{"id":560,"date":"2009-08-17T18:27:52","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T16:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=560"},"modified":"2014-05-09T10:31:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T08:31:14","slug":"social-networks-and-microblogging-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"Social networks and microblogging \/ I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook?\u00a0 Twitter?\u00a0 Our Twitter page is updated automatically every time a Top LS story is posted.\u00a0 UnionBook:\u00a0 <em>Elgg<\/em> allows us to build a Facebook-type site, an integrated social-networking tool.\u00a0 Eric demonstrated the use of UnionBook and how it can be set to automatically update Twitter page.\u00a0 Once the coding problems are solved, UnionBook should become much more useful.<\/p>\n<p>UnionBook can be used for immediate and continuing news, such as updating the situation in South Korea&#8217;s auto plants recently.<\/p>\n<p>Spammers&#8217; access to UnionBook is a new problem that needs to be solved.<\/p>\n<p>Are we duplicating our efforts?\u00a0 Different networks reach different people.\u00a0 Some people spend much time with Twitter who don&#8217;t necessarily check UnionBook.\u00a0 One can receive UnionBook RSS feeds through email.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that if we had had this same discussion a few years ago, it would be in reference to MySpace and not Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook?\u00a0 Twitter?\u00a0 Our Twitter page is updated automatically every time a Top LS story is posted.\u00a0 UnionBook:\u00a0 Elgg allows us to build a Facebook-type site, an integrated social-networking tool.\u00a0 Eric demonstrated the use of UnionBook and how it can be set to automatically update Twitter page.\u00a0 Once the coding problems are solved, UnionBook should become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3432,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/3432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}