More on Community
Nicole Engard (great blog, by the way - y’all should be reading it!) just left a comment on my post It’s About the Community. I was starting to reply to her comment when it dawned on me that my reply might work better as another post, so…
Nicole says: “David, I totally agree! But what about [...]
Facebook and Libraries
Ryan Deschamps at The Other Librarian recently posted about Facebook and libraries. It’s a thought-provoking article - go read it! Here are some tidbits from the article:
“So let me start with the Facebook library search application. It is
fine, but my opinion is that few people besides librarians are going to
add the applications to their profiles. [...]
Community and the Digital Experience
I’m knee-deep in wading through a bunch of articles and books on various aspects of experience design for the book I’m writing on digital experience planning, and I just had an epiphany today: I’m insane!
(No, wait - that’s not it…)
Ok - so I’ve been thinking about experience lately, both for my book and for the [...]
Pownce, anyone?
Always good to try out new networks… http://pownce.com/davidleeking/
If you try Pownce, friend me!
Social Software Showcase Rocked
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Yesterday, I participated in the LITA BIGWIG Social Software Showcase. It was very cool! The Showcase had more of an “unconference” feel, which was nice. So rather than doing a formal presentation with a brief Q and A at the end, I created a screencast of my presentation (linked above) about cool [...]
My Twitter Presentation - Part of the BIGWIG Social Software Showcase
(update - the BIGWIG sites seem to be down, but there are updated links to both twitter presentations. Enjoy!)
I was asked to participate in the first ever BIGWIG Social Software Showcase “unconference.” (site seems to be down). What is the Showcase, you ask? From the LITA blog: “LITA BIGWIG (Blogs, Wikis, and Social Software IG) [...]
Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 2: LibraryThing
Tim Spalding, LibraryThing
Showing LibraryThing - features, social aspects, etc
Showed a graphical timeline on what you’ve read (not yet released)
Regular people care about book data more than you would think
Claims his product is the only one that works with z39.50 and MARC
Showed a great example of tagging vs LoC subject headings. Used the book Neuromancer as [...]
Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 2 - Comments in the Catalog: Community Interaction
Glenn Peterson, Hennepin County Library
Case Study
Comments are:
mini reviews
any title in the catalog
a “blog for every book” - cool way to think about it!
Gave brief history about their comments project:
started taking book reviews by kids and teens
then they thought - hey, adults might like to do this (not too successful)
mentioned that they custom-created this - Sirsi [...]
Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 2 - Using Social Media for Community Engagement
Andy Carvin, National Public Radio
Dang, it just dawned on me who this guy is - he’s a videoblogger!
andycarvin.com/complibraries.ppt
Traditional Media production:
until recently, to produce content for a large audience you needed to be a … publisher, broadcaster, billboard owner, etc…
Enter stage left: web 1.0 - most people read the net instead of producing for it, because [...]
Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 1 - Privacy, Security, Social Networking & Libraries: Me, MySpace, and Eye
Alane Wilson, OCLC
The network is community.
Harris Interactive conducted the research for them on this project…
Played a video made from ALA Midwinter’s OCLC preconference meeting
Data snippets:
How many years have you been using the internet? Librarians far exceed everyone else’s use. We started with things like gopher, Mosaic, etc - most users haven’t
The culture of paper…
Librarians have [...]
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