Monitor your brand
Carie Lewis has a great guide to monitoring your brand using iGoogle, it’s easy, free and most of us already have a Google account, plus it pulls all the information into one place.
She includes 5 different categories:
- Brand – mentions of your name, including acronyms, misspellings, etc
- Current – issues that people are talking about that involve you right now
- Detractors – people you know don’t like you but talk about you
- Competition – people in the same space as you
- Staff – prominent people in your org, like your CEO
And includes a great list of places you should monitoring:
- Google Alerts – I hope you know what they are and are already using them!
- Filtrbox – a paid monitoring service to make sure we catch everything
- Tweetmeme – tells you the most popular tweets about a subject
- Twitter Search – shows tweets containing a certain keyword (we don’t use this anymore because we use Tweetdeck separately)
- Technorati – shows blogs that mention certain keywords
- Blogpulse – another blog monitoring tool
- Digg – shows most popular articles on the web
- Boardreader – shows forum posts by keyword
Some additional readings
- 100 Personal Branding Tactics Using Social Media
- Top 10 Free Tools for Monitoring Your Brand’s Reputation
- 9 Free Tools To Monitor Your Online Presence
Search Flickr by Color
I came across this cool tool from Idée on Circulation this morning. It allows you to search Flickr Creative Commons liscensed photos (or photos from Alamy) by clicking on the color or colors you want the photos to have. You then click on the thumbnail to get the photo and the liscense information.
The only down side is the collage doesn’t list the url of the photos it generates so you can’t really use it as a whole and follow the attribution part of CC.
The new MaintainIT cookbook is out – The Joy of Computing
MaintainIT cookbooks are a great (free) resource! “Planning for Success, a guide for the overworked librarian” one covers:
- Planning and Decision Making covers the ins and outs of creating a technology plan that ties to your strategic priorities and goals.
- Communication and Partnerships delves in the fundamentals of day-to-day technology communication from a “techie” and “non-techie” perspective. It also includes some important guidelines for working and collaborating with key stakeholders.
- Buying and Deploying Technology goes through some of the core actions and decisions you need to consider when planning deployments, installations, and upgrades.
- Maintaining and Sustaining Technology offers important insight into the daily management of public computers.
- Networking and Security covers some of the basic standards and practices for ensuring your library’s network security.
- Innovation highlights the true value of today’s libraries and the role in serving as the center of new community conversations via a much higher level of user interactivity and experiences. If you are ready for Web 2.0, this is a good place to start.
You can find the new Cookbook here: http://www.maintainitproject.org/cookbooks/planning-for-success
Photoshop Express
Looking for a free way to edit your photos online? There are lots of options but today one more joins they frey and it’s already got name recognition on it’s side. Adobe Photoshop Express allows you to load pictures from Facebook, Photobucket and Picasa. There are plenty of tools, but of course not everything that the paid version does, but still for a free tool, it’s pretty nice. Go check it out.
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- Digital Literacy Skills Essential to Closing Broadband Gap #knightcommThe Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy sites the Broadband Adoption and Use in America (pdf) report released by the Federal Communications Commission in Digital Literacy Skills Essential to Closing Broadband Gap when emphasising the importance and need for digital literacy The survey findings reinforce the growing body o […]Bobbi Newman
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