SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS FOR COMMUNITIES Extract from the Village Communications Toolkit. The full Toolkit is available at: http://www.communityfirst.org.uk/index.php/publications Last updated: July 2012
In this guide we present some of the tools that belong to social media but which offer lots of possibilities for use within village communities especially when resources and time are in short supply. Name Description Website Cost Video Conferencing Skype Oovoo Voice and video calling over the internet. Video chat and video conferencing. http://www.skype.com/intl/en-gb/home http://www.oovoo.com/ Software free to download. Charge for calls. Free for two-way chats. Charge for Teleconferencing Conference Genie Free conference calls, audio conferencing and telephone conference facilities and services. Real-time desktop sharing with phone conferencing http://www.conferencegenie.co.uk/index.php Free service, charges apply for calls. Webex http://www.webex.co.uk/index.html Free basic package. Monthly charges for additional Pow Wow Now Conference calling http://www.powwownow.co.uk Charges apply. Meeting Scheduling Doodle Meeting scheduling http://www.doodle.com/ Charges
Presentations Slideshare Sharing presentations, documents and professional videos http://www.slideshare.net/ Charges Audio Sharing AudioBoo SoundCloud Mobile and web platform that allows you to record and share audio files. Upload or record audio to share. http://audioboo.fm/ http://soundcloud.com/ Charges Video Sharing You Tube Video sharing. http://www.youtube.com/ Blip TV Ustream TV Hosting for videos, podcasts, and other original content. Live interactive broadcast platform. http://www.blip.tv/ http://www.ustream.tv/ Charges Charges Pictures Flickr Photo Bucket Online photo sharing and storage. Image and video hosting and sharing. http://www.flickr.com/ http://photobucket.com/
Picasa Photo editing software from Google. http://picasa.google.com/ Documents YuDu Windows Live SkyDrive Google Docs Read online publications and self publish digital magazines, ebooks, etc. Create Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents and access, edit, and share from anywhere. Online file storage. http://www.yudu.com/ http://www.windowslive.co.uk/skydrive http://docs.google.com Charges 25GB of free online storage. Online work sharing. Cute PDF Creating PDF documents http://www.cutepdf.com Free for commercial and non-commercial use. Cute PDF Editor Fax Zero Wufoo Primo PDF Edit and manipulate PDF documents. Sending faxes via the Internet without the need for a fax machine. Creating contact forms, online surveys, and invitations Pdf creation and conversion from other documents. https://editor.cutepdf.com/edit.asp http://faxzero.com/ http://wufoo.com http://www.primopdf.com/index.aspx Free with adverts shown on fax. Pay per fax for larger documents. Free for limited use, charges continued use. Charges
PDF Forge Creating pdf documents http://www.pdfforge.org/ Drop Box File synchronisation and sharing https://www.dropbox.com Premium version available Zamzar Online file converting to/from a variety of formats. http://www.zamzar.com/ at a cost Charges per month. Maps Google Maps Google Earth Open Street Map Creating and sharing maps and adding text, photos, or video. World maps using satellite and 3D imagery. Editable world map allowing you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way. http://maps.google.co.uk/ http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html Charges http://www.openstreetmap.org/ Surveys and Forms Email Me Form Survey Monkey Creating a variety of online forms using the easy form builder. Creating and managing online surveys and results analysis. http://www.emailmeform.com/ http://www.surveymonkey.com/ Charges Charges
Survey Gizmo Creating and managing online survey, poll or website forms. http://www.surveygizmo.com/ Charges apply. Social Networking - combines community, self-expression and entertainment, enabling you to consume, create, discover, curate and share digital content in entirely new ways Bebo Blog Early, Blog Often. http://s.bebo.com/ For posting blogs, photos, music, videos and questionnaires and connecting with friends. Wayn Lifestyle and travel social http://www.wayn.com/waynsplash.html network. Facebook Social network for http://www.facebook.com/ personal information and connecting with online friends. My Space Social entertainment http://www.myspace.com/ network music, videos, games, movies and TV Twitter A real-time information http://twitter.com/ network that connects you to the latest information about what you find interesting Linked In Business oriented http://www.linkedin.com/home?trk=hb_home professional social network. Google+ Social network for personal information and connecting with online friends. https://www.google.com/+/learnmore/
Live Journal Online journal service to discover global communities of friends who share the same interests http://www.livejournal.com/ Charges Social Networking Resources Mashable Source for news in social and digital media, technology and web culture Pod Nosh Helps people use social media for social good Social Media Surgery Makes it easier to find and run social media surgeries to support community groups, local charities and local active citizens. Ning Creating your own social network. phpbb Open source forum software. Drupal Content Management System, social networking application, forum, and blogging tool http://mashable.com/ http://podnosh.com/ http://socialmediasurgery.com/ http://www.ning.com/ http://www.phpbb.com/ http://www.drupal.org.uk/ Depends on services used. Depends on services used. Depends on services used. Monthly charges. Blogging Word Press Web software used to http://wordpress.org/ create blogs or websites Blog Lines For managing web http://www.bloglines.com/
Blogger information, such as news feeds, weblogs and audio. Bloglines tracks the information and organises your own personal web news page. For creating your own blog http://www.blogger.com Text Messaging Swarm Teams A multichannel engagement marketing tool, increasing results from viral, network, event, mobile and SMS marketing. http://home.swarmteams.com/ Free trial available. Idea Sharing Bubblus Gliffy Huddle Online Brainstorming tool. Online diagram and flowchart software. Project management and collaboration software and online file storage. https://bubbl.us/ http://www.gliffy.com/ http://www.huddle.com/ Charges Charges Charges
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