Jana Herwig hat sich in den voestalpine digitalks in der dritten Ausgabe mit Microblogging, Video und Weak ties beschäftigt. Das sehr interessante Video findet sich auf YouTube, die Folien auf Slideshare und ein ausführlicher Beitrag in Jana’s Blog. Enjoy.
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We conducted another one of our Twitter surveys at the TNC2009. We received 45 full responses (and 19 responses not completly filled out), what marks the biggest response rate in all our surveys. Even if Twitter was only used as a side channel in the TNC2009 (we only saw 247 tweets from 24 users) the results show some interesting points. The results give new insight on pros and cons of using Twitter as communication channel in scientific conferences. What is somewhat surprising, is the fact that for the use case TNC2009 Twitter does not seem to be of special value. Let’s wait for the results of the ED-MEDIA survey. I guess for ED-MEDIA the responses will be very different.
So does the application possibility strongly depends on the people at the conference and the type of official incorporation in the conference communication?!
Here are some statistical data and voices from the attendees of the TNC2009:
Did you have a Twitter account before the TNC 2009 conference?
What was your main reason to use Twitter during the TNC 2009 conference? (multiple selections allowed)
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A new Version (1.0.1) of our Eclipse plugin Microclipse is available for download.
With Microclipse you can send microblogging messages to Twitter or any Laconi.ca instance (including Identi.ca) directly from your Eclipse-RCP-based application.
Change log:
Please give us feedback on the new version of the plugin.
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With this post we would like to introduce Microclipse, an Eclipse plugin that allows sending status updates to Twitter and any Laconica instance directly from Eclipse.
I presented the idea of microblogging in software development projects at the SENSE workshop at the Software Engineering 2009 conference and received a lot of good feedback. With the help of Christian Mletzko (Twitter, Website) we developed Microclipse as a lean plugin to any Eclipse-RCP-based platform (including the Eclipse IDE and Flex Builder).
The main requirements to Microclipse were:
Download the plugin and copy it into the plugins folder of your Eclipse-based application (we’re working on an update site). On the next start you should have a new view like this.
Now you can set your preferences for Microclipse. Microclipse can save your connection data for Twitter and one Laconi.ca instance. For each of them you can provide your username, password, the correct server url and the appropriate search base (for Laconi.ca this is where the API can be found). Lastly you can define the monitored tag (only messages containing this tag will show up in the plugin) and how many new messages you would like to see.
After you connected to a Laconi.ca instance and the first refresh your plugin will loke something like this.
When you connect to Twitter the plugin will look like this.
As of today you can download the Microclipse plugin from here. Please provide feedback on the plugin and tell us how you use it. We will use the plugin in some software courses at the University of Paderborn to enrich communication amongst student software developers. If you are interested in a study how the plugin is used in your course, just let me know.
Now enjoy the new Microclipse plugin.
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We’re running a new survey on microblogging in conferences with Twitter. This time the conference was the TERENA Networking Conference 2009 (TNC2009) hosted by the University of Málaga. Thanks to Björn Hagemeier and Gyöngyi Horváth for being the mentors of the survey at the TNC2009.
I’m looking forward to the responses of your conference attendees.
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I recently presented my paper “Communication is the key. Support Durable Knowledge Sharing in Software Engineering by Microblogging” at the SENSE 2009 workshop in Kaiserslautern.
Abstract:
Communication is undoubtedly one of the key elements of successful software development. Especially in larger groups communication is the critical point in gathering and forming relevant information, share knowledge and create functioning products. Some studies stressed out the fact that informal, ad hoc communication take up a significant part of the developers working time. Nonetheless the support of inter-project and inter-organisational communication seems to play a minor part in the development of IDEs and software development platforms. In this paper we discuss communication and knowledge sharing in software engineering and introduce an approach to support social software engineering by microblogging. This approach is to be studied in future projects.
Here you will find the draft version of the paper.
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I never was a blogger. I thought I had nothing special to say about things that others would be interested in. The I got introduced to Twitter at Adobe’s on AIR Tour Europe 2008 at Berlin and became really fast addicted to this micro form of blogging. Together with some colleagues I am very interested in how microblogging can be used as a communication channel in conferences and other settings (the software engineering process for example).
But even with its enormous advantages in speed, shortness and the viral dissemination of news, microblogging has a main disadvantage: it’s simply not made for expressing longer ideas or discussing thoughts in a more deeply way. Don’t get me wrong, I really love microblogging in a lot of settings, but I don’t understand people saying “Twitter killed my blog“. Twitter did kill my feedreader as all the interesting links, photos etc. now come from my friends and followers on Twitter (maybe that’s another reason why you should follow everyone back). But at least for me with starting Twitter the “need” for having a blog to raise some questions, to discuss ideas and thoughts in a more deeply way just became to be.
What about you? Did Twitter kill your blog? Why is it like that? Did Twitter killed your feedreader as well? Where do you get your relevant information from nowadays?
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After the Prolearn Summer School 2008 at Macedonia I wrote a paper on how we experienced the use of Twitter during the event together with some colleagues (Cristina Costa, Martin Silliaots and Günter Beham). We got good feedback at the ECTEL 2008 conference and asked the question “How and why does people at conferences use Twitter?”. We asked Martin Ebner to join us in trying to answer this question and developed a generic survey in order to get responses from conference attendees.
Meanwhile we put up surveys for several conferences and get the first answers:
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