microblogging @ #dr10

MicrobloggingMicroblogging

Alan Cann

School of Biological SciencesUniversity of Leicester

http://bit.ly/AJCann

What is Twitter?What is Twitter?

ConversationConversation

BroadcastBroadcast

Realtime MediumRealtime Medium

Not just TwitterNot just Twitter

Friendfeed

Cliqset

Yammer

more every day

So which one(s) should you use?

Twitter is a personal research networkTwitter is a personal research network

Twitter is a personal research networkTwitter is a personal research network

The Power/Wisdom of CrowdsThe Power/Wisdom of Crowds

Taxonomy versus folksonomyTaxonomy versus folksonomy

Taxonomies imply "knowledge in a box”.

Like Schrödinger's cat, knowledge has multiple states:

Experiments

Books

Journals

Blogs

Facebook

and lots more…

Reliability?

Backchannel - social amplificationBackchannel - social amplification

Hashtags: #DR10 (= #dr10)

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Twitter isn't new - it's a supplement to what you should already be doing.

Reading, watching and talking to people.