New Facebook Profile called TIMELINE available

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Timeline is being marketed as “a home for all the great stories you’ve already shared.”   It will include now include posts, photos, and life events you’ve shared as they’ve occurred. You choose what to feature on your timeline.  An interesting feature is that you can go back to the day events occurred and add them to the timeline if they are not already there.  You can even go to your private activity log, click on any post, and add it to your timeline.  There’s more. Read about the “timeline” on the Facebook Blog at http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=10150289612087131

Firms often consider the profile section of Facebook as a static piece of information that can be pre-approved.  They also may provide permission to create a profile to one individual for responsibility that it is created according to the pre-approved plan.  But now another concern is that someone with permission now or far into the future may decide to add something to the profile that has not been pre-approved.  Just another new feature designed to please the user that has potential risk for the organization. Has anyone read more about Timeline?  Any thoughts - pro or con?

Second Life one of several communication channels for U of Delaware

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Last week the University of Delaware hosted 2 events on their Virtual Campus in Second Life last that reinforced, for me at least, the value of providing multiple delivery methods for place-based presentations.  Both were live video-streams into Second Life.

The first was CNN's Candy Crowley speaking on Broken ... and Broken?  Assessing the US Political Scene. At one point, 32 participants were in attendance.  The presentation was also distributed as streaming media on the U of Delaware website.  A Q&A period followed the presentation, and questions were taken from Second Life and in-person participants. 

The second was a ceremony during which Vice President Biden, a U of Delaware graduate, donated his Senatorial papers to special collections on Delaware campus. About 19 participants were in the Second Life Audience, but Tweets from the physical location indicated long lines waiting to get in to see the VP in person. The Vice President spoke on the Constitution and Citizenship. He did not entertain questions. Streaming video was available only on campus.  

"A People is... what it remembers" Flight 93 Memorial

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At the memorial service in Shanksville, PA, this afternoon, former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky said, "A people is what it remembers."  He often speaks of shared memory that defines a people.  Today, the Flight 93 National Memorial and the land on which it stands was dedicated.  Now a part of the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, the memorial pays tribute to the passengers and crew of Flight 93.

Today, as I see the images and hear the stories, I become reminded once again of how fortunate we are to work in the the field of archives and records administration--to play a small part in keeping not only records but preserving memories.   Read more about the Flight 93 National Memorial.

PB Works - Personal, education, business--and now legal--versions

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PBWorks is a collaborative environment that started as PBWiki in 2005. In 2009, it was rebranded as PBWorks, a collaborative platform. I've used it since it was a simple wiki, both the free version and the educational version. It's one of the tools I recommend to students when they embark on group projects and need a reliable, free place to collaborate.

In May of this year, the next generation of its business solution was announced offering the what they call "first cloud-based collaboration software with massive scalability and the security features enterprise businesses need." The scalability feature allows businesses to move from a single corporate account to include thousands of individual workspaces and store multiple terabytes of data. The search feature is a universal "faceted" feature that allows users to refine search results by a variety of parameters including file type and who last edited the document.

In an article published online yesterday in Law Technology News, the PBWorks Legal Edition was described. The Legal Edition "supports document sharing, co-counsel teamwork, client interactions, and overall management of complex cases and the teams that handle them." A template store makes getting started easy; one, a Departmental Workspace template, can be used to set up an intranet-style workspace for a department or group. Read the article to learn more about PBWorks Legal Edition. And visit PBWorks to create your own collaborative environment.