Exploration of Social News and Social Bookmarking
Activity One: Check in on your statistics!
- Google Analytics http://www.google.com/analytics
Are you getting close on the 50 state challenge?
Activity Two: Social News
"Watch" what's going on via Visualization Tools
- Daylife http://universe.daylife.com/
- Digg Labs (Stack, Swarm, BigSky, and Arc) http://labs.digg.com
Explore Various Approaches to Social News
Using the sites below (and any others that you are familiar with), prepare responses to the questions below. We will discuss these questions as a class during the lab today.
- What are the similarities among these sites?
- What are the differences?
- Which approach do you think is the best and why?
- Digg http://www.digg.com
- Reddit http://www.reddit.com
- Newsvine http://www.newsvine.com
- Now Public http://www.nowpublic.com
- News Cloud http://www.newscloud.com/
- Ningin (Asia) http://www.ningin.com/
Activity Three: Social Bookmarking
Watch Video "Bookmarking in Plain English"
http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english
Explore Various Styles of Social Bookmarking
Using the sites below (and any others that you are familiar with), prepare responses to the questions below. We will discuss these questions as a class during the lab today.
- What are the similarities among these sites?
- What are the differences?
- Which approach do you think is the best and why?
- Delicious http://del.icio.us
- StumbleUpon http://www.stumbleupon.com
- Simpy http://www.simpy.com/
- Yahoo http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/
Activity Four: Add Social News and Social Bookmarking Icons to Your Blog
(Updated 3/28 with new code and instructions)
- Go to http://showip.be/bookmark/index.php
- Select which buttons you want to display, button size, and layout (horizontal & small recommended)
- Copy the code to paste into your template on blogger
- Login to Blogger
- Click on "Customize"
- Click on "Edit HTML" tab
- Check the box that says "Expand Widget Template"
- Find the string class='post-footer'
- Insert a new line after the line of code for post-footer
- Paste the code for your buttons (#3 above)
- Preview to make sure it worked
- Save your modified blogger template