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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Final Post!

This is my final post for Social Media. I learned about many web tool such as blogs and web tools that I can take an use in the real world.

Social Network Safety 101!

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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Kerpoof!

Kerpoof is a tool designed to make movies, pictures, drawings, and other fun stuff. You can add things to the background and animate them.
Go to Kerpoof!

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Fox Tab Add-on!

Fox Tab is a FireFox add on that you can add to your FireFox browser. It puts a button on your browser that you can click on an then it shows you your websites that are open in 3D! You can also chose from top sites that are visited.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Tiny Chat!

TinyChat is a chat room where you can meet new people and chat with them. You can create a chat room for you and your friends or join a chat room. You can also do video chat. It's free so just create n account and get started!

Monday, November 8, 2010

Backgrounds.

You can change the background of your blog with the html from the website. Just add a new gaget and insert the code and it will put it as your back ground.

Domain's!

Domain is the name of your website. It's in the beginning of the URL usually like Facebook.com or google.com. There are lots of different types of endings for your sites such as .com, .org,.gov,. and tons of other ones. You can purchase your domain from websites such as go daddy.com and others so only you can have that website.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Google Voice!

Google Voice is a tool by google that allows you text, call, and use voicemail. You can set up a number that will link all your phones (home, mobile, work, etc.) at the same time. So when they call that number all your phones will ring. You can call people right from your computer too. When someone leaves you a voicemail it will automatically change it into a readable text. You can block any number that you don't want to call. You can send text messages to people from the computer. Best of all google voice has free calling and texting to U.S. and Canada. Calling to other countries cost as low as $0.02 a minute. There are over 1.4 million users of google voice. It can be very useful in a business or home. To get google voice go to: https://www.google.com/voice

Monday, October 25, 2010

Email Post.

This post was sent from my email.

Bibme!

Bibme lets you enter a book, website, newspaper, magazine and other things and gives you the citation. You enter the name into the search, then it will give you the citations in MLA or APA format. It can be very useful when writing a paper to give you your citations.

FireFox Personas!

FireFox Personas is a web site by FireFox that lets you customize your browser. You can chose from hundreds of different backgrounds for your browser to change the look of it. It's a fun feature to help make your browser more creative.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

BlogThis!

BlogThis is a way for you to easily blog about a website or anything in a pop up window. You click on the link in your links toolbar and it pops up with a window to enter your text. You can then change which blog you want to post to.
What is BlogThis! ? - Blogger Help
Sending this post to my blog from my phone.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Google Products!

There are many free google products. Google Books is a tool you can read to research a book or even read a whole book or magazine. There are lots of different types of books to read and search for. Go to Google Books. 





In google Maps you can find pretty much any location you want. You can type in your location and it will show up on the map. You can search for restaurants, shopping, and other things in the area. It can be viewed in a map form or a satellite image view of where you are. If available you can change into street view and see an 360 degree image of the road from a car. You can also tun on the traffic feature and view the current traffic in the area. You can easily get directions to the place yo want, just put in the address or name of the place. Go to Google Maps.


Google News offers you news from a variety of different sources. You can enter the topic of news you want to look up and it will come up with news from different websites about your topic. You can pick a category of news you want to display from top news, world, Technology, etc. Go to Google News.


Google Products offers you a search for your favorite products. Just enter what your searching for, such as Nike shoes, and it will display a picture of the shoes with the price, name, and website that you an buy them from. It's very easy to use and can be very helpful when looking to buy something. Go to Google Product Search.


Google Web Search
is the main google page. You can type what ever you want and it will display your results within  seconds. With its new google instant feature it guess what your going to type and will display your results as you type so your search results will be there before you can even finish typing. Now you can change the background of the classic home page to one of the pre-set options or one of your own pictures. You can also make your own custom home page with IGoogle and add a variety of features to your home screen such as games and weather. Go to Google Search.

Google translate lets you translate anything into 60 different languages. You can insert a whole web page or document and google will translate it for you. Go to Google Translate.








Tuesday, October 12, 2010

IGoogle!

IGoogle is a customizable google page that you can add just about anything too. You can add fun games like Super Mario or Frogger. You can add your local weather forecast. You can add lots of other fun things too and change your background image.

Friday, October 8, 2010

Tagxedo!

GADGETS!

There are lots of different gadgets for blogger! You can add just about anything to your blog from your own fish pond to the word of the day. You can add games like Super Mario and snake or add your favorite music. Some are made by blogger to help organize your blog or other things for your blog, and some are made by other people or company's. They can be very helpful with making your blog more fun or more interesting.

Monday, October 4, 2010

Histats!

Histats gives you live stats about your website. Add your website to your account then pick the counter you want. Then just copy the html code to your blog and adds it to your blog. It can track your page views by days and can show where there from. Blogger also has a feature that does the same thing. It can help you track your views and where there from for a business to see where your customers are from or show how much traffic you have on site.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Word Clouds!

Word Clouds can be very useful. You can use them in a school project to put the words in your project. You can use them to put information like the constitution or Obama speech for a project. You can use it for your business to put in the items you cell at the store. You can just use it for fun to to make one of your friends or something you like. There's a variety of word cloud websites out there such as: WordleTagulImage ChefWorditout, and ABCya Word Clouds.
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Wordle!!

Image Chef!

Image Chef is a pretty neat tool. It allows you to create word clouds in the shape you want and with the words you want to put. You can change the color of the words and background into the shape you want. Image Chef lets you create a lot of other things too.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

WeeWorld!!!

WeeWorld is a fun virtual world. You can customize your character to how ever you want. You can visit different world's and chat with other users. You can customize your own room too. There isn't as many options as in Meez but I like that because it's easier to find what you want. You can also play games to earn points just like in meez.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Stumble Upon!

Stumble Upon is kind of like a social bookmarking site. Based on your interest, friends, and similar users interest it take you to a random site that you might like.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/

Diigo!!

Diigo social bookmarking is very useful. Add the toolbar to easily add your links to share with your friend. It utilizes the tag feature to find your bookmarks fast and easy. You can highlight certain parts of a website to save, then preview the website. You can add pictures and notes too. It can also be used on Ipad and android powered phones.
www.diigo.com

Delicious Bookmarking!

This social bookmarking site has it all. With the Delicious toolbar you can easily add your favorite sites to your site. Tagging your websites can be helpful in the future to find the site your looking for. You can organize your sites in list to help keep track of them.
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Symbaloo!

Symbaloo is a social booking marking site that lets you add your favorite website in a web mix. You can add to different pages that can be sorted by topics. You can change your pictures on each site link. It's not as social as the other sites.

http://www.symbaloo.com/

Friday, September 17, 2010

Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking is a great way to share your favorite sites with friends, family, or anybody else that might have common interests. It can be used to store your bookmarks from any computer and even android phones and Ipad's. You can organize your sites into groups and lists. You can highlight certain text and save it. You can tag your bookmarks to easily find your bookmarks by keywords. You can use it to share your site's with people if your working on a group project. There are many different social bookmarking sites for you to use.

Here are some social bookmarking sites:
Delicious
Diigo
Symbaloo

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Meez Room's!

In Meez you can create your own rooms to have you or your friends join. You can also join a room that has already been made. You can customize your own room to the way you like it. You can dance, chat with friends, or just sit. Chatting is easy, you just type what you want in the chat area and it come up in a bubble over your meez. Its a great way to chat with your friends!!

Visit My Room!!!
http://www.meez.com/roomz.dm?act=view&room_id=dr1.FINZCb8waEac&room=My%20Room

Meez!!

The meez tool is pretty cool! There are a lot more options for clothes and styles. You can change the background and animation of you meez. You can create your room and invite your friends to it. You play games to earn more money to buy new things.

Meez 3D avatar avatars games

Friday, August 27, 2010

Avatars


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An avatar is like virtual you! You can make it say things in custom voices, and accents and languages from across the world, and even your own voice. You can change it's appearance from it hair, clothes, face and other features and you can change the background to lots of different places. You can pick lots of different people from Jesus to Borat. Then you can add the link to your site.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

How I Currently Use Social Media - Web Tools.

I use social media all the time. I use Facebook all the time, I check it all the time from my computer and my phone. I have Myspace and Twitter but I never really use them. I use Picnik sometimes to edit a picture. I watch videos all the time on YouTube.

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