Participating in Digital Community, or Lots of Links to David

I’ve been doing some thinking about all the different digital communities I participate in on the web, so I thought I’d create a list of them. It’s not a short list.
Things I use the most:

My blog (it’s an active community)
Flickr
Twitter (as I write this post, someone else just started following me on Twitter!)
Facebook
del.icio.us
AIM (I’m [...]

Not Using Swift for Computers in Libraries

The Computers in Libraries conference (an awesome conference, by the way) is experimenting with Swift, an “online community platform for conferences.” That’s great! It’s always fun to see a cool conference experiment with fun tools.
However, I’m opting out. Why? Read the Terms of Service document (found via Jessamyn’s post). There’s some language there that I [...]

SXSWi2008, Day 3: Social Networking and your Brand

Coolness - they’re taking questions during the presentation using twitter - twitter.com/snayb4sxsw - great use of twitter!
panelists:
Paul Boag, Jina Bolton, Mark Norman Francis, Steve Ganz, Steve Smith
Defining social networking
it’s something we’ve done forever - even before the web
ways to use personal brand
not just logos and letterhead
your brand is simply the promise of an experience
ways to [...]

SXSWi2008, Day 2: Mark Zuckerberg Keynote

aside - I was in the overflow room, and was dosing off… so not too many notes. The more interesting thing would have been to be in the big room - apparently there was lots of booing, hooting, and hollering over the interview (mainly the interviewer’s fault, from all the tweets I’ve read). More news [...]

ProBlogger on Inviting Participation

The ProBlogger blog has a great post on how to invite participation in your blog. Here are some bullet points from the article:

Reveal what you don’t know - admitting you don’t know something makes you seem real
Ask a Question - ideas: tie it to the thing you don’t know, or ask for experiences or examples
Run [...]

Actual Work Using Facebook

Just a small aside… but I’ve been doing real live work the last two days using facebook (go friend me - David Lee King at facebook)!
Michael Porter, my writing buddy, is to blame for some of it… We write the Internet Spotlight column in Public Libraries Magazine together, and he posted a question to [...]

Wanting Your Opinions about Blog Comments and City Attorneys

A new Facebook friend just asked me a question, and I thought I’d share it with y’all - in hopes of garnering him some more input, or “ammunition” if you will…
Here’s the deal:
“Maybe you can answer a question that our City attorney needs clarified?
She seems to think that if we [a public library] have a [...]

Valuing Users by Allowing Comments

Casey Bisson said this during his Internet Librarian 2007 presentation: “sites that allow comments value their users.” When he said that, my mind started making connections… what a great way to illustrate why the ability to comment is such an amazing thing to include on a website! So riffing off that quote, here are some [...]

IL2007, Day 1: Integrating Libraries & Communities Online

Integrating Libraries & Communities Online, Glenn Peterson, Marilyn Turner
Marilyn Turner
bookspace.org - they made this. It’s cool. It brings together book lists, author lists, librarian tips, etc… many genre guides
it’s only focused on books - so it still has the traditional librarian bias to content
they include a librarian’s blog on each genre page
assign 2 people per [...]

Another Twittering Library

From my comments on this post… try this on for a cool way to use Twitter. Here’s what the library is doing, to the best of my knowledge (Julie, correct me if I get it wrong, please!):

posting real-time reference questions to twitter.com/askusnow
using the Twitter feed to update “the ‘currently being asked’ section of our internal [...]

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