Pecha Kucha – 20 slides 20 seconds a piece on a single topic Rebecca Jones - I didn’t get good notes, sorry Stephen Abram – trendspotting is television affecting our world, Kennedy vs Nixon debate, then Obama vs McCain, blinking youtube video of Palin saying she can see Russia from porch visual popular – twitter Olympics yahoo trumps NBC webkinz – when your stuffed animals have a social life online club penguin – Disney kids on social crack, soccer mom is average gamer geocaching portability mainly mobile focus – phone not laptops, we’re old with our laptops in front of us David Lee King the librarian is the product libraries have a lot of products magazines, books, databases, websites, search engines, reference we can answer your questions on the phone, at the desk, im, blog comments, all this lets us show our personality, makes lib more human what product should we be selling? Books amazon does it better info Google does it better staff? Maybe we should be selling ourselves so the librarian is the product we need to promote ourselves, our stuff is just stuff, the value added is the ppl Nancy Dowd Google answers the question we improve
Monthly Archives: October 2008
Twitter & how the “twittest” use it for keeping up
Michael Sauers and Christa Burns cant explain you have to to do it, and you have to do it with friends to get the experience post – tweet tweeting methods – web, desktop client, bookmarklets, via email, via sms, blog to twitter (twitterfeed) url past 140 character limit will usually convert to tiny url twitthis twitterfeed – run rss to twitter account twirl @username if replaying d username message – private message nudge username l: location informatin follow username leave username block username invite phonenumber #hashtag direct messages go to only you, other msgs are public, can have a public or private account, private only ppl you approve can see it can read your friends via your twitter homepage, also rss uses ultra simple blogging conferences references questions new emergency services weather presidential campaigning website updates conversations marsphoenix lander is tweeting, a person is tweeting in first person for the lander LA fire department has a feed twitter search to track keywords twitterference – so many sms to your phone you cant make a phone call too distracting if you don’t participate you wont get anything out of it 7 tips to being a good twittter - http://www.meryl.net/2008/04/7-tips-to-a-good-twitter-experience/ follow others
Crafting the user centered library – Cliff Landis
Crafting the user centered library Cliff Landis its not enough to shove your bad services into a new space, we know our opacs suck so why are we cramming them into myspace and facebook why do you use emerging technologies in your library, not just bc everyone else is, doing it for service and outreach, get away from creating things for user and look for things created by the user how do we approach new ideas planning – find out in the end of a lot of work whether is succeeds or fails committee approach – take an idea and kill it youtube video – association professionals thru the ages lets try to assess and reflect as we go along – don’t need to drag process out action steps try be fast – try to do it within 3 months be human – be patient with yourself, you dot have to get it right the first time, don’t over plan do you like me – yes or no, maybe? Assess our relationship with our users you cant measure progress without out measuring, write assessment into your plans reflect – sometimes your users just want a book, be willing to fail
Social media and networked technologies: research and insights
Social media and networked te3chnologies research and insights danah boyd – phd candidate at berkley social media in context, historical perspective web2.0 tech crowd sees it as a shift in deployment, perpetual beta, user generated content business crowd – hope, came after tech bubble crashed, rise of the social network sites – certain things are consistent across them does not say social networking – just social network bc what makes these sites unique is that they have to do with the public socialization of your actual social network profiles – physical world, dress up, do hair etc, online have to do dress up formally, dressing up your profile is a way to make yourself known online, you create a profile you think expresses who you are to the ppl around you most ppl lie about their age onilne, adults decrease, young ppl increase, adults are descriptive young ppl think no one needs to know dress up profile as they would their bedroom or backpacks Friends – are you my friend yes or no? Have to publicly answer that, the term friend means something different to different ppl, some have lower level friends are using sites to connect with ppl they
Ubiquitous computing and library future
Ubiquitous computing and library future Michael Porter Libraryman Chris Peters – maintainit – small part of TechSoup, new cookbook coming out soon, definition a model of human computer interjection which information processing has been thoroughly integrated into everyday object sand activities when computing and info access happen when and where we need it, enabled by unobtrusive technology Moores law rfid an example of ubiquitous computing that exists in libraries libraries = content + community android – google phone operating system there are already more cell phones in use than tvs MP talks about all the new gadgets that are out there irobot connector – visiting robot chumby – I want a chumby surface convergence seattle public library has voip communicators appletv directv sat to go slingbox – lets you watch tivo or other electronic devices on laptop frm anywhere with internet access portability & ubicomp bug – open source phone pen projector that fits in a cell phone Chris terminology ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) pervasive computing ambient intelligence internet of things computers should become invisible and unobtrusive baltimore wimax cheep information processing cheap memory and storage wireless networking interoperability and open standards universal addressability – ie Ipv6 sensors position awareness power
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