Week13 Reading Note

What makes social media tick: seven secrets of social media?

Blossom tries to explain about what is social media and its characteristics. It is easy to follow because his writing is easy and the content is already familiar to me. The most interesting point by his writing is that Digital technology is just a tool, not a center of social media, and it has been exist with different format such as publishing, broadcasting, and telephone.

In addition, I found a very interesting blog post. Here it is;

http://coolinsights.blogspot.com/2010/11/what-makes-social-media-producers-tick.html

Jimmy Wales: “How a ragtag band created Wikipedia”

• Neutral point of view policy: It is important because culturally very diverse communities work together to build up knowledge in Wikipedia
• Anonymous (18% of total users) remaining users are very closed communities.
• Open-ended

Using a wiki to manage a library instruction program: Sharing knowledge to better serve patrons

Wiki at the academic library can be used for sharing of knowledge and cooperating in creating resources for a library instruction class. Also it is every efficient because staffs can divide workloads without any difficulties. Also, by using Wikis, librarians learn more about the instruction of genral classes' needs, neglected "directions of the assignment, preferences of the professor that were not necessarily communicated previous to class time, and housekeeping issues, such as any broken Web links listed in a subject resource guide". It can be a "a centralized resource collaboration tool" between library staffs, faculties, and students.

Creating the academic library folksonomy: Put social tagging to work at your institution by Xan Arch

Social tagging : folksonomy(a taxonomy created by ordinary folks)

Social tagging is a relatively new phenomenon that allows an individual to create bookmarks (or “tags”) for Web sites and save them online.

1. You could store these bookmarks somewhere online.

2. You could access them anywhere.

3. You could see what other people are reading on your topic.

4. You could find new and unexpected directions for your research.

The benefits of social tagging

1. The library could provide an index to quality Internet resources, created by the librarians at the institution

2. The library could provide an index to quality Internet resources, created by the librarians at the institution. (Much valuable online information created by experts and scholars cannot be found easily.)

How to create

1. Choose the software

2. Find a niche in your library’s Web site

3. For creating content, start with subject specialist who can identify the best Web resrouces in their subject area

4. Tag them.

Problems

1. Spam tagging (spagging)

2. Appropriate keywords (controlled vocabulary)