Comments on: Colonizing MySpace http://bavatuesdays.com/colonizing-myspace/ a "b" blog Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:16:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Colonizing Social Sites: It’s Fun & It’s FREE! at bavatuesdays http://bavatuesdays.com/colonizing-myspace/#comment-3612 Colonizing Social Sites: It’s Fun & It’s FREE! at bavatuesdays Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:30:23 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=272#comment-3612 [...] These are just two examples of ways that museums are tapping into the immense social networks that have already been established by applications like MySpace and Flickr. I posted a little back about Brooklyn College’s Library presence on MySpace; I was thinking aloud about the presence of other universities and colleges on MySpace. Yesterday, Melissa (sorry I don’t have a link or more info about this great resource) replied in the comments of that post directing me to the Universities and Colleges page on Myspace. From my initial explorations there are 23 colleges and universities on MySpace and there profiles vary widely in approach and accessibility. Not all of them are public and many of them have issues with the formatting of their profile, check out Yale and Brown’s profiles for cleaner, more attractive interfaces. Many of the profiles have done a good job of befriending their students: Wake Forest has 893 friends and Brown has 375 friends. [...] [...] These are just two examples of ways that museums are tapping into the immense social networks that have already been established by applications like MySpace and Flickr. I posted a little back about Brooklyn College’s Library presence on MySpace; I was thinking aloud about the presence of other universities and colleges on MySpace. Yesterday, Melissa (sorry I don’t have a link or more info about this great resource) replied in the comments of that post directing me to the Universities and Colleges page on Myspace. From my initial explorations there are 23 colleges and universities on MySpace and there profiles vary widely in approach and accessibility. Not all of them are public and many of them have issues with the formatting of their profile, check out Yale and Brown’s profiles for cleaner, more attractive interfaces. Many of the profiles have done a good job of befriending their students: Wake Forest has 893 friends and Brown has 375 friends. [...]
]]> By: jimgroom http://bavatuesdays.com/colonizing-myspace/#comment-3483 jimgroom Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:05:27 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=272#comment-3483 This is excellent, Michelle. Thanks! It is a very short list of Universities and Colleges on MySpace to say the least., I would love to find out how each of these schools made the decision and why -for as you suggest banning MySpace is so 1950s! I am gonna have to explore the school profiles more and report back. Great find. This is excellent, Michelle. Thanks! It is a very short list of Universities and Colleges on MySpace to say the least., I would love to find out how each of these schools made the decision and why -for as you suggest banning MySpace is so 1950s! I am gonna have to explore the school profiles more and report back. Great find.
]]> By: Michelle http://bavatuesdays.com/colonizing-myspace/#comment-3478 Michelle Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:31:00 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=272#comment-3478 Here you go: http://www.myspace.com/collegesanduniversities I was researching Google to find universities on MySpace. Most of the articles that came up were about administrators deciding to ban MySpace or laying down rules about how students should use MySpace. They are so out of touch! That's like telling kids in the 50's to not listen to rock-n-roll. Come on baby boomers... wake up! Here you go:

http://www.myspace.com/collegesanduniversities

I was researching Google to find universities on MySpace. Most of the articles that came up were about administrators deciding to ban MySpace or laying down rules about how students should use MySpace. They are so out of touch! That’s like telling kids in the 50’s to not listen to rock-n-roll. Come on baby boomers… wake up!

]]> By: Charlotte http://bavatuesdays.com/colonizing-myspace/#comment-2442 Charlotte Fri, 24 Nov 2006 03:29:02 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=272#comment-2442 Coming soon to a computer near you. Honest. Coming soon to a computer near you. Honest.
]]> By: jimgroom http://bavatuesdays.com/colonizing-myspace/#comment-2440 jimgroom Fri, 24 Nov 2006 03:10:28 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=272#comment-2440 Excellent point, Charlotte. MySpace, with its umteen million unique visitors monthly, has become a lot more than a place to bring people together, it has become a place to lure people in! Commercialization is certainly one big offshoot of this, but I think that the Brooklyn College library experiment suggests the need for an online community for libraries more generally. Hmmmm, now that is something we might want to think about after the Simpson library blog gets rolling, a MySpace page that leads UMW patrons (students, faculty, and staff alike) to a Simpson library community site. Thanks for visiting bavatuesdays, Charlotte, your patronage is greatly appreciated and your comment is spot on! I wish I could trackback to your blog :) Excellent point, Charlotte. MySpace, with its umteen million unique visitors monthly, has become a lot more than a place to bring people together, it has become a place to lure people in! Commercialization is certainly one big offshoot of this, but I think that the Brooklyn College library experiment suggests the need for an online community for libraries more generally. Hmmmm, now that is something we might want to think about after the Simpson library blog gets rolling, a MySpace page that leads UMW patrons (students, faculty, and staff alike) to a Simpson library community site.

Thanks for visiting bavatuesdays, Charlotte, your patronage is greatly appreciated and your comment is spot on! I wish I could trackback to your blog :)

]]> By: Charlotte http://bavatuesdays.com/colonizing-myspace/#comment-2436 Charlotte Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:13:07 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=272#comment-2436 Librarians—both academic and public—have indeed been talking about whether and how to create MySpace and Facebook pages. There are conflicting schools of thought. Some say: absolutely, meet users wherever you find them. Others wonder if having an “institutional” MySpace page doesn’t just prove how out of it libraries are! These folks say that the whole purpose of social network sites is to bring people together, not to try to gain their business. But judging from the MySpaces pages created for movies, for example, it appears to me that like almost everything else on the Web, MySpace hasn’t just been colonized, it has been commercialized. It’s very intriguing to hear that 2200 people have “made friends” with the Brooklyn College library. Hmmm. Thanks for blogging about this. Librarians—both academic and public—have indeed been talking about whether and how to create MySpace and Facebook pages. There are conflicting schools of thought. Some say: absolutely, meet users wherever you find them. Others wonder if having an “institutional” MySpace page doesn’t just prove how out of it libraries are! These folks say that the whole purpose of social network sites is to bring people together, not to try to gain their business. But judging from the MySpaces pages created for movies, for example, it appears to me that like almost everything else on the Web, MySpace hasn’t just been colonized, it has been commercialized. It’s very intriguing to hear that 2200 people have “made friends” with the Brooklyn College library. Hmmm. Thanks for blogging about this.
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