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Friday, June 11th, 2010
Christopher Ryan at the Apple Blog gathers up 25 Safari Extensions You Can Install Now. The new Safari 5 browser offers support for browser extensions, so check out this post to find 25 useful plugins in the following categories:
Friday, June 4th, 2010
Personal Branding Guru Dan Schawbel blogs for Mashable about How To: Organize Your Contacts for Networking Success.
“Social networks have connected and exposed us to more people than ever before. With all the online friends and followers you’ve accumulated, it’s become increasingly complicated to make sense of your social graph and use it to your advantage. It’s also never been more important to build your contact database, organize it, and then put it to work for you. The old adage “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know,” is true, so consider your rolodex more valuable than your wallet when it comes to achieving success in business.”
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
I am very excited to announce that the book series that I’ve been working on for the past year+ has officially been published today! The Tech Set is a series of 10 practical technology books for libraries that’s been co-published by Neal-Schuman Publishers and LITA here in the US and Facet Publishing in the UK. We also have a companion Tech Set Wiki with extra content for each book and author podcast interviews.
Saturday, March 20th, 2010
Kasia Grabowska guest posts at Tame the Web about Social Media Best Practices for Libraries. This brief article provides some excellent tips on library do’s and don’ts when it comes to successfully utilizing social media. Here are a few of the recommendations:
Friday, March 19th, 2010
Online advertising network Chitika conducted a study exploring the interest areas of MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and Digg users by analyzing the sites that receive traffic from them. 47% of Twitter users are most interested in news while MySpace users prefer video game content.
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
Alison J. Head and Michael B. Eisenberg have published an article in First Monday discussing How Today’s College Students use Wikipedia for Course-Related Research.
“Findings are reported from student focus groups and a large–scale survey about how and why students (enrolled at six different U.S. colleges) use Wikipedia during the course–related research process. A majority of respondents frequently used Wikipedia for background information, but less often than they used other common resources, such as course readings and Google. Architecture, engineering, and science majors were more likely to use Wikipedia for course–related research than respondents in other majors. The findings suggest Wikipedia is used in combination with other information resources. Wikipedia meets the needs of college students because it offers a mixture of coverage, currency, convenience, and comprehensibility in a world where credibility is less of a given or an expectation from today’s students.”
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Want to learn how to set up goals to measure the success of your website in Google Analytics as well as how to track funnels, or paths users take to reach your goal pages? If so, you’ll want to check out Google Analytics in Depth: Goals and Funnels by Dave Sparks at Six Revisions. This step-by-step article is the first installment in a series of Google Analytics articles.
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Dion Hinchcliffe writes for ZDNet’s Enterprise Web 2.0 blog about The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch.
“The emergence of Facebook, Twitter, and the rest of the social Web as a global force in the last several years has done a great deal to highlight their potential to fundamentally alter the way we communicate and collaborate both at home and in business. However, despite the movement of social computing into our daily lives we’re all clearly on a long journey together as the technologies themselves emerge from infancy.”
Sunday, February 7th, 2010
Tom Walker writes for Powerusers about 10 Alternative Uses for WordPress. This useful post lists some exciting ways to make use of the open-source content management system. Here are his top five:
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Karen Schweitzer writes for Digitizd about 15 Must-Have Web Apps for Students. There are many interesting programs listed here and most of them are available for free.
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Inc. Magazine has created a guide to blogging, social networking, multimedia tools, and online reviews and opinions for businesses and organizations. Their Social Media Toolkit includes these 14 guides:
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
I’ve recently been looking for sets of icons for all of the social websites that I belong to for my website, blog, and also print handouts. In the course of my research I’ve come across some excellent icon sets that designers are giving away for free. If you have a need for social media icons for your library website, personal website, or blog, here are a few resources that I found helpful.
30 Amazingly Creative Social Bookmarks Icon Sets
This list by Speckyboy Design Magazine has screenshots of all thirty amazing 2.0 icon sets with links back to download pages.
27 Excellent Free Social Media Icons Sets
Jon Bishop rounds up 27 different icon sets, each with snapshot previews of the graphics.
The Best Social Media Icons All In One Place
Henry Jones of Web Design Ledger compiles a list of 20+ social icon sets. There is a lot of overlap between this post and the Speckybog Mag article, however there are a few unique sets listed here.
100+ Remarkably Beautiful Twitter Icons And Buttons
Hongkiat.com pulls together 20+ icon sets and individual twitter graphics available for free.
IconsPedia
This website offers a quick search of free icons, many of which are social.
FreeSocialCons.com
This resource is a collection of free social media icons. They also offer several icon sets.
I’m sure there are many more collections of quality free icon sets out there, please list your faves in the comments!
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
The folks at Smashing Apps have put together a list of the 69 Coolest Web Apps Of 2009. I found quite a few that were new to me that looked interesting including:
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
The Scottish Library and Information Council along with CILIPS (the Chartered Insitute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland) have published A Guide to Using Web 2.0 in Libraries.
“Although Web2.0 services have been integrated within our organisation, feedback from our members within the Scottish library and information
community indicates that considerable barriers to widespread adoption remain. The greatest challenge seems to be access, as many organisations restrict or block the use of Web2.0 or social networking sites, denying staff the opportunity to experiment with these potentially powerful tools.In response to demand from members, and in order to address this challenge, SLIC and CILIPS have created these guidelines to highlight the potential of social media within library services and to encourage organisations to reassess restrictive practices regarding access.”
They have also published a guide to Improving Libraries for Learners.
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
The UK’s Guardian has published their annual list of The 100 essential websites which discusses major trends of this past year such as the rapid growth of Twitter and microblogging in the introductory article. Their hand-picked recommended resources are divided into the following categories:
