This fascinates me. The Church of the Customer blog points out “The Not So Secret Shopper” who visited a Kohl’s Department store and found a mess. Cameraphone in hand, he documented the condition of the retail establisjment and blogged about it. http://heehawmarketing.typepad.com/hee_haw_marketing/2007/01/hurricane_kohs_.html The folks at Church of the Customer state: Here’s the thing: 156 million Americans use high-speed cellphone networks that allow them to take pictures like this and post them immediately to a blog where, naturally, they can spread. Pew estimates that 41 percent of American cellphone owners use their phones as content creation tools. That translates into about […]
Monthly Archives: January 2007
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January 19, 2007. “Who’s Watching YOUR Space?” Moderator. OCLC Symposium with danah boyd, Howard Rheingold & Marc Smith, ALA Midwinter. Seattle, Washington. January 21, 2007. Next-Gen Sharing Libraries. OCLC Program. ALA Midwinter. Seattle, Washington. January 23, 2007. Elmhurst College Library Honors Program. Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois. February 1, 2007. Library 2.0.: Learning 2.0 Kickoff Presentation. McMaster University Library, Hamilton, Ontario. February 2, 2007. Best Practices for Social Software in Libraries. Ontario Library Association. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. February 3, 2007. Top Technology Trends with John Blyberg & Amanda Etches-Johnson. Ontario Library Association. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. February 15, 2007. The Hyperlinked Library. […]
Ohhh…sweet technolust… Driving back to Illinois this week I caught up on my Mac podcasts, including one of my favorites Mac Break Weekly. The podcast included loads of news about Apple’s new product the iPhone, and I realized that my personal technolust will surely get the better of me. I want this phone! That said, I wonder how many geeked out folks will doing just what I did: T-Mobile Rep: “T-Mobile Customer Support, how can I help you?” Me: “Yes please, when does my contract expire with T-Mobile?” T-Mobile Rep: “August 2008.” Me: (Ouch) “And how much is the fee […]
Day 106 – I am a librarian Originally uploaded by cindiann. One of the points I like to touch on in my presentations is for interested librarians to find a social space they like and try it — and identify themselves as a librarians or library worker. It goes all the way back to this at ALA Techsource: Share your bookmarks, feeds of the music you play on your computer, and more via the social tools, and you’ll reap three benefits for sure: presence, learning, and experience. We talk about presence and libraries a lot, but what about presence for […]
Network Services Staff Avatars in Second Life Originally uploaded by Nebraska Library Commission. What a nice why to inspire curiosity about Second Life! Can you guess who is who? Wondering about libraries in Second Life. Visit the Info Island blog to find out more about library services in the virtual world. infoisland.org
For LIS753 Originally uploaded by mstephens7. I have been updating syllabi and prepping classes all since returning from Hennepin. I teach LIS753 Internet Fundamentals & Design all weekend. Here we go….
http://tnl.net/blog/2007/01/05/running-the-numbers-on-second-life/ Fascinating discussion and analysis of SL stats. Read the comments too. And Reuters offers a listing of SL articles at: http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/category/second-life/ – Thanks to Jody at Hennepin County for sending that link.
Here’s my updated group project assignment for LIS753 this semester. Which team would you like to be on? 🙂 LIS753 Internet Fundamentals and Design Stephens Team Projects Web Technologies – Creating a Service For this assignment, the class becomes the library emerging technology group. The group is looking at newer technologies and enhancing the library’s online presence. Sub-teams are formed to present prototype projects, research and plans for implementation. The class will be divided into groups. Each team will build a resource for librarians or libraries with their assigned tools. Each team will create a web presence/resource that offers information […]
On the way to Minnesota Originally uploaded by mstephens7. I’m in Minnesota for three days to talk with the folks at Hennepin County Library about “The Hyperlinked Library.” If you are attending any of the sessions, please say hi. It’s nice to be back in Minnesota!
Via SmartMobs, at http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/2007/01/05/im_vs_email.html: http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/01/is-im-better-for-brainstorming.html The New Scientist Technology Blog: Is IM better for Brainstorming? The researchers recruited forty two-person teams of graduate business students, and split them into IM and email groups. Each team then had to tackle a business problem facing an auto-repair firm, using only their allocated communication method. For some reason the paper doesn’t say how long the tests latest. But, on average, the IM teams produced one more idea than those using email. The researchers suggests this may be due to the speed of IM compared to email. Perhaps it also shows that, when it […]