Last week one of my favourite speakers on all-things-web 2.0, Clay Shirky, gave a speech at New Media Days 2009 conference in Copenhagen (Denmark). The speech was recorded on video and although it has not appeared on YouTube yet, you can watch it at the New Media Days’ website: Clay Shirky: “New Motivations and Opportunities – Understanding the Amateur Producer”

Enjoy!

Welcome to the opening post of AskAboutSocialMedia.com! I hope this site will provide you with interesting new knowledge and ideas about how to use social media.

I want to start out with showing two videos. One is by Dr. Michael Wesch, who teaches digital ethnography at Kansas State University. I have been following his ideas and videos about teaching, learning and other subjects for some time now and he strikes me as truely a unique teacher and thinker.

The other video is by one of my favourite speakers on web 2.0 and social media – the author of “Here Comes Everybody”, Clay Shirky.

Both videos illustrate a point about the interconnected world we live in today and the impact that social media and web 2.0 has on our lives. I hope you enjoy them!