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Kay Cunningham's List: Social Media and Networking
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Aug 04, 11
About the impact social media had on the News of the World phone hacking scandal
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This is different. This is new. This isn’t about whichever flavour of social network in getting the venture capital money and the over inflated valuations of its worth. The existence of platforms for the creation of social interactions between people who may have never met each other is a step change in the way information propagates. It could be snarky comments about how internet explorer users are less intelligent than the users of other browsers (ie a hoax). It could be pictures of drunken friends on a night out. It could be the sharing of resources for citizen science or alternative scholarly metrics. Or it could be the citizens of the new world (who are sometimes #altmetrics, #citizenscience, #archeology, #oncology, #lolcats, and more) independently recognising the opportunity to speak truth to power, an opportunity given to them by a small group of committed people who discovered each other on July 4, 2011, and brought down a newspaper inside of a week.
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Aug 01, 11
'You can help make the Archives of American Gardens' images in the Smithsonian's Collections Search Center more accessible to the general public. Professional catalogers in museums, archives and libraries are constrained by cataloging rules that do not always accommodate the language of the everyday user. By tagging an image, you are helping AAG provide another way for users to access that image.'
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May 30, 11
'free web service that enables you to aggregate and manage all your social, content, email, and RSS feeds. Your friend streams, photos, videos, and all your own updates and content in one place. You can also post to other services, send emails, aggregate all your contacts, follow other users, and much more.'
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Mar 15, 11
"Alistair Croll and Sean Power recently reviewed how embedded Facebook comments affect the number of comments on posts. They used TechCrunch as a test case, comparing comment totals, Facebook likes, Google Buzz and Twitter activity one week before and one week after TechCrunch implemented the FB comment plugin."
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Mar 08, 11
Article listing sources of statistics for social media
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Jul 23, 10
'Thanks to Mashable for finding this awesome infographic made by researchers at Harvard and North Eastern Universities. It shows, “…analyze the sentiments we collectively expressed in 300 million tweets over three years against a scholarly word list, these researchers also mashed up that data with information from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Google Maps API and more. '
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Jun 23, 10
'Think of Quora as “Aardvark meets LinkedIn Q&A meets Twitter.” It offers people the ability to post questions and to answer them, effectively conducting “discussions” of topics online. It also has followers and so links people together as individuals and as groups of interest.'
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Quora joins a longish line of sites that have been categorized under various rubrics: “social search,” “answer engines,” “help engines” “social directory assistance” and “answer communities.” Yahoo Answers is the patriarch of the group
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None of these sites are “Google killers.” In fact they make Google stronger because the questions and answers often will be indexed — extending Google’s reach into the “tail.”
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May 24, 10
'...considered doing the same back in December but have hung in there. That’s not due to gaining more faith in Facebook. Instead, I shifted to sharing via a fan page. You can, too. Below, why you might, plus other thoughts for those having the Facebook jitters.'
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May 10, 10
'They are more diligent than older adults, however, in trying to protect themselves. In a new study to be released this month, the Pew Internet Project has found that people in their 20s exert more control over their digital reputations than older adults, more vigorously deleting unwanted posts and limiting information about themselves. “Social networking requires vigilance, not only in what you post, but what your friends post about you,” said Mary Madden, a senior research specialist who oversaw the study by Pew, which examines online behavior. “Now you are responsible for everything.” '
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May 04, 10
'A majority, 52 percent, said they used at least one of them as a teaching tool.'
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The negligible difference in social media use among professors of different ages came as a surprise, says Seaman. “It was universal across all classes of faculty members as far as how much they’re embracing this,” he says. “It was pretty much the same, no matter how we sliced it.”
This finding mirrors a similar surprise from a huge online education survey the Babson group did with Sloan and the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities last summer, which found that neither age nor tenure status had any bearing on whether a professor had developed or taught an online course.
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Apr 27, 10
'User participation often more or less follows a 90-9-1 rule....'
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Apr 07, 10
'In Edelman’s annual Trust Barometer survey, it was revealed that consumers are losing trust in each other when it comes to providing credible information about products or companies. Confidence has dropped by nearly half since 2008 leading to only about 25% of people trusting their peers and friends online for information.'
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While the root of the issue isn’t fully known, there is much speculation. One speculation is that Internet marketers are further and further infiltrating social media, and consumers are becoming more and more skeptical about the influences behind peer referrals.
Privacy concerns have also created skepticism over social media
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The recession has made consumers more skeptical and they now tend to turn to experts rather than acquaintances. In troubled times, such uncertainty is magnified. All of this explains the rise in the number of people willing to pay attention to sources like proven academics and experts.
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Nov 29, 08
"In order to incorporate Web 2.0 functionality effectively, digital libraries must fundamentally recast users not just as content consumers, but as content creators."
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Mar 23, 10
'Developing a strong presence on social networking and bookmarking sites doesn't involve complex formulas or algorithms. Sure, sites like Digg and Reddit have algorithms, but your best bet is to focus on the two major pillars of success on social bookmarking sites - great content and a network of users to promote it - rather than focusing on racing to the front page.'
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Mar 16, 10
'This site provides a simple bookmarking service. We follow your twitter feed, and whenever one of your tweets contains URLs, we add them to your delicious.com bookmarks. Optionally, bookmark URLs in @replies to you. We'll even add a delicious tag identifying the sender if you like.'
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Mar 03, 10
'BackChatter is a game about Twitter trendspotting. You pick words that you think people will tweet about, and then you get points when those words are used in tweets about the conference.'
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Mar 03, 10
'Now social learning is being picked up by software vendors and marketers as the next solution-in-a-box, when it’s more of an approach and a cultural mind-set. In A framework for social learning the enterprise, there is no suggestion whatsoever that an organization can implement some software system and suddenly social learning will just happen. Perhaps PT Barnum was right and there is an innate desire to buy some magic potion to solve all our problems. Why are businesses buying their productivity tools from traveling circuses?'
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Mar 14, 09
Collection of links to tutorials about social bookmarking
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Apr 30, 09
"BibSonomy is a system for sharing bookmarks and lists of literature. : Supports BibTex
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