Archive for the 'socialmedia' Category

FB’s New Timeline

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

I’ve been looking at FB’s new timeline feature today and something I noticed was that it pulls up information from before FB existed. Case in point – if I scroll back to 1995, I see the latest pic of my son and an announcement that he was born.  Interesting stuff, really…     And then [...]

My much delayed treatise on G+

Friday, August 19th, 2011

So, I’ve been on G+ since June 29th and have had a chance to interact, join a hangout or two and generally play around with it as it’s grown. My general impressions are that it is a happening place – 10 million users in the first month or so of life indicates that it had [...]

Catch-up Post

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

1) We survived the trip from NOLA with only a small detour through the Ozarks. It did get us to the cheapest gas of the trip (3.14/gal in Lebanon, MO), but caused us to use more, so the net effect was probably 0. 2) Google+. It happened. I’ve had my account since 6/29 and I’m [...]

Exploring policy, privacy and compliance issues when using social media: an IT perspective

Thursday, March 17th, 2011

Mark Monroe, from UMSL, started with a discussion of what social media is. He started with Tufts University using YouTube videos as a replacement for application essays – the dean of undergrad admissions didn’t realize how public and followed these applications would be. He talked about other social media missteps, then went into TOS’s of [...]

Content strategies

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

My previous post about the editorial calendar is sort of related to something I read last week about developing a content strategy. The information wasn’t really suited to libraries, but there are some points that I felt I could take and run with, even at a non-profit, B2C sort of place. 1) Identify trending topics [...]

Recent Webinars

Monday, December 13th, 2010

I’ve helped to present two webinars in the past couple of months with some pretty amazing co-presenters. First was the “Using Tech To Move Your Small/Rural Library Forward” webinar (link goes to free archive) that I did with Maurice Coleman. That one was all about small and free tech that could be used by libraries [...]

ALA Techsource Webinar

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

I, along with the ever-cool David Lee King, will be presenting a 2-part webinar for ALA Techsource on the 1st and 8th of December (both at 2:30 EST aka 1:30 CST (I just put that last Central time reminder in there for me, honestly…)). We’ll be talking about: Collaboration with libraries and patrons using YouTube, [...]

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