Social media is the latest buzzword
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typically labeled social networkING sites were never really about networking for most users. They were about socializing inside of pre-existing networks.
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urban or less economically privileged backgrounds rejected the transition and opted to stay with MySpace
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the single most important factor in determining whether or not a person will adopt one of these sites is whether or not it is the place where their friends hangout.
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all fine and well if everyone can get access to the same platform, but when that's not the case, new problems emerge.
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Adults, far more than teens, are using Facebook for its intended purpose as a social utility. For example, it is a tool for communicating with the past.
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Adults are crafting them to show-off to people from the past and connect the dots between different audiences as a way of coping with the awkwardness of collapsed contexts.
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We design social media for an intended audience but aren't always prepared for network effects or the different use cases that emerge when people decide to repurpose their technology.
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The key lesson from the rise of social media for you is that a great deal of software is best built as a coordinated dance between you and the users.
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I want to discuss five properties of social media and three dynamics. These are the crux of what makes the phenomena we're seeing so different from unmediated phenomena.
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The bits-wise nature of social media means that a great deal of content produced through social media is persistent by default.
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You can copy and paste a conversation from one medium to another, adding to the persistent nature of it
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much easier to alter what's been said than to confirm that it's an accurate portrayal of the original conversation.
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Conversations that were intended for just a friend or two might spiral out of control and scale to the entire school
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Those five properties are intertwined, but their implications have to do with the ways in which they alter social dynamics.
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having to present ourselves and communicate without fully understanding the potential or actual audience
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Social media brings all of these contexts crashing into one another and it's often difficult to figure out what's appropriate, let alone what can be understood.
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As we are already starting to see, this creates all new questions about context and privacy, about our relationship to space and to the people around us.
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One of the key challenges is learning how to adapt to an environment in which these properties and dynamics play a key role. This is a systems problem.
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School library strategic plans | Brad Tyrrell - 0 views
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without a strategic plan for a department, you cannot implement new initiatives successfully, nor can you plan changes or institute changes in thinking. Without a strategic plan, movement forward will always feel forced, slow and lacks critical conversations that must take place with all members of staff in order to have team “buy in”. In the formation of the strategic plan, it is the one time that all staff have input and can “own” the direction of the department as a whole.
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As a library we are a strategic arm of the school, even if we are not mentioned directly, and if we are not mentioned directly, then that’s our fault for not doing enough to be important to the school plan.
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If you have a Library strategic plan that you wrote with your staff, but never talk to other departments about then how do you expect them to have “buy in”?
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sent it to other Libraries or your personal learning network (PLN), then how do you know what you are missing that is critical Library functions?
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no corresponding operational plan then you have not thought about how you are going to archive your goals in the strategic plan
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if you do not review the plan with all your staff and see how far you have moved, then its just a bit of paper that makes you feel better and is not an item that you have action as a team.
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ask everyone to write one goal based on the overarching goals setout in the School Strategic Plan. These are big picture statements.
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Each individual sent these through to the Head of Library who combined and sent these to everyone removing who wrote what.
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this was the main opportunity for all staff to have a chance to contribute to the strategic plan and the direction of the library for the next three years.
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As the Head of Library I undertook the role of reading each goal and combining some goals together to ensure they incorporated the essence of each team members thinking.
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From these I started to break out these goals into articulated statements that specifically looked at the library and what this meant day-to-day.
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Once completed you need to send these goals out to the team for comment and any aspects that need clarification.
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Once the fundamentals have been articulated in the goals and then corresponding support statement as Head of Library I need to present these back to the Curriculum Leadership group for comment. In addition a meeting with individual departments needs to be conducted to hear what they require from the Library going forward over the next three years.
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The plan is then reworked and specific items for each department are highlighted in a separate document.