http://stephenslighthouse.sirsi.com/archives/2006/01/social_software.html He asks some questions and ponders some answers: Key questions: 1. What are they doing right? 2. What can we learn from then? 3. What can we copy? 4. What are the best features, functions, etc. Hmmm. I’m no expert but the answers have to be somewhere in: – How they link people of like interests. – How they link people and content. – How the users define their own social networks and the purpose for them. – How one might manage this so that it doesn’t become ‘just dating’. – How they manage profiles. – How they manage […]
Yearly Archives: 2006
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43 Folders is “Merlin Mann’s site about personal productivity, life hacks, and simple ways to make your life a little better.” And I am thouroughly enjoying his advice, viewpoint and take on “getting things done.” In fact, he has some excellent GTD resources. Please see http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/08/getting-started-with-getting-things-done/ for more. He also podcasts and recently got married!
http://www.sitepoint.com/print/blog-software-smackdown-review Just a pointer to a great overview of some blog software. If you are starting to plan for blogs at your library, this might be a good page to investigate.
I love the ideas about applications of video in library settings. One of these days we’ll see an official “video podcast” from a library show up in the next incarantion of the iTunes MEDIA Store. David King has a great post about integrating video into Library Web sites. He lists ten things librarians might do with video, including: Videocast of bibliographic instruction, downloadable when a student needs it Tours of the library Showing what a meeting room looks like Wonderful ideas that make use of the medium. The BI videos could be very helpful for “training on demand.” At SJCPL, […]
Via the BBC: 2005 was arguably the year citizens really started to do it for themselves. Raising mobiles aloft, they did not just talk and text, they snapped, shared and reported the world around them. Fascinating little article that touches on braodband in the UK, videoblogging, news, and more. Also reminds me of this fellow that snapped his picture with his Treo while the plane he was on was de-pressurizing, and this piece at USA Today about video sharing Web sites.
Via Maison Bisson (Who also wrote about L2 here.) A reprint of an incredible article written by a library user: The University’s Reading and Writing Center is housed in the library, and the planning board for the library has just completed designs for bringing in a coffee shop, similar to Starbuck’s, onto the library’s ground floor. The entire building now is wireless, meaning you can take your laptop into the coffee shop, drink a cup of Joe, and surf the library at UCLA, or the Sorbonne, or Harvard — at least in principle. You can also pop in a DVD […]
Before Holiday break, I posted a list of ten L2 Events of 2005, strictly my opinion and very much a “brain dump.” Steve Lawson, librarian blogger from See Also commented: “I think that “Rock the Shelves” and the Gaming Symposium are fantastic, but I’m not sure how they fit the L2 meme. I have been thinking of L2 as the library version of Web 2.0: lightweight, social computing applications to meet users’ needs when, where, and how they need it. If we include innovative programs for young people like gaming and music, where do we draw the line? Is a […]
Such great blog reading this last few days as 2005 rolled into 2006. 2005 was an incredible year professionally, acdemically and personally. Thanks to all I worked with, presented with and just plain got to sit and talk with! I am looking forward to 2006: the end of my PhD coursework, starting my dissertation, more blogging here and for ALA Techsource, publishing the Library Technology Report I’m working on and a few presentations here and there. Here are some nice wrap ups I came across in my aggregator: David Warlick on year end reflections. Steve Lawson on 2005 and technologies, […]
Via Clio Institute Blog again! (Go Gail!) http://learningcircuits.blogspot.com/2006/01/top-11-trends-for-organizational.html Google Blogs Wikis Open Source IM/VOIP (Instant Messaging/ Voice Over Internet) Ambient Information Mobile Phones as Content Inputs/Outputs Podcasts Computer Games driving educational simulations Growing Training Budgets More Decentralized College Programs Can I say how HOT this list is and how important it is for library folk to be experimenting and implementing services based on these trends. Now is a great time to start that committee or team to discuss this list. Even if it’s a small group, it’s a great starting point. From a training standpoint, it’s time to make classes […]
http://acrlblog.org/2005/11/28/academias-conflicted-reaction-to-blogging/ The conflicted reactions to blogging in higher education are discussed in a good article at Slate titled, “Attack of the Career-Killing Blogs.” It suggests several reasons while academic blogging is looked down upon, including departmental jealousy, that it’s considered a waste of time that should be spent on serious research, and that it falls outside the traditional peer-review journal system. Blogs however, seem to fulfill in many more ways the “fruition, not a betrayal, of the university’s ideals.” The article then considers that if a major objection to academic blogs is that they lack peer review, how might a […]