This Those of you who were in my Web 2.0 for patrons presentation might remember a woman in the audience mentioning the classes she teaches at her library. I promised to get with her and share the follow up. I emailed her and found out that Liz Hubert is a Adult Services Librarian at the Barrington Area Library in Illinois This is the information Liz shared with me. We do not currently have a wiki or a blog for our patrons, the program is entirely face to face and people can take (or choose not to take!) what they wish. Very shortly, we’re going to be putting videos of all of our classes on our webpage. Those will be linked with handouts so that people can watch the class and follow a written description at the same time. I choose classes to teach based on the popularity of the service or website, how often I have questions about it at the desk, and how useful I think it will be to our patrons. I take a very basic approach to all of these classes. Unless I’ve noted otherwise, in each session (usually an hour) I help students set up accounts and show them
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Sneaking the Social Web into Your Library: Tips Tricks & Just Plain Sneaky Tactics
One of my presentations from Notes from the 2009 Internet Librarian Conference with Erin Downey Howerton Sneaking the Social Web into Your Library View more presentations from Bobbi Newman. Erin’s slides and blog post I mentioned during the Q&A that you can do all sorts of things with RSS. An audience member asked me if I could include some of that information in my post. Here goes David Rothman’s Favorite RSS Resources and Tools *start here* Explaining RSS Resources to help you choose a feed aggregator Google Reader Tips and Plug-ins RSS-to-Email tools Publishing RSS content on Web Pages Web-Based RSS-to-Web-Page tools Hosted RSS-to-Web-Page Tools Feed mashing and filtering tools and Creating feeds for pages that don’t offer them From Mashable The Ultimate RSS Toolbox – 120+ RSS Resources includes readers rss to email converters feed validators, plugins mixer ping tools directories and tips & hacks. It’s ok if you don’t know what all of those are, bookmark it for later when you do. 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
10 Golden Rules of Social Media
Webworker Daily has a great post on the 10 Golden Rules of Social Media Read the full post to get defitions of each Respect the Spirit of the ‘Net Listen Add Value Respond Do Good Things Share the Wealth Give Kudos Don’t Spam Be Real Collaborate Social media tools are only that — tools. The real energy, spirit and power of social media is people. We are social media. 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
Social Media Periodic Table
Check this out – I would seriously love to see someone with more talent than me make a just for libraryland version! See the lists of blogs & people that are included. Here are what some of the appreviations stand for you, you can see the rest at on Eye Cube Social Media Practices: (Do these to maximize your Social Media experience) Fl = Follow Ht = Hashtag Po = Post St = Status Update Sp = Spread Se = Search Hp = Hat tip Fd = Feed Rt = Retweet Ud = Update Cm = Comment Jn = Join Up = Upload Tg = Tag Tc = Tag clouds Dm = Direct Message Rx = Remix Ln = Link Mu = Mashup Sb = Subscribe Rf = Refer Sr = Stream Re = Reply Rc = Recommend Sn = Syndicate Pk = Poke Pm = Promote Ib = Imbed Blog People: (Consistently intellingent, thought-provoking & educational) Sy = Shoe Money Ar = Ad Rants Mp = Micro Persuasion Aw = Ads of the World Sj = Search Engine Journal Cf = Common Craft Cp = CopyBlogger Ba = Brand Autopsy Sd = Search Engine Land Dd = Dosh Dosh Gv = Gaping Void Ma = Mashable Bookmark on Delicious Digg this
My presentation – Reaching Your Patrons in the Brave New World of the Social Web
My second and last presentation at the Missouri Library Association Conference. It was initially scheduled to be in a very small room, luckily I was able to get it moved. Library Learning 2.1 View more presentations from Bobbi Newman. 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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