Social Networking Sites

Social Media Periodic Table

March 19, 2009

Check this out – I would seriously love to see someone with more talent than me make a just for libraryland version! See the lists of blogs & people that are included. Here are what some of the appreviations stand for you, you can see the rest at on Eye Cube Social Media Practices: (Do these to maximize your Social Media experience) Fl = Follow Ht = Hashtag Po = Post St = Status Update Sp = Spread Se = Search Hp = Hat tip Fd = Feed Rt = Retweet Ud = Update Cm = Comment Jn = Join Up = Upload Tg = Tag Tc = Tag clouds Dm = Direct Message Rx = Remix Ln = Link Mu = Mashup Sb = Subscribe Rf = Refer Sr = Stream Re = Reply Rc = Recommend Sn = Syndicate Pk = Poke Pm = Promote Ib = Imbed Blog People: (Consistently intellingent, thought-provoking & educational) Sy = Shoe Money Ar = Ad Rants Mp = Micro Persuasion Aw = Ads of the World Sj = Search Engine Journal Cf = Common Craft Cp = CopyBlogger Ba = Brand Autopsy Sd = Search Engine Land Dd = Dosh Dosh Gv = Gaping Void Ma = Mashable Bookmark on Delicious Digg this

I’m not narcisitic, you’re eavesdropping

September 23, 2008

By Bobbi Newman

I’m not narcisitic, you’re eavesdropping

In many of the articles I read about the Social Web, especially Twitter, the author laments that they don’t care that I had a peanut butter and banana sandwich for lunch, or what I thought of the latest American Idol. I’ve long felt that these writers are missing the point and this week I came across two sources that articulate this better than I could have. The first is Clay Shirky’s book Here Comes Everybody, he makes the point that with new advances in technology people mistake broadcasting media (1 to many) for communications media (1to 1). New tools allow people to use broadcasting media for communication. He gives this example – if you read a blog of someone you don’t know and see that they got wasted last night and today when shopping for clothes you think what’s the point? Who cares? Yet if you went to a food court in a mall and eavesdropped on the same conversation it would be clear that you are the weird one. We’re so used to the old web that we think if we can read it, it’s targeted towards us and with the new Social Web this just don’t hold true

Is Library 2.0 and/or Web 2.0 really serving our patrons?

August 19, 2008

By Bobbi Newman

I saw and participated in a discussion on this on one of my email lists last week. I thought I’d take more time to write out my thoughts and responses on my blog. Sarah posted this over in MaintainIT but it looks like she didn’t open it up for comments so I’m going to. Here is part of the email I sent the list One of the problems I’ve seen with 2.0 is the library runs out and gets a blog or facebook page or whatever and declares themselves 2.0. They don’t consider who they are trying to reach, what they are trying to accomplish, how they will accomplish it or measure success. We need to take the same approach to 2.0 that we’ve taken to library services for years. Not every tool will work for every library and community. Some libraries have wildly successful film programs or extensive tools for small businesses, but not every library does. We look at what our community needs and what works best for them. The same approach should be taken with your web tools. My answer is yes. I think there are many aspects of Library 2.0 (and web 2.0) that are providing