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Top Ten Links Week 10

March 20, 2010
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Top Ten Links Week 10

My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 3/5/2010 thru 3/11/2010 1.How to Overcome Idea-to-idea Syndrome via @dmlcentral – Ideas are great, but its the follow through that matters. The idea is the easy part, the dream the vision the excitement, putting it into action requires rolling up your sleeves, late nights, long hours, convincing others and more. The follow through is where most ideas fall down. 2. How to Stay Positive…when the boss isn’t – via @buffyjhamilton for the record my boss is great and more positive than I am Make Your Bus Great Your Positive Energy Must be Greater than All of the Negativity Live it, Breathe it, Share it – Walt Whitman said we convince by our presence. Invite Your Boss on Your Bus – Give your boss The Energy Bus or another book on positive leadership. If Your Boss Doesn’t Change, You Can – If all else fails then you have a choice. 3. Digital Literacy Skills Essential to Closing Broadband Gap – from the The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy The survey findings reinforce the growing body of research that finds digital literacy skills are critical

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Top Ten Links Week 9

March 5, 2010
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Top Ten Links Week 9

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

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Persuasion, Influence & Innovative Ideas

October 30, 2009
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Persuasion, Influence & Innovative Ideas

Notes from the 2009 Internet Librarian Conference Rebecca Jones Nicole Henning Nicole Henning Avoid abstraction like the devil Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die We should reward success and failure, punish inaction Innovation comes from quantity The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas Results only work environment ROWE, came from Best Buy Frustrated with cooperate environment, that work was all about coming in early & leaving late, or look like they were, in workplace we are treated like children, We have more autonomy as college students that we do as adults Set up system so not punching clock only judged on out put, meetings were optional, needed to show value of meeting to get people to it After 2 years of keeping stats & showed productivity went through the roof, took to upper mngment, did it across the company, then wrote a book called Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It: No Schedules, No Meetings, No Joke–the Simple Change That Can Make Your Job Terrific Find the right audience One small step Under the radar Speak the language of the ppl you want to convince MIT Libraries Betas page Libraries.mit.edu/betas Can

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Intergrating Libraries & Communities

October 31, 2007
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Intergrating Libraries & Communities

This was a great presentation that started out with a look at Hennepin’s wonderful Bookspace, hop over and take a look at it, it’s impressive. Just some of the things that really stand out pictures of patrons reading blog enews sign ups main page index Featured lists – created by librarians What We’re Reading – created by staff Reader’s Lists – patrons are creating these! Genre pages New titles list Librarian tips and news Who is doing all this work? There is a Bookspace Coordinator, a senior Libririan in Web Services, a bookspace worskshop and bookspace coordinators. The interface for contribution is easy! Staff are required to contribute content, it is part of their job, not volunteer. Robin did a write up of this from her IT point of view and you can see the whole presentation here (scroll down). Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend

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Blending In: Librarians in the Networked Community

October 30, 2007
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Chrystie R. Hill led off on this session with some great examples and facts about Librarians and Libraries in networked communities. “Big Ups” to Michael Porter who followed with a smart and funny presentation that woke me up before my 3rd cup of coffee, something that’s pretty hard to do. He showed some example Library website and the great things they are doing. Some of the ideas he showed and my thoughts about them Big WiFi zone button – we have WiFi? Do we advertise it on our site? I have to check. ugh I should know this Featured Local Artist – hey! We have an Art Gallery in our Library and we let local artist display their work, why don’t we have this? Survey linked from main page in an eye catching way – Topeka Shawnee – another great idea I’d love to steal, Robin have you noticed I keep adding to your “to-do” list? A “Donate to your Library” Button right on the homepage -great idea! Some startling statistics, which I didn’t get written down except the last part, essentially use of almost all online tools has gone up considerably in the last 2 years, except Library websites,

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