The web2practice guides explain how emergent web technologies like RSS, microblogging, podcasting and social media can enhance your working practice. Each guide consists of a short animated video explaining the key concepts (such as microblogging in the example below), supported by a more in-depth guide covering potential uses, risks and how to get started.

Twitter useage stats

ALT Workshop: Uses of Twitter in HE at Nottingham. #twalt

Tips, tools and technology for educators. Although focused on elementary education there are some useful resources.

Interesting infographic. Privacy options longer than US Constitution!

What Is An Annotation? Simply, an annotation is some extra data that can be associated with each tweet - data that followers might never see. Each annotation has three fields: a namespace, key and value - and each tweet can have several annotations. The namespace explains what the annotation describes. It could be a book, a meal, a place or pretty much anything. The key and value provide data within the context of the namespace - the author of the book, price of the meal, etc.

Facebook infographic

Caron Lyon from #SMiB10

Feeding Twiteer in to your powerpoint presentation live

it's a system for almost any metadata to be connected to any Twitter message when it's published. Inside every Tweet is now a space where you could put or find anything, including links out to further instructions or larger bodies of information. That's always been the case with the 140 characters of content - but now we're talking about systematic metadata intended for machines, to augment the content.

On journalisted you can: Subscribe to the journalisted weekly digestedit profilesearch articlessearch for journalistsalerts

The future of news: The Nieman Journalism Lab is a collaborative attempt to figure out how quality journalism can survive and thrive in the Internet age

Is social media the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? Eric Qualman from Socialnomics thinks so! This is another great visualisation of the latest social media statistics that always makes for a few minutes well spent watching! It provides a range of great stats like these… By 2010 Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers 96% of them have joined a social network 1 out of 8 couples married in the US last year have met via social media Facebook added 100 million users in 9 months If Facebook would be a country, it would be the world?s 4th largest 80% of companies are using LinkedIn as their primary tool to find employees 80% of Twitter usage is on mobile devices. People update anywhere, anytime. Imagine what that means for bad customer experiences? In 2009 Boston College stopped distributing e-mail addresses to incoming freshmen YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine in the world There are over 200.000.000 Blogs. 54% of bloggers post content or tweet daily.

Peter Salmon, Director of BBC North, on tips for those wanting a job in the Beeb

Blogs about: Next Generation Journalist Journalism

Public relations is all about reputation. It's the result of what you do, what you say, and what others say about you. It is used to gain trust and understanding between an organisation and its various publics - whether that's employees, customers, investors, the local community - or all of those stakeholder groups.

Assistant Director of SLS/ Director of Information & Systems Technology at Sheffield Hallam University

Dr Christine Sexton, Director of Corporate Information and Computing Services at the University of Sheffield