Nicola, I don't really understand Google+ and don't think it's as well
known as Twitter and Facebook. Could you give me a short explanation?
(Apologies if everyone else knows how it works!)
Wendy
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Sent: 28 March 2012 12:58
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Harpreet,
Your story of being trolled (attacked with lots of negative comments!)
is useful for flagging up the importance of moderating comments and
checking settings on social media sites. I think the state of spam is
such that you should never Blog without moderating the comments. On
sites like Facebook and Google+ trolling is less of an issue but for
reassurance it's always best to know what your settings are and that you
are sharing with the group you mean to.
- Nicola
[noting never to say anything negative about Sherlock Holmes online!]
On 28/03/2012 12:24, Dhillon, Harpreet wrote:
Hi Wendy, hi all :)
My name's Harpreet Dhillon and I'm a Bibliographical Support
Assistant at City of London. At the moment I'm only on Livejournal,
Tumblr, Goodreads and Librarything (only), but over the years I've used
and enjoyed Wordpress, Blogspot, Livejournal, Shelfari, Lastfm, Facebook
and Twitter. In fact, I think I enjoyed Twitter so much when it first
arrived that I had to give it up, but I still do the odd hash tag search
because it's quite an invaluable source of current information (I work
underground so it was nice to see a tweet by Zach Braff commenting on
how sunny London, helping me to decide if I wanted to go out for lunch
or not). I'm actually considering signing up with Twitter again, this
time for professional use as there's a good presence of information
professionals out there and a good stream of information. Also, as I
sometimes tweet for @GuildhallLib, it's reawakened my interest in that
particular site.
Facebook is a site that I used for about three months, intensely
disliked and then abandoned. I doubt I'll ever sign up for an account
again. I still can't quite put my finger on what I find so annoying
about Facebook, but it really wasn't for me. I have only recently
discovered Pinterest and have been lurking around it to see if it's
something I might enjoy using. At the moment, every time I visit
someone's Pinterest page it makes me feel quite anxious.
Currently, none of my accounts are locked, but there's always a
hesitation to share usernames with colleagues, even if they're aware of
certain geeky proclivities they may not care for the whiff of political
leanings on my Tumblr, my reading choices on Goodreads and, back in the
old days, my extremely ropy taste in music. I can understand people who
lock accounts to separate the personal and professional because we all
do censor ourselves to a certain degree to present a professional image
and online interaction is quite brilliant at breaking your
think-before-you-speak filter (as anyone who has participated in a
'someone on the internet is wrong' argument will know). Also, having an
open account does leave you vulnerable to anonymous trolling. I remember
someone getting very vocal about a book review on my personal blog once
and it was quite a nasty experience. But I learned my lesson - never say
anything mean about Sherlock Holmes on the internet.
Anyway, late to the party, but really enjoying this discussion J
Harpreet.
Harpreet Dhillon
Bibliographical Support Assistant
Bibliographical Services Section
<http://prism.talis.com/cityoflondon/assets/-/bibservices.html>
Culture Heritage & Libraries
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Sent: 28 March 2012 10:00
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Hello and welcome to the CIG eforum on social media in the
cataloguing community!
This morning we will be discussing individual and institutional
use of Twitter and other social media. This afternoon, CIG are very
pleased to welcome guest moderator Nicola Osborne, Social Media Officer
for EDINA.
Nicola wrote a live blog post for the recent CIGS Web 2.0 and
metadata seminar
(http://nicolaosborne.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2012/03/02/liveblog-cigs-web-2-0
<http://nicolaosborne.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2012/03/02/liveblog-cigs-web-2-0
>
-and-metadata-seminar/); she also gave a presentation at the
seminar on Developments in Web 2.0
(http://prezi.com/yhvtvnly4evo/this-talk-is-meta-and-so-is-this-title/
<http://prezi.com/yhvtvnly4evo/this-talk-is-meta-and-so-is-this-title/>
).
From 1.30pm you will have the opportunity to ask Nicola
questions about her presentation and she will also be introducing the
topic of social media use in OPACs.
But for now, we'd like people to introduce themselves and
describe their use of Twitter and other social media for either personal
or professional use. I'll start by saying my interest is probably
greater than my knowledge! I have been on Twitter for a couple of years
but have only really "got it" in the last few months as a valuable tool
for CPD.
I find it really useful for links to blogs and articles. I don't
use Facebook anymore but I am on LinkedIn and am very interested in
pinterest (I love the pretty pictures!). I work for the RNIB, which has
Facebook and Twitter accounts, including an account dedicated to
accessible reading @RNIBread.
So, what about you? Please share, whatever your level of
experience - whether you're a twitterholic or you think that tweets
should be left to the birds, we'd love to hear from you.
Wendy (@mrswtaylor)
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