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Summary of The Fall Meeting of the Indiana Online Users Group (IOLUG) - Hot or Not: Managing Your Digital Identity. Day focused on the implications of personal and professional online presence, managing facebook privacy settings, strategies for making your online organization more human. Keynote speakers were Toby Greeenwalt and Jenica Rogers. http://t… Continue

I finally buckled down and completed the 23 Things on CSLA's Web 2.0 tutorial. Now I'm conversant if not a convert. I am just old school enough that I see some of these apps as interesting and amazing, but huge time wasters......I love delicious, think Flickr is amazing, love Wordle, get blogging, still don't see the VALUE of Twitter. I will use some of the great links on my school library web page like the The British Library---WOW!

Last night I took in a program at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library about the James Bonds films. It was hosted by Raymond Benson, who has written 9 James Bond books, and Dann Gire, the film critic from the Daily Herald newspaper.

Their commentary was great, filling us in on tidbits we would otherwise not have known. The clips from the films were also great. A refreshing change of pace instead of staying home and watching TV.

What kind of programs does your library offer?

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Then and Now...

Faberge Shampoo started it all with their famous commercial from the 1970s. Peggy Barber and Linda Wallace nail it in their new article, "The Power of Word-of-Mouth Marketing" in the November issue of American Libraries Magazine. We wrote a post called "… Continue