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Making Researchers Famous with Social Media

Making researchers famous with social media

View more documents from Mal Booth Mal writes: These are the slides and notes for a workshop we are running for academic researchers on using social media to raise their profiles as part of our UTS Research Week 2012 program. [...]

February 10th, 2012 | Category: Social Software & Sites | Leave a comment

Web 2.0 & Libraries Parts 1 & 2 Available Free on Hyperlinked Library Site

I am happy to announce the full text of both of my ALA Library Technology Reports are available now at the new TTW companion site The Hyperlinked Library.

The rest of the site is currently under construction, but for now you’ll find:

Web 2.0 & Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software (2006) - http://thehyperlinkedlibrary.org/libtechreport1/

Web 2.0 [...]

January 17th, 2012 | Category: ALA News & Such, Flickr Rocks My World, IM, Meebo & Chat Reference, Learning 2.0 & Beyond, Librarian 2.0, Library 2.0/Web 2.0, Library Technology, Library Web Sites, LIS Weblogs Rule!, Micro-Content: Twitter & More, Open Source Software, Participatory Culture, RSS and Content, Social Software & Sites, The Hyperlinked Library, Top Tech Trends, Wikis and Other Tools, YouTube & Libraries | One comment

Revolutionising Libraries with Social Media

Revolutionising Libraries with Social Media

View more presentations from Judy O’Connell

November 6th, 2011 | Category: Social Software & Sites | Comments are closed

Historypin

I got an iPhone this past month, and I’ve been slowly digging into the vast library or apps that the phone offers.  A lot of things have grabbed my attention, but nothing perhaps so much as Historypin.  From Wikipedia:

Historypin is an online, user-generated archive of historical photos and personal recollections. Users are able [...]

September 14th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: iPhone, Social Software & Sites, Teens & Libraries, TTW Contributor: Justin Hoenke | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)

Your “Library” Doesn’t Participate in Social Media, But Your People Do – A TTW Guest Post by Dr. Troy Swanson

Much discussion has been made about librarians reaching out through social media to our communities and our patrons and rightly so. But, we often overlook the role that social media offers for us internally as a means to strengthen our organizations.

One thing to remember is that libraries really do not participate in social networks. [...]

March 23rd, 2011 | Category: Librarians, Libraries & the Profession, Library 2.0/Web 2.0, Social Software & Sites, TTW Contributor Dr. Troy Swanson | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

Please Take Lori Reed’s Facebook Survey

Lori Reed writes:

For my capstone project at East Carolina University I am conducting research on best practices and current trends on using Facebook for work and personal use.

Please help me by completing this short survey on how you use Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/fbsurveylr

This survey is completely anonymous but I am looking for statements that [...]

March 23rd, 2011 | Category: Social Software & Sites | Comments are closed

The Underground Economy of Innovation – A TTW Guest Post by Dr. Troy Swanson

There are costs to maintaining and fully supporting technologies. For every dollar of software or hardware that is purchased, there are additional dollars that must be committed to implementation and ongoing support. Most organizations have lists of “supported” technologies and much longer lists of “unsupported” technologies. Yet, we continue to innovate. We continue to utilize [...]

March 5th, 2011 | Category: Librarians, Libraries & the Profession, Library 2.0/Web 2.0, Library Innovators, Social Software & Sites, TTW Contributor Dr. Troy Swanson | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Social Media Counter

http://www.personalizemedia.com/garys-social-media-count/

Via Cheri Gogo, who was in LIS768 last semester.

What do these numbers mean for libraries?

February 21st, 2011 | Category: Social Software & Sites | Comments are closed

Social Media, Libraries, and Web 2.0: New Survey Results

Social Media, Libraries, and Web 2.0: How American Libraries are Using New Tools for Public Relations and to Attract New Users – Third Survey November 2010

View more documents from Curtis Rogers. Dr. Curtis Rogers shares a report of his most recent survey. This is useful, practical data to explore. [...]

February 1st, 2011 | Category: Librarians, Libraries & the Profession, Library 2.0/Web 2.0, Social Software & Sites | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

Embracing Services to Teens 2011: Revisiting Mishawaka’s Ban on Social Networking

A new anonymous comment went up on this post from 2008 about my hometown library’s ban of social media access because of issues with teens:

http://tametheweb.com/2008/03/18/no-myspace-facebook-at-mishawaka-library/

No email address or URL was shared, so I thought I’d share the comment here so the person might get some useful feedback – including ideas to welcome everyone [...]

January 3rd, 2011 | Category: Social Software & Sites, Teens & Libraries | One comment - (Comments are closed)
 
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