Top Ten Links Week 6

February 12, 2010 · Posted in Links, Read This · View Comments

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My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 2/5/2010 thru 2/11/2010

follow the UK Transliteracy conference here – the UK conference on Transliteracy was on Tuesday, if you missed coverage has been archived on the site.
Evolution of the Book – cool graph of the evolution of books
The State of the Internet- another cool graphic from Stephen
20 Inspiring Women To Follow On Twitter from Forbes – I don’t know about you, but I can always use more inspirational women in my life.
LISnew is holding its first ever essay contest. yes there are prizes! go write your submission now! or read the entries.
ALA |Library Snapshot Day: A Day in the Life of Your Library: April 2010 – for those of you who enjoy the Library Day in the Life Project here is something similar from ALA, photograph a single day at your library to showcase what happens in the entire library in a single day
“I predict that Apple will sell a gazillion. & it won’t be to ppl who have even heard of multi-tasking” and article from Wired with a nice quip to remind us techies that we aren’t the target audience of the iPad.
5 Tips for Trainers to Prevent TechFail – Technology failure during training (or presentations) is a nightmare here are 5 great times from Maurice Coleman in a post on ALA Learning.
From OCLC’s Newletter: The global scope of library activity – great summary with numbers
NYTimes: Publishers Win a Bout in E-Book Price Fight – we are going to see a lot of changes in the ebook industry over the next year, pricing is just one.

Tags: <book, eBooks, essay contest, evolution, internet, ipad, library snapshot day, lisnews, pricing, techfail, Transliteracy>

Top Ten Links Week 5

February 5, 2010 · Posted in Links, Read This · View Comments

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My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 1/29/2010 thru 2/4/2010

about dismantling the echo-chamber… more on the echo chamber
Content Creators & Consumers (& the iPad ) – an interesting post on who the audience of the iPad is. I know its not me, but I’ve had conversations with enough people who are just waiting to get one that I know there is an audience no matter what the techies feel its lacking.
Facebook Is Working On A Foursquare-Killer
Why Smart People Don’t Learn from Failures – its ok to fail, just be sure you learn something from it.
President’s budget freezes library funding, omits school libraries from education increase if you haven’t heard or read about this you need to and read Buffy Hamilton’s response An Indecent Proposal
Don’t feed the trolls, unless you’re feeding them tranquilizers – great article on how to handle blog comments, including how to handle trolls
10 Steps to Promote Learning in Your Conference Presentation
Information and services should be equal
But, I Like My Loser Friends! great post from Mary Schmidt at Lip-Sticking in response to The Most Important Success Tip:Stop Lying Down with Dogs, Already from Copyblogger
ALA Learning -5 Tips for Trainers to Prevent TechFail

Tags: <Blogging, comments, echo chamber, Facebook, failure, foursquare, ipad, Learning, library budgets, mistakes, Presentations, Training, trolls>

Top Ten Links Week 4

January 29, 2010 · Posted in Links, Read This · View Comments

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My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 1/22/2010 thru 1/28/2010

“Your Brain Can’t Handle Your Facebook Friends” – great article from Mashable using Dunbar’s Number to explain why you can’t keep up with more than 150 Facebook Friends. I’m guess that applies to Twitter as well.
Social Technology & an Innovative Intranet can Increase Employee Productivity give stats & examples, reminds me I need to finish my follow up post to Control is an Illusion You Need to Let Go
“from social media to social action: when awareness isn’t enough.” – remember while social media helps create awareness of issues, awareness does not equal action. No retweeting or sharing on Facebook does not count as action, despite what all the women who posted their bra color might think.
you buy wine, kids get books, its win win for everybody, even if its bad wine you can give it as gifts – nuf said
iPad is iBad for freedom – from Free Software Foundation – a must read if you care about DRM & open source & open access. While you’re at it read these: 8 Things That Suck About the iPad and The Problem with the Apple iPad like how I snuck 2 extra links in there?
Programme Transliteracy Conference 9 Feb 2010 - I am so sad I wasn’t able to find funding to attend this, I’ll be following closely online.
The Seth Godin Uber Echo Disaster! – I know I blogged about the echo chamber earlier this week, but I hope you’re still thinking about it.
The Relevance Economy: Why mattering matters. – an interesting read on the relevance of things, it is all relative.
google voice for iphone – RT @kenleyneufeld: Just tested and it works perfectly. Here’s a better link direct from god. – google voice is finally on the iphone
@curiouschild have you seen this? - monkeys are involved and my infatuation with Monkeys is well documented.