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I have had to change the name of my Blog - why? Because the title seemed to be attracting the wrong sort of attention. Internet security was going haywire! Couldn't understand why! Until a kind group at work, the Stock Promotion Group I lead, pointed out that it may have something to do with having 'Nocturnes' in the title. So okay I said 'what else goes with 'Ouch'. Now Ouch is my Twitter username and comes from Outreach as in Community Outreach Librarian? Works ok as a Twitter name but it was suggested I may have to ditch this part of my name too! It is a dangerous business, this Blogging, Tweeting and Facebooking. Need to be watchful at every move. I am often posting comments and Tweeting, then immediately removing the Tweets again on second thoughts. Can't even repeat the 'gaff' I made at Christmas when I commented on one of my son's photos and had to remove the next day. Fine if you catch them on time, but if you get retweeted before you...

I have created this blog after attending a really informative social media workshop, 'Social Media; tools for reasearh and collaboration' at Edinburgh University. Speakers Lesley Thomson, a Knowledge Manager from Scottish Government and Helen Muir, Research Support Librarian at Queen Margaret University, gave excellent presentations and specifically spoke about using Social Media for research and collaboration. Phil Bradley was the afternoon speaker that day and he went over the use of Social Media and search facilities. How we use social media, how we now use websites, ways to search for information and ways to store information for later consumption. Everyone now talks about 'Information Overload'. Phil pointed out that we have always had too much information. All that is wrong nowadays is that the filter mechanism has broken down somewhat. Phil spoke about blogs, not only for research purposes, but also to share good information and best practice. If we have goo...