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Social Media, Social Capitaland Generation GKristen Fisher RatanHighWire Publishers MeetingSpring, 2009Why Should Scholarly Publishers Care?
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Digital media is exploding3
Lets ReviewEveryone is a publisher
Everyone is an author
Every platform is an expert resource
Everything is democratized4
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Authoring Sites
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User-generated eBooks
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A browser extension that lets you comment right next to any text or image that you find on the web and syndicate
ReFrameIt9
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Instant SyndicationReFrameItCommentReFrameIt NetworkFacebookTwitterRSSEmailWidget10
Symptoms of Information OverloadIncreased cardiovascular stressWeakened visionConfusion and frustrationImpaired judgment based upon overconfidenceDecreased benevolence to othersDavid Shenk, Data Smog
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It may sound incredibly un-hip and reactionary, but to hell with the wisdom of crowds. Watching the crowd might be entertaining, but when I need to work, I can get far better results if I constrain that crowd to a few people whose opinions I have reason to respect.-Geoffrey Bilder, CrossRef12
Filtered aggregation13
NY Times Article Skimmer
http://prototype.nytimes.com/gst/articleSkimmer/ 14
Edited aggregation or Link Journalism= Combination of news from trusted sources, vetted by human editors
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Platform for Link Journalism
http://www.publish2.com/16
In the war for attention, filtered aggregation will win17
The reality is that the internet continues to be a rich platform for intermediation strategies, and it's the intermediaries who stand to skim up most of the profits to be made from Web 2.0 -Nick Carr
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2005/11/hypermediation.phpHypermediation18
Aggregating links is where the real power online is, not in aggregating content and getting traffic from the resulting links-Kent Andersonhttp://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/04/14/links-matter-more-than-content-folks/Its the links, stupid. And everyone gives Google their links to read for free!!-Scott Karphttp://publishing2.com/2009/04/11/how-google-stole-control-over-content-distribution-by-stealing-links/
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Show Me The Money!21
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Stop! Money isnt the capital of choice in online communities, it is Whuffie! -Tara Hunt
Blog: http://www.horsepigcow.com/
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Whuffie = social capital 23
Wikipedia on Whuffiethe ephemeral, reputation-based currency of Cory Doctorow's science fiction novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.
Whuffie replaces money, providing a motivation for people to do useful and creative things.
Whuffie = cred without it youre a whole lot of spam24
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Make WhuffieWhuffie is about reputationHistorically, scholarly publisher have had reputation How can you leverage that?Add value:Find or create the relevant filter Add or integrate the social aspectDemocratize stuffWho is in your community; what do they want?What can you afford to contribute or give away?25
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Who Cares About Whuffie?26The G Generation The G stands for GenerosityTrust peer-to-peer communicationDisgusted with greed and dishonesty Mistrust traditional authorities
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Thank You!