Week 7 Image Is Everything

Week 7 Reflections

Image and Reputations

Borrowed from Google Images: shaaark.com

 

This past week was learning about privacy and reputation. To start what I really appreciated was the link for Department of Defense Social Media site. What a fantastic resource. It would be a great link to include on all social media sites. Security of privacy continues to be a prominent issue in the virtual world and having a set of clear guidelines to ensure that protection is vital.

This week also included some important factors about behaviors of virtual users. After reviewing Randy Farmers Web Reputation Systems video, I learned quite about those behaviors. It was interesting to learn about the myths associated with online social media interactions. He seemed to be saying that one’s online behavior/conduct and visual presentation of one’s site sways the other’s opinions. In other words, depending on what one says or what pictures are posted on one’s site, determines one’s reputation as either positive or negative. 

D’Aquin, Rowe & Motta (2011) make some interesting points about the behavior of online users as well. They claim that online users have a false belief of their own online habits. This discrepancy in user activity has led to the development of data gathering tools such as Attention Recorder as a means to actually track their own use on the Web both personally and professional. Self-tracking involves monitoring what information is visible on the Web. Some companies monitor their reputation of their reputation from social media sites by extracting the references of person’s who bad mouth them.

According to Chesire & Antin (2010) the internet does have the benefit of people being able to connect with others all around the world from their own vicinity; but, warns online users to wield caution on they conduct or present themselves on line.  By carefully choosing trusted sites to participate in users might protect themselves from online abuses. A really good point that was made was how users are often violating their own privacy by not realizing that “digital identifiers” (e.g., e-mail addresses, user names, and uniform resource locators (URL’s) are stored used by others.

By participating in some social networking sites, for example Facebook, users might not realized that their information what they post is being evaluated and used shared with advertisers. So, what appears to be a free service has price attached to it.

References

Cheshire, C. & Judd, A. (2010). Behaviors, adverse events, and dispositions: An empirical study of online discretion and information control. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61 (7), 1487-1501.

D'Aquin, M., Rowe, M. & Motta, E. (2011). Self-tracking on the Web: Why and how. Retrieved from http://www.w3.org/2011/track-privacy/papers/aquin.pdf

Randy Farmer's Building Web reputation systems. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn7e0J9m6rE

Borrowed from Google Images:www.webseo.com

 

 

    

       

Week 6 Reflections

Image borrowed from google images: kylelockwood.efoliomn.com

Week 6 Reflections

 

               I  am actually posting this week's reflection during week 7, as I was focused on taking COMPS last week. You may have noticed that I am fan of comics. I felt the above comic reflects at least in part some of the topics represented in week 6's readings. With reference to  Abbas & Agosto's (2010) article about high school teenagers interaction with social media. I was not surprised to read that teens might not be of issue and online privacy issues. Which to me is a bit ironic, as most teens I know, (my kids included) covet their privacy. But, it think with any new medium, (not that it is that new) such as online social media sites, users and especially younger ones need to learn it's challenges and how to best navigate through that virtual world. As one male high school senior said, he thinks there will always be new types of technology available for communication; but, as another student who was female pointed out, interacting online takes away from time available to hang out with friends. What I have observed is that teens are great multi-taskers and it is not uncommon to see teens hanging out with one bunch of friends while engaging with others on line, usually via thier cell phones.

       What I took away from Ellison, Steinfield & Lampe's article was in spite of privacy abuses, teens using Facebook viewed its use as gaing a larger social connetion and that the young people are staying connected and maintaing relationships longer.
  

       With regards to use and benefits of using socail media for business, it is clear that most business are engaged with one type of social media tool for promoting their business; and, (reputation) is a big part of that online presence (week 8).  These 20 free tools as mentioned by Bercovits, (2012) help companies track their growth.

References:
Abbas, J. & Agosto, D. E. (2010). High school seniors' social network and other ICT use preferences and concerns. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 47 (1), 1-10.

Bercovitz, L. (September 5, 2012). 20 free social media monitoring tools you should be using. Small Business Trends. Retrieved from http://smallbiztrends.com/2012/09/20-free-social-media-monitoring-tools.html

Ellison, N., Steinfield, C. & Lampe, C. (2007). The benefits of Facebook "friends:" Social capital and college students' use of online social network sites. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12 (4), 1143-1168. Retrieved from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00367.x/pdf

Week 5 Reflections

This past week I learned more about Library 2.0, adding Delicious data to library websites, RSS feeds, Google News RSS feeds and lastly the impact of new technologies on current awareness tools in academic libraries.

I'd like to talk a little bit about Mu's article, "The Impact of New Technologies on Current Awareness Tools in Academic Libraries." Her article stressed using RSS feeds and using social bookmarking tools.

She like the other articles I read this week stated that using social media tools are in fact helping patrons to connect and have positive experiences (Mu, 2011).  RSS feeds actually bring information to the user instead of user having to hunt it down. This process can be accomplished by using a reader, of which there are several types of feed readers: Web based readers, such as Google reader (which I have used before); Email readers, such as Microsoft Outlook; and Browser readers, such as Firefox. Basically the main reason to use a reader is for saving time.

Social bookmarking tools are very popular and there are many available for users. They include but are not limited to ones such as Delicious, Twitter, Digg, Reddit, StumbelUpon, Tweettime, Mixx, Diigo and Slashdot.

Librarian Carla Redden stated that "Social bookmarking,  called tagging might have the most potential as a Web 2.0 tool that can be utilized in academic libraries to benefit their users (Mu, 2011).

It was interesting to learn that Delicious and Diigo are considered the world's largest social bookmarking sites.

The cute boy and girl are holding pictures of what the symbol for RSS feeds looks like.

This weeks reading also included specific articles that actually explained how what RSS feeds are and how to go about using them. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. Google Feed Burner's article stated that "the biggest names on the web offer content feeds including USA Today.com, BBC News, ABC news and Amazon.com. 

It was shocking to learn that, "there are over 2,000 different feed reading applications, also know as news aggregators" (Google Feedburner).

Finally, Easton (2011) refers to RSS feed are the "glue of Web 2.0 technologies and millions of people rely on RSS feeds to pull web content from their computers and drop it into one of thier feeders. There are many applications that are dependant on RSS feeds such as blogs, wikis, and podcasts.