Category: Social Networks
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The door is open – share your tutorials! (ANTS)
Back in February I announced the COPPUL ANimated Tutorial Sharing Project (ANTS), but noted that the COPPUL Directors had not given us the green light to open the project to non-COPPUL libraries. Well gang, the light has turned green, and while I’ve been meaning to tell you that for a couple weeks now, a recent…
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Join a Canadian Library Association Interest Group…
…even if you’re not a member of CLA! Laurie the Librarian reports that CLA is now allowing pretty much anyone to join on of 23 interest groups at $30 (Cdn) per group. She suggests (and I second) Services for Distance Learning. Technorati Tags: CLA
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LJ Movers and Shakers 2007
The nomination form for the 2007 Library Journal Movers and Shakers is up, and I’m pleased to see that this year it’s an electronic submission form. From the site: The editors of Library Journal need your help in identifying the emerging leaders in the library world. Our sixth annual Movers & Shakers supplement will profile…
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Zotero: Web-based citation manager
When people like Lorcan Dempsey and Peter Binkley suggest one pays attention to a service like Zotero, I’m gonna pay attention! It’s in private beta right now, so I haven’t actually tried it, but here’s what it’s all about. From thier homepage, Zotero: captures citation information you want from a web page automatically, without typing…
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Embedded chat
Amit at Digital Inspiration has a brief review of three embedded chat options; MeeboMe, Stickam, and Gabbly. I played with MeeboMe a couple of weeks ago and found it simple to use, but didn’t like having to remember to be logged in to the Meebo page at all times. I haven’t tried the other two…
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Writely available again
Back in March when Google acquired Writely they suddenly closed to doors to new users. Good news – as of today, you can sign up again for a Writely account. A highly-recommended collaborative writing tool – similar in idea to wikis, but different in execution. If you want/need to collaborate with someone but don’t feel…
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Using Feed43 to track a del.icio.us search with RSS
Ok, so it’s a piece of cake to track an individual tag in del.icio.us in your aggregator – while looking at any tag page in del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/tag/mp3 for instance) you’ll see an RSS button all the way down at the bottom. Alternatively, you can just stick an "rss" in any URL before the /tag/, like…
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StatsCan Internet and Canadian Life Project
OK, that’s not really what the report is called, but Statistics Canada did release a study the other day called The Internet: Is It Changing the Way Canadians Spend Their Time?, and according to them, I am a bona-fide Internet crackaholic! They have three categories of users; 1) non users, 2) moderate users, and 3)…
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Screencasting on YouTube
Brian Mathews, The Ubiquitous Librarian, is at it again, this time exploring the idea of creating a collection of screencasts housed on YouTube, instead of on the library site. What I really like about the work that Brian does is that he really spends some time figuring out how a given site can be used…
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Want to get your MLS degree online?
Thanks to the wonderful world of social bookmarks, Rebecca Hedreen points out this neat (slightly outdated) Comparison Guide to Distance Ed Programs for Getting the MLS. Part of the larger Become a Librarian site put together by the Central Jersey Regional Library Cooperative, the chart provides links, cost for in and out of state tuition,…