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Maggie Verster

Working the Social: Twitter and FriendFeed - 0 views

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    Information overload is so five years ago, but the problem it describes is all too real. Fortunately, there's hope yet for the savvy librarian: Twitter and FriendFeed turn information dissemination on its head, using friends and subscribers as a filter for the best, most credible, and most engaging information out there. As Clay Shirky said at the Web 2.0 Expo keynote in January, the problem isn't "information overload. It's filter failure."
Andrew Lyons

Why corporate IT should unchain our office computers. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine - 0 views

shared by Andrew Lyons on 26 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The restrictions infantilize workers—they foster resentment, reduce morale, lock people into inefficient routines, and, worst of all, they kill our incentives to work productively. In the information age, most companies' success depends entirely on the creativity and drive of their workers. IT restrictions are corrosive to that creativity—they keep everyone under the thumb of people who have no idea which tools we need to do our jobs but who are charged with deciding anyway.
    • Andrew Lyons
       
      Locking down computers has never worked to increase productivity, espacially in the information age when many of the social sites are also the more easily, quickly accessible information research access points.
  • The restrictions infantilize workers—they foster resentment, reduce morale, lock people into inefficient routines, and, worst of all, they kill our incentives to work productively. In the information age, most companies' success depends entirely on the creativity and drive of their workers. IT restrictions are corrosive to that creativity—they keep everyone under the thumb of people w
  • Here's why: The restrictions infantilize workers—they foster resentment, reduce morale, lock people into inefficient routines, and, worst of all, they kill our incentives to work productively. In the information age, most companies' success depends entirely on the creativity and drive of their workers. IT restrictions are corrosive to that creativity—they keep everyone under the thumb of people who have no idea which tools we need to do our jobs but who are charged with deciding anyway.
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  • Here's why: The restrictions infantilize workers—they foster resentment, reduce morale, lock people into inefficient routines, and, worst of all, they kill our incentives to work productively. In the information age, most companies' success depends entirely on the creativity and drive of their workers. IT restrictions are corrosive to that creativity—they keep everyone under the thumb of people who have no idea which tools we need to do our jobs but who are charged with deciding anyway.
  • Here's why: The restrictions infantilize workers—they foster resentment, reduce morale, lock people into inefficient routines, and, worst of all, they kill our incentives to work productively. In the information age, most companies' success depends entirely on the creativity and drive of their workers. IT restrictions are corrosive to that creativity—they keep everyone under the thumb of people who have no idea which tools we need to do our jobs but who are charged with deciding anyway.
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    Locking down work computers has a psychological effect on employees that reduces productivity.
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    Good article about the hazards of locking down your employee's computers and keeping them from optimising them for their own needs.
recriweb prinkipo

8 Free Tools to Visualize Information on Twitter - 12 views

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    There's a lot of noise on Twitter. People use a variety of ways to filter through that noise, from following specific lists, finding like-minded people through third party sites, or using a variety of services and websites to find the information that matters to them on Twitter. Another interesting way to filter through what is being said on Twitter, and better yet, analyse it, is to visualize it [...]
Jeff Johnson

TweetDeck - 0 views

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    TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that is currently in private beta. It aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces.
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    TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that is currently in private beta. It aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces.
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    TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that is currently in public beta. It aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces.
Kim Woodbridge

Multimap Twitter Bot User Guide - 0 views

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    The Multimap twitter bot helps you to access the same maps, directions and local information that you find on multimap.com by simply sending direct messages via twitter. You can send a message to fetch local information such as the closest ATM, tourist attraction, park, cinema, theatre or even find entries on wikipedia about what is nearby.
Phil Slade

» Power Tweet - 2 views

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    "@lincolnenergy As part of our Electro-Magnates projects we are exploring as many channels as possible to make our energy data accessible. We are currently experimenting with a social media channel - Twitter - to provide information on the University of Lincoln's energy usage. To see more information on a particular building just send a tweet to @lincolnenergy (tweet must start with @lincolnenergy) with one of the below building codes (in bold green). An incorrectly formatted tweet will default to a response for the Main Admin building."
recriweb prinkipo

Comment chercher sur Twitter ? - 0 views

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    Tout le monde connaît Twitter (sinon allez voir par ici), mais tout le monde ne sait pas comment trouver des informations pertinentes dans cette base de données gigantesque ! Souvent qualifié de l'AFP du net, Twitter est vaste et complexe (messages abrégés, vocabulaire spécifique, multi-linguisme…). Voyons comment rechercher les informations à l'aide de techniques plus ou moins évidentes
Janos Haits

Dataminr - 5 views

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    "Real-time Information Discovery and Delivery Dataminr transforms the Twitter stream into actionable alerts, identifying the most relevant information in real-time for clients in Finance, News and the Public Sector."
Baxter Tocher

Hashtags - 4 views

shared by Baxter Tocher on 27 Sep 10 - Cached
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    Hashtags.org is lah-de-dah this and that. You can find information pertaining to tags, users, trends and whatever else is available or site if you are luck
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    Information and metrics about hashtags.
recriweb prinkipo

Mumbai-Bombay, congrès du PS, Twitter... : le live, l'arme fatale du particip... - 0 views

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    [Demain tous journalistes ?] "L'objectif, ici, n'est pas de produire une information low-cost sans journalistes, mais de travailler intelligemment dans le cadre d'une info en réseau. Produire une info plus pertinente par rapport aux attentes des lecteurs: hyper réactive, moins conventionnelle dans ses choix, plus "live", plus libre, avec plus de ton, de conversation, beaucoup d'émotion. Je me souviens du live de la nuit électorale américaine, pendant le discours d'Obama, un posteur a écrit: "je suis en train de pleurer". En relisant le live le lendemain, on avait non seulement une idée de ce qui s'était passé, mais aussi de l'émotion qui a saisi la France cette nuit là… D'aucuns répondront qu'il ne s'agit que de "veille d'info". Mais sur Internet, le journalisme de liens (qui trie et donne du sens) est une vraie fonction d'info. Une fonction journalistique, qui peut être assumée par des non-journalistes (le journalisme est alors vu comme une fonction, non plus comme un métier). On peut être non journaliste et excellent lecteur et decrypteur d'info. D'ailleurs, journaliste ou pas journaliste, peu importe. C'est la force du réseau qui constitue la richesse du live "participatif" " (...)
Mike Chelen

retweetradar - Finding trends in the mountains of information 'retweet'ed on Twitter. - 0 views

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    Finding trends in the mountains of information 'retweet'ed on Twitter.
anonymous

Jeremey's Weblog: Why Twitter? - 0 views

  • Twitter is direct. I can work out lunch arrangements or a meeting about a business opportunity very quickly, with multiple people, from anywhere, as long as I have at least SMS access. This gets at the heart of what Twitter is... Twitter is another level of indirection (for you C programmers), or another layer (for you networking people), for connecting people, and that, combined with its simplicity and ease of operation, makes it very powerful. It's a big lever and a light touch is all you need
  • Finally, Twitter is a powerful tool for "grass-roots" information. All of that connectedness and genuine interaction leads to a lot of real-time information sharing, everything from restaurant criticism to traffic reports to emergencies, with real results. Real people help each other, inform each other, etc. This is what the media have picked up on and part of why they now can't speak a sentence without saying something about Twitter.
    • Iris Deters
       
      Good summary. At first I didn't get what all the fuss was about. Why would one want to read or even monitor someone's constant stream of 140 characters gibberish. I'm too busy as it is. Later I start to realize, hey, this is a much quicker way of checking out what your friends are up to, getting some instant Q&A response, or conducting research on practically anything or getting a real-time pulse of the latest buzz. Then I also realize this is so much easier than to write a blog - which one always needs to be so much more deliberate in composing a good post. Whereas Twitter, you just need to share whatever on your mind at the moment. Thus, another Twitter convert is born, and loving it!
    • Maggie Tsai
       
      You come to the right group :-)
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    One guys idea of the Why's of using Twitter.
Janos Haits

Where Does My Tweet Go? - 3 views

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    Measure the spread of tweets over the world. The speed at which Twitter spreads information is fascinating. Yet looking at your timeline it's not always easy to grasp how tweets participated to the show.
Vicki Davis

Twitter app update brings improved discover, search and notifications to iOS and Androi... - 0 views

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    The new Twitter iOS app and Android app works on the discover feature and search. Discover is supposed to show you more about what retweets you've gotten,etc. I've found it easier to see this information in hootsuite and for scheduling I use buffer. Twitter is amazing, but I rarely go to the site itself on my phone or computer. I have a feeling this is strategic for Twitter as they look to monetize. Update and check it out.
Baxter Tocher

Twhois - 6 views

shared by Baxter Tocher on 27 Dec 11 - No Cached
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    Discover more information about your Twitter followers.
Vicki Davis

Be Better at Twitter: The Definitive, Data-Driven Guide - Megan Garber - Technology - T... - 4 views

  •  "The Twitter ecosystem values learning about new content," the study notes -- so new info, it seems, is new info, regardless of who provides it.
  • And sharing your own work conveys excitement about that work -- which means that self-promotion, rather than being a Twitter turn-off, can actually be an added value.
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    Excellent article about the research from several researchers about Tweets that are compelling and those that are turn-offs. This and the original research are both great reads. I thought it funny that people particularly hate foursquare check ins mentioned through Twitter, so unlink that account or lose followers! "One piece of advice: Nix the "sandwich tweets." People do not care what you are eating for lunch. (Specifically: "Sorry, but I don't care what people are eating," "too much personal info," "He moans about this ALL THE TIME. Seriously.") Twitter, as a communications platform, has evolved beyond nascent Twttr's charmingly mundane updates ("cleaning my apartment"; "hungry") and into something more crowd-conscious and curatorial. Though Twitter won't necessarily replace traditional news, it increasingly functions as a real-time newswire, disseminating and amplifying information gathered from the world and the web.
Janos Haits

tweetsee.org/ - 2 views

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    tweetsee - the easy way to stay informed.  Please click the connect button above and login with your twitter username and password. To use tweetsee we recommend the following browsers: Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox 4.
Jerry Swiatek

BlastFollow! - 8 views

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    BlastFollow enables you to follow Twitter users who share your interests en masse. This web site is a production of Triangle Information Solutions. To use BlastFollow, simply enter a favorite hashtag (for example, "americanidol") in the box below. Then, click the "Get Users!" button. After a few seconds, you will see the number of users who tweeted with that hashtag recently. Then, you need only enter your Twitter name and password and click "Blast!" You will start following all of those users. You can usually see the progress on a user-by-user basis.
Rem Palpitt

Twitter CEO sees journalists as curators of tweets - 3 views

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    "These little bits of information" are complementary to what journalists do. Twitter is working on relevancy and heping people find what is more relevant to them, says Williams, but sees a role for journalists in helping audiences sifting the signal from the noise. He talks about journalists' role as curating the messages on Twitter, with the Huffington Post being a leader in this area. But Williams also says the company wants to build more trust and authenticity into Twitter. The company is working on reputation systems, though this is still at its nascent phase.
de Villamil Frédéric

Twitter devient une chambre d'écho géante (et ça me fait bien chier) : Ergono... - 0 views

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    Je ne sais pas trop à quoi ils jouent chez Twitter. Mais s'ils veulent transformer un service capable de transmettre des informations à une vitesse jamais atteinte et de générer des conversations d'un bout à l'autre du globe improbables en une chambre d'échos à rendre jaloux MSN, le Loft et le collectif des blogueuses maquillage, ils sont bien partis.
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