Good stuff here: http://blog.uwinnipeg.ca/schwagbag/archives/2005/03/im.html So here are some of the pros and cons (for our particular situation), and my general questions . . . Pros it’s saves several thousands of dollars a year ? it’s free! it works ? bonus! no messy setup or clunky interfaces; uses a medium that many/most students are already familiar with ability to create customized ‘queues’ per subject or librarian for things like subject pages (simply create an appropriate and different screen name for that purpose), which with VR software can cost around $3000 per librarian it’s ‘disposable’: one thing that really bothers me about […]
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Thanks to Robin!!! http://360.yahoo.com/tametheweb So I set “My Page” up real quick and will return to mess with the features soon. Right now I use flickr, Audio Scrobbler, etc… will these sites or sites like them be absorbed into virtual community clearinghouse. Is Yahoo! 360′ the next stop for Flickr? (I think it will be – “Share Photos” was all over in 360′)
Anyone joined Yahoo! 360′? I’m intrigued by yet another virtual community being offered for folks. If you are in and have an invite, I’d be grateful!
VIa Skagirlie, who rules as a presenter about IM, http://feelgoodlibrarian.typepad.com/feelgood_librarian/2005/03/each_in_our_own.html
Good Morning! For almost 2 weeks I have been busy- in DC for CIL 2005, downstate for Indiana Library Federation, teaching at IUSB and doing some online collaboration. Today, however, I’m hitting the road for Traverse City to see how things are going Up North. See you in a couple of days!
Apple is selling these now: http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/sets/185371/
Even as I post this, David King, Chad and Blake and I are co-browsing the Web! We all downloaded and installed JYBE and joined the same session. Suddenly, we were watching as David took us around the KCPL site! There is a built in chat room at the bottom of the page! We were chatting within the browser! WOWZA! Thanks to the fellow who posed the question to Aaron and I at our CIL IM presentation: “Have you tried Jybe?” And thanks to Chris Jowaisis who told me about it when it launched in January. Think of the implications for […]
Summer 2005 IMLS Distance Ph.D. Program in Library Science: School Library Division: Douglas Achterman Gayle Bogel Vivian Cisneros Richard Hasenyager Wendy Stephens Public Library Division: Shannon Bomar Sara Jones Brian Kenney Jeanne Puacz David Scott Congrats to all!!
That shufflecasting is hot right now friends… I am chatting for a minute with Chris (who sent this) and he just told me the coolest thing: Chris: “We want to offer audiobooks on iPod to the public, but along with them we would attach the library’s monthly podcast of library happenings, book reviews, music, movies, etc.” Me: “Chris, that’s HOT HOT HOT!” Chris: “Yeah.”