At IL in London, Brian Kelly told our audience: “The room is wireless, open up your laptops and start blogging and IMing about our presentation…” He joked then that they should say only nice things! But — how cool was this? We’ve heard about conferences where virtual communities spring up during the proceedings of folks commiserating in chats, private chats and actively blogging or congrunting. Is that happening here? I just read this at Library Stuff: I?m sitting here in David King?s session. I see only four other laptops. One is a blogger. So, 20% of all the laptops in […]
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I got this neat e-mail yesterday: Michael, Do you know of any public library, or other kind of library,?that?is running?iTunes?on a server and allows patrons to listen via a public access computer?? Our Library is looking at possibly providing this service but I have not found any site that is talking about it. Thanks for your help! I love this idea! iTunes has the capability nthrough Rendezvous to access a library on another Mac on the network and stream the songs for listening. At my desk at SJCPL on any given day I see other folks libraries: Adam, Kris, Nancy, […]
My article on technology planning is in the new Library Journal! Thanks to all who contributed and offered quotes/insight! http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA474999
I got bit by the moblog bug! http://www.tametheweb.com/dc/ Watch that space or subscribe to the RSS feed to see where I am and what the heck I’m getting into! Why didn’t I do this for England? Thanks to Mr. Aaron Schmidt for his help!
“Frequent IM users, on the other hand, tended to use IM more as a tool for collaboration, with discussions covering a broad range of topics via many fast-paced interactions—each with many short turns in the conversation, much threading, and a predisposition towards multitasking. ” Oh yeah! Aaron and I have planned a number of things…and Steven and I have set up some collaborative stuff as well. CJ never ceases to amaze me with the quality of his posts. Take a look at this about IM and the great articles he links to.
Goodness! I love emails like this one: Hi–I’m the Technology Training and Website Supervisor at ______ Public Library. This is a new position for the library and for me, and I’m looking for contacts and gathering info. My questions include (but are not limited to–) So I asked the person who wrote me if I could answer via my blog because maybe some other folks might find this stuff helpful. Here goes: 1. How many machines in your computer lab? How do you staff it? What software is available? We have a lab of 15 computers that is only open […]
Repost: I’m working on a second dratft of an article on technology planning… I need YOUR HELP! Have you been successful with the art of the tech plan? Have you crashed and burned and don’t mind telling me about it? E-mail me and let’s talk! mstephens7 (at) mac.com
On the way back from Michigan last week I listened to the New Yorker’s James Surowiecki’s book The Wisdom of Crowds which Steven mentioned a few weeks ago. It was incredibly interesting and the four hour drive flew by. Surowiecki gathers research from various disciplines concerning the idea that the wisdom of many is usually spot on — better in fact than the wisdom of say one or two geniuses. Take a look at this for more: http://reason.com/links/links062804.shtml An example: folks try plank roads in the 1800s… they seem ok and EVERYONE starts praising plank roads. “Plank roads will change […]
On Saturday, we had a FRONT PAGE article on WiFi! Link good for only seven days or by paying! Offering ‘Wi-Fi’ Wireless Internet can be accessed for free at local libraries and businesses By MARGARET FOSMOE Tribune Staff Writer ON SCREEN: Stephen Taig, of Elkhart, works on his laptop computer last week at Panera Bread in Mishawaka. The restaurant offers free high-speed wireless Internet access to customers and loans out wireless cards. SOUTH BEND — Free high-speed wireless Internet access is spreading among area public libraries and businesses. Known as Wi-Fi — short for Wireless Fidelity — it provides computer […]
Aaron and I are writing and article AND presenting at Internet Librarian — so yeaterday we met for almost an hour via iChat on our Macs! Face to face and with audio…nice!