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Online CE Freebies: Web 2.0 & Security
10 Ways to Make Your Library Great in 2008—via Web 2.0
1/16/08 11 AM-12 PM PT / 2-3 PM ET (registration is optional)
Excellent note: WebJunction’s webinars are now closed captioned in real time as well as in the recorded archive.
As you think about your resolutions for the New Year, why not resolve to make your library [...]
Interesting conversation on social networking etiquette
Navigating the new online landscape, with all of the new social networking sites, means navigating a whole new culture. Interacting in the new culture also means understanding the etiquette of that culture.
It’s important to understand that, on a certain level, the new culture is making it up as they go along. On the [...]
Technical Services 2.0: Using social software for collaboration
ALA Session held Monday 1:30-3:30
OK, I’ll be honest and say that although I found the summary of this program enticing, I wasn’t sure if I’d spend the whole time at the session. It appeared to have an academic focus, and come on – it’s technical services and I am SO not a technical services [...]
Wiking the Blog and Walking the Dog: Social Software, Virtual Reality, and Authority Everywhere
Jed Moffitt of the King County LIbrary System began the PLA-sponsored Wiking the Blog and Walking the Dog with family stories that somehow led to a disclosure that the topic of social software in libraries is not so cutting-edge as it was eighteen months ago when the topic was chosen for the American Library Association [...]
Sunday at ALA
Sunday was a very busy day full of programs.
Nancy Pearl
First I arrive bright and early to see Nancy Pearl speak. It was fascinating to hear how each of her books came into being, especially her lastest book, Book Crush. She gave some suggestions of books [...]
The web’s all a Twitter
No doubt you’ve heard of Twitter, the real-time social networking messaging service launched in August 2006, even in passing. According to the FAQ in the Twitter Help section:
Twitter is a community of friends and strangers from around the world sending updates about moments in their lives. Friends near or far can use Twitter [...]
