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Fun with SMS!

Brandweek is saying that advertisements sent via SMS text are becoming a normal sighting among cell-phone users (38% of users recalled seeing them in the past few months).  What really aggravated surprised me was the response to what could be viewed as an intrusive form of advertising:

Perhaps most encouraging for advertisers, says the report, [...]

February 9th, 2009 | Category: IM, Meebo & Chat Reference, Library 2.0/Web 2.0, SMS/Text Messaging, TTW Contributor: Katharine Johnson, Virtual Reference | One comment - (Comments are closed)

What are you starting?

This one time I had a Professor tell me you have to start something new at least once a month. Her idea was that we are these “perpetual discovery engines” Apply, apply, apply was a core tenet. The greatest ideas she believed came from remixing. School was this ultimate test of your ability to create.

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May 8th, 2008 | Category: Librarians, Libraries & the Profession, Library 2.0/Web 2.0, Library Innovators, LIS Education in the 21st Century, TTW Contributor: Lee Leblanc, Virtual Reference | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)

Put Virtual Reference in the User’s Pocket

Some say that IM is on the verge of extinction and that forging into such territory for virtual reference so late in the game is a waste of a library’s energy. You can surely count me as one of those who agrees with that statement. I predict, as do many others, that virtual reference [...]

February 14th, 2008 | Category: Apple & Mac, IM, Meebo & Chat Reference, SMS/Text Messaging, TTW Contributor: Kyle Jones, Virtual Reference | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)