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Another great post from David Hopkins, looking at how well you establish your identity through your blog and the impact it has on your participation in your community.

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From the New Scientist - researchers from Koblenz-Landau Uni in Germany have been studying how tweet content affects the likelihood of it being RT'd.

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Practical advice from m'colleague, Steve Boneham. Like he says at the end, these are the benefits; the mechanics of actually keeping a blog going are another matter entirely and there is no magic formula.

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A piece about the infiltration of social networks by bots operated by organisations in an attempt to steer the course of the conversation.

It's something to be concerned about and is potentially damaging to the likes of Twitter. How much can you trust what is being said on the networks?

It's likely to be a growing problem.

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This has something interesting to say about professional reputation when using Twitter to combine scholarly and social identities. The sample size for the study is very small so I'd be wary of drawing too many conclusions, but it certainly made me think.

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I think I remember coming across a social media policy that was summed up as "do what you feel to be right". I find these policies that go on for pages and what you can and can't do massively disempowering.

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George Monbiot outlines how the behaviour of large organisations might put the nature of the internet as a forum for free debate at risk.

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This looks at opinion-forming from a business and marketing point of view but there are lessons here for anyone who is interested in community participation and building an online reputation.

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By Alan Cann, Konstantia Dimitriou and Tristram Hooley.
This is a good read for anyone, not just researchers, who want to find out about the benefits of using social media, the tools available and strategies for getting the most out of them.

Chapter 5 on Managing Information Overload is particularly useful

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Brilliant, on so many levels. An Arthur episode that covers blogging, social networking, education technology, cyberbullying, flame wars.

Kids' satire at its best

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Given that Wikileaks has announced that Saudi Arabia may have overstated its oil reserves by 40%, we might want to look at the outcomes of this social experiment!

Fascinating bit of group storytelling and social participation to imagine a world as it enters an oil crisis.

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I've bookmarked this, not so much for the blog post but the comments below that led to one contributor being blocked by the site owner. (see http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2011/01/goodbye-mark.html)

What do you think of the points that are made, what do they say about engagement in collaborative forms of discussion like this, and how much of this has to do with language and expression or viewpoint?

Would you have blocked Mark?

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Post highlighting one of the risks of making information and media available over the web that you later regret.Issues about online reputation.

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Blog post from Brian Kelly on UK Universities using official Twitter accounts. It's interesting to compare them all and Brian has some useful suggestions for best practice at the end of the post

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Jon Snow reflecting on the relative merits of Facebook vs Twitter vs Blogging.
Personally, I see value lying more in using a combination of Blogging and Twitter than in Facebook, especially when it comes to professional practice.

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How technology can facilitate a more collaborative society. Loved the line, "why own a drill when what you need is a hole?"

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Great looking blog from Kirsty Pitkin about using technology to amplify live events. Planning some online stuff next year so this will be a good source of advice.

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Interesting visual comparison on Facebook and Twitter usage.

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Mashable talking about research by Pew Internet on how different age groups use the internet.

Interesting to see email at one end of the scale and virtual worlds at the other.

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Example of using Facebook to build a page for community participation

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