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Topsy – and Who is Tweeting About You
It was via a referrer link on a post on the Open Culture blog that I came across the Topsy service (isn’t serendipity wonderful). This service describes itself as “A search engine powered by tweets“. Here’s an illustration of ...
Influence a National Service – In 140 Characters
How long might it take to influence a national service?And what approaches would you take if you wished to do this? Well let me give an example of how Twitter can be used. On Thursday 5 November 2009 Tony Hirst (@psychemedia) asked Joy Palmer a que...
Forecasting Trends Backwards
“Forecasting for the Future” was the title of an article published in the recent issues of the JANET Newsletter (No. 9, September 2009 – PDF format). It won’t surprise people that the byline for the article was positive about...
Twitter Event Hashtagging Strategies
Background In a recent post on the eFoundation’s blog Andy Powell wrote about “Flocking behaviour – why Twitter is for starlings, not buzzards“. Based on the statistics I had provided for use of Twitter at the recent ALT C 2...
Tweetboard: Adding Twitter To Web Pages
I was recently alerted to a blog post on TechCrunch entitled “Tweetboard Launches Twitter Client And URL Shortener“. The article described how this service “lets you create a Twitter-powered forum on any site“. In addition Twe...
A Lack of ‘Social’ and ‘Media’ at the Oxford Social Media Conference
The Oxford Social Media Conference The Oxford Social Media Conference, held on Friday 18 September 2009 at Said Business Centre, University of Oxford, was one of the few events I’ve attended this year in which I haven’t spoken at. And it ...
What! No Event Hashtag?
Tim Berners-Lee at the Science Museum Last Monday I attended a talk on “The Web Revealed” given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee at the Science Museum as part of the centenary celebrations for 100 years of the Science Museum. This was a last minute...
Use of Twitter at the ALTC 2009 Conference
Back After A Week Away Last week was unusual – not a single blog post published in the week. Although there were suggestions at last week’s ALT-C 2009 conference that blogging is in decline with established bloggers making greater use of ...
Hashtags for the ALT-C 2009 Conference
This Year’s ALT-C Conference I will be attending the ALT-C 2009 Conference at the University of Manchester in a couple of weeks time where I’ll be facilitating a session with Martin Weller on “Realising Dreams, Avoiding Nightmares, ...
The Back Channels for the Science Online 2009 Conference
The Science Online 2009 Conference On Saturday 22nd August 2009 I attended the Science Online 2009 Conference which was held at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, London. The conference followed on from last year’s event, which had the t...
Feral Event Data: Twitter at IWMW 2009
I have been asked to give a talk at a workshop session to be held at the Dublin Core DC-2009 conference on “Semantic Interoperability of Linked Data”. The invitation arose after my recent posts on the use of Twitter at UKOLN’s IWMW ...
How People Access This Blog – 600 Posts On
This is the 600th post since the blog was launched in November 2006. As I have done a couple of times in the past, I will use this occasion to document some statistics related to this blog. How do people access the blog site? Well as the WordPress.co...
Evidence on Use of Twitter for Live Blogging
When we encouraged use of Twitter at the IWMW 2009 event we ensured that tweets containing the event’s #iwmw2009 tag were archived using a variety of services including Backupmytweets, Twapperkeeper service, wthashtag and Tweetdoc. A page on th...
From Search Engine to Twitter Optimisation
Workshops on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) As described on the JISC Digitisation blog the Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) are running a series of free workshops entitled “Improve your online presence“. The workshop series, which will ...
Twitterers Subvert Dail Mail’s Racist Poll
On Friday I was alerted by one of the people I follow on Twitter to a poll which asked “Should the NHS allow gipsies to jump the queue?“. I responded by voting Yes, and send a tweet which said I’ve just been to the Daily Mail Web ...
“#firefoxcrashes or #firefoxisfine”
Recently the FireFox browser has been crashing on me. But because FireFox is a Good Thing TM I’ve tending to gloss over the problems (we do this for our loved ones, don’t we). But when the browser started to crash consistently when embe...
Reflections on Use of Twitter at the #CILIP-CYMRU09 Conference
Last week I gave a talk on “Virtual Space for All: The Opportunities and Challenges Provided By The Social Web 2.0” at the CILIP Wales, Welsh Libraries, Archives and Museums Conference 2009. The organisers, Mandy Powell in particular, we...
How Do New Ideas Start? How Do New Contacts Develop?
The Question How do you ideas start? How can a informal conversation lead to an exploration of new ideas? How do such conversations start? And how does one participate in such conversations, especially with new people? These were a series of question...
(TwitterFall) You’re My Wonder Wall
This year’s Museums and the Web conference (MW2009) marked the first occasion I have attended an event during which the Twitter back channel has been embraced by the conference organisers and by many conference participants and not just the usu...
Further Developments of a Risks and Opportunities Framework
I have previously described a risks and opportunities framework which I will be presenting shortly at the Museums and the Web 2009 conference. At the Archives 2.0: Shifting Dialogues between Users and Archivists conference I described a slightly upda...
Ask A Librarian? No Thanks, I’ll Ask The World!
On the same day that I came across a thread on “Ask a Librarian” on the LIS-LINK JISCMail list, Chris Sexton, Director of Corporate Information and Computing Services at the University of Sheffield, was sharing her 5 interesting things fo...
Pupils to Study Twitter and Blogs in Primary Shake-up
It was announced in the lead article in yesterday’s Guardian “Pupils to Study Twitter and Blogs in Primary Shake-up” (and note this was the main section of the paper, and not the education supplement). There have already been a numb...
What Are the #jiscbid Evaluators Thinking?
A few weeks ago Gráinne Conole, a professor of e-learning at the Open University, used Twitter to ask for suggestions on how to go about writing a bid for one of the forthcoming JISC calls. And, as I recently described, many useful suggestions we...
Twitter Can Pimp Up Your Stuff - But Should It?
I recently published a blog post entitled “Are You Able?“. Shortly after it was published I wrote a tweet which linked to the post. Although at one stage I had registered with a service which would automatically send a tweet when I publi...
“Slowly, One By One, The Stars Were Going Out”
I recently asked on Twitter “Who remembers the SciFi short story ‘Slowly, one by one, the stars were going out’?” I went on to add “It’s happening with Twitter profile pictures“. It turned out that this came ...
Twitter For JISC Bid Writers And Web Developers
Twitter and Bid Writers On Tuesday (3rd February 2009) Grainne Conole send off a Twitter post: just about to do presentation at OU on how t get JISC dosh - any tweet suggestions to throw into the pot??? use #JISCBIDS In response she received a fluffy...
#uksnow and the Mainstreaming of Twitter
In Sunday’s post about the problems with Google search in passing I commented that I have learnt of this problem from Twitter. I went on to add that: Now I could use this as an example of showing the benefits of Twitter when something significa...
14 UK Information Professionals to Follow on Twitter?
A tweet from Owen Stephens alerted me to the news that “TFPL blog has 14 info professionals to follow on Twitter Inc. @andypowe11, @paulmiller, @psychemedia, @briankelly, @karenblakeman“. And yes, a post of the TFPL lists “14 UK inf...
What Makes A Good API? Doing The Research Using Twitter
My colleague Marieke Guy is involved in work investigating best practice on “What Makes A Good API?“. The work began with a half-day workshop at the CETIS 2008 conference - we were fortunate that the topic we had been invitd to facilitate...
Ssh - Whisper It But Librarians Are Twittering!
An email message sent on 8th October 2008 to the Scotslink JISCMail list announced that “The Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) and CILIP in Scotland (CILIPS) have just introduced Twitter to their suite of Web 2.0 services“. ...
