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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 19

May 16, 2010
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My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 5/7/2010 thru 5/13/2010 1. kindness is one of the simplest things that make the biggest different How to Be Kinder: 11 Fine Tips If you only read one thing from this post read this one. We could use a little more kindness in the world and its far too underated. Don’t just look at the list go read the whole article. Be grateful for what you got. Express it. Minimize judgments. Take it easy with the criticism. Try to understand the other side. Make positive observations about people. Remember the small and kind gestures. Remind yourself. It’s easy to forget. Awash yourself in the positive memories of the times when you were kind. Take the smarter and higher road. Be kind to yourself. 2. Internet Archive Launches Library for the Visually Impaired With 1M Books via @ALA_TechSource The 1 million+ books in the Internet Archive’s library for print disabled, are scanned from hard copy books then digitized into DAISY — a specialized format used by blind or other persons with disabilities, for easy navigation. Files are downloaded to devices that translate the text and read the books

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Top Ten Links Week 18

May 7, 2010
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My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 4/30/2010 thru  5/6/2010 1.very interesting! Social Media Withdrawal: What Happens When Kids Give Up Their Connections – fascinating! Definitely worth reading. Among the top findings Students use literal terms of addiction to characterize their dependence on media. Students hate going without media. In their world, going without media means going without their friends and family. Students show no significant loyalty to a news program, news personality or even news platform. Students have only a casual relationship to the originators of news, and in fact don’t make fine distinctions between news and more personal information. They get news in a disaggregated way, often via friends. 18- to 21-year-old college students are constantly texting and on Facebook—with calling and email distant seconds as ways of staying in touch, especially with friends. Students could live without their TVs and the newspaper, but they can’t survive without their iPods. 2. Gallery: 8 Tablets That Aren’t Made by Apple 3. Rethinking the professionalism of librarians; an MLS does not a professional librarian make via @level250geek from 10 Reasons Why “Professional Librarian is an Oxymoron” Librarians Have No Monopoly On The Activities They Claim There Are No

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Facebook Community Pages vs Official Pages and Your Library or Business

May 6, 2010
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Facebook Community Pages vs Official Pages and Your Library or Business

I have paid very little attention to Facebook’s connections and the community pages it creates until yesterday. Yesterday I took a closer look at connections and my profile page.  Now like many libraries my library has a Facebook page it looks like this. I kept the library in my work history when I click on that name on my info tab I see this – a community page. At the top is says Our goal is to make this Community Page the best collection of shared knowledge on this topic. If you have a passion for Chattahoochee Valley Libraries, sign up and we’ll let you know when we’re ready for your help. You can also get us started by suggesting a relevant Wikipedia article or the Official Site. Wikipedia? really? ok. Now I’m not sure what caused the creation I suspect it was me leaving it my work history. Fine. Why didn’t it tie to the official page? So I start looking into community pages.* This is what I’ve been able to determine. Basically they are automatically created, you can’t control them and the content that is posted on the wall is pulled from mentions of the keyword(s) within Facebook. So if someone posts

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Top Ten Links Week 16

April 27, 2010
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Top Ten Links Week 16

My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 4/16/2010 thru 4/22/2010 1. NYTimes: Out of the Loop in Silicon Valley –  Sexism is still alive in Silicon Valley and pretty much everywhere else including libraries. 2. NYTimes: Web Coupons aKnow Lots About You, and They Tell – love coupons? Me too, but make sure you know what information you’re giving up when you get web coupons. 3. Two magazines, Newsweek and New York Teacher, offer competing views of what it will take to fix our schools via dmlcentral- the article the link goes to looks at two magazine covers but its worth actually reading the articles the covers are about. 4. Tim O’Reilly Explains the Internet of Things via mlx – be sure to read the article too 5. Are we surrendering our privacy too easily? Intriguing online conversation on MemeBurn via @dmlcentral – an absolute must read if you are thinking about privacy even a little. 6. Facebook’s move ain’t about changes in privacy norms - If you are looking for well thought out responses to claims that privacy is dead danah boyd is always dead on. Here is another great post from her about

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