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Top Ten Links 2.15: Presenting Tips, Net Neutrality, eReaders and the Environment & More!

April 17, 2011
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Top Ten Links 2.15: Presenting Tips, Net Neutrality, eReaders and the Environment & More!

My personally selected top ten from the links I shared on Twitter 4.10.2011 through 4.16.2011.  In no particular order: 1. Stop BREAKING THE BASIC RULES of presenting! « thewikiman another great presentation from Ned Potter, I think this one spent most of last week on the front page of Slidehsare.net. Stop Breaking The Basic Rules of Presenting View more presentations from Ned Potter 2. House passes anti-net neutrality bill via @huffingtonpost VenessaMiemis Gotta love net neutrality being refered to as a FCC power grab. Net neutrality is important people pay attention to efforts to thwart it! 3. Boopsie launches BookCheck, mobile check-out for libraries, now in use at Cuyahoga County Public Library Leveraging barcode-scanning technology, the new feature allows library patrons to retrieve basic catalog information (real-time access from the library’s ILS system) and content from third-party sources such as book reviews, plot summaries and author bios from anywhere in the library using their mobile phone. Library cardholders can then check out the book with one click of a button. BookCheck is immediately available for Android device users. Support for iPhone and select Blackberry devices will follow shortly. 4. 2011 State of America’s Libraries Report via @tadawes the latest State of America’s

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The Time is Now

March 14, 2011
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Inspired by the Shift Happens deck Ned Potter has created this awesome slideshow. One of Ned’s goals/causes is to escape the echo chamber of libraryland so this is aimed at non-librarians. Well done Ned. The time for Libraries is NOW View more presentations from Ned Potter Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Buzz it up 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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Library Day in the Life Project In The Guardian #libday6 #echolib

February 2, 2011
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Library Day in the Life Project In The Guardian #libday6 #echolib

I was thrilled to discover the Library Day in the Life Project was mentioned in a recent article in The Guardian for a couple of reason. First it awesome to see it mentioned in The Guardian! Second, Emma Cragg and Katie Birkwood have written a great article highlighting what it takes to be a librarian today. Beyond books: What It Takes to be a 21st century Librarian: From Connecting With People to Keeping Up With the Latest Technologies, There is a Whole Lot More to the Job Than Stamping Due Dates: As well as being good communicators with people and active adopters and exploiters of technological developments, librarians need to have detailed specialist subject knowledge to pass on to library users. Librarians provide training to show people how to search for information and evaluate what they find. These information skills sessions are now expanding to include digital literacies such as how to stay safe online, the use of social media sites and online collaboration tools. Third, The article also includes mention of Ned Potter’s Library Routes Project which accepting participants, so if you haven’t blogged your library route or roots do it today! The idea is to document either or both of your library roots

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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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