TWITTER - topic 2

In Twitter Search I used the term geocaching, something that has always intrigued me but I haven't actually tried it yet. The results only showed in one chosen language at a time. There were lots of tweets in the last hour and even one 2 minutes ago. The same search in ChirpCity gave quite different results. The first column shows tweets from the Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site. The second column has tweets containing the word geocaching and they were in a huge variety of languages.

I tried Auckland in Twitter Search and got tweets about the weather, the food festival and all sorts of personal asides. In ChirpCity there was only one tweet in the 1st column from the Auckland Saas Special Interest Group and I recognised a lot of the same tweets in the second column that were the same as in Twitter Search.

It's often hard to make sense of a comment on its own because it is short and can be very personal. . To use Twitter to maximum effect you need to follow people's comments over time to build up a picture. The tweets linked to fuller articles on individual topics are most useful.

TWITTER

I looked at John Key's Twitter. It is obviously done by his PR people. It gives a very positive image of our PM and some great photos of overseas trips and sporting contacts.

NZ History Online is very different. Much more academic with a snippet of history for each day of the year. When you go into individual articles you get a full "this week in history" at the end of the entry. There was a recent entry for Maori Week which gave 365 useful words and phrases in te reo Maori. Lots of variety in the tweeting! Nothing very exciting when I put in my birth date in history. We lost a cricket match in 1955 with the dismal number of 26 runs! and we signed a CER agreement in 1983.

I did set up a Twitter account the first time round with Web 2.0. Small talk is not my thing so so I haven't bothered using the account. People like Stephen Fry have a great reputation cos they love to tweet and people love to follow celebraties.

Creative Commons

The Creative Commons licence conditions for this Web 2.0 learning programme and the image that I looked up on Flickr happen to be the same. They both leave you free to share and remix, provided the user attributes the work to NSL or the photographer, and neither allow commercial use. These conditions can be waived if you get permission from the owners.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/markandmikeabroad/2977204503/sizes/o/

OpenID

Interesting that I already have several OpenIDs with google, blogger and MySpace . I can see the convenience of it, not having to fill in all the paperwork each time you need a user id and password, but I don't think I'll be using it anytime soon. Most of my internet use at home is banking and social networking.

Online Privacy and Security

Yes the content in this module has had great relevance to my household of internet surfers.
The year 7 and 8's at my daughter's school have just done a module on internet security and the school put on a seminar by NetSafe. I now know my daughter is using McAfee security software - thought we all had Norton. Have also noticed that she ignores the security updates if she doesn't want her current windows to close so we have had some wisdom from me about that.
What can I tell our patrons. I'll be more emphatic about password security. We have a number of patrons who would benefit from a KeePass account. Would recommend the Netsafe video on cyberbullying to parents and kids alike. We should promote this sort of info in the Homework Learning Centres. I do think we have an important role to play in educating our users to keep themselves cybersafe.

# 23 Things

My pseudonym 'trailingbehind' referred to my lack of tramping but became synoymous with not keeping up with Web 2.0. Now I'm finally there I'd like to do the other 23 things! This has been an awesome exercise. I have embraced social networking with my Facebook page and have plans to set up my own blog to document my tramping. The blog feeds I now have are keeping me in touch with topics daily and I feel like I have a new hobby. Great that these skills transfer to my professional life and have helped me gain some rapport with my own teenagers as well as our library patrons. I particularly enjoyed the creative outlet the blog allowed, the adding of photos and a favourite Youtube video. I thought that the enthusiasm of some of my colleagues was particularly motivational. The whole exercise has had the unexpected benefit of networking about topics that wouldn't normally get discussed during the course of a day and I think most of us feel a great sense of achievement.

Omanawanui Track, Whatipu

Omanawanui Track, Whatipu,
originally uploaded by jonathan.aotearoa.

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