Hazman Aziz.com

Wow! This is great! You ever need to ask me these questions:

1. Where is Hazman Aziz now?
2. What is Hazman Aziz doing now?
3. Where can I locate Hazman Aziz: at Business Library, Library Technology & System Office, Home?
4. I need Hazman’s help now, wondering where he is?
5. Is Hazman in Singapore?

Well, these are the above common questions when you need your librarian’s help. With the advent of social site (such as Facebook and Locaccion), you can now located your favourite librarian.

How does this works?
A group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has developed research project called Locaccino (http://www.locaccino.org/). Their main objective with Locaccino, is to better understand people’s privacy preferences in the context of a location-sharing application and what it takes to adequately capture them. Their research encompasses the development of better tools for specifying and refining user preferences, as well as informing society and policy makers about the value and challenges associated with emerging social networking applications.

How can Librarians take advantages of this tool?
If you are playing a multi-role librarian (for example: subject librarian and also operational librarian), just like me (Business Librarian & System Librarian) in a complex library settings. This tool would be an advantage for you and your library patrons. Currently, this tool is configured within Facebook’s environment, where there are more than 2000 NTU users have this account with Facebook itself (that’s excluding the NTU Academic Staff network and also NTU Alumni).

This tool integrated into a social site (like Facebook) and also a small widget installed in your laptop (or mobile device), your library users (a fan) will able to locate your location. It is does not matter where you are, either on the reference desk, in your office or even doing instructional workshop. Of course, you can also make yourself invisible, if you do not want to be detected.

With Locaccino, the research project’s objective is to give users an adequate level of control over their own privacy preferences. This includes better understanding people’s varied and complex location-sharing preferences, how they evolve, and what it takes to adequately capture them.

My thoughts (As s librarian’s thought)

• My presence as a librarian is now more visual
• Library Users can reach me as easy as possible
• When they know what I am doing, they will have an interest to join in (for a workshop)
• When they need help in their research, users will know where to find their librarian (rather than waiting)

A side thought too: This might be a ‘killer app’ for librarians, if librarians don’t mind some invasion of privacy. I will let this tool run a couple of weeks and observe the impact. I will share soon.

The legal term “invasion of privacy” refers primarily to a public figure’s right to be left alone by the media, not necessarily a physical intrusion into one’s private property or personal space.

Modern invasion of privacy laws essentially protect public figures in four different ways: intrusion of solitude, public disclosure of private facts, false light, and appropriation.

But, as librarian, if I am able to control the system, this would bring a beneficial points for me library patrons. Imagine, if I am have a public speaking, worrying if patron do know where is my location. I just switch on my laptop. They can track me and just join in my presentation. Wonderful, right?

A video from Wired Campus, TV

Any books to recommend for Location Based Services

Gosh, I need to buy more books on location based services. My business library has limited of this topic.

“A location-based service (LBS) is an information and entertainment service, accessible with mobile devices through the mobile network and utilizing the ability to make use of the geographical position of the mobile device.” Wikipedia.com

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After reflecting last week communication session, it is good to aware how our subject blog is performing. It has been known as one of our traits that, librarians love to read books, journals or website. In creating the value chain for knowledge management, blog plays an important role in knowledge mobilisation (such as creation, management, development and eventually immersive). This is actually can be from into an initial framework for knowledge mobilisation. For example, such as the diagram below:

There are a couple of findings (reasons), how librarians can enhance their subject blogs into a better platform to align the above framework. Well, a short study below explained that the data can b extracted out from each blog. This is using Google Analytics. Interesting, it is for us to ponder about the align the content and technology to achieve such framework as above.

• Visit (this is capture since December 2008)
• Avg. Time on Site (represents duration of each visitor spent)
• Bounce rate (represents the average percentage of initial visitors to a site who “bounce” away to a different site, rather than continue on to other pages within the same site.)
• Visits (%Change) (represent the percentage varies)

Sharing the above information, hopefully, this will allow us to discuss on the reasons on the strengths, weakness, opportunities and also threats. Please note, this is not to compare which subject blogs are doing better, but to aware how each blogs is package and mobilise their information services into the web. From here, librarians can learn to manage the knowledge and develop (package) each information into a better presentation that attract (market) out our own services and products. Lastly, how we can start to also learn to do knowledge immersive, where the community will then start to engage in getting online service. So far, no many library blogs (in general) has successfully deliver this area.

For summary of this statistic, you can check our team site at this url. For detail, you can registered and email your Google email to Hazman to request to know more how the data are being capture.

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I still remembered when I was first started my journey in this librarianship, I was exposed to this Librarian’s  2.0 Manifesto.  To be truthful, I don’t really understand what is the manifesto for.  I went through the list and tried to figure out.

There are number of definitions of manifesto has. Once nice perfect one is “A written declaration of an individual or group’s ideas, purposes, and intentions.” I guess this is true enough for youth day to voice out what they want and think  of the current situation.

Well, this is just a draft and I will be edit and proposed to the core team.

Definitions of manifesto on the Web:

1. A public declaration of intentions (as issued by a political party or government)
   wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
2. Manifesto is the re-release album from Astrovamps.
   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifesto_(Astrovamps_album)
3. Manifesto will be Opiate For The Masses’s fifth release and first release on Century Media Records. “Wandering Star” is a cover of Portishead from their album Dummy.
   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifesto_(Opiate_For_The_Masses_album)
4. the document produced by political parties during a general election. Each manifesto describes what a party would do if it won the election and …
   www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/documents/jargon%20guide.doc
5. in art a public declaration or exposition in print of the theories and directions of a movement. The manifestos issued by various individual …
   www.artefoundation.com/pages/glossary.html
6. Attributed to the rise of Modernism, these declarations were usually strong in their appeal, regardless of subject.
   www.photographers-and-photography.com/dictionary/photographersphotography_kirlianphotography-nudephotography.php
7. a document or public declaration of information, motives, or demands by a government, sect, or group of people; believed to be of some importance
   www.eroticmanifesto.com/glossary.html
8. A written declaration of an individual or group’s ideas, purposes, and intentions.
   166.109.159.22/dedrickd/themes/glossaryM.htm

Now, I guess Generasi Me (Melayu 2.0) too should have their own manifesto to protect and promote the advocacy of our work. So, allow me to borrow the idea and recoined it into fit into our concept.

Generasi Me’s (Melayu 2.0) Manifesto

1. We will recognize that the universe of information culture is changing fast and that the community need to respond positively to these changes to provide the knowledge, resources and services that the community need and want.
2. We will educate ourselves about the information culture of our community and look for ways to incorporate what we gain into sound idea that can be immerse.
3. We will not be defensive about our community, but will look clearly at its situation and make an honest assessment about what can be accomplished.
4. We will become an active participant in moving our community forward.
5. We will recognize that the community change slowly, and will work with our peers to expedite our responsiveness to change.
6. We will be courageous about proposing new opportunities and new ways of providing services, even though some of our peers will be resistant.
7. We will enjoy the excitement and fun of positive change and will convey this to our community (the young and old ones).
8. We will let go of previous practices if there is a better way to do things now, even if these practices once seemed so great.
9. We will take an experimental approach to change and be willing to make mistakes.
10. We will not wait until something is perfect before we release it, and we’ll modify it based on community’s feedback.
11. We will not fear new technology or related slow economic, but rather will take advantage of these situations to benefit the community while also providing excellent and value knowledge awareness that the community need.
12. We will be willing to go where users are, both online and in physical spaces, to practice our community profession.
13. We will create open Web sites that allow users to join with the core team to contribute content in order to enhance their learning experience and provide assistance to their peers.
14. We will encourage our community leaders to blog.
15. We will validate, through our actions, ou’ vital and relevant professional role in any type of information culture that evolves.

Please ponder and feedback to us at ask@gen-me.org.

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I have been pondering on the reasons why Facebook is one of my favourite site. On top, I have pushed some my library stuffs into the Facebook’s sphere, sharing notes, postings, links and lately answering reference questions.Just to promote awareness into the community. Facebook is first started as a social website for the Harvard University in America to stay in touch and be in network with their own peers.

Today , Facebook has opened its site to the Internet. Facebook users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. They can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. The technology behind  Facebook is actually founded by Mark Zuckerberg.

On Australian’s The Age, Facebook Inc. quickly concluded it wasn’t worth anywhere near the $15 billion market value implied in a 2007 investment made by Microsoft Corp., according to confidential information obtained Wednesday from court documents. And, on Canadian’s The Star, More than a million Torontonians made friends with Facebook in 2007, contributing to the “phenomenal growth” in Canadian users last year. Close to 8 million Canadians have signed up – 85% in the past year alone, unpublished study reveals and that made every 1 in 4 Canadians on Facebook. Lately, in one of the recent local news, Facebook has also effectively foster the relationship with a minority community in Singapore.  The social site has allow this community to discuss social issues and also aspiration for the community to survive in this coming social economic crisis.

What is the demographic of Singaporeans in Facebook?

From the graph, we have 358 176 males, 432 983 females and a total of 825 682 Singaporeans. This is almost close to a million of Singaporeans has a Facebook account. And, the figure of females also is higher. This also explains why my friends’ is more females than males.

I got featured in Berita Harian, February 7th 2009.

One of my community work , which I have been using Facebook as a based platform was featured in Berita Harian.

New Media Focus Group : Melayu 2.0

This is a group of New Media Experts, Entrepreneurs, Innovators, Researchers, Practitioners and Students. Not your average Melayu.com

The group exists as a platform for discussion, advocacy and action to uplift, improve, and perhaps solve Singapore Malay issues using New Media.

Read more about it at this url:http://hazmanaziz.com/labs/new-media-focus-group-melayu-20/.

Facebook berkesan jalin hubungan kumpulan Melayu

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