Comments on: Organizing Our Digital Lives

By: Peter Williams

Peter Williams — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:34:33 +0000

I was interested in some of these comments. I am a Research Fellow working at UCL with the British Library and Bristol University on a project to better understand personal information management behaviour and what this might mean for digital curation practice. Could you take a look at our survey (at: http://tinyurl.com/5wtwgm) and fill it in? Even better, please, could you forward the following invitation text to any lists or colleagues who might be interested?
Many thanks
Pete Williams
Digital Lives: Helping People to Capture and Secure their Individual Memories, their Personal Creativity, their Shared Historic Moments
Increasingly, our family memories, our personal achievements, our experiences of historical events, are being facilitated and recorded digitally.
Digital Lives is a pathfinding research project that is setting out to understand how individuals retain and manage their personal collections of computerised information – everything from digital photographs and videos to favourite podcasts and sentimental email messages – and how these digital collections can best be captured in the first place and preserved in the long term, perhaps for family history, biographical or other purposes.
The project is led by Dr Jeremy Leighton John and colleagues at the British Library who, together with experts from UCL and Bristol University, are researching the challenges that lie ahead as more and more of our memories and documentary witnesses exist in electronic form.
We would like to invite you to take part in our research by completing an online survey. This should take no more than ten minutes of your time and it will provide us with crucial information that will benefit both individuals such as yourself, in your day to day management and storage of information, and also help the work of the British Library and other archives enormously as we plan for what is fast becoming a largely digital world.
If you would like to take part in the survey, please click here: .
If you would like to enter our Prize Draw and stand a chance of winning £200 in British Library gift vouchers (drawn at random and with no further obligation) you can register your interest at the end of the survey.
Please note that all responses are strictly confidential. No individuals will be named when we report our findings, and the information collected will only be presented in an aggregated form. You will not be contacted again as a result of completing this survey.
If you have any questions, or are concerned about the bona fides of this survey, please email Principal Investigator, Dr Ian Rowlands (UCL School of Library, Archive & Information Studies)at: i.rowlands@ucl.ac.uk
(Digital Lives is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council: Grant number BLRC 8669).

By: kathy

kathy — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:34:54 +0000

Dr. Ho — You are so right that students need to have a great presence on both Yahoo and Google in order to get the kind of jobs they work.
Any of us are out networking are selling our names in addition to our products. Our name is our brand so lets treat it right.
I’ve found this great new service that allows you to create your personal brand on line and helps you obtain a page one relevance and control you personal content by writing your own bio. To see how it works – Google Kathy Greider. Also offers virtual business cards. A green business that helps any one (students, professionals, sales persons, entrepreneur, musicians, authors, artists, technical folks), anyone who wants to be found on the web can now control their personal branding.
Just today, our founder, spoke to a class at UGA providing information regarding how important it is that students need to make a first great e-impression. Currently more than 60% of human resources people Google applicants for jobs before they call to interview.
Google Me — Kathy Greider see how I control my site for $10 a month
If you are interesting in contacting me please use the greiderbiz@yahoo.com address.

By: kathy

kathy — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:34:41 +0000

By: Brick Marketing

Brick Marketing — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:38:20 +0000

Great list! We particularly like Spokeo but we’re not familiar with the others as much as they are definitely going to be checked out now. These aggregators sure make social life online a bit easier!

By: Thomas Ho

Thomas Ho — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:19:44 +0000

I’ve been working hard to manage my online identity as well as encouraging my students to develop their ‘personal brand’ so I created:
http://squidoo.com/onlineidentity
to teach others how I do it.

By: Sheree Motiska

Sheree Motiska — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:31:42 +0000

This is such a great post. I just did a webinar the other day about the issue of organizing all of our social media profiles in a way that doesn’t make it a full time job just keeping up. I have just started using Profilactic, myself and I think I’ll recommend this article to my students for choosing their “coping tools.”
Thanks Again,
Sheree

By: smorty71

smorty71 — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:29:40 +0000

Scott, thanks for the incredibly kind words about Profilactic. We really appreciate it.

By: Scott Monty

Scott Monty — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:22:14 +0000

Profilactic is wide open to the public, Melanie.

By: Melanie Notkin

Melanie Notkin — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:19:50 +0000

I need an aggregator to keep my aggregators straight! Thanks, Scott. I’ll give Profilactic a shot, when I get my invite

By: Scott Monty

Scott Monty — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:15:06 +0000

I had to laugh at the name “Profilactic” too – when uttered in conversation, you instantly become aware of the dangers of homonyms. But just think of the useful conference schwag these guys could hand out. They’ll be the most popular booth by far!

By: Krista Neher

Krista Neher — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:22:36 +0000

Scott
Great post! Smorty71 got me to check out profilactic – still not sure about the name, but I agree – great service.
I’m still waiting for the one killer aggregation app that will actually solve the problem vs. adding yet another site to go to…
Looking forward to more of your articles.

By: Toby

Toby — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:00:52 +0000

Scott – Welcome to Daily Fix and thanks for the terrific resources. Now to find time to aggregate to save time

By: Peter Kim

Peter Kim — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:57:33 +0000

Wow, what a nice little collection of bright and shiny objects.

By: Ann Handley

Ann Handley — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:46:30 +0000

Great round-up, Scott. Thanks!
I laughed out loud at “profilactic.” Simply a great name for that service! Kudos to the 3 founders for that one. : )

By: Lewis Green

Lewis Green — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:38:09 +0000

Scott,
Very informative post! As a marketing/communications consultant and a presenter on old media vs. new media, I am always searching for new tools. In this case, I have already added my blog and my blogroll to Lijit. Although I get lots of invites for beta testing, none of those you mention above have invited me to participate. Would love to be among the lucky few experiencing the beta versions of the tools above and share what I learn with others.