Category Archives: social media

Social media in libraries survey

robinna/ November 17, 2009/ Technology, social media, 3D, Blog posts/ 0 comments

My Group (Emerging Technologies Group) is taking the survey today.————–Please forward this survey to library colleagues, state library association listservs, or others who may be interested. Thank you for taking time to respond to this survey on American libraries using Social Media tools for PR/Marketing. It should only take 10-15 minutes to complete. It is a follow up to a

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Lawsuit against Facebook

robinna/ November 16, 2009/ social media, privacy/ 0 comments

I wonder how many more lawsuits are out there pending against facebook? And to answer my question, this is actually a followup to earlier legal action. This one accuses Facebook of “conspir[ing] with Blockbuster to violate a federal law protecting customer video-rental and sale records.” According to the article the previous law suit (which resulted in a settlement on Facebook’s

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For Zynga game users (you know, farmville, mafiawars, vampirewars, etc….)

robinna/ November 13, 2009/ social media, privacy, Gamification, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

Interesting article about the fallout over Zynga (Farmville, Mafia Wars, etc., which all have huge communities on facebook) and its scam ads. Hmm, yet another reason to pay attention to what you click on and ALWAYS read the TOS. 😉 “Zynga insists they are serious about cleaning up the industry. And today Pincus has announced that the company will remove

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Question of the day: Move facebook profile photo to album

robinna/ November 2, 2009/ social media, meetups/conferences, question of the day, tutorials, Training, web 2.0+, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

So, this should be super easy if ALL of the photo albums in Facebook work the same way but they do not (What?!?! … ) In the Profile Photos album, there is no way to move a photo to a different album…. but there is a workaround of sorts. Click on profile photo to go to the Profile Photos album.

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Question of the day: download video from facebook

robinna/ October 27, 2009/ social media, meetups/conferences, question of the day, that's cool, media, tutorials, web 2.0+, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

There are a few different ways to download a video from facebook, none of which are built in to facebook. You can dig around in the internet cache for (IE) or Firefox or if you use Firefox you can add this wonderful little GreaseMonkey script that creates a download link right at the video in facebook. Whoa, now that is

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Fix facebook feed — facebook “enhancements”

robinna/ October 25, 2009/ social media, privacy/ 0 comments

So, if you logged in to facebook over the weekend you saw that FB has wreaked havoc on your feed, greatly impacting the information you send out to your friends and what you see from your friends. Friend spam! I love it (not really…..) Of course, along with the bad is some good options. Potentially LOTS more control over what

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Facebook, privacy & digital identity (presentation)

robinna/ October 22, 2009/ social media, my projects, Training/ 0 comments

10/26/2009 Update: Although my presentation is still (very) relevant, if you are looking for the fix for the latest facebook live feed enhancement, start here. This presentation was done the week before the enhancement was launched so although I did talk about privacy issues (and setting your privacy settings) the feed enhancement is was not available at the time.…and you

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