Pleasantly surprised that you can search Twitter and view tweets without having to create an account. Had a look at some of the #ox23 tweets - masterly efforts all of you who had a go.
Having created an account in the name of Juliet Thing I duly posted a tentative tweet and replied to a couple of the #ox23 tagged items. Also signed up as a Follower to some fellow 23thingers and for good measure a library.
Good to have dipped my toe in this particular water. Still not convinced about using this for work purposes but am noting a link below for future perusal and who knows it may make me a convert: http://business.twitter.com/twitter101/
Wednesday 31 March 2010
Explored http://learn.linkedin.com/
Looks useful.
Drew the line at signing up, at least until I can face creating yet another username and password.
Looks useful.
Drew the line at signing up, at least until I can face creating yet another username and password.
Facebook and libraries
Social networking in a non-social context. Plenty of serious studies done in this area.
One LSE study http://clt.lse.ac.uk/Projects/Case_Study_Five_report.pdf refers to an
OCLC report, ‘Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World’ which apparently concluded that social networking is ‘not for libraries’. But that was 2007, ancient history in web terms.
More recent is this article, Use of Facebook in academic health sciences libraries
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2605034/
J Med Libr Assoc. 2009 January; 97(1): 44–47.
The consensus? a useful marketing tool and could be even more so once greater numbers of libraries embrace it.
One LSE study http://clt.lse.ac.uk/Projects/Case_Study_Five_report.pdf refers to an
OCLC report, ‘Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World’ which apparently concluded that social networking is ‘not for libraries’. But that was 2007, ancient history in web terms.
More recent is this article, Use of Facebook in academic health sciences libraries
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2605034/
J Med Libr Assoc. 2009 January; 97(1): 44–47.
The consensus? a useful marketing tool and could be even more so once greater numbers of libraries embrace it.
My Delicious
Just noticed I forgot to give the link to my account as proof the deed was done:
http://delicious.com/juliet.thing
http://delicious.com/juliet.thing
Podcasts and videos
Find some podcasts we were told, so I thought I'd try out University of Oxford on iTunes U for a listen to one of the many oxford lectures which have been made freely available. Apparently it's been a worldwide hit and has just passed its 2 millionth download. What a marvellous way to share this august institution's intellectual output with the wider world.
As we don't have iTunesU installed on our pcs I'm consulting the FAQs and see an alternative channel is via http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Top of the pops there is A short romp through the history of philosophy by Marianne Talbot, which is playing on my pc via Windows Media Player on as I write. It's going in one ear and out the other so it's good to know you can rewind and replay!
YouTube I'm not a big user of but am happy to have a quick search for something sheep related. Here we have 17 seconds of Shaun the Sheep & flock doing Riverdance, which is cracking me up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8DFwb3zlDk
What an absolute marvel that all this podcast and video stuff is just, like, out there. Yet amazingly my search on YouTube for sheep library retrieves only one hit, er, "Two guys run through a college library during finals weeks dressed as a cow and sheep".
As we don't have iTunesU installed on our pcs I'm consulting the FAQs and see an alternative channel is via http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Top of the pops there is A short romp through the history of philosophy by Marianne Talbot, which is playing on my pc via Windows Media Player on as I write. It's going in one ear and out the other so it's good to know you can rewind and replay!
YouTube I'm not a big user of but am happy to have a quick search for something sheep related. Here we have 17 seconds of Shaun the Sheep & flock doing Riverdance, which is cracking me up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8DFwb3zlDk
What an absolute marvel that all this podcast and video stuff is just, like, out there. Yet amazingly my search on YouTube for sheep library retrieves only one hit, er, "Two guys run through a college library during finals weeks dressed as a cow and sheep".
Delicious
Easy to use in some ways, eg tagging and searching for tags. Unexpectedly fiddly in other respects, eg couldn't install the bookmarklets thing, had to try more than one way to add people to my network. Anyway came across some interesting sites via the ox23 tag and my new network, for future perusal at least, which is the main point of the social bookmarking exercise.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
