Topic 3 Media Sharing Tools and team leadership

Themed or Niche Social Networking

So what do I mean by Niche social networking? Niche social networking is where you share and network based on particular areas of interest such as films, music, reading and cooking. This way you get to share with like-minded people and people with similar interests to you. Most websites allow you to interact (which is what Web 2.0 is all about), even if it is as simple as being able to leave a comment and reply to comments.

Many of the Niche Social Networks allow you to join and log in with your Facebook login, which means that you don't have to remember lots of different login details and it also allows you to share information from these sites on Facebook.

Examples of Niche social networking sites that I use:

https://www.taste.com.au/
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ (This is also a forum)
https://www.goodreads.com/

Media Sharing

Media Sharing sites are those that allow you to share videos, photos and audio with people over the Internet.



I have split these into 5 subcategories:

Photo sharing 

A photo sharing site is one that allows you to upload and store photos online, share photos with your "friends", or allow people to follow you on the site.

The original number 1 photo sharing site is Flickr.com. It has been around for a long time, and although the interface gets an upgrade, it essentially serves the same purpose that it did when it was created, except that it is now mostly professional photographers. It has been owned by SmugMug since April 2018. There has been some changes to the plans, so it will be interesting to see whether it can continue to survive.

https://www.flickr.com/

https://www.flickr.com/about

https://www.flickr.com/help/guidelines 



AS well as the free version, you can update to Pro which gives you more features, but comes at a price.

Flickr also has the Commons, where you can spend time looking at photos that are in the public domain. There are a number of well known organisations that contribute to the commons.

https://www.flickr.com/commons

The key goal of The Commons is to share hidden treasures from the world's public photography archives.

Video sharing

Sites that allow you to share video files - the first one that comes to everyone's mind would have to be YouTube.com.

https://www.youtube.com/


Audio Sharing

By audio sharing sites I mean sites that allow to upload and share audio files, not just streaming from the Internet. These are sites that allow you to share audio files or music with those within your network. Soundcloud is a good example of this.

https://soundcloud.com/




https://soundcloud.com/pages/contact


Audio Streaming

When you think of audio streaming nowadays, the one that comes to mind first is probably Spotify. Spotify is a music streaming site that allows you to listen to music, create and share playlists. You can join for free, but you can also pay for a premium subscription.

https://www.spotify.com/au/


Mobile

Mobile specific media sharing apps. There are a range of mobile apps for smartphones that allow you to share media direct from your inbuilt camera. Some are mobile-specific and image or video-specific, others just allow you to link in with your preferred social networking site. Mobile social networking and file-sharing is a massive growth area, as more people are connected to the Internet with their smartphones and/or tablets.

Instagram is one that come mind instantly, but there are heaps more with new ones entering the sector all the time.

Instagram allows you to take a photo or video, apply a filter, then share on Instagram or your other Social Media tools

Instagram is also now available to view online or you can download an app to your computer from the Microsoft store.



Social Networks

As well as sites that are specifically for media sharing, most of the Social Networking sites also allow you to share Media files including photos and videos. These include Facebook and Twitter just for starters.

Copyright and Media Sharing

As we are talking about media sharing, such as images or videos, it is important to think about whether you have the legal right to share or not.

Who owns Copyright to images or videos that you share online?

If you find a video or image online, can you use it? 

This is a good article on Copyright and Social Media

Read this article about sharing photos of your children on social media
https://www.abc.net.au/life/sharing-photos-of-your-children-on-social-media-without-consent/10798576

Read the following article on how to share other people's photos on social media (Instagram):
https://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/reshare-instagram-posts-legally/

And this article on Copyright and Instagram.
https://www.abc.net.au/life/instagram-privacy-settings-copyright-and-your-photos/10903538

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