LibWorm.com provides a librarian RSS filtering service. Over 1500 RSS librarian sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest headlines from journals and sites in the Social Networking interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:52:41 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://lisnews.org/top_twittering_public_libraries According to NFI Research, these are the top public libraries on Twitter who 1) regularly update their page and communicate with their followers 2) use Twitter to advance/promote communication with their community 3) have a proportionate number of followers to following and 4) are currently active on Twitter. This list is updated regularly so if any public libraries would like to be added, please send information to list@nfiresearch.com. Got any top twitterers among our readership? (Source: LISNews.org) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:40:17 +0100 825427 http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/n_n.html NASA has started archiving items from social networking sites. Currently it is backing-up all NASA Twitter content. Plans are to archive Facebook, YouTube and other sites in the future.NASA Images has teamed up with Archive-It (also a service of The Internet Archive) to ensure that all of NASA’s online activity will be preserved for future research, curiosity, and enjoyment. We have started by archiving 54 of NASA’s Twitter streams. These 54 streams will be updated once a month, archiving every tweet from every stream. The next step is to archive nasa.gov, including all subdomains, and all of NASA’s social networking activity (YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, Ustream, MySpace). Take a look at the beginning of our conservation efforts in the NASA Images Social Networking collection on Archive-it. (Source: New) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:05:54 +0100 825518 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/10/survey-results-spurring-social-users-to-search/ It appears that people still like to talk to and get/give info directly from other people, face-to-face. From the Article: A survey conducted by BIGresearch for the Retail Advertising & Marketing Association (RAMA) found that in-person communication was social media users’ top impetus to start an online search for a specific item. Social media users were even more influenced by face-to-face word-of-mouth than average adults. [Snip] Online communities such as MySpace and Facebook influenced less than one-quarter of social media users to search for a product or service. Men were marginally more likely than women to report such an influence; age had a larger effect. Among the 18-to-34 group, nearly three in 10 searched because of social networks, compared with less than 20% of 35- to 54-year-olds and 15.3% of those 55 and older. [Snip] RAMA found that, just as when they are getting information, social media users prefer giving information face-to-face. More than 71% communicated about a service, product or brand in person after an online search, compared with only 21.6% who spread the word via sites such as MySpace or Facebook. Not all digital communication was shunned, however; about one-half used e-mail to tell others what they had found. Access the Complete Article Source: eMarketer (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:15:53 +0100 825337 http://stephenslighthouse.com/2010/03/09/18-interesting-firsts-on-the-internet/ Check out this post and see how recent some of these innovations are. 18 Interesting Firsts on the Internet 1. The First Email 2. The First Ever Domain Name 3. The First SPAM Email Ever 4. The First Ever Mobile Phone with Internet Access Facility 5. The First Ever Website 6. The First Ever E-Commerce Website and Transaction 7. The First Ever Online Bank 8. The First Ever Search Engine 9. The First Ever Blog 10. The First Ever Podcast 11. The First Item Ever Sold on eBay 12. The First Book Ever Sold on Amazon 13. The first edit on Wikipedia 14. The First Ever Video on YouTube 15. The First Ever Message on Twitter 16. The First Ever Voice Chat Service 17. The First Ever Website Hacked 18. The First Ever Social Network Site I was surprised by some. Stephen (Source: Stephen) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:13:21 +0100 824975 http://acrlog.org/2010/03/09/now-is-the-time-to-get-ala-annual-on-your-mind/ Editor’s Note: Last month we shared news about our new ACRLog-ALA Emerging Leaders Group. Each month one of our Emerging Leaders will contribute a guest post, and each will focus on some aspect of gearing up for the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC. To get the series started this month’s post is from Wendy Girven, Public Services Librarian at University of Alaska Southeast. Spring is in the air, which means before you know it, ALA Annual will be upon us. This year’s conference is in the nation’s capital, Washington DC, which coincidentally, is where my first Annual conference was while I was still a LIS student in 2007. My conference goals involved attending a session during every time slot, finding a job, and coming home with a few new books and ideas. Then I walked in the door of the convention center and was lost in a sea of people. I must admit, I was overwhelmed by the size! Luckily, a few friends showed me the ropes of finding out where to get my badge, figuring out the conference buses, and getting to the new member orientation programs. One of these programs that you can attend is the ACRL 101 session (with breakfast!) during the conference, where you can meet others who are new to ACRL, and make connections with librarians who are interested in/work in academic libraries. If you are in library school and have yet to decide the path you might want to choose for your career, ACRL 101 session offers a chance to explore. In addition to that meeting, there are mini-sessions held on the exhibit floor. All of these ACRL 101 sessions have an informal feeling and provide opportunity to learn names and faces. (I’ll be at each of the mini-sessions this year, come say hi!). The main lesson I learned from my first ALA was not to worry about hitting the most possible events, but to prepare yourself to be ready for all of the opportunities that can arise spontaneously. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825026 http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/023702.html Social Networking and Constituent Communications: Member Use of Twitter During a Two-Month Period in the 111th Congress, February 03, 2010... (Source: beSpacific) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824921 http://hedgehoglibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/03/web-animal.html Found via Jennie Law--who is back from New Zealand.  Oh so jealous...According to a Web Behavior Survey: I'm an ostrich  Fast-moving - We can tell from your results that you are a speedy surfer - one of the characteristics of the Web Ostrich, whose real-world counterpart has an impressive top speed of 45mph. Sociable - The web is a social place. You take full advantage of this when you search for information by using social networks and other sites whose content is created by its users. Real-world ostriches are also highly social, even keeping eggs in each other’s nests to share the burden. Specialised - The real-world ostrich is a true specialist, highly adapted to survive in hot, dusty African grasslands. You might not be at risk from lions when browsing the web, but you are still very focused. From your test we can tell you do best when you concentrate on one task at time, rather than several things at once. (Source: Hedgehog Librarian: Prickly, Nocturnal, InfoDiva) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:27:00 +0100 824626 http://theipl.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/the-ipl2-institute-march-15-and-march-16/ Join the ipl2 (Internet Public Library) in Celebration of 15 Years of Innovation, Service, and Research In 1995, it took 35 students 70 days to develop what would become the world’s largest and most recognized free, online collection and reference service in the world: the Internet Public Library. This month, 91,982 reference questions and 40,000 vetted, searchable electronic resource items later, the Internet Public Library celebrates its 15th anniversary. In conjunction with this event, The iSchool at Drexel will be hosting the Institute on the Future of Reference and its Impact on Library and Information Science Education March 15 -16, 2010. The institute is part of the IMLS grant Transforming the IPL into a Virtual Learning Laboratory. Faculty, students and staff from Drexel University , Florida State University, The University of Washington, The University of Illinois, The University of North Carolina, Syracuse University, and the Free Library of Philadelphia are among those participating in the institute. Additionally, two special open presentations have been planned in honor of this moment in the ipl2’s history. You can join the celebration as we reflect on the future of reference and its impact on the future of library and information science education. These presentations will be streamed live on video, with information also reported live on the ipl2 blog, Second Life, and Twitter. [Instructions below the agenda for accessing the conversation on our social networks.] ipl2 – Celebrating 15 years! Monday, March 15, 2010 4:30 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. EST Speakers: Mick Khoo: ipl2 Merger Surprises Joyce Valenza: Web 2.0 Reference on the Ground K-12 Special Guest Speaker and IPL Founder Joe Janes: IPL to ipl2: The Past, Present and Future Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:30 p.m. – 2 p.m. ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:42:54 +0100 824644 http://www.librarystuff.net/2010/03/08/white-house-tweeting-spreads-presidents-message/ AP – “Blending behind-the-scenes nuggets with a defense of President Barack Obama’s record, White House and administration officials increasingly are communicating through Twitter. The popular social network is operating as a Web-based clearinghouse for public statements on weighty subjects (the federal budget) and the mundane (personal grocery lists). It’s similar to a bulletin board where anyone can post short notes and users cull the pieces they see by choosing to “follow” individuals’ account.” (Source: Library Stuff) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:30:31 +0100 824575 http://www.docuticker.com/?p=33130 Adult Photography Record-Keeping and Inspection Law Threatens Free Speech, Privacy Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a friend-of-the-court brief today urging a federal court judge to block two criminal statutes that unconstitutionally limit the free expression of millions of adults who use the Internet and other electronic forms of communication, bringing the threat of criminal sanctions for private, lawful speech. At issue are provisions of federal law that require anyone who produces a visual depiction of sexually explicit expression to maintain extensive records — including copies of drivers’ licenses, the dates and times images were taken, and all URLs where images were posted — and often force public disclosure of a creator’s home address. Even more troubling, the regulations allow law enforcement warrantless entry into homes or offices in order to inspect the records that are supposed to be kept. While these statutes regulate the commercial pornography industry, they also likely apply to a staggering number of Americans who create and share images of themselves over social networks, online dating services, personal erotic websites, and text messaging. + Amicus Brief (PDF; 212 KB) + More on Free Speech Coalition v. Holder (Source: Docuticker) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:25:37 +0100 824562 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/mrvOlBK3xfw/ Cynthia Cleto, Springer Science + Business Media; Joshua Talent, eBook Architects, moderator; Pablo Defendini, Tor.com; Jeffrey Yamaguchi, Knopf Doubleday Cleto: in STM market things are different. First move was into electronic journals, so STMs tend to have their own platform for sales to scientists. Large proportion of business is sales to institutions and libraries. STM does everything in house cause already have platform and content is highly technical so it must be absolutely correct. Have 35,000 ebooks on their platform and is easier for the work flow to have everything in house. PDF and HTML formats. Library distribution: sign a contract with libraries and then open up access to whole university for simultaneous user access to both journals and electronic books. Paying for a license but get open access, but has to be for the entire collection. Launched ebook collection in 2006 and have massive adoption even before devices came along. For trade stuff have specific marketers and partner with retailers like Amazon. Also market trade stuff to libraries and actually have people who help librarians to market trade books. Want to keep usage high so that libraries renew the contracts. Have created some social networking through society portals, but since are working in a collection individual authors less important. In their market are DRM free. Defendini: Tor has own print bookstore on line. Use Ingram for delivery. Haven’t found a consumer friendly solution to buying ebooks on the site, so that’s why print sales only. Macmillan-wide outsource ebook production to companies that have ebook production services. Very little QA goes on and allows a lot of crappy ebooks to hit the market. Personally believes that this QA process should come in-house. Tor deals with libraries through third parties, such as Baker & Taylor. ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:23:26 +0100 824585 http://lisnews.org/library_site_hot_new_social_media_hangout_teens Library site a hot new social media hangout for teens "Our goal is to draw students in so that they're comfortable hanging out in the library, and then get them to engage with the workshops and technology in the space," Neal said. "We're seeing more and more students who were hanging out, participating in workshops and on the social network. It's been great to see their interests develop." Students enrolled in workshops may check out digital still cameras or Flip high-definition video cameras for a week at a time to work on special projects. (Source: LISNews.org) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:57:41 +0100 824551 http://blog.njla.org/archives/2010/03/#000691 SCI-TECH SCENE | Harold Washington's Digital Space goes beyond books to appeal to youth Comments March 6, 2010 BY SANDRA GUY Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Yves Capitaine, a 16-year-old resident of South Chicago, can be found daily on YOUMedia's online community, posting his photography and freestyle poetry and delving into haiku battles with his sister. "My sister [14-year-old Rachelle] and I have more than 100 comments on my poetry blog," Yves said. "It's fun." For adults and children new to technology, the public library offers tutors known as CyberNavigators to show people how to connect the Web and the greater world. CyberNavigators are available at 42 public library locations. Check with your local branch for details. "I get to know people who come from serious sides of the city whom I've never met," said Yves, a junior at Jones College Prep High School. Yves even got into a heated virtual battle with his online peers to claim bragging rights at the top of the "leader board" listing the top YOUMedia content producers. Think YOUMedia is the latest social media teen hangout? It is, and it's housed on the main floor of the Harold Washington Public Library, 400 S. State St., in the Digital Space for Teens. The Digital Space offers eight desktop computers, 96 laptops, two PlayStation 3's with a library of games, and musical keyboards and a recording studio so teenagers can create music, art and poetry, or jump online and talk with peers in the secure, password-protected YOUMedia forum. Select book reviews by teens are also posted publicly at chipublib.org/forteens/teensbookre views/index.php. The teens work with mentors like Erica Neal, who has watched the young people bloom creatively as they come to the Digital Space regularly. ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825498 http://vivabibliotecaviva.blogspot.com/2010/03/web-30-promete-mudar-as-bibliotecas.html Research Information: February/March 2010  Web 3.0 promises change for librariesAlmost as soon as the term ‘Web 2.0’ was coined, the web community split into two factions. There were those who embraced the term and started debating future iterations and the meanings of ‘Web 3.0’, ‘Web 4.0’, and even ‘Web 5.0’. Meanwhile, the other group labelled the 2.0 moniker as hype.One of the problems with the term Web 2.0 has been the lack of an explicit definition. In his seminal paper on the topic, Tim O’Reilly instead provided a list of features and technologies, such as using the web as a platform, and harnessing the wisdom of the crowd. The wide variety of features has led to arguments that Web 2.0 is vague enough to include everything on the web and as such means nothing. However, away from the details, the term ‘Web 2.0’ reflects a major shift in the way that users view the web: from a read-only web, to a read-write web.The term ‘Web 3.0’ reflects an equally momentous change in the way we view the web. Some of the possible avenues for the future include the 3D web, the semantic web, and the real world web. All have gained a lot of interest among library and information professionals. Virtual 3D worlds such as Second Life provide new places and ways to offer information and services. An increasingly semantic web offers the opportunity for access to increasing amounts of information from disparate sources. Meanwhile the real world web offers to integrate the web with the world around us. We are yet to see which of these will capture the imagination of library stakeholders to such an extent that it will reflect a new perspective in the way they see the web.The 3D webThe potential of a 3D web and a far richer web experience have been enabled by increases in computer processing power and higher bandwidth capabilities. ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825057 http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/002063.html In preparing some recent presentations I have been talking about three primary ways of experiencing the web which emerged successively and continue to work together. Here I will call them the site-web, the search-web, and the context-web (alternatives might be site-centric, network-centric, and user-centric). Site-web. Our early experience of the web tended to focus on individual websites. Enumeration of websites was common, in lists, directories and guides. Search-web. Attention soon shifted to the network of websites as a while and search quickly emerged as central to our web experience. Google rose to prominence based on the insight - expressed in its pagerank algorithm - that not all websites are equal. Search is now our primary way of finding resources and navigating the web. This was underlined, I think, by the introduction of the single box in the Chrome browser for both url entry and search. A while ago, I was looking for something with my son. He was amused that I was typing in a longish URL - search is how he goes to everything, even where he knows the URL. Context-web. It seems to me that we are now moving to what I call for my purposes here the context-web. Search remains important but is no longer enough. We expect services not only to know about resources on the web, but also to know about us. We are seeing servces contextualised by their knowledge of people using those services and their relationships. Think about how Google is incorporating location- and social-based results in their searches. If I search for cameras, I will be shown mapped results from near Dublin Ohio and I will be shown what people in my 'social circle' are saying about cameras (my 'social circle' is what Google knows about people in my social networks - Twitter and so on). As the recent controversy about Buzz showed, Google knows quite a bit about me through my use of is services (I regularly use Search, Reader and Gmail, and dip into other services). ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:18:03 +0100 824365 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14545 Information Services Librarian (Fond du Lac Public Library, Wisconsin) 2006 Wisconsin Library Association Library of the Year Fond du Lac Public Library seeks an outgoing, creative, Information Services Librarian to be part of an innovative library team. The successful candidate must demonstrate an ability to create lasting connections between the library and the public within a dynamic environment. Patience and a sense of humor are critical. ... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:40:01 +0100 823584 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kraftylibrarian/OLay/~3/lH_6dcAdAqw/ Microbe Magazine has an interesting article and an audio interview about two ways people are using mobile devices and social networking to help monitor hand washing compliance and track infectious diseases.    The first method they describe is an iPhone app called iScrub (free and available on iTunes App Store) which was developed to “automate the monitoring of hand-hygiene practices in health care settings.”  Originally developed for hospital settings, the article states the app could be as a “stealth app” to be used in other non-hospital environments where hand hygiene is important such as food handling.  The second method they describe is using Twitter to track infectious diseases.  The article states Alessio Signoroni and Philip Polgreen used the 2009 H1N1 outbreak to test Twitter as method for tracking disease outbreaks.  They started in April 2009 and by June they had collected 950,000 tweets containing terms such as H1N1, swine, flu, or influenza.  And you thought iPhone apps and Twitter were just for fun and had no real world value?  While I know there are practical applications for these tools, I have to admit I would have never thought about creating a hand washing app or tracking tweets.  It will be interesting to see how these and other things like them pan out. (Source: The Krafty Librarian) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:28:31 +0100 823353 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kraftylibrarian/OLay/~3/0KZo-UeZDLk/ In an effort to connect to more members MLA is experimenting with meeting based social network site called CrowdVine.  Connie Schardt wrote a nice little piece about it on Medlib-l. MLA has created a customized CrowdVine site for the 2010 meeting to help participants interact “before, during and and after the meeting.”  The CrowdVine site links has links to the official meeting page, official blog, and allows members to set up RSS feeds into the site (blog posts, photo streams, social bookmarking, etc.)  As Connie mentions, “the real power of the service is its ability to identify participants that share common interests that they can seek out and meet, in person, at the conference.” Hop on CrowdVine look around and if you are interested sign up and start adding some of your information or join in a discussion.  If you are more of the lurking type, sign up and just watch what happens, who knows maybe you might go from lurker to occasional contributer. (Source: The Krafty Librarian) Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:04:31 +0100 823204 http://gypsylibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/03/article-note-on-assessing-promotion-of.html Citation for the article:Sobel, Karen, "Promoting Library Reference Services to First-Year Undergraduate Students: What Works?" Reference and User Services Quarterly 48.4 (2009): 362-371.Read via Academic Search Complete (EBSCO).I continue my look at some articles on reference assessment that I started over here and continues here. This one seemed relevant to me given the work I do as an outreach librarian where a good part of my job is promoting the library. When it comes to promotion for undergraduates, it is something I try to do in collaboration with our instruction librarian when it is feasible. Sobel's article explores three things. First, it looks at how aware are undergraduate students when it comes to reference services. Second, it asks what percentage of those students seek help from reference librarians. Third, the author asks about what online media the students find comfortable to use in communicating with the reference librarians. I think that last question could have been explored a bit further. It certainly can be explored further now given the ubiquity of services like Facebook and Twitter. That would be something I would be interested in especially since we do have a Facebook page for the library, and we use Meebo chat widgets in our subject guides. I know the study took place in 2007, according to the article, when things like Facebook (it opened to everyone in 2006) and Twitter (also founded in 2006) were still gaining ground, but I guess the fact I can ask the question just shows how quickly things have changed. By the way, Meebo was launched in 2005, and the widgets we use in 2006. I guess I am just saying if I was expanding this type of assessment, I would want more on how social networking is used by the library to reach students.The article opens with a brief summary of promotional techniques that libraries commonly use such as flyers and online links to chat services, things that I will note we do her as well. ... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:30:00 +0100 824192 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/03/socialmobile-facebook-twitter-via-mobile-browser-grows-by-triple-digits-in-past-year/ From the Announcement: comScore today released a study on social networking access via mobile browser. The study found that 30.8 percent of smartphone users accessed social networking sites via their mobile browser in January 2010, up 8.3 points from 22.5 percent one year ago. Access to Facebook via mobile browser grew 112 percent in the past year, while Twitter experienced a 347-percent jump. [Snip] In January 2010, 25.1 million mobile users accessed Facebook via their mobile browser, up 112 percent from the previous year. MySpace attracted 11.4 million users, approximately half that of Facebook, in January. Interestingly, Facebook’s mobile browser audience surpassed MySpace in February 2009, three months earlier than the Facebook audience exceeded that of MySpace on the PC-based Internet in May 2009. Twitter, which has experienced tremendous growth in both mobile and PC-based visitation, attracted 4.7 million mobile users in January, up 347 percent versus year ago. These figures do not include access of the social networking services by the nearly 6 million mobile phone owners who do so exclusively through mobile applications. Access the Complete Announcement (Including Two Charts) Source: comScore (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:58:34 +0100 823161 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TravelinLibrarian/~3/-7heCYbb35Y/ When growing up I’m sure I never envisioned the day where I’d need to back up my phone. However, with all of the data we store on our phone beyond the every growing contact list, that day has come. Here’s a brief list of options for backing up your smart-phone data for each of the four major platforms. (There may be others but I like focusing on the free options.) WaveSecure (Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian & Blackberry) Lock & Wipe Backup & Restore Location & SIM Tracking iDrive Lite (iPhone, Blackberry & Android) Backup Multiple restore options Restore contacts Restore selected contacts Clean Slate Restore Restore from other device(s) Restore contacts from another account Restore from earlier version Microsoft My Phone (Windows Mobile) Back up your phone automatically Share photos on your favorite social networking sites Access your contacts, text messages and more online for free Locate your lost phone  mobileme (iPhone) MobileMe keeps your mail, contacts, and calendar information in the “cloud” and uses push technology to keep everything in sync across your iPhone, Mac, PC, and the web automatically. So no matter where you go or what device you use, all your information is up to date — no docking required. With MobileMe iDisk, it’s easy to store, access, and share files online. You have plenty of storage space — even large files are no problem. Just add the files you need to your iDisk, and whatever you upload will be there for you to download using a web browser on any computer or using the iDisk app for iPhone or iPod touch. (Source: Travelin' Librarian) Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:04:45 +0100 824534 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/03/national-library-of-medicine-now-has-a-facebook-fan-page/ The NLM page went live the other day. You can access the NLM page here. From the Announcement: Click on the “Become a Fan” icon, at the top right of the screen. You’ll then be treated to updates in real time, as they’re issued. [Snip] The new Facebook page will post information about all aspects of the Library. Fans will be among the first to know about the latest NLM developments, receive notifications on conferences, guest speakers and other events, and be guided to the vast and various research resources NLM has to offer. They can also read the latest issues of NLM’s popular consumer magazine, NIH MedlinePlus, and its Spanish/English language counterpart, NIH MedlinePlus Salud. Viewers can browse through historical images and contribute to discussions on future projects, all via their favorite social networking site. The page will also lead users to content from NLM’s growing roster of social media sites. Source: NLM (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:01:05 +0100 823164 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/MiBgbYHkkzs/ Every so often there are those times when you bump into a couple of articles published by people, who you know and respect dearly for the tremendous amount of great work they have done in the space of Social Computing, that give you such an adrenaline rush, while reading through them, that you just can’t stop thinking about anything else for a little while. And if those blog posts have got to do with two of my favourite topics from all along (People and Trust) in that context of the Social Enterprise, you know I will surely be sharing my two cents of the conversation. So here I am; more than happy to point you to two essential, and worth while going through, blog entries that will surely make you think quite a bit on how important trust is for Enterprise 2.0 to succeed within the corporate firewall (And beyond, for that matter!); yes, I do realise that trust is one of those recurring terms / themes that perhaps may have been abused quite a bit, specially in the workplace context (Just as much as terms like Collaboration, Communities, or, even, Knowledge Management), but then again, when you see the word trust you know pretty well what you are referring to and could very well explain it in a sentence or two. Well, my good friend Oscar Berg has just done that over at one of his recent blog posts titled "Control is waste & trust drives value creation", where he shares a couple of golden nuggets worth while remembering, when describing how crucial trust is for any personal business transaction amongst peers, customers or business partners: "Trust is the fuel for any enterprise. Trust in your purpose, trust in your peers, trust in yourself. Trust drives value creation. Control is a sign of trust failure. Control does not add value. Control is waste. Control restricts value-creation. ... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:35:46 +0100 823198 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2010/03/03/david-carnoy-self-publishing-is-minor-league-and-thats-good/ Way back in December 2008, I wrote about an article by David Carnoy, called “Self-Publishing a Book: 25 Things You Need to Know.” An editor at CNET, he was sharing useful lessons he’d learned while self-publishing his novel, Knife Music. I checked in with him the following month, asking about his experience purchasing a book review from Kirkus Discoveries, and meant, throughout 2009, to check in again to see how his experiment was going. At some point last fall, I noticed that his book had been taken down from Amazon–which, I assumed, meant that he had sold it to a traditional publisher. I was proven right when, last week, I saw a galley for Knife Music, to be published in July by Overlook Press, in the offices of Booklist. There’s still some experimenting going on–Carnoy and Overlook are allowing readers to vote on the new cover. (If you’d like to weigh in, you can do so on Facebook.) Thinking that Carnoy might have useful insight into the relationship between self-publishing and traditional publishing, I fired off the following questions via e-mail, and the obliging Carnoy fired his answers right back. How long did it take before a traditional publisher offered to publish your self-published novel? Were there other offers besides the one from Overlook?   About four months. NY1 (a local TV station in NY that also syndicates its content nationally) did a piece on the book (”Self-Publishing Is Not a Last Resort for Authors“) and it sparked some interest from publishers (there’s nothing like the power of TV to validate success). I was in the somewhat unique position of already having a major agency, Trident Media, behind the book. My agent was in discussions with other publishers, but Overlook was the first to make an offer. It was a two-book deal, which was appealing. ... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:46:09 +0100 823229 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/03/wow-site-new-multimedia-database-allows-you-to-search-and-view-archived-ncaa-basketball-tournament-games/ Although It has been in beta for a while but today is the official launch of the NCAA Vault [College Basketball] and it’s home to A LOT of content and already an essential site for college basketball fans. It’s free. A company named Thought Equity Motion has edited every play of tournament game (Sweet 16-Championship Game from 2000-2009) and placed all of the data and video into a searchable database. Now, simply search by team or player, wait for your results, and start viewing the video (either game highlights and in many cases the complete game. There Are Also Pre-Built Categories Including: + Dunks + Great Blocks + Great Shots + Great Finishes + Most Outstanding Players + Current Starts At the bottom of the video box there are links to post a specific game moment to Facebook, Twitter, and/or get a URL for a web page or blog. A Bit More from the NY Times: “Fans want basketball content, and we wanted to find a way to get people to connect to it,” said Kevin Schaff, chief executive of Thought Equity Motion, which digitizes and stores video archives. Schaff’s company announced an exclusive deal last month to license footage from The New York Times’s video library. [Snip] Gregg Winik, the chief executive of CineSport, an online highlights provider for local media Web sites, and a former executive at NBA Entertainment, said that the mixture of video and social network had created a “big and bold step” in the evolution of sports video archives. Access the NCAA Vault Have a friend(s) who like college hoops? Make sure to let them know about this new service. Source: Thought Equity Motion, NY Times (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:25:28 +0100 823173 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/f-gtLFEzXyk/ Yes, indeed, it is that time of the year where very soon I will be on the road again for my second and third business trips of the year and already working towards finalising the last few details, before I embark on the not-to-be-missed and always interesting Lotusphere Comes To You events. That’s right! Next week Tuesday and Thursday, 9th and 11th of March, I will be in both Madrid and Barcelona, respectively, presenting a couple of times per event on the topic of the Social Enterprise (What else, right? hehe). If you would want to find more details about the various Lotusphere Comes To You events around the world you can go and have a look into them over here, or at this particular link, where you will find the scheduling; in this case for Europe, but you could also access other geographies from there. The main Web site though for the Spanish Lotusphere Comes To You events can be accessed over at this link. From there onwards, you can have a look into how you may be able to register for the event (If you happen to be around…), as well as check the agenda that has been put together for both events. Lots of interesting and rather relevant topics related to the main Lotusphere 2010 event that took place in January, as you may be able to see; I have now taken the liberty of sharing this screen shot of the agenda below so you can get a glimpse of what to expect: You will see how in the agenda there is a key concept permeating throughout the entire event for both locations and that is the one on Collaboration. But not just collaboration for the shake of collaboration alone; more along the lines of Social Collaboration (i.e. The Social Enterprise) and Smart Work / Collaboration. ... Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:30:47 +0100 823200 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2010/03/02/mit-panel-death-of-the-news-32-530-7-p-wong-auditorium-e51/ Not too long from now, a panel discussion at MIT explores Death of the News?. “Death of the News? Journalism is in a crisis; newspapers are going out of business; editors and reporters are losing their jobs. In a vanishing era of traditional media, will the news vanish with it? A panel discussion about the rise of online media and its impact on global society with the following experts: Maria Balinska (BBC), Susan Glasser (Foreign Policy), & Jason Pontin (Technology Review) Tuesday, March 2 | 5:30p – 7:00p Wong Auditorium (E51)” On my way to the forum, I did a double-take at a fellow walking down the sidewalk who resembles Bob Stepno, whom I could imagine would appreciate this talk. I should look into what he thinks about the changes in journalism professions. Jason Pontin began by saying he imagines many of us have statements because responses to the topic are often highly opinionated. His summary provides a grim look at the present news industry and included statements about how many organizations have lost significant money and shut down. “So something happened and we’re going to explore what.” And, of course, any discussion about media must mention Jay Rosen. The panelists must answer who they are and from where they are coming. Susan Glasser is unhappy with the panel title because it is pessimistic. “As long as there are people interested in accountability, people will be interested in journalism.” Maria Balinska says she’s in audio journalism instead of being in radio journalism these days because of how the Internet has changed things. “None of us can predict what’s happening because of how things are changing. … I’m convinced there is a hunger for understanding the world around us …” The days of strong national papers might be behind us. ... Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:55:49 +0100 822912 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TameTheWeb/~3/yDsfOqz8f8U/ Dr Michael Stephens delivered the Dr Laurel Anne Clyde Memorial Keynote Address at the ASLA XXI Biennial Conference, held in Perth, Western Australia, from 29 September to 2 October 2009. Reprinted with permission from the Australian School Library Association Inc. (ASLA) Access 2010 24(1): 5. The evolving Web is an open and social place. The Web has changed everything. Its impact on every facet of our lives — home, work and school — would be difficult to measure but the ‘always on, always available’ Internet is certainly a game changer. Can you recall the first time you realised that the Internet would change your job? Your school? Your students? Dr Laurel Anne Clyde recognised the power and potential for emerging technologies in schools and spent time exploring the implications. As technology evolved, so did her research. Her work examining weblogs was one of the first scholarly endeavours with emerging Web 2.0 tools. Now many of us study and move in a world of hyperconnected spaces: Facebook, WordPress Multi- User Blog communities (WordPress MU), Flickr and any number of socially enabled sites. What a world Dr. Clyde would see today! Sadly, this world includes the fact that many libraries are suffering financial setbacks. The recent news that Australian school libraries are in dire need of support all too well illustrates that changes are needed. The press release from the Australian School Library Association (ASLA 2009) detailed the findings of a 2007 study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), including: That means ensuring there are enough qualified teacher librarians as well as maintaining and improving infrastructure. Having a new or refurbished school library is important, but the full potential of these resources cannot be realised without a qualified teacher librarian in place as well. This fact cannot be ignored. Schools need qualified librarians. ... Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:09:41 +0100 822933 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/02/for-social-networking-women-use-mobile-to-tweet-and-friend-more-than-men/ From a Nielsen Wire Post: In a demographic view of social networking activity on mobile devices, women were found do use their phones to “tweet” and “friend” 10% more than men. And while social networking is commonly thought of as something for “the kids,” the 35-54 age group had more active mobile social networkers than any other group. The Post Includes the Following Charts: + Mobile Social Network Usage by Gender + Mobile Social Network Usage by Source: Nielsen Wire (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:31:16 +0100 822851 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2010/03/02/tuesdays-32-berkman-lunch-karrie-karahalios-on-text-and-tie-strength/ Karrie Karahalios addresses Text and Tie Strength at today’s Berkman Center lunch. I attended a talk she gave a MIT a few weeks ago, but it appears I did not blog my notes from that event. Being able to hear a different presentation about her research is fortunate. Using tools, she creates visualizations of conversations and interactions, breaking everything down into colored bars, sometimes with words. In some cases, looking at these kinds of images of meetings often helps people remember more than reading notes. Karrie’s work centers on how people use communication technology, particularly differences in Internet use between people in rural and urban environments. She introduced us to her early experience with the telephone: the village where she lived as a young girl and one phone in the local pub where she would go each Sunday to take a call from her father. American rural people were more likely to have telephones than urban folks before 1920 and more likely to have a party lin—a shared phone line. Since people in these two environments use technology slightly differently, is it worth developing different tools for people based on whether they’re rural or urban? She showed a visualization of her Facebook connections which looks like a question mark with several tight clusters throughout and one disconnected triangle at the bottom. That triangle represents her three Greek relatives with computers, who are not connected to anyone else in her network. By discussing this picture, she moves into talking about Granovetter’s strong and weak ties. She observes how Facebook doesn’t adequately allow people to show the strength of ties. A woman she’s met once in real life and communicates with sporadically appears the same on her friend’s list as her husband. ... Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:33:12 +0100 822758 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/29P3PVsu8KM/ Blogger Ben Forta remarks on a strange conundrum. The 2010 US Census has a fancy website, a blog, and is using social networking to spread the word…but when it comes down to actually filling out and sending in the census form, they require you to mail it back. Using snailmail. The site says they are considering response via Internet “for the future”. Of course, the next “future” census is in 2020. It seems awfully strange in a world where we can download music, movies, and books, and so many government agencies (such as unemployment insurance) have web forms, that the census is not making web response available. It sure would be more convenient for most citizens than to have to fill something out on paper and send it in. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:15:00 +0100 822836 http://stephenslighthouse.com/2010/03/02/is-facebook-the-only-choice-for-college-students/ College Students Say Facebook is the Only Social Networking Site that Really Matters Research Among College Students Suggests Facebook Is Here To Stay And Fast Becoming More Than Just a Social Networking Site, But A New Mass Medium Stephen (Source: Stephen) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:21:53 +0100 822919 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=6954 State: Illinois The Norris L. Brookens Library at the University of Illinois at Springfield seeks a creative, energetic, service-oriented and user-focused individual to fill the position Director of Library Information Systems. Reporting to the University Librarian and working collaboratively with colleagues in the Library, the Center for Online Learning, Research and Service, and Information Technology Services, the individual in this position assumes leadership for the planning and delivery of excellent online library services to UIS students, faculty, and staff. Qualifications: MLS or MLIS from an accredited library school and three years experience in an academic or research library. Demonstrated knowledge of best practices and current trends and issues in the application of information technology to libraries and higher education; ability to work independently and to achieve outcomes in a collaborative environment, and to learn and apply new technologies quickly; excellent interpersonal skills, including ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing; project management skills; experience with a variety of scripting and programming languages, such as HTML, PHP, Perl, JavaScript, XHTML, and CSS; experience with reporting softwares including SQL; experience with Voyager or other integrated library system; experience with social networking technologies. Prefer: experience with Blackboard or other learning management system; knowledge of SCT Banner or other collegiate administrative software; knowledge of hardware and software security issues; knowledge of relational database theory, standards and software; knowledge of metadata standards and best practices in digital library projects. For a full position description, including salary and benefits information and other requirements, please visit http://library.uis.edu/documents/Jobs_Director. ... Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:50:02 +0100 822593 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/01/search-news-from-bing-twitter-and-google/ Three items to inform you about today. First, Matt McGee reports on Search Engine Land that Bing now provides search history with their auto-suggest feature that appears when the search box “drops down” and offers search term suggestions. Queries from your search history will appear in purple, while other queries will show in blue. The auto-suggest box offers options like “Manage History” and “History Off” for searchers who don’t this feature enabled. See Also: Official Announcement from the Bing Blog Second, Twitter is now allowing several search tools to have access to their “firehose” feed. This feed provides access to EVERY TWEET in real-time. Some Twitter tools don’t have Firehose access. From The Next Web: Twitter has long kept a very tight grip on just who can have access to the stream of Twitter updates. All of them, that is. Limited access is open to anyone and everyone who wants to play. According to the company, some 50,000 are using the rate limited APIs. Twitter was long rumored to give out very limited access to the firehose (all tweets in real time) due to scaling problems. More people pulling in data means more server load, something which Twitter always has too much of. Whatever is true, Twitter is finally loosening their grip, and giving some new companies access to the firehose. All the data as it comes in, it’s a potential goldmine. Beginning today, Ellerdale, Collecta, Kosmix, Scoopler, twazzup, CrowdEye, and Chainn Search are now accessing firehose access. From the Twitter Blog: Recently we’ve announced partnerships with Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft. These Web leaders gained access beyond our free offerings—we licensed them the full feed of all public tweets. [Snip] More than fifty thousand interesting applications are currently using our freely available, rate-limited platform offerings. ... Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:20:14 +0100 822598 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Blogjunction/~3/nVvZ4BlDPSo/ Thanks to everyone who attended our first-ever online conference last month, especially those attendees who took a few minutes to respond to our post-event survey. The main goal for this conference was to give a conference experience to those who would are not able to attend other conferences due to budget issues or other resource constraints. We also wanted to give members an opportunity to try out online learning, social tools, and to collaborate with colleagues from across the miles. Finally, we wanted to pilot the online conference format to evaluate its effectiveness and see if it is something that we could conceive of doing more frequently. I think we can safely say that we met our goals across the board. Here’s what we learned: Of the 1160 people who registered, most were from public libraries (47%) and academic libraries (29%), and more than half serve populations of fewer than 25,000 people. We also had students and unemployed professionals in attendance. The top 5 states in terms of attendance were Indiana, Georgia, Illinois, California, and Minnesota. There were also 39 people from outside of the U.S. who registered. Average attendance at each of the 10 sessions was 291 people. Some folks went to just a few sessions, while some attended every session. We also heard from libraries who set up a room for multiple staff to watch and listen. The top responses to our survey question about what went well was that the in-session chat area was informative and engaging and that technical issues were fixed quickly. Also noted were that the presenters were knowledgable and prepared, that session timing was managed well, and that audience participation was excellent. ... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:37:48 +0100 824195 http://stephenslighthouse.com/2010/03/01/the-participatory-news-consumer/ As a news junkie this latest Pew report rings true by me. Understanding the Participatory News Consumer by Kristen Purcell, Lee Rainie, Amy Mitchell, Tom Rosenstiel, Kenny Olmstead Mar 1, 2010 Read the full report here (51 page PDF) A couple of teaser bites: “Portable: 33% of cell phone owners now access news on their cell phones. Personalized: 28% of internet users have customized their home page to include news from sources and on topics that particularly interest them. Participatory: 37% of internet users have contributed to the creation of news, commented about it, or disseminated it via postings on social media sites like Facebook or Twitter.” “Among those who get news online, 75% get news forwarded through email or posts on social networking sites and 52% share links to news with others via those means.” “Over half (55%) say it is easier to keep up with news and information today than it was five years ago, but 70% feel the amount of news and information available from different sources is overwhelming.” Information Today commentary here. “78% of Americans get news from a local TV station. 73% get news from a national television network such as CBS or a cable TV station such as CNN or FOXNews. 61% get some kind of news online. 54% listen to a radio news program at home or in the car. 50% read news in the print version of a local newspaper. 17% read news in the print version national newspaper such as The New York Times or USATODAY.” Librarian in Black commentary here. ... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:03:04 +0100 822668 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/Cl7WLJHM80w/ I love it when after having had a rather difficult week at work for multiple various reasons last week, where a total amount of 30 hours of meetings and conference calls made it even worse, you finally catch up with your breath, raise your social periscope up again (After a few days’ absence), and you bump into a couple of rather interesting video clips that surely keep you entertained for a short few minutes to remind you what being a Social Software Evangelist is all about: making a difference in this world! Or, at least, trying to! So today I thought I would share the links to both of those video links, so you could have a look at them yourself, sit back, get yourself a cup of coffee, or tea, and enjoy them. If you are into Internet and Social Media statistics and interesting facts, both of them would be your thing, to say the least. The first one comes from Phil Bradley’s blog, which I bumped into from a recent tweet from my good friend David Gurteen, and that reads "State of the Internet 2010". The clip lasts for a little bit less than 4 minutes and it shows plenty of really interesting statistics and facts about our own use of both email and social networking tools up to 2010. If you folks have been following with interest my initiative of living "A World Without Email", you will enjoy it… I am sure (hehe): JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo. The second video clip is a YouTube one from VisibleTechnologies that tries to follow up along the lines of that series of clips explaining "What Is Social Media?" and which surely presents some interesting facts as well on our use of such social tools; some of which would probably need updating a bit, since the video is over a month old and things surely have improved since that time. But still worth while going through it. ... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:59:30 +0100 823201 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Librarianinblack/~3/qKG4EKQk2jk/pewnews.html The Pew Internet & American Life Project released a new report this morning about the consumption of news in a digital setting.  The report can be found on the Pew website.  Some of the interesting findings: 92% of Americans surveyed use multiple places & platforms to get their daily news local & national television stations still come out ahead of the internet as news sources 59% of Americans surveyed use both online & offline news sources 33% of cell phone owners access news on their phones 28% of internet users have customized homepages with news sources (e.g. iGoogle) 37% of internet users have actually participated in news dissemination, creation, or commenting 75% of those who get news online find news through email forwards or through friends’ posts on social networking sites 52% of those who get news online also share links to news with others through email or social networking 55% report that it is now easier to keep up with news and information than it was five years ago, and yet… 70% feel overwhelmed by the amount of news and information available So how does this affect libraries?  Well, we have an opportunity to help act as filters for our communities.  Why not create a great webpage that offers widgets with headlines from local & national & international news sources in different media (radio, newspaper, blogs, television, podcasts, etc.)?  Why not offer classes on finding good news sources?  Why not present tutorials on the great news digesting widgets & personalized homepages for our customers? Why not be the community resource that helps people with that last item about how people feel overwhelmed by too much news?  That last issue really is a big one for me.  It’s the gap into which reference librarians can step.  Dealing with information & information overload is a key resource we can offer our communities. ... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:58:48 +0100 824296 http://infobib.de/blog/2010/03/01/dmoz-relaunch-im-marz/ Das Open Directory Project DMOZ war mal ein unverzichtbarer Bestandteil des Webs, ein moderierter Webkatalog mit hohem Anspruch an Aktualität und Seriösität. Administratoren für spezielle Kategorien sollten dafür sorgen, dass nur geprüfte, “gute” Webseiten aufgenommen werden. Dadurch baute sich DMOZ einen sehr guten Ruf auf, der natürlich schwarze SEO-Schafe noch und nöcher anzog. Kürzlich konnte man sogar einen DMOZ-Eintrag (für 87 €!) bei Ebay ersteigern. Dazu kommt, dass manche Kategorien schon seit Jahren nicht mehr gepflegt wurden. Nichtsdestotrotz wird die Aufnahme einer Webseite in DMOZ nach wie vor von vielen Ranking-Tools und vielleicht sogar noch von Suchmaschinen als Qualitätsfaktor gewertet. Als Beispiel sei seitwert.de genannt. Wie Webranking.com nun berichtet, soll (eventuell noch in diesem Monat) ein Relaunch stattfinden. Wird ein Webkatalog wie DMOZ jedoch überhaupt noch noch benötigt? Die Verschiebung von Webkatalogen zu Suchmaschinen fand vor einigen Jahren statt. Aktuell zieht Facebook zumindest in den USA an Google in puncto generierter Traffic vorbei. Wenn man möchte, kann man also von vier Phasen der “Webseitenfindung” ausgehen: Die persönliche Empfehlung von Webseiten durch Freunde & Bekannte in direkter Kommunikation. Motto: “Guck mal, ich bin beim Surfen auf diese Webseite gestoßen.” Nachschlagen in Webkatalogen wie z.B. Altavista. Suchen in Suchmaschinen wie Yahoo oder Google. Die persönliche Empfehlung von Webseiten über Social Networks wie Facebook & Co. Auch wenn sich die Mechanismen geändert haben, ist die Übermittlung von Webfundstücken wieder an ihren Ursprung gelangt. Ein modernes DMOZ müsste sich diesen Gegebenheiten anpassen. Es dürfte also weder Moderatoren noch vorbestimmte Kategorien geben. Beides ist anachronistisch. ... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:40:51 +0100 823423 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/21Pi5laF0U8/ Ars Technica reports that a new Pew survey shows that more Americans now get their news from the Internet than from newspapers. This puts the internet into a solid third-place position as sole provider of news, right behind national and local TV stations. And thanks to mobile Internet and social networking, a significant number of these readers take their news mobile, or help disseminate it via social networks or e-mail. Likewise, the majority of people (59%) still get their news from both on-line and off-line sources. Only 17 percent said they read the print version of a national newspaper, however, and 50 percent said they read local papers. According to Pew, newspapers were most likely to be read by people who were over 50 or those who don’t own cell phones—yikes. Of course, the Internet does include the web versions of prominent papers as well as other sites, so this does not necessarily mean the end of such sites as news organizations. But it does remind us that print is going away a lot faster for newspapers than it has been for e-books. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:15:00 +0100 822468 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/01/just-released-report-new-media-ecology-news-mobile-understanding-the-participatory-news-consumer/ Note: Links to the Complete Report and Survey Questions Can Be Accessed at the Bottom of this Post. From the Pew Internet & American Life Project and Project for Excellence in Journalism Authors: Kristen Purcell, Lee Rainie, Amy Mitchell, Tom Rosenstiel, Kenny Olmstead From the Summary Page: The overwhelming majority of Americans (92%) use multiple platforms to get their daily news, according to a new survey conducted jointly by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and Project for Excellence in Journalism. [Snip] Getting news online fits into a broad pattern of news consumption by Americans; six in ten (59%) get news from a combination of online and offline sources on a typical day. The internet and mobile technologies are at the center of the story of how people’s relationship to news is changing. In today’s new multi-platform media environment, news is becoming portable, personalized, and participatory: + Portable: 33% of cell phone owners now access news on their cell phones. + Personalized: 28% of internet users have customized their home page to include news from sources and on topics that particularly interest them. + Participatory: 37% of internet users have contributed to the creation of news, commented about it, or disseminated it via postings on social media sites like Facebook or Twitter [Snip] Among those who get news online, 75% get news forwarded through email or posts on social networking sites and 52% share links to news with others via those means. Despite all of this online activity, the typical online news consumer routinely uses just a handful of news sites and does not have a particular favorite. And overall, Americans have mixed feelings about this “new” news environment. Over half (55%) say it is easier to keep up with news and information today than it was five years ago, but 70% feel the amount of news and information available from different sources is overwhelming. ... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:01:32 +0100 822482 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/zcGn/~3/X1CcQcOgvgk/first-ever-national-bookmobile-day-will.html If your library has a bookmobile and you want to promote it, here's a great chance. This year, as part of National Library Week, the first National Bookmobile Day is being sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA), the Association for Bookmobile and Outreach Services (ABOS), and the Association for Rural and Small Libraries (ARSL).There's a webpage for it that has sample publicity materials, including a press release, letter-to-the-editor, and proclamations for library staff and supporters to use in their communities. There are also downloadable National Bookmobile Day logos, bookmark templates, a customizable flyer, and links to National Bookmobile Day on social networking sites.In addition, the toolkit also has links to the National Bookmobile Day community in ALA Connect, where librarians can collaborate and share ideas on promoting the event. Participating libraries can share ideas and stories on how they celebrate the contribution of bookmobiles and direct-delivery outreach.The M Word Blog teaches your library and non-profit tips, tricks and trends of the marketing trade (Source: The "M" Word - Marketing Libraries) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824031 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2010/03/state-of-the-internet-2010.html This is a fun short video jam packed with statistics on where the Internet is at the moment. Emphasis on email and social networking sites. Thanks to Jess3 for the use! JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo. (Source: Phil Bradley) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 822441 http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/2010/03/think-before-you-add-that-to-your-facebook-status.html An East Stroudsburg University sociology professor has been suspended for venting her workplace frustration on her Facebook page. They cited two comments she posted on Facebook, the popular social networking site. In the first, posted Jan. 21, Gadsden wrote, "Does anyone know where I can find a very discrete hitman? Yes, it's been that kind of day..." In the other comment, posted one month later, Gadsden wrote, "had a good day today, DIDN'T want to kill even one student :-). Gadsden, who only recently started her Facebook account, was unsure how her messages wound up at ESU's provost's office. She said she had no record of violence, telling officials: "I understand you guys are sensitive but there's no way I'm a threat." Read more at: (Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 822432 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/TxDV8FemiC8/3605 MacKenzie Smith, Associate Director for Technology at the MIT Libraries gave us a talk entitled “The Value Equation: Social Science Perspective (or Why I Love Google).” MacKenzie started by admitting that MIT (where she works) spends millions on research databases (570 of them including 45,000 e-journals), but she doesn’t use any of them … instead she relies on conference proceedings, white papers, email, blog posts and other related project websites. The problem she finds that most of the peer-reviewed journal articles are just way too old. She needs to know about these topics now! Not a year from now. Instead, many of the resources she relies on are free and open access – resources that are and always have been open access. The problem she finds when searching databases (and this is one I’m very familiar with) how do you search across disciplines – how do you know what database to use to find information that crosses disciplines. In my world this would be my common research areas of open source development (technology/computer programming) for and in libraries (social sciences). In addition – even though she has access to EndNote & RefWords she uses Zotero. This is because Zotero is evolving more quickly to deal with the varying types of content we want to save and cite. Also, Zotero offers more mobility – accessibility form all over – and the ability to share resources with her colleagues. (As a side note, MacKenzie pointed out Mendeley which is Zotero for scientists). When it comes to searching, MacKenzie doesn’t usually use advanced search, she instead starts with a seed and then builds on that. Then to review the content she doesn’t use the publisher to decide on the quality. She instead uses the author, the organization or the person who recommended that she read the article. ... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:06:08 +0100 823154 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/4OfzfIDQj8Q/3596 This year’s NFAIS conference was opened by Clay Shirky. He started by giving us a 5 word synopsis of his book Here Comes Everybody — Group Action Just Got Easier. He then when on to a story about the power of social networks. HSBC (a bank in the UK) in 2007 decided they were going recruit new clients (graduate students and undergrad students). They offered these students accounts with an overdraft that had no fees associated with it. Then in the summer they took back their plan to offer the account with no penalties for overdrafts and said they were going to charge $140 per overdraft. They said you have 30 days to get your money out before we charge you. The idea was that college students are all over the world in the summer and won’t be around to throw a fit. But a college student found out about it and published it on Facebook. The bank didn’t realize that these students were still connected even though they were spread out. In the end HSBC changed their mind. This wasn’t because the students were unhappy – it was because they were unhappy and organized. Clay then went into talking about 3 information issues. Volume of Information When the printing press turned into the mechanical object we know today, books were able to be printed 300x faster than a scribe could pen the book. When a new tech comes along, previously impossible things become possible. Abundance breaks more things than scarcity does – when the web first became viable newspapers thought this was great! They could send out text and images for free and reach more than just their local customer base – they can reach people worldwide. ... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:15:41 +0100 823157 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/DMX2EoB5WPw/ Here are a pair of governmental policy changes for the Internet that may have the potential to affect e-book-related matters. The bigger change is that the Obama administration has announced the government is revising its policy on the Internet. Whereas for the first few decades of its life, the government chose to take a strictly hands-off approach, now it will be holding discussions on key areas of Internet policy, such as cybersecurity, Internet governance, and copyright protection. The outcomes of such discussions will be “flexible” but may result in recommendations for legislation or regulation, [Assistant Commerce Secretary Lawrence Strickling] said in a speech at the Media Institute in Washington this week. In a sense, it was only a matter of time before the government stepped in. It has a history of regulating communication media, after all. This may also have been prompted, in part, by the recent court decision stating that the FCC was overreaching when it tried to enforce network neutrality. But looking at Strickling’s original presentation, the whole thing is awfully vague. And it’s worth pointing out that the government has not quite been as lassaiz-faire about the Internet as the article would seem to suggest. The Communications Decency Act, the Child Online Protection Act, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act—the government has already been more or less "regulating the Internet,” or trying to, since at least the mid ‘90s. And it is a bit worrying that this comes at the same time as various European governments are pushing for world-wide “three strikes” Internet access revocation provisions to be recommended as part of the ACTA counterfeit and copyright treaty at the same time as our own government is one of the driving forces behind keeping ACTA away from the public eye. ... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:15:00 +0100 822166 http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/023625.html Directive-Type Memorandum (DTM) 09-026 - Responsible and Effective Use of Internet-based Capabilities, February 25, 2010 "This memorandum establishes DoD policy... (Source: beSpacific) Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 822281 http://heyjude.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/tsunami-in-the-classroom/ I wonder how many classrooms in Australia will spend time this week talking about, reviewing and learning about the impact of earthquakes and tsunami  on countries and people? This weekend saw the earthquake in Chile and the tsunami it created affecting many parts of the world.  The Chilean president declared a state of catastrophe after a deadly quake of magnitude 8.8. Subsequently warnings of tidal waves were issued in 53 other countries. In the Guardian’s Report Chile Earthquake: Pacific nations brace for Tsunami we have a good lead article to set the scene for discussion. The Tsunami raced across the Pacific and threatened Hawaii as it rushed toward the U.S. West Coast and hundreds of islands from the bottom of the planet to the top. Sirens blared in Hawaii to alert residents to the potential waves. As the waves expected arrival drew near, roads into tourist-heavy Waikiki were closed off.  Police patrolled main roads, telling tourists to get off the streets. It’s not new – social media has a well established co-reporting global events! But do your teachers know this?  Do they know powerful social media is in providing information and synchronous coverage of event? Did they pick up the links they need via Twitter? of Facebook? or other social networking site? Perhaps they already have the Associated News App on their iPhone (find it in the App store)  and were aware of events that way? or via another mobile App?  or heard it on the news? Did they send out a message (text? IM?) to their geography students to alert them to the CBS News Stream via Ustream so they could experience live some of these events – even if only for a few minutes? Not only were the media doing live reports online, as well as on TV, but people in the streets were contributing picture and live phone feeds and images to contribute to the pooling of information. Twitter was buzzing. ... Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:36:07 +0100 822487 http://www.docuticker.com/?p=32843 EAC Offers Information to States on Key Election Management Topics Source: U.S. Election Assistance Commission The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) issued election administration information this week to state and local election officials on five topics: canvassing and certifying an election, conducting a recount, administering provisional ballots, building community partnerships, and communicating with the public. By issuing the voluntary management materials, EAC fulfills a mandate under the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to provide assistance to states on election administration. This latest guidance augments EAC’s popular Election Management Guidelines series, a collection of 16 chapters on election management fundamentals, from testing and certifying voting systems and planning for contingencies to managing polling places and auditing an election. … The chapters were developed with input from the election community, including election officials, voting advocates, election technology experts, and EAC advisory board members. Following is a list of the chapters, all of which can be downloaded here (PDF 1.79MB): Building Community Partnerships provides ideas on how to maximize resources through the use of strategic partnerships. Canvassing and Certifying an Election describes effective methods to organize a successful canvassing team, ensure transparency throughout the process, and reconcile tallies into the certification of election results. Communicating with the Public reviews traditional and cost-effective new media and social networking tools for communicating with voters. Conducting a Recount outlines the staffing, training costs, supplies, and timelines associated with recounts and provides practices for conducting a recount on different types of voting systems. Provisional Ballots discusses federal laws on provisional ballots and guidance on how to comply with them. + Full Document (PDF; 1.8 MB) (Source: Docuticker) Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:23:55 +0100 822009 http://marincountyfreelibrary.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_marincountyfreelibrary_archive.html#1561570805092708384 The Novato Library is offering a series of classes on Social Media Basics, and this Thursday's class will be about learning how to use the hugely popular social networking site Facebook.When: Thursday March 4, 7:30-8:30 pmWhere: Novato LibrarySign up at the Reference Desk.An established email account is required.For more information, please contact the Reference Desk at (415)897-1142.Coming next month: LinkedIn Class on Thu. April 8, 7:30-8:30 pm. (Source: Marin County Free Library Blog) Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 823000 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/26/u-s-dept-of-defense-makes-social-web-sites-accessible/ U.S. Department of Defense Social Media Hub Access Full Text of the Social Media Policy (Directive-Type Memorandum 09-026) From a Navy Times Article: All users of unclassified computers in the .mil domain now will be allowed to access social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter — subject to local control if bandwidth demand or Web integrity become issues. The announcement reverses a nearly three-year ban on access to bandwidth-heavy sites such as MySpace, and the Marine Corps’ August ban on access to social network sites, the Pentagon said Friday. The open-access policy will rely largely on the responsible use by troops, much as they practice operational security in other means of communication, such as telephone conversations and letters. It is also a reflection of “increased security measures” the Defense Department has taken, said Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman. Access the Complete Article Source: Military Times See Also: U.S. Department of Defense Social Media Hub DoD Social Media Register is located here. (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:19:41 +0100 821815 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14500 Director of Library Information Systems (University of Illinois at Springfield) Director of Library Information Systems The Norris L. Brookens Library at the University of Illinois at Springfield seeks a creative, energetic, service-oriented and user-focused individual to fill the position Director of Library Information Systems. Reporting to the University Librarian and working collaboratively with colleagues in the Library, the Center for Online Learning, Research and Service, and Information Technology Services, the individual in this position assumes leadership for the planning and delivery of excellent online library services to UIS students, faculty, and staff. ... Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:55:01 +0100 821722 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/davidleeking/~3/AHinUQu6CdY/ Would you follow your local grocery store in your favorite social network? The Topeka Hy-Vee is on Twitter and Facebook – and they WANT you to follow them! Two observations here: Social networking IS slowly becoming “normal” – I’m seeing similar “follow me on Twitter and Facebook” signs all over the place, at stores, restaurants, hearing it on the radio, etc. If a grocery store can keep multiple social networking sites fresh (the Topeka Hy-Vee Twitter and Facebook Pages are updated daily) … I’m guessing you can, too. And a question. Hy-Vee put a sign in the middle of their meat department advertising their social networking sites. Where are your signs? How are you inviting users into your digital spaces? [David gets busy making signs...] Share: (Source: David Lee King) Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:04:11 +0100 822375 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/02/call-for-papers-special-issue-of.html Call for Papers: Special Issue of the International Journal of Internet Research EthicsThe International Journal of Internet Research Ethics (IJIRE) seeks papers from researchers describing best ethical practices in the investigation of online communities. This special issue, edited by Aleks Krotoski, aims to create a compendium of case studies and theoretical frameworks which future scholars will reference when designing their own analyses of populations and practices in social networking sites, weblogs, listservs, online games, video sharing sites, virtual worlds and other Web environments that demonstrate evidence of community processes.The special issue seeks to include submissions that introduce extensions to existing theories - including new frameworks for approaching the ethical issues that emerge in online communities and novel applications of existing offline ethics frameworks - and examples of best practice - including case studies of successful ethical solutions, both qualitative and quantitative research approaches, issues associated with international ethics practices, and changes to ethical approaches over the short- and the long-term. While all forms of scholarship and research are welcome, the special issue will feature theoretically and empirically grounded study in the social or behavioural sciences.To view the full PDF, including submission guidelines and suggested topics, click here. (Source: A Library Writer's Blog) Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821968 http://lovealibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/02/plai-ncrlc-forum-general-assembly-2010.html I will be sharing some insights and new perspectives on Social Networking as a promotional tool in library service during the PLAI-NCRLC's (Philippine Librarian's Association Inc. - National Capitol Region Librarian's Council) Assembly on 22 March 2010 at the National Library. See you there!Here's the invite from the PLAI-NCRLC's Chair, Madame Nora J. Claravall.Dear Colleagues in the LIS (Source: School Librarian in Action) Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821958 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/25/ala-president-visits-california/ American Library Association President, Dr. Camila Alire, visited Salinas, California yesterday. A presentation that she gave was covered by the The Salinas Californian. From the Article: She stressed the importance of reaching out to “millennials,” while dropping phrases like wikis, tweeting and social networking. “Santa gave me a Kindle,” said Alire, former dean of the University of Colorado at Denver’s libraries. But it’s not just about knowing Google search shortcuts. Librarians have to be “nimble,” she said, in providing their communities with the tools to weather a sagging economy and — in Salinas, especially — target high illiteracy rates. [Snip] Like it or not, a lot of library learning now is done on the computer monitor, according to Alire. Ninety-nine percent of public libraries in America offer free Web surfing, she said, and 73 percent are the only institutions in their community that do. Alire talked with a librarian in the Bay Area who found a woman crying in front of a library PC. The woman was embarrassed that she couldn’t work the machine — her first time on a computer. “Libraries are meeting a desperate need of making that technological connection with the community,” Alire said. (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:05:19 +0100 821436 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/25/managing-information-a-special-report-from-the-economist/ The report consists of 10 articles and an audio report. We’ve excerpted on a couple of paragraphs from a few of the articles. The rest of the articles are linked near the bottom under “Additional Articles.” Some excellent material here and for those of you who enjoy and/or use statistics about info, this report has a lot of them in one place. Let’s get started. Data, Data Everywhere Wal-Mart, a retail giant, handles more than 1m customer transactions every hour, feeding databases estimated at more than 2.5 petabytes—the equivalent of 167 times the books in America’s Library of Congress (see article for an explanation of how data are quantified). Facebook, a social-networking website, is home to 40 billion photos. And decoding the human genome involves analysing 3 billion base pairs—which took ten years the first time it was done, in 2003, but can now be achieved in one week. All these examples tell the same story: that the world contains an unimaginably vast amount of digital information which is getting ever vaster ever more rapidly. This makes it possible to do many things that previously could not be done: spot business trends, prevent diseases, combat crime and so on. Managed well, the data can be used to unlock new sources of economic value, provide fresh insights into science and hold governments to account. [Snip] There are many reasons for the information explosion. The most obvious one is technology. As the capabilities of digital devices soar and prices plummet, sensors and gadgets are digitising lots of information that was previously unavailable. And many more people have access to far more powerful tools. For example, there are 4.6 billion mobile-phone subscriptions worldwide (though many people have more than one, so the world’s 6.8 billion people are not quite as well supplied as these figures suggest), and 1 billion-2 billion people use the internet. ... Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:59:39 +0100 821440 http://www.lisnews.org/don039t_do_it_just_because_you_can_0 Technological advancements made in the past decade have certainly made librarians and libraries more efficient, more varied, and more approachable in the delivery of their services. Social networking allows for the online promotion of programs and services, as well as a way to communicate with others in the profession to exchange ideas. Vodcasting, podcasting, and blogs have allowed librarians to create material of their own and distribute it openly over the Internet, expanding their community far beyond their immediate geography. Video games have become a viable part of a library’s offerings; they represent the increasing amount of technology that libraries are making available to their patrons and the increasing diversity of collection development and programming. All in all, there are few faults to find with the grand role that technology and new media plays in the daily life of a librarian. However, there is one form of media that librarians should approach with caution and that should not be engaged in simply for the sake of progress: e-books. While resistance is ultimately futile, libraries should not rush to integrate e-books into their offerings. The majority of patrons don’t even own e-books readers (or e-readers) as of yet, and purchasing these devices to loan out to patrons could prove problematic. Unlike and Xbox 360 or a desktop computer, which is going to remain in place at the library and not be put solely into the hands of a patron, an e-reader is highly portable—and therefore highly fragile. They are quite expensive; the combination of fragility and cost represents a grim prospect for something that would be circulated as often as a book. Libraries could be staring down significant loss recovery budgets should their stock of e-readers falter. The reason of fiscal awareness, however, is not the primary reason for avoiding e-books and e-readers for now. ... Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:29:52 +0100 821692 http://lisnews.org/don039t_do_it_just_because_you_can_0 Technological advancements made in the past decade have certainly made librarians and libraries more efficient, more varied, and more approachable in the delivery of their services. Social networking allows for the online promotion of programs and services, as well as a way to communicate with others in the profession to exchange ideas. Vodcasting, podcasting, and blogs have allowed librarians to create material of their own and distribute it openly over the Internet, expanding their community far beyond their immediate geography. Video games have become a viable part of a library’s offerings; they represent the increasing amount of technology that libraries are making available to their patrons and the increasing diversity of collection development and programming. All in all, there are few faults to find with the grand role that technology and new media plays in the daily life of a librarian. However, there is one form of media that librarians should approach with caution and that should not be engaged in simply for the sake of progress: e-books. While resistance is ultimately futile, libraries should not rush to integrate e-books into their offerings. The majority of patrons don’t even own e-books readers (or e-readers) as of yet, and purchasing these devices to loan out to patrons could prove problematic. Unlike and Xbox 360 or a desktop computer, which is going to remain in place at the library and not be put solely into the hands of a patron, an e-reader is highly portable—and therefore highly fragile. They are quite expensive; the combination of fragility and cost represents a grim prospect for something that would be circulated as often as a book. Libraries could be staring down significant loss recovery budgets should their stock of e-readers falter. The reason of fiscal awareness, however, is not the primary reason for avoiding e-books and e-readers for now. ... Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:29:52 +0100 821551 http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/books/rss/~3/aOp4BBG_GbE/digital-copyright-british-library The issue of copyright is a global nightmare for anyone interested in digital preservationHistorians 100 years hence will have an abundance of source material about how ordinary lives were lived during the 21st century thanks to the unprecedented way we leave traces through websites, email, Twitter and social networks such as Facebook.Well, that's the theory. In practice, most of this living history will be discarded in digital dustbins unless something is done about it. We are often told that, thanks to startling improvements in technology, all our personal memories will soon be able to be stored on something the size of a sugar cube. But the granules that make up that sugar cube are widely scattered and difficult if not impossible to recover.It is reckoned that the average life expectancy of a website is less than 75 days and that at least 10% of UK websites are lost or replaced with new material every six months. These figures come from a statement by the British Library at yesterday's launch of the UK Web Archive, which will guarantee access in perpetuity to thousands of hand-picked UK websites – some of which might otherwise have faced oblivion.They include Antony Gormley's Trafalgar Square Fourth Plinth Project. This involved 2,400 participants, and the live stream by Sky Arts would no longer have existed online from next month had the BL not taken over responsibility for it. Other projects to be preserved for posterity include a record of the Credit Crunch and the 2010 general election.The BL is doing a marvellous job of preserving key historical events, but what it covers is only a tiny part – about 6,000 sites so far – of the nation's digital memory. Even doing that has proved hugely time-consuming because the BL's small staff has to seek permission every time it takes a copy of anything. This is because of the UK's archaic copyright laws, which will hopefully be partially corrected in the digital bill now going through parliament. ... Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:32:00 +0100 821336 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/EHpJjGzzAus/ Publishing Perspectives has an interesting story about a book assembled to raise money for Haiti in the wake of the devastating earthquake. The idea behind 100 Stories for Haiti was to assemble 100 stories from all over the Internet, and then publish them as a book and e-book. Author Greg McQueen says that the book would not have been possible five years ago, before the dawn of social networking: As it happened, I posted [to social networks] an appeal for stories on the morning of Tuesday, January, 19. Just one week after the earthquake that left over 200,000 dead. The final deadline for submissions was Wednesday, Jan, 27 and the manuscript actually went off to the printers on Feb 14. So, in three weeks, we went from an appeal to a finished manuscript. It is being published as a print book by UK publisher Bridge House Publishing and an e-book via Smashwords on March 4th. Pricing for the print book will range from £2.30 for the UK to £10 (about $15.41 at current rates) for the rest of the world; the e-book will have pay-what-you-like pricing starting at £1. In a separate editorial, Edward Nawotka uses this book as an example to wonder why traditional print publishers cannot come to market faster. As some comments to his post point out, in part it depends on the kind of book. An 80,000-word collection of assorted stories is naturally going to be faster to edit than a 120,000-word novel that has to go back and forth between publisher and author several times. Still, it is interesting to note that at least some print publishers can work faster if they really want to. Just consider all the books on O.J. Simpson that suddenly blossomed on bookstore shelves like dandelions in the sidewalk when his trial was going on. In fact, any time there is any big newsworthy event, there is a veritable explosion of sudden books about it. This is definitely food for thought. ... Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:15:00 +0100 821423 http://stephenslighthouse.com/2010/02/25/accenture-report-on-millennials-at-work/ I know, I know, some of you say I talk about Millennials too much! But here a global survey and recommendations for dealing with Millennials at work: Jumping the boundaries of corporate IT: Accenture global research on Millennials’ use of technology from Accenture. [16 page PDF] Slaw.ca summarized some of the more interesting findings include: “• Millennials in the Americas and Asia-Pacific have very positive perceptions of technology, whereas most of them in Europe think that technology takes up too much time. • Chinese Millennials spend the most time using real-time communication tools for both work and personal use. • Millennials want to choose what technologies they use at work, especially in emerging markets. • Millennials increasingly choose their employer based on access to leading technology. • Millennials routinely bypass corporate approval when using devices and applications. The report concludes with ways management teams can benefit from the survey findings. The report suggests the following: • Adapt IT policies to deal with generational diversity. • Accelerate experiments with social networking. • Bridge the generation gap.” • Listen and learn. • Involve Millennials in polciy review. Stephen (Source: Stephen) Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:10:08 +0100 821512 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/chuDqe82DIU/ Competition is a good thing. Lately, I have found that between Fictionwise, Sony, Amazon, and Kobo there is always a promo code or coupon out there somewhere. It used to be that I would only buy from Fictionwise; I got very attached to their reward system and would buy new releases at high prices because they had a large rebate and then spend the rebate on dozens of other books. I am at the point now where there is just too much in my to-read folder, and I am realizing that a large portion of it isn’t stuff I really care about. I would rather spend less money on just the book I want than spend more money on a book I maybe want, and five others I don’t care about! So, with the arrival of The Promo Code Wars, I have been investigating other ebook stores. Here is a round-up of how I’ve been doing. 1) Amazon I haven’t bought from them yet (except a replacement for my Kindle’s on-board dictionary) because there is no Kindle for Mac software yet and I prefer to manage all my books through there. But I think that once Mac support is available, Amazon may become more of a destination for me because their prices are often cheaper than anyone else’s. I also like the idea of synching with my iPod Touch and being able to start a book there if I am traveling light, and then resume it at the point I left off when I move to the Kindle later 2) Fictionwise I still buy a lot of books from them. Their multi-format titles are affordable and in my opinion, the way an ebook purchase should be: when you buy it, it’s yours and you can download it in any format you wish, as many times as you need to. So, I can download a copy right onto my iPod Touch using the eReader app, then download a Kindle version and transfer it via USB. It couldn’t be easier. I also love their magazine subscriptions. I subscribe to Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock; both are excellent short fiction magazines. ... Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:21:42 +0100 821430 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/fc_h_7dRntQ/ Mobile Marketer covers a report (PDF file link) by “mobile audience media company” JiWire that says consumers are more often using wifi-enabled devices for Internet access on the go. The article claims 56% of consumers who use mobile Internet connect to the Internet via a handset. The report adds that 21% of mobile Internet consumers primarily use “non-laptop” mobile devices (handsets or netbooks) for mobile Internet. “People are utilizing a tremendous range of devices from laptops to netbooks to e-books when choosing to remain connected while on the go,” said David Staas, senior vice president of marketing at JiWire. It is interesting to me that Staas said “e-books” given that the only e-book I know of that offers any kind of useful Internet connectivity is the Kindle (I’m not counting the Nook here, since its net access can only be used for downloading e-books), and that device does not currently use wifi at all. On the other hand, the report itself pictures a Nook on the chart that breaks wifi use down by device (e-book readers come in at 4%, just ahead of cameras at 3%) so perhaps they are not quite so picky as I am. I will say that I’ve used my iPod Touch a great deal in public wifi locations myself. It’s a great little device for surfing the web, checking and writing short e-mails, and social networking. But I’ve also used my Motorola RAZR2 cell phone for that purpose, and it does not use wifi at all. The second half of the article talks about the use of mobile devices for on-the-go shopping, with 49% of consumers making mobile on-line purchases and 47% using mobile Internet as their primary purchasing source. Amazon and eBay were mentioned as being among the top destinations (certainly not surprising for those people making on-line purchases through their Kindles). I was skeptical of those numbers until I clicked through and read the actual report. ... Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:15:00 +0100 821431 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/k1xhXW_fQTk/changing-landscape-of-search-essential.html The changing landscape of search: essential new tools for finding information - "The major search engines are playing leap-frog in an effort to out-do each other with new search features. Google is personalising everyone's search. Bing is taking over Yahoo. Exalead Labs is busy experimenting with new approaches to search. Image search options are expanding: creative commons, colour, similar images. More specialist search tools for the 'hidden web' are emerging, and social networks and Web 2.0 are now an essential part of the search mix. This workshop will look at the new services that are emerging and how to use them effectively to find relevant information" - 14 July 2010 - Manchester, UK - Course Presenter: Karen Blakeman (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:04:56 +0100 821367 http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2010/02/skills-you-need-to-find-job.html One of my temp jobs I had in 1976 (see below) was with JTPA (successor to CETA)--Ohio Senior Training and Employment Program (STEPS). I worked with a wonderful group of women in an efficiently run state agency. I wrote publications, planned workshops, travelled throughout the state, and wrote speeches for the head of another government agency. I learned so much on that job, not the least of which was job hunting skills (because I had to write about them and teach them in workshops not because I used them). However, I got the job in aerobics class overhearing my instructor talking about it--and that's how most jobs are found, "networking." Still, there are other important points I learned, and have updated to account for new technology.1) If you're unemployed, your job is to find a job. Spend 40 hours a week researching, interviewing, networking, updating skills, writing thank you notes, and knocking on doors. If you do internet social networking about job hunting, be careful what you say. Never, never bad mouth your previous employer or boss.2) Dress appropriately for the interview (this might take some research if you are 18-25). If you love that big hair look from the 80s, you might want to reconsider what it says about you. Cut the gray pony tail if you're a guy.3) Develop a fabulous resume, brief is best. Use a professional or have someone proof it for you. Anything you have on the internet may speak louder than your resume, so better check that out. Read requirements carefully! Some companies don't want paper; some don't want attachments.4) All jobs need good oral and written communication skills. If you've been text messaging for 4 years, you might need a brush up on how to spell "you" and "are." 5) Eye contact, body language, posture, good grammar--they say more about you than you know. Video tape yourself--watch for all those unneccesary uhs, now, hmmm, etc. It's a form of stuttering and doesn't make a good impression. ... Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821359 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/GWxpB0Y7aSQ/ Tim O”Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly media. Challenge is not to build the coolest and most enhanced ebooks. The publisher will never be a winner in a technology race. Innovations do come from publishers, but that’s not the heart of what publishers do. Publishers’ job is to do for authors those things that authors can’t do for themselves. Be creative, but remember what you really do. Which is often the boring stuff. If not good at those things then someone will take your place. It’s not easy to be found in this new world. Big haystack. All of the top blogs today are publishers and publishing with one of these will get writer more visibility that they can get on their own. Even iPhone apps are having a haystack problem. Given this there will always be a role in society for aggregators, and this should be a core competency for a publisher. Getting authors known and distributed. Publishers must be excellent distributors. Publishers must have the capability to create products in new formats and sell it into new channels. Publishers extremely weak in SEO. Social media marketing: you gain and bestow status based on those you associate with. More important to build your status rather than trying to push product. Use social media to build the status of your authors rather than just to push product. Just like with Google, a new breed of social media analytics are coming on board and should be used in designing your social network. There will be ebook analytics as well. An ebook knows it is being read and this will lead to a lot of interesting tools. Should be doing a lot of pricing experiments to find what works. One nice thing about the agency pricing model is that it allows the publishers to experiment with pricing rather than distributors. Social media is not about trying to sell something but is about trying to add value to community who cares about what you card about. ... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:04:56 +0100 821140 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/vWdYIBaBJD4/ I love it when all of a sudden, and through one of my various social networks, someone comes along and shares one of those links to rich media that you know you are going to enjoy, not just from digesting its content, but also from the perspective of acknowledging you will be reusing it at some point in time in upcoming presentations you may do on the topics you feel rather passionate about, specially in the area of social software adoption. "What the HELL is social media" is one of those videos … If yesterday I blogged about how important both people and passion are for a successful adoption of social networking for business, both inside and outside of the firewall, today I thought I would share with you folks a link to a YouTube video that, if anything, permeates some of that very same passion from all over the place! indeed, go and watch "What the HELL is social media". If you are into social computing, you will enjoy it; if you are not, it may convince you this time around… It’s a little bit over 2 minute YouTube video that explains, quite visually, 10 main different reasons why knowledge workers should be paying attention, and care!, about social media, social software, or whatever other related term. Yes, I realise there are differences between all of them, but the main key concepts would still remain the same. And those key concepts are the ones mentioned throughout the video clip itself. Created by Kama Glover and Tim Fogg (And compiled and edited by Peter Kerwood) it will be one of those videos that I am sure you will be using rather extensively from here onwards in those upcoming workshops, where you could sneak in a couple of minutes of visuals right before you start your events and get people on the right track from the very first moments. ... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:38:14 +0100 821807 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/46BX01RWhdA/ Angela Bole, BSIG; Kelly Gallagher, Bowker Consumer attitudes to ebook reading. Ongoing project. Very fresh data, completed survey last week and this is the first release to the public. Looked a print book readers who are moving to ebooks. Respondents had to have read an ebook. 95% confidence level, about 44K respondents. Purchasing behavior: #1 reason to buy an ebook is affordability 34% acquired their first ebook within the last sixth months Purchasers of ebooks are buying fewer hardbacks and paperbacks 47% read ebooks on a desktop, 32% on the Kindle, 11% on iPhone, 10% on iPod Touch, 9% on Blackberry, 9% on a netbook, 8% on the Nook, 8% on the Sony Reader, 13% on other 50% buy ebooks exclusively When asked what would make you pay more for an ebook, 3 of the top 5 items related to social network features When asked what the major benefits of ebooks were the top benefits were low cost, availability of free/promotional books When asked if they would be willing to wait 3 moths for the release of an ebook after the release of the hard cover, 30% said not sure, 32% said would be willing to wait, and 25% said would buy the hardcover instead When asked if DRM would change their purchase decision, 42% said maybe, 29% said no and 29% said yes Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:01:52 +0100 821143 http://www.librarystuff.net/2010/02/24/a-look-at-copia/ Media Bistro – “[W]hat’s novel about Copia is the combination of eCommerce, eReaders, and social networking it offers. Consumers can buy eBooks, interact with friends, and manage content across various devices through the same platform. Plus, Copia is introducing six (six!) new eReaders to the market, which would be the last thing we need, if not for the interesting fact that all the social networking aspects are also accessible through the eReaders. Plus the Copia platform will be accessible through other devices, including iPad, iPhone, and as-yet-unannounced devices that will be exclusively powered by Copia.” Copia (Source: Library Stuff) Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:00:58 +0100 821130 http://www.librarystuff.net/2010/02/24/get-your-storage-out-of-the-cloud/ WSJ – “Ask anyone in the technology industry to talk about trends and “the cloud” is sure to come up in conversation. The cloud is a hip way of describing Web-accessible storage, and whether people know it or not, they’re using this more each day. Social networks save account information in the cloud. Photo-sharing sites store images in the cloud. Web-based email programs keep messages in the cloud. People also are starting to back up the contents of their computers to the cloud, which makes files accessible from almost anywhere using an Internet connection.” (Source: Library Stuff) Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:30:30 +0100 821134 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/24/new-resources-for-national-bookmobile-day-april-14-2010/ From the Announcement: ALA has launched a Web page with resources and tools to help libraries celebrate the inaugural National Bookmobile Day, Wednesday April 14, 2010, during National Library Week. The page features sample publicity materials, including a press release, letter-to-the-editor and proclamations for library staff and supporters to use in their communities. Also included on the page are downloadable National Bookmobile Day logos, bookmark templates, a customizable flyer and links to National Bookmobile Day on social networking sites. In addition, the toolkit also has links to the National Bookmobile Day community in ALA Connect, where librarians can collaborate and share ideas on promoting the event. Participating libraries can share ideas and stories on how they celebrate the contribution of bookmobiles and direct-delivery outreach. Part of National Library Week, National Bookmobile Day is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA), the Association for Bookmobile and Outreach Services (ABOS) and the Association for Rural and Small Libraries (ARSL). Source: American Library Association (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:45:48 +0100 821176 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=Master_Plans_Conference_-_Web_2-0_Social_Networking_amp_Libraries How public and academic libraries are using Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and many other social networking tools to foster communication and promote libr (Source: pligg - all) Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:00:31 +0100 820985 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/73lF8mPsQrc/005133.php Today finds me in Chicago, making the rounds of a great city that I don't get to often enough. Meeting with senior folks at agency holding companies like Omnicom and Publicis, as well as clients like McDonald's, I find this four-word mantra coming up, over and over: "Local Mobile Real Time Social". Fascination with these buzzwords is not news to you all, as readers here, but to have a moment when major brands are all looking for solutions in the same space is rare. It reminds me of the same vibe 15 years ago, when the four-word mantra was "world wide web whaaaa?." I think another way to parse this is to simplify: Social *is* local, social *is* local, social *is* mobile. The shift here is from disconnected to connected. From dictation to conversation. From isolated to social. And that's a very important shift. It's not merely a marketing shift. It's not merely a media shift. It's a cultural shift in how we use artifacts of our own creation. Our society is leveraging technology tools and platforms to extend the ways we already know how to connect, thanks to 100 million or so years of biological and social evolutions. We're learning to be social beyond the restrictions of region or affiliation, and this will have significant impact on how brands are created, nurtured, destroyed. Also, we're reconnecting our social selves after major disruption due to technologies like airplanes, suburbs, highways, and mass media. There's a book in all this somewhere.... To my mind, the (local mobile real time) web is reconnecting the world, and the possibilities for how those connections can create value are inestimably large. It's why we're in this business. It's why I love it. Today's interesting linkage: How long can you survive without mobile or Internet access before you break into cold sweats? (LifeScoop) Just for fun. ... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821243 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/Lg8Z1r2e-Qs/serious-threat-to-web-in-italy.html In late 2006, students at a school in Turin, Italy filmed and then uploaded a video to Google Video that showed them bullying an autistic schoolmate. The video was totally reprehensible and we took it down within hours of being notified by the Italian police. We also worked with the local police to help identify the person responsible for uploading it and she was subsequently sentenced to 10 months community service by a court in Turin, as were several other classmates who were also involved. In these rare but unpleasant cases, that's where our involvement would normally end.But in this instance, a public prosecutor in Milan decided to indict four Google employees —David Drummond, Arvind Desikan, Peter Fleischer and George Reyes (who left the company in 2008). The charges brought against them were criminal defamation and a failure to comply with the Italian privacy code. To be clear, none of the four Googlers charged had anything to do with this video. They did not appear in it, film it, upload it or review it. None of them know the people involved or were even aware of the video's existence until after it was removed. Nevertheless, a judge in Milan today convicted 3 of the 4 defendants — David Drummond, Peter Fleischer and George Reyes — for failure to comply with the Italian privacy code. All 4 were found not guilty of criminal defamation. In essence this ruling means that employees of hosting platforms like Google Video are criminally responsible for content that users upload. We will appeal this astonishing decision because the Google employees on trial had nothing to do with the video in question. Throughout this long process, they have displayed admirable grace and fortitude. It is outrageous that they have been subjected to a trial at all.But we are deeply troubled by this conviction for another equally important reason. It attacks the very principles of freedom on which the Internet is built. ... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821197 http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2010/02/my-hot-wheels-went-to-haiti.html It's not that I had a large collection--eight still in their wraps. I never joined a club. My nephew Ron gave me two dups from his large collection some years ago, and I still have those. But really, I was never going to do anything with these. So we packed them carefully in my husband's bag, and I hope he's found some boys in Haiti that would like them. I've been amazed at the creative collectors I've found on the internet. Ugly sock puppets; pillowcases for soldiers; fruit labels; fountain pens; old musical records about prisons; tons of stuff our mothers threw away, and then there's that whole social networking thing where you collect friends. (Source: Collecting my Thoughts) Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821076 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/23/social-networking-yahoo-and-twitter-make-a-deal/ From a Los Angeles Times Article: In a battle to woo back Web surfers who are spending more time on social networking sites, Internet portal Yahoo has clinched a deal with Twitter to share content across both properties. Yahoo reached a similar agreement with Facebook in December, expanding the partnership to make it easier for users to share Facebook status updates and other information on Yahoo or share Yahoo sports scores or Flickr photos on Facebook. [Snip] The partnerships with Twitter and Facebook will take effect later this year. The partnership with Twitter will allow users to take material from both sites without having to leave either one, said Jim Stoneham, vice president of communities for Yahoo. Specifically, users will be able to access their Twitter feed on Yahoo’s sites, update their Twitter status and share content from Yahoo in their Twitter feed, while Yahoo search and media properties will include Twitter updates. Twitter will start showing up in Yahoo search results right away. See Also: Yahoo Gets Closer to Twitter (via Bits/NY Times) (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:56:38 +0100 820957 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/57WDcIDuIeg/ CNet has an article about Smartwords, an idea from start-up company Wordnik that sounds terrific but sure seems hard to describe succinctly. As Smartwords’s website puts it: Smartwords is a lightweight, easy-to-use standard for retrieving and publishing real-time, contextually-aware information about words. It took reading through the CNet article a couple of times to figure out that it might better be described as “an integrated dictionary on steroids.” Existing e-book apps with dictionary support (such as eReader) are largely limited to clicking on a single word to get a definition. Wordnik wants to go further than that. With Smartwords, as CNet puts it: Wordnik and its partners are aiming to bring deep levels of context to any kind of electronic text—be it in e-books on readers like the iPad, Kindle, or Nook, or on computers or mobile devices—by examining words and the words around them and linking readers to potentially vast amounts of information about them. And that context is not just limited to the words around the one in question; Wordnik CEO Erin McKean suggests it might even go as far as checking out what other books you keep on your device so it knows to offer information only about words you probably haven’t seen before. Smartwords will also incorporate elements of social networking, allowing readers to share snippets of text on Facebook, Twitter, and the like. (Though I wonder if I am being too cynical to foresee a bit of difficulty getting many e-book device and app makers to sign onto this, publishers being notoriously paranoid about copy-and-paste ability.) It might also provide a useful source of demographic information for publishers—letting them know how long it takes readers to finish particular books, or where they stop reading. ... Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:54:57 +0100 820942 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/BULMfR2WZcE/ After a couple of rather hectic days at work, I guess it’s time again to update my blog over here sharing with you folks a couple of thoughts that have been lingering around in my mind lately and which, more and more by the day, have continued to demonstrate what, to me, is the whole thing around Social Computing, Social Software, Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Social Networking, Web 2.0 or whatever other "expression" you would want to use: it’s all about the people; and it’s all about passion, your passion! Yes, I know most of you would be able to differentiate between one and the other, if I would ask you to go ahead and define them all; however, two of the key characteristics that will define them all would those ones I have just shared above on all about the people and passion. And this is not the first time I blog on this very same topic; when most folks are talking about how social computing / networking is all about a new wave of social tools on the Internet that would help us become more productive while sharing our knowledge across and collaborating with our peers, I keep thinking that we should probably not make the same mistakes we have done over the decades in trying to justify such kind of movements as technology / tools based, because they aren’t. They are all about the people behind them, and tools are just that: tools. Enablers. And that’s where it all ends for them. And that’s when it gets really fascinating and exciting for us all! Did you have a look into my good friend’s, Chris Brogan’s, blog post titled "When This All Gets Cool"? If you haven’t, I would strongly suggest you take a look, because he has put together one of those articles that would surely resonate with you all quite a bit and won’t left you indifferent. ... Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:31:23 +0100 821808 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/2PeEcFZ9BtQ/ Sameer Shariff, CEO, Impelysis. Social networking has opened up audiences. Publishing can’t continue with B to B business models. Marketing and sales must shift to a conversation paradigm. Publishers are going from B to B to B to C. The consumer now becomes the sales person with social networks. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:15:06 +0100 820800 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/02/23/millennials-use-of-technology-accenture-global-report/ Accenture’s new report “Jumping the boundaries of corporate IT: Accenture global research on Millennials’ use of technology” looks at how Millennials across the world use IT. For this report, Accenture surveyed over 5,000 employees and students, ages 14-27, in 13 countries in the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Interesting findings include: Millennials in the Americas and Asia-Pacific have very positive perceptions of technology, whereas most of them in Europe think that technology takes up too much time. Chinese Millennials spend the most time using real-time communication tools for both work and personal use. Millennials want to choose what technologies they use at work, especially in emerging markets. Millennials increasingly choose their employer based on access to leading technology. Millennials routinely bypass corporate approval when using devices and applications. The report concludes with ways management teams can benefit from the survey findings. The report suggests the following: Adapt IT policies to deal with generational diversity. Accelerate experiments with social networking. Bridge the generation gap. (Source: Slaw) Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:09:26 +0100 822327 http://stephenslighthouse.com/2010/02/23/the-news-deja-vu-all-over-again/ Thank goodness for Yogi Berra who said “This is like deja vu all over again.” A recent report from the Biz Report noted that: “Are you reading your local paper with a feeling of déjà vu? The feeling may not be a trick of the mind. According to a recent report, many newspaper reporters and editors are turning to social media for article ideas and research. The national survey, conducted by Don Bates with The George Washington University and Cision, nearly 90% of reporters use social media for research purposes.” “Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter are garnering the bulk of reporters’ attention but Wikipedia is also a favorite font of information with 61% of reporters saying they turn there for information. Most reporters turning to social networks and the like are writing primarily for the web, but writers for all sorts of news outlets are using social media. The report found: • 69% of online writers turn to social media • 48% of magazine writers use social media • 89% of all reporters reference blogs and 96% utilize corporate websites • 72% of newspaper writers turn to social outlets What is disturbing about the trend is that 89% of those using social media admit that blogs and social network sources are ’slightly less’ or ‘much less’ reliable because of accuracy and verification concerns.” It is distressing that many of us and our users intuitively think that print is more trustworthy, edited and tested for quality. Indeed some print publications such as Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek and Forbes have shut down or severely curtailed their libraries and left their reporters to their own devices. ... Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:30:38 +0100 820825 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Grumpator/~3/yY8Q0KJFuP0/science-commmons-symposium-recap.html I was all set to do a comprehensive summary of the Science Commons Symposium, but several others have beaten me to it!  However, I think I can add some of my impressions from the librarian point of view. First off, this is the first meeting I've attended where I actively participated over Twitter during the presentations.  It was really interesting to follow this additional layer of conversation.  I had also created a Friendfeed account ages ago, but have mostly used it to aggregate my own content.  Sometimes understanding a new social networking tool requires seeing it in action, which I certainly did this weekend. Brian Glanz of the Open Science Foundation wrote up a great roundup, including links to any available slides for each speaker. If you want the slides, go visit this page, I didn't link them below. Jean-Claude Bradley, one of the speakers, also wrote up a quick recap. Steve Koch also wrote up some notes (and on Saturday night, too!) including a mindmap! Secondly, thanks to Microsoft Research for hosting us (best box lunch I've ever had!) and for the free book!  The Fourth Paradigm: Data Intensive Scientific Discovery is the first book published by Microsoft under a Creative Commons license, so make sure to snag a downloadable copy. So, on to my value-add. A theme that emerged from several presenters (Cameron Neylon, Jean-Claude Bradley, Stephen Friend of Sage Bionetworks, John Wilbanks) was the problem of handling the exponential, explosive growth of data.  There are problems archiving it, problems with standardized ways of processing and handling it, and problems retrieving it.  Doesn't this sound like it's right up our alley?  And why aren't librarians doing more in this arena? Similarly, another theme was the eroding trust in traditional peer-review publications. ... Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 822049 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/zcGn/~3/ZMdzdN8S5pY/scholl-library-media-month-video.html From ALA: SLM Video ContestSchool librarians are encouraged to submit videos to the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) detailing how they help their school community "thrive." This is an opportunity for school librarians to be creative and share why they are essential to their school community. The winning video will be featured on the AASL Web site, AASL social networking platforms, and possible feature and recognition at AASL conferences. Entries will be vetted by AASL and the top three will be judged by the entire AASL member community starting March 8, 2010.Suggested focusAASL encourages creativity. Entries may include an interview with members of a school community, a typical day in the life of a school librarian, or a short skit on why school librarians are essential to a school community.Submission processEntries should be submitted by email to AASL by March 1, 2010 at 4:30 p.m. CST. Please include your AASL membership ID with your submission. All videos must be accompanied by a signed video/photo release form from each person featured in the video. Videos should be no more than 3 minutes. Only WMV, RealVideo and QuickTime formatted files will be accepted.Additional RulesThis contest is open to AASL members only. All entries over 3 minutes will be disqualified.Award The winner will receive district access to all L4L webinars and an AASL prize package including Standards for the 21st-Century Learner in Action, Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs; and the forthcoming Planning Guide for Empowering Learners.The M Word Blog teaches your library and non-profit tips, tricks and trends of the marketing trade (Source: The "M" Word - Marketing Libraries) Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821897 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/HowCahvCaQs/judicial-conferences-new-model-jury-instructions-forbid-social-media-use-by-jurors.html The Judicial Conference has drafted new model jury instructions in which a laundry-list of social networks are added to the restrictions on juror communication: You may not communicate with anyone about the case on your cell phone, through e-mail, Blackberry,... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821679 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/15886 2010 Library Open Solutions Webinars Series Kicks Off We've finalized the line up. Mark your calendars and sign up now for the full series of weekly webinars offering fun and informative stuff good for libraries. Keep up on the latest series information and comments from speakers at our series blog: http://librarywebinars.blogspot.com/ Here's the line-up: 3/11Get Real, Be Creative: Social Networking in Libraries w/ Tasha Saecker and Jeff Dawson 3/18Library H3lp w/ Cindi Trainor and Steve Frye 4/1OCLC Web Services in Action w/ Karen Coombs 4/8Information, Not Location: the new MLibrary w/ Ken Varnum, Karen Reiman-Sendi, Liene Karels 4/15Mobile Site Generator w/ Chad Haefele 4/22Cool tools: Prezi and Zotero w/ Jason Kucsma, Joe Morgan, Ian Benton and Eliot Finkelstein all sessions are Thursdays, 2:00-3:00 p.m. Central Time Register now for the whole series at the bargain rate of $200 for all 6, at: http://www.wils.wisc.edu/events/opsolutions_reg2.html You can registe (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 820843 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/22/social-networks-last-place-consumers-head-to-research-purchases/ From a Report Summary: The word of friends and family has the most influence over a person’s buying decisions, found a survey conducted by Opinion Research Corp. for ARAnet. When asked the importance of 14 different information sources, almost 60% cited their personal network, more than TV broadcasts (40%) and search engines (39%). However, social networks don’t rank as highly. Just 18% of respondents cited them as a preferred source of recommendations for products and services. While an increased preference for online media was apparent among young adults aged 25 – 34, social media remains the least popular with 31% compared to search engines (50%), online articles (39%) and retail emails (32%). When income is taken into consideration, the survey found that higher income earners are embracing online sources. Among those making $75,000 or more, search engines are preferred by 49% vs. 39% for all respondents. “The eyes of young people 18 to 34 and the most highly educated Americans are looking online – search engines, online articles, online ads, e-mail offers and social media – to a degree that is head and shoulders above the average citizen,” said Scott Severson, ARAnet president. The word of friends and family has the most influence over a person’s buying decisions, found a survey conducted by Opinion Research Corp. for ARAnet. When asked the importance of 14 different information sources, almost 60% cited their personal network, more than TV broadcasts (40%) and search engines (39%). However, social networks don’t rank as highly. Just 18% of respondents cited them as a preferred source of recommendations for products and services. While an increased preference for online media was apparent among young adults aged 25 – 34, social media remains the least popular with 31% compared to search engines (50%), online articles (39%) and retail emails (32%). ... Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:44:00 +0100 820628 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/22/new-report-from-unesco-information-society-policies-annual-world-report-2009/ From the Announcement: Information Society Policies. Annual World Report 2009 was written by researchers from the Information Society Research Institute of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. According to their analysis, the most important effect of the information society is probably the fact that it eliminates several historical divides. Social differences caused by the unequal distribution of ICT tools are being eliminated by the same tools, which causes a paradoxical situation. The Report outlines cultural and geographical aspects of the digital divide and highlights solutions offered by the information society, such as broadband Internet and mobile technology. It also analyses the link between social and technological changes, which vary from country to country. Among the most significant trends introduced in the Report are some important technical achievements that are likely to change people’s lives in several aspects. Information society strategies increasingly focus on e-government, which is becoming more and more socially oriented. The authors of the World Report examine the e-government aspects that proved to be the most important last year: the breakthrough of social networking, the increasing importance of open source software and of the green IT. No information society strategy today can disregard these trends. The last section provides an overview of the worldwide penetration of ICT tools, both globally and regionally, showing the social and policy challenges faced by particular regions. Access the Complete Report (63 pages; PDF) Source: UNSECO (Communication and Information Sector) (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:26:33 +0100 820629 http://www.docuticker.com/?p=32555 The State of Happiness: Can public policy shape people’s wellbeing and resilience? Source: Young Foundation & IDeA, UK A new report from the Young Foundation and the Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) highlights that promoting and influencing happiness is no longer an airy aspiration. As the recession forces difficult public spending choices, services focused on wellbeing are delivering widespread economic and social benefits – especially to children. The State of Happiness brings together four years of groundbreaking work based on in-depth pilots – from teaching resilience to children in schools to promoting neighbourliness – with three councils in very different areas of the country: Manchester, Herfordshire and South Tyneside. Against a background of intense pressures on public spending, the report recommends prioritising programmes that: • Teach children resilience in schools – drawing on strong evidence that this improves academic performance and behaviour as well as employability of pupils • Promote opportunities for neighbours to get to know each other, based on clear evidence that this tends to enhance wellbeing • Provide support for isolated older people to help them create and maintain social networks, and reduce anxiety and depression • Shift transport and economic policies to encourage lower commuting times and allow people to spend more time with their families and friends • Reshape apprenticeships and other programmes for teenagers to strengthen psychological fitness to help young people find and keep work • Support families so parents are happier and children are less likely to face problems at home and at school • Promote activities that are simultaneously good for the environment and reducing CO2, and make people feel better about their lives + Direct link to document (PDF; 2.2 MB) (Source: Docuticker) Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:42:58 +0100 820423 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TechsourceBlog/~3/csu9iKkk7aY/google-buzz.html Google Buzz, the Big G's newest and shiniest tool, launched last week to a huge amount of sturm und drang. What is Buzz? It's a lot of things, all shoved neatly into Gmail and leveraged with every ounce of power that Google could give it. If you've logged into your Gmail account in the last week, you've see a pop-up announcing Buzz, and asking if you were interested. Want to know what you're in for? Here's the very, very general idea. Buzz is a combination of a few different existing ideas. The first is the concept of the "status update" or microblogging service, a la Twitter or Facebook. The second is the idea of conversation, as Buzz threads your discussions, instead of isolating replies like Twitter. This means that posts and replies are presented as a single thread, similar (very, very similar) to FriendFeed. The third thing that Buzz gives you is that these posts and replies are all geolocated, tied to a specific place in the world. If you access Buzz from your mobile phone, it will use the built in GPS to locate you and geotag any updates you might send from your phone. It also aggregates the Buzzes for a given location, allowing you to see what people are talking about by literally clicking around on a Google Map. This put it firmly in the realm of both geolocated communication services like Foursquare and Gowalla and location-based review services like Yelp. In launching Buzz, Google did several very smart things, and one very, very dumb thing. The smart thing was that they tied it to Gmail, their most popular service next to search, and they used the information they already had about your email habits to pre-populate Buzz with contacts. ... Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:20:31 +0100 821240 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/VJ6l9QhXJ_k/next-generation-of-ad-serving-for.html Today, we're announcing the next generation of ad serving technology for online publishers — DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP).For the past few years, we've been investing in a suite of solutions — AdSense, ad-serving technology and the DoubleClick Ad Exchange — to help online publishers make the most money possible from their content, whether they sell advertising directly through their own sales force, through an ad network such as AdSense, or a combination of both.For major online publishers — including social networks and online communities, entertainment sites, e-commerce sites and news sites — managing, delivering and measuring the performance of ads on their websites can be a hugely complicated process. A publisher's ability to manage this process can have a significant impact on how much money they make from their online content.Imagine you're a major online publisher with a popular global surfing website and an ad sales team. Every second of every day, you have difficult decisions about what ads to show and how to measure their relative performance. For example:In the same ad space, a surfboard wax advertiser may want to run a static image ad for your Australian readers, while an airline offering flights to Hawaii may want to run an expandable interactive ad for your American readers.A fast-food restaurant wants to run their burger ads before noon and their pizza ads in the afternoon.You've sold 10 different surfboard makers a million ad slots at slightly different prices; now you have to allocate them across your various webpages to fulfill all these orders over the next two weeks.One of your surfing tournament reviews is linked to by a popular news site and you have a surge in traffic. Your sales team couldn't predict this, so you're potentially left without any ads for thousands of readers. You want to fill this ad space by selling it via an ad network which has ads available.This is really just scratching the surface. ... Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821198 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pandia/vfbc/~3/1YDK_dVGXLo/2550-pandia-search-engine-news-wrap-up-feb-21.html Here are some of the search engine related articles we have found interesting this week: Google Buzz Facing Lawsuit from 31 Million Users? A Florida woman has filed a class action complaint in San Jose federal court alleging that Google Buzz shared personal data without consent. (Marketing Pilgrim Feb 18 2010) 11 handy Google Buzz tips Bend it, shape it, any way you want it… (TechRadar Feb 2010) Bing Indexing New Content & Sites Faster? The thread is praising Bing for speeding up their indexing and ranking of new pages, updated content and new web sites. (SE Roundtable Feb 17 2010) How To Search Google Buzz Ironically, for a product from Google, searching Buzz seems to have a lot that can be improved. (SE Land Feb 17 2010) Google Gives $2 Million To Wikimedia Foundation The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia (SE Land Feb 17 2010) Google Integrates MySpace to Search, But Not Proud of it Google seemed to have quietly implemented MySpace Real-Time Search API just now. (SE Journal Feb 16 2010) Google Admits Flaws in Testing Buzz Prior to Release Most of Google’s products go through a battery of testing by the so-called Google Trusted Tester program (SE Journal Feb 2 2010) Please rob me - a danger of social networking Please Rob Me is a site that’s designed to point out quite clearly one of the dangers of social networking. (P Bradley Feb 18 2010) Is Google Gunning for E-Commerce Giants Amazon, eBay? New York Times report that Google has hired a former eBay executive as vice president of commerce. (Google Watch Feb 16 2010) Google Buys an Aardvark and Puts it In the Lab Actually the Labs page, while providing you with a few more details, basically just points you to the actual Aardvark site (ResearchBuzz Feb 16 2010) Qrobe to search Google, Bing, Ask Type in your search terms and Qrobe returns results for you, primarily Google and Bing (P Bradley Feb 16 2010) Ask. ... Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:06:21 +0100 820737 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/l4UoW0pDhmQ/feedthru Google Can Now Buy & Sell Energy, What Next? Google gets a license to trade energy in the US... question for me is, would the Google Power Meter [ http://www.google.org/powermeter/ ] give them advantageous data to play with if they every started dealing in energy as a utility company? Course Syllabus Spring 2010 « Beyond WebCT: Integrating Social Networking Tools Into Language & Culture Courses "Beyond WebCT: Integrating Social Networking Tools Into Language and Culture Courses Course Description: This course is designed to introduce students to web-based social networking environments and provide them with the resources and experiences to effectively integrate them into their teaching repertoire. " (Source: OUseful Info) Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0100 820012 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/9m2WGwKCnFg/ Mike Masnick at TechDirt links to an article from France (translated into English) that suggests an interesting new Internet model for newsroom journalism. It proposes splitting “journalism” into three categories: reporters, columnists, and “curators”. The first two are pretty self-explanatory, but the last is essentially what we do at TeleRead (and, in fact, what many newsbloggers do everywhere): "’cover’ the news by sorting, verifying and editing live everything good existing on the web and in the media. They make link journalism, they make the news more accessible." The suggestion comes about as a response to the problems that arise when print journalists are asked to write for the web. Print articles are not ideally suited for the web form, and journalists from the traditional mold have a hard time fitting into web journalism. Thus, “curators” serve as a sort of translator, taking the print articles turned out by the journalists and reformatting them to be more suited for the web. (How appropriate that this is suggested in an article that has itself been translated between languages!) Masnick has some interesting commentary as well, pointing out that “curating” is a function that tends to be looked down on by “traditional” journalists—but these days, with the social networks that exist almost for the sole purpose of forwarding whatever links everyone thinks is interesting to everyone else, almost everyone “curates” the news in one way or another. If a newsroom were set up with a focus on those three roles (I would add editors as well…), with the understanding that they work together as a team to both bring the most information and community to a particular story, I doubt we’d see newspapers struggling as much as they are today. I would tend to agree. ... Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:30:00 +0100 819969 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/_gFePVAMNzc/ Mike Masnick at TechDirt links to a Wired story by Paige Wiliams. Williams is a journalist who published a lengthy article using the “Radiohead model”—placing it on her website and inviting donations—after the New York Times decided it did not want to publish the article itself. The Wired story suggests that it may be possible to self-publish articles and earn back the expenses that went into writing them, if you properly leverage social networks to call them to enough peoples’ attention—but the thing that really interested me was the self-published article the Wired story was about. That article is a fascinating biography of a home-schooled woman (pictured above) who wrote a book called Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and With (Almost) No Money at the age of 18 under the pseudonym of Dolly Freed, then went on to become a rocket scientist and help investigate the Challenger disaster. (The book is available on Kindle for $9.32, and as a PDF e-book at A1Books.com for $9.11.) The article talks about how Dolly and her father grew up to be frugal, and she wrote the book on their techniques thinking they might help people who wanted to live on little money. Later, she went to college at Drexel, participating in a NASA co-op program. “By then I had learned not to say too much about my possum living days,” she says. “Starting a conversation with things like ‘Have you ever watched a flock of geese sleep at night?’ or ‘You know how when you go spearfishing for spawning suckers … ’ or ‘Even though I’ve had road-killed dog and it was very good, I wouldn’t kill a dog just to eat it’ just makes people stare at you,” she says. “Don’t try these openers yourself—trust me it’s a mistake.” After graduating, she worked for NASA in materials testing, and she helped investigate the causes of the Challenger explosion in 1986. ... Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:00:00 +0100 819971 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2010/02/19/february-19th-stream.html Watched Burn Notice — s3 | e13 — Enemies Closer. @lorireed thanks! we couldn’t do it without members like you. what you’re doing with @ALALearning is amazing (ideas –> reality) [shifted] Posted steverubel: RT @pingdom Study: Ages of social network users | Royal Pingdom http://bit.ly/bPpWOj. @jeffjarvis that’s when librarians will take over the world because you’ll be able to hear how good we are [shifted] @webgoddess Sean is @tscrobinson [shifted] Posted acarvin: RT @steverubel: Four ways to visualize Twitter — HBR http://j.mp/9ugJhf. Posted chrisbrogan: From super duper @JustinKownacki — Why I need you to be a better audience — http://bit.ly/cq1e1q. Posted annehaines: Online presentation w/out a twitter backchannel –harder to stay awake! *zonk*. @freegovinfo @CodeforAmerica @Citability would love to chat about adding CoINS support to our cite module for #drupal (http://bit.ly/aD4qyZ) [shifted] “The largest insight of all– access to library materials is happening largely away from the library website”- @copystar http://bit.ly/bxxcKO [shifted] #akla10 participants — I’m thinking about bringing some games to play one night at the conference in the hotel lobby. anybody interested? [shifted] Posted ehampton: You can now ask research ?s of a Baylor Librarian right from within any EBSCO database! Chat widgets appear when you search.. Posted itsjustkate: migrating to a new ILS is like having a baby. There’s no such thing as ready. There’s just a go live date.. Liked Woman’s Last Stand: Dodge Charger Commercial Spoof. Posted kenleyneufeld: Important for libraries too. HOW TO: Make Your Small Business Geolocation-Ready — Mashable! http://goo.gl/fb/7VBY. ... Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:40:11 +0100 821156 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/oU7lX3bYjVk/ There are times when you bump into YouTube videos that surely give you shivers of excitement from some of the superb ideas that permeate throughout the video clip altogether. There are times when you bump into one of those short videos you just can’t stop playing them back and forth, trying to absorb every single nugget that comes out of them! There are times when you watch one of those and, after going through it, you never expect you would be so energised about the stuff that really matters to you, even if it comes from the most unexpected places. Well, What We Do And Why is one of those video clips. It features a quick introduction by Anne Marie McEwan (Who I started following in Twitter a little while ago and from whom I have learned quite a bit so far), and in it she spends a little bit less than 5 minutes describing what her company, The Smart Work Company (Gotta love that name, too!), is all about and what their main mission is: help people, and their businesses!, become smarter at what they already doing through better ways of learning and managing. If you care about Web work, about the next generation of knowledge workers, about the impact that social technologies are having in the current business world, about how meaningful the concept of networks is in helping shape the next wave of our leaders, this would be one video you would want to watch! Yes, indeed, it’s that­ inspiring and surely a treat to watch! And you know the best part of it all for me? The narrative! It’s so beautifully told and with such a nice pace that it surely makes you stick around till the very end and when you are done you keep wondering where you could get more! Well, I guess that would be The Smart Work Company. ... Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:23:11 +0100 819992 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SellersLibraryTeens/~3/E7O72_VFQFc/find-us-on-facebook.html It's taken forever, but I finally created a Sellers Library Teens group on Facebook! It is for everyone in grades 6 to 12 who wants to know what is going on at our library. There is already a Sellers Library group, which you are welcome to join, but the new group will focus on teen announcements and events. The teen group is closed, so you have to request to join. I will approve everyone who is a middle or high school student, even if I don't personally know you. Look us up and join today! (Source: Sellers Library Teens) Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:57:14 +0100 819697 http://opaltraining.blogspot.com/2010/02/whats-new-19-february.html What’s NewFlowtownFlowtown [http://www.flowtown.com/] allows you to take email addresses (like the people subscribed to my newsletter) and determine in which social networks they are active. This is especially handy when you need to segment your audience. For example, when I’m ready to invite people to my new Facebook Fan Page, I can use Flowtown to determine which of you are active on Facebook, and send an email only to that group.Print n ShareFor true device-agnostic types, this is a great app that allows you to print from your iPhone to any printer. [http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=301656026&mt=8/] You probably won’t use it every day, but when you need to print a boarding pass or slide handouts from your iPhone, you’ll be delighted you have this one.Secure Websites in Plain EnglishCommon Craft have published a new video called "Secure Websites in Plain English" [http://www.commoncraft.com/secure-websites-video].Security is obviously an important part of using the Web. Thankfully, through cooperation between a number of organizations, standards have beendeveloped to communicate when a site is secure. Unfortunately these clues are not always known to everyday Web users. This video covers the basicsof web site security – the common threats, the basics of encryption and how to tell when a site is secure.The video also covers a new and growing standard that gives banks and other organizations a way to communicate that their site is the genuine article.This new standard, called EV SSL Certification, is meant to battle phishing scams.CreaWriterIf you have been wanting a distraction-free writing software that allows you to customize the background and/or sounds, then this is the one that you have been waiting for. When you start CreaWriter [http://www.creawriter.com/] for the first time you will see this background and hear a “running/trickling water” sound file. ... Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821029