By Michael Casey & Michael Stephens As the buzz around social networking continues, consider that author Kevin Kelly has called the emerging web “One Machine” and predicts that “total personalization in this new world will require total transparency.” So, where do we fit in? Where do we position ourselves as professionals? We two don’t completely agree, so we thought we’d try to tease out the relationship between personal/social transparency and library transparency. MS: I think the line between the personal and the professional online has blurred so much recently that it’s impossible to separate them. MC: Our worlds are colliding-I […]
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MC: And how do we manage this personal/professional divide? Should we be worried that supervisors “friend” subordinates on Facebook and can look into their personal lives while at the same time they must evaluate their performance? Do we go to someone’s Flickr stream or Twitter status to check on them when they call in sick? Ethical questions surround what we can now “find out” about coworkers, job applicants, potential friends, etc. MS: Indeed! Our location-aware iPhones and applications like Loopt make it very easy to follow someone’s movements. I am both excited about broadcasting my whereabouts to trusted friends/colleagues and a little […]
Will you be attending Internet Librarian International in London next month? There are some cool workshops, including one taught by Michael Casey and I based on our work at LJ and our blogs: http://www.internet-librarian.com/2008/day.php?day=Wednesday Please say hi if you will be there! I am really looking forward to a few days in London.
teens using the computers May 2008, originally uploaded by Parma Public Library. The caption? Look at how friendly they seem!
Thanks Mt Prospect PL!, originally uploaded by mstephens7. I spoke at the MPPL Staff Day on Friday! It was great fun. The slides – a customized version of THL – are here.
Designing the Digital Experience, originally uploaded by davidking. Check out David Lee King’s new book: http://www.davidleeking.com/2008/09/12/my-new-book-designing-the-digital-experience/
National Gaming Day @ your library logo, originally uploaded by ALA staff. More info at ilovelibraries.org/gaming and gaming.ala.org/resources
Tomorrow, I’ll be at Mt. Prospect Public Library to speak at their staff day. The library is launching a version of Learning 2.0. Check it out: http://mppllearning2point0.pbwiki.com/ If you are attending, please say hi!
http://www.kickerstudio.com/blog/2008/09/creating-products-not-experiences/ This comes via David Armano’s Twitter feed. I will be seeing him speak at this year’s IDEA Conference – I can’t wait. The Kicker Studio piece is good food for thought: Although Kicker does some of the activities that in a lot of circles would be called “User Experience” or “Experience Design,” it’s my feeling that experiences can’t really be designed. You can only provide the resources for people to have an experience; then it’s the people (users) themselves who create the experience. People bring all sorts of history, talents, sensibilities, and culture to bear on any engagement with a […]
“Talking, looking, flying, searching: information seeking behavior in Second Life” by Margaret Ostrander, MLIS, has been accepted for publication by the peer-reviewed, academic journal Library Hi Tech. The article is based on original research Margaret completed to investigate how users seek information in virtual worlds. Margaret’s work will appear as the lead article in the “Best Young Professionals” themed issue in December 2008 (vol:26 iss:4). Margaret completed this research as part of a self-designed independent study under the direction of Dr. Michael Stephens at Dominican University while a student on the College of St. Catherine campus. WooHoo! Congrats Margaret!