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.
The New Dinosaur: Why I'm Not on Facebook, and Why You Shouldn't Be Either - Culture I gave up on Facebook the day it kicked me off for using a fake name. I can't remember now if it was 2006 or 2007, but I do remember a Facebook support staff member asking me via email to verify that I was actually named "Snuffles Caulfield." I couldn't, and after briefly considering some mock letterhead, I thought, Screw this stupid thing, and that was that. Five (or four) years later, I'm still saying, "Screw Facebook." The only difference is that I'm in the minority. Facebook is one of the most ingenious time-sucks known to man. And speaking of lame people, who in their right mind wants to open up their lives to everyone they meet or, worse yet, met decades ago? Of course all those complaints are peanuts when you begin to think about the real privacy concerns associated with Facebook. This policy stands in stark contrast to several of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's more idealistic statements. That's Facebook in a nutshell.
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.
Report: Facebook has 750 million members | Digital Media Last summer, Facebook announced that it had achieved 500 million users and counting. Now that figure is completely outdated. Though Facebook hasn't released an official statement yet, TechCrunch is reporting that Facebook retains approximately 750 million regular users who log in to the social-networking site at least once per month. That number, which is larger than the population levels of at least a few countries on the planet, isn't all that surprising. The rate at which 250 million more people joined is the staggering aspect. Facebook launched in 2004, and it took until 2010 to reach 500 million members. TechCrunch speculates that Facebook might wait to deal out updated official numbers until it reaches 1 billion members, which would be a bit arrogant on Facebook's part--but that wouldn't be surprising either.
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.