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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.
Rebecca Jones posted this in Web & Social Media on August 27th, 2010 Visualization works. The Infographic of the Day shows the 288.945 most popular sites on the web (don’t ask me why they chose that number). Nmap created this (it’s all explained on their site) and what’s really cool is that it’s interactive — so “click” & keep exploring. Hm….imagine…..the library’s web “space” (not site – but space) that uses this type of visual tool for people to keep exploring. Imagine.
Rebecca Jones posted this in Leadership on February 12th, 2010 I bought a new TV for the kitchen last night. Yes, I did. The “big screen” may be in the family room, but the truth is that we are often all parked with our laptops & homework/work at the kitchen island watching the 13″ little bubble. Well, the Olympics starts tonight – right in our own country, and I don’t plan on missing much of it. And, I want my kids to see the Olympians — the athletes & the coaches & the families — and to hear their incredible stories and maybe, just maybe, pick up something from these stories.
We all have much to learn from the Olympians; talk about having vision. Talk about picturing that ideal state & working towards it! Talk about perseverance, and building relationships to make things happen.
When “Six Things We can Learn from Olympians” landed in my Blogger, I was hi-5ing my computer (being careful not to hurt the screen, of course). Here’s their 6 things with my musings:
1. Set a goal and break it down into tasks with timelines. Not a revolutionary idea, but, wow, libraries & businesses somehow get freaked by the big goal & forget that it’s just a bunch of little goals building on each other over time.
2. Cross-train. You use many skills along the way, and you need many different skills to accomplish tasks. Cross-train yourself & others.
3. Workout with Others. You can’t do it alone. Unhuh. Work with & partner with others — others
Continue reading The Olympics!! Watch, enjoy & learn – yep, learn
Rebecca Jones posted this in Change & Innovation on August 28th, 2009 Earlier this week Karen Huffman, (an incredible thinker, and even more importantly “doer” with National Geographic), mused on her Facebook status whether it was ok to “re-write dreams based on life changes.” Oh yeah. It’s not only ok, it’s necessary. I empathize with Karen’s wonderings, as do many of us. Our dream for our life at 40 sure isn’t the dream we had at 21 – nor should it be. As we move closer to anything — either physically or metaphorically — the details become clearer to us — we can see more pieces of the dream and perhaps the environment or terrain surrounding the dream have changed. That environment or terrain is life’s realities. As those realities change, we may adjust our dream. I say “may” because sometimes the dream is broad enough, that it is the details that change rather than the essence of the dream. Sometimes you just develop a whole new dream. Either of those scenarios is ok – and is quite understandable.
It’s the same with organizations. It’s ok for an organization to “re-focus” or adjust the lens on their vision of where they were headed. Maybe the environment has shifted and that destination ain’t what they thought it was going to be. C’est la vie. What’s important is that they keep looking forward, they keep scanning the horizon and sending scouts out to explore what’s ahead. In otherwords, when the realities for organizations are shifting, they tend to hunker down and focus on operations
Continue reading Dreams & visions are meant to change – honest
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 Blog Posts on April 20th, 2009 Thanks to Steve Barth for pointing out this definitely, as he says on Twitter/FB, “way cool” Periodic Table of Visualization methods. I love the way you can hover over one element and get a look at each method more closely!
Jane Dysart posted this in Conferences on April 2nd, 2009 The other day Rebecca got excited about cloud computing as you can see form the previous post. Today got excited about mining conversations and showingvisually. See the interesting ways the Computers in Libraries conference are visualized.
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