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23 May

Posted at 12:45h in Professional issues, Professional Organisations, Technology by
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As mentioned in an earlier post, CILIP recently held an Open Session to enable conversation about the use of Web 2.0. Many others have blogged about the event, but I thought I'd add my thoughts too. I was particularly pleased that in between enquiries and other work-related tasks, I was still able to follow much of the conversation by using Twitterfall to follow any Tweets tagged with #cilip2. As it was an open session, the tag had been promoted before the event and the use of Twitter/live blogging was encouraged. There were some "official" bloggers including Matthew Mezey who blogged about...

06 May

Posted at 17:15h in Technology by
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I recently found out about this from a recent post on Phil Bradley's weblog - a list of top tools for learning voted for by learning professionals (also a list of top tools for learners has been added), compiled by Jane Hart. Phil's post inspired me to think about what my current top 10 tools are, which I will shortly be sending to Jane who now accepts entries via Twitter. My tools aren't in any particular order, it was hard enough to decide on my top ten let alone rank them! Wordpress - my blogging software of choice which just gets better and...

05 May

Posted at 20:14h in Events, Library, Uncategorized by
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Last week I attended a course at De Montfort University in Leicester titled "Focus on your teaching: revisiting current practice and sharing new ideas. An event for librarians teaching in HE institutions" - catchy title! ;) In keeping with the wordy title, I will warn you that this blog post is a long post, but is separated into the different presentations. I was intending to live blog the event but the room wasn't really set up for that. Teaching is one of the parts of my job as an academic librarian that I most enjoy, and so I was really looking...

27 Apr

Posted at 17:15h in Professional issues, Technology by
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A couple of months ago there was a major backlash from the library community in the UK regarding CILIP and it's use (or lack of) Web 2.0 technologies. It started with Bob McKee's All of a Twitter post on his From the Chief Executive's Desk blog, which was responded to by Phil Bradley in his CILIP - Epic Fail post. There were others who responded either on the original post from Bob (although at the time this was only open to CILIP members, something which had always irked me but has thankfully now been changed, on Phil's post, on their own...

24 Apr

Posted at 18:00h in Library, Uncategorized by
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Wow, I've been named a 2009 Shover and Maker! :) For those that don't know of Shovers and Makers, here's some information taken from the Shovers and Makers website: Every year, Library Journal names a group of innovative librarians as “Movers and Shakers.” M&S is a popular feature for a good reason: the profiles of M&S librarians are thought-provoking and inspiring. M&S ends up as something of a snapshot of what the library profession finds innovative and worth of notice, and there is no question that the Movers and Shakers are people to watch. But at the Library Society of the World, we...

06 Apr

Posted at 20:01h in Library, Technology by
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A few weeks ago there were some major changes with the layout of Facebook (more on the official Facebook blog). The change has been pretty unpopular with quite a lot of people, although I have to say I personally quite like the change of focus. Facebook is now far more focused on following the activities of your friends on your home page, in a similar way to Twitter (Facebook did try to buy Twitter earlier this year so it's probably no coincidence that they are changing in this way). At around the same time of the change, Facebook also changed its...

17 Mar

Posted at 10:00h in Technology by
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Following on from my previous post about finding people to follow on Twitter, I recently found out about WeFollow, another Twitter directory, thanks to Phil Bradley. The homepage has the top categories (those with most followers) and lists the top five tweeters/twitterers (not sure what the term would be!) in each category. You can click on the topics on the right hand side of the homepage to find people in different categories, and you can use the search box to find categories which aren't featured on the front page. You can see a list of librarians currently on WeFollow which ranks...

16 Mar

Posted at 13:29h in Events, Library, Uncategorized by
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A couple of weeks ago I attended the online 23 Things Summit organised by WebJunction, MaintainIT, the State Library of Kansas, and the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library. It was held in America so the timezone difference worked out well for me as it meant I was at home in the evening. For those not aware of 23 Things, it is also sometimes called Learning 2.0 and is a staff development programme designed for library staff. It uses blogging as the main tool for reflective learning and introduces staff to new web tools (the "things") each week, which they then...

09 Mar

Posted at 17:45h in Technology, Uncategorized by
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This is the third of a series of posts about the iPhone/iPod Touch. As Twitter has received so much publicity recently, I thought it may be useful to write about Twitter applications you can use on your iPhone/iPod Touch. For anyone who isn't sure what Twitter is, you may find my earlier posts on Twitter - what is it and how can it be used? and Finding people to follow on Twitter useful as an introduction. Please feel free to follow me, I am joeyanne on Twitter. iPhone/iPod Touch applications for Twitter Twitter applications are probably of most use to iPhone users as...

03 Mar

Posted at 18:35h in Technology, Uncategorized by
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I still have a few drafts planned for the series of posts about the iPhone/iPod Touch, but thought it was worth a brief mention that today I have implemented the WPtouch plugin (thanks to Josh at Goblin Cartoons) to optimise this blog for iPhone/iPod Touch users. It was an ideal opportunity to also test the new functionality in Wordpress 2.7 which allows you to install plugins from the admin dashboard (instead of downloading, unzipping, and uploading to your plugin directory). This seems to work very well and is a lot less hassle. Anyway, here's what the blog now looks like from an...