My personal select top ten links from Twitter 8/27/2010 through 9/2/2010. The best of the best and/or the most important stuff I tweeted last week 1. 7 Stories About Women Heroes in Tech via dontgetcaught - I can always use more inspiring stories about women, especially in tech where there seem to be fewer of us. 2. You Have to Be in It to Win It!: A seven-step program to embrace ebooks – A great remind and an easy list from Library School Journal 3. Broadband summit asks how to close rural digital divide - some great stats and information about broadband access in the digital divide in rural America. A new survey out this week shows that a majority of rural Minnesotans have access to faster Internet connections. Yet some other trends are not as hopeful. One in four Minnesota households, mostly older and poorer residents, have no computer at home, according to the survey prepared by the University of Minnesota Crookston and the Center for Rural Policy and Development in St. Peter. 4 . Why are the elderly joining Facebook? To stay in touch with family/friends and find support for chronic illness ET via EngageInHealth – Facebook not just for
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Top Ten Links Week 29- Logo Contest, Speaker Tips, Finding Time, The Value of Privacy, and More
My personal select top ten links from Twitter 7/16/2010 through 7/22/2010. The best of the best and/or the most important stuff I tweeted last week! 1. Logo Contest Entry – John LeMasney « Libraries and Transliteracy - Libraries and Transliteracy needs a logo so we’ve opened up a contest. 2. Logo Contest Entry – Nate Hill « Libraries and Transliteracyhttp://bit.ly/a4jsX2 @natenatenate 3. The networked speaker: 10 ways to make the most of your next gig via @dontgetcaught – some great tips from one of my new favorite blogs Business cards QR (quick response) A special website for advance information Followup on the web Work your social networks. Work the room before you speak Work the halls after Keep better track of those you meet in person. Learn about co-presenters and panelists in advance Work with your organizers. 4. a must read! “How would the Dalai Lama tell people to F**K off?” Finding that sweet spot btwn polite & assertive – enough said 5. How to Find Time to Learn Something New or Tackle a Passion Project – post from Lifehacker on how to squeeze all those extras into your life. Very in nice in relation to my post earlier this week
Top Ten Links Week 24
My personally selected top 10 links that I posted on Twitter from 6/11/2010 to 6/17/2010 1. me too! RT @sumaya: I need to take the advice from this post: Learn to Say “NO” to (more) Meetings – written for entrepreneurs but great advice for anyone 2. The Death of the Library: Read It and Weep I walked into my local public library in London the other day and got a rude shock. All of my favorite librarians were gone. They’d been replaced by machines. Where the circulation desk once stood — manned by a friendly soul with whom I’d chat about politics or the weather or the latest London Review of Books — I now swiped my library card and pushed a button that said “borrow” or “return.” They’d also done some remodeling. This particular branch sits in an elegant 1930s building located in the garden of the house where the poet John Keats wrote his ”Ode to a Nightingale.” The main room — once cluttered with books that literally spilled onto the floor — now is a shadow of its former self. Rather than books, the main thing on display would appear to be tables — artfully dotted around the room as if this were a café
Top Ten Links Week 23
My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 6/4/2010 thru 6/10/2010 1. great list of people to follow! – My Personal Learning Network of Librarians & Library Trainers By @MLx – this pretty self explanatory, Marianne has put together a great list 2. 10 Ways to Use Google Books for Lifelong Learning and Research via @MLx Build Your Own Personal Library for Lifelong Learning Your Very Own Magazine Stand Try the Advanced Book Search Share Your Library with Others Search for Specific Text within Your Own Collection Find Copycats Get the Meanings of Words in Context Search for Other Editions or Related Books Download Google Books for Offline Reading Quench Your Hunger for Strange Knowledge 3. We’re excited about @GirlUp, a new campaign launched by @UNFoundation to unite girls to change the world – Girl Up website – seriously awesome No matter where they live in the world, girls are bright, talented, and full of dreams. But too many girls growing up in developing countries aren’t able to fulfill those dreams because their chances to go to school, stay healthy, and live free from violence are out of reach. The United Nations Foundation’s Girl Up is a campaign for
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