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Blogs are now an established part of the chattersphere/public conversation, especially in international development circles, but Duncan Green finds academic take-up lacking. Here he outlines the major arguments for taking blogging and social media seriously. It doesn't need to become another onerous time-commitment. Reading a blog should be like listening to the person talk, but with links.

Collaboration or intrusion of privacy in cyberspace?

this is the link to my flickr image of a Harry Potter Event at a local Brisbane City Council Library last year.

The latest from Pew looks at 'Public Perceptions of privacy and security in the post-Snowden era'. An interesting take on the findings appeared in the UK's The Observer recently, in a piece by John Naughton: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/16/why-internet-has-turned-us-into-hypocrites the pew research shows that while Americans are more wary of the internet and more concerned about their privacy, they still use social media in much the same way as before.

Social media technologies have a number of characteristics that may suit information access and informal knowledge management by older adults, and there is a rapid uptake of these technologies by this demographic. Based on the characteristics of social media technologies and previous findings of online knowledge management, we introduce a novel framework for achieving social media-based knowledge management suited to older adult communities. The framework involves several key aspects and requirements: public peer-to-peer sharing of information, evaluation of content amongst peers, the "push" nature of these technologies, ease-of-use through simple interfaces, affordability, platforms that are extensible to support a wide range of information types, a self-organizing information dissemination network, and a human-based peer trust network. We conducted a six-month trial of 150 participants using Facebook, Twitter and Skype to determine their perceptions and preferences in relation to using these social technologies. We found that in the majority, the views of the older adult participants were well matched to the requirements for achieving social media-based knowledge management, identified in the framework. In addition, we discuss the implications of the findings for the implementation of future social media-based knowledge management systems.

Facebook. Flickr. Google+. Pinterest. Tumblr. Twitter. Yelp. The list of social networking sites is almost endless, bringing huge potential (and some headaches) to librarians nationwide. Will libraries continue to be able to keep up with the rapid- almost instantaneous-changes in technology and social networking? The consensus is: Yes.

This is link is part of the American Library Association 2013 State of American Libraries report. This part pertains to social networking and delineates some of the current problems and potential benefits of libraries using social networking sites. One potential benefit discussed in this section of the report is that libraries, particularly public libraries, can use social media to reach out to teens. As a result of this, teens may become lifelong learners and lifelong library users.

A compilation of articles and links related to how libraries are using Facebook, Twitter, and blogs as a tool to reach out to users. | See more about public libraries, libraries and social media.

Shortly after being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013, Peter Higgs, of Higgs boson fame, said he doubted he would have gotten a job, not to mention tenure, in today's academic system. The professor emeritus at the University of Edinburgh said he simply wouldn't have been "productive" enough, with academe's premium on publication metrics.

This is good advice

Ha! I had no idea...nice one Rosemary :-)

My personal pet peeve is when Twitter users take a photo during a presentation, particularly someone's power point slide presentation that they are currently viewing. Not only is this usually a blurry capture that makes no sense to me, but they haven't asked for permission to post one of their slides as public...I was guilty of this myself a few times...I try to avoid it at all costs!

What we share in social media is often being analysed for different purposes.

This 23 page handbook limits the social media policy of the school to three lines on page 20. While this is an example of a very simple social media policy is makes very clear what is unacceptable behaviour and the consequences of said behaviour. This policy is directed at students and parents. While this policy may not seem as comprehensive as some other examples, it has the advantage of not confusing readers with terms, definitions, scope etc. that readers may ignore entirely and gives a very clear message.

Bless the Americans and their transparency, this was released publically in 2010, probably due an update but they're trying. Even in 2010 they endorsed the use of all social media but directed transparency, posters had to identify that they worked for the DoD. Interestingly there is nothing here about failure to comply. I feel like Australia based theirs on the US document. I guess I should explain. I am only casually employed in the industry (I mean very casually). And military librarian is one of my two ideal jobs, so I looked for info on that rather than the school situation I am an.

This policy illustrates the overarching framework that the University of New South Wales use to ensure that all digital media used for online teaching and learning, marketing, recruitment and publicity meet the university's guidelines when created and distributed. Of particular interests is the more formal template used for the police, as well as the visual overview of the policies, procedures and guidelines that relate to all digital media at the university.