Flickr/YouTube

Flickr/YouTube : 

Flickr/YouTube Tyler Hobbs

YouTube/Flickr=SNS/UGC : 

YouTube/Flickr=SNS/UGC YouTube and Flickr are Social Networking Sites Create a public profile (or semi-public) Connect with other users View and traverse your list of connections and those made by others within the system They are also User Generated Content sites Media produced publicly by end-users

Flickr : 

Flickr Create a profile Upload pictures and videos Organize and edit photos Share multimedia with anyone you choose Create a list of people to connect with Print photos, calendars and posters

You Tube : 

You Tube Founded in February 2005 and launched in December 2005 Original site was for people to post personal videos November 2006: Purchased by Google No longer exclusively for personal videos Centers for Disease Control & Prevention American Red Cross

Pro’s of YouTube : 

Pro’s of YouTube Free User-friendly Most videos run under 5 min. (with a 10-min. max) Easy to incorporate into a lesson Provides a browse section of categories: most recent; most viewed; top rated; most discussed; top favorite; and most linked The search with “prevention” added showed that more organizations than individuals posted videos

Con’s of YouTube(Straight from the users themselves) : 

Con’s of YouTube(Straight from the users themselves) “limited to 10 min long, copyright issues, privacy issues” “Some users can be abusive, media player keeps sticking when site is busy” “Only so much on there you'll care for” “Layout is still a little ....2005” “poor policing, offensive videos” “Arguments!”

Pro’s of Flickr (Straight from the users themselves) : 

Pro’s of Flickr (Straight from the users themselves) Free Edit photo titles, tags and create photo sets. Interaction You always have a safe and permanent backup of your original images The Organizer is overall a very competent tool for working with your images It’s a very well used photo service if you want to get your pictures noticed by others Countless third-party tools and software to work with your pictures

Con’s of Flickr (Straight from the users themselves) : 

Con’s of Flickr (Straight from the users themselves) Can’t download images with titles, tags, ect. There should be very clear and visible previous/next links Keyboard navigation support The default title for an uploaded image is its file name “I don’t want my images to have titles like ‘IMG_4465.jpg’” No way to give multiple images the same name “I have thousands of images to share, and there’s no way I’m going to give each of them a descriptive name” When adding a contact, no visible link Subscriptions to third-party tools

Co.’s can benefit from UGC : 

Co.’s can benefit from UGC Technologies that allow for collaboration and participation are filtering into the corporate world Most co.’s don’t know why people contribute McKinsey survey

Co.’s can benefit from UGC : 

Co.’s can benefit from UGC Source: Oct 2006 McKinsey survey of 573 users of 4 leading online video-sharing sites in Germany

Co.’s can benefit from UGC : 

Co.’s can benefit from UGC A few users posted the most popular content 3-6% of users posted 75% of the videos Videos from 2% of members accounted for over 50% of all videos viewed Majority of video-viewing audience was <25yrs old Users 25-44 yrs old contributed equally to postings These numbers are comparable to other studies Some Other Interesting Findings

Co.’s can benefit from UGC : 

Co.’s can benefit from UGC

Using Flickr/YouTube in the Corporate World : 

Using Flickr/YouTube in the Corporate World Crowdsource personal stories Allow them to make friends Feature some of the best submitted content Ask specific questions Do it for the right reasons

Using Flickr/YouTube in the Classroom : 

Using Flickr/YouTube in the Classroom Professor “Smith” is presenting a 50-minute heath lesson Begins with YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jwigcJigjY&feature=PlayList&p=3CD5E3B0550EAF47&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=35 When finished, he engages students in a dialogue highlighting the educational points of the video At the end of class he asks for feedback about the video

Using Flickr/YouTube in the Classroom : 

Using Flickr/YouTube in the Classroom Feedback "Although very graphic, great video!” "This speaks to students our age, and high school students will get this, too." "This approach is far more effective then the anti-alcohol videos we watched in high school."

Conclusion : 

Conclusion Both are great tools that can enhance education and/or business Some content issues Becoming part of our everyday lives Great way to keep in touch with people SHOULD be used more frequently in both the classroom and the corporate world

Work Cited : 

Work Cited Miner, Laura. Folio: The Magazine for Magazine Management; Apr2009, Vol. 38 Issue 4, p14-14, 1/2p, http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=38421415&site=ehost-live The article offers basic strategies on how to make web sites an extension of brand and engagement of larger audience. One strategy is to use personal stories and finding expert opinions which are the best thing to have crowdsourced. Other strategies include asking questions which encourage unique answers, partnering with lobby groups, and letting people share their experiences and opinions. Bughin, Jacques. How Companies can Make the Most out of User Generated Content. Aug 2007. http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/d.quercia/others/ugc.pdf . The success of online participatory media and how it is driven by a few enthusiasts. Boyd, Danah; Ellison, Nicole. Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship. Michigan State University, 2007. retrieved from http://consommacteurs.blogs.com/files/socialnetworksites_boyd-ellision_2007.pdf Basic background information about social network sites. Provides many examples and the history of many of these sites.