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Good morning from Princeton, New Jersey! Jenny Levine and I are here to present the Roadshow at Princeton Public Library! “Conversation, Community, Connections, and Collaboration: Practical, New Technologies for User-centered Services” our Social Software & Libraries Workshop features some time devoted to user-created content. How cool is it then that in today’s USA Today, there’s an article devoted to YouTube: http://www.usatoday.com/life/2006-07-17-digital-youtube_x.htm But fame on YouTube doesn’t necessarily mean big bucks or a career in the movies. For many fledgling stars, it’s about recognition from peers, having a top video, maybe being noticed walking down the street. In other words, people, […]
David King posts about libraries videoblogging. I was glad to see this post this morning because I mentioned it in my talk this morning. Add your videoblog to his post!
http://customerevangelists.typepad.com/blog/2006/07/the_top_10_thin.html Nice pointer at the Church of the Customer. My favorite is 1. Why are you so afraid of your customers?
Greetings from Mississippi State University! http://library.msstate.edu/content/templates/?a=1092 I’m listening to T. Scott Plutchak, Director, Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, open the program with his keynote. I’m here to talk about social tools and such. It’s been a whirlwind visit to Mississippi but it’s been great! Dinner last night was filled with great conversation, including T. Scott and I discussing trust in libraries. Read his thoughts here.
Via Tech Crunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/11/firefox-surgest-to-15-market-share-in-us/ There are some surprising country-by-country statistics included in the report as well. Firefox usage in the U.S. stands at 16%. Australia, 24%. And in Germany Firefox commands a whopping 39% market share. Even at just 16%, I think we’d be remiss if we didn’t offer Firefox on public/student/client access computers as well as other popular browsers. The Germans may be on to something! These numbers can only grow!
Inspired by this post at the Social Customer Manifesto — get out there and mingle with all sorts of people. Learn from them. Ask them questions. Connect. The most interesting things happen where the edges meet.
Welcome to LiSRadio. This is a new and exciting series of interactive webcasts brought to you by the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Our aim with these webcasts is to help in “…creating and exploring the intersection of information and learning.” Fascinating! Another reason for LIS schools to make sure they have podcast studio space!
An Abramism via a recent email: “Blocking MySpace teaches kids as many good searching and internet safety skills as banning roads does teaching kids road crossing safety.” Stephen Abram Well said!
From a librarian who wishes to remain anonymous: Dear Michael, I heard you speak last May and I had to ask your opinion on something happening at our library. The other librarians want to write a Conduct Policy for the teens who come in after school: no skateboards or rollerblades, no games, one teen per computer, quiet behavior, etc. I want to speak up but I’m a new librarian and I’m scared they’ll all get mad at me. I think I know the answer but is this the way to pull teens in? Just sign me Anonymous Next Gen Librarian […]