Video from YouTube filmed at the ALA Mid-Winter Conference. I laughed outloud!
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Video from YouTube filmed at the ALA Mid-Winter Conference. I laughed outloud!
Posted by Jill Hurst-Wahl on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 08:44 in Links of interest | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
What to share slides (PowerPoint) on the Internet? Here is a place that may be useful to you.
Posted by Jill Hurst-Wahl on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 08:35 in Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Posted by Jill Hurst-Wahl on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 07:52 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
I will be giving a tour of Info Island in Second Life on Thursday, March 1 from 11 - 12 noon (Eastern Time). The tour will begin at the Welcome Area on Info Island.
Second Life now has more than 4 million residents. There are many events being held in SL -- lectures, photo exhibits, and more. For example, ALA hosted David Lankes, from Syracuse University, who presented a paper to more than 60 people. Read more here.
There are also cool tools available to people in SL. One that we'll explore during the tool is the ability to search real world resources while in SL.
Posted by Jill Hurst-Wahl on Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 15:59 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Do find that people think only negatives when they think about MySpace and can't think of any positives? Do you find parents concerned about what their children are saying about themselves on MySpace?
Consider doing a talk in your library -- geared towards parents and other adults -- about MySpace. Teach them what it is. Show them the positive of MySpace. Show them who is on MySpace (including libraries, artists and bands). Discuss issues related to privacy and security. Show them how to search MySpace to find pages (like those of their kids).
The result -- The adults (parents) will know more about MySpace and will be thankful for your help.
Posted by Jill Hurst-Wahl on Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 18:58 in Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
There are many libraries that have decided to venture into MySpace. Why? So that they can be where their patrons are. They want to interact with their patrons using the technologies that their patrons are using. And they want to understand what their patrons are doing and thinking.
If you are curious about what libraries are saying about themselves and their services in MySpace, here are several MySpace pages to check out. Please note that there are more libraries than this on MySpace...this is just a sample.
Posted by Jill Hurst-Wahl on Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 18:40 in Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)
In 2005, a group was begun in Flickr called the Librarian Trading Cards Photo Pool. This is a fun pool (grouping) of nearly 300 photos. Each photos looks like a trading card. They were created using a free tool. Steve Cohen helped get this idea to grow and you can read his first post about this here.
Anyone can create a trading card and some people have created more several! If you don't have trading card, consider creating one. The cards are viewed by many people, so they are a great way of getting more people to know who you are and what you do.
Posted by Jill Hurst-Wahl on Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 07:48 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Although anyone can create a web site, a good web site is one that follows standards. Why follow standards? Here are ten reasons, which include:
To read the rest of the list, go here.
Posted by Jill Hurst-Wahl on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at 18:39 in Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
BlogHUD lets you blog from within Second Life, either to blogHUD.com or to your own blog if you pay for the Pro service.
Blog entries include a map of where you're posting from in Second Life, and you can subscribe to individual people's RSS feeds or RSS feeds for places.
So has anyone used this for a Second Life library newsletter?
Posted by Steve on Sunday, February 18, 2007 at 10:21 in Software | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
WeblogMatrix says that it "allows you to build a custom search query to find a Weblog matching exactly your needs." Looks interesting...and they cover more blog sites/software than I could ever compare on my own.
Posted by Jill Hurst-Wahl on Saturday, February 17, 2007 at 08:15 in Weblogs | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)