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19 Mar

Posted at 11:29h in Technology by
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I'd heard of FriendFeed before today, but a Lifehacker post I read this morning encouraged me to give it a go. If you haven't heard of it before, FriendFeed is basically an aggregator of all your online social networks. It pulls together your updates from blogs, video services like YouTube, social bookmarking services like del.icio.us, picture sharing sites like Flickr and Picasa, wishlists like Amazon wishlist, etc etc! You can see in the screenshot the services is currently covers. It only took a matter of minutes to register and add my feeds so I now have a nice aggregated feed that will...

10 Mar

Posted at 18:56h in Technology by
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I recently prepared a presentation for our students to introduce them to some web tools to aid productivity. It's aimed at people with no or little knowledge about web tools and only covers a few key resources but I thought I'd share it on here in case there are some tools people hadn't heard about or others they wanted to share which I haven't mentioned. Please feel free to leave a comment if you have any feedback. :) | View | Upload your own...

06 Mar

Posted at 22:37h in Technology by
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Yes really, I was shocked too! Knowing what a headache synchronising can sometimes be I wanted to give a big thumbs up to my synchronisation experience today. I've been moving more towards working online and trying to do things through the web thus giving me access no matter where I am or what device I'm using. This is all well and good but at work we have Microsoft Exchange and we use Outlook for our mail and our calendars. I use Outlook Web Access when I'm not at my work PC and also have my mail account set up in my...

27 Feb

Posted at 21:09h in Library, Technology by
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Amazon Kindles are all well and good but it's just not the same as a real book is it? (Plus I can't help but image a Kinder Egg whenever I hear mention of the Kindle - is that just me?!). So many people are against e-books and e-book readers due to the loss of the emotion attached with reading a real book and I can certainly sympathise with that view. So the discovery of the LIVRE (via Engadget) was an exciting moment (well, as exciting as you get with regards to e-book readers!). It's currently a concept produced by a student...

21 Feb

Posted at 17:14h in Library, Technology by
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I recently came across Google Calendar almost by accident, I was aware of it before but had never used it as we have Outlook Exchange at work and I have my trusty FiloFax as well as my iPod touch for my own scheduling. I was trying to publicise some drop-in information skills sessions we hold and spent ages constructing a suitable table in HTML, then inputting all the basic details which linked to a booking form for sessions where we have limited places. I then tried to find a way to give more details on the workshops and investigated using JavaScript...

05 Feb

Posted at 21:47h in Technology by
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I've already briefly discussed the iPod Touch in an earlier post but now that I've had one for over a month I thought it was about time for a blog post about my thoughts on it. I guess strictly speaking this is not directly related to libraries, but I imagine the implications of mobile technologies and particularly mobile web browsing will effect libraries and services of the future, it's certainly made me think more about interoperability of our web pages and catalogues for users accessing them on different devices. I've been using my iPod Touch on an almost daily basis since getting...

24 Jan

Posted at 19:55h in Library, Technology by
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I have two reasons to make this post today: This morning I got the go ahead for my "Using Facebook Pages to reach our users" project at work The LASSIE project is coming to an end and the reports are available online I'm really quite proud that my Facebook project is finally properly underway. Now that the Project Proposal has been OK'd with management I can really start progressing it. I have a meeting with my Project Sponsor on Monday morning when we can hopefully plan the way forward. The page is currently live (please feel free to have a look and let...

07 Jan

Posted at 12:59h in Library, Technology by
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In case you haven't yet been made aware, Michael Stephens at Tame The Web has released a copy of his Tech Tips for Every Librarian articles published in Computers In Libraries magazine during 2006-7. There's some really useful articles there including information on IM, wikis, blogs and more for libraries. Great stuff!...

01 Jan

Posted at 14:00h in General, Library, Study, Uncategorized by
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It really doesn't seem very long at all since we were all stressing about the Millennium bug! Thought I'd write a quick post to wish everyone a Happy New Year and think forward to 2008. I'm not really one for specific resolutions but I do like to try to think about my main aims in life and how I'm going to get there. By then end of 2008 I hope to have completed my Diploma in Information and Library Studies and become that all important "qualified information professional" - better get back to the studying really as I've done none over...

26 Dec

Posted at 20:41h in Technology by
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Firstly, I hope those who celebrate had an enjoyable Christmas. :) I've always been a bit of a gadget freak so I particularly enjoyed playing with a new toy at my boyfriend's parents - the iPod Touch. I've had a play with the iPhone in O2 shops and although I think it is great, I really don't think it justifies such a hefty upfront cost on top of an expensive contract so once I found out the cost it was never really an option for me. I do love some of the new features though and it really is intuitive. I...