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BuddyPress, Libraries and Higher Education: An Interview with Kenley Neufeld and Michael Stephens

Kyle Jones interviewed Kenley Neufeld and me for the new Library technology report from ALA TechSource: “Using WordPress as a Library Content Management System” by Kyle M. L. Jones and Polly-Alida Farrington.

Here’s a snippet:

KJ: You both work at institutions where you have some kind of formal learning management system. Why did you make the decision [...]

Looking Back at TechSource: 5 Years of Blog Posts

I contributed my final post as a regular author this week at ALA TechSource. I must say it makes me a bit emotional but it’s time to move on to focus on other things. I thought I take this chance to point back to some of my favorite posts from the last 5 years [...]

You Can Do Magic & Signing Off ALA TechSource

http://www.alatechsource.org/blog/2010/12/you-can-do-magic.html

I’m moving on from writing blog posts for ALA TechSource. My final post went up today. I do plan to return on occasion as a guest blogger. Today’s post is about MAGIC:

I also want to tell you a story about ten year old Michael. He really enjoyed afternoon reruns of shows like [...]

Geosocial Locations and Libraries

I have a new post up at ALA TechSource:

http://www.alatechsource.org/blog/2010/12/geosocial-locations-and-libraries.html

It’s too early to gauge impact. Ed Baig of USA Today asked Lee Rainie at Pew about the low numbers and Rainie replied: “The overall number of users of location services is likely to grow over time as new services emerge, as ‘networking effects’ take [...]

Follow a Library Day at ALA TechSource

http://www.alatechsource.org/blog/2010/09/follow-a-library.html

Excerpt:

What I appreciate the most about this project is their main goal is educating people about the benefits of following a library on Twitter. The group is aiming beyond our little online world of librarians and library folk and I think we should help them. What better way to do your own promotion [...]

Tech Trends at ALA TechSource

I couldn’t participate in the rescheduled ALA TechSource Webinar but I was able to contribute slides and some text.

Tech Trend: Teaching & Learning in Flux

View more presentations from Michael Stephens.

Organizational Immersive Learning

This subcategory addresses the outstanding success of the Learning 2.0 model of staff training: free, open, and inclusive. I [...]

Interview with Smithsonian’s Michael Edson at ALA techSource

http://www.alatechsource.org/blog/2010/08/interview-with-michael-edson.html

MS: The connection between libraries and museums gets clearer and clearer to me, especially after my speaking trip to Germany. At our Stammtisch evening, I spent a long time chatting with a museum employee. Her take was this: “We have 30 seconds to grab a visitor’s attention. We can’t use a blog. We can’t [...]

FREE Access to my 2006 & 2007 Library Technology Reports

@ALA_TechSource Free access to Michael Stephens’ Web 2.0 & Libraries Jul-Aug 06 http://bit.ly/dyaaPz and Sept-Oct 07 http://bit.ly/cH5DbV

Go grab them now!

Mash Ups & Mobiles: A Conversation with Paul Hagon

I have a new post up at ALA Techsource – an interview with the National Library of Australia’s Paul Hagon:

http://www.alatechsource.org/blog/2010/05/mash-ups-mobiles-a-conversation-with-paul-hagon.html

Paul discusses his take on making library collections available in some very unique ways:

It’s been less than 2 years since the iPhone (via the appstore) became a viable interface. We now have [...]

The Visitors

Multitouch Microsoft Surface: Cultural Heritage Browser from Jaap van de Geer on Vimeo.

I have a new post at ALATechSource about the Shanachie presentation at ALA. Check out the video above to see one of the projects they highlighted in action.

http://www.alatechsource.org/blog/2009/07/the-visitors.html

Late one February evening in 2007, I found myself sitting [...]