Social Networks

Online communication is a stream where information comes and goes. Once you read a book or have a phone conversation, really how many more times do you read it or listen to it again? Communication through websites should keep this in mind. We can archive our activities for reference, but we tend to want to learn or experience something new when we look to websites.

Social networks help us find new information and connect us to people and organizations we are interested in listening to. Websites are about communication, and that requires a conversation.

Twitter and Facebook are two standard social networks I work with. Through the Facebook stream below, you can see where I have set up a fanpage for bees and beekeeping information through eXtension.org, beeinformed.org, and other news stories we dig up.

These streams can make a convenient way to create links on your site in addition to interacting with others on social networks.