My personal select top ten from the links I shared on Twitter 10/1/2010 through 10/7/2010. The best of the best and/or the most important stuff I tweeted last week

1. broadband is the great infrastructure challenge of the early 21st century #broadband – a broadband.gov post from Phoebe Yang – Senior Advisor to the Chairman on Broadband. It’s no great secret how I feel about broadband and the digital divide.

2. Three more folks on the Bloggers@IL2010 list and now WordPress.com and WordPress Self Hosted are tied again.- Going to be at Internet Librarian and blogging your sessions? Let ITI know so you will be on the resource list for those who can’t attend

3. 8 Bad Habits that Crush Your Creativity And Stifle Your Success via @copyblogger @DanielPink

1. Creating and evaluating at the same time
2. The Expert Syndrome
3. Fear of failure
4. Fear of ambiguity
5. Lack of confidence
6. Discouragement from other people
7. Being overwhelmed by information
8. Being trapped by false limits

4. E-rate in a Broadband World - This week, the Commission released the text of an order that modernizes and upgrades the E-rate program to bring fast, affordable Internet access to schools and libraries across the country.

… the Commission conducted a survey which found that almost 80 percent of E-rate recipients believe their current Internet connections are not sufficient to meet their current needs.

To begin to address this gap, the Commission’s order will make it easier for schools and libraries to get the highest speeds for the lowest prices by increasing their options for broadband providers. The key provisions in the order include:

• Allowing participants to use E-rate funds to connect to the Internet in the most cost-effective way possible, including via unused fiber optic lines already in place across the country and through existing state, regional and local networks;
• Making permanent a waiver that allows schools to create “School Spots” by opening up their doors to greater community use of E-rate supported services and facilities. Schools are already taking advantage of the existing waiver allowing them the option to provide Internet access to the local community after regular school hours. We’d love to hear your community use “success story” so please let us know if you are opening your doors as well.
• Launching a pilot program to support off-campus wireless Internet connectivity for portable learning devices;
• Indexing the cap on E-rate funding to inflation so that the program can more fully meet the needs of students and communities;
• Allowing the program to support connections to the dormitories of schools that serve students facing unique challenges, such as Tribal schools or schools for children with physical, cognitive, or behavioral disabilities;
• Bolstering protections against waste, fraud, and abuse by codifying competitive bidding requirements and clarifying restrictions on gifts from potential service providers; and
• Streamlining the E-rate application process.

5. I’m working on this and I’m so busy RT @gretchenrubin: No More Complaining, “I Feel So Tired.” – I’ve learned that saying how busy I am only makes me feel more busy and hurried and doesn’t accomplish anything.  Luckily I don’t often complain that I’m tired but I can apply these same principals to complaining about how busy I am.

6. The real cost of free -  well-written, calm take-down by @doctorow

7. “If you want everyone to have the same mental model of a problem, the fastest way to do it is with a picture.” Great article on why sometimes the best, most clear form of communication is not words.

8. Schedule Your Work to Avoid Choking Your Calendar with Interruptions via @TheLiB @Lifehacker#timemanagement – a must read post on time management and productivity.

In my experience, most people don’t schedule their work. They schedule the interruptions that prevent their work from happening.

9. great tool for those like me who are super sad Google Reader discontinued page change tracking Page2RSS

10. Scientific American: Why Broadband Service in the U.S. is So Awful#KnightComm #broadband

The average U.S. household has to pay an exorbitant amount of money for an Internetconnection that the rest of the industrial world would find mediocre. According to a recent report by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, broadband Internet service in the U.S. is not just slower and more expensive than it is in tech-savvy nations such as South Korea and Japan; the U.S. has fallen behind infrastructure-challenged countries such as Portugal and Italy as well.

11. Gmail Priority Inbox: 5 Tips for Better Productivity #timemanagement – Just when I thought Gmail couldn’t get any better they rolled out Priority InBox. I love it! I get a lot of email and I’m a busy lady. These 5 tips from Mashable will help you conquer your email

1. Prioritize Filters
2. Customize Sections
3. Start With a Clean Slate
4. Use Your “Inbox” for Folders
5. Test Priority with Multiple Inboxes

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• Top Ten Links Week 12

My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 3/12/2010 thru 3/18/2010

1. Media Skills Integrated into Core Standards #transliteracy – A draft of K-12 standards put forth by the National Governor’s Association, as part of theCommon Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI), integrates media skills as a key design consideration of these standards.

2. love this picture of the social media bandwagon - from @jimmy1712‘s blog.via @theREALwikimanv- even better it has a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license!

3. Excellent primer on covering FCC broadband plan and why it matters via @knightfdn @ibarguen:

This is an issue that will touch just about every reader, viewer, listener and online user. After all, 35 percent of Americans (about 100 million people) do not have broadband access

4. FCC Proposes Digital Literacy Corps from the Libraries and Transliteracy blog

For millions of Americans, libraries and other public computing centers are important venues for free Internet access. Libraries are established institutions where non-adopters know they can access the Internet, but community centers, employment offices, churches and other social service offices play increasingly important roles. Low-income Americans and racial and ethnic minorities, in particular, rely on public institutions and community access centers for Internet access. Over half (51%) of African Americans and 43% of Hispanics who use the Internet do so at a public library.

5. “Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity“ danah boyd’s talk from SXSW

6. The death of the library book RT @civillibrarian: Interesting piece on public libraries in Salon

I wonder who this design is supposed to attract. If you’re not middle-class, college-educated, and adorned with an iPhone or laptop — or, more to the funding point, a potential donor — I have my doubts about how inviting this is.

7. I really need to start doing this! The Lost Practice of Resting One Day Each Week – there are some great reasons to take time off:  Healthier body, Less stress, Deeper relationships, Opportunity for reflection, Balance, Increased production, Reserve for life’s emergencies

8. RT @buffyjhamilton: “Nobody, but Nobody Can Make It Out Here Alone” – try Skype to connect with others when time and distance prevent you from doing it face to face.

9. Love this quote! “Knowledge isn’t power; the ability to act on knowledge is power ” from Should Honesty Be the Policy in Your Office?

10. HBR – the cardinal rule of rules: never break a rule

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Since posting the Libraries and Transliteracy slideshow I’ve been asked many times to define transliteracy. Its a slippery term, people often confuse it with digital literacy or technology literacy. Sometimes I’m not sure I even have a good grasp on the concept. So a colleague and I sat out to hash out the details, here is what we came up with.

In collaboration with Brian Hulsey

Special thanks to Sue Thomas and Tom Ipri for their input & approval.

If you’d like to learn about libraries and transilteracy please visit my Transliteracy page

If you’d like to know more about transliteracy in general please visit transliteracy.com and follow the conference on February 9th.Similar Posts:

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Andy has put together a list of 5 Universal Truths That All Librarians Can Agree Upon Right Now.

1. Perception of information is changing
2. Literacy is changing
3. Libraries are now part of greater information chorus
4. Communication is our friend
5. The underlying philosophies of the library have not changed

I like the focus on the positive and of course I want to know – do you agree?Similar Posts:

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