What Is A Microblog? Microblogs are very simple internet technologies that allow users to post short statements or sentences, usually limited to 140 characters on a central site. The post can be made available to anyone or only to a chosen audience.
Archive for microblog
About Plurk
This is a thypical example of “simply” category. But a little different from twitter: for example we can´speak about followers here. They are fans. (It sounds much better to me 
) And the messages appear in a timeline. More visuable than identi.ca or twitter. Good structure, and the transparency is very high. And of course it is for free.
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screenshot about the timeline
Steps of MicroBlogging
The first easy role to choose the best microblog platform, and after comes the registration, of course. Fortunately most of the microblog services are free of charge. The second steps in the life of library microblog is Building Community Online or virtual community. Members of this community are the followers (library users in our case). And if a business starts up… So, librarians have to refresh the microblog of the library. It is very important, to tell correct and fresh information on this platform. And after that the virtual community will be bigger and bigger…
- create community, contribute and share their views.
- MIcroBlogs are altering knowledge work and practices among exiting groups and creating new knowledge communities.
- common goals : improving library
Virtual following
- We can follow the everyday life of the library
- Important informations about the library
Twitter for library students
1. Communication and connection:
- I can contact and seek advice for library related questions from educators around the world.
- I get feedback easly on my ideas and projects.
Is it good for libraries?
The answer is clearly YES. Nowadays health institutions use microblogs too. The doctors tell that MicroBlog is very helpful in their profession. In 2008 twitter became a mainstream tool to communicate, connenct and collaborate. So they use twitter to share opinions and informations about interesting illnesses. They think about twitter, that it is the fastest platform to give and get feedbacks.
Let’s see some reasons why is it so succesful:
- Twitter is not only the minor details of life and fun to share. If you build a professional community you can get lots of valuable feedbacks.
- Faster than the e-mail or traditional mail.
- It can converges fellowships. For example: members of a conference, or fellowship of Librarians…
Where does the exact place of MicroBlog?
The first step was a simply blog on the net. It is a service of web 2.0. What does it means? On 2.0 you can create, and you can share your opinions, and informations with everybody. It is very good platform. And of course it is develop. Now you can use lot of services in your blog. It is a good combination of a notepad and a forum.
Where does the exact place of MicroBlog?
So I said that blogs are develop. Microblog is maybe a transition of a blog and the semantic blog. Or it is more relevant if I say, that microblog is between IM(Gtalk, MSN, Skype…) and e-mail. Semantic blog is the near future. The most important exercise to find the best combination of blog, microblog and semantic web.
About Twitter
Many social sites let you express your thoughts and creativity, but none compresses that expression with the concise style of Twitter. The popular site asks you to share what you’re doing or thinking in 140 characters or less. That’s only about 20-25 words. You might call it a microblog.
Some people don’t get the concept; others love it. Big announcements — “I got the job!” (14 characters) – are possible, but most entries – “gotta go to another meeting” (27 characters) – don’t reveal much. Twitter’s value increases over time, however, as friends learn more about each other from the collected log of messages. Your followers might discover what excites you, what annoys you, and glimpse some of your life’s miscellany that would never make it into an email.
Users can send tweets (as Twitter messages are known) via mobile phones and pipe them into other applications, too. That makes the site even more appealing to folks who like to be in continuous “live” mode online. You can arrange meetings on the run and connect with friends wherever they are.
Definition of MicroBlogs
Microblogging is a web service that allows the subscriber to broadcast short messages to other subscribers of the service. Microposts can be made public on a Web site and/or distributed to a private group of subscribers. Subscribers can read microblog posts online or request that updates be delivered in real time to their desktop as an instant message or sent to a mobile device as an SMS text message.
The appeal of microblogging is both its immediacy and portability. Posts are brief (typically 140 – 200 characters) and can be written or received with a variety of computing devices, including cell phones. Although most microblog broadcasts are posted as text, some microblogging services allow video or audio posts.
Microblogging is slowly moving into the mainstream. In the United States, for example, Presidential candidate Barack Obama microblogged from the campaign trail using Twitter, one of the most popular microblogging services. Traditional media organizations, including The New York Times and the BBC, have begun to send headlines and links in microblog posts. Other potential applications of microblogging include traffic and sports updates and emergency broadcast systems and library systems too.
from: http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid40_gci1265620,00.html
