Social media
LIANZA Centennial Conference 2010
Nov 29th
- Monday’s (Day 2) session #lianza10 on Twitter with CoveritLive
- Tuesday’s (Day 3) session #lianza10 on twitter with CoveritLive
- Wednesday’s (Day 4) session #lianza10 on Twitter with CoveritLive
Being Open
May 13th
I am so happy that I have gotten rid of the filth that is the empire and institution of Facebook. So so happy.
See how happy I am from my recent tweets!
I have to say that I totally agree with being open, and for this, I am staying with Twitter for the forseeable future. If I find out in some way or another that the institution of Twitter is beginning to be unethical, then I will take my business elsewhere. Vote with your feet guys.
The world needs more open discussion. Yay freedom of speech.
And yay the founders of Twitter. I really agree with you. And yay for sharing of social media policies for others to compare and contrast with their own or to assist with starting one off.
Just, “yay “.
That is all.
Facebook and privacy
May 10th
Facebook has made it into the traditional media lately, in concern over privacy of personal information and “youth” possibly not being aware of the issue of Facebook’s lack of great terms and conditions for privacy and security of personal data.
My friend, (I like to say friend, but I have never met him, but I think I understand him on a professional level – Michael Parry @dannevirkelib, made a post recently on the NZ-librarian’known blog “Diligent Room”.
I know that in a short period of time I am going to leave Facebook. I’m currently engaging in activities recommended to me by library folk friends and articles that resonated with me that I’ve found via other networks.
It’s funny that I feel disconnected using Facebook. And it’s funny that I find it necessary to leave Facebook in order to feel like I have some ownership of myself and my identity again. Facebook has been great yes, but in terms of “connecting with someone”, that connection has been lost and I no longer want to connect with some of the people on my friend list for an indefinite period of time via Facebook. I would rather “connect” with someone face to face, than via a network in an impersonal nature such as “online”. Facebook was great, but I believe I’m over the wonder of it now. Now I just see it as some huge media conglomerate with unethical business owners and developers leading it somewhere in which I don’t want to go.
I don’t need to read copious “articles” about this. I just need the choice made up in my mind and to follow through.
In another vein, I’d also like to point out that Facebook has made us lazy information sourcing sleuth’s. All too often I hear the phrase, “Just google it”, or “look them up on Facebook”. OK I don’t hear the latter very often, but the first one I do. It’s true though. If you really want to “connect” with me, I am out there, you just have to do a simple search on any search engine and you’ll find me. “Connecting” with people is that simple. What ever happened to the white pages and e-mail ay??
I am going back to my roots of real communication. Mail and face-to-face.
Subscriptions and Twitter
Apr 22nd
I have just unsubscribed from the pub-sig list-serv and tried to unsubscribe from an nz school list-serv. The latter list conversation was doing my head in (books for teens and children etc). I should actually be reading these things, but I just have to say, although yes I am sort of verging on children’s librarianship at work with running Preschool Storytime, I’m not yet ready to hang up my interest in technology.
Just yesterday, I created a twitter account for the LIANZA Wellington regional committee, Te Upoko o te Ika a Maui http://twitter.com/teup0ko. I’m quite happy with it, and I’m learning heaps all over again. Social technology fascinates me.
With the second time now that I’ve created a twitter account, I’ve learnt how not to do things, so am taking this cautiously and am extra conscious of the information that I put out and the image I’m trying to create for LIANZA and our committee of being relevant. I think it’s working. Already I’ve been retweeted, and I have 12 followers, 11 of which aren’t me.
I have to say, you learn more in a day of interacting and engaging in conversations on Twitter, than you do .. uhh not interacting and engaging in conversations on Twitter.
Information Anxiety and Web two-point-oh
Mar 30th
The pressure to remain relevant in an society where everyone and everthing competes for your time and attention is overwhelming at times. If you’re a person who suffers from bouts of depression and anxiety and you’re a female who’s susceptible to the occasional PMS or PMT, then this won’t be news to you. Already, the overwhelming and all-encompasing nature of web2.0 has me in it’s grips.
Lately, the term 2.0 has made me increasingly uncomfortable. Perhaps even just in the last hour or two. It’s got to a point where if I’m surrounded by talk of it, I want to physically curl up into a ball and hide for a wee while to get over the anxiety of being surrounded by this huge thing that you can’t get away from. Interestingly, this is somewhat similar to the physiological nature of an anxiety attack. The feeling that the world is out to get you and it’s all just about to crash on top of you. It’s a really scary feeling, I can tell you now.
How I can justify that the term web2.0 caught in the same sentence as the word library, prompts such a reaction, is in referring to articles and sharing my real experiences.
I am currently in the process of writing a proposal for social media use by the library for management at my workplace, including incorporating a trial of a twitter account into the libraries services. I haven’t even written the full proposal yet. I’m still in the groundwork, writing it up, fleshing our ideas out stage, but I’m finding myself flipping between the full spectrum of the web2.0 in libraries debate. Is it even a debate??
On the one hand I remain positive in the face of doubt and challenges.
On the other hand, I take the doubts, cynacism, pessimism, and overall negative energy to heart.
Maybe it’s because I’m female and I tend to let my emotions rule me. But I have often thought that I have an larger than normal amount of testosterone in my chemical makeup which makes me tend to hang out with the boys, and ahere to the ”harden up” school of thought more often than not. My cat’s veterinarian recently complemented me on this way of thinking towards my cat’s new [smaller] dietary requirements.
Anyway, back to the point – negative thinking gets me down. What can I do about this?
In regards to music, one of my all-time favourite auditory past-times, I am currently listening to
”I shall believe” by Sheryl Crow
I don’t know what I’d do without inspirational music and lyrics, and thus, quotes.
Update
Am still pondering what to do about negative thinking around me. I say, just walk away. Then you’re away from it at least, if it’s coming from someone else. If not, then… drugs perhaps? Yup, drugs. And the power of positive thought, and a cat lying next to you 
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