LibWorm.com provides a librarian RSS filtering service. Over 1500 RSS librarian sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest headlines from journals and sites in the Social Networking interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:55:00 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.teleread.com/2010/09/01/jobs-reveals-new-ipod-line-apple-tv-ios-4-1-itunes-10/ Steve Jobs had some interesting things to reveal today. In the iPod line, the Shuffle, Nano, and Touch get refreshes. No mention at all of the Classic line; I suppose they’ve had their day. The Shuffle moves forward by taking a step back—the new one resembles a smaller version of the second in form factor, bringing back the buttons everybody missed from the third, but with the Voiceover and other nifty features that people did like from the third. The Nano loses the physical controls and goes multitouch, looking like a smaller version of the iPod Touch (but without apps). Now we know what that mysterious small square touchscreen we mentioned in an Apple rumor post I don’t have time to dig up right now was for. And the Touch is about as expected. Slimmer than ever, Retina Display, A4 chip, Facetime camera, and rear-facing HD video camera. No mention of photographic capability, so presumably it’s a video-only camera like the one from last year’s Nano. If it can’t take photos, that’s a bit disappointing (especially with the new HDR photo capacity in OS 4.1), but on the whole it’s still a considerable improvement over the previous generation. Price points remain the same $229/$299/$399; it is available for pre-order today and ships later this month. Even Steve Jobs pointed out one of the big benefits it has over the iPhone: "A lot of people call it the ‘iPhone without the phone’. It’s also an iPhone without a contract." Of course, it doesn’t include everything that the iPhone does; there was no mention of 3G wireless or GPS, two of the features I know at least some people had been anticipating. (I must admit to being so impressed by the presentation, I forgot to snap screenshots of it, and don’t have time to hunt for any now. Oops.) OS 4.1 includes a number of bug fixes, HD video upload to the Internet over wifi, TV show rentals, and the premiere of Game Center. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:52:01 +0100 868280 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/_wIe35ze4P0/ Steve Jobs had some interesting things to reveal today. In the iPod line, the Shuffle, Nano, and Touch get refreshes. No mention at all of the Classic line; I suppose they’ve had their day. The Shuffle moves forward by taking a step back—the new one resembles a smaller version of the second in form factor, bringing back the buttons everybody missed from the third, but with the Voiceover and other nifty features that people did like from the third. The Nano loses the physical controls and goes multitouch, looking like a smaller version of the iPod Touch (but without apps). Now we know what that mysterious small square touchscreen we mentioned in an Apple rumor post I don’t have time to dig up right now was for. And the Touch is about as expected. Slimmer than ever, Retina Display, A4 chip, Facetime camera, and rear-facing HD video camera. No mention of photographic capability, so presumably it’s a video-only camera like the one from last year’s Nano. If it can’t take photos, that’s a bit disappointing (especially with the new HDR photo capacity in OS 4.1), but on the whole it’s still a considerable improvement over the previous generation. Price points remain the same $229/$299/$399; it is available for pre-order today and ships later this month. Even Steve Jobs pointed out one of the big benefits it has over the iPhone: "A lot of people call it the ‘iPhone without the phone’. It’s also an iPhone without a contract." Of course, it doesn’t include everything that the iPhone does; there was no mention of 3G wireless or GPS, two of the features I know at least some people had been anticipating. (I must admit to being so impressed by the presentation, I forgot to snap screenshots of it, and don’t have time to hunt for any now. Oops.) OS 4.1 includes a number of bug fixes, HD video upload to the Internet over wifi, TV show rentals, and the premiere of Game Center. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:52:01 +0100 868277 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/M_t9w4dEaTQ/ A couple of weeks ago, the amazingly talented Dion Hinchcliffe put together a blog post under the title of “The 2010 Social Business Landscape” that would probably classify as one of the most insightful, resourceful and essential articles published during the course of this year that everyone in the industry should be reading. Yes, in case you may not have seen it, it is that good! Worth while your time, for sure!, specially, if you are into some amazing graphicware like this one. But, there is something missing from that article, don’t you think? Something that, in my opinion, is one of the fundamental pillars from Enterprise 2.0. Have you spotted it yourself already? Indeed, social bookmarking / tagging! Not sure what you would think, but I strongly believe that social bookmarking and social tagging are still an important and rather critical part of a successful Enterprise 2.0 adoption strategy. I would even go one step further and state that social bookmarking / tagging are probably essential key elements behind the social computing philosophy altogether. Yet, it’s interesting to see how they both keep getting neglected time and time again, when they are just so critical. I mean, can you imagine … having your business put together and create a massive index of must-have links with annotations and tags across the board that would help you re-find content much much easier than through just the traditional taxonomies? No, neither could I. My good friend, Harold Jarche, talked about this very same thing as well not long ago on a virtual IBM event for the community of social software evangelists that I co-lead with one other colleague and which I blogged about over at Personal Knowledge Management by Harold Jarche (BlueIQ Ambassadors). ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:24:51 +0100 868507 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/1ZDSCf2RGSs/ping_facebook_and_twitter_meet_itunes_except.php ...as far as I can tell, they in fact don't ever meet. You can't leverage your networks on Facebook and Twitter in Ping. It's another closed Apple system, another Apple universe in a gilded gift box. It's not that Apple hates the web, it's just that Apple is better than the web. Apple doesn't need it. It seems Apple has it all figured out. I am sure Ping will get traction because it'll be fun, and if it truly helps folks discover more music, so much the better for all (especially iTunes sales). But I've a sneaking suspicion that Ping will soon be about more than discovering music - it will also be about discovering Apps and other media like movies and TV. And while paid media is a sanitized and bounded universe, it's my fervent hope that Apps, over time, will not be - that they will be far more promiscuous. Breathless predictions aside, I simply can't imagine you will want your Apps to be recommended to you only by your Ping "friends." Likewise, when you find something cool, you'll want to share it on Twitter, and post it to Facebook (and maybe even other places too, places that are outside AppleLand.) You've invested in your Facebook and Twitter relationships, why can't you use those to find and share good stuff inside AppleLand? I hope Apple agrees, and will open Ping to the rest of the world. But I'm not going to predict it. I can predict this: If Apple doesn't open it up, Ping will never crack more than 10% of social networking share. But my, will that share be profitable! And for Apple, that's certainly seems to be enough. UPDATE: Peter in the comments notes that Ping does have a "very limited" Facebook Connect integration. So good on them, but if it's just to find friends to feed your Ping network, I'll stand by my comments above. (Source: John Battelle's Searchblog) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868442 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BabyBoomerLibrarian/~3/Hh90Wd7D-sY/socialscope-for-blackberry-socialscope.html Socialscope for the Blackberry is one of the best apps I ever used on my Blackberry.  It brings together Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, and Flickr into one convenient package.   It works much better than the native apps for Twitter and Facebook.   Foursquare provides just a check-in function because socialscope does not have any built in location capabilities.   It also allows you to post to multiple Twitter accounts and directly to Facebook pages.   It is currently in a private beta but it is relatively easy to get an invite by going to getsocialscope.com .   I do have several problems with how the creators of socialscope are supporting the beta.  It seems to me that they either don’t understand social networking in terms of providing user support or else they are doing this as a side line.  It has been in private beta for two years.  The frustrations from their users can be seen on Facebook.  They have put one post on the site and that is it.  They have never responded on the discussion board.   They have a twitter account at http://twitter.com/socialscope/ . They do occasionally reply to tweets. I have some suggestions for the developers of socialscope: 1.       Open up a support forum for your beta testers. 2.       Answer posts on Facebook. 3.       Add more functionality for foursquare either by providing location services within socialscope or by providing a way to change my location manually via foursquare’s mobile site. 4.       Add more services such as LinkedIn. 5. ... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:40:00 +0100 868009 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/4V4Igx2Z_Wo/4062 I’m not really heart broken over this change – but I also don’t understand the why behind it. Facebook has decided to remove all third party applications from our profiles. According to Facebook: Profile Boxes are the third-party applications that are featured in boxes on your profile. You can now add a “bookmark” to the left side of the Facebook home page for these applications. What will happen to my Boxes in the future? As part of our ongoing efforts to improve the user experience and promote consistency across the site, soon Facebook will no longer support profile boxes from applications. In order to access your favorite applications more easily, you can bookmark them. To learn more you can visit the help page on this topic. Like I said, this really doesn’t matter much to me, but I know many other people with a lot of these such boxes that will now be going away. (Source: What I Learned Today...) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:08:03 +0100 867922 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/XgnlutdUfbo/johnt Capital Ideas: Selected Papers on Organizations & Markets - October 2009 - Neighbor Networks http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/1039299428/bridging-structural-holes http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/1039364628/associating-with-well-connected-people-brings-about Capital Ideas: Selected Papers on Decision Research - May 2008 - One Bird, One Stone http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/1039406158/dilution-effect-says-its-not-always-better-to-kill-two Capital Ideas: Selected Papers on Decision Research - May 2008 - A Room With a Viewpoint http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/1039583325/descriptive-norms-in-promoting-desired-social-behaviour SocialEngine PHP Social Network Script - Create your own social media community! (Source: Library clips) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:00:00 +0100 868049 http://dallnet.blogspot.com/2010/08/follow-up-on-new-thomas-share-tools.html In my previous post, I linked to an announcement of the new sharing tools from the THOMAS legislative web site. Here's an example of using one of the features.Suppose you need to send a link to a house or senate bill status page to one of your patrons. The new Share/Save toolbar makes this easy. Find the house or senate billClick on the Share/Save linkClick on the Save tabCopy the URL and paste it to your email, web site, blog, etc.Example: H.R.3590, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law No: 111-148). Click on the Share/Save link, Save tab, and copy the resulting URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.uscongress/legislation.111hr3590 You may also share via your favorite social networking tools, or even use their email tool to send to a patron. (Source: Lex Scripta) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867853 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/yoV2LAmymQc/ Late last week you would remember how I put together a blog post where I started collecting a number of the Daily #iPad Apps that I keep sharing across over in Twitter, for those folks who may be potentially interested. Also as a good reference for myself, i.e. as part of my own personal knowledge sharing experience, so that I can keep going back and forth over time and see what I may have shared and what not, just in case I may need it for a future reference. Then, my good friend Barry Leiba mentioned, in the comments, how he would be “interested in reading more about specifically HOW the iPad fundamentally changes your online interactions and experience“. Thus I thought I would go ahead today and put together a blog entry where I could share with folks my top 10 reasons why the iPad has changed my computing habits and overall Internet experience for good with no looking back! It’s going to be a rather interesting experiment, where I am sure I’m going to fall short on words on what it actually means for me, specially when not paying much attention to the tools and applications themselves, but more how I interact with the device. I know that some of those reasons will also surprise a bunch of folks out there who may have a perceived different persona of me than who I actually am, but I think that overall, it will help set the stage as to why I have finally fallen for the iPad as perhaps one of my last mobile devices I will own for a good while. A long one, actually. Thus without much ado, here are My Top 10 Reasons Why I Bought a 3G 64GB iPad, back while I was in Boston, in June, attending the Enterprise 2.0 conference event (Yes, I couldn’t buy one over here in Spain after having visited 18 shops!). ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:29:36 +0100 867964 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/thv8B43ZHVQ/johnt Doctor Love | Fast Company http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/1033584328/digital-oxytocin http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/1033579580/social-networking-oxytocin-trust-social-capital http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/1033570101/trust-scales (Source: Library clips) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:00:00 +0100 867756 http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/025081.html Older Adults and Social Media - Social networking use among those ages 50 and older nearly doubled over the past... (Source: beSpacific) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867679 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/08/29/older-adults-and-social-media-social-networking-use-among-those-ages-50-and-older-nearly-doubled-over-the-past-year/ The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project has released Older Adults and Social Media: Social Networking Use among Those Ages 50 and Older Nearly Doubled over the Past Year. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: While social media use has grown dramatically across all age groups, older users have been especially enthusiastic over the past year about embracing new networking tools. Social networking use among internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled—from 22% in April 2009 to 42% in May 2010. Between April 2009 and May 2010, social networking use among internet users ages 50-64 grew by 88%—from 25% to 47%. During the same period, use among those ages 65 and older grew 100%—from 13% to 26%. By comparison, social networking use among users ages 18-29 grew by 13%—from 76% to 86%. (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867655 http://dallnet.blogspot.com/2010/08/thomas-share-tools.html The Library of Congress has announced a new tool for the THOMAS legislative service. Here's the introduction to the announcement:About the THOMAS Share Tool The THOMAS Share Tool allows you to print THOMAS pages and search results, subscribe to regular updates from THOMAS, and share THOMAS content in a number of ways. You can post THOMAS links on social networking Web sites such as Facebook or Twitter, send links by e-mail, and post links to or embed THOMAS content in your own Web site or blog pages. Read more at http://thomas.loc.gov/help/share.html (Source: Lex Scripta) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867610 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/EJTRa1Poz7k/ The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project has released Older Adults and Social Media: Social Networking Use among Those Ages 50 and Older Nearly Doubled over the Past Year. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: While social media use has grown dramatically across all age groups, older users have been especially enthusiastic over the past year about embracing new networking tools. Social networking use among internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled—from 22% in April 2009 to 42% in May 2010. Between April 2009 and May 2010, social networking use among internet users ages 50-64 grew by 88%—from 25% to 47%. During the same period, use among those ages 65 and older grew 100%—from 13% to 26%. By comparison, social networking use among users ages 18-29 grew by 13%—from 76% to 86%. (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:04:00 +0100 867314 http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/002132.html Even if some heat has gone out of the library blogosphere, there is still a fair amount of reading and writing going on. I was asked recently what I tended to look at, going beyond the well-known bigger names. Here are some of the blogs that came to mind - some others also come to mind, but they don't sustain the reasonable amount of output that these do. Go to Hellman Personanondata eFoundations The Book of Trogool Overdue ideas Synthesize, specialize, mobilize Martin Hamilton's Blog HangingTogether Bibliographic wilderness The Arcadia Project blog Many of these are written from within a library perspective. Some dip into libraries from other perspectives. Personanondata, by Michael Cairns, covers the book industry more generally. Martin Hamilton, who is responsible for Internet Services in the IT services division at Loughborough University, is a recent blogger with a nicely reflective style. My former colleague Eric Hellman pulls together his science, business and technical experiences to provide some of the most interesting commentary on our changing environment. And Andy Powell and Pete Johnston at eFoundations combine technical pieces about metadata with more general discussion of education/information in a networked environment. And then there's ...... (Source: Lorcan Dempsey) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:56:00 +0100 867605 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/pEIoKgxoq9w/web_2_summit_points_of_control_the_map.php (Cross posted from the Web 2 Summit Blog...) As themes for conferences go, Points of Control is one of our favorites. Our industry over the past year has been driven by increasingly direct conflicts between its major players: Apple has emerged as a major force in mobile and advertising platforms; Google is fighting off Microsoft in search, Apple in mobile and Facebook in social; and Facebook itself finds itself on the defensive against Twitter and scores of location startups like Foursquare. Nor are the Internet’s biggest players the only ones in the game – the rise of tablet computing has revived nearly every major hardware and handset manufacturer, and the inevitable march of online payment and commerce has roused the financial services giants as well. You know we’re in interesting times when American Express is considered an insurgent in its own industry. The narrative is so rich, it struck us that it lends itself to a visualization – a map outlining these points of control, replete with incumbents and insurgents – those companies who hold great swaths of strategic territory, and those who are attempting to gain ground, whether they be startups or large companies moving into new ground. Inspired in part by board games like Riskor Stratego, and in part by the fantastic and fictional lands of authors like Tolkien and Swift, we set out to create at least an approximation of our industry’s vibrant economy. (And yes, we give a hat tip to the many maps out there in our own industry, like this one for social networks.) *Ed note, I am also indebted to the late night jam session I had with a bunch of pals in my garage...you know who you are...* The result of our initial efforts is pictured above, you can go to the complete map here. We very much consider this to be “for your consideration,” an initial sketch of sorts, a conversation piece that we hope will garner a bit of your cognitive surplus. ... Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867272 http://futura.edublogs.org/2010/08/27/what-will-happen-in-the-blur/ In Mexico there is an area known as the ”blur”– the rare area where the water from caves underground mingle with water from the ocean.  A recent post by Jon Becker, “Who are the Thought Leaders in Educational Leadership?” reminds me of that rarified space where two  entities mingle and create something new. In his post, Jon challenged education leaders and scholars at the university level to connect with the social network of educators around the country.   Partly why I haven’t been able to quit thinking about  his post was that I consider myself a pretty well-informed high school educator–I purchase professional books for our library all the time, attend ASCD occasionally, read incessantly and widely, and yet I didn’t know ONE name on his list of  influential education leaders.   I think it stunned me because in “Twitterland” I find many of us working together or in separate strands loosely joined to change what education looks like.   We talk, share resources, read each other’s blogs, read articles when links are shared on Twitter, do our own research in our own spaces and bring that back to the collective forum.  It stunned me because I realized after reading his post how much ’we’ are leaders in education–grass-roots, collaborative, networked leaders.  And if we aren’t familiar with their work–and I warrant many of us are not, then there’s a disconnect. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:15:43 +0100 866521 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/7XD_qc2rPIg/ A couple of days ago, in another blog post, I mentioned how, just recently, I, finally, managed to get my hands on an iPad. This time around the 3G 64GB model, which I have been hunting down for a while now. Right from the moment I saw it, I knew that device would change completely the way I would interact not only with the Web and various social networking sites I use on a regular basis, but also with a good bunch of different applications. So, with that spirit, I thought, why not share those favourite applications across, as perhaps other folks may be able to benefit from them just as much as I am doing myself. After all, there are just so many out there that it wouldn’t hurt the odd recommendation, don’t you think? Well, this is the purpose of this blog post: i.e. to share those recommentations. My favourite #elsuapps! Actually, this is not something new! Back when I first got my 3G iPhone I used to share across in Twitter, on a daily basis, my favourite iPhone app under #elsuapps! Now, since we all know how wonderful (NOT!!) the Twitter Search engine is, since you can no longer track those recommendations, I thought this time around I would do a bit more of curation on such job and keep track of things slightly better. So now, I am, indeed, still sharing the Daily #iPad App, but instead of relying on the Twitter search, I actually subscribe to its own feed and have got those suggestions available in my feed reader. So I thought what a better way of sharing those recommended iPad apps than using my own blog over here to store them on a weekly basis and open up, from today, a weekly series of blog posts where I will be talking, very briefly, about those various applications I have been enjoying on my iPad for a while now. No, I am not going to share them all in one single post. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:02:34 +0100 867965 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kraftylibrarian/OLay/~3/FBYjPTh_zJ0/ I ran across this map of the Social Networking World while looking for something else and I thought I would share it with you.  I am not sure what I would use it for other than for fun, conversation, and a possible PowerPoint slide. In other words perfect for a Friday post. 2010 Social Network Map by Flowtown  The map was created by Flowtown as an updated tribute to XKCD’s ‘Map of Online Communities.’  The size of the countries/continents reflect the millions of users, for each service (as shown by the scale at the bottom of the image). It is kind of fun to look through and laugh over a few things like the YouTube Triangle of Viral Videos or the Death Valley of John Mayer Tweets.  One thing I find a little interesting is Google Wave is missing, wouldn’t that be in the Land of Defunct Social Networks, or perhaps should it be the Dried Lake Bed of Google Wave within the Empire of Google?  Just thinking aloud.    Tweet This Post (Source: The Krafty Librarian) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:19:29 +0100 866495 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/zV5dAyHt0g8/ The Bookseller’s FuturEBook blog has an interesting look by Chris Meade at how today’s authors have more power to promote themselves and build relationships with fans than ever before, leading to a new viability for self-publishing. The Amplified Author of 2010 (term coined for authors engaged in the social web) can sit at her desk and speak directly to her readership through a blog, can expand that circle of readers gradually by using Twitter and other social networks, can find an active readership interested in offering criticism and ideas, can publish work through print on demand and put it on the global bookshelf of the web, can set out her stall of publications and services on a website where she can also offer to run workshops, teach, write reviews, perform; she can take her work to publishers and broadcasters able to give detailed evidence of who her readership is and what they think of her work. Once she makes it into print, she can use her own energies and laptop to promote her masterpiece. Of course, we have already heard much of this sort of thing, especially in the wake of established authors such as J.A. Konrath or Seth Godin deciding to go it alone and move away from traditional publishing. But the FutureEBook piece explains that thinktank if:book (The Institute for the Future of the Book) is creating “a new kind of hub for writing in the community". They call this hub a “Unilibrary”. It is to be located in Hornsey Library in London and is planned to to include a “co-working space” with a voluntary social network, aimed at helping local creative types get together and create. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:15:00 +0100 866397 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/27/new-report-from-pew-internet-big-time-growth-for-older-adults-and-social-media/ Released today by Pew Internet. The report was written by Mary Madden. Overview Page While social media use has grown dramatically across all age groups, older users have been especially enthusiastic over the past year about embracing new networking tools. Social networking use among internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled—from 22% in April 2009 to 42% in May 2010. + Between April 2009 and May 2010, social networking use among internet users ages 50-64 grew by 88%–from 25% to 47%. + During the same period, use among those ages 65 and older grew 100%–from 13% to 26%. + By comparison, social networking use among users ages 18-29 grew by 13%—from 76% to 86% “Young adults continue to be the heaviest users of social media, but their growth pales in comparison with recent gains made by older users,” explains Mary Madden, Senior Research Specialist and author of the report. “Email is still the primary way that older users maintain contact with friends, families and colleagues, but many older users now rely on social network platforms to help manage their daily communications.” + One in five (20%) online adults ages 50-64 say they use social networking sites on a typical day, up from 10% one year ago. + Among adults ages 65 and older, 13% log on to social networking sites on a typical day, compared with just 4% who did so in 2009. At the same time, the use of status update services like Twitter has also grown—particularly among those ages 50-64. One in ten internet users ages 50 and older now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves or see updates about others. E-Mail Still Leads By a Lot and News Gathering While email may be falling out of favor with today’s teenagers, older adults still rely on it heavily as an essential tool for their daily communications. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:12:59 +0100 866418 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/16747 Amigos has scheduled web-based technology training in our live online classroom. Available courses include the following titles. All times below are Central Time. Creating Mobile Websites September 28 & 30, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. CDT Early Bird Registration Deadline: 9/6 http://bit.ly/cP5prd Know & Go: What is Google Up To? 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You do? Excellent! Then you are ready to build and sustain an online community, because that’s what it takes, folks… It’s all about making delightful chocolate cakes! Oh, oh, don’t worry; this blog is not going to turn itself into a food blog all of a sudden (Although it wouldn’t be that bad either!). It’s just that I thought I would take this opportunity to pick up on a superb analogy that my good friend, Steve Dale, put together earlier on in a blog post talking about online communities under the heading “Building and Nurturing On-Line Communities — Batteries Not Included“. And it was just *so* yummy that I couldn’t let it go by just like that! In that blog post Steve actually gets to share plenty of insights on what it is like building and sustaining healthy online communities (of practice) by making a successful connection between building a community and making a delicious cake. You need to have all of the fresh ingredients to make it work! And that includes having perhaps one of the most important of those ingredients: your online community facilitator! Here is an interesting quote from his blog entry along these lines trying to portrait what would be the main skills and attributes from those successful facilitators: “[...] It’s more about personality; enthusiasm; willingness to share; being sensitive to the community environment; and energy….lots and lots of energy. Not the sort of things you can learn or teach using a pedagogical approach“. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:16:52 +0100 866204 http://nnlm.gov/mcr/news_blog/?p=7531 Facebook began as a defacto college-only site, but morphed into a site where folks over 2o something frequent as well. Read about a new player called  CollegeOnly that will be introduced at 7 colleges on August 26th. http://tinyurl.com/3x89dzj [rb] (Source: Midcontinental Region News) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:45:43 +0100 865972 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/7U_PVsBnJNA/ JUst before going away on holiday, I popped up a questionnaire asking for a little help working out what sort of impact – if any – I had on folk that could weave in to my promotion case for support… Thanks to all who took the time out to reply (it was very humbling:-) Anyway, for what it’s worth, here’s a draft of the Case for Support, which I need to submit tomorrow. Whilst I haven’t been able to add direct quotes from the questionnaire responses – the word limit is set at 1500 words – your responses did inform what I wrote: some of the words are very heavily loaded and more densely packed, on occasion summarising whole responses… Tony Hirst – Case for promotion to Senior Lecturer My case for promotion is based around excellence in teaching and scholarship, with a strong theme of digital scholarship and community engagement. Teaching & contributions to the teaching system I have chaired three courses (production and presentation), and authored on four others, pushing the elearning agenda through technology and design innovation with a view to reuse. In 2000, I developed two units for T396 delivered via a novel electronic study guide, providing a unified browser-based interface to online, offline and CD-ROM content, and a mobile website for course alerts. This work identified issues relating to authoring content specifically for browser based delivery on desktop and mobile devices that have informed my work ever since. A major feature of my approach to the production of teaching materials relates to supporting reuse in other contexts. Whilst writing online material for the T184 robotics course, I commissioned several interactive browser-based activities that have been reused on courses such as TXR174, as well as for outreach. Using T184 software, I developed a range of activities for schools and OU regional Aim Higher/Widening Participation initiatives. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:55:39 +0100 866539 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Wisblawg-FromTheUwLawLibrary/~3/3vB6WB6y9Vo/us_dist_ct_hold_that_content_o.html From Law Technology News via Law.com:On May 26, a federal court issued an opinion in a discovery dispute that applies outmoded federal electronic privacy laws from the 1980s to Facebook and MySpace. The ruling could permanently change the way "social networking" sites are viewed by businesses and those involved in litigation. The decision also appears to offer the first in-depth analysis on the effect of "privacy settings" found on many social networking sites and whether information is protected from discovery by federal privacy laws. Read the full article for more on the implications of the 1986 Stored Communications Act to today's social networks. (Source: WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:48:00 +0100 866985 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/sHIKOHRrxjw/ As I mentioned back in July, I’ve posted a couple of stories to Scribd just by way of trying out the service to see how well it worked. I’ve since ended up with a number of Scribd subscribers (including Slate writer Farhad Manjoo; I’m not sure entirely why), and my stories have been read a little over 70 times each. Now I’m wondering whether I should try writing another story—the idea for which came to me in a dream the night before last—and posting it there, for sale for $1. Would anybody buy it? How effective would promotion of it be through social networking and blogging? Would anybody care enough to check it out? It would be an interesting experiment. And to be honest, the idea of making money from it is probably the only way the story would actually end up getting written. At the moment, I have so many demands on my time it is hard to find any excuse for leisure—and certainly writing a story would feel like a leisure activity otherwise. And if Greg Stolze was able to get away with charging $1 for a 3,000 word story, perhaps I could get away with charging that much for one that will almost certainly be longer. (Perhaps I could get fancy and do a Storyteller’s Bowl/Ransom Model sort of thing, and say that if I sold 100 copies I’d make it free to everyone. If only 70-some people read my free stories, it doesn’t seem likely I would make that many sales.) Maybe this weekend I’ll write it down and give it a shot. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:15:00 +0100 865828 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/tgzHZi8EFUs/johnt Civilization Systems: On Creating Communities (Part 1) community evolution groups decisionmaking selforganisation technology dunbar altruism hierarchy Civilization Systems: Social Networks & The Social Organism - Healing the Breach http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/1010680650/the-ground-that-nurtured-the-social-network Civilization Systems: Civilization, Complexity & Collapse - The Search for Levers http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/1010716716/biological-altruism-and-markets Civilization Systems: The Foundations of Authoritarianism http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/1011106607/the-rise-of-authoritarianism-was-due-to Civilization Systems: Compensation & The Social Network http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/1011137750/scaling-society-and-cooperation Civilization Systems: How would hunter-gatherers run the world? (pssst... They Do!) http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/1011153690/from-social-network-to-authority-to-democracy-to A Game Theory Guide to Negotiations | Digital Tonto http://www.digitaltonto.com/2009/game-theory-guide-to-negotiations/#comment-1544 http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/1011239768/the-fuzziness-of-cooperation-and-self-interest Seven misconceptions about corporate social networking - SmartPlanet Retirees Help Keep Boeing's Knowledge Base No Context? No Collaboration. Goodbye, Google Wave | Pretzel Logic - Enterprise 2.0 FUMSI - Finding Expertise Inside the Organisation Lockheed Martin Launches Open-Source Social Networking Project - Application Development from eWeek Enterprise 2.0 and processes : what are we talking about ? (and why…) | Bertrand Duperrin's Notepad The not-so-hidden cost of lost knowledge - Energy http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/1011462617/lost-knowledge Is information sharing a visceral need or a lucky good practice ? | Bertrand Duperrin's Notepad http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/1011538374/organisational-design-stifles-ego-altruism (Source: Library clips) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:00:00 +0100 866010 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2010/08/25/august-25th-stream.html Shared Brain-Blasting Cerebral Sci-Fi Cinema, Chosen by You. Shared Mobile Maps Are Moving Indoors To Pinpoint Specific Items On Store Shelves. Posted Dolly_Parton: Find out who you are, and do it on purpose. Posted dmlcentral: “Humans in 2040…after 35 years of social networking.” Beginnings of an interesting discussion, people, links here: http://bit.ly/dkUJ6W. Posted rdlankes: RT @mitpress: RT @TheAtlantic: 10 Reading Revolutions Before E-Books: http://ow.ly/2uGvG. Shared North Star Games Extends Donation Offer!. North Star Games Extends Donation Offer! Posted level250geek: I hate the “@ your library” thing. It smacks of “We’re trying to be relevant in the digital age!” Will have to come up w/ better idea.. Share: No tags for this post. (Source: The Shifted Librarian) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:00:14 +0100 865907 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2010/08/finroad-spammers.html FinRoad - The financial markets Network. What really drives me nuts is when websites send me messages saying 'So and so wants to get connected on <insert name of social network>.' No possibility of unsubscribing from these things, since I'm not subscribed in the first place, and no way of taking myself off their lists. Moreover, I've never ever heard from these individuals who want to connect with me! So you get stuck with getting these messages on a regular basis. Such is the case with this organisation. So, FinRoad, if you get around to reading this, your attempt to get more members is doomed, at least with me, to be a failure. Moreover, hopefully anyone who searches for you will quickly realise that, whatever else you are, you're a scummy little spammer.' Let that be a lesson to you. (Source: Phil Bradley) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865757 http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/2010/08/collegeonly-seeks-to-be-what-facebook-originally-was.html PayPal co-founder (and early Facebook investor) Peter Thiel is backing a new social network, which restricts membership to students with verified college e-mail addresses—much like Facebook did in its first year and a half. CollegeOnly (Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865747 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/QKEh_hbcK9A/ Yesterday I put together a blog post where I tried to share some further insights on how if today’s current corporate world would want to survive in the 21st century, it would probably need to start thinking about how to bring back again into the workplace the fun factor. Today’s knowledge workers surely are becoming more and more aware of the full amount of time they spend on “company time“, doing work, even more when the already thin line between work and personal lives is becoming blurrier than ever. To the point where a potential work / life integration may make it disappear altogether. So what happens when you introduce (serious) games at work? Would they work? What would their immediate effect be like? Would they help knowledge workers become more effective at what they do? Yes, of course, they would! It’s a matter of trust! But not that kind of trust. At least, not initially. In the past, you would probably remember the article I put together under “Gamers – A New Breed of Knowledge Workers in the Making?“. In it I was referencing a recent TED Talk by Jane McGonigal where she takes us through the fascinating and exciting journey of encouraging us all to play even more games in order to solve today’s problems. If you haven’t had a chance to watch through it, I would suggest you take a few minutes off your current tasks and watch it. It will be worth your time. More than anything, because she brings in a very good point that I would want to share over here as well to help make the connection that playing (serious) games at work can only but efficiently help knowledge workers become more productive at what they do. In that TED Talk Jane comes to point out one of the main key characteristics from incredibly successful gamers: their ability to trust their peers blindly in order to succeed in their mission, whatever that may well be. ... Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:20:05 +0100 866205 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/UNQkB0Ss4xE/ It has been a while now since the last progress report I have shared over here around the topic of living “A World Without Email“, that experiment that has been going on for over 2.5 years now, where one day I decided to give up on corporate email altogether and, instead, make heavier use of social networking tools to collaborate and share knowledge with other fellow knowledge workers. So I thought I would drop by today over here and share with you folks an update of how things are going, specially now that there seems to be a growing interest in demonstrating how social software tools are consistently not only helping reduce the amount of emails we receive on a daily basis, but at the same time we are starting to witness the changing role of email itself, transitioning successfully into becoming that messaging / notification system that was designed for over 40 years ago versus remaining that content repository where everything goes. Even your knowledge! Matt Forcey put together a rather insightful blog post not long ago under the heading “Email Usage Drops 28% in Past 12 Months!” where he quotes a recent study by Nielsen “focused on how Americans spend their time online, [and] unexpectedly found that email usage has dropped by 28% over the last year“. Worth while a read, for sure! Just as much as Ethan Yarbrough‘s Email’s Role in an Enterprise 2.0 Environment: Signal Not Source where he is sharing a terrific story of how his own team is progressively changing the role of email in a business environment, moving away from that content repository format where conversations used to happen, to only serve as a notification and messaging system for content that’s stored elsewhere, in this case, social software tools. ... Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:09:50 +0100 866206 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/I6zEUTpOabA/ Why can’t we all have fun while at work? I mean, some serious good fun while we are getting the job done! Don’t you think it is fair? I mean, don’t you think that knowledge workers should be entitled to have just as much fun behind the firewall as outside of the firewall? Don’t you think that it would help those same knowledge workers become much more productive, engaged, committed, involved and purposely determined than those who don’t? I am not sure what you would think, but this is something that I have been pondering for years now and, once again, I had an opportunity to talk about it while in Germany last week, on my latest business trip, as we talked about the impact of social software within the enterprise. Yes, that impact of social tools like YouTube and the wonderfully hilarious The Conference Call by David Grady. Ha! How did I manage to talk about one of those really fun YouTube videos that’s making the rounds over the last couple of weeks going viral big time, you may be wondering, right? Well, very easily. With a key concept that we seemed to have kept neglecting over the course of the years, but which, thanks to social software tools, it’s coming back into the workplace in full force: social capital to improve business processes. Indeed, I got to talk about it through a story. Like in most of these cases, stories are wonderful mechanisms to not only transfer your knowledge, but also to share your insights about something that will really stick with folks over time. People don’t remember information. People don’t remember knowledge. In fact, they can’t even manage it properly. ... Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:36:40 +0100 866207 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/24/new-mobile-web-resource-from-nature-publishing-groups-educational-team/ From MobileBeat/VentureBeat: Nature Education — the educational arm of Nature Publishing Group — launched a mobile version of its open-access science library Scitabletoday [Monday] — bringing its extensive library of science articles and social networking features to any student, teacher, or researcher with a mobile device. Mobile users are automatically directed to the appropriate mobile site for their device when they visit Scitable.com. [Clip] The site has gone on to reach 500,000 science students across 165 countries, reports Vikram Savkar, senior vice-president and publishing director at Nature Publishing Group. But despite its success, he wanted a versatile mobile version of Scitable to better reach students in developing countries who don’t have easy access to computers or broadband internet. “With the launch of our mobile site, any student with a cell phone, even a very basic device, has access to a simplified version of the site that includes a wealth of quality, citable information, ” Savkar said. Scitable and Scitable Mobile also has access to full text content including articles by researchers, journalists, and educators as well as topic overviews (aka spotlights) and other materials. A glossary of genetic related terms is also available on the mobile site. The primary concentration of Scitable is on, “genetics, the study of evolution, variation, and the rich complexity of living organisms.” Of note that a day after the launch there is no mention (or we are just missing it) of the new mobile site on the Scitable primary web site or “about” page. Perhaps they are trying to build buzz with a few articles, tweets, and blog posts? We didn’t even find a news release listed. Again, to access the mobile site simply go to the main URL at: http://scitable.com and you’ll be redirected to the proper mobile version for your Blackberry, Android, or iPhone. Source: VentureBeat, Scitable. ... Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:25:33 +0100 864864 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/08/24/alikewise-is-for-book-lovers It looks like Alikewise.com has been around all year, but I only heard about it this weekend - it’s a dating website that matches people based on the books they like. This is a great idea for a dating website - it seems a much better way to get at someone’s true nature than filling out a profile by guessing what will make you attractive. I checked around the site a bit (without creating a profile), and wonder if there’s a way to tie-in with sites like LibraryThing and Good Reads to capitalize on peoples’ full libraries. LibraryThing sort of already does this, with their You and None Other meme. But here’s something funny: at my first library, we toyed with the idea of a “singles night” book group. We thought it’d be a perfect program for Friday nights, after work, to come and meet other single people interested in books. It never happened, but I always liked the idea. Maybe that’ll eventually manifest in Alikewise meetups. And wouldn’t this be a heck of a social networking widget to add to a library catalog? “Like this book? Click here to meet other patrons that do, too.” via Burlington Free Press (thanks, Carney) and more at NPR (Source: herzogbr.net blog) Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:33:41 +0100 865045 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2010/08/23/august-23rd-stream.html Shared 2 photos. awwww — thanks, Michael, Steve, & Cooper! awwww — thanks, Michael, Steve, & Cooper! Shared Social media is just fine. You’re the one screwing up.. This is the single most important thing that I think people forget about what social media is: It is, simply, a means to an end. Whether you’re wanting to engage, broadcast, entertain or be entertained, it can do all of these things. How you choose to use it will dictate what you get out of it. Let me say, to close, that I’m not attempting to bash Laporte or Scoble. Both of them, in their own rights, do amazing work. I am, however, bashing their arguments against the platforms…but I’m also bashing yours if you happen to agree with them, so it’s fair play. So get out there, sign up for every site you feel like using and find out what you like and dislike about them. You don’t have to like every one of them. We’re all aware; there are stinking piles of fail in the clusters of social media and social networking sites. When you do find ones that you enjoy, use them how you want to use them and don’t let people tell you otherwise. It’s your time, so spend it how you choose. Share: No tags for this post. (Source: The Shifted Librarian) Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:00:59 +0100 865909 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/-PO-e5jPA5s/4040 So, it looks like Facebook has done it again – they have released a new feature and opted us all in by default. The new feature is called Places and acts like Foursquare – except that Foursquare lets me pick who I share with and what I share. If you, like me, want to disable this by default Lifehacker has a great guide for you. Basically this backs up what I keep saying in my Facebook classes. Make sure you check your privacy settings often – it’s hard to keep up with all the new things Facebook is doing, but it’s easy to keep your privacy settings up to date just by checking them once a month or so. (Source: What I Learned Today...) Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:16:42 +0100 866087 http://chicagolibrarian.com/node/605 Roy's got a post on all the digital paraphernalia he was lugging around on a recent trip to Boston. This reminded me of my own experience going to Springfield -- and how attached I still was to the 'Cloud' no matter what the circumstances were. Case in point, was my trip down to Springfield on Amtrak. We had to stop no less than four times so freight trains which have the right-of-way on this one-track system, could pass us by. Thanks to my smartphone, I was able to log in every delay as a 'Status Update' on Facebook. Also, thanks to my smartphone, I was able to figure out where we were, using the built-in GPS program. I even managed to upload a picture of the train's (less-than-fascinating) interior thanks to the phone's camera. And finally, of course, I was able to keep up with my email and look at the occasional webpage throughout the entire trip. This level of connectivity -- the almost obscene ubiquity of the network -- would have boggled the mind even ten years ago. And sure, there are people who would point to the triviality of its use and who would wonder why I simply didn't put the damn phone down. To which I would reply, what's so fascinating about being on a train from Chicago to Springfield that's stuck for an extra hour? It's one of the few benefits of living in the 21st Century, so why not take advantage of it -- for at least as long as the batteries hold out. read more (Source: Chicago Librarian - Design, Techology & Culture from a Librarian living in Chicago) Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:10:24 +0100 864964 http://michaelgolrick.blogspot.com/2010/08/mid-august-links.html The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is what, 25 or so years old, I wonder what took so long for Final regulations on disability access to libraries and other places issued reported in Library Law Blog, among other places.Library Society of the World (a sort of anti-ALA) has its second coloring contest (in part to celebrate the end of the summer).The last couple days, Rory Litwin of Library Juice, Library Juice Press, and Litwin Books (among other ventures and adventures) has been waxing philosophically about libraries and librarianship. On August 18, he ruminates about standards and accreditation. The next day he wrote A Brief Note about Libraries and Elitism. Both are well worth a read.Bobbie Newman (librarian and writer at both Librarian by Day and Libraries and Transliteracy) has a thoughtful post on the role of control in the age of social networks. [I found it fascinating since my daughter has just taken a new job where social media is part of what she does. She even gave me permission to tell her when I notice something...]Brian Herzog (a librarian in Massachusetts) has an interesting blog: Swiss Army Librarian. There are two recent posts which caught my attention: the "Reference Question of the Week" in July and dealt with Postal Service and address changes, and a Checklist Reference Desk Manifesto. The first reflects an notable federal government attitude/policy where some things are free online and others cost, while the paper process is free. Address changes is one. Filing income taxes is another. As of this past filing season, you could file for free if your income was low enough, if you were too high, you had to pay to file electronically (even though electronic filing saves the government money). Where is the logic? The second....is on my list for work.I just loved this Illustrated Guide to a PhD, especially since getting a PhD in LIS was a topic in the car this morning. ... Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866274 http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/index.cfm?fa=viewfeature&id=2573 Yahoo is busy integrating social networking features from Facebook and investing in online content. Microsoft touts its new search engine, Bing, every chance it gets in an attempt to take on Google. And AOL, the ailing Internet services company, has spent the last year restructuring and divesting. At the recent Supernova conference in Philadelphia, Brad Garlinghouse, president of AOL consumer applications, described the company's transformation as an attempt at a "second act." Wharton faculty weigh in on what it would take to bring aging Internet companies like AOL up to speed.  (Source: Knowledge@Wharton) Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:14:34 +0100 866489 http://librarytwopointzero.blogspot.com/2010/08/reuters-article-on-social-web-and-how.html (Found via here). Reuters has an article entitled Schools, tech comPanies tailor social sites for students. The article says:-Colleges and universities across the United States are going beyond simply creating websites and pages on Facebook for students to "friend" or "fan." They are working with technology companies to build their own social networks and integrate them into campus life to boost admissions and retain students.Obviously, somethig that could be transfered to a library environment. So, perhaps you could use it for patrons to sponsor books (to increase money's for the library). (Source: librarytwopointzero) Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867797 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/bITpOmZtjZE/ Last week I was actually participating in a customer related event where we were having some really good discussions around the topic of social computing within the enterprise and, in particular, with one of the most prominent inhibitors that comes along, time and time again, when talking about adoption of these social networking tools behind the firewall: security. Yes, indeed, that one! How many times has it come out in your day to day conversations as a social software evangelist? I bet far too many! And yet, the answer seems to be relatively easy, don’t you think? Security hasn’t got much to do with the tools (Even though they seriously help out!); it’s a human trait. Security starts within the individual first and foremost. Mostly, because in the vast majority of cases related to security concerns technology is not even there! Remember the blog post that I put together over here, a couple of months back, under the title New Technology – The Threat to Our Corporate Information, where I was referencing a wonderfully hilarious and witty slide deck put together by Norman Lamont on the silliness of security and that perhaps highlighted quite nicely how far we have taken the subject to even verge on the ridiculous? Well, today I have got something better to share with you folks… Something I wish I had last week, when I was interacting, along with a few other colleagues, with that particular customer answering that question on the security concerns / issues behind social networking tools. I think we did pretty good though. At least, the conversations seemed to have hinted folks were comfortable addressing those concerns around security in a reasonable manner, highlighting how in most cases the security risks, or, better said, the perceived risks, are there because perhaps we don’t seem to trust all of these social tools that much, when in reality it’s the other way around. ... Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:52:21 +0100 866209 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TechsourceBlog/~3/UkPjuy12SOo/interview-with-michael-edson.html Meeting Michael Edson and presenting on the same docket with him was one of the highlights of my time at the U Game U Learn Conference this past April in The Netherlands. Michael Edson is Director of Web and New Media Strategy for the Smithsonian Institution and was in Delft to talk about the Smithsonian Commons project that recently debuted as a prototype here: http://www.si.edu/commons/prototype/.  The day after the  UGUL conference, we turned a serendipitous meeting at the Delft train station into a late afternoon walk around the town and dinner filled with conversation about our work, views of organizations and the future of library/museum services. It was one of those perfect “on the road speaking” travel experiences I most enjoy. The commons project prototype is a multi-faceted, well-planned and researched virtual community that seeks to engage and inspire visitors. Explore the site for more - including videos of the various personas of visitors: museum visitor, teacher, millennial, and enthusiast. Howard Rheingold, someone I consider to be one of the best authorities of the power of virtual community and interaction, recently said: “The Smithsonian Commons is not just about using contemporary technology to further an enterprise that was founded with deep respect for American technological innovation, but about expanding the idea of the institution itself. Every click on a website, every video viewed, every exhibition shared via mobile device, every citizen scientist project, every teacher and student interaction with the Smithsonian via social media expands the idea of what the Smithsonian Institution is, who it reaches, what it can do.” (http://www.si.edu/commons/prototype/comments.html) Sadly, my travel schedule prevented me from hearing Michael at ALA Annual in Washington DC, but I gladly followed mention of his talk via Twitter and blog posts. ... Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:19:22 +0100 867915 http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/002126.html A couple of recent events interestingly relate ... First, I read in Search Engine Land of the resignation from Yahoo of Srinija Srinivasan. Srinavasan was once arguably "the most powerful person in search" writes Danny Sullivan. This was when "humans edited the web" and Yahoo emerged as its central directory. Srinivasan oversaw this activity. Sullivan writes that Yahoo was better than the 'automatic' or 'crawler-based' search engines of the time such as Excite or Alta Vista: "Yahoo, in contrast, wasn't about the sheer volume of content. It was about listing the best of the web." The 'best of the web' is an interesting phrase as it was also used by another set of services which emerged at around the same time in another part of the galaxy. These were the so-called subject gateways developed within UK higher education And they were one of many examples of humans editing the web that emerged in the academic and library communities (think of Internet Scout, CORC, BUBL, NISS Gateway, Internet Public Library, LII, and others). The original subject gateways were funded in parallel with early JISC funding of electronic library developments; they came together as the Resource Discovery Network, which morphed into Intute. These projects went beyond 'pointing' to creating metadata for selected websites. The connection between these is that the second event I am thinking of is the announcement by JISC that the funding for Intute was being cut. This marks the end of an era, as an article in the current issue of Ariadne notes. Of course, what changed along the way was the emergence of Google and the pagerank algorithm. This was a service also based on choice, not in this case the editorial choice of compilers, but the aggregate choices made in linking behaviors. If Yahoo, or the subject gateways which were the basis of Intute, were to be set up today, they would probably talk about 'curating' the web. ... Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:51:50 +0100 866756 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/skbxNcmhrDw/ I think, by now, there will be very few people out there who may not have been exposed already to the wonderful TED Talk from Clay Shirky around the topic of “How cognitive surplus will change the world“. It’s one of those delightful presentations of under 15 minutes that will surely make you think for a while on quite a few things, not just those related to work, but also those that may have a significant impact in our society overall. That’s why, in case you may not have watched it just yet, I would strongly encourage you all to have a look and spend a few minutes going through it. Yes, it’s that good! It’s that thought-provoking as well all on its own, to the point where, in my opinion, it comes up with a good bunch of the traits that also surely inspired that blog post I wrote a little while ago around Hippie 2.0. Who would have thought about that, right? Cognitive surplus and Hippie 2.0 walking hand in hand… Of course, it makes sense. After you watch that video clip a couple of times you realise how good Clay is at telling stories in general. He is just amazing, to be honest, more than anything because with the helpful use of that narrative he manages to get the message across rather nicely and most of the time on what really matters. With regards to this presentation on Cognitive Surplus two of those ideas he wanted to put forward have stuck with me quite a bit: that one of free time and that other one of the human generosity for the greater good, and well-being, of us all. What’s rather interesting is how he describes both of them working together having that real significant impact in our society with some incredibly compelling stories that highlight, quite nicely, how powerful general creative acts can be and our everlasting urge to share them openly with others. ... Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:29:29 +0100 866210 http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/ediscoverylaw/klgates/~3/olkiNVWeqUk/ EEOC v. Simply Storage Mgmt., LLC, No. 1:09-cv-1223-WTL-DML (S.D. Ind. May 11, 2010) The EEOC, on behalf of two claimants, filed claims alleging sexual harassment.  In the course of discovery, defendant sought production of claimants’ internet social networking site (“SNS”) profiles and other communications from claimants’ Facebook and MySpace.com accounts.  Plaintiff resisted.  Following its discussion of the “General Principles Applicable to Discovery of SNS” and the proper scope of discovery in the present case, the court determined that certain content was relevant and ordered plaintiff to produce the relevant information, subject to the guidelines identified by the court.Defendant sought production of all SNS content on claimants’ online profiles.  Plaintiff objected, arguing the requests were “overbroad, not relevant, unduly burdensome” and would improperly infringe upon claimants' privacy and cause embarrassment.  Defendant claimed the information was proper where plaintiff placed the emotional health of the claimants at issue “beyond that typically encountered with ‘garden variety emotional distress claims’” and that “the nature of the injuries…alleged implicates all of [claimants’] social communications (i.e., all their Facebook and MySpace content). ... Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:30:21 +0100 866998 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScienceUcdLibrary/~3/GU1MxKQbstg/itunes-of-scientific-research.html One of the new start ups in the scientific information arena is a company called Mendeley. Mendeley indexes and organizes all of your PDF documents and research papers into your own personal digital bibliography. It uses PubMed, CrossRef, DOIs and other related document details to help you build up your bibliography.It then adds a social networking element that allows you to share information and resources with colleagues or with the wider world. It claims that this social element will allow you to "discover the hottest papers, authors and topics in your discipline – right now and in real-time".Mendeley is mentioned in today's Irish times and the article raises the idea that the idea of the wisdom of the crowd could be a model that might replace the traditional peer review one.Diarmuid (Source: Science @ UCD Library) Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866429 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/gNgxccC_vX0/ Today has been one of those days where my social periscope has been down for most of the day. Meetings galore at work, on the one hand, and an intense heat wave hitting the Canary Islands at the moment, on the other hand, haven’t made things too easy for me so far in the external social networking spaces, so I decided that, for today’s blog post, I’m actually going to do a little bit of light blogging and reflect about something that doesn’t have much to do with the usual topics that I get to talk about over here and, instead, I am just going to spend a few minutes remembering and rejoicing around one of those magical moments in someone’s lifetime that one gets to enjoy from something, an unforgettable event, that took place a month and a day ago, exactly, and which still lingers around in our collective memory. At least, that one from a whole bunch of us. Witnessing the historical moment of Spain winning the World Cup Final for the first time! Yes, that’s right! Today is exactly one month and one day since Spain beat The Netherlands in the World Cup Final 1-0 and, when one comes to think about it, it sounds like it all happened a few years back already! And yet, it’s just 4 weeks ago since it happened! So, still we have got another 4 years to enjoy, and savour, these moments of a unique experience that I am sure is going to be quite difficult to repeat. ... Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:40:29 +0100 866211 http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2010/08/ifla-report-delivering-information.html This report on a talk by Huy Nghiem continues blog posts from the 76th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, held 10-15 August 2010, in Gothenburg, Sweden. The conference site is at http://www.ifla.org/en/ifla76. There is a podcast of this talk here, courtesy of Niels Damgaard. The full paper is:Huy Nghiem (College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam) Delivering information literacy programmes in the context of network society and cross-cultural perspectiveshttp://www.ifla.org/files/hq/papers/ifla76/74-nghiem-en.pdfHuy started by briefly indicating recent trends. He noted that there are many theories and frameworks on IL (e.g. SCONUL, Big 6). There is a new information lanscape, with social networking tools, and the way we use these digital tools has changed our information landscape and also opportunities for cross-cultural communication.Nuy presented a diagram (shown in the full text paper) that illustrated that individuals on the one hand are receiving information from many channels, often passively (with channels that cannot be controlled or customised), but also with opportunities for sharing and communicating. Also individuals are retrieving material (e.g. from wikis, paper based surces) to learn or make meaning, education, social inclusion or employability. Information literacy is important in helping to achieve this.In terms of the network society, so much is powered by networks and technology nowadays. What is important is the principle of inclusion. The network society can have an impact that is related to culture, country etc.Huy quoted Spiranec and Zorica (2009) “IL [IL] has its root in the activities of particular groups and communities; it evolves in disciplinary and other contexts and is practiced by communities using their corresponding technologies”, emphasising that is social as well as technical issue. ... Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 864986 http://www.libology.com/blog/2010/08/11/library-staff-using-online-tools.html WebJunction has posted the survey results for online tool usage by library staff, and a few of the results might surprise: The online tool that has had at least some use by the highest percentage of staff is Online Courses, followed by Live Online Events.  These beat out Listservs, Professional/Social Networking, and Blogs, even though each of these had higher percentages of daily users. Also of interest was the significant differences between Public and Academic library staff use of online tools, with Academic staff reporting higher use. Disparities also exist between urban and rural libraries, which might be partially explained by bandwidth and technology differences.  It would be good to see this difference erased, as online tools are one way that smaller, rural libraries can bridge the gap that might otherwise exist due to funding and population differences. (Source: LibrarySupportStaff.Org) Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:48:21 +0100 867180 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/hiYx-pigfnc/ If you have been following this blog for a little while now, you would know how Personal Knowledge Management, a.k.a. PKM, or Personal Knowledge Sharing (PKS), whichever term you would prefer to make use of, has always been one of my favourite topics to talk about and share some further insights over here and elsewhere. It’s been all along one of those areas that has always caught my attention since way back when I was first involved with KM in the late 90s. It’s one of those fascinating fields that has permeated successfully throughout time from traditional KM and into the world of Social Networking reaching a new level of awareness that surely makes it all worth while diving into, if you haven’t done so just yet. More than anything else, because, if anything, that interest will keep raising as time goes by! And here is why … Managing knowledge is quite a daunting task; in fact, most people claim (I am one of them, too!) that it is almost impossible to manage it successfully. How can you manage what you yourself don’t know really that well after all? How can you manage what you are just not even aware you are knowledgeable about till you are confronted with it? How can you manage what you know till you eventually have a need for it to resurface again? Quite an interesting set of questions, don’t you think? So where does Personal Knowledge Management fit in then? Well, indeed, it’s impossible to manage knowledge, even your own knowledge. However, knowledge workers can have a good chance to self manage some of that knowledge so that they can re-find and reuse it effectively and efficiently at a later time. There are a whole bunch of processes and traditional technologies that have been helping people try to figure out how they can have their own PKM strategy. ... Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:39:29 +0100 866212 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/AWtk6cxmSGs/ Earlier on today, on my blog post around 10 Reasons NOT to Ban Social Media in Organisations I was eventually sharing a number of different arguments as to why social computing within the enterprise is a worth while effort to pursue further. Those arguments were trying to provide a reply to the original resource that stated why some businesses out there may not be that open and receptive, just yet, to social networking. So I thought in this blog entry I would continue to pick things up and share some further insights, specially around a number of those headings picked up by this meme itself. Namely, it’s about controlling the message, employees will goof off, social media is a time waster and employees can’t be trusted. How do I plan to continue the conversation? Well, with a little help of my friends, of course! In the past, you would remember how I have been talking about a special group of KMers, right? A bunch of really smart, witty, incredibly insightful, thought-provoking, passionate and rather enthusiastic people about the topics of Knowledge Management, Collaboration, Communities, Learning and Social Networking. Yes, that’s right! That talented group of great thinkers! Well, every Tuesday at noon EDT they get together on Twitter (I try to join them as many times as I possibly can), pick up a topic and a moderator and they embark, in my opinion, on some of the most interesting and exciting conversations you can have around on the Internet at the moment, covering various different areas, but perhaps with a special focus on KM itself, after all. Like last week’s, around the topic of "Let go of Control; Encourage and Monitor", moderated by my good friend, and KM extraordinaire, Stan Garfield. ... Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:59:18 +0100 866213 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kraftylibrarian/OLay/~3/eMGZbbAR3xI/ Millions of teenagers and I have something in common.  My mother is on Facebook.  I never thought the day would come, and quite frankly I never pushed her because I didn’t think she would be interested.  But my mom joined.  For her it is all one sided.  She is a lurker, she doesn’t say that specifically but she told me she just really joined so she could follow my siblings and I and our cousins in our day to day musings and family photos.  Facebook is becoming more pervasive and more and more people are joining.  MLA now has an official MLA Facebook pageand a lot of hospitals are using Facebook to do outreach.  If you haven’t noticed it, local news channels are using Facebook as well as other established companies.  On a personal note I have noticed more people finding me on Facebook too….. including my mom. So I have begun to separate my librarian life from my personal life on Facebook just a little bit more.  Just like email, I now have a professional account and a personal account.  In the following weeks I will be doing more of my professional librarian type stuff on my Facebook Fan Page http://www.facebook.com/KraftyLibrarian. I will also begin to weed my personal page.  I know Scott Plutchak has mentioned a few times that he doesn’t really consider himself to be segmented into a personal life and work life, that they all are a part of his life and make up who he is.  I agree with that, my kids, my husband, my hobbies as well as librarianship all go into making me who I am.  However, I find that for my sanity, it is easier for me to have two somewhat different social networking lives/personas.  My family and close friends (non librarians) are not as interested in PubMed, MeSH, the user experience, NLM, and MLA as I am.  Likewise I am sure there are many librarians who I am friends with who are way more interested in the librarianship stuff rather than my family trip to St. ... Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:18:24 +0100 865148 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/davidleeking/~3/JIyrwug3pRI/ I just read You Don’t Sell to a Community. You Support a Community by Dan Blank (found via Chris Brogan’s Twitter feed). And hey – Dan must be ok – he used to work at Reed Business Info (ie., Library Journal, etc). So he gets us library types. Here’s the gist of the post (make sure to read the whole thing): “As the business landscape rushes into social media – a more nuanced connection with people’s lives – this is something to be understood. The business funnel of marketing to a segmented group of people is not the same as building trust within a community – of supporting a community.” Two other good quotes: “You don’t sell to a community. You support a community. You provide for a community. You connect a community. You mediate a community. You balance a community. You sacrifice for a community.” “it is hard to truly “build” a community. Communities exist already. A list of Twitter followers is not necessarily a community.” So – how does this relate to libraries? We don’t sell stuff, do we? Sure we do. My library has a 3-person marketing team that creates newsletters, giant posters, and marketing & promotion campaigns (for starters. They do a lot of great work). Their business is making sure everyone in Shawnee County knows about us, checks out our stuff, and attends our events. That’s selling – selling our stuff and our services. What do some libraries do soon after they set up their blogs, Facebook Pages, and Twitter feeds? They start selling! Many of us primarily use our online social communities as broadcast avenues. We throw billboards out into the middle of our digital community, hoping someone reads it, clicks the link, and attends the event (or checks out the book). ... Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:24:05 +0100 867305 http://jis.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/36/4/443?rss=1 This study examines the different mechanisms of online social ties underlying individual knowledge sharing through comparative perspectives of collocated vs geographically dispersed teams. By integrating social capital theory and social cognitive theory, this study develops a theoretical model that predicts individual knowledge sharing. Next, the study uses social network analysis to empirically test the proposed model using 186 participants: 84 on collocated teams and 102 on dispersed teams. The results indicate that the frequency of online interaction does not affect knowledge sharing in collocated teams, while it plays a critical role in stimulating motivational factors that affect knowledge sharing of dispersed teams. On the other hand, centrality of online interaction positively influences trust of collocated teams and norms of reciprocity of dispersed teams. Based on these findings, this study suggests users should manage online social ties as carefully as offline social ties to facilitate knowledge sharing in work groups. (Source: Journal of Information Science current issue) Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:42:54 +0100 867388 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pandia/vfbc/~3/jvlYdHtJcuQ/3072-search-delicious-twitter-facebook-and-more-all-in-one-tool.html If you are an avid user of social networks or if you want to monitor the hive mind for news about, say, a brand, a sports team or a celebrity, you know it can be hard to keep up across the different networks. Here’s a solution. 48ers is a new search engine in public beta. It lets you search Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, Digg, and Delicious all at once. All you do is enter the search term and hit Search. By default, results from all five networks are displayed. The search results are entire entries (tweets, updates etc). A little logo next to each result lets you know the source. If you want to see the results for each network separately, you can filter the results from a menu on the left. There is no RSS, but a button to share search results with friends through a large number of channels. I am particularly happy that Delicious is included among the sources. For years, it has continued to be my most indesposable web tool, not only for storing bookmarks, but for finding vetted web resources and sharing them with others. (In case you are wondering: The name 48ers refers to the pioneers of the California gold rush.) Facebook, Twitter and Youtube Marketing. Hourly rates $15 to $25. (Source: Pandia Search Engine News) Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:04:36 +0100 865166 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BabyBoomerLibrarian/~3/KK5ujeQvuzM/nylink-donna-dixon-moving-to-suny-press.html Donna Dixon: New Co-Director at SUNY Press Donna Dixon (Director of the Member Programs Team) will be transferring from Nylink to SUNY Press where she will be Co-Director along with James Peltz, who is currently an executive acquisitions editor at the Press.  This new role will be a great opportunity for Donna to broaden her experience to include the university press arena.  At the same time, she will bring a wealth of knowledge regarding publishers and information providers in her dealings with such organizations while at Nylink.  Her work at SUNY Press will include contract and financial management duties as well as other tasks as required. We will miss Donna’s experience and positive approach to challenging issues.  While she will be moving into this new role immediately, she will be “just across the hall” now that SUNY Press is relocated to Corporate Woods.  We wish her the very best and expect to stay in touch on a regular basis. Dealing with Information Overload with the Librarian in Black September 22, 2010: 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Overwhelmed by your RSS feed, email and social networks? Learn how to dig yourself out of the information pile! Join us for a webinar that will give you skills and techniques to deal with your ever growing pile of things to read, do, store and tweet. About the Instructor: Sarah Houghton-Jan is the Digital Futures Manager for the San José Public Library in the heart of the Silicon Valley. She is also the author of the blog LibrarianInBlack.net.  Sarah was named a 2009 Library Journal Mover & Shaker as a Trendspotter.  She trains and consults for libraries all over the world about issues of library and technology.  Her book, Technology Training in Libraries, was published in 2010. For more information about this webinar, or to register, see our website at http://www.nylink.org/education/LIBInfoOverload.cfm. ... Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:43:00 +0100 864880 http://splat.lili.org/node/393 At my branch we noticed that during these tough economic times that our patrons needed one-on-one trainings to become technologically literate. So some amazing staff at the Library! at Collister (a branch of Boise Public Library) came up with this program to have the community help the community called the "Tech Coach" program. We used volunteermatch.org to find community members who could volunteer for the library and offer one-on-one trainings for one hour sessions. We have had times when our program was booked up weeks in advance.  During the sessions patrons can learn more about the internet, email, social networking, basic computer skills, Microsoft Office, internet searching skills etc. The Tech Coaches do not however, do IT work for the patrons. The feedback from our customers who have used the program has been phenomenal as well. The best of the program to me besides promoting technological literacy is that the community is truly helping the community. If you would like to learn more about this program and how to implement at your library please post a comment and I can give you the staff member's contact info who manage the program. (Source: SPLAT - Special Projects Library Action Team blogs) Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:58:35 +0100 866157 http://gypsylibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/08/some-thoughts-on-concept-of-social.html The following set of semi-random musings are inspired or prompted by Professor Bell's recent piece in ACRLog entitled "Is There a Social Media Librarian In Your Library's Future?" Go read the piece first if you have not read it, then stay if interested for the meanderings.* * * *I never really saw myself as a social media librarian, but over time I would have to say that title describes a lot of what I do in a fairly accurate way. Here in my library, we are currently working to leverage social networks to better serve our academic community. I am a believer of being where the users are, but I am also a  user of online social media for personal needs. I think that this gives me a bit more credibility when I use social media for professional or work-related issues. But it is not all about just being a user of social media. My work here involves public relations and marketing for the library, so I find myself reading, investigating and assessing how to use those social media tools for our library's needs. From articles about better content creation to items about analytics, I read as much as I can to keep up and learn more. In terms of assessment, for instance, I am in the process of developing a faculty survey on library services, and one or two questions will go to social media usage. In the end, it is not so much about the tools as what you do with those tools; the goal for me is to learn how to make the social media work for us as a proactive engagement tool, then make it happen.To answer one of the questions Professor Bell poses: Yes, at this time, we have one librarian responsible for oversight of social media accounts and activities. It falls under the umbrella of Outreach, which is my job title and description. Some of the duties are shared. For instance, other librarians have posting privileges to the library's blog. I will grant that at this time they do not take much advantage of it, but they do have the access and the opportunity. ... Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:06:00 +0100 866514 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=7661 State: Illinois Suburban Chicago public library is looking for an energetic information services professional with an ALA-accredited MLS. The ideal candidate is creative, enjoys working in a team environment, and has exceptional customer service skills. This person is interested in emerging technologies and will use them to promote and provide library services. Must be able to make informed decisions independently and communicate effectively. The successful candidate will assist all library customers but will have a concentration in young adult services and technology applications. This person will be comfortable with and engaged in social networking tools and virtual services. Work includes planning, implementing and evaluating age/interest appropriate programming and collections for young adults, high school age and up. The position serves as the web liaison for the Adult Services Department, overseeing the department’s web pages. Experience with HTML, PHP and MySQL a plus. This person must demonstrate proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and Photoshop. Position also includes general reference and reader’s advisory desk duties as assigned throughout the work week. Weekend and evening hours are required. Salary: DOQ The Wilmette Public Library offers an excellent benefits package including health insurance and retirement benefits. To apply, submit a resume, three references, and a letter of application to: Betty Giorgi Head of Adult Services Wilmette Public Library 1242 Wilmette Ave. Wilmette, IL 60091 blgiorgi@wilmettelibrary.info www.wilmettelibrary.info Submitted on 2010-07-28 (Source: SLIS Careers Feed) Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:40:01 +0100 864681 http://sites.menashalibrary.org/2010/08/05/collecta/ I am rather fascinated by real-time searching.  With the rise of Twitter and Facebook and their immediacy, search engines must begin to start pulling in that content.  Collecta does just that in a very friendly and customizable way. The site offers the hot topics directly on the start page, allowing you to scan them quickly and access them right from there.  Depending on where you click, you can read the story they are citing or you can start a new search on the topic.  That new search offers you plenty of options. Those same options are available when you start your own search too.  You can toggle on and off stories like blog posts and articles, comments, updates on services like Twitter and Jaiku, photos from Flickr and TwitPic, and videos from YouTube and UStream.  So your results are the ones you want.  You can eliminate Twitter if you don’t like that source, or limit it just to Twitter if it’s the place you want to look.  Additionally, you can share your search results on social networking sites.  That same option is available for the individual results too. Very personalized, fast and in real-time, this site is slick!  They also have a mobile version so you can use it on the go. Related articles by Zemanta Real-time search engine Collecta picks up $4.7M from True, Dace Ventures (media.venturebeat.com) Five Real-time Search Engines for You to Try (freetech4teachers.com) Collecta Raises $5M for Real-Time Search (mashable.com) (Source: Sites and Soundbytes) Thu, 05 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867626 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/davidleeking/~5/G7g-I755ORg/ssplayer2.swf Building the Digital Branch: Designing Effective Library Websites View more presentations from David King. Yesterday, I gave a webinar for the ALA Techsource folks on building digital branches … and here are my slides for that. Enjoy! Update – Slideshare was having problems when I posted this, so I deleted the slideshare version and started over. This time, it works. Yay! Share: Related PostsBuilding the Digital Branch: An ALA TechSource Workshop with David Lee KingSee You at ALA10!iPads in LibrariesDoes your Website Look Professional?Showing Patrons the Door (Source: David Lee King) Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:02:25 +0100 867306 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/04/new-7-things-you-should-know-guides-open-educational-resources-lms-alternatives-and-assessing-online-team-based-learning/ + 7 Things You Should Know About VoIP (2 pages; PDF) Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a technology that converts voice calls to data packets that travel over the same networks that carry data traffic. With VoIP, users with can make calls via the Internet, whether from home, an office, a hotel, or anywhere else. Institutions often save considerable costs on long distance using VoIP, and features that cost extra from traditional phone service are often included in VoIP. VoIP systems integrate with services such as e-mail and online directories, and institutions that implement VoIP can deploy converged networks that combine voice, data, emergency notification, and other systems, streamlining maintenance and reducing operational costs. By migrating phone service to the data networks that colleges and universities maintain anyway, institutions can take fuller advantage of that infrastructure while providing another imperative to ensure the reliability of those networks, which benefits all of the IP services. VoIP involves tradeoffs surrounding factors such as cost, flexibility, reliability, and user expectations, but evidence continues to mount that improvements in technology are tilting such evaluations in favor of VoIP. + 7 Things You Should Know About Assessing Online Team-Based Learning (2 pages; PDF) In team-based learning, students work in groups on outcome-based or problem-based assignments. Assessing the work produced by teams, however, presents a significant challenge, and this difficulty is especially prominent in online environments. Developing and implementing a transparent assessment process that both supports and recognizes individual and group learning can generate a powerful combination of interdependency and peer cooperation. Online assessment tools that evaluate both individual and group effort support this dynamic, fostering the reliance on community that is becoming an increasingly important feature of the online academic landscape. ... Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:21:12 +0100 864569 http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/aug/04/justin-bieber-biography The teen sensation is set to publish his first memoir and be the subject of a biopic. Is it really the right time?As if Justin Bieber's supernova status were not already bewildering enough for anyone past the age of majority, the baby-faced Canadian singer, who looks even younger than his 16 years, has just announced his first memoir, First Step 2 Forever: My Story, via HarperCollins. He may not be the youngest celebrity to write an autobiography – Drew Barrymore and Charlotte Church were both 15 when they published, respectively, 1990's Little Girl Lost and 2001's Voice of an Angel: My Life (So Far) – but he is the only one who can also boast a forthcoming 3D biopic (apparently helmed by the Oscar-winning director of An Inconvenient Truth, no less) about his prodigious rise.Explaining this explosion in Bieberology, the singer gave potential readers some idea of the kind of pulse-pounding prose they can expect: "My fans have played such a large part in all of this and they help me live my dreams every day . . . This is just another way to say thank you to my fans."He has a lot to thank them for. A long, long time ago, in early 2007, Bieber's mother posted on YouTube a clip of her 12-year-old son performing Ne-Yo's So Sick at a singing contest in Stratford, Ontario. The clip's phenomenal popularity won him a deal with Island Records and his 2009 album My World gave rise to commercial superlatives, making him the youngest solo male US chart-topper since Stevie Wonder in 1963, the first artist ever to score seven hit singles from a debut, and the star of the most-viewed YouTube clip to date (Baby stands at over 270 million views).Bieber is a distinctly modern celebrity, discovered and nurtured by fans on the internet. He was a Twitter trending topic for months until Twitter changed the rules in May to reflect spiking popularity rather than consistent mentions. ... Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:59:14 +0100 864505 http://opaltraining.blogspot.com/2010/08/whats-new-4-august-2010.html Can I legally use Microsoft Office on two computers? Yes, you can!In a twitter reply by Microsoft Australia (MSAU) today, we were reminded of a Microsoft Office license term that many people aren't aware of. The reply to a tweeted question stated that whilst the Home and Student edition of Microsoft Office is licensed for installation on up to three machines, all other versions of Microsoft Office are in fact licensed for installation on two machines. Specifically, the license terms state: The tweet from Microsoft Australia offered an interesting insight that you might not have been aware of: any version of Microsoft Office can be used on both your home computer and a laptop. As long as both systems belong to you and you're the person who bought the copy of Office - that counts as acceptable use. That's a very handy titbit of information. After all, if you're using your computers for commercial purposes (making money with them in any way) you're obviously not supposed to be using the three-system-friendly Office Home and Student versions. Thanks to section c, however, you can set up your portable install on a laptop or netbook and still be fully compliant -- without having to hand out more money for a second copy of Office.  Connect your iPhone or iPod Touch to a Wi-Fi Network Have you ever wanted to connect your iPhone/iPod Touch to a Wi-Fi network at home, work or your favourite coffee shop but aren’t sure how? Here’s how: ·         Find and select the Settings icon on your iPhone or iPod Touch. ·         Select Wi-Fi from the Settings menu.·         If your Wi-Fi setting currently set to Off, tap it to toggle On the Wi-Fi access. ... Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867819 http://invisibleweblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/ecdl-2010.html The European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL) will take place in 6th to 10th of September at the University of Glasgow. The conference main topics include Digital Libraries and Mobility, Digital Library Architectures, Digital Library Infrastructure, Digital Preservation and Curation, Information Mining in Digital Libraries, Information Retrieval in Digital Libraries, Interoperability of Digital Library Systems and Services, Knowledge Organization Systems, Metadata Standards and Protocols in Digital Library Systems, Multilinguality in Digital Libraries, Multimedia Digital Libraries, Personal Information Management and Personal Digital Libraries, Personalisation in Digital Library Systems and Settings, Policies for Digital Library systems, Social Networking, Web 2.0 and Collaborative Interfaces in Digital Libraries, User Interfaces for Digital Libraries, User Studies for and Evaluation of Digital Library Systems and Applications and Visualization in Digital Libraries. (Source: The Invisible Web Weblog) Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866483 http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2010/08/study-on-us-millennials-and-social.html The Pew Research Center has published results of a survey of "895 internet experts and other internet users" to ask their opinion about (essentially) whether the millennial generation will do less social networking as they get older. There were respondents who thought that they would use sites like Facebook less, but the majority position was that millennials "will retain their willingness to share personal information online even as they get older and take on more responsibilities. Experts surveyed say that the advantages Millennials see in personal disclosure will outweigh their concerns about their privacy." The report is athttp://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Future-of-Millennials.aspxPhoto by Sheila Webber: Hydrangea in Weston Park, August 2010 (with drybrush effect) (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 864721 http://acrlog.org/2010/08/03/is-there-a-social-media-librarian-in-your-librarys-future/ Academic libraries are leveraging social networks to increase opportunities to connect with students and faculty. Facebook or Twitter are the primary social media tools used for this purpose, but others are exploring how geo-location sites may play into a social strategy. It’s not clear how academic libraries are tackling these new methods of marketing and promoting services and resources. Is oversight for social media accounts and activity assigned to a single librarian? Is the same staff member who oversees marketing and PR taking on social networking? Are all library workers empowered to contribute to the effort? We know little about how social media responsibilities are handled, but it’s unlikely that any academic library has yet to create a dedicated Social Media Librarian position – although whenever I say something like this in a post before the end of the day there’s a comment along the lines of “No you’re wrong – we have a Social Media Librarian here”. With Facebook reaching its 500 millionth member and Twitter members tweeting over 50 million times per day these behemoths can’t be ignored. Corporate America certainly isn’t ignoring them. Two trends point to a growing interest in taking social network marketing quite seriously. First, many companies that market to consumers are rushing to create positions for social media officers – and that’s at a time when no one is even quite sure what someone in this position even does or what qualifies someone for such a position. But who’s waiting to figure all that out? Not companies like Sears, Petco, Ford, Pepsi and many others. Second, MBA programs are adding courses in social media to provide students with the skills needed to get jobs as social media officers or at least help their future employers create social media strategies. ... Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:30:00 +0100 864263 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TechsourceBlog/~3/raSOlQDWy10/keeping-up-with-keeping-up.html This summer, I was fortunate enough to attend a leadership institute led by Maureen Sullivan. First and foremost: if you get a chance to attend a workshop with her, do not pass go, just sign up. The workshop began in earnest with everyone listing challenges and opportunities facing their libraries. “Keeping up with technology” cropped up early on. It always does. In my inside inside voice (the one that stays in my head), I wondered why we haven’t figured that one out yet. Shortly after the workshop ended, I came across the WebJunction report on library staff’s use of online tools. Roy Tennant has crunched the oh-so-depressing stats in a couple of different ways. Several good questions have been asked about the methodology, but I would not be surprised if more tightly worded questions yielded a similarly unplugged set of answers. Of course, use of social networking does not a good librarian make. However, keeping up is pretty darn important. Many of us have had the experience of starting a search at Google, only to be told by our patron that “I already tried that, and there isn’t anything on Google.” Of course, we happily pull up the website needed on our first search. Personally, I have seen patrons react with everything from unadulterated joy at my Google prowess to something approaching rage that I had used some kind of secret Google trick. It is our job to be good searchers. It is unrealistic to expect that we will know how to use every single website out there and no, a personal Facebook page is not a job requirement. However, considering that many (most?) of our patrons are using Facebook, we should be able to show them how to adjust their privacy settings or use the search interface on the site. Amongst the super plugged-in, there is a hierarchy of kept-upedness. A select few really do seem to know everything that’s happening in libraries. The rest of us do the best we can. ... Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:22:32 +0100 864488 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibrariansMatter/~3/VVYXvV3ewQE/ Many librarians have cats. Many librarians knit and crochet. Life facts that we should all accept – and celebrate. Just check out the Flickr search for “Librarians Knitting” and scroll through the pages to see what I mean. Look around at your library next conference, even in classes at university, and the needles are flicking. I’ve been in several unconference sessions where social networking is being discussed and someone eventually shuffles to their feet to say “Well, I’m a member of this amazing network for knitters and crocheters called Ravelry“, to be met with a few heads snap-turning in their direction and a chorus of “oh – me tooo”….and then all talk of librarianship melts into the ether…. If you want a geeky treat, check out current VALA president, Kim Tairi’s Flickr stream of amazing amigurumi, especially the Spuffy and Doctor and Amy Pond sets. I think my favourite is Bunny winks then shoots you – DEAD : Ryan Deschamps even shows how knitting is a skill that can be used for librarianship. To attract the attention of passers-by in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in June he and a group of other knitters created a Yarnbomb and  wrapped it around a tree. They attached publicity material asking for the community’s vision for their new library – Public Tree Yarn Wrap. Knitting and crocheting librarians are also generous souls. How else can I explain the appearance in my life of an alpaca (?) wool Toque that Ryan knitted for me  on the way to Computers in Libraries last year. Or the purple handwarmers that Kate made for me before she left for Melbourne. Or the wonderful package of goodies sent by Cindi last week as a congratulations for finishing my degree and starting a new job. Thank you Yarnbrarians. ... Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:26:56 +0100 866144 http://acrlog.org/2010/08/03/is-there-a-social-media-librarian-in-your-librarys-future/ Academic libraries are leveraging social networks to increase opportunities to connect with students and faculty. Facebook or Twitter are the primary social media tools used for this purpose, but others are exploring how geo-location sites may play into a social strategy. It’s not clear how academic libraries are tackling these new methods of marketing and promoting services and resources. Is oversight for social media accounts and activity assigned to a single librarian? Is the same staff member who oversees marketing and PR taking on social networking? Are all library workers empowered to contribute to the effort? We know little about how social media responsibilities are handled, but it’s unlikely that any academic library has yet to create a dedicated Social Media Librarian position – although whenever I say something like this in a post before the end of the day there’s a comment along the lines of “No you’re wrong – we have a Social Media Librarian here”. With Facebook reaching its 500 millionth member and Twitter members tweeting over 50 million times per day these behemoths can’t be ignored. Corporate America certainly isn’t ignoring them. Two trends point to a growing interest in taking social network marketing quite seriously. First, many companies that market to consumers are rushing to create positions for social media officers – and that’s at a time when no one is even quite sure what someone in this position even does or what qualifies someone for such a position. But who’s waiting to figure all that out? Not companies like Sears, Petco, Ford, Pepsi and many others. Second, MBA programs are adding courses in social media to provide students with the skills needed to get jobs as social media officers or at least help their future employers create social media strategies. ... Tue, 03 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 864310 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/srJgRqjai-Q/ One of the more controversial e-reading apps to hit in recent days is Flipboard, the free app that aggregates content that friends have shared on social media. I’ve previously reported on the controversy it engendered by its potentially copyright-violating aggregatory nature. Lately, I’ve finally had the chance to examine the app itself. In summary: wow. Flipboard is one of the prettiest things I’ve seen on the iPad yet. And it’s free. If you have an iPad, and are on Facebook and/or Twitter, you have absolutely no excuse not to go and download it. Even if you’re not on social media, it does have some internal channels of content that it aggregates itself (and those who do use FB/Twitter will have to content themselves with these until Flipboard can spare the processor space to let them add their social media accounts. It took about a week for it to come around to me). It’s definitely worth a look. I’ll go into more detail after the jump, though I’ll first catch up on the controversy, Flipboard’s marketing plan, and media reactions thereof. Hyperbole or Just Hype? First off, Business Insider’s Silicon Alley Insider section has a lengthy interview with Flipboard cofounder and CEO Mike McCue. There’s a lot of interesting stuff here, but one of the most noteworthy statements comes in this early paragraph: The most interesting thing we learned is how Flipboard plans to make money.  Flipboard plans to actually show more of publishers’ content, advertising against it, and then share revenues. Mike says it will increase publishers’ digital revenues “by a factor of ten from what they’re currently doing with banner ads.” McCue makes the point that magazine readers tend to prefer magazines with ads, but website viewers don’t want ads even if the content is otherwise the same. ... Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:46:16 +0100 864400 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/02/report-highlights-what-do-americans-do-online-the-top-10/ From the Nielsen Wire Post: Americans spend nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs, up from 15.8 percent just a year ago (43 percent increase) according to new research released today from The Nielsen Company. The research revealed that Americans spend a third their online time (36 percent) communicating A table and two graphs are included. The Top 5 1. Social Networks (Up 43% vs. June 2009) 2. Online Gaming (Up 10% vs. June 2009) 3. E-Mail (Down 28% vs. June 2009) 4. Portals (Down 19% vs. June 2009) 5. Instant Messaging (Down 15% vs. June 2009) 7. Search (Up 1% vs. June 2009) Access the Complete Nielsen Wire Post Source: Nielsen Wire, The Nielsen Company (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:16:08 +0100 864133 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/02/new-spec-kit-317-from-arl-special-collections-engagement/ SPEC Kit #317 is now available. The full text “kit” is fee-based but an 18 page executive summary is available at no charge. From the Summary/News Release/Ordering Information The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published, “Special Collections Engagement, SPEC Kit 317,” which examines exhibits, events, instruction, and other activities that are targeted to engage students, faculty, and other scholars/researchers with special collections for research and education. It investigates who coordinates these activities, where they are held, how they are promoted, and how they are evaluated. By the March deadline, responses had been submitted by 79 of the 124 ARL member libraries for a response rate of 64%. A genuine commitment to outreach activities in special collections is evident throughout the responses to this survey. Over 95% of respondents are staging exhibits, holding events, and engaging students and faculty in the use of collections; most institutions are participating in all of these activities, as well as in many others not specifically addressed in the survey. At the heart of all outreach activities are the collections. Libraries are going to great lengths to promote their unique and specialized collection strengths, employing many creative outreach and engagement approaches. While the traditional methods of exhibits, events, and curricular instruction continue to be the emphasis of special collections’ outreach programs, institutions are also embracing opportunities to be active physically beyond the borders of their campuses and virtually through blogs, social networking sites, and other Web 2.0 technologies. More than two-thirds of the respondents have encountered barriers in providing effective outreach to faculty, students, and other scholars/researchers affiliated with their institutions. ... Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:21:52 +0100 864142 http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/409 The invaluable Swiss Army Librarian posted some Notes on Reading Resumes a few weeks back. At my library, I am also on a committee that is evaluating 40+ applications for a single position. Some of them are very good. Some of them are very bad. Many of them need. . . help. And so in the interests of providing some of that, I thought I’d make a few notes of my own. File format does matter. Like Brian, I think PDF is the best choice you can make at present, as it will be sure to preserve your typography and spacing and such, and it’s fairly standard. If you have Microsoft Word 2007, you can save any document as a PDF. If you don’t have Word, and don’t have money, Open Office is free and will let you do the same thing. We got one letter that came as a text file, without about two words per line. It was so unreadable that I’m not sure anyone on the committee took it seriously. I am biased toward people with some kind of web presence. No, I don’t think it’s a requirement, but it is an excellent way to demonstrate your fluency with technology and to show off any nifty work you’ve done — tutorials, pamphlets, reading lists, videos, whatever — that doesn’t necessarily fit well into a standard letter/resume. Again, it’s not necessary to have money to do this — I’ve seen some excellent portfolios that used Google Pages, Weebly, or wordpress.com, among others. Appearances matter. Be consistent in your formatting, and use standard (or at least semi-standard — as Brian notes, doing a little bit of spiffy design work is a good way to show off your computer aptitude) professional typefaces. Comic Sans on a resume just does not inspire me to take you very seriously. When applicable, say something in your letter about why you want to move to the place where the job is as well as why you want the job itself. ... Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:11:58 +0100 865994 http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/024859.html "Americans spend nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs, up from 15.8 percent just... (Source: beSpacific) Mon, 02 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 864223 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/WQj57DvNAgo/ FROM THE USER’S GUIDE New unheralded aspects are in BOLDface. PDFS: NEW FEATURES No-fee delivery of personal documents direct to Kindle “For Kindle models that include 3G, you can avoid 3G delivery fees for the personal document service by addressing the e-mail so that the second part of your Kindle e-mail address is @free.kindle.com.  The document will be delivered to your Kindle when your Kindle is connected via Wi-Fi and it will also be e-mailed to your Amazon e-mail address.  If Wi-Fi is not available, you can transfer the personal document to your Kindle’s documents folder by connecting your Kindle to your computer. “ Adjust the contrast! “While reading a PDF document, you can zoom in or adjust the contrast to make the document easier to read.” “Pressing the Text key [Aa-key] will let you choose zoom and contrast options for a PDF page.” The options are “lightest lighter default darker darkest.” However, into each life, some rain must fall: “table of contents — this option is NOT available for PDF documents” Place Cursor in Page “Press up or down on the 5-way controller to display the cursor.  If you are zoomed into a PDF page, you can also press Menu and choose ‘Place Cursor in Page’ to display the cursor. — displays a blinking cursor on the page.  Use this option when you are zoomed in to a PDF page and you want to create a note or highlight, or use the dictionary lookup.” My note here: We were never able to access the words before.  Highlighted passages can now be forwarded to Facebook and Twitter, if social networking is enabled where you are. WEB PAGES Zooming into Web Pages “You can zoom in to any web page to magnify the page. ... Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:11:19 +0100 863891 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/31/bookslams-literary-events-books In pubs and arts venues up and down the country traditional book readings are being replaced by a combination of cabaret, comedy and club nights. The results, Alex Clark discovers, are great fun'This is my Fight Club," says Todd Zuniga, the editor of American creative writing magazine Opium and the inventor of Literary Death Match, who is already confusing me with his appearance: strikingly fresh-faced, he tells me he is 35; exuding hipness, he is nonetheless wearing a slightly grotesque white jacket with Miami Vice-style rolled-up sleeves. It transpires that his outfit is in keeping with the evening's 80s theme, chosen to honour Bret Easton Ellis's new novel Imperial Bedrooms. With Ellis in town – he has earlier in the week appeared at the Festival Hall before a sell-out audience – all the whispers in the room are of whether he'll grace tonight's event with his presence.If, at around 10pm, Ellis did slip quietly into the basement of Concrete, a former industrial space reclaimed for the pleasure of the hedonistic twenty- and thirtysomethings who throng to London's Shoreditch on a nightly basis, he might not have immediately recognised the spectacle before him as a bookish sort of gathering. Literary Death Match was reaching its climax. In the couple of hours before, four writers – Milly McMahon, Clare Pollard, Lee Rourke and Nikesh Shukla – had read their work in strictly timed seven-minute segments, and found themselves the subject of an instant critique from a panel of judges. Among the highlights had been a somewhat painful account of a virginity long in the losing and, from Shukla's forthcoming novel Coconut Unlimited, which tells the story of a group of teenage Asian wannabe rappers in Harrow, the author's crowd-delighting version of Public Enemy's "Don't Believe the Hype". ... Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:05:00 +0100 863524 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6277 BERKMAN BUZZ: A look at the past week's online Berkman conversations If you would like to receive the Buzz weekly via email, please sign up here. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * What's being discussed...take your pick or browse below. * Wendy Seltzer, "Jailbreaking Copyright's Scope." * Facebook caper? Jonathan Zittrain holsters his pitchfork. * Facebook privacy settings? danah boyd, Eszter Hargittai ask, "Who cares?" * Peace on Facebook? Ethan Zuckerman tries to do the math. * Dan Gillmor's initial comments on the WikiLeaks "Afghanistan diary." * Weekly Global Voices: "Côte d'Ivoire: Journalists accused of document theft are freed" * Herdict on court-ordered filtering in Russia. * CMLP on the FTC's defense of its Blogger Endorsement Guidelines. * Radio Berkman 160: "Business, Meet Web" * Doc Searls' belated eulogy for Ricochet. * David Weinberger imagines a software-defined radio future. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The full buzz. "A bit late for the rule’s “triennial” cycle, the Librarian of Congress has released the sec 1201(a)(1)(C) exceptions from the prohibitions on circumventing copyright access controls. For the next three years, people will not be ” circumventing” if they “jailbreak” or unlock their smartphones, remix short portions of motion pictures on DVD (if they are college and university professors or media students, documentary filmmakers, or non-commercial video-makers), research the security of videogames, get balky obsolete dongled programs to work, or make an ebook read-aloud. (I wrote about the hearings more than a year ago, when the movie studios demoed camcording a movie — that didn’t work to stop the exemption. ... Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:25:00 +0100 863531 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/30/week-in-review-mobile-library-site-and-info-resource/ + Two Articles on the Combination of the Mobile Web and Social Networking (7/25) + Mobile Web: Florida Center for Library Automation Testing Mobile Interface (7/26) + New Mobile Web Site from Binghamton University Libraries (7/26) + Mobile Web: New iPhone/Android Interface for Public Libraries Singapore “Library in Your Pocket” Mobile Site (7/27) + MapQuest Adds A Bunch of New Features; MapQuest4Mobile Also Updated (7/27) + Mobile Web Site: Boise Public Library (7/27) + Mobile Web: Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) Releases Free iPhone/Pad/Touch App (7/28) + New Mobile Website from the GAO: Government Accountability on the Go (7/28) Very Impressive! Kudos to the GAO Team that Developed It! + My Digital Library: Leveraging Today’s Mobile and Participatory Information Ecosystem (7/29) + “Opportunities for Mobile Enhanced Library Services and Collections” (7/29) + New (Beta) Mobile Web Site From the Ithaca College Library (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:48:50 +0100 863432 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/lIRZMYAjMVw/ I am sure you would all agree with me that both TED Talk and TEDx videos are just terrific means of being wowed over and over again on multiple different topics. One could eventually spend the whole day long watching them one after the other and never get tired of them! The thing is that, every so often, one gets to bump into one of those special TED(x) videos that leaves a really good taste behind; that inspires you tremendously and that surely marks a before and an after you watch it. Well, I have just had one of those moments: Reinventing Social Media by David Armano. Yes, that’s right! David Armano, Senior Vice President for Edelman Digital and whose birthday was just a few hours back (Happy birthday again, David!), spent a little bit over 16 minutes sharing a good number of rather compelling and very touching stories that highlight quite nicely the huge impact of social media beyond the technology focus and the marketing hype, trying to establish the main basic guidelines of what he feels is going to define social media in the not so distant future. To get things started, he makes a great point that media is *not* social; people are. And, as such, we should stop that infatuation we keep having with everything 2.0 related and move on. Move on to where we should be focusing in the first place. And I bet you know, by now, where I am heading… Yes, indeed, it’s quite refreshing, as you can imagine, to see how other folks validate your ideas, and long term beliefs, and in this case it’s rather rewarding to see how David proclaims that the next challenge for social media is to move on and give the focus of the change … to the people. Not the social tools, nor the processes, but the people themselves who have been there all along as part of the equation, but which we kept neglecting, and ignoring!, time and time again over the course of the years… Specially in the field of Knowledge Management. ... Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:26:19 +0100 863446 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/jul/30/ten-publishing-salt-press In just a decade, Chris Hamilton-Emery's expert navigation has led this small Cambridge press to the margins of the big leagueIt was Cyril Connolly who said that literary magazines should only run for 10 years. After that, he seemed to imply, they're in danger of running out of steam. So it was that Horizon folded after a decade of publishing the likes of Louis MacNeice, Dylan Thomas and Graham Greene.I mention Horizon because Salt Publishing, a small press based in Cambridge, is 10 years old this month. And if you browse their website you'll find that they've resurrected Connolly's beloved brainchild: the "Horizon Review" literary blog now nestles within the Salt site, rather like the old Horizons nestling on the magazine racks in 1940s railway stations.Does Connolly's Law apply to presses themselves? Possibly not in Salt's case. The publisher has faced tough times lately but managed to survive, and I think this is cause for celebration.Founded by Chris Hamilton-Emery, John Kinsella and Clive Newman – who left the partnership in 2002 – Salt publishes poetry, short-story collections, literary criticism and how-to books such as Short Circuit: A Guide to the Art of the Short Story. It's also expanding into children's books, and longer fiction including crime and romance.If this doesn't sound like a small press to you, you may well have a point. Salt is that curious phenomenon: a local publishing house – it's still based in offices in the Cambridge fens – that truly thinks global, with branches in Australia and the US as well as the UK. Hamilton-Emery is largely to thank for this reach; the man has ink in his veins. Before Salt, he was press production director of Cambridge University Press and responsible for around 2,500 titles a year. While there, he embraced many of the new technologies now prevalent in publishing, and it's this techno-savvy approach that's so noticeable about Salt's rise. ... Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:45:01 +0100 863349 http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2010/jul/30/singapore-british-author-alan-shadrake The trial of Alan Shadrake for criticising the death penalty has damaged Singapore's standingSingapore's long-serving administration has won some time to ponder how it will deal with yet another self-inflicted blow to its global branding.The reprieve came as a Singapore court today postponed a case against the British author Alan Shadrake for three weeks.Shadrake, 75, faces contempt of court charges, after Singapore's Media Development Authority lodged a police report on 16 July against his book Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice in the Dock, which criticises the application of the death penalty. Published in neighbouring Malaysia, the book has sparked a criminal defamation investigation against the author in Singapore.Shadrake rejected an offer of mitigation in exchange for an apology at today's contempt of court hearing and said he would fight on. This means more reputation damage is in store for the People's Action Party administration in the weeks ahead.Local groups and international human rights NGOs such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Reporters without Borders have criticised the decision to prosecute the author.News agencies, websites, blogs and social network sites are carrying news about the case around the globe and putting a sharp focus on censorship in Singapore.The Shadrake affair comes as a Malaysian, Yong Vui Kong, faces execution next month for a drug-related offence committed when he was 19. The Malaysian foreign ministry, under pressure from the public, has written to the Singapore government to plead clemency for Yong, now 22.Meanwhile, the British embassy in Singapore has chosen to play the Shadrake affair low key, opting to give the author quiet support without issuing public statements.The timing of the two incidents has regalvanised a small group of activists and bloggers. ... Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:14:25 +0100 863352 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/xa660VH-xdY/ TechCrunch has a piece looking at the new low-cost tablet and e-reader devices planned by Copia (as well as a Copia iPad app). We’ve covered Copia before; the readers’ “gimmick” is supposed to be a unique social-networking component to the devices, allowing readers to exchange reviews and recommendations about books. They recently announced new pricing on their devices. Another TechCrunch writer uses the opportunity to suggest that we are seeing a repeat of the pricing race to the bottom that happened with netbooks: everyone is coming out with cheap devices, and most of them will be junk. John Biggs writes: I don’t think ereaders can survive the race to the bottom. They serve a far too specific purpose to last very long and, unlike netbooks, there are no virulent pro-junk ereader owners out there. At best they’re indifferent and at worst they’re disappointed by the ebook selections available to them. Meanwhile, Read Write Web reports that Sony isn’t necessarily going to continue to trade shots with Amazon and Barnes and Noble (and, for that matter, Borders with the Kobo) as they participate in an e-book reader price war. "Pricing is one consideration in the dedicated reading device marketplace, but Sony won’t sacrifice the quality and design we’re bringing book lovers to lay claim to the cheapest eReader," said Phil Lubell, VP of Digital Reading at Sony Electronics. It’s easy to see the low prices for tablets and similar devices as heralding the arrival of a load of cheap junk (see the pieces on the Augen “smartbook” and tablet that Kmart is ostensibly carrying). But on the other hand, there was a similar wave of “cheap” e-book readers back when the Kindle and Nook were priced higher, occupying the price range that the Kindle and Nook devices are in now (though most of them have since disappeared from view). ... Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:15:00 +0100 863410 http://www.teleread.com/2010/07/30/wave-of-lower-cost-e-readers-coming-are-they-all-junk/ TechCrunch has a piece looking at the new low-cost tablet and e-reader devices planned by Copia (as well as a Copia iPad app). We’ve covered Copia before; the readers’ “gimmick” is supposed to be a unique social-networking component to the devices, allowing readers to exchange reviews and recommendations about books. They recently announced new pricing on their devices. Another TechCrunch writer uses the opportunity to suggest that we are seeing a repeat of the pricing race to the bottom that happened with netbooks: everyone is coming out with cheap devices, and most of them will be junk. John Biggs writes: I don’t think ereaders can survive the race to the bottom. They serve a far too specific purpose to last very long and, unlike netbooks, there are no virulent pro-junk ereader owners out there. At best they’re indifferent and at worst they’re disappointed by the ebook selections available to them. Meanwhile, Read Write Web reports that Sony isn’t necessarily going to continue to trade shots with Amazon and Barnes and Noble (and, for that matter, Borders with the Kobo) as they participate in an e-book reader price war. "Pricing is one consideration in the dedicated reading device marketplace, but Sony won’t sacrifice the quality and design we’re bringing book lovers to lay claim to the cheapest eReader," said Phil Lubell, VP of Digital Reading at Sony Electronics. It’s easy to see the low prices for tablets and similar devices as heralding the arrival of a load of cheap junk (see the pieces on the Augen “smartbook” and tablet that Kmart is ostensibly carrying). But on the other hand, there was a similar wave of “cheap” e-book readers back when the Kindle and Nook were priced higher, occupying the price range that the Kindle and Nook devices are in now (though most of them have since disappeared from view). ... Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:15:00 +0100 863292 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2010/07/facebook-continuing-to-position-themselves-in-search.html On the Facebook blog there's an interesting post called Searching for Answers? which should be of some concern to Google. If you remember, Google tried Google Answers a while ago now, and was blown out of the water by Yahoo Answers, which was a much more social resource - early evidence that Google didn't (and to my mind still doesn't) fully get social media. This product will allow you to ask the 500,000,000 on Facebook a question about whatever you like, and they're introducing it slowly over time. Apparently (I've not seen it yet, since it's not reached me) you'll see your friends questions and vice versa you'll receive answers that are more personalised to you. Quite how that works out I'm not sure, because if you're asking a bunch of people it's not going to be personalised - the only personalisation is that you'll see the questions your friends ask, and what if you don't actually want that? Last thing you'll want them to see is a question like 'How can I cheat on my girlfriend?' Of course, if you just want to ask your friends a question you can already do that via status updates and lists.You'll be able to attach a photograph or a poll to the question as well. You can also tag your question to focus it a little more closely, and you'll be able to volunteer to answer questions in specific areas. This is very much along the Aardvark line of getting almost instant answers via Google chat, though the big difference is that Aardvark questions remain private, while Facebook ones are public. Once again Google has missed out on an opportunity here, which Facebook is grabbing. In a fairly short space of time Facebook will have a huge pile of data that is going to be searchable, and I suspect people will often prefer to stay on Facebook to ask their questions rather than go elsewhere. The obvious concern of course is that the answers are going to be opinions as much as anything else, so will be open to interpretation. ... Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 863390 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/davidleeking/~5/6JMJWpEwMDY/ssplayer2.swf Meta Social: Online Interactions & how to make them ROCK View more presentations from David King. Here’s my presentation from today’s Handheld Librarian III web conference. It was a fun talk, and a great conference – lots of good food for thought. Enjoy! Share: Related PostsNew Song and Video: Social Digital Global ShiftFollow the Meat Department on Twitter!#5000 Tweets: What’s that Done for Me?Why do Librarians use Facebook?Purdue Adds Twitter & Facebook Participation to Classes (Source: David Lee King) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:30:10 +0100 864020 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/HyMimhvJl3A/ Yesterday, if you would remember, I put together a short blog post where I was mentioning how apart from having one of those days of meetings galore jumping from one to the next, I was also looking forward to the great opportunity of participating live on the Blog Talk Radio podcasting show, hosted by John Moore, and along with one of my favourite Enterprise 2.0 people, Mark Masterson, as co-guest. Well, I am happy to confirm that the recording of that podcast episode is now available for replay. And, boy, did we have such a good fun with that interview or not? John asked us a few rather interesting, insightful and provocative questions on what we thought were some of the major key points behind figuring out the business value of social networking. That was just a blast! What an adrenaline rush of back and forth between Mark, John and yours truly! I had such a great time! John himself has actually put together a rather nice short blog post on that podcast under the title Social Media ROI and Hippy 2.0… It all made sense... In it he mentions how the recording lasts for about 56 minutes and it starts off at around minute 5, after he spent a little while sharing some further thoughts on the news and trends of the day / week related to social media. ... Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:45:32 +0100 863447 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/29/issue-brief-social-networks-in-health-care-communication-collaboration-and-insights/ Social Networks in Health Care: Communication, collaboration and insights Public, Internet-based social networks can enable communication, collaboration and information collection and sharing in the health care space, according to “Social Networks in Health Care: Communication, collaboration and insights,” a new Issue Brief by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. About one-third of Americans who go online to research their health currently use social networks to find fellow patients and discuss their conditions. Sixty percent of surveyed physicians and 65 percent of surveyed nurses are interested in using social networks for professional purposes. Social networking is to the current era what online access was just 20 years ago – a transformational change in how information is accessed and shared. Social networks hold considerable potential value for health care organizations because they can be used to reach stakeholders, aggregate information and leverage collaboration. + Full Document (PDF) Source: Deloitte (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:43:57 +0100 863156 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BabyBoomerLibrarian/~3/o8gCiUUJdVg/fbi-access-to-records-of-internet.html White House proposal would ease FBI access to records of Internet activity By Ellen Nakashima Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 29, 2010; A01 The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for the FBI to compel companies to turn over records of an individual's Internet activity without a court order if agents deem the information relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation. The administration wants to add just four words -- "electronic communication transactional records" -- to a list of items that the law says the FBI may demand without a judge's approval. Government lawyers say this category of information includes the addresses to which an Internet user sends e-mail; the times and dates e-mail was sent and received; and possibly a user's browser history. It does not include, the lawyers hasten to point out, the "content" of e-mail or other Internet communication. But what officials portray as a technical clarification designed to remedy a legal ambiguity strikes industry lawyers and privacy advocates as an expansion of the power the government wields through so-called national security letters. These missives, which can be issued by an FBI field office on its own authority, require the recipient to provide the requested information and to keep the request secret. They are the mechanism the government would use to obtain the electronic records. Stewart A. Baker, a former senior Bush administration Homeland Security official, said the proposed change would broaden the bureau's authority. "It'll be faster and easier to get the data," said Baker, who practices national security and surveillance law. "And for some Internet providers, it'll mean giving a lot more information to the FBI in response to an NSL. ... Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:40:00 +0100 863128 http://www.teleread.com/2010/07/29/media-keep-coming-up-ipad/ The iPad is so popular these days that everything is coming out with special interfaces for it. There was Pulse, which turns a selection of favorite RSS feeds into something similar to a magazine. Then there was Flipboard, which does the same for links posted to social networks. Now here are a couple more web media joining the party. Cooliris, a company known for its browser and iPhone photo apps, has created an app for the iPad called Discover that imports content from Wikipedia and reformats it into an iPad-magazine-style interface. Cooliris hopes eventually to bring the same reformatting technique to more content from elsewhere on the web. Meanwhile, a new WordPress plug-in called PadPressed brings iPad features such as swiping to advance articles to WordPress blogs, making them act more like iPad magazine applications. Like Cooliris, programmer Jason Baptiste has greater ambitions for his plug-in: “We did WordPress first because it’s the largest thing there is next we’re doing Tumblr, Posterous, Moveable Type, and then custom CMSs.” Whether it will kill the Kindle or not, it’s hard to argue that the iPad has not already had an indelible influence on user interfaces—just like other Apple products that came before it. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:15:00 +0100 863299 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/mSBPu3Szcpw/ The iPad is so popular these days that everything is coming out with special interfaces for it. There was Pulse, which turns a selection of favorite RSS feeds into something similar to a magazine. Then there was Flipboard, which does the same for links posted to social networks. Now here are a couple more web media joining the party. Cooliris, a company known for its browser and iPhone photo apps, has created an app for the iPad called Discover that imports content from Wikipedia and reformats it into an iPad-magazine-style interface. Cooliris hopes eventually to bring the same reformatting technique to more content from elsewhere on the web. Meanwhile, a new WordPress plug-in called PadPressed brings iPad features such as swiping to advance articles to WordPress blogs, making them act more like iPad magazine applications. Like Cooliris, programmer Jason Baptiste has greater ambitions for his plug-in: “We did WordPress first because it’s the largest thing there is next we’re doing Tumblr, Posterous, Moveable Type, and then custom CMSs.” Whether it will kill the Kindle or not, it’s hard to argue that the iPad has not already had an indelible influence on user interfaces—just like other Apple products that came before it. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:15:00 +0100 863129 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/28/august-2010-issue-of-first-monday-now-available-articles-on-facebook-privacy-scholarly-blogging-open-textbooks-librariesweb-content-management-systems-and-more/ The August 2010 (15.8) issue is now available here. Included are the Following Articles: + Facebook privacy settings: Who cares? by danah boyd, Eszter Hargittai + I am a blogging researcher: Motivations for blogging in a scholarly context by Sara Kjellberg + A sustainable future for open textbooks? The Flat World Knowledge story by John L. Hilton III, David A. Wiley + Library perspectives on Web content management systems by Camilla Fulton + Interest-oriented versus relationship-oriented social network sites in China by Weiyu Zhang, Rong Wang + Government and e-participation programs: A study of the challenges faced by institutional projects by Francisco Paulo Jamil Almeida Marques You’ll also find an op-ed (Privacy as a luxury commodity by Zizi Papacharissi) and a book review (Scott Rosenberg’s “Say everything: How blogging began, what it’s becoming, and why it matters by Douglas Kocher) Source: First Monday (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:30:54 +0100 863010 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/JlqKvnUe3LE/ With meetings and activities galore happening at work right as we speak, and with the usual catchup of the daily routines in multiple social spaces, I think that today is going to be one of those days where blogging will be rather light, as opposed to keep sharing some additional insights on that topic that keeps coming up over and over again on Social Computing and business processes. So, you will have to excuse me for a minute till I get back into my usual swing of things. Or, alternatively, you could go ahead and join my good friend Mark Masterson and yours truly, later on today, at 3pm EDT – 8pm UK – 9pm CEDT, at the Blog Talk Radio show, with John Moore as our host, talking about the "Business Value of Social Media". Yes, that’s right, later on today, in just a bit over an hour, both Mark and myself will be spending a few minutes with John talking about the business value of Social Software. I know, indeed, one of my favourite topics from all along: the good old ROI of Social Networking. Now, if you have been reading this blog for a while … you will know more or less what we will be talking about, but, in case you may not have, here is the link to the details of the show itself. As you may have noticed already, Blog Talk Radio is one of those shows where folks can participate live and as such you would be able to join us as well by dialling in using this call-in number: (347) 324-3248. We would very much like to have you on today’s show and participate with us in, I am sure, what promises to be some pretty interesting and exciting conversations around business value of social computing, and, perhaps, even a bit of the little movement a bunch of us got started with a few days back: Hippies 2.0. ... Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:33:28 +0100 863448 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryCloud/~3/0eD7JZGPaRk/ala-2010-emerging-technolgies-lita.html With a nod to the old saw "time flies," I am a bit chagrined that I did not post information, thoughts, theories, and possible personal blathering, regarding sessions I attended at ALA Annual last month. The time lag is no reflection on the quality of presentations, but homage to how quickly library day in the life things take precedence; even during lunchtime blogging. LibGuides, blogs, chat, and the library and IRC web sites translate to spending an increasing amount of time with technology in the library. Using a new or emerging technology simply for the sake of using a new or emerging technology does not interest me; successfully incorporating it into the fabric of the library does, hence the LITA session focusing upon emerging technologies and the new role of emerging technology librarians caught my interest.To say the room was full would be a drastic understatement. I arrived early and was lucky to find a seat (belated apologies to the kind people I had to maneuver around). Though somewhat concerned by the sheer number of librarians involved in the panel presentation, I congratulate session moderator Bohyun Kim, who ruthlessly followed the timetable set providing opportunity for each panelist to be heard and still have time for questions and brief audience participation.What is Your Library Doing about Emerging Technologies?My interest was immediately caught during the discussion of context and emerging technology. What is an emerging technology to a librarian may not be to the user, or even another librarian. Blogging, Twitter, Facebook, Chat, texting, and other social networking resources are no longer emergent, they are generally accepted and often expected. It could be argued some of these things are now thought of as passé by our users (only old people use email) and consideration should be given regarding our need to be in these communities. ... Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:21:00 +0100 864099 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/28/new-from-wolframalpha-widgets-meet-the-widget-directory-the-widget-builder/ A new way to provide access to the superb data W|A offers users. From a Blog Post: The beta version of Wolfram|Alpha Widgets is here! What are Wolfram|Alpha Widgets? They’re free, Wolfram|Alpha-powered mini apps that are easy to make, customize, and share on your blog, website, and social networks. And they’re the next step toward our goal of making the vast knowledge and computational power of Wolfram|Alpha available to everyone, everywhere. (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:45:49 +0100 862866 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TameTheWeb/~3/LsY4Y1gfRA8/ I was recently interviewed for an email blast for ILI2010. Hope to see you in London in October! Here’s the text: Internet Librarian International continues to provide pertinent resources and support for today’s information environments. With the shifting emphasis on information provision; constantly-evolving methods for delivering it; increased demands from users; and tighter than ever budgets, we asked Advisory Board member, Michael Stephens, for his views on the future for library technologies and more … Read the full Internet Librarian International programme here. I would have to say the advent of participatory technologies has been the single most important technology development for librarians in the last 5 years. Call it the social Web, social networking, 2.0, mobile technology, whatever, but the importance is four-fold: – The tools/technologies have allowed people to interact in ways online that go beyond simple one way publishing. – It’s created a sense of community for many people. Look at all the various communities we can participate in online just in our profession. – These technologies allowed for the creation of Learning 2.0 from Helene Blowers and the people at Charlotte Mecklenberg Library. My current research focus is on the impact and benefits of “23 Things” and what happens in libraries after the completion of the program. – I see this as the advent of DIY Culture with technology. Open source solutions have put high end development of content and community sites in the hands of everyone Amplify these with what location-aware services are enabling for people and physical spaces and you have a powerful connector. I am fascinated by the power there is in adding data and knowledge to geographic spaces, turning a community into a large collaboration space. ... Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:24:01 +0100 862852 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/27/researchers-categorize-social-media-searches-by-lee-giles-luke-zhang-and-others-at-penn-st-university/ From an Announcement: Information Sciences and Technology faculty members Lee Giles and Luke Zhang and their students recently introduced SNDocRank, a framework to incorporate social networks into multimedia search rankings. “With the assumption that ‘birds of a feather flock together,’ the SNDocRank framework ranks the videos based on the similarity of the owners of videos in social networks,” Giles said. “Users tend to be friends if they have common interests, and they are more interested in their friends’ information than that of others they don’t know.” For example, if a user wants to find a video about a friend whose name happens to be the same as a celebrity, it is likely that the search results returned will focus on the celebrity. However, if the videos are searched within the user’s social networks, the friend’s information — not the celebrity’s — will most likely rank higher in search results Giles and Zhang discovered that their method of ranking was comparable to PageRank (used by Google) but different in that the results produced were more likely to satisfy a searcher. They also suggest their results can depend upon your location within a social network. “With social network ranking, where you are in the social network matters and your results from a search reflect that,” Giles said. This means that rankings are loosely based on how many friends you have, what groups you join, and what subscriptions you have. The paper “SNDocRank” A Social Network-Based Video Search Ranking Framework,” was presented at the 2010 ACM SIGMM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, held March 29-31 in Philadelphia. The Abstract and Full Text of the Paper is Available via the ACM ePortal. Note: If you’ve been reading/reviewing/scanning ResourceShelf for some time you know we’re big time admirers of the work of Lee Giles at Penn St. University. ... Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:31:23 +0100 862732 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/8gdBQjrZ6yk/ So, what happens when two of my favourite people, the always fun, insightful and thought-provoking Ulrike Reinhard and the wicked-smart Lee Bryant (Along with both Dominik and Simon Wind), get together in front of a camera in a lovely place and start talking for a bit over 30 minutes around the topic of Enterprise 2.0 and Social Computing? Yes, I know! Only good things would come up from that conversation, right? Well, indeed, in this case, a rather nicely balanced one! Have you watched through Enterprise 2.0: Practical and Traditional? If you haven’t, you should! Today! I have finally had a chance to go through it myself earlier on this morning and was enjoying it so much that I couldn’t stop taking down, rather furiously, a good number of notes and annotations that I thought would be worth while sharing over here, specially at this point in time, when we seem to have been having lots of great conversations on the topic of Social Networking for Business. I don’t think I would be sharing them as bullets or something, but more perhaps along the lines of highlights, i.e. what really interesting things you are bound to find on that video interview, in case you may not have a chance to view it just yet. Thus here we go: The Social Enterprise – Nothing New Invented Here!: Yes, indeed, that’s actually one of the main key points from Lee’s interview; essentially how, for centuries, we have been operating AND working through social (and informal) networks till IT departments kicked in a few decades ago and decided to control the masses using factory models, which obviously, as we can see today, haven’t worked out really that well, after all. Lee makes a really good point in here trying to re-surface how we used to conduct business in the past and detailing how in today’s 2.0 world we are not really inventing anything. ... Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:36:57 +0100 863449