Facebook Finally Gets Hashtag Support | Mashable
According to the Facebook announcement, users will be able to:
A Guardian Guide to Your Metadata | Technology | guardian.co.uk
The guide explores some of the metadata collected through activities you do every day with services including email, phone, camera, Facebook, Twitter, Google Search and web browsers.
A core skill for librarians is learning about metadata. Our reference and research abilities are inherently dependent upon the metadata linked to the materials we are searching for and retrieving. Now we can use these skills to assist our users and patrons in learning about their own personal metadata if they want to educate themselves or have privacy concerns.
As a social media intern this summer, I discover new ways to better use various social media platforms on a daily basis. Below is a list that I’ve compiled that can be used for brands wanting to further their online engagement, individuals who want a stronger digital presence, or anyone interested in encouraging a more discussion-oriented environment on popular social media platforms. These tips guarantee to strengthen the experience for you and your fans.
10. Don’t simply re-post something interesting.
9. Don’t just post about a success.
8. Respond with more than a ‘thank you’.
7. Post different content on each platform.
6. Be consistent with topics.
5. Write as a peer rather than as an authority.
4. Use LinkedIn at least once a day.
3. Have a real sense of humor.
2. Asking for followers or likes will guarantee the opposite.
1. The golden rule: Do NOT use tragedy for promotion.
For the full article see: Top 10 Tips from a Social Media Intern | Information Space.
These are really great tips. I think tips 7. and 10. are the most challenging but can have the most impact.
With Barley you just edit everything directly, just as if you were working with a document. And by using one of Barley’s templates, you don’t have to deal with layout at all. Pricing is based on traffic and starts at $18 per month.
Currently, Barley is in beta and participation is invite only. “Save your spot” at getbarley.com.
via Barley Aims To Be The Absolute Simplest Way To Create And Edit Websites | TechCrunch.
My personal preference was to discover new music based on recommendations from previous purchases or my library content, rather than listening to the radio. Or I would be watching a TV program (e.g. So You Think You Can Dance) and hear a track and absolutely must have it. Its time-consuming to find new music, so more and more I’m using recommender systems for discovery. There are so many options available now to discover music, its hard to decide which one is best for you. I’ve used Shazam in the past for recognition and just signed up for This is My Jam to follow what my friends like and Noon Pacific (because who doesn’t want handpicked music recommendations delivered by email!).
(Note: For music within an academic context most academic libraries offer a music library portal or music subject guides.)
Music curation and discovery is shifting from computer-generated algorithms back to including human recommendations and integrating social media and sharing within music streaming and radio services. The article Human Editors Are Returning To Music | FastCompany discusses services Pandora, iTunes, NPR and Rdio in this context.
There seems to be no end to the options for music streaming services, offered offline, online or as apps, free, freemium or subscription-based. Some services put social discovery at the forefront, rather than streaming. Here is a non-comprehensive list of music discovery and streaming services, with emphasis on discovery. Some of these services, such as Pandora (only offered within the U.S), have restrictions based on country.
You may also like:
Slacker Radio Wants to Redefine Top 40 Music Charts by “Engagement” | Gizmodo
Why it’s still hard to discover new music online (and how we can fix it) | Digital Trends
100 Ways to Discover and Enjoy Music | DailyTekk – April 16, 2012
One of the best ways to gauge your website’s effectiveness, performance, and customer satisfaction can be found right inside the measurements that analytics reveal:
via Know your users: Web analytics tools | TechRepublic. The article reviews Google Analytics and Crazy Egg.
Also recommended is Andrew Maier’s Complete Beginner’s Guide to Analytics. It is a few years old though.
ResearchGate announced that it has closed a $35 million round of series C financing from Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Tenaya Capital, with participation from Dragoneer Investment Group and Thrive Capital. This hefty third-round of financing follows its series A and B rounds raised in 2010 and 2012, respectively. Short-term returns may not be part of the equation for ResearchGate’s investors, but Bill Gates, for one, hasn’t been shy about placing big bets on potentially high-impact education, energy and health-related technologies, even if those are long-term — or long shot — investments.
ResearchGate has endeavored to give researchers a platform where they can not only upload the journals they’ve been published in, but share raw data as well — along with experiments that failed or succeeded — in an effort to make that knowledge accessible in a broader context.
For the full article see: Bill Gates, Benchmark And More Pour $35M Into ResearchGate, The Social Network For Scientists | TechCrunch.
See also: Bill Gates Backs “Open Science” Social Network ResearchGate In Push For Nobel Prize | ReadWrite
Google will soon launch Google Web Designer, an HTML5 development tool for “creative professionals.” The service, Google says, will launching within “the coming months” and is meant to “empower creative professionals to create cutting-edge advertising as well as engaging web content like sites and applications – for free.”
Google’s only service for creating websites right now is Google Sites, which allows you to easily create basic sites and wikis from pre-built templates. That product has lingered without any meaningful updates for a while now, so maybe Web Designer will be a more sophisticated replacement for Sites’ editor.
Quora bills itself as nothing less than “your best source of knowledge”—not your dad, not your librarian, not Wikipedia. The company, spawned by two righteous Facebook alumni (one since ousted), has raised tens of millions from investors who think it can back this claim up.
via Is Quora Actually Smart? | ValleyWag.
Quotable: “But there’s a reason you can’t shout in the library—noise is everything, and Quora is rattling with crude, alienating noise.”
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