Last week, after a lot of kind support from Greg Schwartz , I installed gizmo5 and contributed to the chatter on Uncontrolled Vocabulary , ( Uncontrolled Vocabulary #43 - All the librarians support us . )
UV is a weekly podcast about library topics. Anyone can phone in and be part of the panel.
Unfortunately some element of headset, PC, Talkshoe , gizmo, Windows and the great Intertube-under-the-sea meant that I created a horrible feedback and echo problem. I was muted for most of the talk. I could press a button to let Greg know that I wanted to contribute, then muted again. Was interesting, because it gave me time to think and meant I really had to have something to say when I spoke. I’m not sure that it is a Good Thing that thinking before I talk is novel
Some of my favourite items we talked about were the Cover letter meme , OCLC and Google to exchange data, link digitized books to WorldCat and the The New IT Librarian Application .
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Twitter in Plain English from CommoncraftFrom: librariansmatter.com
Post Date: 2008-03-06 00:48:43
Okay, I’ll shut up about Twitter for a while after this one …
Twitter in Plain English (embedded video) ….
Well, after I’ve shared this interview with David Parry, Assistant Professor of New Media at the University of Texas at Dallas about how twitter can be used in universities - Microblogging with Twitter ….
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more Michael Stephens’ visitFrom: librariansmatter.com
Post Date: 2008-03-04 18:11:49
Michael Stephens gave a rocking good workshop in Perth this morning.
He’s posted details of his Hyperlinked Library talk on Tame the Web , including the slides use in the Australian version of his presentation and LINKS from the presentation. Michelle McLean gave a great summary of the Melbourne session, The Hyperlinked Library - a presentation by Michael Stephens.
With such rich information already on the web, this post instead talks about a couple of questions raised by the...
more Librarians creating video clips - speaking in our own voices.From: librariansmatter.com
Post Date: 2008-03-11 06:07:14
Have a look at these video clips on blip.tv - little digital stories about learning created by a group South Australian librarians - ednaworkshops08 . They were created on 26th February at the West Torrens Library Service in a workshop with Kerry Johnson from Education Network Australia. ( edna.edu.au ).
This government funded network is billed as “Australia’s leading online resource collection and collaborative network for the education and training community”...
more What kind of “better than free” is your library service?From: librariansmatter.com
Post Date: 2008-03-09 06:16:14
A week ago, I asked “ what kind of free is your library service? “, in response to Chris Anderson’s Free - why $0.00 is the future of business (published 25 February 2008).
At the end of the post I wondered what we should do now that we have competitors who are offering “free” - which was traditionally our domain. I vaguely touched on the “reputation economy” being a marketplace where the library has value, and the “attention economy&...
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