My Social Activity Index

posted 11:30PM Nov 24, 2007 with tags activity socialnetworks socialsoftware tracking web20 by Lars Trieloff

As my readers know, I am aggregating my social network activity in a sidebar of this weblog. Today I am introducing a new feature: The Social Activity Index.

As a blogger I am blogging with varying frequency. There are times when I am full of ideas, blog and bookmark at lot of things, and there are times when hundreds of unread e-mails stack my inbox and I am unable to post a single bookmark to del.icio.us. Based on the data I already collect for the activity aggregation, I decided to boil down all these activity data into a single number by weighting time, type and frequency of an activity and combining this in a single value.

Before I published this post, my activity index was 35, now directly after publication it will be higher, but unless more activity follows, this number will fall again.

http://weblogs.goshaky.com/weblogs/lars/resource/socialactivity.png

For you this number is an indicator of my activity and creativity. If this number is high, I am likely to be open to new ideas and to respond to any new input very fast, if this number is low, you can expect to wait some time for an answer.

What is a high and what is a low value for the activity index? I do not know yet. Let's monitor it for a while and find out.

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posted 12:41PM Feb 12, 2007 with tags bookmarks cocoon mindquarry socialsoftware web20 by Lars Trieloff

Webmasters and bloggers that want to publicise their content often add links at the footer of their website that allow posting a link to a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us, digg.com, reddit, ma.gnolia and others. But with the increasing number of social bookmarking services in use, and webmasters that want to support all of them, those litte icons are slowly taking over your website. (See David Trowbridge's blog for an example).

But there is relief: With Share This Link bloggers and webmasters get the opportunity to support many social bookmarking services at once by linking to Share This Link which is a meta-social-bookmarking service that forwards the bookmarker to her favorite service.

Share this link is heavily inspired by Alex King's Share This Wordpress Plugin, uses the icons provided by the Share Icon Project and was written using Apache Cocoon in one afternoon.

So, it is time to act now:

  1. Share the Share This Link page with your favorite social bookmarking service
  2. Clean up your blog template with Share This Link