tigressse

http://tigressse.com/post/159315498/install-a-retweet-button-on-tumblr

Regarding the RT Button: do you copy-paste the javascript per post or is it a one-time install only, say you only paste it on the About Me box and then it already works for all posts?

Thanks.

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 17:06:21 +0100

you should have a look to the following post instead

http://tigressse.com/post/341249249/install-a-retweet-button-on-tumblr-bis

The microplaza RTbutton I was using doesn’t work anymore.

You should copy the javascript ONCE.

Customize -> Theme -> search for

-> then follow the insruction on my blog post…

Hope it helps!

4th anniversary on Twitter and my influence graph

Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100

Celebrating 4th anniversary on Twitter

Today is my 4th anniversary on Twitter, joined on December the 11th, 2006 [account: tigresse]. For the story, I lost my pwd and 8 days after signup-ed for tigressse with 3 ‘s’.

Influence graph

Let’s have a look at the origin, the line of influence I result from

@daveying99 joined on the 20/11/2006 who influences

@tlg joined on the 24/11/2006 who influences

@xdamman joined on the 10/12/2006 who influences me. In my turn, influences other friends, etc.

The first two living in Sweden at that time and Xavier and I in Spain. Wondering how interesting it could be for a sociologist to study this kind of social graph.

Another dinosaur, early adopter in Belgium who is at the origin of another graph: @roald brougth @jacobeus , … etc, both joined on 28/09/2006

Something interesting I have learned looking at the early adopters profile: being the first doesn’t mean you have more influence in the twittosphere in the way we understand it today. They are not the ones with the most followers. Oh yes students exceed the master . An exception in Belgium being vpieters with +100,000 folowers (joined on the 17/11/2006).

"Any ideas on contest we could host to reward girls with a trip to a robotic and artificial..."

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:34:24 +0200

“Any ideas on contest we could host to reward girls with a trip to a robotic and artificial intelligence lab located in Germany?”

Science and Engineering can be fun!

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:35:00 +0200

On Saturday November 20th, I am giving workshops on Engineering stuff to teen girls with almost no materials (at the moment). The event is free and targeted 11-15 years old Dutch, French, English -speaking girls. It will be taking place at the premises of the International School of Brussels.

So, I am open to any suggestion. My first idea came out with some Lego Mindstorm programming but I don’t have one. May be should I ask LEGO to borrow couple of them? Humm.. Or make some math computation and search using Wolfram? Or doing some virtual MEMS nanofabrication? The last one is tough to implement!

Well, the Greenlight for Girls Foundation is looking for sponsors, speakers, workshop leaders, volunteers.. If you too, feel like spreading science and engineering among teens girls, come and join the move!

Links: Facebook, Flickr, Twitter

#school20 at #cafeN, collecting feedback

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:39:20 +0200

Gosh, what a nice surprise! See by yourself, tons of tweets shared…

Dear #school20 #cafeN attendees (ustream attendees included), we are collecting your precious feedbacks, likes and dislikes. Thanks for sharing at hi@tigressse.com or with a comment here..

Install a Retweet button on Tumblr (bis)

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:47:00 +0100

Last August I posted how to Install a retweet button on Tumblr. Up to now, I was using the Microplaza RTbutton, since it no longer works, as people searching on the web and getting directed on my post I find it useful to write a new one.

The RTbutton I have chosen has been designed by backtype*. The number 10 being the current number the link has been tweeted. To tweet a link, you only have to clic “retweet”.

Below is an updated version, how to install a RTButton on Tumblr in 2 steps.

You need to define this little piece of javascript before <div class=”post”>, it will configure the button to have the correct title and retweets count. You can also adapt it to change the leading part (ie: tweetcount_src = “RT @tigressse”) and if you want to keep the backtype attribution (tweetcount_via = true) or if you want the link to be opened in new window (tweetcount_links = true), the button size (“large” or “small”), the background color (ie: ‘FFFFFF’), the border color (ie: ‘CCCCCC’), the “retweet” text color (ie: ‘00CED1’).

<script type="text/javascript">
    tweetcount_url = "{Permalink}";
    var t = document.createElement('p');
    t.innerHTML = "{Title}";
    tweetcount_title = t.textContent ;
    tweetcount_src = "RT @tigressse:";
    tweetcount_via = false;
    tweetcount_links = true;
    tweetcount_size = "large";
    tweetcount_background = 'FFFFFF';
    tweetcount_border = 'CCCCCC';
    tweetcount_text = '00CED1';
    tweetcount_api_key = '5c3bba3f5d77a46a13453091e36dc1cde4335e9299a1edeeaa3c31d193b33fda';
</script>

Then you need to add this second piece of javascript where you want the button to appear (note that you can change the div style). A nice place to put the button is just before the title of the post, you add :

<div style="float: right;">
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://widgets.backtype.com/tweetcount.js">
</script>
</div>

* For other button, see the TweetMeme button.

Academics researchers are Selfish, Paranoid

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:33:00 +0100

After couple of years analyzing the world of researchers (and one* in particular), exchanging point of views with friends , it seems like researchers** are paranoid, they don’t WANT to share their knowledge - even those fell into common knowledge heritage - due to an extreme (beyond understanding!?) fear of being scooped***?! And definitively a strong jealousy of being surpassed by colleagues (local or worldwide).

Here are my conclusion: They don’t want to collaborate, they will never collaborate. The actual intrinsic structure don’t allow that. So, stop dreaming about web 2.0 features to make that working. There is no miracle, if someone don’t share offline what is the reason he should do so online?

I am probably wrong! If so, do you want to share some real experiences of research 2.0? The debate is open…

Engineers / scientists build on others works!

* the word “community” will not be appropriate, “research lab” is suitable.

** Of course some exceptions may exists: the computer sciences area (thanks to the open-source spirit) and life science (well, generally they share database; it’s a start, it’s ok).

*** Really like the examples by scenarios probabilities from OpenWetWare about getting scooped

Apple's Time Capsule and Nabaztag's connection issues - two green lights and one blinking orange

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:54:11 +0100

You too, had your Nabaztag working fine and since you are using the Apple’s Time Capsule base station to access your internet network, your Nabaztag is speechless and can’t connect anymore on the network; resulting on two steady green lights and the third light on the right blinking orange?

Well, try this and it should work

Connect to the NabaztagXX wireless network
Go to the advanced configuration page - http://192.168.0.1
Change the address of the violet platform from r.nabaztag.com/vl to 62.210.186.165/vl
Then clic the ‘update & start’ button, your Nabaztag will restart. Yooupiie it’s talking again! :))

More help, here, here and here.

Way to the Evento Blog party… A very great time in...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:36:48 +0100

Way to the Evento Blog party… A very great time in Sevilla, tapas, cool peeps,… You guys rock!

david:

Mas Tumblr peeps in Seville! This meetup was organized by the impossibly sweet Álvaro Cuesta :)

You guys are awesome. Thank you!!

Some tumblr ‘s statistics by David Karp at Eventoblog

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:14:23 +0100

Some tumblr ‘s statistics by David Karp at Eventoblog

attending Pecha Kucha Night Brussels, SciTech Europe 09, Evento Blog España, TEDxBrussels ...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:00:00 +0100

Wanna meet me in November? I am attending the following events and conferences.

Pecha Kucha Night on November 6th at the BoZar. Pecha-Kucha is a Japanese term pronounced “pe-chak-cha”, from the sound of conversation (‘chit chat’, ‘blabla’). It’s a very interesting concept started in Japan in 2003 initially intended for young designers to show their work in public. The idea? Speakers present 20 images X 20 seconds each slide for a total of 6 minutes, 40 seconds. For the Brussels volume 10, we will assist at 17 presentations from designers to photographers, musicians, artists, thinkers… My Man is presenting the state of NOW. Wondering what he is going to present. Let’s trust the artist!

SciTech Europe 09 on November 12th at Brussels. It’s a full day conference with a drink reception prior to the event on Wednesday November 11th. I am particularly interested in sessions about collaborative research and joint research, and about innovation across Europe in general. The conference is organized in masterclasses in 4 streams: Health, Research & Investment, Future Technologies, Environment and Energies.

How cool is that? I have got a free ticket for the conference. Thanks to Santa Clause before Christmas! That’s what I meant one day in a tweet :)

Evento Blog España on November 13th to 15th in Sevilla. I am joining the Belgian delegation gathered around the webmission.be. Evento Blog España is the 2nd most important European event about Participative Web after Leweb in Paris; over 1000 attendees. For the first time, I will not need to wake up at 6:30 am, sessions start at 10-11:00 am (and the conference is held at the hotel). I love the Spanish clock :)

Here are the sessions I am attending: on Friday, ‘the digital natives’ - ‘nativo digitales’ and ‘the real-time web’ - ‘la web en tiempo real’ roundtables; on Saturday, I am attending David Karp presenting ‘Tumbr’, the ’I own my own data’ - ‘mis datas son mios’ and the ‘state of the blogosphere: 10 years of blogs special (1999-2009)’ - ‘estado de la blogosfera: especial 10 años de blogs (1999-2009)’ sessions, and on Sunday the surprise. By the way, I am wondering what it is! And of course I will join the ‘routa de la tapa’ - ‘tapas route’ and the EBE party. The other time, I will be networking in a corner of the hall. Now, time to re-practice my Spanish after 3 years of lack of practice!

Actually I am flying just after the SciTech Europe 09 on November 12th, it’s gonna be challenging to catch the plane on time!

TEDx Brussels on Monday November 23th at the European Parliament. It’s a local TED-like event, where ‘x’ stands for independently organized TED event. For those who don’t know, TED is for Technology Entertainment Design, it’s an annual event where the world’s fascinating thinkers and doers are invited to give a talk. Here are the links to the recorded TED talks and the programme of the TEDxBrussels event. I am impatient to see these talks: “welcome to our house”, “one laptop per child”, “brussels 2.0”, “three marabouts” and “open everything”.

Hope to meet some folks there!

Now heading to Café Numérique to see friends and drink a beer. Today topic: “Google is your friend”. May be I will come back with a Google t-shirt?!

Knowledge Plaza, a Collaborative Platform for Researchers and Experts

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:11:00 +0200

For friends following me on twitter, I have sometimes tweeted about Knowledge Plaza…

Today, let me briefly introduce you to a tool I have been using these last months. It’s brilliant and far the best knowledge management and social search platform I have ever used.

Knowledge Plaza empowers members of the same workspaces to share and manage internet bookmarks, documents, files, e-mails, contacts, as well as their own expertise.

It’s an all in one product; at the same time

a social networking
a social bookmarking
a document & file repository
a social team search engine
a wiki

Here are the top 4 features I felt in love of

Full text search.
Mosaic* concept: Public Mosaics I share with others and private Mosaics where I collect and organize my knowledge, my works.
Mosaic export: a zip file containing a set of folders (files, websites and contacts) and a pdf with an overview of the mosaic including all wiki pages, websites thumbnails and an overview of every tiles associated to the mosaic. Clic the export button and you have your report, easy and simple!
And above all, the “I am a Search Engine”, everyone in the plaza can be used as a Search Engine. It’s more efficient and less time consuming to search info directly inside an expert’s repository (expert as a search engine).

To help me write my previous post about usage of social media and web 2.0 tools by high education institutions, I decided first to create a mosaic - University 2.0 Mosaic* in my private workspace - and started collecting and organizing info around the topic. See the screenshot below. Thus, the University 2.0 post was born.

As a science and research 2.0 enthusiast, I also share a mosaic around web 2.0 tools for scientists and researchers.

Here is a sample of websites I have bookmarked and stored in the Research 2.0 Mosaic.

Now, imagine international projects involving researchers from all over the world with a number of different expertise (or simply local projects inside a lab), it can be very hard to collaborate around a same project and manage tons of info, or write a paper involving many co-authors. Knowledge Plaza makes the collaboration between researchers easy and the lab/expert’s knowledge available for the whole community at the same time.

The following demo on the climate change can help to grab the concepts and the main features of Knowledge Plaza.

* Useful basic definitions

A tile: piece of information. ie: emails, documents, websites, contacts, references, etc.
A mosaic : is where you package knowledge to collaborate, annotate, share and export. A collection of tiles organized and discussed around a theme. ie: climate change, etc.

** A product from Whatever Company, see their website.

A Vision of Students Today: They claim they have to be Multitasker

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:15:00 +0200

A video by Dr. Michael Wesch and 200 students for the course “Introduction to Cultural Anthropology” at Kansas State University.

This video has been realized 2 years ago, in October 2007. It’s all the more true today, even more tomorrow.

Btw, I love the song!

Getting started with university 2.0, how universities use Social Media?

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:22:00 +0200

What is Social Media?

Social media is about collective intelligence; about communication tools, individuals and group of people who contribute together to create, organize and distribute web content.

Social media falls into

Blogs: Org Prep Daily, Seth Godin’s Blog
Microblogs: Twitter, Yammer
Social Networks: ResearchGATE, Nature Network
Collective bookmarking: del.icio.us, KnowledgePlaza
Reference manager: Mendeley, CiteULike
Wikis: Pure Energy Systems Wiki, Citizendium
Multimedia sharing (audio, photos, video): Flickr, Youtube EDU
Document sharing: Slideshare, Google
Aggregators: FriendFeed, Storytlr, …

University 2.0

According to NACAC ‘2009 report, 88% of universities are convinced of the need to be present in social network & social media platforms.

In my point of view, they will not have the choice to join the 2.0 trend. The reasons are simple. The concept of borders no longer exist. We are moving towards an Open World. We are leaving in an era where institutions are continuously putting their workforce together to work on important research issues. Moreover, students show the need of moving in exchange programs and internships during their course’s curriculum. How do universities keep in contact with them?

Nowadays, professors and students are members of several social networks and online communities. How can a university reach the eyes and ears of an audience that is largely responsible for over one billion text messages sent per day*? How to make them also feel to belong to the university community and even more, be proud of their university and getting them engaged in university activities?

How do universities take profit of their students and professors - abroad or in campus - as ambassadors of their brand? Don’t they have to be where their members and future students are?

How do universities and research departments capitalize the knowledge and works of their researchers? Phd students complete their study in average in 4-6 years. During that time, they use university resources, labs infrastructures and materials. Wondering, how many of them leave traces of everything they have done to benefit the youngest (tests, measurements, processes)? Instead what happens, once they have achieved their studies, they are gone with their knowledge; we can restart the cycle every time. Let’s think about the time lost and resources lost testing processes we barely know how someone else did them in the past. Or simply restart by 0? I speak from experience…

Web 2.0 addresses almost all these issues. Nevertheless, in this post I will not dwell on collective intelligence and knowledge management among researchers. This, deserves another post about research 2.0 tools. Instead, in the following lines, I will focus on universities as institutions concerned about their brand and the social impact.

Why high education institutions invest in Social Media?

Anglo-saxon institutions were the first to join social networks and social media platforms. They are far the ones who really adopt web 2.0 technologies and use them efficiently.

After some investigations, there are four main social media tools used by universities

Facebook
Flickr
Twitter
Youtube

However, some exceptions publish their slides on Slideshare. LinkedIn is used in a way to keep in contact with alumnis. Depending on if it’s a European or American university, they use Dailymotion or Myspace. Some labs use wikis to keep the knowledge.

As in every organization, the adoption starts in a bottom-up way. Firstly, individuals such as students, professors, institutions members start joining; at the moment some faculties, research departments and small units are present in social media platforms, it becomes necessary for the institution to join and shows the example. As an immediate result, an easy way to monitor the brand since famous social networks count millions of members and accessing social media platforms is costless.

Universities and high education institutions use social media tools mostly as promoting channels

to recruit best-fitted students
to create stronger brand image
to create ambassadors who will talk about the institution
to monitor the brand

But also and the most important in my opinion, to better communicate, for transparency; allowing discussions in a 2-way dialogue.

How universities and high education institutions use Social Media?

To be effective the institutions value has to meet the value of the audience. Social media can be used in many different ways; and institutions are getting inventive.

Among different ways, high education institutions use Twitter updates, Facebook posts, Flickr, Youtube EDU channel

to share faculty works
to broadcast events
to showcase professors and students of interest
to spread news, thanks to the social media viral effect
to communicate directly with students, alumni, future candidate, parents
as emergency notifications channel, made possible thanks to realtime web
as place for the community members to connect (for new students, for alumni to keep in contact each other and with the institution…)
to link back to the institution website as a result of increasing website traffic
…

The original use of social media goes to Stanford University Facebook Fan Page. Stanford hosts Offices Hours on Facebook (Why not?!). The offices hours consist in 2 parts. First, a description of the professor who will host the office hours and a video of the professor talking about his work are posted on the Facebook fan page. Then fans and candidates comment the post by asking their questions to the hosting professor. Secondly, an another video is posted with the professor answering questions addressing fans by name.

Thus, they connect directly with their targeted audience and engage the public in a 2 ways communication.

For other uses, read Mashable’s review.

Stanford University as an example of university 2.0

At the time I am writing this post,

Stanford has 5,205 followers on Twitter;
Stanford has 42,096 fans on their Facebook Fan Page;
Stanford University has 29,601 subscribers to their youtube channel and have generated 888,721 views since September 2006 when they joined

These numbers are keeping growing; impressive for an institution of 15,000 students.

In addition, Stanford has an iTunes U channel where they podcast courses, lectures, interviews, sports… Their EdTech school of medicine has 5003 pics on Flickr.

Links of French and UK Universities on Twitter, Facebook and Youtube

To conclude, I have small advice for institutions who want to join the web 2.0 world. Having a social media account is not enough, update regularly and link everything. Do not neglect the profile page; adopt the theme and colors of your institution.

* NACAC

IMEC and Kaneka join their research force to achieve greater than 20% efficiency silicon photovoltaic cells by 2015

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:28:34 +0200

Early this week, a joint research has been announced between Kaneka Corporation, a Japanese manufacturer of thin-film silicon hybrid solar cells, and IMEC, a Belgian center in nanotechnology and nanoelectronics.

The goal of this collaboration: new industrial a-Si:H* hetero-junction solar cells with the world’s highest level conversion efficiency of beyond 20%.

Kaneka invest about 1.5 billion Yen in the project. 10 researchers of both side will be working during 3 years in the solar cells division in IMEC facilities, located in Leuven.

It’s kind of project that could excite more than one in the domain!

* Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon

"Now official: a simple, easy Retweet button for any kind of website, grab the code here"

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:21:00 +0200

"Now official: a simple, easy Retweet button for any kind of website, grab the code here"

More and more scientific conferences include Science 2.0 sessions

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:34:41 +0200

These last 2 weeks I have been busy searching in the web for science 2.0 related conferences all over the world (see my previous post).

After some investigations, I have come to this conclusion, besides science 2.0 annual conferences and science barcamps, more and more scientific gatherings plan sessions about web 2.0, science 2.0 or open-science.

Among others

TELSci2.0, Science 2.0 for Technology Enhanced Learning, a workshop held in Nice, France, end of this month September 29th. The event is supported by the stellar network and organized by member of the K.U.Leuven (Belgium), Open University (UK), KnowCenter (Austria), UJF (France) institutions.

Last February, the AAAS annual meeting had some web 2.0 sessions to their program. According to Bora, they also had / have such sessions at Trieste FEST in Italy - does not exist any more - and at SRBR meetings, Society for Research of Biological Rythms.

Does this mean that the scientific community is more and more open to web 2.0 technologies and definitively adopt science 2.0 tools for their daily work?

Nevertheless, I did not find enough info for meetings organized in Africa, Asia, Latina America and Oceania (Australia). If you read this and you are aware of “web 2.0 scientific related meetings” going on over there, thanks for sharing.

Help me to list science 2.0 conferences / unconferences all over the World

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:01:00 +0200

Other than these three annual conferences

January > Science Online located at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina USA and organized by @BoraZ.

July > Science Foo Camp held on Googleplex, Mountain View, California. Hosted by Nature, O’Reilly and Google.

August > Science Online London organised by Nature Network, Mendeley and The Royal Institution.

Do you know others?

Thanks for your reply (a comment here or @tigressse twitter reply).

—

Updates

March > Digital researcher, a free one day event exploring the use of Web 2.0 in research; organized by Vitae and the British Libary, held in London on March 15th, 2010.

Social Media Revolution?

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:47:22 +0200

Is Social Media a fad? Or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution?

A deep analysis of the “Social Media Revolution?” question can be found on ZDNet by Oliver Marks and other related videos.

Statistics with bit.ly url shortener

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:56:00 +0200

In addition to providing short urls (among the shortest), bit.ly unables to collect statistics of people who click your bit.ly link: just add a “+” sign at the end of your bit.ly link. That’s it.

ie:

bit.ly/4cPwuj+ yields statistics for Install a Retweet button on Tumblr

bit.ly/lknzY+ yields statistics for A non exhaustive-list of research & science 2.0 stuff

tigressse

http://tigressse.com/post/159315498/install-a-retweet-button-on-tumblr Regarding the RT Button: do you copy-paste the javascript per post or is it a one-time install only, say you only paste it on the About Me box and then it already works for all posts? Thanks.

4th anniversary on Twitter and my influence graph

"Any ideas on contest we could host to reward girls with a trip to a robotic and artificial..."

Science and Engineering can be fun!

#school20 at #cafeN, collecting feedback

Install a Retweet button on Tumblr (bis)

Academics researchers are Selfish, Paranoid

Apple's Time Capsule and Nabaztag's connection issues - two green lights and one blinking orange

Way to the Evento Blog party… A very great time in...

Some tumblr ‘s statistics by David Karp at Eventoblog

attending Pecha Kucha Night Brussels, SciTech Europe 09, Evento Blog España, TEDxBrussels ...

Knowledge Plaza, a Collaborative Platform for Researchers and Experts

A Vision of Students Today: They claim they have to be Multitasker

Getting started with university 2.0, how universities use Social Media?

IMEC and Kaneka join their research force to achieve greater than 20% efficiency silicon photovoltaic cells by 2015

"Now official: a simple, easy Retweet button for any kind of website, grab the code here"

More and more scientific conferences include Science 2.0 sessions

Help me to list science 2.0 conferences / unconferences all over the World

Social Media Revolution?

Statistics with bit.ly url shortener

http://tigressse.com/post/159315498/install-a-retweet-button-on-tumblr

Regarding the RT Button: do you copy-paste the javascript per post or is it a one-time install only, say you only paste it on the About Me box and then it already works for all posts?

Thanks.