Top Ten Links Week 9
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My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 2/26/2010 thru 3/04/2010
1 . Are We Becoming Our Own Puppetmasters? – a thought-provoking post from Venessa Miemis asking the questions
“What do our online personas do to our physical-world identities? As we invest more time into developing our digital selves, is something taken away from who we are? Or something added?”
2. Librarian Essay Contest: 22 Essays in 28 Days via @LISNews: - go vote on your favorite essays and keep an eye out for the winner.
3. Do You Make These 3 Common Mistakes When Trying to Improve Your Self Confidence? – I know I have been guilty of all of them at some point.
- You sit around and hope that you can solve it in your mind somehow.
- You focus on the wrong things.
- You don’t prepare.
4. Online Content Should Never Have Been Free via @libraryriot @Newsweek:- an interesting look at what we expect to pay for content changes based on the format in which we access it.
5. Has Digital Media Changed American Youth? what effect is the connections of social media having on the young?
6. Brainwashed: Seven Ways to Reinvent Yourself via @VenessaMiemis: Awesome Manifesto by @sethgodins via @SmarttKyle
Years ago, when you were about four years old, the system set out to persuade you of something that isn’t true. Not just persuade, but drill, practice, reinforce and, yes, brainwash. The mission: to teach you that you’re average; That compliant work is the best way to a reliable living; That creating average stuff for average people, again and again, is a safe and easy way to get what you want.
7.New Pew study on information shift away from print/broadcast: #infoneeds via @agahran:
A few highlights…
- Popularity: “The internet has surpassed newspapers and radio in popularity as a news platform on a typical day and now ranks just behind TV.”
- Portability: “33% of cell phone owners now access news on their cell phones.”
- Personalization: “28% of internet users have customized their home page to include news from sources and on topics that particularly interest them.”
- Participation: “37% of internet users have contributed to the creation of news, commented about it, or disseminated it via postings on social media sites like Facebook or Twitter. …More than 8 in 10 online news consumers get or share links in e-mails.”
- Socializing: “Getting news is often an important social act. Some 72% of American news consumers say they follow the news because they enjoy talking with others about what is happening in the world and 69% say keeping up with the news is a social or civic obligation. And 50% of American news consumers say they rely to some degree on people around them to tell them the news they need to know.”
8. Having Ideas Vs Having a Vision [HBR] – ideas are not in short supply, visionaries are, we need more visionaries, they are how things get done. via @VenessaMiemis:
9. “The Future of the Library: Urban Mediaspace via @dmlcentral
This seems like a great way to both provide a center for civic and cultural life and reinvent libraries for the digital age.
10. The White House Asks: What Does A 21st Century Education Mean to You? – Yes The White House. Go tell them. Leave a comment. Tell them how vital libraries are and why. Do it.
Top Ten Links Week 8
My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 2/19/2010 thru 2/25/2010
1. RT @VenessaMiemis: 16 free ebooks about social media via @fredzimny. Just look at this list of titles and authors :
- Building a Social Media Team, Amber Naslund,
- ContentCory Doctorow
- Customer Service, The Art of Listening and Engagement Through Social Media, Brian Solis
- Fish Where the Fish Are – Mapping Social Media to the Buying Cycle, Chris Brogan
- Getting a Foothold in Social Media, Amber Naslund
- Let’s Talk: Social Media for Small Business, John Jantsch
- New Media and the Air Force, United States Air Force Public Affairs Agency
- Social Media and Network Starting Points, Chris Brogan
- Social Media Time Management, Amber Naslund
- Social Media Tips: Sharing lessons learned to help your business grow, Jeff Hayzlett
- The Art of Community, Jono Bacon
- The Essential Guide to Social Media, Brian Solis
- The New Rules of Viral Marketing, David Meerman Scott
- The Simple Web: A Philosophy for Getting What You Want, Skellie
- The Social Media Starter Kit, Amber Naslund
- What is Social Media?, Antony Mayfield
2. RT @VenessaMiemis: new post – reimagining human/social capital & how to spark innovation - Tapping the Network to Facilitate Innovation – How can the power and scope of social networks, combined with a human capital inventory, be used to facilitate shared creation and innovation?
3. RT @FluffTheBunny: Unlink your feeds – A Manifesto – as someone who is driving slightly (or slightlier) crazy by friends who dump their tweets into Facebook I can’t agree more!
4. Incredibly proud to be involved in the new Libraries & Transliteracy blog with @Tombrarian & @buffyjhamilton – oh come on, you didn’t think I could leave a mention of this out did you? I’m SO excited about this project!
5. RT @rww: On Facebook, You’re Really You - “Psychologists found that “faking it” online is tougher than previously imagined.”
6. No One Knows What the F*** They’re Doing and Feeling Like a Fraud – great read! via @griffey – I don’t know about you but I feel like this all the time, I’m just waiting for someone to notice I don’t know what I’m talking about. I’ve discussed it with friends and some people have called it the impostor syndrome (don’t look at wikipedia’s definition its too
7. RT @zephoria: UX Magazine (@uxmag) has published my “Streams of Content, Limited Attention“ today: Hope you enjoy! – An important read from danah boyd on information flow and “four challenges, points where technological hope and reality collide.”
8. Why are you apologizing? – Like all of Seth Godin’s posts this one is short but gets the point across. Don’t apologize for something you’re doing. Either don’t do it, or do it and don’t apologize.
9. How Social Is Too Social? – not everything is better with friends.
10. Empowering Parents & Protecting Children in an Evolving Media Landscape – Another important read from danah boyd et al “The FCC published a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) on the important topic of empowering parents and protecting youth in an era of an evolving media landscape. John Palfrey, Urs Gasser, and I took the opportunity to respond to the NOI on behalf of the Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative at the Berkman Center. What we wrote should not surprise any of you who are following our work, but our research-grounded response may be of great value for those of you who are interested in this topic. For this reason – and because we all believe in transparency – we have decided to publicly share the document that we crafted.”
Top Ten Links Week 7
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My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 2/12/2010 thru 2/18/2010
- Why are you for killing libraries? a thought-provoking post from Tim Spalding of LibraryThing questioning why libraries are embracing ebooks, especially when the ebook market is set to cut libraries out of participation.
- RT @vonburkhardt: New blog post: Ambient Awareness in Twitter for Reference – good suggestions on using Twitter to connect with your community
- The Future of Media: Framing the Debate – from the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy – “The Federal Communications Commission has launched an examination into the Future of Media and Information Needs of Communities in a Digital Age with a public notice that calls for public input through March 8, 2010.” public input – thats you!
- RT @VenessaMiemis: people share news online that inspires awe, researchers find – from the New York Times Will You Be E-Mailing This Column? It’s Awesome, we much prefer to share good news than bad news! hurray!
- Friday Poll: TED Attendees Talk Top Technology Trends – an informal poll from Mashable in which they asked TED attendees – ““What do you think is the most interesting thing happening in technology right now?”
- 8 Things You Need to Know About Collaboration – great list including number 3. Collaboration is a human process – throwing technology at people won’t magically/automatically create collaboration
- The 10 Top Reasons Why The 10 Top Reasons Don’t Really Matter - you gotta love a list that debunks lists plus it actually has some good points like number 5. “Not everything that counts can be counted; and not everything that can be counted counts.” (Einstein)
- Digital Books and Your Rights: A Checklist for Readers – I don’t care if you love or hate ebooks, as a librarian you need to know about ownership rights, they are different from print books.
- History of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook. – fear that the latest popular technology is a sure sign the world is ending isn’t new. “Conrad Gessner, might have been the first to raise the alarm about the effects of information overload. In a landmark book, he described how the modern world overwhelmed people with data and that this overabundance was both “confusing and harmful” to the mind. … he died in 1565.”
- RT @theREALwikiman: RT @LISNews How close is the library to death? The Unspeakable Truth Ned Potter’s essay for the LISnews essay contest takes a hard look at the place of libraries in the future. Be sure to read the comments too
Top Ten Links Week 6
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My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 2/5/2010 thru 2/11/2010
- follow the UK Transliteracy conference here – the UK conference on Transliteracy was on Tuesday, if you missed coverage has been archived on the site.
- Evolution of the Book – cool graph of the evolution of books
- The State of the Internet- another cool graphic from Stephen
- 20 Inspiring Women To Follow On Twitter from Forbes – I don’t know about you, but I can always use more inspirational women in my life.
- LISnew is holding its first ever essay contest. yes there are prizes! go write your submission now! or read the entries.
- ALA |Library Snapshot Day: A Day in the Life of Your Library: April 2010 – for those of you who enjoy the Library Day in the Life Project here is something similar from ALA, photograph a single day at your library to showcase what happens in the entire library in a single day
- “I predict that Apple will sell a gazillion. & it won’t be to ppl who have even heard of multi-tasking” and article from Wired with a nice quip to remind us techies that we aren’t the target audience of the iPad.
- 5 Tips for Trainers to Prevent TechFail – Technology failure during training (or presentations) is a nightmare here are 5 great times from Maurice Coleman in a post on ALA Learning.
- From OCLC’s Newletter: The global scope of library activity – great summary with numbers
- NYTimes: Publishers Win a Bout in E-Book Price Fight – we are going to see a lot of changes in the ebook industry over the next year, pricing is just one.
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