The current study attempts to examine the contents of Library Twitter account of two libraries (academic and public) with the aim of evaluating in a comparative mode, their themes and levels of user engagement.

Education funding facts comparing Estonia and Australia

A guide for those just getting started on Twitter.

Who can think of reasons to use the 'topic' function in Diigo?

Yes, exactly. So topics can be used to have a discussion about anything that is relevant to a particular group. Social media can a very good source of time wasting indeed :-)

"I've learned something new" Music to my ears Grace!! :-)

With an online presence now paramount, many libraries, archives and museums have created, or are looking to create, a social media policy; one that will dictate an accepted level of interaction and outline how practitioners within these cultural heritage institutions use social media. But is the use of social media policy in direct defiance of the purpose of social media? And more importantly, is it practical for cultural heritage institutions to have one?

Tweet Last week I was creating a slide for a workshop aimed at academic staff and research Postgrads, entitled Twitter for Improvers. On the slide I was attempting to explain what worked with hashtags, and what didn't - for example putting in punctuation causes the hashtag to break.

by Peps Mccrea, staffrm.io The concept of a Personal Learning Network (PLN) is a familiar concept these days. Yet, the nature of Personal Learning Networks is evolving as the range of tools available to support them increases, and our rapport with those tools becomes more sophisticated.

Social Media Trends for 2015 Pullquote: "While other trends-like real-time content creation and "social" wearables--will accompany this shift, the year of social business will be exemplified by: the rise of branded communities, the fall of haphazard Facebook and Twitter strategies, and the coming of age of comprehensive social business solutions.

Some interesting stats from Pew Research

Infographic on statistics and trends

How many of these would you agree with?

Tablets iPads education

Twitter and mentoring relationships