Social Networking for Information Professionals
16
Social networking and participatory library services
Curated by Judy O'Connell
Follow
Scooped by Judy O'Connell onto Social Networking for Information Professionals
Scoop.it!

Social Media Guidelines

Social Media Guidelines | Social Networking for Information Professionals | Scoop.it
More and more, social media is becoming a part of our daily lives. Just today, Mashable is out with a report that says Pintrest (which is less than a year old) is the #3 social network in the U.S. This report mentions that the amount of monthly traffic Facebook receives is seven billion page views, and Twitter receives 182. Again, these are just U.S. statistics. If we were to look at the numbers worldwide, I would guess they would be much, much higher.

 

But it isn't just adults who are moving more of their lives to online spaces. In a recent Pew Internet survey, 73 percent of all teens used social networks daily. The most popular of these is Facebook; however, Twitter, Myspace and even LinkedIn are not far behind.

 

And it isn't just teens. The #1 social network for kids under the age of 13 is Club Penguin. It is visited more times each day than the New York Times..
No comment yet.
Your new post is loading...
Rescooped by Judy O'Connell from Curation, Social Business and Beyond
Scoop.it!

Stop Preserving: Start Curating

Stop Preserving: Start Curating | Social Networking for Information Professionals | Scoop.it

Great post, very good suggestion!

 

We have to stop thinking about how to save data only after it’s no longer needed, as when an author donates her papers to an archive.

 

Instead, we must look for ways to continuously maintain and improve it. In other words, we must stop preserving digital material and start curating it.

 

At first glance, digital preservation seems to promise everything: nearly unlimited storage, ease of access and virtually no cost to making copies. But the practical lessons of digital preservation contradict the notion that bits are eternal.

 

Consider those 5 1/4-inch floppies stockpiled in your basement. When you saved that unpublished manuscript on them, you figured it would be accessible forever. But when was the last time you saw a floppy drive?

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/opinion/sunday/when-data-disappears.html?_r=2


Via Robin Good, janlgordon
No comment yet.