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If you’re not paying the for it, YOU are the product…

(http://lifehacker.com/5697167/if-youre-not-paying-for-it-youre-the-product)

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Below a digest of some discussions reported in 2 blogs:

• May 2009, Rest in peace RSS: It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter. RSS just doesn’t cut it anymore. (…) Suddenly everyone and their dog was convinced RSS was dead and we should all move on.
• In early 2011 RSS still wasn’t quite dead. (…) To me, anytime someone says a tech is dead it usually means that tech is not very interesting to discuss anymore, or isn’t seeing the most innovative companies doing new things with it.
• April 2012 – RSS still wasn’t quite dead (…) There’s a veritable explosion of companies removing RSS from their products … for whatever reason. Usually because it doesn’t directly benefit the bottom line – they prefer proprietary formats
• RSS will never die because of a simple reality: power users. (…) RSS is here to stay for at least a while longer – all those people doing most of the sharing? A lot of their stuff comes from RSS.
• Twitter is not a replacement for RSS. Not by a long shot. It’s too busy! (…) Consequently, RSS offers bigger exposure to your content.
• Twitter seems to be the place to have conversations now rather then on blogs. That’s not to say blogs don’t have a place in both finding information and having discussions, but it would appear they’re being used for more reflective posts, which individuals can comment on, rather then short conversations involving lots of individuals

Teller, Swizec. RSS will never die. Zemanta Tech blog, April 26, 2012. Available from: http://www.zemanta.com/fruitblog/rss-will-never-die/ [Accessed 4th of May 2012]

Mulla, James. The role of RSS and RSS readers. FUMSI, 30th of April 2012. Available from: http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/manage/68689 [Accessed 4th of May 2012]

Social media versus social business

The biggest difference between social media and social business is that social media tools provide the platform and the technologies that people use to communicate and create content. Social media is usually used to describe technologies used outside of an organisation by individuals such asTwitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Social business on the other hand is the process and result of optimising internal business processes using social media tools. Social business also means applying social concepts and technology internally to create collaboration, sharing, innovation and engagement opportunities. Creating a social business usually means applying social media tools to business processes, but it’s not a requirement, an organisation can be described as being social without necessarily using social media tools.

Mullan, James. Jumping on the social business bandwagon. FUMSI, 24th of April 2012. Available from: http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/68638 [Accessed 26th of April 2012]

UPDATED ON 6th of March 2012:

As part of Google’s prioritization of product efforts, we will be retiring Knol.  From now through April 30th, 2012, Knol will work as usual, but we’ve made it easy for you to download your knols to file and/or export them to WordPress.com.  From May 1, 2012 through October 1, 2012, knols will no longer be viewable, but can be downloaded and exported.  After that time, knol content will no longer be accessible

https://knol-redirects.appspot.com/faq.html

KNOL, the Google attempt, a long forgotten Wikipedia competitor, will be shutting down soon…

According:
http://mashable.com/2011/11/22/google-wave-knol-and-gears-headed-for-retirement-video/

Google blog:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/more-spring-cleaning-out-of-season.html

For previous posts on KNOL, see:

http://scienceintelligence.wordpress.com/tag/knol/

http://scienceintelligence.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/a-piece-of-knowledge-by-google/

To read in Information Today Europe:

For the last five years the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s Center for Marketing Research has been conducting a study about the use of social media in the 500 fastest growing organisations in the US (The Inc. 500.)  The first study, conducted in 2007, found that these companies were much more likely to have adopted blogs than those in the ‘traditional’ Fortune 500.

The latest findings show that the use of blogging in the Inc. 500 companies is declining for the first time. Blogging had declined to 37% from 50% in 2010. (…)

However, as blogging reaches maturity in these organisations, the use of other social media, including Facebook, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Mobile apps, texting, Twitter and YouTube, is growing.  74% of responding companies were using Facebook, and 73% using LinkedIn. (…)

Read further:

Val Skelton, A blog post about the decline of blogging. Information Today Europe Blog, 2nd of February 2012.

http://www.infotodayeurope.com/2012/02/02/a-blog-post-about-the-decline-of-blogging/

This was already announced in April 2010 and looked like a 1rst April’s joke.

LibraryStuff announces today that the ”Library of Congress and Twitter have signed an agreement that will see an archive of every public Tweet ever sent”…  The archives don’t contain tweets that users have protected, but everything else — billions and billions of tweets — are there…

http://www.librarystuff.net/2011/12/07/library-of-congress-to-receive-entire-twitter-archive/

According Dominic Tyer.

Pharmaceutical companies have started joining Google’s new social network with Roche and Pfizer the first to set up official Google+ presences.

Fake pages are already an issue on Google+ and Roche’s head of corporate internet and social media Sabine Kostevc explained that one of the reasons she set up Roche’s corporate page was to “reserve the space”.

For now both Roche and Pfizer are only tentatively using Google+, as befits a still emerging social network, but already official pharma pages are outnumbered by fake ones.

Tyer, Dominic. Roche and Pfizer launches pharma’s first official Google+ pages. Digital Intelligence blog, Posted on 6^th of December 2011. http://www.pmlive.com/digital_intelligence_blog/archive/2011/dec_2011/roche_pfizer_pharma_official_google_plus_pages

“Most businesses still struggle to find the Holy Grail of engagement with customers on social media, suggest a couple of new reports. If so, it’s not for want of tools to help them – but the real question is whether social network users want the big brands to be there at all. (…)

A study “warns that muscling in on social media can be detrimental to the brand, and that brands need to consider carefully how to build a relationship with their audience. But that still ignores the more fundamental question of whether, in the long term, social network users are going to tolerate sharing their space with business at all”.

Social networkers to business: “Get out!” , Tim Buckley Owen. VIVA VIP, Online 13th of Nov. 2011

http://web.vivavip.com/forum/LiveWire/read.php?i=32426

The investigation of Web 2.0 applications in medical-related organisations is of critical importance. Recent trends have indicated the increasing use of Web 2.0 tools in the health sector as shown through a large number of studies.To date, most of the research on Web 2.0 in health has focused on the individual level, e.g. how individuals such as physicians, medical students and patients use Web 2.0. However, research on the institutional/organisation level, more specifically, how medical-related organisations use Web 2.0 is meagre.

Therefore, this study attempts to give an overview of the trends and issues associated with medical-related organisations’ (University Medical Libraries,Public Hospitals and Non-profit Medical Organisations) adoption or non-adoption of Web 2.0 technologies.

Results showed that knowledge and information sharing and the provision of a better communication platform were rated as the main purposes of using Web 2.0. Time constraints and low staff engagement were the most highly rated difficulties. In addition, most participants found Web 2.0 to be beneficial to their organisations. Medical-related organisations that adopted Web 2.0 technologies have found them useful, with benefits outweighing the difficulties in the long run.

Samuel KaiWa h Chu,  Matsuko Woo,  Ronnel B. King,  Stephen Choi,  Miffy Cheng,  Peggy Koo. Examining the application of Web 2.0 in medical-related organisations. Health Information & Libraries Journal. Article first published online: 17 NOV 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-1842.2011.00970.x

Discussion about cardiac arrest on Twitter is common and represents a new opportunity to provide life saving information to the public, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

The Penn researchers evaluated cardiac arrest- and resuscitation-related Tweets during a month-long period in the spring of 2011 and discovered hat users frequently share information about CPR and automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and discuss resuscitation topics in the news.
Although their findings indicate that use of the platform to ask questions about cardiac arrest appears to be only in its infancy, the authors suggest that Twitter represents a unique, promising avenue to respond to queries from the public and disseminate information about this leading killer

“Twitter is an incredible resource for connecting and mobilizing people, and it offers users a way to receive instant feedback and information. The potential applications of social media for cardiac arrest are vast,”

Read more on:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/237574.php