Comments on: Some thoughts on web analytics uisng our work on analytics

By: Sheilamacneill

Sheilamacneill — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:22:04 +0000

Stephen Downes has commented on this blog and in particular the low quality images. I can’t seem to get the images to display any clearer, so here is a link to the spreadsheet with the social sharing stats

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak-iDQSojJ9adFhkdGtqVXFIVXNWZ2dMN2UzNzN2VEE&pli=1#gid=116

By: Martin Hawksey

Martin Hawksey — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:22:03 +0000

Hi – for others that want to experiment and explore what these numbers might actually mean I’ve published a spreadsheet template which takes any rss feed and gets social counts http://mashe.hawksey.info/2012/06/rss-feed-social-share-counting/
Martin

By: Sharing ideas in a distributed organisation

Sharing ideas in a distributed organisation — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 09:11:31 +0000

[…] Sheila recently blogged about social analytics and the way people share things. I enjoyed the post as I find resource sharing online a really interesting area. I increasingly find myself getting anxious about how I share things online and to which online persona ideas and resources are attached. I find myself carving out an online identity created of different levels of obscurity where I push my outputs up the levels as and when I feel more comfortable with them. I find it interesting that Christopher Poole’s latest social network allows you to work anonymously and then gives you the option to claim the work at a later date. […]

By: David

David — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:19:46 +0000

I think its worth exploration.

Personally I like to have space to try things out that isn’t connected to any of my current online identities, if it goes well then I want to be able to claim that space as mine somehow. Canv.as is the only social network I’ve seen implement that but I think its a really interesting idea.

I think the idea that we have one identity that can be tied to a picture and name is crazy!

By: Sheilamacneill

Sheilamacneill — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:11:25 +0000

Thanks David, and yes agree it is a minefield but one that I feel is worth some exploration. So maybe we need to be more savvy about who we want to engage and then exploit the best social sites to do that/ get greatest reach and hopefully impact.

Sheila

By: David

David — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:03:59 +0000

Interesting

I think web and social sharing analytics is a real double-edged sword! While its great to know which audiences you are reaching and how effective a web campaign has been its very easy for me to get stuck in a feedback loop where I see an action as having a positive effect and push more resources that way without really thinking about why. I think asking whom it is going to is more important than how many.

Social networks analytics are a minefield! Perhaps because it is so tied up with our identity.

Interesting about LinkedIn, I think Facebook is very much identity driven and it forces you to have one identity tied to a real name and picture which limits what people are willing to share on, do I want my friends knowing we have work projects named after peaches? Perhaps this is why they are more willing to share this kind of work on linkedin where there identity is tied to professional interests? Twitter has become much more interest driven recently and I guess it doesn’t matter what you share when your identity is a throwaway username.

I think its useful to remember that different social networks have very different demographics, in the past I’ve found fun bits I’ve done around games/code/technology seem to have been the most socially shared, but I guess thats sort of thing really turns the average Reddit reader on!