Using Twitter for Curated Academic Content | Allan Johnson Twitter Fail Image (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The job of the humanities academic has always been to absorb large amounts of content, evaluate it, synthesize it, and portray the results in a way that will be relevant and engaging to an audience (whether that audience be students, peers, or the wider society). In the information age, we have a vast array of new tools to not only help us sort through this content, but also to shape it and share it. I am a big fan of the ‘whole-person’ style of tweeting, with a mixture of general chatter (e.g. But continually finding that 70% of curated content can be an onerous task, especially now, when desks are piled with unmarked essays and grant application deadlines are looming. My Twitter workflow for curated content is based on David Allen’s infamous GTD method, as is the flowchart that outlines it. But how are these preappointed times settled on? Like this: Like Loading... Related Five Most Popular Posts of 2012
Research on Social Network Sites Social Media: Libraries Are Posting, but Is Anyone Listening? This is the fourth in a series of articles in which Nancy Dowd will examine the results of an exclusive survey of library professionals from more than 400 public libraries across the U.S. on public library marketing. The survey was sponsored by the NoveList division of EBSCO Publishing Nancy Dowd If there are over 1 billion people on Facebook and the Twitterverse can help topple governments, then it only makes sense that libraries would also be using these two social media channels to connect with their communities, right? Libraries are using social media, that’s clear. Four Steps to Facebook Success. It’s not a secret. Build Your PageConnect with PeopleEngage Your AudienceInfluence Friends of Fans So, if it’s so easy, why isn’t every library having wild success with its Facebook page? Wandering Around Without Mapquest Without a plan, can you guess what your first problem will be? We are posting all the time, but no one seems to notice Lawrence keeps its content hyper-local.
The richer lives of social media users There’s a perception that people who spend a lot of time on social networks actually aren’t very social at all, that they’re caught up in a virtual world at the expense of relationships IRL (in real life). But it turns out that perception isn’t really true. Heavy social network users are not any more isolated than the average person, and they are just as interested in real-life things as their Facebook-eschewing counterparts. That’s according to a new study from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, which set out to discover whether technologies isolate people and truncate their relationships. The short answer was no. The study found that roughly 59 percent of internet users are also social network users, up from 34 percent three years ago, and the vast majority of those people are on Facebook. What did you find most interesting or most surprising about this study? Instead, we found that certain users have higher-than-expected levels of well-being.
Las bibliotecas universitarias españolas en la web social según el XII Workshop de REBIUN Al hilo de lo oído en el Workshop y de las presentaciones que se mostraron (y de su seguimiento a través de la página de Facebook y Twitter del Workshop y del hashtag #12wkrebiun), me gustaría hacer algunas consideraciones aplicando este listado o checklist que presenté en la ponencia. He creído ver que las bibliotecas universitarias españolas están usando estos medios con dos fines principales: Curación de contenidosDifusión de noticias Vaya por delante que las bibliotecas universitarias se han puesto las pilas en el uso de los medios sociales y que ya son muchas no sólo las que usan estos medios sino las que los usan de forma muy activa y comprometida. Y con muchísima ilusión y generosidad. En unos años las bibliotecas han sido conscientes de la importancia de estos medios para salir ahí fuera y visibilizar las bibliotecas a través de estos medios. Fijémonos en cómo lo están haciendo las empresas, las organizaciones que tienen éxito en estos medios. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
HOW TO: Build Your Personal Brand on Twitter Dan Schawbel is the bestselling author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 09), and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog. Follow him on Twitter @DanSchawbel. Today, Twitter has roughly 6 million users and is projected to grow to 18.1 million users by 2010. With all those people, the chances for networking are endless and connecting with new people can lead to career opportunities, so it is essential that your personal brand exists on the service. Last month we showed you a step-by-step process for building your personal brand on Facebook, and today we’re going to show you how to do the same thing on Twitter. By leveraging the Twitter platform to build your brand you can showcase yourself to a huge and growing audience. 1. Prime domain names, especially those ending in “.com,” have long been desirable, hard to find and extremely expensive. What happens when you don’t claim your Twitter handle: 2. 1. 3. 4. 5. 6. Group applications:
Social Media and the Devolution of Friendship: Part I “Well, you saw what I posted on Facebook, right?” I don’t know about you, but when I get this question from a friend, my answer is usually “no.” No, I don’t see everything my friends post on Facebook—not even the 25 or so people I make a regular effort to keep up with on Facebook, and not even the subset of friends I count as family. I don’t see everything most of my friends tweet, either; in fact, “update Twitter lists” has been hovering in the middle of my to-do list for the better part of a year. And even after I update those lists, I probably still won’t be able to keep up with everything every friend says on Twitter, either. I feel guilty when I get the “You saw what I posted, right?” Social media saturation? Anyway, I have a bad case of Social Media Saturation Guilt, and “You saw what I posted, right?” Then, over a period of a month or two, most of us on “the list” got on Livejournal, and most of us who had Livejournals started ‘reading’ most of the rest of us who had Livejournals.
Work 2.0 What does making a living mean in 2012? Recreating Madox Brown’s 19th-century painting, FT Weekend Magazine brings together 17 working men and women to find out ©Dan Burn-Forti Last time “Work”, Ford Madox Brown’s vibrant, populous street scene of navvies laying water pipes in Hampstead, was shown at London’s Tate gallery, it was 1984. In the new Tate Britain exhibition, the curators have hung “Work” – in its altarpiece-shaped frame – alongside paintings on more overtly religious subjects. So what does work mean to 21st-century engineers, financiers, shopkeepers, clergymen and jobseekers – the counterparts of the characters in Brown’s picture? By 1865, when “Work” was first exhibited publicly, debate about the moral purpose of work was well under way, led by intellectuals such as Thomas Carlyle (whom Brown depicted on the right of the painting) and John Ruskin. Explore our interactive ‘Work’ graphic. The people in our modern reconstruction all put themselves in the first category.
Liquid Modernity and Social Media I’ve been reading Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquid Modernity, which has some interesting speculation about mandatory individuality in the “liquid modern” world, in which few traditions and institutions remain to anchor identity. It’s a familiar story: capitalism (if you follow Marx’s version) dispenses with old solidities to facilitate a universal trafficking of everything, such that you end up having to buy your own identity rather than inherit it by virtue of being born. That’s not necessarily a terrible thing if you would have been born into some subaltern caste, but it’s obviously not a guarantee that you will face some level playing field of equal opportunity. Our identities under capitalism are as circumscribed as they are under other forms of society but capitalism discourages us from identifying ourselves in terms of those circumscriptions, promising us instead the ability to create ourselves in the face of them. That promise, though, is actually a compulsion.