Category Archives: life 2.0+

Thoughts on the library of the future

robinna/ March 22, 2009/ Libraries, social media, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

One of my colleagues posted a question to his facebook wondering what the library of the future would look like. Here is my unedited response which is a little more casual given the nature of fb discussions : In terms of physical space, it needs to be inviting, and adaptive to a variety of users — easily configurable furniture (by

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Do you doodle? Do you know why?

robinna/ March 12, 2009/ my art, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

Interesting article about doodling:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101727048 I am not sure if because I am a visual learner/artist (or maybe left handed) that I doodle for different reasons, but it is not out of boredom or to help me focus (I use note taking and to-do lists for that — which are very left brained activities). For me, doodling can spiral out of

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Project updates

robinna/ February 23, 2009/ my projects, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

Whoa, am I busy.I’m working on some research on multimedia training tools (I hope it doesn’t crash and burn), hammering out the last of my presentation bits on blogging, and then I need to tidy up my metadata presentation for next week. I promise to share all of that online.oh, and I need to take a look at where my

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Change.gov — governmental site with web2.0 tech and ee

robinna/ November 14, 2008/ software, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

I’m not trying to start a political discussion, but if you haven’t checked out the new website http://www.change.gov, it is kind of interesting in terms of the use of web2.0 technologies. It includes a blog (with rss, of course), a mechanism to sign up for emails, a form to share stories or thoughts, and more (the blog includes youtube videos,

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Tweeting the Prez

robinna/ November 13, 2008/ social media, that's cool, twitter, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

I’ve written a little about the use of social networking by the Presidential candidates during the campaigns. I didn’t “friend” any candidates during the campaign even those that I supported, because to be honest, I would rather seek out political information than have to endure the constant barrage of PR spam. However, I am really interested in the use of

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How to widgetize your libraries blog for the web2.0 world (wordpress)

robinna/ November 10, 2008/ my projects, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

Finally, the libraries blog has been widgetized. Finally, finally incorporated our meebo chat widget in as well as a few other goodies. I’d love to put better search mechanisms in here for the catalog and elsewhere. Sigh. Maybe a rss feed for recent books added….Anyhow, that’s future thinking. 😉 Take a look and see what you think: This is the

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