Found via elearnspace, here is a useful article from apophenia on the three types of social networks along with an important caveat:
Tag Archives: social
Three Types of Social Networks
30-Jul-09Library Usability Links 12/20/08
20-Dec-08An article published in Code4Lib Journal called “User-Centered Design and Agile Development: Rebuilding the Swedish National Union Catalog“.
“Finally, we would like to conclude that working with user-centred design in combination with iterative development is a better, faster and cheaper way of software development, compared to traditional models. Better – the product being released at the [...]
Library Usability Links 12/11/08
12-Dec-08I’m a fan of user personas, but building personas for applications is an interesting idea.
SocialStartup.com identifies five fundamental social patterns:
Public Timeline
Asymetrical Follow
News Feed
Re-blogging
Social Proof
Via the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog:
The Electronic Library 26, no. 6 (2008): Includes “A Metadata Manager’s Role in Collaborative Projects: The Rutgers University Libraries Experience,” “Usability Study of Digital Institutional Repositories,” and [...]
Library Usability Links 12/3/08
03-Dec-08James Robertson writes about Practical Ways to Assess CMS Usability including the following:
1. Vendor demo
2. Involve end-users
3. End-user training
4. Demo sites
5. Reference sites
6. Proof of concept
7. Usability testing
Gizmoto review of Sony’s PRS-700 ebook reader:
Unfortunately, the “improvements” have taken away the very essence of the Reader—the easy-on-the-eyes screen. … Seriously, this thing has a fatal design [...]
Library Usability Links 10/10/08
10-Oct-08iPhone users frustrated with mobile news website design
The UKSG completed a 3-year study finding that link resolvers are driving article use among academic library patrons [doc]
Southwester College student newspaper reports that single students hogging study rooms is impolite
Michael Lascarides, the new usability analyst at NYPL, writes about the work of Willliam “Holly” Whyte and the [...]
Library Usability links: 10/2/08
02-Oct-08Activity in the library increases at Wake Forest U. after Starbucks is added. Increased social opportunities cited.
The Bibliocommons team describe some of the findings they’ve run across by talking to users. Lots of very interesting points are made.
New to me: Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) which is released under a BSD license and features utilities [...]
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 by [...]
… and by “fail-safe” I mean safe to fail with minimal consequences. That’s the question I’m wondering about after viewing this Cory Doctorow lecture a couple of weeks ago:
The transcript can be found here: http://craphound.com/cambridge_biz_lectures.txt
A few key quotes:
The Internet turns out to be much better at allowing people to form groups than it [...]
Clay Shirky Web 2.0 speech – updated
28-Apr-08A quick bookmark post on Clay Shirky’s Web 2.0 speech from last week. It’s a great read in its entirety. Here are my favorite sections:
So I tell [a television producer] all this stuff, and I think, “Okay, we’re going to have a conversation about authority or social construction or whatever.” That wasn’t her question. [...]
On Google and Privacy and Library Search
10-Jun-07A quick comment on the latest privacy analysis conducted by Privacy International. Their methodology is a very interesting read because it appears to be directly counter to what Google is doing with search and data aggregation. Two points in particular:
Data collection and processing
What type of information does the site collect, with and without consent? On [...]