SC Employment Resources

Job Sites

Professional Organizations

Computing Research Association: Culture, Society and Advanced Information Technology http://www.cra.org/reports/aspects/

CPSR - Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility http://www.cpsr.org/

List of Professional Associations in the Information Sciences http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/resources/orgs.htm

Blogs & Forums

AcidLabs Weblog http://blog.acidlabs.org/

IBF Blog http://www.ibforum.com/?cmd=CMS_Article_List_View&uuid=Services&article=1d8368b45c815174ef7eefcef54b2d33

Useful Info http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/

Social Computing: What’s now. What’s new. What’s next. http://www.socialcomputing.org/

Socialtext Blog http://www.socialtext.com/blog/

The Groundswell http://blogs.forrester.com/charleneli/

The Intuitive Life Business Blog www.intuitive.com/blog/

Student Organizations at SI

SOCHI – Student Organization for Computer-Human Interaction http://www.si.umich.edu/SOCHI/

SIMPLE - Society for Information Management, Policy, Law and Economics http://www.si.umich.edu/simple/

Potential Employers

Microsoft Research - Social Computing Group Home http://research.microsoft.com/scg/

IBM Research Social Computing Group http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/SocialComputing/

Socialtext http://www.socialtext.com/

Various, Inc (FriendFinder.com) http://www.friendfinderinc.com/

Spring Street Networks http://www.springstreetnetworks.com/

Tribe Networks http://michigan.tribe.net/welcome

Spark Networks http://www.spark.net/default.htm

Internet Brands http://www.internetbrands.com/ib/

GoLightly http://www.golightly.com/

Social Signal http://www.socialsignal.com/

Online Dating Communities
Yahoo! Personals
Match.com
American Singles
eHarmony
Lavalife
Spark Networks
Tickle

Instant Messengers
Gtalk
Skype
Meetro
ICQ
Yahoo! Messenger
MSN Messenger
Pidgin (formerly Gaim)
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)
Miranda IM http://www.miranda-im.org/
Trillian http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/
Windows Live Messenger http://get.live.com/messenger/overview
Meebo http://wwwl.meebo.com/

Weblogs or Blogs (and related software)
Slashdot
LiveJournal
BlogSpot
Blogger
Live Journal
Moveable Type
Radio (Userland)
Schoolblogs
Blogdex
Daypop Weblog
Bookwatch
Voidstar
RSS-ify
YACCS

Wikis
Wikipedia
Wktionary
Portland Pattern Repository wiki
MeatballWiki
CommunityWiki
The Student Wiki
Wikisource

Social Network Services
Ryze
XING
Azoola
Ecademy
LinkedIn
GoingOn http://goingon.com/
XHTML Friends Network (XFN) http://gmpg.org/xfn/
Friendster Tribe.net http://www.tribe.net/
Craigslist
Evite
Friendster
Gather
Meetup
FriendFinder
Zoom Information
Imbee https://www.imbee.com/
Ning http://www.ning.com/
Doostang.com http://www.doostang.com/

Blogospheres
Technorati http://technorati.com/
Blogdex (as of April 2007, site is currently being "rethought") http://blogdex.net/
Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com/
Tailrank http://tailrank.com/
Blogrunner http://blogrunner.com/
Blog Street (India) http://blogstreet.com/
BlogsNow http://www.blogsnow.com/
The Truth Laid Bear http://truthlaidbear.com/
Bloggernacle Times http://www.bloggernacle.org/
J-Blogosphere http://jblogosphere.blogspot.com/

Virtual Communities
Flickr
Facebook
Del.icio.us
Cluztr http://www.cluztr.com/
Spock http://www.spock.com/
Club Penguin http://clubpenguin.com/
Whyville http://whyville.net/smmk/nice
Second Life

Medical Social Networking Sites
Konnects
Sermo
Within3

Social Bookmarking
Netvouz http://www.netvouz.com/
Connectedy http://www.connectedy.com/
Digg www.digg.com
Netscape www.netscape.com
Technorati www.technorati.com
Del.icio.us www.del.icio.us
Stumble Upon www.stumbleupon.com
Reddit www.reddit.com
Slashdot www.slashdot.org
FARK www.fark.com
BlinkList www.blinklist.com
Clipmarks www.clipmarks.com
Newsvine www.newsvine.com
FURL www.furl.net
BlogMarks www.blogmarks.net
Showtwire www.shoutwirec.om
Blue Dot www.bluedot.us
Simpy www.simpy.com
Spurl www.spurl.net
Spotplex www.spotplex.com
My Bookmarks www.mybookmarks.com
Spotback www.spotback.com

Social Libraries
discogs.com
LibraryThing lib.rario.us

Biblographic Resources
Zotero http://www.zotero.org/
Endnote http://www.endnote.com/
Procite http://www.procite.com/
RefWorks http://www.refworks.com/

Others
MindMeister http://mindmeister.com/#When:05:02:00Z
Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/

Sample Job Titles

Online Community Manager
Product Manager
Social Network Analyst
Community Organizer
Management Consultant
User Experience Analyst
e-Marketing Associate
Web Analyst

Recruiters/Headhunters

STAFFLOGIX Corporation http://www.stafflogix.com/
Pyramid Consulting, Inc. http://www.pyramidci.com/

Social Computing Related Websites

Case study on wikis at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, via Socialtext Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/
Digital Ethnography (Kansas State University) http://www.mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/
Forrester Research: Social Computing http://www.forrester.com/Research/Document/Excerpt/0,7211,38772,00.html
Intranet Benchmarking Forum http://www.ibforum.com/
Lab for Social Computing (Rochester Institute of Technology) http://social.it.rit.edu/
Open Directory Project http://dmoz.org/
Slashdot http://slashdot.org/
Social Computing http://www.socialcomputing.org/
Social Computing Lab (University of California, Santa Cruz) http://hybrid.ucsc.edu/SocialComputingLab/
Social Machines - Computing Means Connecting http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?ch=infotech&sc=&id=14664&pg=1
10 Layers http://10layers.com/
The Hut Home of the Digital Ethnography Workgroup (DEW) http://hci.ucsd.edu/dew/html/
WanabeHuman http://wanabehuman.blogspot.com/2006/04/politicstechnology-chinese-blogosphere.html
Wikipedia List of Social Networking Sites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
Yahoo! Research Berkeley http://www.yahooresearchberkeley.com/
List of Social Software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_software

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