Social Media Friend Guides To Wikipedia and Twitter Launched

More apps have been released from the Social Media friend stable! At the bargain price of 69p each, they’re cheaper than buying the whole Social Media Friend App (which is still on sale at £1.49p) and focus on a particular social media area.

Social Media Friend Wikipedia Guide

Social Media Friend Wikipedia Guide

The first Social Media Friend Guide focuses on the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. It will help you to understand how to use it properly, how to contribute to it and how not to contribute to it (discussing vandalism and bias). You can also find out why NPOV is such an important word and why you shouldn’t always believe everything that you read on it. The app also provides you with immediate access to the latest Social Media news (including interesting Wikipedia information) via the Social Media Friend Twitter feed.

 

 

 

Social Media Friend Twitter Guide

Social Media Friend Twitter Guide

The second Social Media Friend Guide focuses on the popular microblogging site Twitter. This guide will help you understand how to use it, show you the differences between Tweets, Retweets and Direct Messages and introduce you to the mystic art of URL shortening. You can also learn some polite Twitter etiquette and for businesses how you can utilise it more effectively. The app also provides you with immediate access to the latest Social Media news (including interesting Twitter information) via the Social Media Friend Twitter feed.

Both of these topics are still included in the original Social Media Friend App so if you want to have both and lots more content for only a penny more then you still have that option available to you (!).

There will be more guides being released later in the year the next one will be focusing on the Dark Side of The Internet – phishers, trolls and cyberbullies and options for dealing with them…..

Social Media Friend – Version 1.6 Update for iTunes

Version 1.6 of the Social Media Friend is now available to buy from the iTunes store.

It is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad (requiring iOS 3.0 or later).

New for June 2011:

There’s an all new handcrafted complete guide to Wikis. Glean some useful business tips for your corporate Wiki or brush up on your Wikiquette.

Wikipedia is put under the magnifying glass – how to use it properly, how to contribute and how not to contribute to it (vandalism and bias). You can also find out why NPOV is such an important word.

Buy From iTunes | App Information

Social Media Friend – Version 1.6 arrives on Android

Social Media Friend

Social Media Friend

The version 1.6 update of the Social Media Friend for Android has now arrived (running Android 2.2).  Social Media Friend is a quick and easy to use application designed to give you brief and informative information and tips on a range of Social Media and how you can get the best out of using it.

This version rolls up all of the interim updates between versions 1.4 and 1.6 so now includes all of the features available on the latest iPhone version. Currently it’s only available to buy from the Amazon App Store but will hopefully soon be appearing in  the Android Marketplace in the near future.

April Update:
A guide to help you understand Social Bookmarking.
Social Media Phenomena – find out about Rick Rolling and the Streisand Effect.
More updates to the comprehensive Social Media Glossary.

May Update:
A fresh, improved look and feel.
Health related Social Media Phenomena are examined: Cyberchondria, Divided Attention Disorder and Munchausen by Internet.
Immediate access to the latest Social Media information via the Social Media Friend Twitter feed.

June Update:
There’s an all new handcrafted complete guide to Wikis. Glean some useful business tips for your corporate Wiki or brush up on your Wikiquette. Wikipedia is put under the magnifying glass – how to use it properly, how to contribute and how not to contribute to it (vandalism and bias). You can also find out why NPOV is such an important word.

Buy From Amazon | App Information

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Wikipedia Loses Contributors in first three months of 2009

A very interesting study has revealed that Wikipedia lost 49,000 of its contributors in the first three months of 2009. The figure comes from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, which created software to track the edits made by three million active Wikipedia contributors in ten different languages.

Source : Macuser News

Wikipedia has responded to this news story here…..

Wikipedia reponse – Wikipedia’s Volunteer Story

Knol – How long does Wikipedia have left?

Google’s latest service, Knol, has just launched, intended as a repository of knowledge for everything from literature to DIY writes the New Scientist technology Blog. In the words of its creator, it’s meant to be “the first thing someone who searches for this topic for the first time will want to read”…..

Source : New Scientist Technology Blog

Knol