How do Web 2.0 tools (blogs, wikis, podcasts and video lectures) complement such social networks?

Web 2.0 tools can complement any social network by increasing functionality, offering more features, and making styles of communication easier for all involved. It is one thing to have everyone have a web presence and say, be able to receive distribution list emails, but it is another thing to have all those users log in to a page and collaborate, share and disseminate information. Web 2.0 tools make this happen!

Yellow group decided that to get the most out of the social networks, you had to match the right tools to the right style of social network. We also decided that Second Life, while being a social network, has no place for structure and language for it to need web 2.0 tools. It is a game, so we left it out of the confines of our results.

Facebook - With the many different pages you can have, i think that any type of web 2.0 tool would be useful or suitable for facebook. A member can have three different sites - 2009 report, xmas party plan, and november proposal. Each page might have 5 different members. These members need to commune their ideals and proposals. They should do this (as it is structured, and you can see the members of the group clearly) through blog or wiki format. In highly structured circumstances, video lectures would be appropriate for demonstrations, teaching, and showing processes for things, or steps for a function. So a blog would be appropriate for collecting ideas, such as where should we hold the xmas party? A wiki would be handy if you were writing a report such as november proposal....how to start it, fixing and deliberating on the content, the way it is written etc. A video lecture would be good for demonstrations on how to do things for geographically scarce employees or group members ie, how to fix a certain error message. It would also be good for presentations, or project representations, which could enhance the productivity or understanding of the group.

Twitter - Twitter produces many small amounts of information as posts. I think that a video lecture would be an appropriate tool here. For example you could back up the 'tweet' "Check out Mike's presentation at AuSakai 2009" and post a video underneath it of the presentation. The majority of the employees wouldn't have been able to make it so showing them would be a great communication move. You can also post things such as "this is how you download and install the new software we will be using" While Twitter is extremely basic, its uses can be greatly enhanced by becoming a learning page full of posts and video tool, and how to guides.