Week 13 Reading Notes

https://courseweb.pitt.edu/bbcswebdav/courses/2124_UPITT_LIS_2600_SEC1090/Blossom_Content_Nation_7_Secrets_Social_Media.pdf

Social Media defined as "anything that helps individuals to publish influentially;" "any highly scalable and accessible communications technology or technique that enables any individual to influence groups of other individuals easily."

Interesting points about social media not eliminating human nature - collaboration will not necessarily be easy just because the tools and circumstances under which we can collaborate are easier to manage. This is definitely true of online learning!

I also found secret #5 to be quite interesting:

"SOCIAL MEDIA SECRET #5: Social media has a production model, but its goal is
not mass production from a handful of huge factories, but mass contextualizalion
in millions of small factories to create and aggregate content again and again in
constantly renewable and useful contexts."

https://courseweb.pitt.edu/bbcswebdav/courses/2124_UPITT_LIS_2600_SEC1090/Using%20a%20wiki%20to%20manage%20a%20library%20instruction%20program.htm

This is a nice look at wikis - I use a wiki at my library and found many parallels between our processes. We have delegated sections to maintain, and it is helpful especially because we all work at different locations. Now, users across town can have access to the same resources I know about for children, and my users can get more thorough resume help from the expert in Germantown. It is very useful as a resource.

One problem I have is that formatting is very limited. For a kid's site, I'd like it to be able to be more interactive, but it is very hard to integrate text and graphics in a cohesive way on a wiki.

http://www.mendeley.com/research/creating-academic-library-folksonomy/?mrr_wp=0.1

Social Tagging sites:
 de.li.cious - http://delicious.com/
tags.library.upenn.edu/
www.connotea.org/
www.citeulike.org/

Particularly useful paragraph:

"Del.icio.us allows you to forward links to another user, meaning that a curator who created his or her own account can forward links to the main library site. This requires a Webmaster who can then move these links onto the librarys del.icio.us homepage. Alternatively, you can give subject specialists the password for the librarys account. If librarians without specific subject knowledge have the responsibility to choose and tag resources, they can mine sites like the Librarians Internet Index (lii.org) or the C&RL News Internet Resources columns These sites provide quick ways to fill out your site with quality Web sites to get the program off the ground and show its value to the library community. There are, of course, a few risks and issues to consider when implementing social tagging in your library, especially if the site is open for all library patrons to update. One is the wonderfully named spagging, or spam tagging. Users with bad intentions can tag unsuitable sites for their own profit or simply to create havoc. Another issue is the inevitable variation in tags and the varied degree of user understanding of how to choose keywords. Is it englishliterature, englishliterature, english, literature, or books?"

http://www.ted.com/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia.html

neutral POV policy - social concept of cooperation surrounding neutrality. Doesn't use the word "truth" because it is too subjective. Keeps the info quality up.

Edits by "anonymous" users - controversial because credentials can't be checked, but only 18% of posts are anonymous, and it hasn't posed much of a problem to quality thus far.

I will be excited to hear more about "freely licensed text books" alluded to at the end of the video.