More social networking blogs

A couple of social networking blogs that caught my attention tonight. One is from a colleague over at the University of Rochester who actually attended my workshop last week. Cynthia’s blog is Long time listener, first time caller – I love the title! Cynthia works in IT at the library and is [...]

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Who’s interested in Second Life?

Many campuses of higher education are dealing with budget and staffing issues, as well as a lack of time.  Thus, Second Life has enormous appeal for all academic and student life departments, not just the academic library.  collegewebeditor.com is a web, PR, and marketing blog for higher ed institutions, aimed primarily to admissions and marketing [...]

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Web 2.0 apps for students

Great compilation of 2.0 tools for students.  The tools are aimed at mostly college students, but I suppose the list could be adapted for elementary and secondary ed students.  Tools like Zoho Office Suite which has a whole cadre of free word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications.  JotCloud and ShortText for taking notes, Facebook and [...]

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Blogs, Podcasts and Wikis @ RRLC

Today I teach the Blogs, Podcasts and Wikis workshop at RRLC in Rochester.  Participants are from the Rochester, NY region and come from public, special, academic, school and medical libraries.  Tell me what you hope to gain or learn from this workshop!

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Library 2.0 in your neighborhood

I found this piece while googling library elites for a podcasting talk I gave today.  David King wrote about Mary Madden’s recent blog post on the Pew Internet and American Life Project’s website: “This is Library 2.0“.  Mary gave a presentation in  King’s Kansas “neighborhood” and made a delightful observation:
While books are still obviously the [...]

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Good wiki news

It appears that wikis are changing the way we communicate. Although not a revelation to many of us (and, dare I mention, wikis are not revolutionary, its the way we use them that is new and different) , the mainstream media is picking up this theme and running with it. I love the [...]

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The value of virtual worlds

Thanks to George Siemens’ eLearning Resources and News email newsletter:  a recent TechCrunch article on virtual worlds and the different services they provide and a discussion on the Freakonomics blog about the popularity and economic questions sparked by virtual services such as Second Life.  This last one really started an interesting discussion about the supposed [...]

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Michael Casey article

Most readers have probably seen this article by Michael Casey and Laura Savastinuk about Library 2.0, printed in the September 2006 issue of Library Journal, but I had not read it until today.   Much like Laura Cohen’s 2.0 manifesto, this article provides a good starting point for those new to the Web or [...]

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Public library with a Web 2.0 mission

This very cool story about the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County gives me hope for libraries and relevancy in the 21st century!  The IT director charged her staffers with finding and using Web 2.0 technologies in the course of their jobs.  The results? They developed a program called Learning 2.0 which is being [...]

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An action plan for Library 2.0

Laura Cohen has written an article in this month’s American Libraries magazine about “A Manifesto for Our Times”, in regards to the posting she wrote on her blog, Library 2.0: An Academic’s Perspective. The post is about her “rallying cry” to librarians embracing the 2.0 ethic and how Library 2.0 is a “…response [...]

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