The Internet is in the process of changing from a collection of corporate,
organizational, and personal websites to a social network of dynamic services
full of user-contributed content (think Wikipedia, Flickr, YouTube, etc.). The
benefits of participating in this universe of expanded and shared information
are incalculable and will lead, potentially, to the greatest exchange of
information in history. Genealogists in particular will thrive in this new
Internet environment of sharing, exchanging, and interacting.
This book describes the wide array of social networking services that are now
available online and highlights how these services can be used by genealogists
to share information, photos, and videos with family, friends, and other
researchers. Each chapter guides you through a unique category of social
networking services using genealogy-related examples. From blogs and wikis to
Facebook and Second Life, author Drew Smith shows you how to incorporate these
powerful new tools into your family history research.
Specifically, you'll find chapters devoted to the following social networking
concepts and services:
- Blogs
- Collaborative editing
- Genealogy-specific social networks
- General social networking (Facebook)
- Message boards & mailing lists
- Photos & video sharing
- Podcasts
- RSS feeds
- Sharing personal libraries
- Tags
- Virtual worlds
- Wikis
This book is about the type of social networking that has been made possible
by the development of international computer networks, the availability of
network access to most homes (especially broadband access), the creation of
websites dedicated to particular kinds of networking (posting photos, viewing
and commenting on videos, seeing what books friends have in their libraries,
etc.), and the ease of participating in these sites without having to be a
computer expert. More to the point, this book is intended to identify those
kinds of social networking sites and services that will be of the most interest
to genealogists.
THE AUTHOR
Drew Smith, MLS, is an academic librarian with the University of South Florida
in Tampa. An expert in digital genealogy, with a lifelong interest in family
history research, he is Director of the Federation of Genealogical Societies and
President of the Florida Genealogical Society of Tampa. He is also a regular
contributor to Digital Genealogist magazine and is co-host of the weekly Genealogy
Guys Podcast. Format: Paper
Pages: 129 pp.
Published: 2009
ISBN: 9780806317953
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