Amador-Tuolumne Community Action Agency

A. News/Info

• Wikipedia
• Digg
• Reddit
• Twitter
• RSS feeds!

B. Apps

• Google (Docs, Groups, Calendar, Reader)
• Open Office
• Delicious bookmarks
• PDF converter

C. Social Networks

• MySpace
• Facebook
• Ning
• Classmates.com
• Linkedin

D. Media

• YouTube
• Picasa
• Flickr
• Jibjab
• Photobucket

E. Aggregators

• Ping.fm
• FriendFeed
• Streamy

F. Webmail

• Gmail
• Yahoo
• Hotmail/Live

G. Online Task Lists

• Manymoon
• RememberTheMilk

H. Safety and Privacy

• Consumer Guide to Internet Safety, Privacy and Security
• Wiredsafety's Privacy and Security Guide
• Snopes.com's virus warnings

How-To Documents (to be downloaded and read on your favorite .doc-reading program)

• Twitter
• Facebook
• YouTube
• Tweetdeck (a Twitter client)
• **Not to be downloaded**Online ping.fm tutorial



YouTube

• Our favorite YouTube video ever: An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube. It's an hour long, and worth every minute. If you've wondered why anyone should care about social media, this is the video to watch.
• Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Aged Kids
• Google's YouTube Channel: How-tos for everything Google: Docs, Tasks, Maps.
• Nancy Today has all sorts of great and entertaining how-to videos - wonder how to build a tipi or make soap? Nancy Today can help! Nancy Today's YouTube Channel
• Social media on the spot! A couple of ATCAA folks went to a broadband retreat in Redding, where they recorded this video - a song about broadband internet sung to the tune of "Green Acres" (with thanks and a hat tip to Connie Stewart for coming up with the lyrics!): The Rural Broadband Song

Nonprofits effectively leveraging social media:

• Charity: Water lets you know exactly where your money goes - very clever marketing for donations.
• Check out the Humane Society of the US - scroll down and note the handy collection of links to social media on the right hand side: Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and Flickr. Well done, Humane Society!
• Save the Children has an incredibly smart feature: an RSS button above-the-fold. One click and you can load Save the Children latest news directly into your feed reader of choice!
• UNICEF doesn't link to their social media accounts directly from the main page, but they have a lovely feature on their social media page that gives you a bit of guidance. The site tells you exactly what they want you to do: "Become a 'fan' of UNICEF on Facebook," it tells you. "Become a 'friend' on UNIFEF on MySpace." Very clear, and a click will do the trick!
• Another pointed social media page we like: the Exploratorium page. (Follow their Twitter feed! @Exploratorium!)
• Last on our very incomplete list: the American Red Cross, often held to be one of the biggest, baddest orgs to play with social media (the first line of the Red Cross social media page is "Who says the Internet is only for young people? At age 127, the American Red Cross loves the Internet.") - these folks will connect with you online in any way possible. Impressive, Red Cross!

Twitter

• @BreakingNews does a great job of newsflash-style instant reporting.
• Local news on Twitter! @mymotherlode, @thepinetree, @uniondemocrat, @amadornews, @atcaa