Category Archives: question of the day

Question of the day: Tweet from your mobile phone (or change your number)

robinna/ March 8, 2011/ Technology, question of the day, twitter, tutorials, Blog posts/ 0 comments

I know this info is available online, but it’s my question of the day, so here goes. 😉 Note> You can set it up twitter to use web or wifi if you have a smartphone; in that case, you may just want to use the appropriate Twitter app for your phone: Iphone; or Android (ton of choices). On your menu

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Question of the day: What to use to catalog a small church library?

robinna/ December 4, 2010/ opensource, question of the day/ 0 comments

So, the question of the day was about how to catalog a church’s library. This article has some great suggestions especially in regards to collection management decision making. In addition to determining which audience level, type of media, and subject headings schema to use (Sears, LCSH, etc.), I would add to also figure out how you want to provide access

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Question of the day: How do I delete a note in facebook?

robinna/ September 18, 2010/ Technology, social media, meetups/conferences, question of the day, tutorials, Training, Train, web 2.0+/ 0 comments

Q: How do I delete a note in facebook?A: Although not intuitive, this is easy to do. Type Notes into the Search field at the top OR start with your home page (In the news feed list on the left side, click on More, if you do not immediately see ‘Notes’). You may also be able to access notes via

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Question of the day: where to find free stock footage

robinna/ August 4, 2010/ Technology, meetups/conferences, question of the day, that's cool, watch.see.hear, tutorials, web 2.0+/ 1 comments

Internet archive has both moving images and stills including publicdomain; others are licensed under creative commons (CC).http://www.internetarchive.org and here are the various searches by CC license type:http://is.gd/dMHCl Also searching flickr by CC licensehttp://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/?flickr does have some very short film clips. I’m sure there are other tools, even the creativecommons website hassearching functionality. Youtube allows searching by license, too. Also, fair

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Question of the Day: Delete or rename friends list in facebook

robinna/ July 30, 2010/ Technology, social media, meetups/conferences, question of the day, tutorials, web 2.0+/ 0 comments

Q: How do I delete a friends list? I created one for a special event and I don’t need it anymore. A: Facebook always seems to be moving things around and deleting or editing a friends list is no different. It’s easy enough to create a list (several ways, one being> Under the Friends link on the left menu, click

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Question of the day: How to embed youtube videos & make them fit…

robinna/ March 26, 2010/ Technology, meetups/conferences, question of the day, that's cool, tools/tips, tutorials, Training, web 2.0+, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

Depending on what browser and resolution you are using, you may find that your content (such as blog posts) which have embedded videos are running over your blog post area. You COULD change your stylesheet, but if everything works except for embedded Youtube videos, an easier answer might be to change the width of the Youtube player. This is super

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Question of the Day: How to search your own tweets at twitter

robinna/ February 24, 2010/ Technology, publishing, History of Technology, Culture, social media, semantic web, meetups/conferences, question of the day, twitter, tutorials, web 2.0+, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

So, this was MY question today: as in, I wanted to re-post a tweet about moonshine arts & literary magazine. I couldn’t quite remember what I wrote and I didn’t use a #hashtag. So what to do? How do you search your own twitter feed? There are lots of cool trending tools out there, but those are very limited in

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Question of the Day: how does texting to email work?

robinna/ February 1, 2010/ social media, meetups/conferences, question of the day, tutorials, Training, web 2.0+, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

A question asked by one of my coworkers (and you all thought I just answered social media, opensource, or database questions, right? LOL) Q: How does a phone text to email? Does the computer have to have anything magic?A: You can text to any email system. It’s the phone that has the magic. Each texting phone (which is just about

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