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Archive for October, 2007

Video on social networking

Posted in Web 2.0, social networking, social software, teaching, video on October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Great video about social networking from the folks at Common Craft.  This would be a  neat intro for a workshop or class for beginners.
Common Craft (Lee & Sachi LeLever) create all kinds of videos on Web 2.0 topics for the non-techie web user.

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Podcasts not meeting the hype?

Posted in Podcasting, entertainment, marketing, media, search engines, services, technology on October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I have to admit, reading this story was a bit depressing, considering the investment of time we are putting into podcasting here at my library.  Yahoo! is closing down its podcast directory and rumors are it is because of low interest and the closing of their entertainment divisioin…

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Value-added libraries

Posted in Blogs, Web 2.0, book discusions, books, community, higher education, librarians, library 2.0, social networking, social software, students, technology on October 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Today I have been thinking a lot about book discussions and libraries, particularly academic libraries.  My library is sponsoring a faculty book discussion next week, around the book The View From the Center of the Universe, and it got me thinking about why my library doesn’t do more book discussion projects.  Time is, of course, [...]

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