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Evidence of Personal Usage Of Social Web Services
Gathering Evidence on Personal Use of Social Web Services A recent blog post on “My information consumption habits or how having a smartphone changed the way I work” by Aaron Tay alerted me to tools...
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Institutional Use of Twitter by Russell Group Universities
Previous Surveys of Institutional Use of Twitter Back in July 2009 Liz Azyan published a UK University Twitterleague which listed the number of followers for various official University Twitter...
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Assessing the Value of a Tweet
Earlier today Phil Bradley published a post on “The value of a tweet“. The post was about the way in which a tweet can be retweeted, especially by someone famous with lots of followers: i.e. Neil...
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Who Needs Murdoch – I’ve Got Smartr, My Own Personalised Daily Newspaper!
At about 7am this morning I noticed an interesting Facebook status update from Kerim Friedman, an anthopologist I’d met in Taiwan a few years ago. The status update came from a tweet from @Kerim: If...
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Twitter Posts Are Not Private: What are the Implications?
The article published on the BBC News Web site yesterday seemed unambiguous: “‘Twitter messages not private’ rules PCC“. This news item summarised news published by the PCC, the Press Complaints...
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Institutional Use of Twitter by the 1994 Group of UK Universities
A survey of institutional use of Twitter by Russell Group University Web sites was published on 14th January 2011. But are the approaches taken across that sector typical of the UK HE community? In...
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A Few Days Left to Download a Structured Archive of Tweets
On 21 February 2011 John O’Brien, developer of the Twapper Keeper twitter archiving service announced the “Removal of Export and Download / API Capabilities“. In a subsequent video interview John...
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Twitter Export Functionality Returns to Twapper Keeper
On 17 March Twitter updated the terms of service for use of their APIs: You may export or extract non-programmatic, GUI-driven Twitter Content as a PDF or spreadsheet by using “save as” or similar...
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Ariadne Is Getting Smartr
UKOLN’s Ariadne ejournal has been running since it was launched under the JISC’s eLib programme way back in January 1996. The ejournal continues to provide a dissemination channel for project work,...
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Twitter and the #iamspartacus Trend Revisited
Last night I noticed some discussions about the #superinjunction incident on Twitter. I also spotted renewed use of the #iamspartacus tag – the tag which was described on the What the Trend Web site by...
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Is Smartr Getting Smarter or Am I Getting Dumber?
Reviewing Smartr Back in February in a post entitled Who Needs Murdoch – I’ve Got Smartr, My Own Personalised Daily Newspaper I described the Smartr personalised Twitter-based personalised newspaper...
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Social Analytics for Russell Group University Twitter Accounts
“Students to get best-buy facts” On a day on which the main headline on the BBC News Web site announces the Government’s Competition Plan For Universities which “could bring more competition between...
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How Twitter Expertise Helps Your Writing and Dissemination
The 31st issue of #JISC Inform has just been published. The editorial describes how the issue features article which “look at how students are taking an active part in their course design and delivery...
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Don’t Go To #ThatLondon in 2012!
Just over a week ago I had a meeting in London and, due to the early start, I went the day before, which had the benefits of getting a cheap train ticket and a night’s accommodation is cheaper than the...
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What Twitter Told Us About ILI 2011
Thoughts on #ILI2011 As I said to one of the two video bloggers who recorded participants’ thoughts and comments about the Internet Librarian International (ILI) conference, ILI is probably my...
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Responding to the Forthcoming Demise of TwapperKeeper
Twapper Keeper Archive Service to be Shut Down On 8th December 2011 the following announcement was made on the Twapper Keeper Web site: Transition update Twapper Keeper’s archiving is now available in...
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Facebook and Twitter as Infrastructure for Dissemination of Research Papers...
A tweet from @Wowter (blogger, information specialist and bibliometrician at the Wageningen UR Library) alerted me to the news of the “Free new #SpringerLink mobile app: Access 2,000+ peer-rev....
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Alternatives To Twapper Keeper
On 23 December I received an email which confirmed the news about the forthcoming demise of the Twapper Keeper Twitter archiving service: First off, on January 6th 2012, the TwapperKeeper.com site, and...
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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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