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Monthly Archives: September 2008
Akoha – Play it Forward
While browsing my FeedReader this morning I came across this post about Akoha. Akoha is a game, not on your computer, or your Xbox, but a game with cards. Cards that people hand to you and you hand to others that allow you to play good deeds forward. When you get a card, you log on to the site and tell the story of how the card got to you, then you play it forward, passing the card to someone else. If you’re wondering what this has to do with Libraries or the Social Web, my usual topics, the answer is nothing. This is an idea and a philopshy I am incredibly excited about. The potential it represents is thrilling! I’ve signed up for the Beta and I’m crossing my fingers that I’ll get my cards before MLA, Internet Librairan and ICoLIS! Learn more Akoha: A New Way to Do Good Deeds Gaming: welcome to the read world TC50: Akoha Makes the World a Better Place Akoha on Facebook Akoha on Twitter Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Buzz it up Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to
Twitter: making the cut
As we’ve seen from previous posts keeping up and feeling overwhelmed is something I struggle with regularly. There are so many great people out there in libraryland, it makes sense that I would want to keep up with all of them. As part of my “I’m not a Superhero” therapy I’m admitting I can’t do everything I’ve been attempting and over the next month or so I’ll be weeding. I started with Twitter. First I needed to figure out what I need/want to get from Twitter, so I went to my del.icio.us account. I’m an avid user of delicious and while I don’t like the option to automatically post my links to my blog I’ve decided I should share them more often. Here are the ones I reread Chris Brogan’s 50 Ideas for Using Twitter for Business and Do What Works for You David Leek King’s Twtter Explained for Librarians, or 10 ways to use Twitter Sarah Houghton-Jan’s Being Wired or Being Tired: 10 Ways to Cope with Information Overload I also considered some of the popular and/or successful librarians who don’t use Twitter. I wont point fingers, but they are out there. I decided what I want from
Using WordPress for Bibliographies or Readers Advisory Sites
Remember how last month I blogged about using a wiki for the library’s Readers Advisory Site? It looked like this. Well we ran into some issues, the IT department was having some problems with the input form and the other Librarians didn’t like it (I’m not gonna list their complaints), so I started rethinking it. Since I was going to be building a new one from scratch I knew I wanted patrons to be able to print out the lists as well as be able to use it to see the record in the catalog. I also wanted something other staff were comfortable and familiar with. I knew many of the staff set up a blog during our Library Learning 2.0 program. I’m very familiar with blogging & WordPress, and I knew I could tweak the pages and post to make it function the way I wanted. The library already uses WP for it’s main blog so it was a simple matter to have another blog set up. I got to work and it worked out even better than I’d hoped! See it here, read on for the how I made it happen. First I created 7 Pages, including
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Library is…?
A couple of weeks ago I was in Denver for vacation and we stopped at the Denver Art Museum. In addition to all the traditional art one expects to see in a museum they also had some patron contribution displays. Throughout the museum notebooks were set out and patrons could record their thoughts and feelings about the art. They could take the pages or leave them. There were poems about art and belief and creativity painted on the walls that were taken from another patron display. My favorite exhibit was this one, in the picture, the wall simple said “Art is….” and there were sticky notes and pencils. They were so widely ranging in definition is was amazing and through provoking. I’d love to see a library do this with “library is….” in fact I pitched it to my director today, he’s thinking maybe National Library Week. I think it would be a great way to get an informal sampling of what your patrons think your library is and want it to be. Have any other libraries done anything like this? Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Buzz it up Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share
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