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Rebecca Jones posted this in Web & Social Media on June 18th, 2011 Thanks to Scott Brown (@scbrown5) for pointing us to Tweet Topic Explorer, a tool that sizes & clusters tweeted topics. As you can see in the screen capture below, Tweet Topic visually maps & clusters the topics & then colour-coordinates the topics to the tweets that keep updating on the right side. COOL. Very COOL. I first “explored” Infodocket to see if it would help me quickly scan all those tweets & links I’m supposed to be keeping up with. Voila!
Then I explored #sla2011 (below) – just the cluster.
Thanks to Jeff Clark of Neoformix: Discovering & Illustrating Designs in Data, for using Processing to create a word cluster diagram to quickly & easily view the topics & re-tweets of a specific tweeter or hashtag. Jeff did this to determine who – and what – he wants to follow; his Tweet Topics shows “the most frequently used words in their tweets and how they are grouped together.” Brilliant. Thank you.
Oh, and since many librarians and information professionals use way too much text & not enough images, explore Neoformix &/or follow @jeffclark for a while; his ideas & advice are amazing.
Social networks are our front porches today.
The next time a friend or colleague who doesn’t enjoy social networks says to you “I don’t have time for Facebook,” or “I TALK to my friends” (usually delivered in a somewhat condescending tone) just casually invite them tovisit with you on your front porch. They may well respond with a “huh?”, and that’s ok, bcuz it’s your opening to depict a social network tool as a front porch — a place to talk with friends, families, those in your community, or just to read and relax.
I hadn’t thought of this porch analogy before for social networks, but it is perfect (our buddyStephen Abram probably used this metaphor long ago – he’s great with metaphors!). Facebook, Twitter and Skype reunite me with family I haven’t physically seen in years, and keep me in contact with friends, colleagues and new contacts all over the world conversing and sharing social and professional links and info. Working “virtually” as we have for 17 years, Jane and I often don’t leave our home offices all day, but we’re certainly never alone with instant messaging and networking tools. Our “neighbourhood or community” is huge, and people pass by or stop to discuss an issue or set up a meeting all day long – and often through the night when projects are due!
The Chair Academy’s Leadership Tips & Tools refers to Clifton Taulbert’s Eight Habits of the Heart in which porches are prominently featured as places for gathering, developing relationships, stories and
Continue reading Your Front Porch: Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, etc.
Jane Dysart posted this in Conferences on March 4th, 2010 It’s so exciting how Information Today is using its content management system to build a community for their conference events that I’m using Google’s doodle to celebrate with some fiddling! Yes today is the 332nd birthday of Antonio Vivaldi, an Italian composer. But I digress, something unusual for me, right?
Continue reading Computers in Libraries goes Social!
Jane Dysart posted this in Web & Social Media on February 19th, 2010 Google Doodle for Olympic Curling
I just love what social media is adding to the 2010 Olympics! From the thousands of tweets from the #Olympics Twitter feed, to YouTube videos, to Facebook, social media is definitely enriching my experience of the Vancouver Winter Olympics. Amazing.
My favorite tweets so far are from the people calling curling “ice shuffleboard” but the number of tweets supporting the athletes is truly incredible. On Facebook, I became a fan of Vancouver 2010 Olympics and last night right after the Canada/Swiss hockey game, they posted asking who had seen the game. Within 4 minutes I and three hundred others had responded that we liked it! Every time I refreshed my screen it went up by 50+ people and within 24 minutes over 1500 “liked” the post and a third had made comments. After 10 hours, over 3,500 “liked” the post and 1,150+ had made comments about the post. YouTube has a rich base of videos about the Olympics but several of my favorites include commercials about future young athletes and Canada’s first gold medal on home soil, but I also love Shaun White’s gold medal big air performance with amazing spins, flips and twists (all together!).
So social media is definitely engaging and bringing the world together over wonderful global events. Yeah!
Rebecca Jones posted this in Web & Social Media on October 14th, 2009 Helene Blowers posted a wonderful note today about a social media strategy framework. Being a strategy junkie, I agree with Helene that Ross Dawson’s framework is excellent as it leads an organization from its priorities through governance (ye gads! someone actually considers governance early in a strategy!!) through to “listening” while engaging (there’s a concept — listening — to honestly hear what people are saying, or not saying…).
It also prompts me to explore the notion that many libraries are still rather ‘iffy’ about social media, particularly Facebook & Twitter, because they perceive these to be “social media” and somehow that just doesn’t “fit” for them — somehow “social media” makes them uncomfortable. Stephen Abram & Helene are absolutely correct — libraries, particularly CEO’s or Directors, have to engage themselves in these media before developing their strategy. But to engage means they have to first accept. And some are lightyears from accepting. A few weeks ago when I was working with a group on integrating social media into their processes and services, a senior librarian negatively retorted to me that these “things aren’t all good — there’s a real dark side to them.” At which point I responded, “yep, there’s a dark side to cars when people hit and kill innocent people, too, yet you drive a car. So what’s your point?”
And then it hit me (the point, not the car), that libraries have to see Facebook & Twitter & other social media not as “social media” (discomfort), but
Continue reading Putting social media in acceptable terms for libraries
Rebecca Jones posted this in Learning on August 31st, 2009 If you are doing anything in the learning arena (either formal or informal learning – just helping people “get it” in terms of doing something or knowing something), be sure to follow Jane Hart’s E-learning Pick of the Day, and link to her other sites and blogs as well, including her homebase, Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies, and Social Media in Learning. Her August update of “Top Tools for Learning 2009″ lists the top 10: Twitter, Delicious, Google Reader, Google Docs, Slideshare, WordPress, YouTube, Skype, Google Search and Audacity. Fast up & coming, Hart says, is prezi – which we hope to try out in the next few weeks. We’ll let you know how it goes. Have any of you tried prezi yet? I’ve been experimenting a bit with it….embarrassing as it is, I get a bit whoozi with the screen moving around so much – but the possibilities are fantastic – and I’m sure this old powerpoint dog can learn some new tricks!
Jane Dysart posted this in Conferences on June 5th, 2009 I totally disagree with this statement (see below for the full context) — “The word ‘conference’ is synonymous with bad food, hard chairs and boring speakers. At least it is for many of us.” But then, maybe I’m spoiled by the organizations I work with as a conference planner (Information Today is a great conference producer), or some of the conferences I attend (FastForward ’09), or maybe I just make my own interesting experiences by networking with speakers and colleagues, choosing good restaurants to frequent with stimulating people who share their insights and ideas, and finding nuggets from most speakers. Speakers always seem to spark thoughts and ideas in my mind; colleagues never fail to intrigue me with their experiences and practices. Yes, I’m curious.
That said, here are some links to a program on the future of conferences at SxSW which discusses issues relating to use of blogging and twittering at conferences. Both of these technologies are heavily used by conferences I attend, many having top trending tweets!
The future of conferences
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The word ‘conference’ is synonymous with bad food, hard chairs and boring speakers. At least it is for many of us. But it doesn’t have to be that way and, in fact, it’s already changing. We speak with three conferencing professionals about conferences past and future and the way the industry is adapting to meet changing consumer expectations.
Continue reading Confessions of a Conference Junky
Jane Dysart posted this in Conferences on June 1st, 2009 Wish I had been at the first Twitter conference “focused on Twitter as a business platform: how to use Twitter to reach and engage customers, influence opinions and activate markets.” Great speakers, a number of whom I am already following, and including the fellow who created the Twitterverse pic in my last post. Live tweeting, which is still going on while people are commenting on the post-conference buzz in blogs — I really liked this post by Frederic Paul which included the author’s 5 tips from the sold-out one day conference along with his stream of tweets in chrono order.
Jane Dysart posted this in Tech & Tools on May 27th, 2009 Twitterverse by Jess3 & Brian Solis
Love this picture. Certainly puts in perspective the influence of technology — trends and analysis, marketing/advertising, search, relationship management, contextual network analysis, communication management, mobile applications, event managaement, and more. Great visualization. Thanks.
Jane Dysart posted this in Uncategorized on March 23rd, 2009 As I read this article, Web 2.0 Tools can Foster Growth in Tough Times, about retailer Zappos.com use of Twitter, it made me wonder if libraries could use Zappos.com model to engage their communities in a new way. Of course, staff would have to be able to use the technology, see the value in it, and enthusiastically embrace it as the Zappos.com staff does. Interesting. Possible?
This article, How & Why to Launch a Business Presence on Twitter, is also useful if you are thinking the Zappos.com model.
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