Moving on from my qualms about delicious’ shaky future, here’s a great article about alt-metrics and how academic scholarship and publishing is changing. In growing numbers, scholars are moving their everyday work to the web. Online reference managers Zotero and Mendeley each claim to store over 40 million articles (making them substantially larger than PubMed); […]
opening access to academic research output
December 17th, 2010 · Comments Off on opening access to academic research output · Uncategorized
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Vale delicious?
December 17th, 2010 · Comments Off on Vale delicious? · Uncategorized
TechCrunch has reported a leaked slide from a Yahoo internal meeting which intimates the once popular social bookmarking site delicious.com (owned by Yahoo) may be shut down. It’s early days yet, only being a couple of hours since the report appeared on TechCrunch, but the online world is already responding. At the moment, #delicious is […]
design, open data, social media and relevance
December 6th, 2010 · Comments Off on design, open data, social media and relevance · Uncategorized
Recently, inventor and writer Mark Pesce blogged about web 2.0 and underlying motivations for why people engage collaboratively on crowdsourced web projects. What I like about this post is how he has grounded design theory in a number of social behaviours that drive web 2.0 and social media: sharing, connecting, contributing, regulating, and iterating. It […]
Four elements of successful online communities
November 26th, 2010 · Comments Off on Four elements of successful online communities · Uncategorized
I thought this DAAO blog would be a great place to share the direction I’m going with looking at community engagement, especially with regards to social media strategy. As part of my literature review, I’m looking at practical guides to social media, and this post is a little foray into the ideas coming though in […]