Whatever Mathers Web 2.0 Suicide Machine - Meet your Real Neighbours again! - Sign out forever! Circulating Ideas | the librarian interview podcast crowdsourcing How and Why Should Libraries Do It D-Lib Magazine March/April 2010 Volume 16, Number 3/4Table of Contents Crowdsourcing: How and Why Should Libraries Do It? Rose Holley National Library of Australia rholley@nla.gov.au doi:10.1045/march2010-holley Printer-friendly Version Abstract The definition and purpose of crowdsourcing and its relevance to libraries is discussed with particular reference to the Australian Newspapers service, FamilySearch, Wikipedia, Distributed Proofreaders, Galaxy Zoo and The Guardian MP's Expenses Scandal. Keywords: Crowdsourcing, social engagement, web 2.0, text correction, digital libraries, digital volunteers, virtual volunteering, wisdom of crowds, citizen science. 1. This article is an abridged version of my private research paper1. 2. Crowdsourcing is a new term in our vocabulary. "Crowdsourcing is a neologism for the act of taking tasks traditionally performed by an employee or contractor and outsourcing it to a group (crowd) of people or community in the form of an open call. 3. 4. Fig. 1. 5.
Learning 2.0 - 23 things to do A Collection of Social Network Stats for 2010 « Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang Social Media, Web Marketing For the third year running (see 2008, 2009) I’m going to aggregate stats in the social networking space on a single blog post, and update it through the year. Data fiends should bookmark this post for future reference. Stats are important –but on their own, they don’t tell us much Stats on social networks are important, but don’t rely on them alone. How to interpret stats Numbers don’t tell us much without insight and interpretation, in fact, you’re going to see conflicting numbers of usage from many of the agencies and social networks themselves. A Collection of Social Network Stats for 2010 I’ll be updating this post throughout the year, bookmark it, and share it with others. Comparison: All Social Networks “The data doesn’t deny that Facebook has come to dominate social networking in the US, and overtook MySpace in 2009. By Region and Geography Facebook Facebook keeps it’s stats page updated, and boasts over 350mm users. LinkedIn Tagged Twitter Yelp YouTube Mobile, Desktop and Social Networks
When NOT to Use Social Media - ReadWriteWeb These days, everyone is talking about social media and discussing what services and tools to use, how to use them, why you should use them, etc. In fact, if you listened to all the advice out there, you would probably think that no matter who you are, whether an individual wanting to build a personal brand, or a large multinational corporation intent on communicating with customers, you should be using social media. But is social media for everyone? Are there times when you shouldn't be using it at all? According to B&B, a magazine for marketing strategists, there are definitely some scerarios when social media should be avoided. In a recent article, they listed what these were: You're in a high-ticket business: The article recommends that businesses with only a few customers who each spend tens of millions of dollars with the company each year are better off not using social media. But Don't Be Afraid to Try! What will be different in 3, 6, 12 months as a result of our Twitter account?
Social Software - Five Weeks To A Social Library Welcome to the course! We are thrilled to be working with you to develop your knowledge of social tools and how they can be applied in libraries. Since there is a lot to cover, we plan to hit the ground running. Therefore, we would like you to have completed certain instructional tutorials and tasks before the first week. We would like you to be comfortable with Drupal and to have created at least one post on your blog. We would like you to be able to edit the wiki and to have created your profile on the wiki. Introduction to the Course - this screencast by Meredith takes you through the basics of your "classroom" and what you will be expected to do each week. - a screencast presentation by Helene Blowers (Public Services Technology Director at the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County) designed just for this course. Introduction to Technologies - An introduction to the interface you will be using for blogging. - Introduction to wikis and how to edit them. Additional Readings
Royal Pingdom » Internet 2010 in numbers What happened with the Internet in 2010? How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? This post will answer all of those questions and many, many more. We used a wide variety of sources from around the Web to put this post together. Prepare for a good kind of information overload. Email 107 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2010.294 billion – Average number of email messages per day.1.88 billion – The number of email users worldwide.480 million – New email users since the year before.89.1% – The share of emails that were spam.262 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 89% are spam).2.9 billion – The number of email accounts worldwide.25% – Share of email accounts that are corporate. Websites 255 million – The number of websites as of December 2010.21.4 million – Added websites in 2010. Web servers Domain names Internet users Social media Web browsers Videos Images
Where do you get your library news? Evaluating library channels As I have remarked many times before, librarians are on pretty much every internet medium/channel you can think of. From old school mailing lists to newer social media tools like Ning, Wikis, Twitter, Facebook etc. I am a crazy infovore with a voracious appetite for information but even I have my limits and I'm getting overwhelmed so I have being recently thinking of evaluating the sources/channels which prove useful to me. For me there are essentially two aspects when evaluating whether to stay on a channel. Firstly, does it have a high signal to noise ratio. Secondly, probably even more important is whether the audience on the channel tends to be helpful with queries. What follows will be my evaluation of the various librarian channels/mediums I hangout at and my perception of their strengths and weakness. Twitter Okay, I could write a dozen blog posts on this alone (one old post here), but suffice to say this is my primary information source on all things library. Blogs Mailing lists
The Evolution of Blogging Dave Winer’s ability to peer into the future is uncanny. He was talking about a river of news long before the current activity streams became popular. He was evangelizing RSS long before there were blogs. I could go on and on about his prescient observations, but it’s his warnings that are especially prophetic. For as long as I can remember, he’s been warning that users of new social web technologies need to be in control of their own destiny. He sounded the alarm about Feedburner and how it was hijacking an open standard, RSS, and inserting itself between content creators and consumers. People have ignored Winer at their own peril, as two events over the last week have made clear. Second was FriendFeed becoming a Mark Zuckerberg Production thanks to a $50 million buyout by Facebook. The cynical me believes that it’s foolish for any of us to expect that Web 2.0 companies be in the business of providing services for charity. Blogging: The Evolution Why? Blogging needs to be social.
Measuring Your Social Media Success with Google Analytics | DreamGrow Social Media#axzz1LJTwr15m I am a bit of a stats nut. If not interrupted I can play with stats forever. But for people less obsessed with numbers here’s something that might help you get a better understanding of the value of your social media program. Social media segment Google Analytics has a feature called Advandced segments. I will show you how to create a Google Analytics custom segment that tracks visitors from social media channels. This takes you to a screen where you can select the parameters for your segment. open the Traffic Sources from Dimensions section.From Traffic Sources drag the Source to your segment area.Set Condition to Contains andin the Value field type in text that identifies one of your social channels.Click Add “or” statement as needed. In the image below I have identified the most important social media channels but you may want to add special channels that are relevant to you. Seems that Google has screwed that up a bit. 1. Worked for me.
12 Tools to Measure Social Influence (Maybe) Social media influence is a bit like oxygen – we "know" its there and we know in some sense that it is essential for “life” if we’re in marketing, advertising or public relations, but can we capture it in a jar and observe it? No. Well, at least not entirely. Any number of tools – freely available on the Web – purport to tell us our overall social media influence or at least a slice of it (a la Twitter). While none is perfect or complete yet, using a combination of them can prove useful. Here then is a roundup of tools that measure influence in the social web: Broad social web tools Klout: Klout currently track a user’s Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and Foursquare activity. PeerIndex: How PeerIndex describes what it measures: "PeerIndex: a measure of your online social capital. Twentyfeet: What Twentyfeet says it offers: "Aggregated stats in one place. PostRank : This service says it "tracks where and how users engage, and what they pay attention to — in real-time."
Tumblr Is More Than Porn: Tumblr for Inviting Participation and Conversations for Learning « The Unquiet Librarian This past Wednesday at work, I was attempting to cross-post content from one of my Scoop.it dashboards to my Tumblr account; I was started to discover that it was no longer available to me on campus. Tumblr, which was previously open and available to our students and teachers at school, was recently blocked at the district level; when I questioned why the resource was blocked, the response was: “Tumblr was blocked this summer do [sic] to pornography it was hosting…When we are aware of a site that violates Board Policy IFBG, Children’s Internet Protection Act and the Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act then we will take appropriate measures. “ I would have no issue with a specific offensive site being blocked, but denying students and teachers access on campus to the tool for their own constructive uses seems extreme to me. Idea #1: Favorite Book Quote Crowdsourcing Idea #2: Crowdsource Original Book Jacket Designs Idea 3: Connect Your Readers to Favorite Authors via Tumblr