Posts in the category: social media

Information services and social media

January 26, 2012 conferences / social media — 2 comments
IT services and social media

As part of a session at the UCISA event ‘Using Social Media to Communicate’ I facilitated a task designed to explore attitudes to the use of social media by information services. Participants were asked to write comments about what information services should/shouldn’t do with social media and position them along a line of preference. The opinions expressed are presented here in the hope that they might be of use to services (re)considering their use of social media.

Clay Shirky on the power of social media

June 16, 2009 presentation / social media — No comments
Clay Shirky on TED

Interesting TED talk from Clay Shirky on how media has changed to social media and the impact of that on citizens, institutions and government.

Podcast: Introduction to Podcasting

March 26, 2009 HowTo / JISC / podcasting / social media / Training — No comments
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An interview recorded for JISC RSC-Eastern giving a brief introduction to podcasting and how the training offered by Netskills can help you do it right. It’s always painful to listen to yourself, but I hope it’s less painful for you!

Survival of the Twittist

February 11, 2009 social media — No comments
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Charles Darwin has always been a hero of mine (I was a science geek before I became a tech geek), so it seems fitting to post something relevant to his work on the great man’s 200th birthday. In The Origin of Species, Darwin defined the characteristics of the environment that enable natural selection to drive evolution. With a little imagination, we can find similar processes at work in social systems like Twitter.

Twitter badge without @replies

January 13, 2009 HowTo / social media — 32 comments
twitter badge yahoo pipe

I was looking for a way to display my tweets elsewhere on the web – such as on the sidebar of this blog. However, I wasn’t happy with the standard Twitter badge, which mixes tweets on ‘What I’m doing’ with ‘@replies’ intended for individuals. Don’t get me wrong, I value @replies, I just didn’t want them on my badge. If you don’t either, here’s how to filter them out using an RSS feed and Yahoo Pipes.

For Pod’s Sake: making better podcasts

December 02, 2008 HowTo / podcasting / social media — 2 comments

I recently developed a podcasting workshop for Netskills that’s turned out to be one of our most popular events and certainly my favourite to run (thanks for the funding Lawrie!). So, based on what I learnt from putting this workshop together, here are a few tips for anyone thinking of producing a podcast. Understand the [...]

Being less del.icio.us with Diigo

May 19, 2008 social media — 1 comment
diigo

I recently moved from one social bookmarking service (delicious) to another (Diigo) and was pleasantly surprised how painless and worthwhile an exercise this was. So here’s some notes on why and how you might want to move too… Delicious has been around a while now, which means it’s well known and has lots of users. [...]