These are my links for February 23rd through February 24th:
These are my links for February 21st through February 23rd:
Great post by Shannon Turlington on the question of whether social networking is learning. A point often missed in this debate is the serendipity inherent in social networking that enables you to discover new knowledge – i.e. we don’t know what you don’t know until we uncover it. Shannon writes:
What I like most about using social networking tools this way is how serendipitous it can be. Sure, I can ask questions or search for knowledge on a subject I know I want to learn about, but more often, it seems, I learn things I didn’t know I needed to learn. This happens when people in my network share what they are learning or thinking about or reading or writing about. That, for me, is where the real learning potential of social networking tools kicks in. I don’t think you can reproduce that quality with formal learning tools, because it is so ephemeral and unplanned.
Here are some other good points made in the conversation:
- “I learn far more about what’s news and relevant to my work from my ‘network of trust and interest’ than I do from common denominator mass media.”
- “Between spontaneous learning and network-of-trust filtering, you get a new level of just-in-time (JIT) learning: ‘before I knew I needed it’ learning.”
- “Not everyone is going to succeed using social learning. Many of those that can already use it. Some of the rest just need permission. But if you aren’t really interested in your work, if you don’t think it is cool, how much is unstructured, social learning going to work for you. “
Someone also made this point: “There seems to be a tension … among the openness of informal learning, risk management and message control.” I think that tension is always there when there is also fear over loss of control. I have found, though, that in successful learning networks, people tend to police themselves. The organization must let go and trust its people, or people just won’t use the network sanctioned by the organization. If they are really passionate about learning and connecting with peers, they will find ways to do so outside of the organization’s control and without the organization’s blessing. So why not extend that trust and see what happens? The organization can only benefit from engaged employees actively learning about their fields.
And this I think is the essence of what social networking is all about; trust, freedom to act and taking responsibility for personal development. Organisations that don’t support these basic tenets, or erect barriers and conditions that inhibit their development, are going to find it increasingly difficult to survive in a 21st century economy.
These are my links for February 20th through February 21st:
- http://snurl.com/cdidb – Twitter’s secret: the law of unintended consequences: http://snurl.com/cdidb
- Friendbar :: Firefox Add-ons – Friendbar makes it easy to keep in touch with friends on Facebook and Twitter. http://is.gd/iMPx
- FriendFeed And Twitter Have Not Killed Blogging – FriendFeed And Twitter Have *Not* Killed Blogging
http://is.gd/an5l
- LSE Group Blog – Some good comment from an unofficial group weblog of PhD students at the Media dept at the London School of Economics http://is.gd/kmFh
- Facette | Facets for Delicious – Facette is a suite of tools allows Delicious users to organize their bookmarks using facets. Facette offers a bookmarks browser that automatically organizes tags in a user's account. Facette also offers an enhanced version of Delicious' tagging tool.
- Communities and Collaboration – New blog post: Bookmarks for February 19th through February 20th http://tinyurl.com/b5hof4
These are my links for February 19th through February 20th:
- CDC – PHIN Communities of Practice – Communities of Practice (CoPs) are working to strengthen the Public Health Information Network (PHIN) as members collaborate, share, and focus on issues prioritized by the PHIN Community. The PHIN Community provides a participatory environment for members to learn, share expertise, and develop informatics solutions to improve public health’s capacity to use and exchange information electronically.
- Six ways to make Web 2.0 work – Technologies known collectively as Web 2.0 have spread widely among consumers over the past five years. Social-networking Web sites, such as Facebook and MySpace, now attract more than 100 million visitors a month. As the popularity of Web 2.0 has grown, companies have noted the intense consumer engagement and creativity surrounding these technologies. Many organizations, keen to harness Web 2.0 internally, are experimenting with the tools or deploying them on a trial basis.
- McKinsey on 6 Ways to Make Web 2.0 Work for You – Most of it fairly obvious, but one or two nuggets.
- Catnav to track murderous pets |
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guardian.co.uk – Thanks to @conradtaylor for this link – Catnav to track murderous pets http://is.gd/k8qR
- Communities and Collaboration – New blog post: Bookmarks for February 18th through February 19th http://tinyurl.com/besf8x
These are my links for February 18th through February 19th:
These are my links for February 17th from 17:00 to 18:54:
- Cllr Tweeps – A few people have queried what we are doing here. It’s actually quite simple, we are trying to compile the definitive list of UK councillors on Twitter, no more, no less.
What people do with the information we provide is up to them.
- The UKGovWeb Twitterverse | DavePress –
- Power of Information Taskforce Report – Welcome to the report of the Power of Information Taskforce. We are publishing this report in beta before we hand it in formally to the Government. We wanted to give the the community that has contributed to the Taskforce’s work the chance to make suggestions while the report is in draft. The report will be here for comment for two weeks. We shall make small improvements as we go along. Then we shall consider the views raised, adapt the report if we think it helps makes the case to the Government and hand it in to the Cabinet Office. So please go ahead and comment.
- Web services – NHS Choices –
- Get More Twitter Subscribers – The Linkbuildr Twitter account has steadily been growing and I’ve been trying to find new ways to get more subscribers, and that has led me to write this post. Besides having chiclets, banners, buttons and other on page methods of getting people to your Twitter account there hasn’t been much options outside of that for attracting attention
- Facebook flashmob shuts down station – CNN.com – Thousands of dancers jammed a major London train station in a Facebook-driven "flashmob" mimicking an advertisement for a phone company.
Thank to The Consumerist for this, which I’d missed at the time. Facebook revised it’s Terms of Service on 4th February 2009 which gives it almost limitless rights to do what it wants with your data…forever, regardless of whether you decide to terminate your account.
Facebook’s terms of service (TOS) used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they claimed to the original content you uploaded would expire. Not anymore.
Now, anything you upload to Facebook can be used by Facebook in any way they deem fit, forever, no matter what you do later. Want to close your account? Good for you, but Facebook still has the right to do whatever it wants with your old content. They can even sub-license it if they want.
You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sub-license) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof.
That language is the same as in the old TOS, but there was an important couple of lines at the end of that section that have been removed:
You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content.
Furthermore, the “Termination” section near the end of the ToS states:
The following sections will survive any termination of your use of the Facebook Service: Prohibited Conduct, User Content, Your Privacy Practices, Gift Credits, Ownership; Proprietary Rights, Licenses, Submissions, User Disputes; Complaints, Indemnity, General Disclaimers, Limitation on Liability, Termination and Changes to the Facebook Service, Arbitration, Governing Law; Venue and Jurisdiction and Other.
This is quite relevant to some research I’m doing now in preparation for a presentation next month about the colliding worlds of EDRM and Web 2.0. There’s a blurring of the edges between Enterprise data (i.e. that which is stored and managed inside the corporate firewall) and data created and used by staff outside the firewall, which may fall within the scope of the Freedom of Information Act or the Data Protection Act. Records managers may soon have to grasp the concept of having infinite record retention schedules, i.e. Web 2.0 data is forever and not subject to disposal schedules!
I suspect that many Government departments and local councils that have started to use social networks and social media for consultation with citizens or as part of their service delivery may not full appreciate the implications of information governance in a very unregulated Web 2.0 world.
In the mean time make sure you never upload anything to the social web that you don’t feel comfortable giving away forever, because one day it may come back to bite you!
These are my links for February 12th through February 16th:
These are my links for February 12th from 09:13 to 19:54: