Friday, November 21, 2008

the geek plan

after teaching my mom and mother-in-law how to use facebook recently, I realized that while there are quite a few blogs out there on how to use different social media and other web applications in general, there aren't many out there that show you the simple processes of setting these up and using the basic functions. that is what I plan to do with this blog. below are my thoughts on what I will cover. please comment if you have any suggestions. I look forward to learning with you.
  1. facebook 101 -- getting started
  2. facebook 102 -- answers to your questions
  3. facebook 103 -- profile pictures
  4. facebook 201 -- making friends
  5. facebook 202 -- removing friends
  6. facebook 203 -- creating groups of friends
  7. facebook 301 -- limiting your profile
  8. facebook 401 -- creating photo albums and uploading photos
  9. facebook 402 -- adding captions and tagging friends in pictures
  10. facebook 403 -- uploading videos
  11. facebook 501 -- setting up facebook on your mobile phone
  12. facebook 601 -- facebook etiquette
  13. facebook 701 -- adding a link to your wall
  14. facebook 702 -- creating a note on your wall
  15. facebook 801 -- creating an event on facebook
  16. twitter 101 -- what is twitter and how to create a twitter account
  17. twitter 102 -- getting your account all set up
  18. twitter 103 -- twitter rules and twitter lingo
  19. twitter 201 -- who to follow on twitter
  20. twitter 202 -- who to find people to follow on twitter
  21. twitter 301 -- hashtags explained
  22. twitter 302 -- twitter parties
  23. twitter 303 -- tweet ups
  24. twitter 401 -- sharing pictures on twitter
  25. twitter 501 -- going through your twitter followers
  26. twitter 601 -- feeding your blog posts into twitter
  27. linked in 101
  28. e-mail addresses
  29. gmail 101
  30. gmail 201 -- filters and labels
  31. google reader 101
  32. google reader 201 -- finding feeds
  33. google reader 301 -- subscribing to feeds
  34. picasa 101
  35. picasa 201 -- cool things to do with your photos
  36. picasa 301 -- web album
  37. google calendar 101
  38. google calendar 201 -- sharing your calendar
  39. google calendar 301 -- viewing other calendars
  40. google docs 101
  41. google docs 201 -- uploading documents
  42. google docs 301 -- sharing your documents
  43. remember the milk 101
  44. flickr 101
  45. blogs 101

6 comments:

Heather (How to be a Woman..?) said...

Good! Do it! Lord knows I need all the help I can get.

(BTW, the word verification that just came up is "reersxy". Did you plan that? Is that going to come up every time?)

Anonymous said...

It seems like an awful lot! I certainly cannot think of anything to add to your lengthy agenda.

Ginger Tate said...

Looks great. I know I need all the help I can get. I'm new to twetter, facebook and blogging. In fact, right now if I try to follow someone new in Twitter it won't let me. When I click the follow button it acts like it's frozen. I emailed them asking for help.

We are at panera's spending a little time before driving to airport to pick up daughter and grandsons. Then her hubby is driving up Wednesday for Thanksigiving. Looking forward to spending extra time with them.

Once again, great blog idea. Have a great weekend!

Rhea said...

dang, those are a lot of sites for social networking help. lol

I was sucked into Facebook not long ago by friends and relatives, but I still prefer Blogging.

Joanna said...

you may want to reserve a post for "etiquette" on each of the social networking sites: how much is too much Facebook "poking"? What is a socially-acceptable number of twitters/day, and how many of those can be self-promoting? How do you recognize a spam blog (or spam twitter-follower)? These are things I wish more people knew. Great ideas!

caryn said...

great idea, joanna, i'm adding it to my list of ideas for this blog!!