Want to monitor and analyze your library’s tweets, and the tweets of other Canadian public libraries? Chcck out Social-Biblio.ca. Developed by Dr. Mary Cavanagh and Masters Student Max Neuvians of…
Tweet Topic Explorer: Cluster Says a Million Tweets
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…
Your Front Porch: Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, etc.
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…
Computers in Libraries goes Social!
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?
Social Media & the 2010 Olympics
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…
Putting social media in acceptable terms for libraries
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…
Top Ten Learning Tools on the Web – Twitter leads in August
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…
Confessions of a Conference Junky
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…
Twitter Conference
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.” …
Twitterverse
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. …