A centre of expertise in digital information management Brian Kelly UKOLN University of Bath Bath,...

A centre of expertise in digital information management

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Brian KellyUKOLNUniversity of BathBath, UK

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Metrics for the Social Webor how institutional data may include data about institutions / members of institutions held elsewhere


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Slide Concept by Cameron Neylon, who has waived all copyright and related or neighbouring rights. This slide only CCZero.Social Media Icons adapted with permission from originals by Christopher Ross. Original images are available under GPL at:http://www.thisismyurl.com/free-downloads/15-free-speech-bubble-icons-for-popular-websites


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Services being considered: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, iTunes, Technorati, Wikio & Slideshare

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Twitter: Personal Trends

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Reality:• Significant use began in Apr 2008 at MW 2008 conf• Needed community in order to gain benefits

Implications:• Our memories may be incorrect• Data may be wrong (due to Twitter downtime??)

I thought I used Twitter regularly ever since signing up in March 2007.

Evidence from Tweetstats:• Significant use began in

Jan 2008 (100+ tweets)• No use in Mar-Jun 2008


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Social Media Analytic Summaries

Social media analytic summaries for Russell Group Universities

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Outliers may be interesting


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Peerindex Comparisons (1)

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Peerindex’s ‘topic fingerprint’ for Oxford / Cambridge:• Similar profiles• Oxford covers

news, politics & history

• Cambridge covers technologies

Peerindex and Klout group comparisons for Russell Group Unis available(data used in this talk is available freely for reuse under CC0 licence)


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Peerindex Comparisons (2)

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Peerindex’s ‘topic fingerprint’ for:

@psychemedia (blue blob) & @mweller (grey outline)

Do such comparisons tell us anything useful?

Example used of four established bloggers / Twitterers


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Slideshare at Events (1 of 2)

IWMW events used Slideshare since 2006.

Statistics show:

• Overall nos of views (<1,000 live audience)

and suggest:

• Potential for amplification of parallel sessions

• Potential value of aggregation of slides

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But does decline since 2008 peak indicate:• Slideshare is past it (use Slideboom,

…)?• Viewing slides is passe• Benefits of longstanding availability?


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Slideshare at Events (2 of 2)

Statistics of most popular slides suggest:• Popularity of

non-HE speakers’ slides

• Popularity of slides not in corporate house style

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This has some positive correlation with experiences of local audienceCould this inform selection of speakers in future?


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FacebookSurvey of Russell Group Unis Fb use:Branded Fb URL: 7

Fb page: 7

Fb group: 1

No easily found Fb presence: 5

Neglected or unofficial Fb presence: 1

Range of ‘likes’: 2,047 – 137,395

Recent report on ‘ROI of Fb advertising’ suggested “1 Facebook fan = 20 additional visits to your website”

10How would we know if Cardiff‘s 20,035 Likes have provided an ROI?


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YouTube EduSurvey of YouTube Edu accounts:• 1M+ views at

Coventry Uni • Lack of comments

11Example of stats available


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iTunes Edu

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Numeric data not readily obtained from iTunes Edu

Is this:• To be welcomed as an

escape from bean-counting?

• Of concern since gathering qualitative evidence can be costly?

Blog post analysed how services marketed: “lots of content”; “free content”; “available on iPods”; …


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The Context

The need to demonstrate value in light of Government cuts 13

NB 1D view: no comments on ROI, comparisons with print, TV, … costs


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Open DataGovernment to ‘force’ Unis to publish data about courses, student experiences, …• Builds on Labour’s

Open Gov initiative• An opportunity to be

welcomed? • Can take initiative in

publishing open data about uses of social media

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Numbers Matter

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“Sales of 25 million iPads in just 14 months. 200 million iOS devices in total. 15 billion songs downloaded since 2003. 130 million books. 14 billion apps downloaded from a store that now runs to 425,000 apps.”

BBC News 7 Jun 11

JISC-funded OII Impact report: “The media and the public are influenced by numbers and metrics”


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Prisoner’s DilemmaWe can all benefit by:

• Sharing best practices• Understanding limitations• Agreeing on ways forward

But concerns that:• We might be doing badly• We might not be doing as well

as our rivals• We don’t want to boast• We want a perfect solution,

not a good enough one• We want to learnt from others,

but not share our experiences

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Prisoner’s dilemma: why people might not cooperate even if it is in their best interests to do so.

Concerns


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What I’d Like from Developers

What I’d like:• To avoid marketing departments paying

Social media companies for social media analytics

• Developers to demonstrate how they can add value to gathering, interpreting and visualising data for personal /institutional use of Social Web

• To be completed by 10am tomorrow for demonstration at IWMW launch!

Can you help?

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