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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)

Integrating Staff Personal Social Media Presence into Library Web Site = Human Touch

I’m updating some slides and prepping for spring classes today. I was pleased to find this wonderful staff directory page for the Todd Library at Waubonsee Community College:

https://library.waubonsee.edu/staff/

Not only do I get a photo of the staff member, I also get access to their social media presence as well. Frankly, I’d like [...]

December 27th, 2010 | Category: Librarian 2.0, Librarians, Libraries & the Profession, Library 2.0/Web 2.0, Library Innovators, Social Software & Sites, The Hyperlinked Library | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)

Study: Comparing Tools of Social Media

Please consider participating!

http://www.unc.edu/~jvelasco/sm-survey2010/

A study by Javier Velasco-Martin The Study

I’m interested in how we are incorporating Social Media into our communication toolset; this research study will compare different computer-based interpersonal communication media. I’m particularly interested in whom we relate with through different tools, what types of information we share on these, and how [...]

September 9th, 2010 | Category: Social Software & Sites, Teaching & Learning | Comments are closed

TTW Mailbox: Do you use DELICIOUS? Please take survey

From an email:

I am a graduate student in the Dept. of Library & Information Science, National Taiwan University. I am writing to you because I read your article and thus understand that you had researched Delicious.com before. I’m currently doing my thesis research on Delicious users’ social relations and tagging behaviors. I am now [...]

August 30th, 2010 | Category: Social Software & Sites | Comments are closed

Anytown Public Library’s Social Media Policy

APL Social Media Policy

This policy governs the publication of and commentary on social media by employees of Anytown Public Library and its related companies (“APL”). For the purposes of this policy, social media means any facility for online publication and commentary, including without limitation blogs, wiki’s, social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, [...]

June 10th, 2010 | Category: Librarians, Libraries & the Profession, Social Software & Sites | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)

One More Slide Deck for Next Week: Social Media Talking Points

Social Media Talking Points

View more presentations from Michael Stephens.

March 5th, 2010 | Category: Conferences & Presentations, Social Software & Sites, Zahmen das Web: TTW in Germany & Switzerland | Comments are closed

foursquare @ Darien Library

Check-ins, badges, and becoming mayor have nothing to do with libraries and everything to do with the geolocation game foursquare…. well it did until some of the librarians here at Darien began hijacking our own venue (Darien Library).  We began checking in every time we came into work, closely monitoring who among us was crowned [...]

March 1st, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Library Technology, Social Software & Sites, TTW Contributor: Kyle Jones | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
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