Via Linda Braun, I followed the links and found out that many of the characters on one of my favorite TV shows are on Twitter! File this under PR and Marketing 2.0: http://venturebeat.com/2008/08/25/twitter-blacklists-mad-men-characters-some-of-them/ Update: Twitter has responded back to me on the issue. Apparently it wasn’t a spam issue, but rather a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice that Twitter’s support team responded to, co-founder Biz Stone tells me. I guess AMC didn’t like others playing the roll of its Mad Men characters besides the actors who play them on TV. Expect some backlash against the network. Update 2: Blogger Ben Kessler […]
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My sincere apologies to all who attended the Institute today as we encountered technical difficulties and had to cancel the program. My Mac, OS 10.5.5, and Safari 3 just could not play nice with MS Live Meeting. I’ll post the rescheduled date as soon as we iron it out. The slides and links will remain here.
Thanks Everyone! Aurora Public Library Staff Day, originally uploaded by mstephens7. I had a great day on Friday with the good folks from Aurora! Thanks everyone!
Last spring, I was interviewed for the SLA IT Division: http://units.sla.org/division/dite/bite/2008/bITeSummer2008.pdf One of the question was about LIS education, and I thought I’d include it here: Question: As someone who is involved in library education, how are you helping to develop the next generation of librarians? What do you believe the future of library education will look like? One thing that brought me to Dominican was the emphasis on truth and service in the university’s mission and philosophy. I think it fits well with my personal philosophy of teaching. Preparing new graduates to deal with constant change, use emerging technologies […]
Check out the video tutorials from the good folks at Franklin Park Public Library: http://www.franklinparklibrary.org/index.php?q=tutorials
Nicole writes: A few weeks ago I got to to Kansas and train the NEKLS librarians on how to use the Koha ILS. While many libraries have been migrating to Koha (or choosing to migrate soon), NEKLS is the first that I’ve seen create a website for all of their libraries (and anyone else) to learn from as they train their staff on the new system. So, congrats to NEKLS on going live with their new Koha 3.0 ILS!!! Keep up with the process on the NExpress website and Facebook page.
Twitter breaks down barriers in the Classroom: As an experiment, Parry made Twitter a class assignment and got his students to engage in microblogging as homework. He observed how Twitter became the link that connected conversations inside and out of class. “Because the students had the shared classroom experience, when something came up outside of class that reminded them of material from class time, it often got twittered,” he notes. “This served as a reinforcement/connection between the material and the ‘real world.’” He also discovered that it changed classroom dynamics in a positive way, encouraging more respectful and productive interaction between students […]
Brian Mathews writes: Just to be clear, this isn’t an instructional session, it’s a celebration. It’s a “welcome to Georgia Tech” event. It’s a chance for students to have fun in the library and to meet their fellow dorm mates and peers. It shows that we don’t have to be so serious all the time– that we are approachable. We want them to see the space, live in it for a few hours, and hopefully feel less intimidated later in the semester. Plus it is a fun bonding experience for staff too. I mentioned last year that we designed […]
Tomorrow is my SirsiDynix Institute webinar: Taming Technolust: Planning in a Hyperlinked World Aug 26, 2008 | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Eastern Michael Stephens offers ten steps for technology planning in our fast changing, ever-evolving information world. More Info | Register Now If you have time, please join in.
http://maisonbisson.com/oss4lib/ Casey Bisson writes: The rights to my Library Technology Report on Open-Source Software for Libraries have reverted back to me, so I’m posting the text online under a CC-BY-SA license. More importantly, I’m using it as an opportunity to play with how longer-than-blog texts can be represented online. Nice to have the full text of his outstanding LTR out on the Web and open. Thanks Casey! I need to look into getting my two volumes out.