Librarian by Day Bobbi Newman | I'm not that kind of librarian

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 Read more [...]

I know I've shared this story with many of you in person, so forgive me if you've already heard it. It seems like ages ago that I got invited to attend the International Conference on Libraries, Information and Society, but it was only in June that I got a Facebook message asking me if I would consider attending. Yes that's right a Facebook message, about 90% of the communication, planning and details for this visit, were done though Facebook. It seems like I've been planning and preparing for it for ages. I know some of you wondered where I've been over the last month or so. But the time Read more [...]

The Common Craft Show is a series of short explanatory videos by Lee and Sachi LeFever. Our goal is to fight complexity with simple tools and plain language. We call our format "paperworks" and publish a new video about once a month. Website: http://www.commoncraft.com/show Read more [...]

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 Read more [...]

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 Read more [...]