My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 3/19/2010 thru 3/25/2010 1. Youth in Nigeria leverage social media to organize and document massive rally against government via @dmlcentral: Twitter users Gbengasesan and Bubusn posted pictures of the march, and live footage of the event was available at ustream. The demonstration had an online presence unprecedented in the history of Nigerian protest: Facebook, Twitter, and Nigeria’s extensive blogging networks were all mobilized in support of the event (of particular note were the Facebook group Save Nigeriaand the demonstration organizers’ website Where is Yar’Adua?).Nigerian Curiosity even reported that the hashtag#enoughisenough was the number three trending topic on Twitter (though she pointed out that not all the tweets referred specifically to the demonstration in Abuja). Many in the online community expressed their support for the marchers. 2. Overdrive’s New Program for Visually Impaired Readers – the first thing I did after reading this is email my Overdrive rep and tell him we want to sign up! LEAP allows your library patrons to access and use Bookshare.org, a service limited to students. The partnership between Overdrive and Bookshare will extend Bookshare services to patrons of libraries who provide Overdrive service to their patrons. There is
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Top Ten Links – Week 2
My hand selected best links I shared on Twitter from 1/8/2010 through 1/14/2010 in no particular oder: Just call me Tenzing Norbook, I guess. Toby Greenwalt’s response to Seth Godin’s post about libraries and the discussion that takes place in the comments. 2010: The Only Year of the E-Reader great article from Fast Company on why, despite the awesomeness of many of the new ereaders, they wont be sticking around long. Top Innovators Practice 5 Skills the Rest of Us Don’t if you can stand yet another article about innovation the 5 skills are something we should all be doing, innovator or not. To Know the Library Is To Love the Library — But Who Knows the Library? Toby’s article on the Huffington Post A Taxonomy of Reflection: Critical Thinking For Students, Teachers, and Principals (Part I) How to remove yourself from a Twitter List – lets face it, check what twitter lists you’re on is just one more part of being aware of your online identity, if you show up on one you don’t like you have some options Perpetual Beta – a new blog from Jason Griffey and American Libraries, about technology of course. Protecting Reputations Online in Plain English –
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