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Category Archives: Audience

Three Types of Social Networks

30-Jul-09

Found via elearnspace, here is a useful article from apophenia on the three types of social networks along with an important caveat:

“social proof” and the young at heart

11-Jun-09

Fun video taken at the Sasquatch Festival this year which demonstrates a social proof timeline:

innovator > early adopters > mob

Learning Object: The Role of Social Proof in Academic Publishing

28-Jan-09

A recent article by Chung & Duckett over at In the Library with the Lead Pipe has inspired me to try and expand on some thoughts on the importance of social proof. I especially like their third category of learning objects: CATEGORY 3. Provide students with MORE CONTEXT to understand a process or concept — [...]

Song: All My Internet Friends

10-Dec-08

All My Internet Friends This one is by internet friend Amanda French, inspired by Clay Shirky. Check out the lyrics at the link below. http://allmyinternetfriends.com/

Negative Potential in Social Proof

08-Nov-08

CopyBlogger has an interesting write-up on social proof. A lengthy quote: So, social proof gives us important cues about how to behave in ambiguous social situations. But what’s ambiguous about social media? First of all, we’re not sure if we should pay attention. Given the vast amount of information we’re exposed to daily, we naturally [...]

Web Fiction

01-Oct-08

As a follow-up to a recent post on self-publishing fiction, I just ran across this promising website called the Web Fiction Guide. Here’s a blurb from their about page: It’s free.  It must suck. Fortunately, that’s not true.  Web comics are free, but some of them are better than what you’d get in a newspaper.  [...]

CCK08: The Role of “Social Proof” in Connective Knowledge

16-Sep-08

Reading Stephen Downes’ article today on Connective Knowledge I was struck by how strongly the following outline describing the distribution of knowledge across a network of connections reminded me of social proof: Summary: Connective knowledge is both: – knowledge OF networks in the world – knowledge obtained BY networks As I outlined earlier, Social Proof [...]

Persona Analysis of IR Users

15-Sep-08

There’s a very good persona analysis in the latest edition of D-Lib called “Using Personas to Understand the Needs and Goals of Institutional Repository Users” out of the U. Colorado Boulder. A couple things caught my eye. Firstly, the persona study came across findings they didn’t expect, which is a classic result for user-centered research: [...]

An experiment in MOOC

09-Sep-08

I signed up for the 10 week Connectivism MOOC starting this week. If you thought an undergrad class with 200 students was bad, try getting your bearings among 1,600 other students. I’ll be curious how this thing goes, and evolves, but I’m mostly interested in the topic. More details here.

Ithakas Key Stakeholders Study for Academic Libraries

24-Aug-08

Ithaka has released an interesting study it has been working with since 2000 on academic libraries and faculty perceptions. What I like most from this is a useful model of academic library services that they’ve broken into three aspects: purchaser, archive, and gateway. They describe these as: The purchaser role was described in the survey [...]