Focuss.Info Bangladesh workshop was on “Social Media and Social Bookmarking” the extension of the Bangladesh Conference. It was held collaboration FocussInfo, Machizo and ULAB with 20 participants.

Along with social media and bookmarking using, we over viewed blogging, twittering (micro), writing for web, however introducing with all popular social networking platforms, features and social book marking plug-in, modules, components etc.

Special lecture by Dr. Brian Shoesmith and Dr. Jude Genilo have been given in the training session. Dr Jude gave lectured on community informatics and digital inclusion; however, Dr. Brian shared his experiences in Bangladesh and Australia.

The three days workshop covered essential options of social media in a participatory manner. The topics were the links of social bookmarking of blogs platforms (Blogger, WordPress, Typepad, etc.), CMS platform ( Joomla, Drupal, WordPress etc ), social networking (Facebook,LinkedIn, Orkut, Hi5, etc.), micro-blogging (Twitter, Tumblr, Yammer, etc.), photos sharing (Picasa, Facebook, Flickr! etc.) Wikipedia, video sharing (YouTube, Vimeo, Metacafe, etc.), document and presentation sharing (Scribd, SlideShare, etc.), Livecasting video and audio (Ustream, Skype, Blip, etc.), social bookmarking (Delicious, StumbleUpon, Google Reader, Diigo, keepyourlinks, AddThis, etc.), social news aggregation (Digg, Reddit, Technorati, etc.) and so forth.