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Why People Use Twitter

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Source: http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2009/why-people-use-twitter/ 28-07-2009

eMarketer has published statistics which reveal that 41.6% percent of Twitter users use the microblogging application to keep in touch with their friends. Other findings include:

• Secondarily, men were interested in finding news and women in updating their status.
• Users under age 35 were more interested in broadcasting their status than their senior counterparts.
• Older users were more likely to use the service for work-related purposes.
• More women interacted with friends, family and celebrities than men, but men were more likely to follow bloggers.

But 69% Of Adults Don’t Know What Twitter Is

See http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/07/28/twitter-unveils-redesigned-home-page/

Talking about my generation: Exploring age-related resources

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Source: Association of Colleges and research Libraries

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crlnews/2009/jul/agerelate.cfm 

Some good resources to read to avoid the gap between generations

UK : Power in People’s Hands: Learning from the World’s Best Public Services

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Source: http://greatemancipator.com/2009/07/26/world-class/ , posted: 26 Jul 2009

Another document recently appearing on the Cabinet Office web site – if only you all had time to read them all – is “Power in People’s Hands: Learning from the World’s Best Public Services“. Its 70 A4 landscape pages may be picking up on the interest Liam Byrne and David Milliband have been demonstrating in Nobel prizewinner Amartya Sen’s work, whose latest book “The Idea of Justice” is freshly published.

I don’t know if the Cabinet Office realise how insulting works like theirs can be, since many of their examples of good practice are actually in use in the UK, but people are too busy doing them to shout about it! At least on this occasion they have started calling the government’s customers “citizens” and taking a look at all the good practice from Canada, who probably do better at service delivery since they have insited upon calling the users of government services “citizens” for many years!

Key conclusions of the report – common standards, greater incentives for improvement and promotion of equity!

GreatEmancipator.com

US govt admits to being a web 2.0 laggard

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Futuregov.net by Robin Hicks | 23 July 2009

“Federal Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra has admitted that the United States government is lagging far behind its citizens in its use of the internet to communicate, collaborate and solve problems using social networking platforms.”…

What about EU?

Read more on http://www.futuregov.net/articles/2009/jul/23/us-govts-admits-being-laggard-web-20-use/  

Assessment of State e-Government Services

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The National Center for Public Performance and the American Society for Public Administration have released U.S. States E-Governance Report (2008) An Assessment of State Websites, which evaluates security, usability and content of state websites, the type of online services being offered, and citizen response and participation through websites established by state governments

See also eMetrics primer

http://egovau.blogspot.com/2008/05/emetrics-primer.html

Et McKinsey Quaterly at  http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/E-government_20_2408

In our experience, three obstacles have, however, limited the impact of e-government efforts: ineffective governance, lack of Web-related capabilities, and reluctance to allow user participation in the creation of applications and content.

Commission calls hearing on Google Books

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Source: EurActiv, Published: Wednesday 22 July 2009, read more 

The European Commission is to hold a hearing in September for interested parties to comment on the impact on EU writers' rights of a deal struck with publishers by Google to make millions of books available online.

See also: US, DOJ and Google Book  Search at

http://europa-eu-audience.typepad.com/en/2009/07/us-department-of-justice-opens-investigation-into-google-book-search.html

and http://europa-eu-audience.typepad.com/en/5_publications/

Records Management Research Reports

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Sources : PADI (Australia)

http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/07/17/free-online-training-in-electronic-records-management-term/

http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/

 

The International Records Management Trust (IRMT) has delivered a continuous research programme over the last decade with the aim of developing an ever deepening understanding of the issues affecting the management of essential public sector records in the electronic environment.  All of the IRMT’s research reports can be downloaded without charge.

See also

http://europa-eu-audience.typepad.com/en/2008/12/information-and-records-management-in-europe-achievements-and-new-directions-.html

and

http://europa-eu-audience.typepad.com/en/2008/09/rm-t.html

Mandatory deposit of online-only works

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US Copyright Office Desires to Make Changes to Mandatory Deposit of Published Electronic Works Available Only Rule

What is the EU policy in this domain ?

The Copyright Office of the Library of Congress is proposing to amend its regulations governing mandatory deposit of electronic works published in the United States and available only online. The amendments would establish that such works are exempt from mandatory deposit until a demand for deposit of copies or phonorecords of such works is issued by the Copyright Office. They would also set forth the process for issuing and responding to a demand for deposit, amend the definition of a “complete copy” of a work for purposes of mandatory deposit of online-only works, and establish new best edition criteria for electronic serials available only online. The Copyright Office seeks public comment on these proposed revisions.

Sources:

Federal Register, From the Federal Register Notice:

Hat Tip: Cryptome.org

http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/07/18/copyright-office-desires-to-make-changes-to-mandatory-deposit-of-published-electronic-works-available-only-rule/

W3C eGovernment Interest Group Charter

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Source: http://www.w3.org/2009/06/eGov/ig-charter

The mission of the eGovernment Interest Group, part of the eGovernment Activity, is to document, advocate, coordinate and communicate best practices, solutions and approaches to improve access to government through effective standards-based use of the Web.

Recognizing that different governments have varying levels of sophistication around Web and technology standards and adoption, the Interest Group will focus on two major topic areas in its second phase: Open Government Data (OGD), and Education and Outreach.

Information about joining the Interest Group is available on the group's participation page and on the group's home page.

Future of the Book Publishing Business

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ReadWriteWeb takes a look at disruptions in the book publishing business in a two-part post which discusses three big waves hitting the industry including; the digitization of back catalogs, e-books, and print on demand. Bits Of Destruction Hit the Book Publishing Business Part One introduces these waves

1. The digitization of print books by Google Book Search.
2. Increasing consumer acceptance of e-books, mostly because of the Kindle.
3. Print on demand.

while Part Two takes a look at what this means for the major players including; readers,

What Will Readers Get?

·         Broad selection of titles,

·         Choice of format and device,

·         Fast delivery,

·         Low prices,

·         Freemium model.

authors, printers, publishers, retailers, and e-book device vendors.

Sources:

http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2009/bits-of-destruction-hit-the-book-publishing-business/

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/bits_of_destruction_hit_book_publishing_part1.php