Posts under ‘Social Networking’

I have to admit to a love-hate relationship with Twitter, the microblogging “what are you doing?” tool that many people are, shall we say, twittering about. Some days I love being tuned into all the goings on in my community there, other days, I just need to tune out.
140 characters, enough to say where you [...]

From DIGtrends: Leave comments on the THIS CAN’T WAIT post and they’ll donate $10 to the US Campaign for Burma.
As part of our commitment to the people of Burma, Digital Influence Group will contribute $10 to the U.S. Campaign for Burma for each unique, non-spam comment or trackback to this post, up to $5,000 total. [...]

Commoncraft does it again. Twitter in Plain English is a great explanation of why Twitter is so popular. What are YOU doing? 140 characters or less please.

There are social networking sites out there for every interest. Well, at least there are for most of my interests. Even though I’m not much of a knitter, I enjoy lurking at ravelry.com. And now there’s myfolia.com. I didn’t go looking for this site, it found me through flickr.  Social networking connecting [...]

Laura Cohen and Trudi Jacobson (U of Albany Libraries) have put together a terrific new guide to Evaluating Web Content, with particular attention being paid to blogs, wikis, social networking, multimedia sources and more.
10 years ago, Trudi and Laura collaborated on what I’ve always considered the definitive guide to evaluating web content. Their new guide [...]

Here I am, sitting all alone in my home office. It’s just me and the fish. I used to feel pretty isolated working alone. No longer. I have so many friends and colleagues right at my fingertips.
Sure, I have my email running all day long. But that doesn’t feel as immediate as it used [...]