Media Sharing
This week we will take a look at the range of media sharing social media sites that are available. Media Sharing is a popular choice for many organisations that utilise Social Media to promote their organisation.Media Sharing sites are those that allow you to share videos, photos and audio with people over the Internet.
I have split these into 5 subcategories:
Photo sharing
Sites that allow you to share photos with your "friends" or those that follow you on the site. i.e. Flickr.com.
https://www.flickr.com/
Video sharing
Sites that allow you to share video files - the first one that comes to everyone's mind would have to be YouTube.com.
https://www.youtube.com/
Audio Sharing
By audio sharing sites I mean sites that allow to upload and share audio files, not just streaming from the Internet. These are sites that allow you to share audio files or music with those within your network. Soundcloud is a good example of this.
https://soundcloud.com/
Multi-media
Photo and video sharing at the one site. Most of the photo sharing tools also allow you to share video - Flickr allows both photo and video sharing. Many have come and gone over the years as social media has taken off and social networking tools like Facebook allowing both photo and video sharing.
DropShots is one that I came across:
https://www.dropshots.com/
Mobile
Mobile specific media sharing apps. There are a range of mobile apps for smartphones that allow you to share media direct from your inbuilt camera. Some are mobile specific and image or video specific, others just allow you to link in with your preferred social networking site. Mobile social networking and file sharing is a massive growth area, as more people are connected to the Internet with their smartphones and/or tablets.
Instagram is one that come mind instantly, but there are heaps more with new ones entering the sector all the time.
This is what Instagram looks like on the iPhone.
Social Media and Websites
when you browse the web, you will notice that many websites have social media as an integral part of them.Here are just a few examples - and these are the first ones that I came up with - ALL incorporated social media.
Here is CCLC's Facebook page as an example.
CLASS ACTIVITY
Find 5 Library websites and answer the following:
- Do they incorporate Social Media on their website?
- What tools do they use?
- Was their Social media easy to find on the website?
Choose 1 organisation and tool and find their recent posts
What sorts of things did they post?
Does it show their organisation in a positive light?
Share your findings with the class.
You may complete this task in pairs if you wish.
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