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City of Derby Social Media Map » Social Media Café | Quite sociable — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:08:42 +0000

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By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:47:16 +0000

Thanks Adam.

Well spotted. No, there is no reason for the omissions. It was only meant to give a rough picture, rather than be an accurate depiction.

As a manually updated map, it’s probably going to get to an unmanageable state if requests start to pile up.

We may look to devolve some of the updating to others in the future, perhaps making it completely open? We’ll see.

From my point of view, I started out looking at just Facebook and more specifically unofficial groups and pages created by people, rather than businesses and organisations.

I think that, even as a snapshot of a broad range of groups at a certain point in time, it allows us to learn something about how people use Facebook.

However, I will add your extra nodes, when I get a chance.

Well done for your efforts. I’m sure we could all learn a lot from your experiences.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:49:34 +0000

Hello,

Love the map but we seem to be omitted from most of teh categories. For example we have a MySpace, Youtube and FLICKR presence. We also have RSS feeds for our news and Blog. We are also one of the heaviest users of Twitter and are not featured on there either. Is there any reason for this? Not moaning just wondering as we pride ourselves on investing time and resources into our social networking and the map makes it look like we don’t do very much!

Adam

By: Sarah Lay

Sarah Lay — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:20:02 +0000

I’d like to do some work to expand on Tim and Paul’s map in order to stretch it out to county wide. However, I’m thinking that is a pretty big job.
Maybe it is something we can look at doing as a collaborative project through the cafe?
Certainly more than open to planning future meets on evening and weekends. The plan is to also hold them around the county, not only in Derby. Have one planned for Matlock on 3 December but as yet no confirmed time or venue – could possibly make that a late afternoon / evening affair?
Tim, Paul and I have started the ball rolling on this get together but we’re welcoming suggestions for format, venue etc so we can keep it all going and it is useful to as much of the digital community in Derbyshire as possible.
Sorry you can’t make Thursday – keep an eye on #smcderby for back channel chat from the meet.

By: dextermixwith

dextermixwith — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:15:38 +0000

Nice Work!
Wish I could make it on Thursday, but…. work
Are you planning any “evening”/weekend events?
Interesting that you’ve included the Derby Gripe – always hoped that site was done with a sense of irony, but feared it was for real!
Are you planning to include other sites etc. outside of the City at some point. Ambergate Carnival (included on your links page thanks) is using FB, Twitter, RSS and hopefully moving to a blogging format for it’s website soon.

By: Sarah Lay

Sarah Lay — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:20:18 +0000

This was a really interesting session at LocalGovCamp (thanks for the link to my post) and I’m looking forward to having a chance to look through this map at greater length and detail than we had time for there.
I think it shows a huge amount of activity for the city alone – and I am sure it could be added to daily. I don’t know whether it is feasible to map the county in the same way. If anyone had any ideas about this I’d be glad to hear them!