All Blog Posts Tagged 'facebook' (6)

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

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

How do you share links, resources with your library patrons? In the past, the default option would certainly be through email. There is nothing wrong with sharing links through emails, though it seems to me a more structured and organized way would be better. But today with the rise of social networks, collaborative tools and general web 2.0 love, there are a bewildering number of online sharing options, I thought it would be useful in this post to briefly consider each class of tools and asses… Continue

I've being thinking about how libraries can mashup their Twitter, Flickr, Youtube and other web 2.0 accounts and display them using cool visualizations.

Visualization on screensavers

Initially I toyed with the idea of displaying rss feeds using screensavers. Software such as Nuparadigm's RSS screensaver, RSSmore , , RSSsaver and… Continue

According to USA Today the US congress is considering a bill that would bar children who use computers in public libraries from accessing Facebook and other social networking websites without parental permission. ALA says this bill is another attempt by the federal government to interfere with library users' privacy and free speech, Continue

A new WorldCat application called CiteMe is available on Facebook. Type in an author, title, subject or ISBN and a formatted citation comes up in the Facebook environment. You can get formatted citations in APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA or Turabian style. If your library has a Facebook page, this might be a useful application to include on your page. To see more about this application, use the link below: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=23927330784 Continue