Posted in General Thoughts on Dec 26th, 2007 1 Comment »
Browsing my feeds a while ago I found are interesting set of posts regarding OCLC. One from Tim Spaulding of Library Thing and two from Steve Osberg at Family Man Librarian. I’ve been following developments at OCLC for some time and remember talking to Roy at some point long before he worked for OCLC, saying [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Dec 8th, 2007 1 Comment »
The recent kerfluffle about Facebook’s beacon has gotten me thinking about Web 2.0 and privacy issues. Inherently Web 2.0 means putting more of yourself out there on the web. This is a necessary part of creating cohesive online social networks. So what is everyone up in arms about when it comes to Facebook’s beacon? Well [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Nov 27th, 2007 No Comments »
After being bogged down with projects for weeks, I finally was able to upgrade my blog to Wordpress 2.3 over the Thanksgiving break. The first thing I noticed post-upgrade was that I also needed to upgrade a bunch of my plugins (I really liked the fact that Wordpress now let’s you know your plugins are [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Nov 10th, 2007 8 Comments »
Since my incident with my external hard drive, I’ve been thinking long and hard about backup for my household. My husband doesn’t seem concerned about this even though he has at least 250 GB of photos we’ve taken with our digital camera. But part of me knows better, so I’ve been looking at external hard [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Nov 3rd, 2007 2 Comments »
I’ve been on the road for the last week giving 3 talks and attending 2 conferences: Internet Librarian and the NISO Forum - Understanding the Data Around Us: Gathering and Analyzing Usage Data. The talk that went the best was the preconference workshop on AJAX I co-taught at Internet Librarian. The students were extremely bright, [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Nov 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
Below are some selected notes from the NISO Forum I attended 11/1/2007 - 11/2/2007. Overall, I enjoyed many of the presentations at the Forum. The ones talking about analyzing usage data peaked my interest the most as I’ve done some work of my own in this area while at Cortland but haven’t played with those [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Nov 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
Rebecca Jones Collaborative tools are creating disarray in organizations
Messing up and blurring the lines
where the organization starts and stops…
where a job starts and stops…
where the work starts and stops…
meshing of personal and professional lives on blogs
“discovering & inventing new ways to share relevant knowledge with blinding speed” - Cluetrain Manifesto
Tom Davenport / Andrew McAfee - [...]
Posted in Nifty Tools, Notes from the Field on Nov 1st, 2007 2 Comments »
Communicating Ideas
Sketchcast
JingProject
mini-screencasts, just in time demos
www.screencasts.com
picnik
online photo editor
Firefox and IE extension
capture full page even if it scrolls off the screen
send things through to other sites like Flickr
Just for Fun
storybook creation
Slideshare.net - can add sound
Scribd - supports searching text
SplashCast - combine PPT, mp3, images
Zoho Show - edit online, jump to a slide
SlideAware - best stats, limit [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Nov 1st, 2007 No Comments »
2.0 and the Internet World
8 Hallmarks of new digital ecosystems
media gadgets are a simple part of everyday life
web is storage
the internet especially broadband connectivity is at the
center of the revolution
73% adults use the internet
50% of population has broadband
are content creators
New gadgets allow people to enjoy media, gather
information, and
carry on communication anywhere. Wirelesness is its own [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Oct 29th, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve been working on a book on blogging in libraries for the last year with Jason Griffey and we are nearly done. However, in order to prepared the mauscript for the publisher we need to send them all our screenshots at 300 dpi. On a Mac this is a pain because Grab the native Mac [...]
