May 05, 2008
Growing use of the Web's social services
Universal McCann has just published the third "wave" (corresponding to March 2008) of its annual reports on the global impact of the Web's social services, which measures the use of active Internet users (those who use the Internet almost daily) make some of these services, their attitudes and interests. In the latter report extending the study to 29 countries, among which is also Spain, and compared the results with two previous reports, corresponding to September 2006 and June 2007, which allows for interesting evolutionary data.
Among the most significant findings is the significant growth on a global basis that these services have experienced over the past three years, which seem to be those of his popularity, and confirmation of a lesser use of content creation and participation in front of the consultation, confirmed that the predominance of a passive attitude. Blogs have been consolidated as an important tool on the Web, with greater participation.
In our country the most popular videos are consulting (86.6% of Internet users do declares, while less than half, 30.8% rises) and blogs (77.8%, compared to 41.4% said they had begun one). Other activities are evaluated downloading podcasts (51%), rising to sites to share photos (46%), membership of a social network (44.6%, one of the fastest growing in recent years) and subscription to RSS feeds (33.6%). It is paradoxical that in a country where blogs are more popular than in most of the rest, the proportion of subscriptions to organize channels is too low.
If a growing number of Internet users who use these services, why not use them since our libraries to create our own digital identity and offer our users the ability to interact with us through them?
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Social web | Published: May 05, 2008
March 11, 2008
Lifestreaming, we leave traces on the social web
The web users employ various social services for purposes other than: del.icio.us to store and share favorite links, like Flickr when it comes to photographs or videos YouTube; Twitter for publishing and exchanging short messages and blog for longer texts; Last.fm to label our favorite music, or Facebook social network of contacts, to name just a few. Thus we leaving a trail increasingly difficult to follow, given the number and spread of these services.
To overcome this problem arise in turn called lifestreaming new services, the Anglo-Saxon word that the blogosphere Hispanic as it is absorbing and WordSpy defined as "an online record of the daily activities of a person, whether through a feed direct or adding video content online that person, such as entries in a blog updates in a social network or photographs. " Ultimately the lifestreaming allows us to be able to include information directly (through the content syndication) from our accounts of other services (Facebook, del.icio.us…) in a personal page with a domain itself, create a network of contacts, may and further information on these and sometimes also to update information for other services.
Some of the services lifestreaming best known are Tumblr, Soup and Onaswarm but there are many others, such as those listed by Read Write Web. Netvibes, with the worlds just made public, might qualify as a service of this kind, since the features are the same, although his aesthetic is different.
Libraries and librarians, as managers of information, have a duty to provide its users with content that might absorb the simplest way possible, and for that we can take advantage of the gathering lifestreaming multiple channels or feeds into one (problem that also can solve Yahoo! Pipes, as noted in this blog) so that it is possible to more easily assimilate its contents and its network of contacts, creating a website with all of them himself.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Social web | Published: March 11, 2008
March 03, 2008
Yahoo! Pipes to regroup all feeds into a single library
Although the use of content syndication greatly facilitates the distribution of content and the assumption of the same, the proliferation of feeds can rethink the problem of information overload that is difficult to digest even through aggregators. The use of these tools facilitates reading syndicated content, but it is also true that it is necessary to select a reasonable number of sources if we are not to suffer from stress informative.
So, faced with this problem of the library Moraine Valley Community College in Illinois (USA), proposed the use of Yahoo! Pipes to regroup all their feeds or "threads" (blogs, podcasts, etc.). Rolled into one, so you can just subscribe to this feed for access to all your information. While this idea is not new helps us to reflect on the problems of content syndication and possible solutions to them, and to remember the possibilities of this service and its use in libraries.
Yahoo! Pipes is a powerful tool that has just turned a year and that allows you to combine different "threads" running with them and get the desired result. While his job may be quite complex building pipes or "pipes" simple can be available to everyone with a few basic instructions.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Social web | Published: March 03, 2008
December 10, 2007
Social networks and libraries
A social network is one web service, in the framework of the so-called social or Web site 2.0, allows individuals to build a profile public or semi-public within an online platform through which you can communicate in different ways . This platform is also capable of displaying relationships with other users in the form of a graph. The same term is used in reference to those sites on the web social also incorporate the ability to create networks of contacts, although this is not their main objective, as Flickr, del.icio.us or YouTube.
There are two types of social networks depending on the object of their contacts: a personal or professional. Social networks, essentially personal, but its use can be quite varied, be MySpace, Orkut, Facebook, Friendster or Hi5, to name some of the most popular. Networks of a professional nature are LinkedIn, Xing and neuron, the latter owned by Xing.
Although its use in our country is not yet as popular as in other countries (Alexa ranking first in Spanish, MySpace, ranked number 16, followed by 18 in the Facebook, and Hi5 in 45), shows a some presence of professionals that employ more or less active.
Its use by librarians can therefore be twofold: librarians can establish contacts with colleagues and create groups through networks or otherwise, and since the library is possible to use as a platform through which to maintain contact with users. One example libraries are some Americans who, because of the great popularity of MySpace among adolescents in his country, decided to approach them by creating your own profile, as the Hennepin County Library and others.
The many possibilities: increased visibility, as the library has a space in which to show; increases communication in both directions, thereby giving users the ability to communicate with us; exchange of information in various formats: images, video , text (it is possible the creation of blogs), and many others.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Social web | Published: December 10, 2007
