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Twitter is a social networking and microblogging website, based in San Francisco, California, also having servers and offices in San Antonio, Texas, Boston, Massachusetts, and Salt Lake City, Utah. Twitter, Inc. was originally incorporated in California, but has been incorporated in the jurisdiction of Delaware since 2007. Since being created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launching that July, the website has gained popularity worldwide and is estimated to have more than 200 million active users, generating 65 million tweets a day and handling over 800,000 search queries per day. It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet". (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Twitter)
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10 Cheap and Easy Ways to Amplify Your Event |
Marieke Guy describes new tools and services that can help you get your event heard. |
January 2011, issue66, feature article |
23 Things in Public Libraries |
Helen Leech describes a collaborative project to increase front-line staff's understanding and use of Web 2.0 in public libraries. |
July 2010, issue64, feature article |
A Selection of Social Media Search Engines |
Phil Bradley takes a look at how social media output is being indexed, sorted and made available for searching by looking at some representative samples. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
A Support Framework for Remote Workers |
Marieke Guy follows up on her two previous articles for Ariadne with an overview of an evolving structure to provide consistent support to UKOLN colleagues who work remotely. |
April 2009, issue59, feature article |
Archives in Web 2.0: New Opportunities |
Marta Nogueira describes how three Web 2.0 applications (Facebook, Flickr, YouTube) can work as a virtual extension for archives and other cultural organisations, by identifying benefits obtained from the use of Web 2.0 applications. |
April 2010, issue63, feature article |
Being Wired Or Being Tired: 10 Ways to Cope With Information Overload |
Sarah Houghton-Jan explores different strategies for managing and coping with various types of informational overload. |
July 2008, issue56, feature article |
Beyond the PDF |
Jodi Schneider reports on a three-day workshop about the future of scientific communication, held in San Diego CA, USA, in January 2011. |
January 2011, issue66, event report |
Book Review: Blogging and RSS - A Librarian's Guide, 2nd Edition |
Elly Cope reviews the second edition of this book in which the author explains how RSS and blogging can be used by librarians and libraries. |
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Book Review: I, Digital – A History Devoid of the Personal? |
Chris Rusbridge reviews an edited volume that aims to fill a gap in ‘literature designed specifically to guide archivists’ thinking about personal digital materials’. |
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Book Review: Information Science in Transition |
Michael Day reviews an edited volume published to commemorate the founding of the Institute of Information Scientists in 1958. |
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Book Review: Mob Rule Learning |
Fiona MacLellan reviews a book which discusses the current unconference phenomenon and highlights the learning opportunities that these environments offer. |
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Book Review: Sketching Tomorrow - The Social Dynamics of Information and Communication Technology |
Emma Tonkin takes a look at an ambitious work on the relationship of modern society to information and communication technologies and observes more sins of omission than commission. |
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Book Review: The Future of Archives and Recordkeeping |
John Azzolini reviews an anthology of perceptive essays on the challenges presented to archival thought and practice by Web 2.0, postmodern perspectives, and cross-disciplinary interchanges. |
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Case Studies in Web Sustainability |
Scott Turner describes issues around making Web resources sustainable. |
November 2012, issue70, feature article |
Collaborations Workshop 2012: Software, Sharing and Collaboration in Oxford |
Simon Choppin reports on a two-day software workshop held at The Queen’s College, Oxford over 21 - 22 March 2012. |
April 2012, issue68, event report |
Collecting Evidence in a Web 2.0 Context |
Ann Chapman and Rosemary Russell describe the challenge of collecting evidence for a study of how Web 2.0 is being used in the UK HE sector. |
July 2009, issue60, feature article |
Connecting Researchers at the University of Bath |
Jez Cope and Geraldine Jones describe a recent series of events introducing social media to research students at the University of Bath. |
July 2011, issue67, feature article |
CURATEcamp iPres 2012 |
Mark Jordan, Courtney Mumma, Nick Ruest and the participants of CURATEcamp iPres 2012 report on this unconference for digital curation practitioners and researchers, held on 2 October 2012 in Toronto. |
November 2012, issue70, event report |
dev8D: JISC Developer Happiness Days |
Julian Cheal reports on the 5-day JISC's Developer Happiness Days event held at Birckbeck College, London over 16 - 21 February 2009. |
January 2009, issue58, event report |
e-Framework Implements New Workplan |
Ian Dolphin and Phil Nicholls describe recent and forthcoming developments from the e-Framework Partnership for Education and Research. |
April 2009, issue59, feature article |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 61: The Double-edged Web |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 61. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 64: Supporting the Power of Research Data |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 64. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 66: Sanity Check |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 66. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 67: Changes Afoot |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 67. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 68 |
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne issue 68. |
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Eduserv Symposium 2009: Evolution Or Revolution: The Future of Identity and Access Management for Research |
Shirley Williams reports on the Eduserv Foundation Symposium which took as its theme investigate the intersection between identity management, access management and scholarly research collaboration across institutional and geographic boundaries. |
July 2009, issue60, event report |
Eduserv Symposium 2010: The Mobile University |
Shailey Minocha reflects on the one-day symposium organised by Eduserv in May 2010. The aim of the event was to discuss whether and how mobile technology will play a significant role in the delivery of UK Higher Education in the future. |
July 2010, issue64, event report |
Eduserv Symposium 2012: Big Data, Big Deal? |
Marieke Guy attended the annual Eduserv Symposium on 10 May 2012 at the Royal College of Physicians, London to find out what are the implications of big data for Higher Education Institutions. |
July 2012, issue69, event report |
Embedding Web Preservation Strategies Within Your Institution |
Christopher Eddie reports on the third one-day workshop of the JISC-PoWR (Preservation of Web Resources) Project held at the University of Manchester on 12 September 2008. |
October 2008, issue57, event report |
Enabling Knowledge Communities |
In conjunction with his main article on The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up, Conrad Taylor provides further information about enabling knowledge communities. |
October 2007, issue53, event report |
Enhancing Collaboration and Interaction in a Post-graduate Research Programme |
Tertia Coetsee describes a community of practice for post-graduate students where RefShare is deployed for digital storage and retrieval, alongside Blackboard for the purposes of communication. She also describes the role of the information specialist in the programme. |
July 2012, issue69, feature article |
Evidence, Value and Impact: The LIS Research Landscape in 2010 |
Stephanie Kenna reports on the Library and Information Science Research Coalition conference, held at the British Library on 28 June 2010. |
July 2010, issue64, event report |
Exploiting the Potential of Blogs and Social Networks |
Gill Ferrell reports on a one-day workshop about Blogs and Social Networks, held in Birmingham in November 2007. |
January 2008, issue54, event report |
Get Tooled Up: Staying Connected: Technologies Supporting Remote Workers |
Having considered organisational issues in her previous article, Marieke Guy takes a look at the many technologies that support remote working, from broadband to Web 2.0 social networking tools. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
Has Second Life Lived up to Expectations? |
Paul Gorman examines to what degree Second Life has justified the claims made for it by its evangelists with particular regard to education. |
March 2012, issue68, feature article |
IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2012 |
Marieke Guy reports on the 78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly held in Helsinki, Finland over 11-17 August 2012. |
November 2012, issue70, event report |
IMPACT Final Conference 2011 |
Marieke Guy reports on the two-day conference looking at the results of the IMPACT Project in making digitisation and OCR better, faster and cheaper. |
March 2012, issue68, event report |
Institutional Web Management Workshop 2008: The Great Debate |
Adrian Tribe reports on a three-day conference designed for professionals involved in the provision of institutional Web services, organised by UKOLN and held at King's College, University of Aberdeen in July 2008. |
July 2008, issue56, event report |
Institutional Web Management Workshop 2010 |
Keith Doyle provides a personal perspective on a conference organised by UKOLN for those involved in the provision of institutional Web services. |
July 2010, issue64, event report |
International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) 2012 |
Anna Mastora and Sarantos Kapidakis report on TPDL 2012 held at Paphos, Cyprus, over 23-27 September 2012. |
November 2012, issue70, event report |
