Category «Blogs»

Privacy Compliance Review of the NOC Publicly Available Social Media Monitoring and Situational Awareness Initiative

Privacy Compliance Review of the NOC Publicly Available Social Media Monitoring and Situational Awareness Initiative, November 8, 2012 “The Office of Operations Coordination and Planning (OPS), National Operations Center (NOC), has statutory responsibility to (1) provide situational awareness and establish a common operating picture for the federal government, and for state, local, and tribal governments …

Subjects: Blogs, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Government Documents, Privacy

Teen Use of Social Networking Sites and Perceptions of Legal Risk

De Zwart, Melissa , Lindsay, David F., Henderson, Michael and Phillips, Michael, Randoms vs Weirdos: Teen Use of Social Networking Sites and Perceptions of Legal Risk (2011). (2011) 36(3) Alternative Law Journal 153.; Monash University Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 44. Available at SSRN This article reports on research to identify the …

Subjects: Blogs, Internet, Legal Research

MIT – Predicting what topics will trend on Twitter

Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office: “At the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Information and Decision in Social Networks at MIT in November, Associate Professor Devavrat Shah and his student Stanislav Nikolov will present a new algorithm that can, with 95 percent accuracy, predict which topics will trend an average of an hour and a half before Twitters …

Subjects: Blogs

AALL and ILTA joint white paper – “The New Librarian”

The New Librarian Librarians expertly engage in the following discipline, programs and projects: Intranet content development; Creation of expertise databases; Database development and maintenance; Taxonomy development and enterprise implementation; Legal project management; Search engine optimization (SEO); Business Intelligence and Competitive Intelligence; Planning, launching and maintaining Social Media applications; Portal knowledge services; ROI (for research, knowledge, …

Subjects: Blogs, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Marketing, Search Engines

EFF: Facebook and Datalogix – What's Actually Getting Shared and How You Can Opt Out

EFF: “Weve been seeing a range of reports about Facebook partnering up with marketing company Datalogix to assess whether users go to stores in the physical world and buy the products they saw in Facebook advertisements. A lot of the reports arent getting into the nitty gritty of what data is actually shared between Facebook …

Subjects: Blogs, E-Commerce, Internet, Privacy

FCW – The 50 most-followed agencies on Twitter

Federal Computer Week: “Twitter has quickly evolved from social media novelty to critical communications channel. This list shows which federal agencies have built the biggest audiences, and where the growth has been fastest over the past year. The data [in this article] was compiled by OhMyGov, a media and technology firm that specializes in providing …

Subjects: Blogs, E-Government, Marketing

Study – History, As Recorded on Twitter, Is Vanishing From The Web

Technology Review: “Almost 30 per cent of recorded history, shared over social media such as Twitter, has disappeared, according to a new study of the Egyptian uprising and other significant events.” Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1209.3026: How Many Resources Shared on Social Media Have Been Lost?

Subjects: Blogs, Internet, Knowledge Management

Users increasingly sharing photos over text on social media

eMarketer – Users turn to Instagram, Tumblr and Twitter itself to post pictures. “As the number of Twitter users grows, consumers are using the site to share photos, videos and other links with their followers. eMarketer forecasts that US adult Twitter users will reach 31.8 million in 2013, up 14.9% from the 27.7 million users …

Subjects: Blogs, E-Commerce, Internet, Knowledge Management

Proposed Model Jury Instructions – The Use of Electronic Technology to Conduct Research on or Communicate about a Case

Proposed Model Jury Instructions – The Use of Electronic Technology to Conduct Research on or Communicate about a Case. Prepared by the Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management, June 2012 “I know that many of you use cell phones, Blackberries, the internet and other tools of technology. You also must not talk …

Subjects: Blogs, Courts, Internet, Legal Research, Wireless Web

Twitter Launches new barometer for the election

Twitter Blog: “One glance at the numbers, and its easy to see why pundits are already calling 2012 the Twitter election. More Tweets are sent every two days today than had ever been sent prior to Election Day 2008 and Election Day 2008s Tweet volume represents only about six minutes of Tweets today. All …

Subjects: Blogs

The Air Force Guide to Effective Social Media Use

Navigating the Social Network – The Air Force Guide to Effective Social Media, March 2012 With the emergence of social media, information sharing continues to be dynamic and evolving. Social media is a global cultural phenomenon, and for many Americans it has become such a part of their daily activities they cant imagine living without …

Subjects: Blogs, Government Documents, Internet

Twitter launches improvements for simpler search

Twitter “introduced “search autocomplete and People you follow search results to twitter.com. In addition to recent improvements like related query suggestions, spelling corrections and more relevant search results, these updates make it even easier to immediately get closer to the things you care about. Search autocomplete shows you the most likely terms for your query …

Subjects: Blogs

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