Category Archives: my projects

0202, 2011

Technical Services Efficiencies, Now and into the Future! Tomorrow!

robinna/ February 2, 2011/ social media, my projects, tutorials/ 0 comments

Ideas and Insights Series:Technical Services Efficiencies, Now and into the Future! (Atlanta, GA)http://www.lyrasis.org/Classes-and-Events/Venues/L/LYRASIS-Atlanta.aspx Date:Thursday, February 3, 2011Location:LYRASIS-Atlanta1438 West Peachtree St., ste. 200Atlanta, GA 30309Registration fee is now $50!REGISTER for this Event Agenda The pace of change facing library technical services staff is ever accelerating, as our organizations explore new technologies and new media. We ourselves in technical services face new

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3001, 2011

What is your time worth?

robinna/ January 30, 2011/ my projects/ 2 comments

In the last week, I’ve received 3 requests to teach or train people in various things. Basically, they want me to teach them what they should know 1) to do a particular job for which they don’t want to hire someone or 2)to do the job for which they were hired, but clearly do not have the skills (or to

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2701, 2011

My art & photographs (and a facebook page!)

robinna/ January 27, 2011/ social media, my projects, my art/ 0 comments

A little bit of self PR My paintings & photographs as well as art newshttp://www.facebook.com/robinfayarts/Visiting my page and “liking” it will mean you will receive new art & photos through your facebook news stream. No need to friend me or share your personal info with me 😉 (unless you just want to!) This is all done through FBML and CSS

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0401, 2011

It’s true…. I’m writing a book (no. 3 in list)

robinna/ January 4, 2011/ Libraries, social media, semantic web, Design, my projects/ 0 comments

The Tech Set II Cloud Computing in Libraries – Marshall Breeding, Director for Innovative Technologies and Research for the Vanderbilt University Libraries Cloud computing offers organizations new cost-effective ways to use Web services for their computing needs including software applications, data storage, cloud development platforms, and processing power. This informative handbook provides a comprehensive view of the cloud computing landscape,

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2111, 2010

Time flies (projects and more)

robin/ November 21, 2010/ social media, semantic web, Design, my projects, my art/ 0 comments

So, your might be wondering why I’ve been so quiet. Busy busy busy.I set up my art page on facebook athttp://www.facebook.com/robinfayartsYou do not need to friend me (or even “like” the page) in order to see my photos and artwork.I will be migrating a huge chunk of my art website there, will I redesign it in Drupal (I’m getting rid

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0811, 2010

Twitter for librarians

robinna/ November 8, 2010/ software, social media, my projects, twitter/ 0 comments

Tools I use: To future/schedule tweets Future tweets Brizzly To post: Brizzly delicious to twitter (links) picnik (twitpic) to twitter (images) To manage followers/following TwitterKarma: see follows/unfollows and when they posted last (can be slow) Mytweeple: same as above with a little more info To manage my presence: Klout Twitterstatistics Librarians and library people I follow @libraryfuture [I follow more

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1710, 2010

Mirror blogging at ee and blogger

robinna/ October 17, 2010/ my projects, Training, Train, my art/ 0 comments

So, this is truly a test to see if I can mirror blog/auto post to 2 blogs at the same time (long reason for why I want to do this, which has nothing to do with spam — truly) and a nice detail of the inprocess (getting very close to being finished though) Lucene (who is a tree nymph)  

0410, 2010

New Georgia Encyclopedia Survey (your opinion matters)

robinna/ October 4, 2010/ Libraries, Design, my projects/ 0 comments

Disclaimer: I actually wrote a few articles for NGE in the Arts/Entertainment category. You can read them here, if you would like. (It would be nice if my name were hotlinkable, ha! I should’ve added that into my survey response, I suppose). —————-Many of you in all kinds of libraries are New Georgia Encyclopedia users, and the NGE wants your

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2409, 2010

Free! 1 Voice Many Channels> Blogging & Tweeting 4 Libraries (a robin & amy gig)

robinna/ September 24, 2010/ Libraries, social media, my projects, twitter, networking/ 0 comments

Join us – Free! from the fab @amywatts @georgiawebgurl One Voice, Many Channels: Blogging and Tweeting for LibrariesFreeRobin Fay and Amy WattsUniversity of GeorgiaDoes your library blog or tweet? Interested in getting started? Wondering what all the buzz is about? We’ll explore how libraries use Twitter and Blogger to share news, events, as well as a community building tool. If

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