Below is a presentation I gave last week at ACRL’s IdeaPower Unconference in Philadelphia. Great format as it allows some fairly “edge” ideas (read “unproven”) out in the open. The presentation narrative is in comment fields in the native pptx file, and so you’ll need to download the file in order to understand what it’s [...]
Category Archives: Audience
Business Insider has an interesting argument indicating that Craiglist is being slowly, but surely, disrupted. Generally speaking, Craigslist has been “good enough” to not be disrupted head-on. Nevertheless, the world moves on, and the gaps in their product (due to a stubborn obstinate refusal to invest in technology) grow wider and wider. As tablets, smartphones, [...]
2011 Horizon Report
08-Feb-11The Educause 2011 Horizon Report is out [ PDF ]. A key finding that caught my eye: The world of work is increasingly collaborative, giving rise to reflection about the way student projects are structured. This trend continues from 2010 and is being driven by the increasingly global and cooperative nature of business interactions facilitated [...]
Social Proof effects: Football edition
08-Nov-10How powerful is the effect of social proof on middle-school aged football players? Fairly powerful as seen below.
Three Types of Social Networks
30-Jul-09Found 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-09Fun video taken at the Sasquatch Festival this year which demonstrates a social proof timeline:
innovator > early adopters > mob
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-08All 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-08CopyBlogger 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-08As 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. [...]