Category: Social Networks
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Under the Influence: Long Overdue: The Creative Boom of Library Marketing
One of the most well-written podcasts (oh, and I guess it's a radio show too) out there is Terry O'Reilly's Under The Influence. Terry tells stories of how marketing works (and sometimes doesn't), and it's always an entertaining and fascinating half-hour. His most recent episode, Season 11, episode 3, is Long Overdue: The Creative Boom…
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A couple of quick updates – FOIP and Twitter Academic
Just a couple of quick updates. First, in December, I posted about my initial experience with Alberta's new(?) FOIP process. And then I actually submitted that request on January 26. So the fact that I was never notified that my submission was incomplete is a strike, for sure. But on February 16 I did get…
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Thoughts on fighting QAnon – How can so many people believe things that are obviously untrue?
Well that was a sobering read. A few weeks ago the following post by Barbara Fister was circulated at MPOW: Lizard People in the Library. We were supposed to have a discussion about it, but I wasn't able to make the Zoom time, so I didn't read it then. Yesterday someone pointed out that the…
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Queering Zoom: students and educators say online learning must be more inclusive
Here's a good article from the University of Alberta student newspaper: Queering Zoom: students and educators say online learning must be more inclusive. A couple of points and counterpoints: While professors often include anti-harassment and inclusionary policies in their syllabus, Morris noted that they feel these are hollow statements. “[These professors that have these inclusion…
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Twitter Opening Its Tweet Archive to Researchers
Well this seems like good news. One of the biggest annoyances of trying to do research on Twitter, IMHO, is the difficulty in obtaining older tweets. There are workarounds, such as using a previously-captured dataset from Documenting the Now, or collecting via snscrape, but it seems there is now better official access for researchers via…
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How to stop a Zoombombing
Thank goodness I haven't personally experienced this while teaching / presenting via Zoom, but I have been a participant in a workshop that was Zoom bombed, and that was traumatic enough. I can't even imagine how nasty that would be for the presenter. Lifehacker reports that Zoom is rolling out some new features aimed to…
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Some Sci-Hub stuff
Sci-Hub popped up a couple of times today, along with a link to a tool I hadn't seen before. Tools to liberate scholarly articles, help sources understand journalism and publish printable online zines. Mentioning the existence to journalists They Know We Know They Know: Does Sci-Hub Affect Library Subscriptions? which in turn led to the…
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Archive of tweets from Semantic Web in Libraries (SWIB) 2018
Here is an archive of tweets from this year's Semantic Web in Libraries (SWIB) conference. You can search and filter the results here, and explore nifty visualizations here. All this courtesy of the excellent (and free) TAGS project.
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Tweet Archive from Designing Libraries 2018
The 7th edition of the Designing Libraries conference just wrapped up here at the U of Calgary, and I thought it'd be fun to capture the tweets using the hashtag #designinglibraries, so here you go: Here's the full archive (457 tweets as of posting) Here's a dashboard summary view Here's a nifty view that allows…
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A quick showdown of three automatic transcription tools
One of my hats these days has me supporting students and faculty in the use of NVivo, a piece of software used for qualitative data analysis. Often people are wanting to analyze the text of recorded interviews, and of course that usually requires someone to transcribe the audio into text. I'm always on the lookout…