Fun video taken at the Sasquatch Festival this year which demonstrates a social proof timeline:
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Tag Archives: Social Proof
“social proof” and the young at heart
11-Jun-09Recently I was tasked to come up with a current awareness tool that tracks the ongoing debate surrounding Net Neutrality. The challenge for this project was to create something that wouldn’t just capture all activity for the keywords, but to filter out everything except for articles with the most social activity.
Social Proof article update
15-May-09The question this article seeks to ask is: to what extent can the library website framework, with all of its catalogs, vendors, guides, etc., become recognized as an authority in the subject of research?
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 — the [...]
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 look for [...]
Fighting “Filter Failure” with AideRSS
22-Oct-08Clay Shirky, in this recent session at Web 2.0, talks about how the filter has moved downstream from those who are responsible for publishing, to those who consume. The initial, visceral, effect of this is the well-known and overhyped “information overload” meme. In the above talk Shirky places the blame for information overload squarely on [...]
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 relies on the “awesome [...]
Authority lies in Social Proof
12-Jun-07It’s been one of those months where several ideas seem to congeal all at once. Last year I conducted usability interviews with students where I asked them if they were worried about the authority of the documents they were finding. 100% of that sample said they were not. That made little sense to me until [...]