Top Ten Links Week 5
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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
Taking Traing to Patrons – 21 Things for 21st Century Parents
The fabulous Gretchen Caserotti and staff in the Childrens Department at the Darien Libray are kicking off a learning 2.0 class for parents. From the website:
You are raising kids in a digital world. Facebook, Twitter and a growing number of websites and social tools are becoming increasingly important in most aspects of our 21st Century world. Information Literacy is crucial to your children’s success in school and technology is now completely integrated into your child’s life. Today’s students want web 2.0 tools to be a part of their learning lives because these are the tools that enable them to connect, collaborate, create and engage in learning that is relevant, contextual and experiential.
Why should they have all the fun? Join us through 12 weeks of learning through engagement in online technology in 21 simple activities that you can do on your own time, at your own pace. This program is designed to help you learn about, and how to use, web 2.0 technologies so that you may better support, guide and parent your digital native kids safely and confidently through both the perils and the possibilities that this brave new digital world offers.
Kids don’t just learn in school. You are your children’s first and forever teachers.
So, join in the fun – come play and learn with us!
The official kick-off party is February 2nd and the program runs 12 weeks. I can’t wait to see the lessons and hear how it turns out!
10 Best Links from Twitter – Week in Review
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If you follow me on Twitter you know I share and retweet a lot of links. I don’t know how you treat Twitter but if I’m not paying attention when something is shared I miss it. So I’ve been thinking I need a way to share those links ones on the blog. I thought I’d try to blog a best of the best of Twitter blog post each Friday.
I really don’t want to do an automatic recap of my Twitter posts each week and force you to wade through all of my conversations, so I’ll be hand selecting the 10 best links each week. I hope this is useful. Please feel free to let me know of any links you think deserve to be in the list!
- New Year’s Resolutions – four New Years resolutions all librarians should be making. yes, really, even you.
- Trends and Technology Timeline 2010+
- Because it’s that good: 10 Exciting Ways To Waste Your Training Dollars
- Jenica’s IOLUG speaker’s notes on online identity – you’re online you should be thinking about your identity, Jenica offers some great tips and information.
- XO-3 concept design is here! this looks so awesome how could you not want one?
- 5 Reasons Why RSS Readers Still Rock – even though I weeded mine during my break I still rely on it heavily, I just can’t be on Twitter every moment of every day.
- 10 Librarian Blogs To Read in 2010 – because we all need more blogs in our FeedReader
- The Future of Reading: Don’t worry. It might be better than you think. – great article a must read. My favorite quote “Always deny the apocalypse, John. You’ll usually be right, and when you’re wrong, no one will be left to say, ‘I told you so.’”
- 8 Things Every Geek Needs to Do Before 2010 – I know it’s already 2010 but if you haven’t done these things you need to!
- Quotable Facts About America’s Libraries - the new Quotable Facts from ALA is out. Did you know Americans spend more than twice as much on candy as they do on public libraries?
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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
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.
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- Digital Literacy Skills Essential to Closing Broadband Gap #knightcommThe Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy sites the Broadband Adoption and Use in America (pdf) report released by the Federal Communications Commission in Digital Literacy Skills Essential to Closing Broadband Gap when emphasising the importance and need for digital literacy The survey findings reinforce the growing body o […]Bobbi Newman
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