Agenda

• Introduce the key principles for understanding social networks -- expect to see chaos, social objects, social gestures, ego and object centric networks, and communities of practice.
• Discuss the five key principles for building successful social networks.
• Demo the site including a new memetracker-like tool which identifies the hottest discussions within sections of the site or the the site as a whole.
• Discuss how social networks like Island are the future of learning.
• Future plans -- I'll present a few of the ideas we're planning to implement in the next few months.

Goals

That people will walk away with a better understanding of social networks and a decent idea of how to go about building one in Drupal.

Resources

• https://island.byu.edu -- The site I'll be demoing

Some good articles:

• Social Gestures beget Social Objects
• Why some social network services work and others don't — Or: the case for object-centered sociality
• My "social_object" bookmarks on delicious

Speakers

Just me.