Goodness but I love numbered lists! Are you starting your library blog? Take a look at: http://www.avivadirectory.com/successful-blog-launch/ A fave: 2. Don’t get seen naked: Never launch a blog with fewer than 5 posts. In the blogosphere you typically get just one shot at impressing a visitor or fellow blogger. Too many new bloggers throw up two posts and then start working on promotion. In the world of blogging, you are selling yourself and your writing. If you can’t give people a fully dressed picture of what your blog is all about and what type of writing will be on it, […]
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bookwall Originally uploaded by acpl. ACPL is on FIRE folks! http://acplinfo.blogspot.com/2006/11/remember-browsing.html Ian writes: Allen County Public Library has recently launched a Web feature that casts browsing in a whole new light. Sean Robinson, head of IT Services at ACPL, created a mashup of book covers and information for the books cataloged at ACPL yesterday. This is the new browsing: http://blog.acpl.lib.in.us/amzamash/book_wall.php Check it out!
Via Stephens’s Lighthouse: Search Engine Land is a new search news blog launching December 11, 2006. Danny Sullivan, along with Chris Sherman and Barry Schwartz, will be providing information about search engine marketing and how search engines work in general, from a searcher’s perspective. At launch, the site will provide: Original content covering developments in the search space. Daily blog posts covering search news from across the web. SearchCap: A daily email newsletter recapping search news from Search Engine Land and across the web. Also available by feed. SearchCap Monthly: A monthly email newsletter recapping search news over the past […]
Via my colleague Jeff up at Traverse Area District Library, comes this article from Tracy Mitrano, Director of IT Policy at Cornell University and the Cornell Director of the EDUCAUSE/Cornell Institute for Computer Policy and Law Program. http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm0660.asp?bhcp=1 There’s a lot here, including: Quashing technological advances is never the solution. I genuinely enjoy watching my children dive into new technologies such as iPods and online games or my students demonstrating new uses of search tools or network applications. New technologies alarm us for very real reasons but can and must be addressed in ways that do not crush innovation and […]
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Just 2 more talks this December: Tuesday December 12, 2006 Top Technology Trends for Librarians, Education Institute Registration & Information for Teleconference Here Thursday, December 14, 2006, Maricopa County Public Library Staff Technology Institute, Phoenix, Arizona. 2007:(More details forthcoming) January, OCLC Symposium, “Who’s Watching Your Space?”, Moderator, ALA Midwinter. January, OCLC’s Raising the Next Gen Sharing Librarian presentation & panel, ALA Midwinter. February, Ontario Library Association Top Tech Trends & best Practices for Social Software in Libraries, Toronto, Ontario. March, Library 2.0, Nassau County Library System, New York.
I had a question yesterday in a guest lecture for a Introduction to Reference class: “What’s the difference between Internet 2 and Web 2.0?” Here’s a definition I’ve used form a post at ALA Techsource: Web 2.0 is the next incarnation of the WWW, where digital tools allow users to create, change, and publish dynamic content of all kinds. Other Web 2.0 tools syndicate and aggregate this content. We will all be publishers and creators of our own information and entertainment channels with these applications. Internet 2 is defined on the Internet2 About page as “a not-for-profit advanced networking consortium […]
This week I had my regular Monday night LIS701 class and have 2 guest lectures scheduled as well. I’m talking Web 2.0/L2 and one of my points, of course, is that LIS students need an aggregator and some feeds. Starting in school sets the stage for using tools such as RSS to stay in the know. This morning, into my Safari-flavored aggregator comes this ultra hot post from Library Clips: http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2006/11/29/rss-smarts/ I’ve found RSS is addictive, sometimes you have to let go and drop feeds, you can’t be aware of everything. I’ve found RSS content is overwhelming, sometimes you have […]
Allen County PL is incredible! Checkout the phone training video! What a long way we’ve come from the days of pulling everyone into a library training room for step-by-step instructions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EramdKlwzS4
A couple of days ago I posted about my dissertation chair’s new blog, and last night I get an email note from the non-UNT member of my committee, Dr. Jude Lewandowski at Indiana University South Bend. She has started a blog as well! I guess I’ll have to be on my toes now that my committee members are bloggers and will be evaluating my blogger research. Jude teaches instructional technology in the education program at IUSB. Take a look at her fledgling blog. There’s a nice link post to a “lifelong learning” vido here.