That’s the question asked by Andrew Long aka socialspace. Andrew is a lecturer at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand based in the Information Science department. I came across these slides from a recent presentation he gave at IR10 conference in Milwaukee, USA via Twitter. Andrew raises some interesting thoughts in his presentation and had me thinking about Twitter in a new way. View more documents from Andrew Long.

Tim was an engaging and entertaining speaker who ran the audience through the various features available on his ever-popular website LibraryThing. The power of harnessing user generated content using collaborative effort and aided by easy to use online tools was obvious to all. Tim spoke of the site in terms of climbing the social cataloguing ladder. He talked about users climbing the ladder. Ascent of the ladder means more altruism, cooperation, more social.. there’s also [...]

Jessica spoke of her involvement with the programmes and efforts of the early 2000’s to roll out internet and information access to locations across the USA using public libraries. During her talk she spoke about the challenges of working with tribal cultures and technical connectivity. A number of success stories were aired and learning experiences shared with the attentive audience. A delightful speaker who did a great job to spotlight the efforts of the Bill [...]

Day three got off to a great start with an engaging talk by Penny Carnaby who spoke of ‘citizen created content powering the knowledge economy’. Penny laid out the challenge to librarians in attendance to ensure New Zealanders were not part of the ‘delete generation’ and to work proactively to preserve and enhance the digital cultural heritage of the country. A recap of the governments digital strategy and efforts spanning the APNK and Digital New [...]