Knowledge shared online

After the stimulating discussion and debate at last Friday's Honest to Blog, organised by Pue's Occurrences, and having had many discussions about the relative merits of social media, I took the plunge in to the twitterverse tonight.

And I found a lively, stimulating online debate amongst fellow scholars about what is happening at Glasgow at present and also a host of useful links and online discussions useful to my own interests. Paperless Archaeology is one at the Digital Classicist list.

I should have known that epigraphers would be ahead of the crowd with new media.

New Media - Social Networking and Inclusion

It was everywhere - everyone was tweeting - linking and engaging in debate in almost real time - social media hit the General Election 2011.
Every news programme, every paper, almost every TD had a twitter account. Post Trafigura the oft scorned tweet has gained some gravitas, that and the impact social networking is having in the Middle East at present, coupled with the impact and immediacy of the tweet and the blog cannot be ignored.
Live blogging too has impacted enormously - whether your sport is centred on the Aviva, or the local count centre, RTE's, and the IT's enhanced coverage was excellent recently.

In 'Another blog about the role of Social Media' Éanna Ó Caollaí writes about the best Tweets in #GE2011 - they are well worth a look...