Category Archives: social media

robinna/ August 16, 2010/ social media/ 0 comments

Social Media Policy Links & Training examples Libraries ·        http://acfpl.org/blog/about/social-media-policy/ ·        http://24369.vws.magma.ca/explore/about/policies/social_e.html ·        http://www.nflibrary.ca/LibraryInformation/Policies/SocialNetworkingSoftwarePolicy/tabid/443/Default.aspx Academia ·        http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/marcomm/social-networking-guidelines Corporate/other ·        Large listing of social media policy templates ·        http://socialmediagovernance.com/policies.php ·        robin fay (georgiawebgurl’s list): o        http://delicious.com/georgiawebgurl/social_media_policy   Training ·       List at o      http://delicious.com/georgiawebgurl/social_media_training    

Life 2.0, Communication, time, and social media

robinna/ August 11, 2010/ social media, twitter/ 0 comments

Interesting thoughts on the changes and impacts of communication in a social media world: Human Math * If I talk to 100 people on twitter for 6 minutes each, that’s 10 hours. * If I respond personally to 120 of the 600 or so emails and contacts I get a day, that’s 2 hours. * If I call 10 people

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Some of things I’ve taught over the years

robinna/ August 9, 2010/ History of Technology, social media, semantic web, Design, my projects, tutorials, photography/ 0 comments

Interesting how my interests have progressed over the years. (and these are just the ones I can remember and just to note this is an alphabetic title list). Heh, the word web sure does appear alot 😉 Many of these are available via http://www.slideshare.net/robinfay/ You can always email me for more info. 😉 ..and guess what? I’m guest lecturing on

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Skyriver vs. OCLC

robinna/ August 6, 2010/ Libraries, social media, tutorials/ 0 comments

Lots of resources related to the recent lawsuit against OCLC including recent articles, blog postings, procedural court docs. (from my twitter stream) “The suit alleges that OCLC, a purported non-profit with a membership of 72,000 libraries worldwide, is unlawfully monopolizing the markets for cataloging services, interlibrary lending, and bibliographic data, and attempting to monopolize the market for integrated library systems,

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Emerging Technologies Group thoughts

robinna/ August 3, 2010/ social media, Design, my projects/ 0 comments

So, here are the kinds of things were are talking about and exploring in the Emerging Technologies Group for the Libraries. We now have a newly formed Social Media Group in addition to the Home Page Redesign Group and the Mobile Development Group, so the EMT Group is more of a thinktank group. We assist the other groups and try

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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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digital identity & professional networking; blogging & tweeting for academic libraries (upcoming presentations)

robinna/ July 19, 2010/ Libraries, social media, meetups/conferences, my projects/ 0 comments

I’m on the slate for two preconferences at GLA/COMO 2010 in Athens in October: One Voice, Many Channels: Blogging and Tweeting for LibrariesAmy Watts, Robin FayUniversity of Georgia LibrariesDoes 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

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PhD me — PhD ideas

robinna/ July 19, 2010/ social media, semantic web, my projects/ 3 comments

So, if I were going to do a PhD program and I didn’t want to travel too much, it would need to be either local or nonresident program (or online, weekend classes, evenings, etc.) what are my choices? I am interested in social media, emerging technologies (such as semantic web, use of mobile as central platform), and how people use

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