Revolutionizing Libraries with Social Media
We are seeing faster and faster changes in the technological landscape. In fact, in the past few years cloud computing has gone from an abstract idea to state-of-the art storage that we cannot do...
View ArticleThe First Banned Books Video Calendar is Ready!
The Entresse Library in Espoo, Finland and FAIFE (IFLA Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression) have together created the world’s first Banned Books Video Calendar. The...
View ArticleTen meta-trends impacting learning
In a world where libraries are completely reinventing themselves, where universities and schools are moving away from labs to BYOD, and where the focus of everything seems to be on mobiles —what will...
View ArticleSocial evolution
Social Evolution – everything is (or should be) a remix and a meme! Filed under: Creative Commons, Digital Media, Social Media, Technology and Software Tagged: copyright, intellectual property,...
View ArticleLibraries and social media X
Wednesday was just the kind of day we need more of in our libraries! Wollongong City Libraries (WCC) are taking charge of their future in a very positive way. Having decided that social media is now...
View ArticleSocial media [at your library] starts with you
Thank you to Karen Bonanno for the opportunity to speak with teacher librarians about social media, social networking and school libraries, as part of the School Library Management Professional...
View ArticleNew visions, past interactions – listserv to social media
The School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University is a national leader in the design and delivery of a comprehensive suite of courses in library and information studies. We face many...
View ArticleWolfram Alpha and Facebook Personal Analytics
Wolfram|Alpha, the world’s first and only computational knowledge engine, uses its expert-level knowledge and algorithms to answer questions, generate reports, and do analysis across thousands of...
View ArticleCreativity and knowledge in Science
The 46th Anniversary of StarTrek on Saturday co-coincided with the Science Teachers Association NSW annual conference. Perfect really! The Google Doodles were fabulous. (Even better, there is a...
View ArticleConstant personalisation yesterday, today and tomorrow.
No matter where we look these days, the idea of personalized information streams continue to be supported by new tools, or new ways of working with existing tools – and all linked to our mobile...
View ArticleHave you got a pirate in your school?
Something that rather belatedly crossed my professional radar has been the ‘antics’ of the Dread Pirate Roberts. I first caught up with this topic sitting in a hotel lounge in Singapore, reading the...
View ArticleSocial media and your library
Libraries use social media for a whole range of objectives these days, to communicate and promote information, events, and generally build community. How well this is done of course depends on a range...
View ArticleCopyright changes and Slideshare chicanery
There are many different ways to share the content of your presentation slides, but Slideshare has remained my ‘go to’ slide repository, as it aggregates all my presentations that I have chosen to...
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