You seem to have left out the most important (and widespread) practice of all: Deposit the paper in your institutional repository:
http://roar.eprints.org

Or, if your institution doesn’t have a repository, deposit it in OpenDepot
http://opendepot.org/

http://lovestats.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/ethical-framework-for-smr-panel-somemr-mrx-li/

Twitter and all social media are essentially public spaces. Twitter’s privacy is policy is very clear, it is a public dissemination service.

That however doesn’t stop people from feeling it is private. But the water cooler analogy is appropriate. When one is at work saying things around the water cooler one may be rudely awakened one day when the boss gets to hear what you said. That’s part of growing up at work.

Additionally the analogy of Tweeting whilst under the influence is appropriate. It’s the same as going for a drink with colleagues to a bar. If one misbehaves there it is likely to be shared in the office more generally.

My office is online.

People often forget context, at their peril, but usually the consequences are no more severe than embarrassment. For professionals involved in research and int the helping people focussed services such as health and social services? The consequences could be de-registration with statutory/federal/state bodies, loss of status, loss of job etc.

As a psychotherapist I have been thinking about this a little and some more of my thoughts are here in my blog, ‘why are the wolves white mr freud’ http://bit.ly/l8Gi1D

Thanks for this blog, good to see serious conversations about the issue.

Kind regards

Noel

Aggregation and the use of #hashtags can help in stream consumption. One such tool is @storify which many are starting to use to aggregate like minded conversations, at for example a convention.

Here is one such example of gathering patient insights into researching Diabetes management:
http://storify.com/faisal_q/with-selftracking-do-approximations-influence-the-

For his primary school, we are considering a German immersion school, as the overall educational experience would be far superior to a “regular” public school. We consider the idea of the added language (German) to be a “bonus” from the school. We are considering this, but we’re also concerned this may be a bit too much, too soon. Kids are so resilient though!! I came across your blog to see “how you do it”, what the challenges are for three languages, etc.

http://www.thebrightsparkblog.com/2010/11/is-tweet-copyright-work-and-when-can-it.html

They highlight when a tweet may be subject to copyright. Copyright will only apply to a tweet which is original enough in and of itself to attract protection (e.g. a particularly poetic tweet is more likely to be copyright than say ‘I’m having a cup of tea’). Tweets are published as soon as they are online, so once you write it and click ‘tweet’ your post is published to the world.

My take on this is that harvesting Twitter for the purposes of analysis and research is fine, but you need to then be careful as to how you use that data. There will be personal data in the name and possibly even the Twitter username, so when publishing results it would be best to anonymise, in my view. If you’re likely to be re-publishing tweets which could themselves be copyright works (see link above), you will need to ensure that you re-publish them for criticism and review, and credit the author (similar to a reference), as you can then use them under the fair dealing defence without having to seek permission first (speaking as one who is based in the UK and under UK laws).

Great post though, and one which certainly provides food for thought!

Emily (@copyrightgirl)

Purging all usernames or real names from the database of archived tweets is also a problem because there are instances where you want to (and should) quote tweets (you mentioned copyright). We are doing presently an analysis of how public health agencies and hospitals used twitter and again it would not be possible without looking at usernames and tracking down who they belong to. And we may quote “positive” examples of exemplary tweets. I am not sure why we should seek the permission of the author for quoting them in this context.

I should also correct the notion that “Twitter has no privacy policy”.

The Twitter privacy policy (https://twitter.com/privacy) – which are part of the terms of service which every user agrees to when he signs up for an account – are VERY clear:

“Our Services are primarily designed to help you share information with the world. Most of the information you provide to us is information you are asking us to make public. This includes not only the messages you Tweet and the metadata provided with Tweets, such as when you Tweeted, but also the lists you create, the people you follow, the Tweets you mark as favorites or Retweet and many other bits of information. Our default is almost always to make the information you provide public but we generally give you settings to make the information more private if you want. Your public information is broadly and instantly disseminated. For example, your public Tweets are searchable by many search engines and are immediately delivered via SMS and our APIs to a wide range of users and services. You should be careful about all information that will be made public by Twitter, not just your Tweets.
Tip What you say on Twitter may be viewed all around the world instantly.”

I don’t think one can be any more clear. I would interpret this as a clear “informed consent”, along the lines of the “frequently asked questions or information files of an internet community” you cite above.

PUBLIC tweets are PUBLICations, and may be tracked, analyzed or quoted. Caveat scriptor!