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Isn’t #Sherlock Great! (TV & a ‘Second Screen’ For the Twitter Generation)
A Scandal in Belgravia Wasn’t last week’s episode of Sherlock (“A Scandal in Belgravia“) great! I thought so and when I looked at my Twitter stream last Sunday night it seems that many of the people I...
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Learning From Shared Twitter Links (Before Trunk.ly’s Demise)
The Forthcoming Demise of Trunk.ly On 19th February 2011 I signed up for the trunk.ly service. The email I received which confirmed my registration summarised the features of this service: Trunk.ly...
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Twitter? It’s Better Than The Most Things (According to Sturgeon)
Early this morning I came across a tweet which announced: Academic study – Most tweets are useless http://j.mp/xf85VN The tweet provided a link to an article published in MacWorld which described how:...
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Favouriting Tweets, Openness and Frictionless Sharing
Yesterday I favourited (or should I say ‘favorited’) a tweet from @lisaharris which had a link to an article on “Scholars Seek Better Ways to Track Impact Online” published in The Chronicle of Higher...
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My Trusted Social Librarian
I’ve mentioned recently how I use the Smartr app on my iPod Touch to view the content of links which have been tweeted. I have set up a number of Twitter lists, such as my JISC list, which enables me...
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Twitterers Do It In Bed!
This morning I ‘met’ @dboudreau and chatted with him about web accessibility conferences. I also came across a tweet which linked to a blog post from John Foliot about the recent CSUN 12 conference....
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The #LODLAM Session at #SXSW Demonstrates Importance of Consistency of...
What’s Happening at #SXSW? My former colleagues Adrian Stevenson (@adrianstevenson) and Julie Allinson (@julieallinson) are taking part in a panel session on “Radically Open Cultural Heritage Data on...
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Five Years of Using Twitter – Is It Becoming As Essential as Email?
After Five Years of Using Twitter, It Is Now Embedded For Me Five years ago today, acccording to TWbirthay, I created my Twitter account. And via the MyFirstTweet service I was able to rediscover what...
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Curating #KEDAI Tweets Using Storify
Digital Author Identifier Summit A Digital Author Identifier Summit, organised by Knowledge Exchange, took place in London on 12-13 March 2012. As described on the Knowledge Exchange web site:...
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How Bottlenose Can Help Turn Twitter into a High Signal Channel
Reviewing Bottlenose On Saturday I discovered the Bottlenose service and quickly realised how it can enhance my Twitter, Facebook and other channels to enable me to quickly find content of interest to...
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Serindipity? It’s Madness!
The final preparations for UKOLN’s IWMW 2012 event included booking a ceilidh band for the evening social on the opening night of the event. This had been left until just over a week before the event...
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Twitter Analysis: Can #bathopenday Learn from #IWMW12?
In the final session at UKOLN’s IWMW 2012 event which finished yesterday I suggested that the community analysis techniques which Tony Hirst and Martin Hawksey were applying to the #IWMW12 tweets might...
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“Conferences don’t end at the end anymore”: What IWMW 2012 Still Offers
IWMW 2012 Is Over: Long Live IWMW 2012! “Conferences don’t end at the end anymore” tweeted @markpower two days after IWMW 2012 delegates had left Edinburgh and returned home. This has always been the...
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Social Analytics for Institutional Twitter Accounts Provided by the 24...
Background In June 2011 a survey was published on Social Analytics for Russell Group University Twitter Accounts. The survey built on a previous survey of Institutional Use of Twitter by Russell Group...
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“Celebrating 10,000 Followers!”: Social Media is About Nodes and Connections
JISC Celebrates 10,000 Followers Yesterday a tweet from @jisc announced that their Twitter account had reached 10,000 followers: NEWS: Celebrating 10,000 followers… and our resources to help engage...
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#uklibchat, #ECRchat, #PhDchat, #Socialchat and Other Tweetchats
Background What is a Tweetchat? What Tweetchats are there to support researchers and information professionals? How widely used are they? Are they useful? These are some of the questions I’ve tried to...
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Dark Nodes and Dodgy Connections; Dealing With Fake Followers
“It’s About Nodes and Connections” In a recent post I described how Social Media is About Nodes and Connections and explained “the importance [of] the network effect, with a growth in the number of...
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Findings of a Survey on Tweetchats
Survey on Tweetchats On 21 August 2012 I published a post entitled #uklibchat, #ECRchat, #PhDchat, #Socialchat and Other Tweetchats which provided an introduction to “Tweetchats” and illustrated how...
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Which University? The One With Good News or the One Which is Open and...
I came across the news first on Twitter from the @timeshighered account: Which? launches university comparison website, featuring details of 30,000 courses and 262 HEIs: http://ow.ly/dD1vw This...
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Sharing (or Over-Sharing?) at #ILI2012
Sharing and Online Discussions at ILI 2012 On Tuesday and Wednesday I had a stimulating 2 days at ILI 2012, the Internet Librarian International conference. The 14th in the series got off to a great...
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Reflections on Event Amplification and the #SOLO12 Conference
About the #SOLO12 Conference On Monday evening I returned home, tired but feeling exhilarated after a great #SOLO12 (Spot On 2012) conference. This two-day conference, formerly known as Science Online,...
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Performance Analytics: Twitter, 20Feet and Crowdbooster
CETIS Series of Analytics Briefing Papers Adam Cooper, CETIS Director, recently published a post in which he tried to answer the question What does “Analytics” Mean? (or is it just another vacuuous...
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Using Social Media to Publish/Share Ideas/Opinions Which Have Not Been Peer...
In The Bell, Listening to Fat Man Swings Fat Man Swings at The Bell (I responded to a tweet during the break) Last night I was in The Bell in Bath listening to Fat Man Swings when I noticed someone had...
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Twitter Announces Vine. But How Could Higher Education Use 6-second long Videos?
Sharing Brief Video Clips on Twitter Yesterday Twitter announced Vine: A new way to share video. As described in a TechCrunch article “[Vine] integrates with Twitter in the same way that Instagram...
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Listening to Freshers
Just over a year ago I sent a message to the website-info-mgt JISCMail list in which I commented how I had noticed that “several unis promoted a Freshers Week Twitter tag. I came across #HelloKent,...
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Twitter Archives for the #ILI2013 Conference
The Value of Twitter Archives for Event Hashtags Yesterday I summarised the workshop on Future Technologies which Tony Hirst and myself facilitated at the ILI 2013 conference. But although the post...
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“Interesting!”– The Value of Twitter Direct Messages for Researchers
Responding to a Google Alert Earlier today I received a Google Scholar Alert informing me that Google had found new papers which cited my research publications. Of particular interest to me was the...
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Emerging Best Practices for Using Storify For Archiving Event Tweets
“Embrace open practices which you are comfortable with; share your open practices with others” In a post entitled Reflections on the #openeducationwk Blog Posts I summarised the guest posts published...
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Capturing the Conference Buzz: #LILAC14 as an Example
About the LILAC 2014 Conference Last week I attended the LILAC 2014 conference. LILAC is the Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference and this years event was held at Sheffield Hallam...
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The Launch of Twitter’s Analytics Service and Thoughts on Free Alternatives
The Launch of Twitter’s Analytics Service It was via a tweet I received last week when I first heard the news about the public launch of Twitter’s analytics service: Today, @Twitter opened its...
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Using Twitter to Meet New People on the Way to Conferences
Travelling to a Project Meeting Last week I attended a #LACEproject consortium meeting in Graz, Austria. The LACE project, which is funded by the EU, is “bringing together key European players in the...
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