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My Favorite Tools and Tips in Ten Installments: 4. Facebook

May 9, 2011
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My Favorite Tools and Tips in Ten Installments: 4. Facebook

Yes its true. Facebook. Facebook is one of my favorite things and not just for checking up on what my out-of-town friends did last weekend. I use it for professional stuff a LOT! I follow a lot of professional organizations and websites on Facebook. I listed the top six of the library ones in my post 6 Facebook Pages Every Librarian Should Follow: American Library Association – You don’t need to be a dues paying member of ALA to benefit from the stories and information relevant to all libraries they post on Facebook. Webjuction – Webjunction regularly hosts free webinars and conferences like the one coming up this week, Serving the 21st Century Patron, they also share links to other free webinars and resources. Your state and local library association - again you don’t have to pay dues to benefit from the information shared on Facebook and you can do a little online networking too. Library Journal - in addition to their stories (many of which you can read online for free) they also post links to interesting stories around the web. Library Renewal - This is a new project worth keeping an eye on. Libraries need a new electronic content access and distribution infrastructure! www.libraryrenewal.org Research, advocacy

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Use PostPost to Get the Best News and Information from Facebook

February 8, 2011
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Use PostPost to Get the Best News and Information from Facebook

I get asked a lot how I keep up or “do it all” so I thought I’d start sharing some of my favorite tools. I cant’ remember how I discovered PostPost, but I do know this it has made it insanely easy to get the good stuff from Facebook. It’s easy to set up and use, first go to postpost.com allow access to your Facebook account, after that when you visit postpost.com it gives you a custom view of the links your contacts have posted to Facebook in a newspaper style view. You can choose to just see video, photos or links so no matter what you’re looking for its right there. My contacts share a lot of great information on Facebook but I can’t be logged in every minute to see what’s happening and so I love PostPost because it makes it easy to see at a glance what my contacts are sharing on Facebook. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend

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Latest Facebook Privacy Violation – It is Now Broadcasting Conversations by Publishing The Content of Recent Activity

December 13, 2010
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Latest Facebook Privacy Violation – It is Now Broadcasting Conversations by Publishing The Content of Recent Activity

There was a time when one of your Facebook account or privacy settings allowed you to disable your “recent activity” from appearing in the newsfeed or on your wall. That went away sometime in the latest year (with profile update 10102029309808098, I think). Facebook completely removed the option to hide your recent activity and instead what you now saw was something like “Bobbi Newman wrote on John Doe’s wall” I and a lot of other people were annoyed by this. I don’t need Facebook notifying all my friends each time I talk to one of them. Some people just learned to deal with the feed, others like me, deleted all of this activity when they get back to a computer. Last week Facebook started rolling out its latest and greatest profile update. At first I was merely annoyed with it. Why is my job, education, current city, hometown and langauge front and center on my profile. Don’t my friends already know this? It really felt like another push from Facebook to be The One Site. It bothered me because I know a lot of  new people are using Facebook everyday, people who don’t understand Facebook’s privacy settings, agenda and policies.  They aren’t looking to showcase their

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6 Facebook Pages Every Librarian Should Follow, Plus 17 Bonus Pages

November 29, 2010
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6 Facebook Pages Every Librarian Should Follow, Plus 17 Bonus Pages

I stole this idea from the Ten Facebook Pages Every Techie Should Follow to create a list for Libraries and Transliteracy, now I’m using it here for a general list for all librarians. Let’s get the shameless self-promotion out of the way! Librarian by Day – the official page for me & this blog. Sure  you can friend me on Facebook, but maybe you don’t want me to see your vacation pictures, or you get annoyed with how much I post, the Librarian by Day Facebook page keeps your private stuff private while connecting you with select posts and links. Libraries and Transliteracy- the official page of the Libraries and Transliteracy team. *end shameless self promotion* On to the nitty gritty! 1. American Library Association – You don’t need to be a dues paying member of ALA to benefit from the stories and information relevant to all libraries they post on Facebook. 2. Webjuction – Webjunction regularly hosts free webinars and conferences like the one coming up this week, Serving the 21st Century Patron, they also share links to other free webinars and resources. 3. Your state and local library association - again you don’t have to pay dues to benefit from the information shared on

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How Far Do You Go to Reduce Drama and Protect Your Privacy on Facebook?

November 10, 2010
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How Far Do You Go to Reduce Drama and Protect Your Privacy on Facebook?

Earlier this week I came across this post Risk Reduction Strategies on Facebook in which danah boyd talks about the practices teens undertake to reduce privacy issues and drama on Facebook.  I found it fascinating, not just because of the efforts they put into it, its not easy, but because I do a few of these things and I don’t know of anyone else who does. My efforts seem a little pathetic next to theirs. One of the girls deactivates her account anytime she’s not on Facebook, these keeps people from posting on her wall and browsing her content when she isn’t around. Another deletes all activity shortly after its posted. I delete all “recent activity” posts immediately or as soon as I return to a PC.  It annoyed me to no end when Facebook removed the setting that allowed me to turn this off. I delete old photos, not all of them, just ones I don’t want up any more for one reason or another. Though I probably will delete everything from 2009 soon.* I delete old status updates, again not all of them, just ones whos moment has past. What efforts do you make to reduce potential drama or

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