11102

11102

General Session - Conference Presentation Only (no formal paper)

Share or not to share: Personal experience of a graduate student
Hery The, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA, hery@hawaii.edu

"In a relationship and it's complicated," most of people who used to go online must be familiar with this post. Joined online community (OC) without well known how to maintain participation on it causes the situation like this. In one hand, members of OC feel engage with the communication, friendship, sharing-exchanging information, and convenient on purchasing products. By the same time, they experience receiving tons of waste email, overwhelming with the keep changing on navigation of the site features, and your information were shared to public without having a consent from you. That is why maintaining participation online and using online tools need new literacy called digital literacy. Digital literacy is not only about mastering the skills on using digital technology, but highly related with organizing, analyzing, and being critics with maintaining participation online.

In this presentation, I would like to share my personal experiences becoming a member of several OCs. How do I organizing the information come through the OC will be the main focus. I will move forward, then, to share about how to mashups features of the OCs for improving productivity. Participants in the presentation will find hands-on and practical tips to apply. When they apply the tips, they not only overcome the difficulty of going online, but they will find improvement on their productivity like the way I feel.

Google academic collaboration, Mailing List, Blog, Facebook, and Tweeter are the OCs that will be look at specifically in this presentation. These are popular useful tools as well as powerful OCs.

I used Google Docs, Google Calendar, Gmail, Google Talk, Google Sites, Google Form, and Blogger for my collaboration works. Specifically, I will discuss how to use Google academic collaboration as an information management system. These tools help me on improving my online collaborative works. In addition, I will explain how to mashups those applications and get them into an online platform that will benefit myself and the OCs.

I will continue with how to setting up online accounts, which are mail account, blog, Facebook, and Tweeter to get you connected with people and information on there without overwhelm with the whole bounce information. Maintaining email filter and administrating mailing list email on an email account will be used as an example.

Navigational and features setting on Facebook as well as Tweeter will be my last discussion. Facebook and Tweeter are well known as powerful social networking right now. To accommodate their users need on improvement, both Facebook and Tweeter keep updating the innovation on their sites, including change their navigational features and setting. When people decided to join an OCs, they must understand that their privacy not fall into social norms but regulate by the netiquette. Keep update with the netiquette means keep update with choice of sharing your information online. Understanding privacy and policy on the OCs is as important as understanding how much to share and how much not to share.

Novice, Intermediate mashups, online community, online tools