Wednesday 1 June 2011

so-shall we network?...groan...week 5...

well i haven't crawled around my web 2.0 much in the last week or so but i thought i would post some drivel about social networking to try and get things moving again...

watched the socialnomics video...interesting...i'm not sure i see social networking as a marketing tool for institutions...i think it would be more useful for communication with their 'live' community...say for students or alumni looking for campus news, rather than school leavers looking for a prospectus...although i'm liable to change my mind about that so don't quote me on it...oh i forgot you couldn't anyway because i'm ANONYMOUS!!!!!  ANONYMOUS!!!!!

twitter i really like, though i don't connect with friends on it at all, and i've never tweeted...so i'm probably not using it in the true 'social network' sense...i just follow accounts on it, some work, some study and some play...i find it a really cool way to keep up to speed in different things....although tweets are only 140 characters, very often they'll point towards an interesting article or site that i wouldn't have seen otherwise...there are lots of librarians and IT people who use it in that way...the librarians i follow tend to be at the more 'techy' end of libraries, so it may be that that community is quicker to use it than others...also, at times it's hard to separate the wheat from the chaff...i think it's good to do a 'weed' of accounts you follow every now and then...

that's all for now...thanksbetojaysis says you...

5 comments:

  1. Don't worry, your anonymity won't last too long...

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  2. Good points, nice drivel! You're definitely right about weeding who you follow on Twitter, some people tweet every few seconds & I only check it maybe 3/4 times a week (no smart phone for me!) so there's a backlog. I got my first follower I didn't know (who wasn't a company) the other day (since I changed my account to private which means people have to ask first, which deters companies)- Hooray! a follower! Think she must have picked up on the word "books" in my self-descriptor, although I'm sure she's disappointed as I rarely tweet about books...puzzling. BTW I think I might have an idea who you are;)

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  3. yes i have a few followers too, mostly people who i follow but as i imagine they'll tire of my silence soon enough. oh and the idle threats about 'outing' me are noted...i fear you underestimate my ability to deny everything in the face of overwhelming evidence...

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  4. Your secret is safe Shakey, I think we're all quite enjoying the faux-anonymity - even though its obvious who i am i wouldnt like it said;)

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  5. Shakey I have NO idea who you are, which is ridiculous as there's only a finite number of people you could be, I'm going to have to bribe pitseleh, unless you want to give us a clue? Actually, I've just re-read your last post, I think I know......

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