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Micro-blogging, Social Bookmarking and Personal

(Learning) Networks

Frances Bell, f.bell@salford.ac.uk

Creating a network

Microblogging

• Twitter, Jaiku, Facebook updates• http://twitter.com, search for Salford• 140 character limit• Web links• Many clients for PCs and mobile devices

– Tweetdeck, Tweeties, etc.• Upload pictures and link e.g.Twitpic• Link to audio e.g. via Audioboo

• http://www.neuroproductions.be/twitter_friends_network_browser/

Twitter networks

• Build a trusted network

• Give and take– Link posted by trusted node ‘better than

search’– Amongst social noise, questions asked and

answered

• Stream flows by – can’t see it all

• Assume all is public

Visualising networks

• Understand 1st and 2nd order connections– Can utilise 1st order connections to get in

touch with 2nd order connections

• Can use as aid to trimming and growing network

Frances Bell Facebook Friend Wheel Sep 2007, see http://francesbell.com/2007/09/07/18/

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Frances Bell Facebook Friend Wheel October 2009

Issues

• Digital identity / profile• Symmetry of connection

– Compare Facebook and Twitter

• Public / private• Social/ business/ professional

– I explored this here http://francesbell.com/2009/07/23/moving-between-categories-in-online-identity/#more-262

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My bookmarks online

Getting started in Delicious

• Explore, join, bookmark and tag• http://delicious.com/francesbell

Networking in Social Bookmarking

Asymmetry, eavesdropping/overlooking, group work, shared vocabulary http://delicious.com/network/francesbell

How does your personal network influence finding and sharing behaviours?

Findinglinks

Saving/ sharinglinks

Network influences volume

Network influences impact

2 virtuous circles if finding/sharingStrength is in overlap

Delicious

Twitter

Putting it all together

• Understand RSS

• Set up iGoogle page

• (Demo) http://www.google.co.uk/ig

Now go off and try it out