Social Media
The Social Media section of Victoria Online provides a comprehensive list of social media pages for local, state and federal government. This includes RSS feeds, podcasting, photo sharing and various other online communication tools.
Social Networking
"A social networking website where users can add friends and send messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves."
flickr
Photo Sharing
"Flickr - almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world... " - from the flickr site.
Mobile Apps
Mobile Computing
It is becoming more common for websites to offer downloadable mobile phone applications that you can run directly from your handset. These apps provide a wide range of specific functionality.
MySpace
Social Networking
"MySpace is a social networking website that allows members to post messages, images and videos to create an individual and shared web presence".
Podcasts
Audio & Video Publishing and Sharing
"A podcast is a programme (usually audio, sometimes video) which is made available as a downloadable digital file." - wikipedia.
RSS
Web Feeds
"Is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video in a standardized format".
Social Micro-Casting
"Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. " - from the twitter site.
Video
Video Casting & Sharing
Many websites post in-page or gallery-driven video content, which are either added directly to the site or are embedded from sites such as YouTube.
YouTube
Video Sharing
"YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small." - from the YouTube website.
