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Top Ten Links 2.18: TED Talks, Failure, ALA, Privacy, Personal Branding and Identity

May 7, 2011
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Top Ten Links 2.18: TED Talks, Failure, ALA, Privacy, Personal Branding and Identity

My personally selected top ten from the links I shared on Twitter 4.30.2011 through 5.6.2011.  In no particular order: 1 TEDucation: 5 TED Talks Librarians Should Watch (and Why) Andy has put together a list of 5 must see TED talks. Ken Robinson – Schools Kill Creativity William Kamkwamba: How I Harnessed the Wind Malcolm Gladwell – What We Can Learn from Spaghetti Sauce Mark Bezos – A Life Lesson from a Volunteer Firefighter JR – Use Art To Turn the World Inside Out 2. It’s not the mistake. It’s how you deal with it by @dontgetcaught I’ve written before about mistakes and learning from failure. This post from Denise talks about how making a mistake while speaking and how to recover from it. In music or dance, when one performer lets a mistake stop her, it throws the rest of the people off who are performing with her–and that can throw the performance. And even if you’re the only one speaking, a mistake that stops you stops the audience and becomes the focal point. But the speaker who can figure out, fast, how to keep going will have the audience on her side–either because they don’t know what happened (often) or because

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Top Ten Links Week 30 – Happiness, Social Media Comptency, eBooks, Digital Natives, Prezi, Facebook Privacy and More!

July 30, 2010
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My personal select top ten links from Twitter 7/23/2010 through 7/29/2010. The best of the best and/or the most important stuff I tweeted last week 1. So-Called “Digital Natives” Not Media Savvy, New Study Shows via @colleengreene – I know the concept of digital natives has been popular but anyone who works with the generation knows that it is inaccurate there is a huge divide between those with the access to technology, never mind the know-how to use it. 2. AssortedStuff » We Need More Tech Skeptics – more on the idea of digital natives 3. Five tips for asking better questions – asking questions is easy, asking good questions is hard. Good questions require creative thinking. When you’re lost, look for questions, not answers. Think of your career path as a question path. Asking good questions takes work – that you have to do yourself. Field other peoples’ questions to get better at asking questions. 4. great perspective But who will speak for the trees? – a different look at ebooks from someone who does not work in libraries 5. great tips for speakers – How do we balance technical v. non technical for a mixed audience? as a tech

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