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Martin De Saulles comments on B2B social networking - has LinkedIn locked out the competition?

Martin De Saulles — Sat, 29 May 2010 12:23:54 +0000

Looks interesting - I just joined the Yammer network for Brighton Uni. I agree that there could be something in this. It would be good if it works within a Twitter client like Tweetdeck so you can monitor all activity in one place.

Katie Piatt comments on B2B social networking - has LinkedIn locked out the competition?

Katie Piatt — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:24:15 +0000

I'm watching Yammer at the moment. The idea is walled-garden twitter for a company, but they have a community option so companies can link with partners etc. See; https://www.yammer.com/brighton.ac.uk/related_networks It's early days here too, but I think getting twitter right in a business context could be game changing.

Katie Piatt comments on AOSEC Presentation

Katie Piatt — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:59:38 +0000

I agree - it feels blogging and twitter are 'useful' and require more effort than things like facebook. Is it different outside the UK?

Martin De Saulles comments on AOSEC Presentation

Martin De Saulles — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:00:25 +0000

fear not - I'm not making a direct comparison but will try to make the point that there might be a cultural barrier to Twitter in this country as opposed to US where it may be more accepted by students. I think it's a bit like blogging which is not as popular with students as many people suppose.

Katie Piatt comments on AOSEC Presentation

Katie Piatt — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:25:26 +0000

Great slide set. I like the "Sarah and Emma" quotes...and would be interested to hear what comparison you were making with those red arrows between our IS twitter page and the MITLibraries equivalent...I fear ours doesn't compare well...

Martin De Saulles comments on Twitter and the FTSE 100

Martin De Saulles — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:35:43 +0000

thanks for the comment, Katie. You're right - ranking by followers does not tell us an awful lot and the volume of tweets is fairly low for many of the companies. Further research into the actual messages would be interesting to see what was actually being said.

Katie Piatt comments on Twitter and the FTSE 100

Katie Piatt — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:22:25 +0000

Thanks for posting the data - it's really interesting. I'm not sure that ranking by followers is meaningful (as you point out yourself in the footnotes). Inf act I'm surprised how little any of these corporate accounts has tweeted at all really!

Clare Sinclair comments on CiG RIP

Clare Sinclair — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:47:50 +0000

I agree. The initiative I run actually has a 'co-professional' membership category for non-members i.e. other professionals and organisations in the industry. Thus, the site members have some protection from the public eye, but have access to a much wider network.

Martin De Saulles comments on CiG RIP

Martin De Saulles — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:54:30 +0000

Clare,
I agree with you that off-the-shelf networks are not always appropriate, particularly when confidentiality of content is important. CILIP Groups is a good example of a body experimenting with new technologies to help members communicate. I have to confess that I have not used CILIP Groups for a while but seem to remember that the initiative met with some enthusiasm at the beginning but lost traction in terms of active users rather quickly. Despite my agreeing with the need for confidentiality in some communities, part of the problem with CILIP Groups may have been the closed nature of the community which restricted discussion. I notice that the newly launched CILIP Communities seems to be attracting more interest from members - 11 new members on the 1st July. However, to take part in the online discussions you still need to be a member of CILIP. This may be a good idea and encourage people to join CILIP as well as allowing a larger forum for discussion amongst existing members. However, I can see an argument for opening up the online discussions to non-CILIP members to allow a wider range of views and opinions to permeate. It would also allow the search engines to index the discussions which would introduce CILIP and its mission to the wider public.

Clare Sinclair comments on CiG RIP

Clare Sinclair — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:04:31 +0000

Martin,

As a member of CILIP (and I'm on a group committee), and leading an initiative to set up 'communities' for another professional body in my work role, I was really interested in your reflections on this issue.

My experience has been that groups can be attractive as a membership benefit...as long as shifts in communication, networking and knowledge sharing are taken into consideration - and that members are involved in any resulting changes as much as possible.

We've been trying to do this, and are now offering communities in a similar way to CILIP groups, although they have a different governance structure and an online presence on a custom-built professional networking and community-based site. Although it is early days, I've seen that members get additional benefits through this site including access to experts, resources, and the facility to engage with policy consultations.

I am not trying to compete with social networking sites, but really don't think that they can promise the same level of quality of information, access to their membership body and experts, and perhaps even control over personal data.