ALA2007’s Most Attended Program
Guess what ALA2007’s most attended program was? Was it Julie Andrews? Was it Peter Morville? No.
This is only my guess, because I don’t have all the numbers… but my guess, based on one set of numbers alone, was … the BIGWIG Social Software Showcase UnConference!
What? There were only 30 or so people who attended! How [...]
Wake County is Censoring MySpace
Update - take time to browse through the comments on this post. They’re that good. So far, comments include one person who agrees with the board, someone trying to compromise, much wondering aloud about what the library plans to censor next, discussion about the futility of censoring a single social networking site, one person who [...]
Adaptive Path and Second Life
This is cool. Adaptive Path, a company that focuses on building digital experiences, is apparently going to help Linden Labs improve the digital experience that is Second Life.
I find that to be an extremely interesting project. Usually, improving a digital experience means improving someone’s website, or a function of the website - not improve something [...]
Inviting Participation, Part 5: Specific Tools - MySpace
This is part 5 of my Inviting Participation in Web 2.0 series of articles.
So far, I’ve introduced both active and passive forms of inviting
participation using web 2.0 tools, and explained how to do both using
blogs. This time, let’s examine MySpace.
MySpace is like a closed web 2.0 free-for-all, complete with blogs,
shared calendars, “friends,” videos and photos [...]
ALA Midwinter 2007: Digital Gaming in Library Instruction
I attended the ACRL Instruction Section Current Issue Digest and Discussion Forum on digital gaming in library instruction. It was pretty interesting - here are my notes, mainly on comments and questions I found interesting, in fairly random order (with two wicked cool ideas that came up, too):
You could use Second Life as a platform [...]
ALA Midwinter 2007: Raising the Next-Gen Resource Sharing Librarian
Mary Hollerich, Audrey Huff, Michael Porter, and Michael Stephens spoke.
Mary Hollerich (National Library of Medicine):
Spoke a little about kids today: different learning styles, tech savvy, collaborative, thriving on change, multitaskers, learning resource sharing on the job
Resource sharing is more than just ILL: blurred boundaries with ILL, circulation, and acquisitions
Expanded concept of resource sharing: lots of [...]
ALA Midwinter 2007: OCLC Social Networking Panel
These are notes from the session I participated in…
Lisa (need to find her last name!):
They created I-Go, a library toolbar. Quicklinks to library resources. The search on the toolbar searches lots of stuff (ie., library resources). Cool. It DOESN’T search Google.
MySpace: www.myspace.com/undergradlibrary - cool URL. They have chosen to not actively recruit friends. They repost [...]
Inviting Participation, Part 4: Specific Tools - Blogs
This is part 4 of my Inviting Participation in Web 2.0 series of articles.
So far, I’ve introduced both active and passive forms of inviting participation using web 2.0 tools. My next goal is to cover specific tools, like blogs, wikis, and myspace. How does one invite participation using all these way-cool web 2.0 tools?
Inviting Participation [...]
Inviting Participation, Part 3: Active Invitations
This is part 3 of my Inviting Participation in Web 2.0 series of articles.
So far in this series, I’ve introduced the concept of inviting participation, and I’ve covered passive invitations to participation. And some of you have actually been participating in this discussion, too - that’s wonderful! Y’all have great ideas. So keep sharing them!
Today’s [...]
Inviting Participation, Part 2: Passive Invitations
This is part 2 of my Inviting Participation in Web 2.0 series of articles.
I thought I’d tackle the more difficult type of invitation first - passive invitations. Going back to the example in my first post on inviting participation, my Are You Blogging This song. Within my blog post about the song, I didn’t directly [...]
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