UF Social Media Scholars

"In this video he gives a demonstration of how information (often from the web) can be over layed on top of physical locations." ... as if people didn't spend enough time completely immersed in their cellphones.

"The Complete Guide to Google Wave is a comprehensive user manual by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash. Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product that's evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows and changes."

Discussion of info overload from RWW with some solutions re: patterns and routines offered in comments.

"Over the summer, the On-line and Electronic Subcommitee of the Strategic Communication Committee considered official Facebook use. Out of that review, Web Administration worked with UF's General Counsel to craft a policy that accommodates the new opportunities available with the need to maintain a professional presentation and message."

How it works, what it means, impacts on the future of the Facebook news feed / live feed split. From RWW.

Some very debatable assumptions about how we use technology and social media in particular in this piece; a good read nonetheless. "Five years from now, will Internet historians signpost the Facebook movie, due out in 2010, as the beginning of the site's end?"

The largest online database of social media policies from companies, governments, non-profits.

NYU professor and Internet thinker Clay Shirky gave a talk Tuesday at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, our friends just on the other side of Harvard Square. His subject was the future of accountability journalism in a world of declining newspapers.

A different version of Shirky's talks on topics in "Here Comes Everbody"

Interactive fiction using social media (among other things) to tell the story.

Scholars, advertisers and political activists see massive online social networks as a representation of social interactions that can be used to study the propagation of ideas, social bond dynamics and viral marketing, among others. But the linked structures of social networks do not reveal actual interactions among people. Scarcity of attention and the daily rhythms of life and work makes people default to interacting with those few that matter and that reciprocate their attention. A study of social interactions within Twitter reveals that the driver of usage is a sparse and hidden network of connections underlying the "declared" set of friends and followers.

Web Site Story CollegeHumor's first Broadway musical since (LOL)Cats.

"Someone recently asked me, 'If McCluhan is right and the medium is the message, what is the message of Twitter?" My response: "Here It Is and Here I Am.'"

Tips for effective use of LinkedIn.

Nice article on the right way to create community and integrate social marketing into a web site.

tinythread.com = simple individualized comment application

Opinion piece on the use of Facebook by faculty. Discusses concerns of privacy and granularity in use of FB by teachers. A bit naive in my opinion but does discuss the issues.

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"To those who Twitter, the reporter who investigates a story before offering it to the public must also seem tediously ruminant. On Twitter, the notes become the story, devoid of even five minutes of reflection on the writer's way to the computer. I can see that there are times -an airplane landing in the Hudson, a presidential election in Iran-when this type of impromptu journalism becomes a necessity, and an exciting one at that. Luckily, reporters still exist to make sense of information bytes and expand upon them for readers-but for how much longer?"

Interesting discussion of the differences between Facebook and Twitter, especially among 18-24 group.