Making researchers famous with social media View more documents from Mal Booth Mal writes: These are the slides and notes for a workshop we are running for academic researchers on using social media to raise their profiles as part of our UTS Research Week 2012 program.
Monthly Archives: February 2012
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LogoColors, a photo by widgetsandstone on Flickr. Via one of my students, just discovered this campaign: http://www.widgetsandstone.com/CustomContentRetrieve.aspx?ID=3999890 Various fluorescent colors of the campaign logo. This was part of a marketing campaign to draw citizens to a visioning event to give their ideas on how the Chattanooga library system could be reinvented. Other parts of the street marketing campaign were stickers, coasters and coffee cup sleeves — all done with the initial “Nothing Will Change” message, then followed by the altered “Everything Will Change” message. Ads direct mailers and web page were also part of the overall campaign. The end […]
Don’t miss this article by Åke Nygren at InformationToday Europe: http://www.InfoToday.eu/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80411&PageNum=2 Åke explores how Stockholm Libraries are responding to e-book stagnation: Since 2010 the Stockholm Public Libraries have been working hard at coming to grips with the conflict between a growing public demand for e-books and the devastatingly low percentage of e-books available in their stacks. The overall conclusion: instead of waiting for a print oriented publishing market, paralysed by its anxieties for possible loss of market shares, let’s get the job done ourselves! Later: The third step will be to explore the potential with EPUB 3, an open format that has […]
SLIS Student Research Journal is a peer-reviewed publication of San José State University School of Library and Information Science that promotes graduate scholarship and intellectual inquiry in the fields of library and information science, archives and records management, and museum studies. For more information: http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/slissrj/ LIS Educators – please share this info with your students, including the policies for submissions, etc: http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/slissrj/policies.html My essay “Beyond the Walled Garden: LIS Students in an Era of Participatory Culture” is in the newest issue: http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1067&context=slissrj Here’s a brief excerpt of that article: Contributions Matter It makes me happy to see students, especially those who have taken my classes, […]
I am about to present my keynote for the Handheld Librarian Conference. The slides are here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/239835/HandheldLibStephens.pdf Extra Links: Pew Tablet & E-Book Reader Ownership: http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/E-readers-and-tablets.aspx Why QR Codes Are Failing: http://www.imediaconnection.com/article_full.aspx?id=30267 Pongr: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/162/pongr