I was working last week on various writing projects and updating presentations when it struck me I should check in and see if my hometown library Mishawaka Penn Harris Public Library had relaxed the ban on Facebook and MySpace that I wrote about on TTW and that Michael and I covered in the our LJ column. I called the library and spoke with the public relations person. Through the course of our conversation, I mentioned that I had sent the column draft and links to all of the online discussions to the library adminstration last year just as an FYI. […]
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Don’t miss Nancy Dowd’s reporting of Guy Kawasaki’s “Using Twitter for Marketing:” http://themwordblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/my-new-bff-guy-kawasaki_27.html 1. Forget the A List 2. Defocus- you never know who will carry the banner for you so be open to every possibility. 3. Get lots of followers. 3. Content 4. Monitor what people are saying about you. 5. Copy what people are doing/best practices
Just some things of note: Library of Congress embraces YouTube, iTunes: “Our broad strategy is to ‘fish where the fish are,’ and to use the sites that give our content added value — in the case of iTunes, ubiquity, portability, etc.,” Raymond said in an e-mail. Pupils to Study Twitter and Blogs: Children to leave primary school familiar with blogging, podcasts, Wikipedia and Twitter as sources of information and forms of communication. They must gain “fluency” in handwriting and keyboard skills, and learn how to use a spellchecker alongside how to spell. When every student has a laptop, why run […]
http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=2596 I am eager to get my hands on a copy of Brian’s new book. I think it may be a perfect fit for use in LIS768. I was glad to see his reflective post about the process: (emphasis mine) I am very grateful that ALA didn’t pressure me to write a 2.0 or social technology book. It would have been a disaster. While those elements are included in the text, the scope is much wider. I worked (struggled) on and off for 2 years on this project. It is very personal. Writing a book is very draining. You feel […]
I travel to Houston tomorrow for the 2009 Texas Library Association conference. This will be my third one and I must say they treat speakers the best! Jenny Levine and I are heading down tomorrow morning for 3 days. Here are my talks: April 1, 2009: “Michael Stephens Talks Hyperlinked Libraries, April 2, 2009: Top 10 Technologies & Ideas to Improve Library Productivity Please say hi if you are attending!
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Twitter – Zero to Amazing in 30 Days by Chris Oien A lot of people just do not get Twitter. For quite some time, I was one of them. I enjoyed the stories like the one about how a guy got arrested by the police in Egypt, Twittered the word “Arrested”, and got his friends spurred into action to get him released. But, I just could not see what use it could be to me. That started changing in Michael Stephens’s Library 2.0 class, that I took last fall. The whole class signed up for it and talked to each […]
Hi Michael, Thought we’d share an e-flyer for a design contest that we’re running at the Chicago Public Library. Grand Prize winner has their work featured in a public awareness campaign for the library. For more info, visitwww.notwhatyouthink.tumblr.com. If you haven’t seen our new campaign please visit www.chipublib.org/notwhatyouthink Thanks! Bruce Not What You Think team This is good to see CPL reaching out to involve the city in creating a marketing campaign for the library. I am interested to see the results. Here’s more info about the contest from their site: Imagine. Design. Compete. From March 5 – April 9, 2009, […]
Flickr Tutorial View more presentations from librarybug. I am also serving as faculty advisor with a student for a practicum experience at Schaumburg Township Disrict Library. Carrie has been working this semester on STDL’s Flickr presence, staffing the Reference Desk and she just taught a class on Flickr for the public. Checkout her blog here: http://classes.tametheweb.com/librarybug
I’m working with two students this semester on individual independent studies. They’ve chosen to chronicle their work via a blog, This is one of the ways we check in and I can see their progress. We also meet for lunch every other week to discuss readings and have some genral chit chat. Purpose This project is being completed as part of an independent study by Kyle Jones and Katharine Johnson, graduate students in Dominican University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Kyle wants to investigate more into the field of Information Architecture and develop a background on its influence […]