Sharing Blog Posts

Sharing Blog Posts on Twitter Feed

Students must share a blog post to their Twitter feed create a post showing how they did that.

To share a blog post on my Twitter feed I used the following steps:

1. Opened/viewed "My life" blog http://serenalife123.blogspot.com.au/
2. Opened/viewed the post that i wanted to share "Celebrating Book Week 2014" dated 21 August 2014
3. Scrolled to the bottom of the post
4. Selected the "Share to Twitter" icon
5. A popup window opened displaying the relevant URL details and asked me to sign in to my Twitter account
6. I followed the prompts to sign in and this completed the process, the post was automatically displaying on my Twitter Feed.

Sharing Blog Posts on Facebook Feed

Students must share a blog post to their Facebook feed.

To do this task, I opened up my blog and selected the post that i wanted to share.  I then scrolled down to the facebook share button at the bottom of the post and selected

Note: i did manage to acheive this task, however i am still working on the final submission of this as although i was able to share a post to my FB activity in my FB account, the activity feed will not display on my blogger, so i'm currently working on getting this right.....stay tuned!

Social Media and Copyright

Created works are subject by law to copyright and sharing content or material via social media is no exception to this rule.

As a general guide and simply put if you are the creator or author of the material including original comments, stories or information, images and video's then you own the copyright and you are free to use the material however you wish.  Other people must ask your permission to use the material.

However if you are wanting to use or post material created by other people or organisations then you must seek permission from the creator before publishing it.  Generally there are three exceptions to this and they are (University of Melbourne, 2012):

1. Copyright in the work has expired – generally 70 years after the death of the creator depending on the type of work and if or when it was published 
2. You are using an insubstantial portion – you can quote a few lines or paragraphs of text from a book or journal article, but it is more difficult if you wish to use a portion of a film, image or song. For these, you need to consider how key, essential, important and distinct to the overall work, the portion you wish to use is. As this is qualitative, rather than quantitative, even a really short extract may be considered substantial if it is distinctive or a key part of the overall work. For example, a short scene in a movie that reveals a key plot point or a few bars from a song if they form a distinctive part of the melody will probably be deemed substantial
3. The copyright owner has given their permission or licensed the work - for example Creative Commons material. 

There are also exceptions such as Twitter and Facebook where you can re-tweet or reuse material within those social media tools, but outside of that you need to seek permission from the creator (University of Melbourne, 2012).

Sharing or embedding links to a website is a great feature, but not always copyright-free and material is often made available without permission, so the University Of Melbourne (2012) suggest using the following steps in deciding if material is legitimate:

• Link to websites that are reputable, legitimate and/or official. Take care with user generated sites, such as Youtube, as not all users understand copyright and ensure that the material they contribute is copyright compliant
• Check that the content and the website have proper attributions and includes a copyright statement.  The more detailed the copyright information, the more likely that the website is copyright compliant
• Check the quality of the content. Poor quality sound and images may indicate that the material has been reproduced without permission
• If it’s too good to be true, it probably is. Use your common sense and judgement, if you find a website with the latest Hollywood blockbuster available in full, chances are it’s not legal.   

For further information regarding copyright and uploading material to social media follow the links below:

Online social networking: copyright
Complying with copyright when using social media

References

University of Melbourne. (November, 2012). Social media & copyright. 
    Retrieved September 17, 2014, from website: http://www.unimelb.edu.au/copyright/information/guides/socialmedialibrarystaff.pdf

Comments: Classmates Blog

As part of our assessment we must include at least one link in a blog post to the blog of another classmate where we have commented on that person's post.

Below is a link to Captain Kahan's blog, where i have made comment on the post titled "copyright on social media".

Captain Kahan's Blog : Comment

FromMelbin: Researchers & social media

Library Related Blog:

Students must include at least one post where they are sharing the content of a post on a library related blog using the share blog feature at the bottom of each post in blogger.

Please find this below!

FromMelbin: Researchers & social media: In early February I was asked to participate in a discussion on the use of social media by researchers for our 2013 Research Week . I was jo...

Social Media and Privacy

Privacy can be a major issue when it comes to using social media.  Social networking is primarily about connecting, collaborating and sharing ourselves and abilities with each other or like minded people from around the world, but to do this we are often asked to reveal personal information about ourselves that perhaps others should not know.

In this age of social media and Web 2.0 technology comes an era of providing the world with information that leaves us exposed and vulnerable to privacy issues.

According to a 2011 Survey of Privacy and Security Issues in Social Networks paper (Washington University, 2011) among Spam, Malware, Physical threat and identity theft issues the major privacy related issues that Social Networking has created are related to User's Anonymity and User's Profile and Personal information.

The paper identifies that in most cases user's choose to use their real name and details in creating a profile and online presence leaving them exposed to to all of the above named threats.  Social networking tools often ask you to provide personal information such as your name and sex, an e-mail address and recovery e-mail details, date of birth and location just to start up an account.

The majority then expect you to fill in a profile disclosing further information on your exact city/town location, school or work details, likes and dislikes, relationship status, even posting images etc and although these details alone seem quite harmless, when you take into consideration that social networking sites are open to the public unless you are savvy enough to set your account settings to private, this allows strangers to access vital information about you.

Not only are strangers able to take advantage of your details, but the social networking sites themselves are able to group, store and use this information for later use and a prime example of this, is when you see advertising on your Facebook page promoting products geared toward your age or sex.

Yet some of those people who use Anonymity are sometimes seen or identified as a threat to young people and or can pose more of a risk to those user's who choose to disclose personal information.

So should a person participate in social media using full disclosure or not? or is the potential price some of us pay for putting ourselves out there too high?  Have a look at a couple of the listed links below about social media and privacy issues to make up your own mind.

There is no doubting that social media is beneficial, fun and a wonderful way to connect with each other so perhaps the key to using it well is to be sensible, understand and read up on terms, conditions, account settings and how to use certain tools before considering using the product, don't just dive straight in to it.

Social Media and Privacy information:

Anonymity, Privacy and Security
Cyber Smart
Internet Communications and Privacy Rights

References

Washington University St Louis. (November, 2011). A Survey of Privacy and Security Issues in Social Networks. Retrieved September 13, 2014,

     from website: http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/cse571-11/ftp/social.pdf 

Social Media Etiquette

How we choose to interact online is as important as we interact face to face.  Let's not forget, we are creating an impression and presence for the rest of the world to see us and whether we are representing a business or being our self it is important to know and use acceptable social skills.

Believe it or not!  There are general rules and etiquette expectations used in cyberspace and it's referred to as Netiquette.

Netiquette is a set of rules for behaving properly online and include but are not limited to some of the rules listed below (Net Etiquette, 2011):

• Treat people as you would like to be treated
• Remember that you are interacting with real people and their feelings so it is important not to say anything offensive or that you would not say in person
• Be ethical and adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you would in real life
• Breaking the law is bad Netiquette so do your best to act within the laws of society and cyberspace
• Know where you are in cyberspace because Netiquette varies from domain to domain and what may be acceptable in one, may not be in another, so spend some time observing the domain before participating
• Be pleasant and polite
• Know what you are talking about and make sense
• Don't use offensive language or be confrontational for the sake of confrontation
• Share your knowledge, especially if you are an expert
• Respect other people's privacy
• Be forgiving of other people's mistakes and keep in mind that having good manners yourself doesn't give you licence to correct everyone else

Here is a link to a website that is a useful resource regarding Netiquette rules:

The Core Rules of Netiquette

Whilst the following link is a useful Australian Government resource that addresses the Internet basics including Netiquette Internet basics.

References

Net Etiquette. (2011). The Core Rules of Netiquette. Retrieved September 14, 2014,

     from website: http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html 

YouTube Assessment

I hope you enjoyed the Dewey Decimal YouTube clip that i posted earlier!

Now I am going to address the assessment criteria below and that means that i will post a link to a library related YouTube channel and embed a video from that channel into this post below.

National Library of Australia Channel : The following is a video clip about whether or not you are able to borrow items from the National Library of Australia.