos, and podcasts are made public via social media websites through submission. Normally accompanied with a voting process to make media items become "popular".[citation needed] Social Media Expanded Definition: Social Media is the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into content publishers. It is the shift from a broadcast mechanism to a many-to-many model, rooted in conversations between authors, people, and peers. Social media uses the �wisdom of crowds� to connect information in a collaborative manner. Social media can take many different forms, including Internet forums, message boards, weblogs, wikis, podcasts, pictures and video. Technologies such as blogs, picture-sharing, vlogs, wall-postings, email, instant messaging, music-sharing, group creation and voice over IP, to name a few. Examples of social media applications are Google (reference, social networking), Wikipedia (reference), MySpace (social networking), Facebook(social networking), Last.fm (personal music), YouTube (social networking and video sharing), Second Life (virtual reality), and Flickr (photo sharing). Ed Dale, Sherman Hu, Michelle MacPhearson, Stompernet, smarts, andy jenkins, twitter, utterz, jaiku, yoono, wowzaa, spock, pownce Using Social Media To Create Social Media Training Social media is quickly becoming a topic that no professional communicator can afford to ignore. Social Media Training Wiki Badge Promote the wiki on your site * o Video Blogs * Micro-Blogs * Podcasts * Useful Social Media Tools * Wikis * Social Bookmarking * Social Browsing * Social Networks * Social Media News Release * Digg * Del.icio.us * Ma.gnolia * StumbleUpon RSS Readers: Google Reader Bloglines Flock Newsgator Netvibes Conversation Tracking: Google Alerts Google Blog Search Technorati Blogpulse Blogging platforms: Blogger (free, hosted) WordPress.com (free, hosted) WordPress.org (free, open-source, host your own) TypePad (free, hosted) Tripod Tumblr (free, hosted) Blogonize (free, hosted) Chyrp (free, host-your-own) Textpattern (free, open-source, host-your-own) Movable Type (free, host-your-own) Simplelog (free, host-your-own) Monitoring Services: Radian6 (paid) Audio editing software: Audacity (free) MP3 encoder for Audacity (or other software) WavePad (free or paid versions) Podcast hosting: Libsyn RSS feed management: Feedburner Blog stats: Google Analytics BlogPerfume Mint (paid) MyBlogLog Downloading YouTube videos: iDesktop.TV KeepVid Video: YouTube (sharing) Dailymotion (sharing) Seesmic (production/sharing/community) Viddler (production/sharing/community) Mogulus (live streaming/production/sharing/community) Kyte (production/sharing/community) Blip.tv Vimeo (sharing/community) Social Bookmarking sites:del.icio.us digg Micro-Blogging Tools: * Twhirl * Twitterific (Mac only) * iTweet (Mac only) * 60+ Twitter Tools (from Mashable) * The Wall Tweet Journal - A knowledge base for innovative Twittering, micro blogging, social media and Web 2.0 technologies * Twoogle - Custom Search Engine at The Wall Tweet Journal Twhirl This site explores social media training and provides a resource for those looking to evangelize social media in their organizations. What should a 'Social Media 101' course cover? What tools should people be aware of? How should we use those tools? What are the pitfalls? What are the basics that everyone in your marketing/communications department should know? In the spirit of social media, there's no better way to develop a curriculum for social media training than through a wiki. Let the collaboration begin! Category: People & Blogs Tags: social media mlm training network marketing make money from home