LibWorm: Web 2.0

Qr code on car

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:31:18 +0100

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 8.31.2010 [15], originally uploaded by Cara Jo Miller. Cara Jo Miller writes: QR code on the back of my car that links to a page on my site that tells you the random fact of the day. It also captures all the information about your phone’s screen size, browser type and OS so that I can use it for building better mobile sites. (Source: Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology)

New mobile stats from pew internet: cell phones and american adults + sleeping with your phone (65% of adults with cell phones have done it)

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:22:11 +0100

This report was written by Amanda Lenhart. From the Intro Page: [Our emphasis] Texting by American adults has increased substantially over the past year, but still does not approach the magnitude of text messages exchanged by adolescents. Some 72% of adult cell phone users send and receive text messages now, up from 65% in September 2009. Fully [...] (Source: ResourceShelf)

The new plos (public library of science) blogosphere

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:32:12 +0100

From the Official PLOS Blog: Today [Wednesday] we are pleased to announce the launch of PLoS Blogs a new network for discussing science in public; covering topics in research, culture, and publishing. PLoS Blogs is different from other blogging networks, because it includes an equal mix of science journalists and scientists. We’re excited to be welcoming our [...] (Source: ResourceShelf)

Indicadores de uso y participación en las revistas científicas 2.0

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100

En plena canícula veraniega vio la luz en El Profesional de la Información un nuevo trabajo del grupo, en este caso acerca de las nuevas medidas de uso e indicadores 2.0 que se pueden utilizar para evaluar la actividad investigadora. Tomando la revista PLoS One como caso de estudio presentamos algunos datos que muestran la poca utilización hasta la fecha de las funcionalidades 2.0. Estas medidas se muestran (por el momento) poco maduras para la evaluación científica.Dice el abstract:Los nuevos entornos de publicación y comunicación científica han propiciado la aparición de nuevos indicadores Web. Junto a las métricas de uso, como las descargas, existen múltiples medidas que se generan a partir de la web 2.0 científica. Las revistas de la Public Library of Science recopilan de forma sistemática gran parte de estas nuevas métricas. Se presentan algunos de estos indicadores y su análisis cuantitativo mediante un estudio de caso a partir de 8.945 artículos publicados en la revista PLoS One. Los indicadores seleccionados han sido: número de comentarios,puntuación, número de bookmarks, enlaces desde blogs científicos, número de descargas, número de vistas y número de citas. Para todos ellos se han calculado sus estadísticas básicas así como las correlaciones entre ellas. Los resultados revelan la escasa participación de los científicos en la web 2.0 y cómo la mayor parte de estos indicadores, exceptuando las descargas y visitas, son medidas poco consolidadas.Y la referencia completa;Cabezas-Clavijo, Álvaro; Torres-Salinas, Daniel. Indicadores de uso y participación en las revistas científicas 2.0: el caso de PLoS One. El profesional de la información, 2010, julio-agosto, 19:4, 431-434. [descargar desde web de ec3]ec3noticias el blog del grupoEC3 torressalinas@gmail.com (Source: EC3noticias)

Two new resources from nasa: an app specifically for ipad & new image of a lunar crater

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:26:19 +0100

1. A New NASA App for iPad (officially named NASA App HD for iPad) is Now Available (Free). The new app features: + Thousands of images from NASA IOTD, APOD and NASAImages.org + On demand NASA Videos from around the agency + Live Streaming of NASA TV [...] (Source: ResourceShelf)

Does information literacy matter in public libraries? (louise pieper)

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:29:50 +0100

Louise Pieper from Gold Coast Public Libraries talks about why abook club blog can build community and reduce social isolation. Public library users often resistant to more formal instruction in information literacy. Customers don’t want to lose face or to be seen as ignorant or illiterate. They don’t want to be at school. Louse suggests that libraries: Be covert. be viral. Let information literacy seep through. Don’t call it information literacy, as it can be off putting. Look at ways of using web 2.0 to build information literacy skills covertly. Their blog: Book coasters is a way of fostering lifelong learning skills virally. The online book club can: promote reading and informal learning allow people to develop new transliteracy skills builds community (Source: librariesinteract.info)

Information literacy and web 2.0 a paradox

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:25:54 +0100

Day 1: ALIA Access Conference (Brisbane) Information literacy with Christine Bruce: Shift of focus from libraries to a much more global scale How do we make it relevant? How can we bring transformative power of information use to peoples lives? (Pat Breivik) Empowering! Experts on information literacy: Dr Lana W Jackman www.infolit.org – paradox don’t assume that all learners have access. What about the digital divide? Patricia Senn Breivik – peoples need for abilities that empower them Diljiit Singh – no paradox we need information literacy and web 2.0 to be effective in this world Lin Ching Chen (Jean Chen) – how can we harness Web 2.0. We have a responsibility. Shelia Webber (Uni of Sheffield) – Web 2.0 information literacy skills important. Andrew Whitworth - knowledge never static; text is dynamic in Web 2.0 Sharon Weiner (Purdue Uni) – not a paradox. Need Web 2.0 to teach and learn about information literacy. David Loertscher (SLIS) - power of Web 2.0 to build collective knowledge. Tools and power. Mandy Lupton – Web 2.0 making it possible to learn through the process of content creation. Work collaboratively through using/creating info Mary M Somerville - Web 2.0 makes it possible to work with and transform understanding of different cultures Dr Hilary Hughes – novel info sources & learning opportunities; provocation to explore, experiment, evaluate and evolve with developing technologies Ross Todd – focus on user and content creation Clarence Maybee – a future with a different understanding of knowledge and making Susie Andretta – transliteracy across different platforms; transliteracy – transport abilities across different media; what a librarians doing; how do we create the spaces/places that allow people to develop transliteracy skills Annemaree Lloyd – Web2. ...

A video demo of google tv (coming soon) & info about revamped apple tv (available in four weeks)

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:26:04 +0100

With the news today that Apple is going to release a revamped version of Apple TV for $99 in about a month we thought it would be a good time to post a video demo of Google TV that is scheduled to launch this Fall. Video Demo of Google TV (StuffWeLike.com via YouTube The six minute [...] (Source: ResourceShelf)

The business case for enterprise social bookmarking: $4.6 million a year in cost savings!

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:24:51 +0100

A couple of weeks ago, the amazingly talented Dion Hinchcliffe put together a blog post under the title of “The 2010 Social Business Landscape” that would probably classify as one of the most insightful, resourceful and essential articles published during the course of this year that everyone in the industry should be reading. Yes, in case you may not have seen it, it is that good! Worth while your time, for sure!, specially, if you are into some amazing graphicware like this one. But, there is something missing from that article, don’t you think? Something that, in my opinion, is one of the fundamental pillars from Enterprise 2.0. Have you spotted it yourself already? Indeed, social bookmarking / tagging! Not sure what you would think, but I strongly believe that social bookmarking and social tagging are still an important and rather critical part of a successful Enterprise 2.0 adoption strategy. I would even go one step further and state that social bookmarking / tagging are probably essential key elements behind the social computing philosophy altogether. Yet, it’s interesting to see how they both keep getting neglected time and time again, when they are just so critical. I mean, can you imagine … having your business put together and create a massive index of must-have links with annotations and tags across the board that would help you re-find content much much easier than through just the traditional taxonomies? No, neither could I. My good friend, Harold Jarche, talked about this very same thing as well not long ago on a virtual IBM event for the community of social software evangelists that I co-lead with one other colleague and which I blogged about over at Personal Knowledge Management by Harold Jarche (BlueIQ Ambassadors). ...

Library 2.0: good practices « science intelligence and infopros

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:00:29 +0100

The library should provide links to Web 2.0 tools from university and library homepages. A brief introduction of activities offered using Web 2.0 too (Source: pligg - all)

Integrating the hospital library with patient care, teaching and research: model and web 2.0 tools to create a social and collaborative community of clinical research in a hospital setting.

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100

Integrating the hospital library with patient care, teaching and research: model and Web 2.0 tools to create a social and collaborative community of clinical research in a hospital setting.

Health Info Libr J. 2010 Sep 1;27(3):217-26

Authors: San JosÃ© Montano B, Garcia Carretero R, Varela Entrecanales M, Pozuelo PM

Background: Research in hospital settings faces several difficulties. Information technologies and certain Web 2.0 tools may provide new models to tackle these problems, allowing for a collaborative approach and bridging the gap between clinical practice, teaching and research. Objectives: We aim to gather a community of researchers involved in the development of a network of learning and investigation resources in a hospital setting. Methods: A multi-disciplinary work group analysed the needs of the research community. We studied the opportunities provided by Web 2.0 tools and finally we defined the spaces that would be developed, describing their elements, members and different access levels. Model description: WIKINVESTIGACION is a collaborative web space with the aim of integrating the management of all the hospital's teaching and research resources. It is composed of five spaces, with different access privileges. The spaces are: Research Group Space 'wiki for each individual research group', Learning Resources Centre devoted to the Library, News Space, Forum and Repositories. Conclusions: The Internet, and most notably the Web 2. ...

First: ask a librarian, now: ask a curator, a new service utilizing twitter

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:58:57 +0100

Here's a new Twitter-based service that info pros might want to know about to with a query or refer users to. A very impressive list of museums taking part. From the LA Times: Engaged in their scholarly pursuits, museum curators aren't usually accessible to the general art-loving public, never mind the unwashed masses on the Internet. But [...] (Source: ResourceShelf)

El bibliotecario en su encrucijada

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:00:00 +0100

Hace ya un tiempo, escribimos un texto en el que reflexionábamos sobre la dicotomía que se da en Biblioteconomía y Documentación, donde una buena cantidad de personas de “letras” se refugia entre libros impresos buscando una salida profesional donde cada vez es más importante el peso de las nuevas tecnologías en su desarrollo. Es posible que las reticencias iniciales que se dieron en la adopción de nuevas tendencias en la Web, se vean relajadas en un futuro no tan lejano cuando nuevas generaciones más habituadas a los ordenadores suplanten a las más timoratas por si el ordenador (sic) pudiese llegar a romperse. En cualquier caso, parece cada vez más cierto que la resaca del movimiento dospuntocero debe servirnos de punto de reflexión para encarar un futuro crítico para los intermediarios de la información. En un artículo que se publicará muy pronto en la revista Library & Information Science Research, un estudio recoge las impresiones de un grupo de profesionales australianos sobre las competencias y conocimientos que los bibliotecarios deberán poseer en un futuro no muy lejano. Para los escépticos, en las conclusiones se evita el adorno 2.0, considerando que las etiquetas son perfectas para generar cambios en las actitudes de los profesionales pero se tornan peligrosas si se persiste en ellas en el tiempo. De este modo, se considera que la biblioteca 2.0 ofrece una nueva vía de reflexión sobre la Biblioteconomía y representa un cambio de actitud de los bibliotecarios. Sin embargo, las etiquetas y sus modas se agotan tan pronto como aparecen, siendo sustituidas por otras, por lo que pueden significar un impedimento para el crecimiento futuro. Y es que la biblioteca/bibliotecario 2.0 no puede centrarse en la utilización de herramientas de la Web 2.0, excluyendo los principios y la filosofía propia de lo que verdaderamente representó, que es la participación. ...

Generation "born into web 2.0" characteristics

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:15:31 +0100

I'd thought I'd throw out some characteristics of my son's generation rather than wait for ten years or so to see how they represent themselves in a Pew and American Life study. He's almost eleven years old. His is the generation that was born into Web 2.0 and other advanced digital technology. I know this isn't true for all kids his age (and it may be more true for boys--I don't know), but it's fun to imagine: Many of them would rather take videos than still pictures. They either have themselves, or have a friend close in age, who has put up a video on YouTube. They either have themselves, or have a friend close in age, who has been in a YouTube video. They have their own computer, or at least one that is shared with siblings and not the adults in the family. They share websites and videos they find on the Internet. They have email accounts and send and receive email on occassion. They have played an MMORPG designed for kids along with other kids in their school. My son and friends at school, boys and girls alike, play Wizard 101. They have mobile phones and have sent and/or received text messages. Some are used to watching television and/or movies without commerical interruptions, and they will prefer the use of a DVD, Blueray, DVR, Tivo, or Netflix on demand to avoid commercials. They have more than one game system, at least a DS and a console unit. Cable television is not their sole, primary form of digital entertainment. Video games and the Internet have a strong, competing role for their attrention. Mp3 players are the primary music listening device that they own. Radio is something they listen to in the car when there are no CDs, the DS is not with them, and they forgot the mp3 player. It's the electronic media of last resort. ...

My top 10 reasons why i bought an ipad

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:29:36 +0100

Late last week you would remember how I put together a blog post where I started collecting a number of the Daily #iPad Apps that I keep sharing across over in Twitter, for those folks who may be potentially interested. Also as a good reference for myself, i.e. as part of my own personal knowledge sharing experience, so that I can keep going back and forth over time and see what I may have shared and what not, just in case I may need it for a future reference. Then, my good friend Barry Leiba mentioned, in the comments, how he would be “interested in reading more about specifically HOW the iPad fundamentally changes your online interactions and experience“. Thus I thought I would go ahead today and put together a blog entry where I could share with folks my top 10 reasons why the iPad has changed my computing habits and overall Internet experience for good with no looking back! It’s going to be a rather interesting experiment, where I am sure I’m going to fall short on words on what it actually means for me, specially when not paying much attention to the tools and applications themselves, but more how I interact with the device. I know that some of those reasons will also surprise a bunch of folks out there who may have a perceived different persona of me than who I actually am, but I think that overall, it will help set the stage as to why I have finally fallen for the iPad as perhaps one of my last mobile devices I will own for a good while. A long one, actually. Thus without much ado, here are My Top 10 Reasons Why I Bought a 3G 64GB iPad, back while I was in Boston, in June, attending the Enterprise 2.0 conference event (Yes, I couldn’t buy one over here in Spain after having visited 18 shops!). ...

A stream of digital consciousness

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:27:07 +0100

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } A stream of digital consciousness, originally uploaded by Paul Hagon. My research co-investigator Warren Cheetham shares a link to this photo by Paul Hagon and writes: “Another photo (also by Paul Hagon) from that same conference presentation by Mal, has a line that I try to always keep in mind when planning and thinking about digital library services – “Don’t try to replicate analogue processes”" (Source: Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology)

Library web developer

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:20:04 +0100

State: New Jersey Library Web Developer/Designer Princeton University Library Princeton, New Jersey Requisition #1000633 The Princeton University Library comprises a large central library and nine specialized libraries that are heavily used by an academic community of 6,400 students, 1,100 faculty members, and many visiting scholars. To support the diverse needs of its users, the Library holds some six million printed volumes, ranging from incunabula to current imprints, and provides access to many other records of human knowledge, such as ancient papyri and cylinder seals, modern literary manuscripts, and recently produced electronic databases and journals. The Library employs more than 300 professional and support personnel, complemented by a large student and hourly workforce. Please consult the Library Web site at http://library.princeton.edu/ for more information. Available: Immediately Description and Responsibilities: The Web Developer position will help the Library Web Development Manager on specific projects to deliver more library content and services to our users from our web sites. Specific projects may include designing new sites, or using new web services technologies to improve the user experience in discovering, searching, finding, or acquiring library materials and content. Additionally, the position will assist in implementing the Drupal CMS, customizing the interface for the latest version of the OPAC, and creating mobile ready versions of the library web site and catalog. Customization tasks for the new NextGen Discovery system will be a large component of the work. Projects will also likely include implementation of open source code created in other libraries, using various API's made available by Google, OCLC, or Code4Lib members, as well as various library vendors. This position will also be assigned other digital library projects as the need arises. ...

Library web developer/designer

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:20:04 +0100

State: New Jersey Library Web Developer/Designer Princeton University Library Princeton, New Jersey Requisition #1000633 The Princeton University Library comprises a large central library and nine specialized libraries that are heavily used by an academic community of 6,400 students, 1,100 faculty members, and many visiting scholars. To support the diverse needs of its users, the Library holds some six million printed volumes, ranging from incunabula to current imprints, and provides access to many other records of human knowledge, such as ancient papyri and cylinder seals, modern literary manuscripts, and recently produced electronic databases and journals. The Library employs more than 300 professional and support personnel, complemented by a large student and hourly workforce. Please consult the Library Web site at http://library.princeton.edu/ for more information. Available: Immediately Search Committee: (Princeton access only) Description and Responsibilities: The Web Developer position will help the Library Web Development Manager on specific projects to deliver more library content and services to our users from our web sites. Specific projects may include designing new sites, or using new web services technologies to improve the user experience in discovering, searching, finding, or acquiring library materials and content. Additionally, the position will assist in implementing the Drupal CMS, customizing the interface for the latest version of the OPAC, and creating mobile ready versions of the library web site and catalog. Customization tasks for the new NextGen Discovery system will be a large component of the work. Projects will also likely include implementation of open source code created in other libraries, using various API’s made available by Google, OCLC, or Code4Lib members, as well as various library vendors. This position will also be assigned other digital library projects as the need arises. ...

Links for 2010-08-25 [del.icio.us]

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:40:02 +0100

Web 2.0: Easy Tools for Busy Clinicians. [J Midwifery Womens Health. 2010 September - October] - PubMed result RT @Berci: Web 2.0: Easy Tools for Busy Clinicians. [J Midwifery Womens Health. 2010 September - October] http://ff.im/-pHz1Z (Source: DigiCMB)

Sociedad digital

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:20:00 +0100

«Dejemos ya de lado el funesto “que inventen ellos” e inventemos el futuro entrando todos con paso firme en la sociedad digital»MILAGROS DEL CORRAL (FUE DIRECTORA GENERAL DE LA BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DE ESPAÑA)Día 21/08/2010La irrupción de las tecnologías en nuestras vidas es ya imparable. Todo empezó con la virtualización del dinero y las tarjetas de crédito, pero el desarrollo de novedosas aplicaciones para la defensa fue el factor desencadenante. No es de extrañar. Una vez más, los grandes adelantos vinieron de la mano del capital y de la inteligencia militar. Pronto aquella Arpanet castrense gestó la Internet civil, imprescindible en menos de dos décadas para cualquier ciudadano y universo por derecho propio para los más jóvenes. Del correo electrónico, instantáneo y gratuito, pasamos a la web, ese gigantesco escaparate de contenidos de toda laya que crece exponencialmente sin respetar fronteras geográficas ni temporales. Internet era en sus inicios un misterioso arcano solo para iniciados, con un lenguaje propio y reglas de buena educación —la Netiquette— que todos respetábamos para ser respetados. Internet fue creciendo y no dábamos abasto para anotar los sitios interesantes que descubríamos navegando al azar por el proceloso ciberespacio a partir de las pocas direcciones URL que cuidadosamente anotábamos en una libreta como si fuesen tesoros. Navegar era emocionante, pero pronto se reveló inmanejable. El cambio radical llegó de la mano de Google cuyo famoso algoritmo de búsqueda y exitoso modelo de negocio arrasaron con todo lo anterior.Tan genial y rentable idea pronto animó a sus jóvenes fundadores a ensayar nuevas e improbables aventuras. Su primer gran sueño, al que seguirían muchos más, fue la construcción de la gran biblioteca mundial en la que todos los libros, debidamente digitalizados, estarían disponibles gratuitamente. ...

Wise words from mal booth

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:12:57 +0100

Actividad para evaluar conocimiento sobre el mundo de los blogs

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:11:53 +0100

Toma la prueba y en los comentarios comparte los resultados. En este enlace hay una versión con una mejor resolución. (Source: DigiZen: Un blogfesor aprendiendo)

What will happen in the “blur”

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:15:43 +0100

In Mexico there is an area known as the ”blur”– the rare area where the water from caves underground mingle with water from the ocean. A recent post by Jon Becker, “Who are the Thought Leaders in Educational Leadership?” reminds me of that rarified space where two entities mingle and create something new. In his post, Jon challenged education leaders and scholars at the university level to connect with the social network of educators around the country. Partly why I haven’t been able to quit thinking about his post was that I consider myself a pretty well-informed high school educator–I purchase professional books for our library all the time, attend ASCD occasionally, read incessantly and widely, and yet I didn’t know ONE name on his list of influential education leaders. I think it stunned me because in “Twitterland” I find many of us working together or in separate strands loosely joined to change what education looks like. We talk, share resources, read each other’s blogs, read articles when links are shared on Twitter, do our own research in our own spaces and bring that back to the collective forum. It stunned me because I realized after reading his post how much ’we’ are leaders in education–grass-roots, collaborative, networked leaders. And if we aren’t familiar with their work–and I warrant many of us are not, then there’s a disconnect. ...

Communitybuilders – building and sustaining on-line communities by steve dale

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:16:52 +0100

Where is my chocolate cake? Do you have all the nice and fresh ingredients that would be needed to make a delicious one? You do? Now, do you also have the talent to make a mouthwatering one? You do? Excellent! Then you are ready to build and sustain an online community, because that’s what it takes, folks… It’s all about making delightful chocolate cakes! Oh, oh, don’t worry; this blog is not going to turn itself into a food blog all of a sudden (Although it wouldn’t be that bad either!). It’s just that I thought I would take this opportunity to pick up on a superb analogy that my good friend, Steve Dale, put together earlier on in a blog post talking about online communities under the heading “Building and Nurturing On-Line Communities — Batteries Not Included“. And it was just *so* yummy that I couldn’t let it go by just like that! In that blog post Steve actually gets to share plenty of insights on what it is like building and sustaining healthy online communities (of practice) by making a successful connection between building a community and making a delicious cake. You need to have all of the fresh ingredients to make it work! And that includes having perhaps one of the most important of those ingredients: your online community facilitator! Here is an interesting quote from his blog entry along these lines trying to portrait what would be the main skills and attributes from those successful facilitators: “[...] It’s more about personality; enthusiasm; willingness to share; being sensitive to the community environment; and energy….lots and lots of energy. Not the sort of things you can learn or teach using a pedagogical approach“. ...

On the zukunftwerkstatt kultur und wissensvermittlung – future workshop in germany

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:12:12 +0100

From Michael: Christoph Deeg of the Zukunftwerkstatt in Germany agreed to do a guest post for me outlining the origins and philosophies of this group. I spent an incredible day with the group in Berlin – and learned so much from them. I was honored to be asked to participate as a founding member last March and am pleased Christoph agreed to write for TTW – in English! The Zukunftwerkstatt Kultur- und Wissensvermittlung e.V. is a non-profit-organisation that brings people together who are active in public institutions or private enterprises dealing with future possibilities of mediating of cultural and scientific topics. It is the aim of our organisation to develop and realize concepts that will make knowledge society come true. We are open to people and their ideas and consider ourselves mediators between institutions, enterprises, people and products, while not pursuing any financial interests. We are guided by the desire to find and support people of vision who believe – as we do – that cooperation at all levels will unfold new and exciting possibilities for all participants and hence for all customers or users. Dividing lines between learning and playing, between education and entertainment are breaking down. New virtual worlds and leisure time options are evolving. Interaction, multi-optional, individual and global communication systems are gaining ground. Negotiation and utilization of knowledge in the fields of science and culture will become essential. If we acknowledge the overall scheme of things, a new means in communication will emerge with new networks and unique possibilities of cooperation: Users will gain global access to cultural and scientific subject matter. Enterprises and institutions, if cooperating closely, will gain access to millions of interested, creative and openminded users and customers. ...

Online patron/user stock selection - library 2.0

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:00:28 +0100

Hi all I just wondered if anyone involved their patrons/users in stock selection? I'm looking for any information about online/virtual/web2.0 method (Source: pligg - all)

How playing games at work will help you build trust for your business

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:20:05 +0100

Yesterday I put together a blog post where I tried to share some further insights on how if today’s current corporate world would want to survive in the 21st century, it would probably need to start thinking about how to bring back again into the workplace the fun factor. Today’s knowledge workers surely are becoming more and more aware of the full amount of time they spend on “company time“, doing work, even more when the already thin line between work and personal lives is becoming blurrier than ever. To the point where a potential work / life integration may make it disappear altogether. So what happens when you introduce (serious) games at work? Would they work? What would their immediate effect be like? Would they help knowledge workers become more effective at what they do? Yes, of course, they would! It’s a matter of trust! But not that kind of trust. At least, not initially. In the past, you would probably remember the article I put together under “Gamers – A New Breed of Knowledge Workers in the Making?“. In it I was referencing a recent TED Talk by Jane McGonigal where she takes us through the fascinating and exciting journey of encouraging us all to play even more games in order to solve today’s problems. If you haven’t had a chance to watch through it, I would suggest you take a few minutes off your current tasks and watch it. It will be worth your time. More than anything, because she brings in a very good point that I would want to share over here as well to help make the connection that playing (serious) games at work can only but efficiently help knowledge workers become more productive at what they do. In that TED Talk Jane comes to point out one of the main key characteristics from incredibly successful gamers: their ability to trust their peers blindly in order to succeed in their mission, whatever that may well be. ...

Thanks gslis office!

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:39:57 +0100

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Thanks GSLIS Office!, originally uploaded by mstephens7. Just a public shout out to the wonderful folks who keep our GSLIS Office running so smoothly – they sent me this lovely, colorful plant as I convalesce at home. Thanks all! (Source: Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology)

A world without email — year 3, weeks 24 to 28 (email is where knowledge goes to die – the presentation)

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:09:50 +0100

It has been a while now since the last progress report I have shared over here around the topic of living “A World Without Email“, that experiment that has been going on for over 2.5 years now, where one day I decided to give up on corporate email altogether and, instead, make heavier use of social networking tools to collaborate and share knowledge with other fellow knowledge workers. So I thought I would drop by today over here and share with you folks an update of how things are going, specially now that there seems to be a growing interest in demonstrating how social software tools are consistently not only helping reduce the amount of emails we receive on a daily basis, but at the same time we are starting to witness the changing role of email itself, transitioning successfully into becoming that messaging / notification system that was designed for over 40 years ago versus remaining that content repository where everything goes. Even your knowledge! Matt Forcey put together a rather insightful blog post not long ago under the heading “Email Usage Drops 28% in Past 12 Months!” where he quotes a recent study by Nielsen “focused on how Americans spend their time online, [and] unexpectedly found that email usage has dropped by 28% over the last year“. Worth while a read, for sure! Just as much as Ethan Yarbrough‘s Email’s Role in an Enterprise 2.0 Environment: Signal Not Source where he is sharing a terrific story of how his own team is progressively changing the role of email in a business environment, moving away from that content repository format where conversations used to happen, to only serve as a notification and messaging system for content that’s stored elsewhere, in this case, social software tools. ...

Viviendo en la nube

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:55:00 +0100

Por: Jose Camilo Daccach T. No es muy extraño que llegase a quedarse sin su computador, o por un daño, o por un virus, o varias otras razones. El computo en la nube ayuda a sobrellevar el problema, pero tiene que estar preparado.Siempre he tenido en cuenta el dicho de que en algunas cosas hay que actuar como Tarzán, no soltar una liana hasta que no se tenga agarrada la otra. Pero con la ida de mi portátil no cuadraron las cosas y llevo una semana sin equipo propio de cómputo, manejando todo en la nube, esperando llegue el otro computador. La experiencia ha sido enriquecedora y queremos compartirla con ustedes para cuando se les ofrezca.Hay varios elementos a tener en cuenta: los datos o su información, los programas que usa, y otros menores. Es indispensable de todas maneras que estas indicaciones servirán no solo para cambiar de computador, sino que serán de tremenda ayuda para cuando se quede sin equipo por cualquier situación como una invasión de virus, o daño del disco duro.Datos Aquí hemos recomendado en varias ocasiones que es indispensable tener una copia de sus archivos de datos. Por lo general están todos en una carpeta que se llama “Mis Documentos” lo que hace muy fácil arrastrarlos hacia un sistema de almacenamiento externo. Un disco duro externo que se puede conectar por USB en forma sencilla, se puede conseguir por unos US$150 para una capacidad de 1,000 GB, mucha más capacidad de la que llegará a necesitar. Por US$300 conseguirá uno con las mismas capacidades pero de un tamaño tremendamente reducido que hasta le permitiría llevarlo en un bolsillo.Así no se piense quedar sin su computador, la tranquilidad que da saber que sus datos están en otra parte copiados vale la pena cualquier inversión. Hay que tener en cuenta que algunos datos no estarán en el mismo directorio, sino en los de la respectiva aplicación, como el correo si usa una aplicación para leerlo en su PC, o las plantillas de Office. ...

Nueva sesión de certificación en tecnologías de aprendizaje y educación en línea

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:32:58 +0100

La nueva sesión de la Certificación en Tecnologías de Aprendizaje y Educación en Línea que ofrece el Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez comenzará el 6 de septiembre y se extenderá hasta el 6 de noviembre. Se ofrecerá completamente a distancia. Los interesados pueden visitar la web de la certificación para obtener más detalles. Incluyo una descripción de los temas que se cubrirán en la certificación: Descripción: Se exploran los componentes necesarios para el desarrollo de un curso en línea desde el punto de vista del diseñador. El participante tendrá la oportunidad de comenzar a desarrollar un curso en línea e integrar componentes tales como foros de discusión, prontuarios en línea, notas de clases, directorios de enlaces y asignaciones en línea. Además, se recalcará el uso de las herramientas 2.0 en la enseñanza en línea. OBJETIVOS: Al finalizar la certificación los participantes podrán: 1. Crear y manejar de manera efectiva componentes asincrónicos y sincrónicos de un curso en línea tales como foros, calendarios electrónicos y chats. 2. Conocer como publicar contenido en línea 3. Crear módulos de contenido o lecciones en línea 4. Identificar los elementos efectivos en el diseño de un curso en línea 5. Crear y desarrollar blogs 6. Manejar un sistema de social bookmarking 7. Subscribirse a fuentes de internet mediante el RSS 8. Identificar recursos educativos abiertos e integrarlos al proceso de enseñanza TEMAS: Introducción a la educación a distancia 1. ¿Qué es educar a distancia? 2. Enseñanza y aprendizaje en línea Preparación para el curso en línea 1.Componentes del curso: objetivos, calendario, actividades, módulos, avalúo y evaluación del aprendizaje 2. Componentes del prontuario en línea 3. Políticas relacionadas al curso en línea Diseño del curso en línea 1. ...

(biblio-)blogempfehlungen

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:56:12 +0100

Neue Biblioblogs allerorten! Der frischeste Neuzugang ist der TUBfind-Blog der TUB Hamburg-Harburg, in dem über den alternativen Katalog der TUB HH informiert wird. Im letzten Posting geht es um die Probleme mit Umlauten und Trunkierung inklusive Vorschläge zur Umgehung eben dieser Probleme. Das TUBfind-Blog richtet sich also zumindest bislang eher an das technisch interessierte Bibliothekswesen von heute. Wer so langsam den Überblick verliert, was für Bibliotheksblogs es gibt, dem möchte ich zum wiederholten Male zwei Wege vorstellen, wie man sich zumindest ein kleines bißchen auf dem Laufenden halten kann. Da ist natürlich einmal der Planet Biblioblog, in dem ziemlich viele (nicht alle) deutschsprachigen Blogs mit Bibliotheksbezug versammelt sind. Eine manuelle, subjektive Selektion aus der deutschsprachigen Bibliotheksblogwelt wird in Lesewolkes Rubrik “Gelesen in Biblioblogs” geboten. Dieser bibliothekarische Perlentaucher erscheint wöchentlich(!), im letzten zur 33. Kalenderwoche wird unter anderem eine Diskussion aus dem ebenfalls noch recht neuen Blog “Ethik von unten” aufgegriffen. RSS: http://rss.netbib.de/?media=rss http://lesewolke.wordpress.com/feed/ Abonnieren! (Source: Infobib)

Plagiarism; transliteracy & web 2.0

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100

Half day seminars: 1) Plagiarism: Stopping it before it Begins (morning, led by Anne-Marie Tarter; Marianne Bradnock and Nazlin Bhimani) and 2) Transliteracy and Web 2.0 (afternoon, led by Phil Bradley) both on 22 October 2010 at CILIP, London, UK. Cost is £75 ILIG member, £85 CILIP member, £50 concession, £110 otherwise. Discounts if you book for both events, or for multiple bookings. Enquiries about the programme and bookings to Norman Briggs, email: nwbriggs@iliacuk.co.ukPhoto by Sheila Webber: Sunflower, Sheffield, August 2010 (Source: Information Literacy Weblog)

Less than friendly library book return

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:47:12 +0100

Rss en aprendizaje 2.0

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:49:27 +0100

Hoy en la mañana participaré del Simposio Aprendizaje 2.0 que se llevará a cabo en la Universidad Católica de Mayagüez. Hablaré sobre los usos del RSS y su valor en el aprendizaje 2.0. Incluyo la presentación: El RSS: Herramienta omnipresente en el aprendizaje 2.0 View more presentations from DigiZen. Otros recursos sobre el tema que pueden ser de interés: 1. Guía sobre cómo usar el Google Reader 2. Introducción al RSS 3. Guía en SlideShare sobre Google Reader: Guía para Google Reader View more presentations from DigiZen. (Source: DigiZen: Un blogfesor aprendiendo)

Article note: on liaison activities for academic librarians

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:50:00 +0100

Citation for the article:Kozel-Gains, Melissa A. and Richard A. Stoddart, "Experiments and Experiences in Liaison Activities: Lessons from New Librarians in Integrating Technology, Face-to-Face, and Follow-Up." Collection Management 34.2 (April 2009) :130-142. Read via Interlibrary Loan. The article reviews some librarian liaison activities. It specifically looks at blogs, customized research pages, and the use of Library Thing for collection development. The article is mostly for new librarians who find themselves with liaison duties in academia, but librarians who are already working in academia will find benefit from the article as well. The authors cite RUSA's definition of liaison work as "the process by which librarians involve the library's clientele in the assessment and satisfaction of collection needs" (131). Let me put it in plain English. If you are an academic librarian, and your role includes working with faculty in a specific department, and if said role includes work in collection development for said department/subject area, and you also provide instruction specifically to meet those department's needs, you are a library liaison. In a university setting, odds are pretty good that if you are a reference and/or instruction librarian, that you will have some level of liaison duties. Let me use myself as an example. I am the subject librarian here for the School of Education, the Department of Psychology, and the Department of Social Sciences (specifically for areas in anthropology, criminal justice, public administration, geography, and political science). This means that I promote library services to those areas. ...

What our users think of our library!

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:03:12 +0100

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } What our users think of our library!, originally uploaded by Newport Public Library. What our users think of our library! We asked our users to list 5 words describing how they feel about the library. This is the resulting Wordle. (Source: Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology)

Marketing de bibliotecas no mundo da web 2.0 – ifla 2010

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:34:16 +0100

Semana passada eu fiz uma apresentação sobre como os bibliotecários brasileiros estão utilizando o twitter. A apresentação fez parte de uma pré-conferência da IFLA sobre marketing em bibliotecas no mundo da web 2.0 e eu era um dos representantes das “perspectivas internacionais”. O programa completo do evento vocês podem ver aqui, apenas pra ter uma idéia do que foi apresentado lá. Sobre o lance de apresentar um trabalho na IFLA, que talvez seja o maior evento internacional da nossa área, as pessoas vieram dar felicitações e tal, como se eu fosse um exemplo, e eu acho legal, até porque talvez ninguém melhor do que eu pra tratar desse tipo de tema, mas os procedimento em si são bem simples: eu mandei um resumo, eles aceitaram e por conseguinte me perguntaram se eu estava disposto a fazer uma apresentação sobre o panorama brasileiro. E eu disse que sim. Eu tô falando isso porque eu acho que vale MUITO a pena o investimento pessoal em participar de um evento como esse. Todo bibliotecário que se preze deveria tentar participar de alguma forma, até porque os procedimentos são simples, como eu disse acima. Qualquer pessoa pode participar, não precisa ser expert, nem ter dinheiro sobrando, nem saber falar inglês. É um network incrível, são centenas, milhares de bibliotecários que fazem as mesmas coisas que você faz e estão discutindo as mesmas coisas, os mesmos problemas e soluções. A minha apresentação é resultado das minhas impressões como bibliotecário sobre tudo o que aconteceu no twitter nesses últimos 2 anos. Me parece que nós ficamos muito bons em conversar com outros bibliotecários, mas nada bons em conversar com os usuários. Então agora a gente tá nessa fase de, “implementei mas não vejo os resultados, e agora?” São os questionamentos naturais que qualquer iniciativa inovadora traz consigo. ...

Comment on the central problem of library 2.0: privacy by roddy macleod

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:01:35 +0100

Here’s a post http://roddymacleod.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/some-libraries-get-it-right/ about how one library is using Web 2.0 well. (Source: Comments for Library Juice)

Resource/course guides and content management

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:33:53 +0100

I have mentioned Libguides a couple of times, which seem to be quite widely used. I have been interested recently to come across some other initiatives which aim to organize subject- or course-based library resources within a consistent content management environment which reduces custom effort. I enjoyed listening to Allie Flanary present about students and search strategies at the Orbis Cascade Alliance Worldcat Discovery Day. Allie works at the Portland Community College, where the event was held. The course guides she was using caught my eye and I went back later to see how they were put together. Here is the one for Fashion design, for example. I discovered that they use Library à la Carte, developed at Oregon State University: The Library à la Carte Content Management System (CMS) enables librarians to easily and quickly create dynamic web pages that integrate Web 2.0 features, such as chat and RSS feeds, with traditional library content, such as catalogs and article databases. Library à la Carte is a free open-source solution for libraries by libraries. A redesign of the NCSU Library website highlights course-related services. Among these are course pages (see one below) which include some general resources, some course-specific resources, and a link to a librarian. I was interested to discover that these were based on a home-grown framework, Course Views, which is described in an article in the Code4Lib Journal: The NCSU Libraries' Course Views project, along with a locally developed widget web service, improves course-based access to library collections and services by dynamically generating library course pages for all 6000+ courses at NCSU. By automatically generating custom content when possible and showcasing authored content when available, Course Views is able to achieve full course coverage without significantly increasing staff time to create and manage content. ...

Medizin im internet - internet in der medizin

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:23:01 +0100

Empfehlenswerte Liste des HLWIKI Canada: Top Web 2.0 Services in Medicine 2010. Eine Auswahl von aktuellen Artikeln, die sich mit der Thematik des Web 2.0 in der Medizin befassen, finden Sie hier: Schwerpunkt Lehre und Fortbildung: Hughes B, Joshi I, Lemonde H, Wareham J: Junior physician’s use of Web 2.0 for information seeking and medical education: a qualitative study Int JMed Inform. 2009 [...] (Source: Newsblog)

Blogs, medios sociales y periodismo

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:29:11 +0100

Les comparto presentación que ofrecimos para el equipo de Primera Hora sobre medios sociales y periodismo con especial atención en los blogs: Blogs y periodismo View more presentations from Universidad de PR. Además la charla fue complementada mediante este blog de recursos y un agregador de noticias sobre el tema. Esperamos que los recursos sean de ayuda para los interesados en el tema. (Source: DigiZen: Un blogfesor aprendiendo)

Sarah hammond and public libraries 2.0 article

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100

I'm a bit behind, but just seen that Sarah Hammond has article entitled Public Library 2.0: Culture Change?.The main premise of the article being that she wanted :-To discover the level of engagement of UK public libraries with Library 2.0, I specifically concentrated on blogging in order to narrow the focus of the research to a scope that was achievable given the time constraints. I also felt that blogs are perhaps the most versatile Web 2.0 tool at libraries’ disposal, so that taking a snapshot of blog activity would give a pretty good idea of their wider engagement with Web 2.0 tools. Consequently, I tried to find as many UK public library blogs as I could. Further to this end, I wanted to explore the attitudes and behaviours of public librarians towards the use of Library 2.0 in their libraries which I did with an online survey.If you have time and work in public libraries its well worth a read. (Source: librarytwopointzero)

Foursquare - meh

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100

Well, I've been using foursquare for several months now, and have been religiously plotting in when I go to places, finding friends, adding others and I'm going to have to put my hand up and say 'I just don't get it'. Sure - I get to see the special deals thing about once in a blue moon, and it's vaguely interesting to see how many users of the service are in one place at the same time but I have to wonder if it's worth it.I'm just not that interested in where I am to be honest. By which I mean - if I don't care that I'm in Sainsbury or Tesco why should anyone else? And to be honest, I really don't care if you're in Sainsbury or Tesco either! Admittedly, it would be interesting to see if anyone on my contact list was in the same place, but my contacts are spread out globally and it's simply not going to happen. I could argue that it would be more useful for conferences and suchlike, but equally I reckon that if I'm at a conference I'll get to see people anyway, so I'm not that fussed. I can see how it would be useful if you had a lot of contacts and friends locally who were using it and I don't doubt that there's going to be value in seeing that Fred or Jane are also somewhere in the supermarket, so you could find them for a natter. However, that's not how I work, and so for me, I've been struggling to find a value for it and failing miserably. I'm not interested in the mini games of unlocking badges that don't exist or becoming the Mayor of places; all of that just leaves me absolutely cold. I get that other people enjoy it, and I understand the collecting aspect, but it doesn't really do it for me. I could see the point in the hints and tips element, but I see those so infrequently it's hardly worth looking. ...

International librarianship

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:07:31 +0100

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Michael & Warren, originally uploaded by mstephens7. My co-investigator fro the CAVAL Visiting Scholar Project, Warren Cheetham, shared this quote with me. It resonates with me as I reflect on working with librarians around the world. “If you get engaged in international library work, your personal life will be transformed every time you encounter and embrace a foreign culture; your personal boundaries will be expanded. International collaboration is needed if we want to make this world a more livable place.” Jesus Lau, President, Mexican Library Association We just submitted a draft of an article based on the academic library data from our surveys and focus groups last year. I look forward to more contributions as we move forward. (Source: Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology)

Short article note: on web 2.0 tools for library instruction

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:48:00 +0100

Citation for the article:Deitering, Anne-Marie, et.al., "Library Instruction 2.0." Public Services Quarterly 5.2 (April 2009): 114-124.Read via Interlibrary Loan.This piece is mostly a list of some Web 2.0 tools with some suggestions and tips on how they can be used for library instruction. If you are a pretty savvy librarian who knows how to use the major 2.0 tools, you can probably safely skim the article. There are some basic tips that can be useful, which include: Using Delicious (http://delicious.com) and tagging to highlight issues with the concept of tagging versus a controlled vocabulary. (116).Using Google Reader (http://www.google.com/reader) to organize and track information. I use Google Reader quite a bit for my current awareness needs. Using Creative Commons, both for finding content that may be used freely and for your own material. My blogs are licensed with Creative Commons, by the way. There are a couple other items included. This article is one to keep handy when you need some ideas to enhance or supplement your library instruction. The only catch is that it came out in 2009, which means most of it was likely written up in 2008 or earlier, and the Web has changed a bit since then. Some of these tools are pretty much common, and there are many other new ones. On the other hand, I do get a good amount of students (and some faculty) who have no idea what a feed reader is. However, the tools listed here seem to have stood the test of time (if we can understand that time moves quite swiftly in the Web). I am keeping the article in my files for future reference, plus it would be interesting to consider what other tools librarians would add to this list by now. (Source: The Gypsy Librarian)

Arlisnap’s new facebook page

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:50:11 +0100

All, In order to better serve you and potential new members, we are moving our Facebook group to a Facebook page. This will allow you to stay informed within a platform many of you already use, and it will allow us to push out our content automatically. Please become a fan of the new page [...] (Source: [ArLiSNAP])

What principles should guide the design of court web sites?

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:18:13 +0100

Back in January, I announced the formation of a working group under the auspices of the Canadian Centre for Court Technology (CCCT). The objective of this working group was to draft guidelines facilitating the modernization of Canadian court web sites. Since that time, we have made progress and expect to have finished a first draft of the Court Web Site guidelines before the upcoming Canadian Forum on Court Technology. One of the five parts of the guidelines is titled “Principles – Cutting Through Context and Issues: What Principles Should Guide the Design of Court Web Sites?” In this post I’d like to expose the principles we selected. Your comments and feedback are welcome: Principle #1: The Right Information for Specific Audiences Principle #2: Empowerment Principle #3: Timeliness Principle #4: Notification Principle #5: Content Organization & Search Principle #6: Security Principle #7: Bilinguism Principle #8: Accessibility Principle #9: Interactivity Principle #10: Viability Principle #11: Simplicity The first three principles are explained, below. The other principles will be explained in upcoming posts. Principle #1: The Right Information for Specific Audiences Users that come to a court web site generally fall under the following categories: Members of the Public Journalists Self-represented Litigants Practitioners: Lawyers, Paralegals, Stenographers, Translators, etc. Researchers: Law Professors, Law Librarians, Law Students Commercial Law Publishers Government (Public Servants) Staff (employees and judges of the court) Each audience has its own information needs and expectations. Being able to find the right information means that courts should make a effort, under the current guidelines, to specifically cater to each audience according to a “cost / benefit” analysis. This analysis is necessary, because it is impossible to meet the entire range of all information needs by all audiences. ...

Google street view in der lehre

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:21:05 +0100

Free Technology for teachers stellt Anwendungsmöglichkeiten verschiedener kostenloser Webtechnologien und -dienste in der Lehre vor. Unter anderem geht es dabei auch das aktuell zumindest in den Medien omnipräsente Google Street View. “Create maps to tell a story” lautet der Ratschlag: Maps are obviously useful for Social Studies teachers, but did you know that you can also use multimedia maps to tell a story? Google Maps and Google Earth can both be used to create a multimedia story. View 7 Data Handling Activities in Nottingham in a larger map Unter den dort genannten Beispielen findet man unter anderem 7 Data Handling Activities in Nottingham von Tom Barrett (in seinem Blog finden sich noch viele weitere Ideen, wie man Technologien gewinnbringend in der Lehre einsetzen kann, auch zur Kommunikation unter Kollegen. Beispiel: Materialien- und Ideensammlung zu “Imaginery Creatures”). Werden solche oder andere Dienste schon in der “teaching library” eingesetzt? Wie? In der Materialiendatenbank Informationskompetenz konnte ich nichts derartiges finden. Durch fehlende Lizenzvermerke wäre die Weiternutzung der dort veröffentlichten Dokumente allerdings ohnehin nicht gewährleistet. (Source: Infobib)

Presentaciones 2.0 mÁs allÁ del power point

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:58:19 +0100

El software para realizar presentaciones multimedia ha tenido un desarrollo vertiginoso en los últimos años. Hasta hace poco, solo existían unas pocas empresas proveedoras de programas de este tipo y todos los programas que producían debían instalarse en computadores personales. El panorama actual es muy diferente, las aplicaciones y servicios en línea de la Web 2.0 que se pueden (Source: Maestros Bibliotecarios de Puerto Rico)

Congreso efectividad institucional y assessment

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:48:09 +0100

El Recinto de Barranquitas de la Interamericana celebra su congreso anual sobre tecnología y educación, y este año el tema es “efectividad institucional y assessment”. Ofreceré una charla sobre las implicaciones de la web 2.0 para el assesment y la transformación institucional. Los interesados pueden visitar la web del Simposio para los detalles y el registro. (Source: DigiZen: Un blogfesor aprendiendo)

Aprendizaje 2.0: innovación en acción

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:44:56 +0100

La Red de Educadores Puertorriqueños, coordinada por Jeannette Delgado, ofrecerá el Simposio “Aprendizaje 2.0: Innovación en Acción” el 21 de agosto en Mayagüez. Este es el tercer simposio que la Red coordina en el 2010. Todos han sido gratuitos y han impactado a cientos de educadores. Para el Simposio de Aprendizaje 2.0 se registraron 200 personas y siento decirle que ya no hay espacio para más participantes. La Red de Educadores Puertorriqueños con su hacedora de milagros ha demostrado que lo que hace falta para adelantar la educación en nuestro país es fuerza de voluntad y compromiso con nuestros estudiantes. Le pedimos al Departamento de Educación que tome nota. Aprendizaje 2.0:Innovación en Acción (Source: DigiZen: Un blogfesor aprendiendo)

Simposio: la nueva web y la transformación de la educación superior

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:11:50 +0100

El proyecto STEMmED de la Universidad del Sagrado Corazón invita al Simposio “La nueva web y la transformación de la Educación Superior”. La actividad cuenta con la participación de Dolors Reig, Jim Groom y este servidor. Se llevará a cabo el 3 de septiembre. Para más detalles puede consultar el programa, la página de registro y el blog del simposio. La actividad es gratuita y abierta. El Simposio brindará una gran oportunidad para reflexionar sobre la universidad del futuro y el rol de la tecnología en el mismo. Mi agradecimiento al amigo Antonio Vantaggiato por la invitación y por esta iniciativa tan valiosa para los interesados en el futuro de la Educación Superior. (Source: DigiZen: Un blogfesor aprendiendo)

Brainstorming with threddie

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100

Threddie lets you brainstorm with people using a post-and-comment system everyone's familiar with. Just start a brainstorm, add a briefing and some topics, then invite people to discuss. It's better than email, yet much more intuitive and lightweight than the mind mapping and diagram drawing alternatives. And it's free. I've created an example account that you're welcome to visit and try out. (Source: Phil Bradley)

Gooreader: para leer “google books” desde el escritorio

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:32:00 +0100

Gooreader es una aplicación de escritorio que facilita la búsqueda y lectura de libros desde Google Books. En su versión de pago convierte los documentos en formato PDF. En este video se explica su funcionamiento: GooReader La interfaz de GooReader para leer libros es mucho más conveniente que la de Google Books. Otra función que encontré muy útil es que organiza los libros por tres categorías: “Full View, Partial View y No View”. Goo Reader es una excelente alternativa para “sacarle el jugo” al maravilloso Google Books. (Source: DigiZen: Un blogfesor aprendiendo)

Crea una parada con tus seguidores en twitter

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:45:25 +0100

IS Parade es una aplicación que permite mostrar a tus seguidores en Twitter de una manera muy original. Puedes pulsar aquí para ver un ejemplo. (Source: DigiZen: Un blogfesor aprendiendo)

Brasília: dois eventos em novembro

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:01:00 +0100

3º Seminário sobre Informação na Internet e a III Conferência Internacional sobre Inclusão Digital No período de 16 a 19 de novembro de 2010, no Palácio Itamaraty, em Brasília, serão realizados o 3º Seminário sobre Informação na Internet e a III Conferência Internacional sobre Inclusão Digital. Os dois eventos representam a soma dos esforços do Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia (MCT) e do Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia (IBICT) no sentido de promover ações que levem ao melhor uso das tecnologias de informação disponíveis e à inclusão digital dos cidadãos brasileiros. As inscrições já estão abertas e possuem preços diferenciados até o dia 31 de julho.O 3º Seminário sobre Informação na Internet é realizado pelo IBICT a cada dois anos. Com o tema “Construindo o futuro da Internet no Brasil”, o evento será dividido em painéis que tratam sobre o futuro da internet mundial e seus reflexos no Brasil e cenários futuros da internet no Brasil. A III Conferência Internacional sobre Inclusão Digital é um compromisso assumido pelo Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia, por meio do IBICT, no sentido de dar sequência aos eventos anteriores realizados na Costa Rica, em 2008, e na Espanha, em 2009, possibilitando a difusão das metodologias e das melhores práticas no processo de inclusão social na sociedade da informação. Especialistas de diversos países, dos quadros do governo, iniciativa privada e terceiro setor apresentarão no evento desde o processo de diagnóstico, até as metodologias científicas que vão possibilitar a inclusão social das camadas menos privilegiadas das populações ibero-americanas. ...

Military 2.0

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:06:09 +0100

I've been fascinated by the struggles with, and now the apparent embrace of, social media by the U.S. Armed Forces. When I first saw that the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staffs was tweeting, it signaled the military's shift towards strategically harnessing new media to advance the Armed Forces public affairs goals and "compete in an evolving global messaging space". And lest you assume that Admiral Mullen just tweets what he had for lunch, his social media strategy clearly outlines his goals to engage and expand audiences. (Incidentally, in addition to following who you'd expect, such as his wife and President Obama, Admiral Mullen also follows The Economist, Oprah, Thomas Friedman, Katie Couric, George Stephanopoulus, and UNHCR). Below are a couple of examples of the military's web presence in the 21st C. network. Of course, while providing useful information for servicemembers, their families, researchers, students, and the general public, they are also public relations outlets. But in our rich information landscape, that's true of many "authoritative sources" (all the more reason for teaching critical thinking about information): Department of Defense Social Media Hub "Designed to help the DoD community use social media and other internet-based capabilities to share responsibly and effectively, both in official and unofficial capacities." See especially their "How To" guides, which explain the basics of various 2.0 tools, and highlights examples of how servicemembers are using social media. Pentagon Channel Head over the the 'shows' section to browse the wide range of video and audio broadcasting available online, including "This Week in the Pentagon" and the American Forces Press service weekly podcast for military news; "Battleground", featuring historic films from past wars; and "Downrange", a newscast from Iraq and Afghanistan. ...

Ec3 en ifla 2010 hablando de promoción a través de las redes sociales

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100

El próximo día 13 de agosto estaré en la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Gotemburgo impartiendo un taller dentro de la Sesión Externa de la “Women Information and Libraries Interest Group”, que este año se titula Global Women's Fair: sharing best practice in support of women users, and women library and information workers gracias a la amable invitación de María Cotera.How to turn technology onto our side: Web 2.0 skills for personal marketing and advocacy View more presentations from Nicolas Robinson.El taller “How to turn technology onto ourside: Web 2.0 skills for personal marketing and advocacy”, constará de dos módulos impartidos en dos sesiones cada una de hora y cuarto en los que hablaremos de temas tan básicos como montar un blog o comenzar a utilizar Twitter hasta desarrollar una estrategia de promoción y difusión de la actividad profesional.ec3noticias el blog del grupoEC3 torressalinas@gmail.com (Source: EC3noticias)

Question answering on the web

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100

Simplifying Question Answering on the Web by Raghu Anantharangachar and Srinivasan Ramani has been published as HPL-2010-92.The growth of World Wide Web (WWW) has created a huge repository of information. However, this information repository can only be used by human beings. A person searching for a specific answer to a question can use the web to gather information from various web sites and other information repositories, and manually find out the answer to his question. While doing this, the user also has to understand the contents of each web site or repository, and interpret the data appropriately, as they might be in different formats and representations. Thirdly, the data on the web might be coming from various sources, and security and authenticity is an issue. The user needs to manually check the validity of the data sources, and use the data appropriately. Lastly, to derive answers to questions which need some factual data and some logical reasoning, the user needs to perform the reasoning himself. All these problems make it difficult for the na*ive user to easily obtain answers to his questions and use them for his purpose. We describe a solution to this problem of question answering in the yellow pages or e-commerce context. While we believe that the technology can be applied to other domains, we do not aim at a universal question answering system. We have explored a solution using semantic web techniques which support the creation of a huge machine processable information repository, through a Web 2.0 process, with the users contributing the effort and editors ensuring quality. The system has a simple interface through which vendors can create structured data in the form. Using ontologies standardizes the terminology and eliminates errors in interpretation and usage of terms. We have explored the use of simple and shallow reasoning where possible, to give inferred information in addition to explicitly stored information. ...

Aginfo developments in mauritius

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100

Mauritius recently hosted a 'National Workshop on Agricultural Information Communication Knowledge Management (AICKM) Strategy development.' See reports in the News of Agriculture from Mauritius blog.This was preceded by several days 'Web 2.0 Collaborative Tools Training' (check stories from early July 2010) in which "participants were exposed to tools covering: social media, RSS, blogs, wikis, Dgroups, GoogleDocs, social bookmarking, learning management and online surveys."Look out for lots more aginfo 2.0 from Mauritius! (Source: AgInfo News from IAALD)

Cfp: reimagining the archive: remapping and remixing traditional models in the digital era

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100

CFP: Reimagining the Archive: Remapping and Remixing Traditional Models in the Digital Era November 12, 13, 14, 2010University of California, Los Angeles, James Bridges TheaterVisit the website at http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/reimagining/Symposium - Screenings - SpeakersOpening keynote - Rick Prelinger, archivist, filmmaker, founder Prelinger Archives.Digitality has radically and dynamically transformed the role of traditional archives and museums as repositories for revered, to-be-safeguarded cultural objects. As de facto archives created by users and industry organizations proliferate online; as the social engagement and complexity of Web 2.0 culture expand; and as expansive copyright regimes entail ever more intrusive forms of monitoring and enforcement, archives' traditional missions of custody and controlled access are being challenged by the new habits and expectations of scholars, researchers, and the general public alike.We invite archivists, scholars, educators, technology professionals, and artists to submit 500-word abstracts for PAPERS, PANELS, PRESENTATIONS, POSTERS, and DEMONSTRATIONS that explore and examine the wide spectrum of issues influencing and impacting the evolution of archival access, practice, technology, and research in the digital era.Deadline for abstracts is flexible and proposals will be considered as they are received; preferably before October 1. Abstracts should be submitted to digital@ucla.edu.For more INFORMATION and to REGISTER: http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/reimagining/Organized by:UCLA Film & Television ArchiveUCLA M.A. Program in Moving Image Archive Studies (MIAS) Institut Nationalde l'Audiovisuel (INA), Paris INA'Sup / European Centre for Research,Training and Education on Digital MediaWith additional support from:National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP),U.S. ...

Best archives on the web awards 2010

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:37:59 +0100

Archives Next benennt die Gewinner der Best Archives on the Web Awards in den Kategorien Best re-purposing of descriptive data (Gewinner: The Smithsonian Institution, Collections Search Center und City of Burnaby Archives, Charting Change: An Interactive Atlas of Burnaby’s Heritage), Best use of crowdsourcing for description (Gewinner: Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, Waisda?; Honorable Mention: PhotosNormandie on Flickr), und Most innovative archives on the Web (Gewinner: The Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin, Rich Media: Conservation History Association of Texas, Texas Legacy Project Records; Honorable Mention: HerStory 360, The HerStory Scrapbook). Die Gewinner sollen auf Archives Next in den nächsten Tagen näher vorgestellt werden. (Source: Infobib)

Ecdl 2010

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100

The European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL) will take place in 6th to 10th of September at the University of Glasgow. The conference main topics include Digital Libraries and Mobility, Digital Library Architectures, Digital Library Infrastructure, Digital Preservation and Curation, Information Mining in Digital Libraries, Information Retrieval in Digital Libraries, Interoperability of Digital Library Systems and Services, Knowledge Organization Systems, Metadata Standards and Protocols in Digital Library Systems, Multilinguality in Digital Libraries, Multimedia Digital Libraries, Personal Information Management and Personal Digital Libraries, Personalisation in Digital Library Systems and Settings, Policies for Digital Library systems, Social Networking, Web 2.0 and Collaborative Interfaces in Digital Libraries, User Interfaces for Digital Libraries, User Studies for and Evaluation of Digital Library Systems and Applications and Visualization in Digital Libraries. (Source: The Invisible Web Weblog)

Trb 90th annual meeting, january 23-27, 2011 - call for poster proposals - search, discovery and current awareness: new and innovative uses of online research tools in transportation research and implementation

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100

TRB 90th Annual Meeting, January 23-27, 2011 - Call for Poster ProposalsCall TitleSearch, Discovery and Current Awareness: New and Innovative Uses of Online Research Tools in Transportation Research and ImplementationSponsoring CommitteeABG40 Committee on Library and Information Science for Transportation (LIST)Call DescriptionThe Committee on Library and Information Science for Transportation invites you to submit proposals for a poster session focusing on new and innovative uses of practical online search, discovery and current awareness tools that can give modern transportation professionals a competitive edge. Posters will be displayed at the TRB Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, January 2011.BackgroundExtending a theme begun with LIST’s 2006 presentation session on wikis, blogs, RSS and podcasting, and continued in 2007, 2008, and 2009 with LIST sessions on the application of Web 2.0 social media technologies, the committee is issuing a call for posters related to new and innovative uses of online research tools as they relate to search, discovery and current awareness in transportation. This poster session is designed to complement this year’s LIST-sponsored workshop titled “The Right Tool for the Job: Search, Discovery and Current Awareness Tools, Tips and Tricks for Busy Transportation Professionals.” While the workshop will provide a high-level overview and will focus specifically on TRB and Google tools and ways they can be used to find high-quality transportation information, the poster session will allow presenters to explore specific tools and specific techniques in great depth. This poster session is not limited to TRB and Google tools.DescriptionThe poster session will focus on new and innovative uses of tools and techniques that can be used by transportation professionals to save time and improve the work effectiveness of professionals who must quickly search for, find and ultimately make decisions based on reliable information. ...

Hat elsevier wiserwiki eingestellt?

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:18:19 +0100

Vor gut zwei Jahren noch von Elsevier groß angekündigt ist das Living Document WiserWiki nun nicht mehr unter der Adresse www.wiserwiki.com zu finden. Am 21.1.2009 hat David Rothman es noch in seiner List of Medical Wikis geführt, aber seitdem fehlt jede Information dazu. Klammheimlich eingestellt? Kein Geschäftsmodell gefunden oder keine Ärzte, die das pflegen? Apropos Pflege: Von MedPedia und GoogleKnol hört man auch nichts mehr, aber es kann auch sein, dass ich die ganze Zeit in einer Kiste unter meinem Schreibtisch gehockt habe…. Related posts Elsevier startet WiserWiki (0) Wikis, blogs and podcasts: a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education (0) Wikis für Physiker, Ärzte …und über die Vogelgrippe (0) Wieder Fälschungen / geschönte Reviews: Diesmal von Wyeth (0) Wie entwickelt sich der Markt für Lehrbücher? Lehren aus den USA (0) (Source: medinfo)

30 posts in 30 days #17: read web articles easier with readability

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:29:00 +0100

Capture your screen in seconds (Source: Travelin' Librarian)

“bibliothekslatein” oder umberto eco 2.0

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:15:18 +0100

Jeder, der einige Zeit in einer Bibliothek gearbeitet hat, kennt die Sprüche, Vorurteile oder Regeln, die von Bibliothekarsgeneration zu Generation weitergegeben werden. Einige sind seit grauer Vorzeit unverändert, andere habe eine Anpassung an moderne Kommunikationsmethoden erfahren… 1. Der Bibliothekar muß den Benutzer als dumm betrachten, informationsinkompetent, RSS-unwissend, ein Nichtstuer (andernfalls säße er an der Arbeit) und YouTube-Süchtiger. 2. Es muß sehr viel Sorgfalt darauf verwandt werden, den Online-Katalog der Bücher möglichst schwer benutzbar zu machen, und ihn von Nutzer-Annotationen freizuhalten. Nach Möglichkeit sollte die Oberfläche immer genau dann eine totale Revision erfahren, wenn man sich gerade an die kryptische Bedienung gewöhnt hat. Der Katalog sollte das genaue Gegenteil von Amazon sein und einen Ausdruck oder Download so gut wie unmöglich machen. 3. Die Schlagworte müssen vom Bibliothekar in einer aufwendigen Gremienarbeit bestimmt werden, die alle innovativen Kräfte im Lande bindet. Weder dürfen die Leser Schlagwörter vergeben noch die Bücher einen Hinweis auf die Schlagworte tragen, unter denen sie aufgeführt werden sollen. Die Schlagwortsuche im Online-Katalog muß so versteckt und ineffizient sein, dass keiner sie je benutzen wird. Das System der Schlagwörter sollte alle paar Jahre wechseln, so dass es nicht einen, sondern mehrere Schlagwortkataloge gibt, die man durchsuchen muß. Ein Browsen nach Fachgebieten ist gänzlich zu verhindern. 4. Es sollte möglichst überhaupt nicht möglich sein, Online-Bücher zu lesen, geschweige denn auszudrucken oder zu zitieren. Falls es von Rechts wegen doch eine Download-Option gibt, muß der Weg weit und der Zugang beschwerlich sein, und die Zahl der Kopien begrenzt auf höchstens zwei bis drei Seiten. 5. Das Ausleihverfahren für E-Books muß abschreckend sein. 6. Die Auskunft muß im Web 2.0 unerreichbar sein. ...

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Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Innovation is a lot more than R&D « Innovation Leadership Network Mutual Adjustments as Sharing Arrangements motivation social connect web2.0 world2.0 realenterprise2.0 mutualadjustment selforganisation control The Changing Innovation Process « Innovation Leadership Network Enterprise Architecture: From Incite comes Insight...: Why aren't we seeing more adoption of open source in large enterprises? BPM: Collaboration Hurdles « Adam Deane Functional, Project and Matrix Structures Project Management and The Matrix Structural Holes and Collaborative Innovation (Source: Library clips)

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Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:00:02 +0100

Building a list of University Medical Centers and depts. all over the world that twitter. Please contribute! http://bit.ly/bRViDd DigiCMB: "DISCOVERING NEW SEAS OF KNOWLEDGE" : EAHIL2010 Must Read Advice! EAHIL2010 Must Read Advice! "DISCOVERING NEW SEAS OF KNOWLEDGE" http://bit.ly/9lETge HLWIKI Canada This wiki initiative is a real find: #EBM web2.0 health #hcsm http://bit.ly/cknomu #hcsmeu RT @bacigalupe What Does "Health 2.0" Mean? What Does Health 2.0 Mean? Cites #JMIR article @Zorg20 "patients transforming their role in health care" http://bit.ly/agSrx4 RT @JohnSharp umcg (umcg) on Twitter http://twitter.com/umcg (Source: DigiCMB)

Wordpress 3.0 multisite: cómo instalarlo (i)

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:58:35 +0100

Este es el primero de una serie de dos posts donde veremos cómo instalar la opción multisite de WordPress 3.0 La opción multisite es una de las funcionalidades más interesantes del nuevo WordPress 3.0, apodado Thelonius. Con ella se puede implementar una red de blogs, manteniendo una única instalación de la aplicación (una sola librería de themes y plugins) y cada uno con su dashboard. ¡Realmente espectacular!. Si tienes un dominio www.misitio.com con una instalación de WP 2.9, se puede, en primer lugar y fácilmente, migrar a WP 3.0 y, a continuación, habilitar la opción multisite para disponer de una serie de dominios web1.misitio.com, web2.misitio.com, web3.misitio.com, etc. (cada uno con su WP 3.0, gestión centralizada con un superadministrador o individualizada con su usuario y password particular). Esto ya se podía realizar con WordPress MU (una extensión diferenciada de WP previa a esta versión unificada) pero era algo complicado. La fusión de ambas aplicaciones (WP “normal” y WP MU) ha sido, indudablemente, un acierto. Pongámonos pues, manos a la obra. En primer lugar, es fundamental llevar a cabo un backup tanto de la base de datos como de los archivos esenciales de nuestra instalación de WP. Otra tarea previa muy aconsejable es actualizar todos los plugins a la última versión. Ahora es muy sencillo realizarlo desde el panel de administración, simplemente facilitando el usuario y contraseña de FTP. La migración a 3.0 se puede hacer también desde el dashboard (para ello, es conveniente revisar que los permisos de las carpetas son los adecuados para permitir la sobreescritura de archivos). Sin embargo, yo aconsejo -aunque se tarda un poquito más- seguir los pasos de una instalación convencional, previa descarga del software y el backup de la base de datos y archivos esenciales que comentábamos un poco más arriba. La instalación de WP 3. ...

Rph's blog: #15 library 2.0

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 07:00:23 +0100

Library 2.0, is an extension of Web2.0 and shares many of its same philosophies and concepts. Based upon cultural trends in the web environment, I t (Source: pligg - all)

Web 2.0 untuk perpustakaan

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:33:10 +0100

Wer Mittwoch zufällig in Jakarta ist oder in der Nähe, sollte sich diesen Vortrag nicht entgehen lassen. Für die Nicht-Lateiner: Es gibt auch eine deutsche Version. Wer glaubt, dass der Autor mal wieder Neuland betritt, der irrt. Wie bei diesem Thema nicht anders zu erwarten, ruft Lambert fröhlich: “Bin schon da!” Wer noch nie hier war, dem sei dieses Land und seine freundlichen Bewohner wärmstens empfohlen. Related posts Zweite Pharma-Bio-med Konferenz (0) XXIV Konferencja Problemowa Bibliotek Medycznych (2) Workshop in Essen: Informationsmanagement im Krankenhaus (0) Wie messen sie den Erfolg ihres Weblogs? (1) Vorträge der AGMB-Jahrestagung 2006 in Jena online (1) (Source: medinfo)

Tuites #rv20 realidades virtuais , goethe institut

Thu, 20 May 2010 04:00:00 +0100

20 Maio | Lisboa Ler p.f. de baixo para cima, na sequência da escrita no Twitter rvirtuais SlideShare: From Library 2.0 to Library 3D, by Kim Holmberg #RV20 http://slidesha.re/9NMGDt about 2 hours ago via web Reply Retweet crocksberlin The mailadresses of the Zukunftswerkstatt: christoph.deeg@zukunftswerkstatt.org & julia.bergmann@zukunftswerkstatt.org #rv20 about 2 hours ago via TweetDeck Reply Retweet ZW09 The mailadresses of the Zukunftswerkstatt: christoph.deeg@zukunftswerkstatt.org & julia.bergmann@zukunftswerkstatt. ...

Blogs werden gelesen…

Sun, 09 May 2010 21:40:20 +0100

…wie Andreas Mittrowann (Globolibro) dankend feststellt: Liebe Leserinnen und Leser! Im aktuellen Heft 5/2010 der Zeitschrift „BuB – Forum Bibliothek und Information“ stellen die Autorinnen Prof. Dr. Simone Fühles-Ubach und Petra Marker in ihrem Artikel „Neuigkeiten finden und Kontakte pflegen“ auf Seite 352 fest, dass Globolibro bei einer Befragung unter bibliothekarischen Kolleginnen und Kollegen zu den am meisten genannten deutschen bibliothekarischen Fachblogs gehörte. Der Artikel basiert auf einer Diplom-Arbeit von Petra Marker, die unter dem Link http://opus.bibl.fh-koeln.de/frontdoor.php?source_opus=245 abgerufen werden kann. Für Ihre Treue und freundliche Aufmerksamkeit darf ich mich ganz herzlich bedanken! Ihr Andreas Mittrowann Ich kann mich dem nur anschließen. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fhobohm.edublogs.org%2F2010%2F05%2F09%2Fblogs-werden-gelesen%2F'; addthis_title = 'Blogs+werden+gelesen%26%238230%3B'; addthis_pub = ''; (Source: LIS in Potsdam)

How web2.0 can serve to library and information centers?

Sat, 08 May 2010 04:00:00 +0100

Two days ago I run a workshop in 23th Tehran International Book Fair about" How web2.0 can serve to Library and information centers? ". Now report of the workshop is available at Iranian Book News Agency (IBNA) in this address. (Source: Virtual Ehsan Real Blog)

Intelligence compétitive 2.0

Thu, 06 May 2010 08:54:25 +0100

Après cette longue pause j'espère réussir à dégager un peu de temps pour retrouver un vrai rythme de publication. Donc si vous êtes encore là bonjour et merci :-)Je (re)commence aujourd'hui par la présentation d'un livre collectif (une trentaine d'auteurs) de 400 pages co-dirigé par Luc Quoniam et Arnaud Lucien, et consacré à l'intelligence compétitive.Luc Quoniam m'a fait l'honneur de me proposer de rédiger le chapitre 7 consacré aux outils de l'intelligence compétitive 2.0 et je l'en remercie.Lien vers Lavoisier (éditeur)Lien vers Amazon Présentation de l'éditeur : "Le récent concept "2.0", conséquence du "Web2.0", évoque l'apparition d'un nouveau modèle, émancipé du web, qui... (Source: Outils Froids)

3monatiges praktikum bei der hertie school of governance zu vergeben

Wed, 05 May 2010 15:37:15 +0100

Die Praktikumsausschreibung (u.a. Bibliotheksprojekte im Bereich Web2.0) gibt es unter diesem Link. (Source: IB Weblog)

Mash-up request for submissions

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:14:20 +0100

I’m working with some colleagues at the Library of Congress on the on the description of complex analog and digital resources. In that research, we want to get a better sense of what people who read DLTJ call a “mash-up.” We invite readers to provide examples (in any medium) of what they think are mash-ups of different resources in the comment area of this post. If you nominate a web-accessible mash-up, please provide a link for it. If you nominate an analog mash-up (they do exist!), please provide a reasonable citation. If it is a hybrid – do your best! Also helpful would be a short statement as to why you think the example is a mash-up, and whether you like the results.The research involves how we describe the parts of a whole guided by concepts provided by FRBR. These sorts of mashups are typically made up of independently created parts, and acknowledging those parts are in single-record frames of reference. We’re exploring the use of interconnected networks of descriptions, and mashups are one of the exemplars.ExamplesWe’re looking for mixtures of audio, still images, moving images, and other media.“Avatar, Daybreakers, Prince of Persia, Book of Eli, Wolfman, Legion, Sherlock Holmes Trailer Mashup” from YouTube.FooBar Poster, by Eboy Arts Inc.“FooBar” poster (also commonly called the Web2.0 Poster).Post from: Disruptive Library Technology JesterMash-Up Request for Submissions (Source: Disruptive Library Technology Jester)

Organic edunet organizes workshops on icts and learning in organic agriculture and ecology

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100

In Hungary in September 2010, the Organic.Edunet project organizes a conference on Learning Methodologies in Agriculture, especially Organic Agriculture and Ecology. Methodologies and technological Tools to facilitate knowledge dissemination will be presented by experts from a wide scientific spectrum, including fields such as Agriculture, Pedagogy, Learning & Knowledge Management and ICT. Specific workshops/Autumn schools planned include:"Enhancing Environmental and Ecological Awareness and Education in Schools: Training Teachers on the Use of Web2.0 tools and Open Educational Resources""Preparing the Organic Advisors of Tomorrow: Innovative Agricultural Experts and Extension Officers familiarized with Agro-Ecology Principles, Blended-Learning, and Modern ICT Tools"More information is at: http://informatics.aua.gr/organic/Participants can apply for funding since the program is approved by the Grundtvig Program of the European Commission. (Source: AgInfo News from IAALD)

The 2010 web2 summit theme: points of control

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0100

Each year at the Web 2 Summit, Tim and I try to focus our program on an overarching theme that we believe best sums up the year ahead. This is never easy to do - the event is still eight months away. But this year I feel better than I ever have about our focus, because it's a return to our roots, as it were. If you know my work, you know I'm fascinated by the interplay between the entrepreneurial culture of our industry and the giants who have emerged from within it - Google, Facebook, Microsoft, to name a few - as well as those who have joined it from other industries - Comcast, GE, and Newscorp come to mind. For 2010, Web 2 will focus on the chess game in which all of these companies are now engaged, a battle to gain the upper hand in crucial "points of control" across the Internet Economy. The idea sprang from Tim's "War for the Web" post last Fall, but we're taking that riff and broadening it, identifying chokepoints on an increasingly crowded chessboard. Fifteen years and two recessions into the commercial Internet, it’s clear that our industry has moved into a new competitive phase – a “middlegame” in the battle to dominate the Internet economy. To understand this shift, we’ll use the Summit’s program to map strategic inflection points across the Internet landscape, identifying key players who are battling to control the services and infrastructure of a websquared world. The stakes are high. As the Web and the world intertwine through mobile and sensor platforms, the decisions we make – as leaders of this industry, as entrepreneurs, and as consumers – will determine the fundamental architecture of our society. Will distribution, for example, be locked in, or left open? While the Web was once considered to be an open distribution platform, access to content is increasingly becoming a key point of control. ...

Links for 2010-03-10 [del.icio.us]

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:00:02 +0100

IE8 Accelerators for the King County Library System : number8wire.com #Accelerators in #IE8 come close to Service Oriented Architecture (#SOA). Will use IE8 more often. Library Search -> http://bit.ly/aGasuz Packrati.us: A Dead Simple Way To Make Delicious Bookmark The Links You Tweet Using #hashtags in tweets adds them as TAGS in #Delicious with Packrati.us to save urls as bookmark inside tweets http://tcrn.ch/cxyZbr How do researchers use online journals? - Gobbledygook Blog | Nature Publishing Group Evaluating usage patterns of online journals RT @Dymphie: How do researchers use online journals? http://bit.ly/9H6fNJ RT @davidlrothman Article: The Use Of Handheld Mobile Devices: Their Impact And Implications For Library Services « ResourceShelf Article: Use of handheld mobile devices: their impact & implications for library services: http://bit.ly/c9q2Pi #yam RT @karenneves The Open Access citation advantage: Studies and results to date - ECS EPrints Repository The Open Access citation advantage: Studies and results to date - ECS EPrints Repository http://ff.im/-hiGxo RT @aarontay #openaccess Health 2.0--User Generated Healthcare | Facebook interested in Web2.0 in health care?- Facebook-Group Health2.0 http://bit.ly/9ue0gw RT @samcooper11 #health20 #web20 Nursing in the Blogosphere Nursing Web 2.0 A best of the best, the new frontier of nursing practice. Topical links #nursing #web20 http://ow.ly/1fghU RT @Berci The scientist and the smartphone : Article : Nature Methods "The scientist and the smartphone" Editorial Nature Methods #science #smartphone http://bit.ly/cJI3Kr (via Gerry McKiernan) Mobile Libraries | Facebook Meet Gerry McKiernan, THE man to follow on mobile libaries? http://bit.ly/bbTPTP Come to EMTACL10 and hear him speak http://bit.ly/bbTPTP (Source: DigiCMB)

Ein popstar auf dem bibliothekskongress

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:26:41 +0100

In Kooperation mit der US amerikanischen Botschaft in Berlin ist es gelungen, den Kongress mit einem Highlight starten zu lassen: BID Kongress: Congress Centrum Leipzig Montag, 15.3.2010 11:00 – 12:00 Uhr, Saal 2 The Hyperlinked Community Library – Trends, Tools & Transparency Michael Stephens, River Forest Eine Veranstaltung der Zukunftswerkstatt in Zusammenarbeit mit der US Botschaft Moderation: Hans-Christoph Hobohm, Potsdam Am Ende einer Vortragsreise durch die Schweiz (Zürich, CERN) und Deutschland (Hamburg, Berlin, Potsdam) tritt Michael Stephens in Leipzig auf. Und einen als „Auftritt“ kann man seine Vorträge durchaus bezeichnen. Es erwartet Sie eine anregende Show durch neue Welten, die Bibliothekaren in aller Welt immer wieder Mut macht, die Reise des technologischen und gesellschaftlichen Wandels anzutreten. Bekannt geworden ist Michael Stephens vor allem durch seinen inhaltsreichen und stets lesenswerten Blog mit dem Titel „Tame the Web“, in dem er seit Anfang 2003 (!) über „Bibliotheken, neue Technologien und Menschen“ schreibt: Wie können die neuen Technologien (wie Social Web, Mobile Computing oder Computer Gaming etc.) genutzt werden, um die Rollen und die Aufgaben der Bibliotheken zu stärken? Wie findet diese Technologie Eingang in die Bildungs- und Lernkultur? Und welche innovative Bibliotheken und Bibliothekare sind schon mit nachahmenswerten Beispielen in diesem neuen Reich zu finden? Er könnte somit fast als Sprachrohr für die „Zukunftswerkstatt Kultur- und Wissensvermittlung“ gelten, die ja seit dem Mannheimer Bibliothekartag genau die gleichen Fragen für Deutschland stellt. Michael Stephens war lange Zeit im Management verschiedener öffentlicher Bibliotheken in den Vereinigten Staaten tätig, bevor er 2006 an die renommierte Dominican University wechselte. ...

21st century library vis-a-vis library2.0+ « 21st century library blog

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:00:32 +0100

I think Library 2.0 is used to describe two concepts. One is applying Web2.0 at your library. The other is the flexible, nimble, evolving, user-cente (Source: pligg - all)

Algorithmen vs. institutionen?

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:30:38 +0100

Ein interessantes Podiumsgespräch auf der Digital Life Design Konferenz (DLD) in München im Januar: David Gelernter und Frank Schirrmacher spechen über die Informationsflut und was diese bewirkt. Hat das Internet irgend etwas großes hervorgebracht? Robin Meyer-Lucht hatte davon schon sehr treffend berichtet in seinem Blog “CARTA“. Beitrag und Film: äusserst lesens-/sehenswert. s.a. vorheriges Blog-Post hier. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fhobohm.edublogs.org%2F2010%2F03%2F03%2Falgorithmen-vs-institutionen%2F'; addthis_title = 'Algorithmen+vs.+Institutionen%3F'; addthis_pub = ''; (Source: LIS in Potsdam)

Interneterklärer david gelernter: wir leben in einer gefährlichen zeit

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:39:14 +0100

Der neokonservative Yale Professor und Computerwissenschaftler (”einer der Ermöglicher des WWW” FAZ), aber auch berühmtes Opfer des technologiekritischen Briefbomben-Attentäters ‘Unabomber’ David Gelernter hat es am Sonntag in einem “Manifest in der FAZ erklärt: Noch nie zuvor standen wir an einem so aufregenden und gefährlichen Punkt der technologischen Entwicklung wie heute. Das Internet ist wie ein neuer Computer, auf dem eine grellbunte, faszinierende Vorführung läuft – von der wir uns seit fünfzehn Jahren in Bann schlagen lassen. Es ist an der Zeit, sie abzuschalten und an die Arbeit zu gehen. Wir müssen das Internet dazu bringen, dass es das macht, was wir von ihm wollen; dass es richtig funktioniert. Irgendwie geht er mit Schirrmacher konform (wenn er schon in der FAZ schreiben darf), dass etwas nicht stimmt, doch seine Anaylse ist eine andere: nicht unser Gehirn geht kaputt, sondern das Internet erweist sich vorwiegend als Beschleunigungsmaschine und Zeitklauer, die es zu verlangsamen gilt, damit wir nicht nur dem Mainstream des Massendatenstroms unterliegen. Im Medienblog CARTA wird hierzu mit Hintergrund berichtet (mit Hinweis auf sein 10 Jahre altes ursprüngliches Manifest und auf sein zusammentreffen mit Schirrmacher von ein paar Wochen). addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fhobohm.edublogs.org%2F2010%2F03%2F02%2Finterneterklarer-david-gelernter-wir-leben-in-einer-gefahrlichen-zeit%2F'; addthis_title = 'Interneterkl%C3%A4rer+David+Gelernter%3A+wir+leben+in+einer+gef%C3%A4hrlichen+Zeit'; addthis_pub = ''; (Source: LIS in Potsdam)

Web 2.0 - what it can do for you

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100

Most presentations from the Libraries for Nursing study day (Nov 2009), Web 2.0 - What it can do for you, including presentations on wikis and podcasts, are online at http://www.cilip.org.uk/get-involved/special-interest-groups/health/subject-groups/libraries-for-nursing/Pages/study-day-web2.aspxPhoto by Sheila Webber: After holi celebrations, Sheffield, March 2010 (Source: Information Literacy Weblog)

E-book frustration

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100

I feel a bit of a rant coming on. Because e-books are very frustrating.I've felt this way for a while, but my emotions have risen to surface following a talk given by Michael Porter at the recent Web 2.You conference. (I cribbed some phrases here from an e-mail that I wrote to him; hope he doesn't mind!) My library, like many academic libraries, has purchased thousands of e-books that are essentially PDFs to be read on the computer screen. Indeed, as Mark recently discussed, e-books are inevitable. At first, I thought, "ok, great, students can read books at home without having to borrow them from the library." The main drawback seemed to be the potential discomfort of reading off a screen. Professors, too, are excited by this type of e-book as it allows them to reduce the size and cost of their coursepacks and to lessen the burden of textbook prices on their students. But alas, it is too good to be true, as many other before me have found.My frustration especially arose after Michael Porter's exhortation for libraries to "give users what they want in the format they want" during the Web 2.You talk.On the one hand, many students are uncomfortable reading off screens and want their print books. A session at the 2009 EDUCAUSE conference reported on a user study that found that students exhibited emotional reactions to e-books, often describing feelings of psychological distress and confusion when reading them. They needed a tactile experience of annotating and seeing page numbers to feel like they were really reading. Although the students had an affinity for handheld devices, they expressed a preference for physical print books. These students were using "real" e-books on Sony Readers, but the interfaces for browser-based e-books are miles vis-à-vis clunky navigation. They also restrict printing and downloading.Even worse, many publishers and/or platforms place nonsensical limitations on concurrent users. ...

Friday signal: the web gets its wisdom teeth (we hope)

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100

(image ) A couple of days ago I riffed for bit on the convergence of conversation in our industry around mobile, local, real time, and social. Sometimes this stuff needs an easier name to identify it all, so I'm going to go with MOLRS (MObile Local Realtime Social). Why another acronym? Because honestly, it reminds us to link all these concepts together. Often folks ask me for advice about their "mobile strategy." I remind them that if you are going to think about mobile, you have to think about social, local, and real time. Same for when someone asks about a real time strategy - real time usually means connecting through a social graph, often through a mobile platform and in a local context. And so on. So "MOLRS" is a reminder to think about all aspects of this next evolution of the web. Another reason - and this is a stretch, but it's Friday - is the rather obscure reference to third molars, or wisdom teeth. We humans get our "wisdom teeth" at about the same time we become true adults - when we're ready to take our place in society. These molars come in in our late teens or early 20s - post adolescence, as it were. And that's about where the web is right now. The emergence of the MOLRS web indicates a third wave of Internet evolution - first was the flat HTML web of the 1990s, second was the burgeoning post search web of 2000-2010 (Web 2.0), and now we're in the third wave - what Tim and I coined as "WebSquared" last year. Anyway, the funny thing about wisdom teeth is that they often get impacted, and have to be pulled. Evolutionary theory implies that we used to have larger mouths because we needed the third molars to process more plant materials (I'm not making this up). Now, I'm already stretching a metaphor here, but the truth is, the web is at a similar impaction (or inflection) point. ...

The changing landscape of search: essential new tools for finding information

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:04:56 +0100

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)

Neue oberfläche für gallica

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:38:59 +0100

Im Gallica-Blog wurde vermeldet, daß Gallica, das Digitalisierungsprojekt der französischen Nationalbibliothek, eine neue Oberfläche bekommen hat. Ein Schwerpunkt der Neugestaltung lag auf der Hervorhebung der verschiedenen Sammlungen. Die neue Oberfläche macht einen recht “web2.0igen” Eindruck: Ich habe die alte Oberfläche nicht mehr vor Augen, sodaß ich ich keinen vorher-nachher-Vergleich anstellen kann; über web.archive.org kann man sich aber einige Seiten der alte Gallica-Versionen ansehen. (Source: netbib weblog)

Wow! updated list of 1100+ web 2.0 apps

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:21:44 +0100

Web 2.0 tools and applications: 1100+ Web2 apps listed, annotated Web 2.0 tools, apps and resources for collaboration, communication, RSS, images, start pages, weblogs, wikis and more. Emphasis is on libraries, librarians and information work. Source: Phil Bradley Hat tip: Intute (Source: ResourceShelf)

On speaking in montreal

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:11:46 +0100

Last Friday’s “Web 2.You” event at McGill University was crammed full of interesting speakers and attendees. The sessions were useful and thought provoking, the crowd was smart and engaged, the egg salad at lunch was even magnifique’. On top of that, they even hosted a reception after, where we got to get into some meatier conversations (a perfect follow-up to a heady, info packed, full day of material). They even had a cheese ball, twice the size of your head! Seriously though, all around this was a great event, one I was very honored to be a part of it. So if you are in Montreal around this time next year try and get your ticket (before they sell out of them again). And to Amanda, Adrienne, Amy, Brianne and the many, many other capable volunteers who made this student run event work so well, kudos to you all, as well as to McGill University for supporting this fine student effort. Very impressive work! Finally, here is some commentary from Montreal librarian Lora Baiocco, who attended the event. This is from her “infinite digressions” blog. Thank you, Lora! “Michael Porter, aka Libraryman, uncensored, live at Thompson House, one day only”…”what are the right tools for us? Do we have them? Are we using them? Who are we trusting to build what we need? What started off as leisurely stroll through the tech park grew into a frantic facing of the facts. ...

Informationsüberlastung: ein problem des sozialen systems, nicht des technischen

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:59:40 +0100

Auf der Web2.0 Expo 2008 in New York gab es einen beeindruckenden 20 minütigen Vortrag von Clay Shirky (”Here comes everybody”) zu der Frage, wie es zu Informationsflut kommt und was das mit dem Ende der Gutenberg Galaxis zu tun hat. Der Hinweis darauf erschien gerade mal wieder bei Twitter und ich glaube der Vortrag ist immer noch aktuell. Es geht u.a. darum, dass das Thema Informationsflut immer noch ein Vorwand bzw. eine Entschuldigung für viele Aktivitäten wie Presseartikel und Bücher ist (!). So beugt auch er sich darüber und weist darauf hin, dass es in der Gutenberg Galaxis immer einen Qualitätsfilter vor der Publikation gab: den Verleger, der das Risiko der Produktion und Vorfinanzierung (daher der Name: “Vorlegen”) übernahm. Die Tatsache, dass Informationen stets kontinuierlich zunehmen, erfordert, dass wir uns stets aufs neue darum kümmern – als Person. Mit unseren eigenen Filtern. “Privatheit” ist die Frage der Auswahl, wer welche Informationen erhält. Das Problem ist, dass wir gerade dabei von einem persönlichen zu einem Ingenieur-gesteuerten System der Privatheit übergehen. Er berichtet hier von interessanten Beispielen aus Facebook. Mit der Schlussfolgerung, dass das Phänomen Facebook mit keiner Metapher der alten Welt – um damit auch nicht mit existierenden Metadaten – erklärt werden kann. Nicht der Code ist das Problem, sondern das menschliche Unvermögen, die neuen Systembrüche zu verstehen. Es ist kein Design-Problem, sondern ein “mental shift“. Niemand wird z.B. die Hochschule und ihre Lerngewohnheiten neu “codieren” können. Zum information overload, der vielleicht für uns Menschen doch eher so etwas ist wie das Wasser für die Fische, sagt Clay Shirky: “If you have the same problem over a long time, may be it is not a problem may be it is a fact. ...

Web2.0 and its application in lis

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100

Yesterday I run a workshop on “Web2.0 and its application in library and information science” affiliated by Iranian Medical library and information science association (IMLA). (Source: Virtual Ehsan Real Blog)

几个概念：开放数据，关联数据，语义web和web3.0

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:35:59 +0100

针对童鞋们经常提问，以及本人根据网络资源和自己的理解整理如下：开放数据（Open Data）：在网络上可以公开得到的数据，没有任何控制访问的措施（无需登录，否则只能是免费数据或其它名称）。为了促进开放数据应用，模仿“创作共用”协议，好事者也提出了“开放数据共用协议”。开放元数据是其中的一类。项目举例： data.gov（美国） Open Data Network（德国） making public data public（英国）关联数据（Linked Data）：一种数据访问（整合）技术，基本上都是以RDF方式表达，对于Http协议进行少量扩展（规定）而成。低成本，高可用性，整合简单。开放链接数据（Linked Open Data）是关联数据的一项运动。美国纽约时报项目，目前已经上载了5000个人物的主题表目，可以按照cc by协议开放使用。 Linked Data Research Center GoodRelations：关于产品、价格和企业数据的规范词表 oeGOV：应用于政府信息管理的本体词表 Web3.0： Web2.0的热衷者或者搅局者提出的一个概念，作为下一代Web的一种趋势探讨，有人说就是语义Web，有人在语义Web基础上添加了P2P、各类无线应用甚至云计算等内容。语义Web：现有Web之上的、以数据资源为基本组成单位的Web，这些资源（数据）都标注有元数据描述，从而能够进行语义查询，以及数据整合，提供了互联网上实现语义互操作的技术平台。关联数据可以理解为语义Web的一种实现。 Web of Data是其另一别称。 Tags: linked data, Open Data, Web3.0, 关联数据, 语义Web, 语义技术 Related posts 讲座视频：如何发布关联数据 (0) 百思买开始发布关联数据 (0) 数据的万维网（The Web of Data） (2) 关联数据：意义及其实现 (3) 关联数据浏览器 (2) 关联数据四原则 (4) (Source: Keven's Blog 数图研究)

A landscape study of shared infrastructure services in the australian academic sector

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:03:11 +0100

JISC has released A Landscape Study of Shared Infrastructure Services in the Australian Academic Sector. Here's an excerpt: In parallel with these investments, it has become evident that users in the higher education and academic sectors in Australia are choosing to use main stream Web 2.0 technologies in their daily work activities. However there is limited knowledge about who is using which Web 2.0 technologies and for what purposes. Moreover there is little information about why specific tools and services are chosen when institutional or nationally-funded services are available. JISC recently funded a study in the UK to investigate the adoption of Web 2.0 services by the higher education and academic sectors. The aim of this report is to survey the situation in Australia and hence enable comparisons with the UK. This survey therefore focuses on the current and active users of Web 2.0 tools and services in Australian Higher Education institutions and aims to identify what they are using and why. Although the UK leads Australia in the development of collaborative eResearch services, the results of the survey indicate that the adoption of Web 2.0 technologies in the higher education sector in Australia is not significantly dissimilar to the situation in the UK. Users prefer to use Web-based services that are already adopted by the wider community and that are free, robust, simple to sign on to, and easy to install and use. Examples include: FaceBook, YouTube, Skype and Twitter. Although the most active use of Web 2.0 has been by early adopters (people who are not afraid to try out new tools, experiment with them and promote them to colleagues and peers), this situation is changing as more Web 2.0 technologies are becoming broadly adopted by mainstream users. ...

What's new 24 november 2009

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100

Save a Webpage in PDF Format with Web2PDF http://web2.pdfonline.com/ Have you found a great article at a website that you want or need to save as a PDF file? See just how easy it is to convert a webpage to PDF files using Firefox or your favourite browser. Note: There is a bookmarklet available that you can add to your favourite non-Firefox browser. PressReader "PressReader [ http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx ] enables you to download your favourite publication on your iPhone, PC, laptop, Tablet PC or mobile device or e-Reader, allowing you to read publications when you are without an Internet connection". 13 Tools for Building Your Own iPhone App Do you have an iPhone and need an App that hasn’t yet been developed? Sarah Perez at ReadWriteWeb has put together a list of 13 Tools for Building Your Own iPhone App [http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/13_tools_for_building_your_own_iphone_app.php ]. These are applications with the non-developer in mind so if you’ve been thinking about creating your own iPhone version of your website or blog but didn’t know how, you’ll want to check out this list. 100 Incredible Open Courses for the Ultimate Tech Geek OnlineCourses.org has compiled a mega-list of 100 Incredible Open Courses for the Ultimate Tech Geek [http://www.onlinecourses.org/2009/10/28/100-incredible-open-courses-for-the-ultimate-tech-geek/ ]. This comprehensive guide presents 100 free resources to develop your tech skill set. ...

Web 2.0 suicide machine

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:32:24 +0100

¿Quieres recuperar tu vida analógica? Web 2.0 Suicide Machine te lo pone fácil. Con un sólo clic eliminarás tus perfiles en Facebook, Linkedin y MySpace. Liberate your newbie friends with a Web2.0 suicide! This machine lets you delete all your energy sucking social-networking profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely do away with your Web2.0 alterego. The machine is just a metaphor for the website which moddr_ is hosting; the belly of the beast where the web2.0 suicide scripts are maintained. Our services currently runs with facebook.com, myspace.com and LinkedIn.com! Commit NOW! Aunque no pasa de ser una metáfora, siempre está bien que alguien nos recuerde quienes somos y de donde venimos. Si te ha gustado el post puedes votarlo en bitacoras.com para que otros puedan descubrirlo © Guillermo Carvajal para La Brujula Verde, 2009. | Permalink | 2 Comentarios | Guardar en Delicious (Source: La brujula verde)

Library intelligencer » iatul conference proceedings 2009

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:00:34 +0100

Manorama Tripathi : Use of Web2.0 tools by libraries: a reconnaissance of the international landscape. Cecilia Penzhorn : Quality through improved se (Source: pligg - all)