Category Archives: social media

Twitter verified accounts

robinna/ August 17, 2009/ social media, twitter, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

I dunno, do I need this? I kind of feel like we all need to stake our digital identities firmly NOW, because the ‘net is only going to be a more crowded space. From twitter: What does it mean? With this feature, you can easily see which accounts we know are ‘real’ and authentic. That means we’ve been in contact

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Biggest news in social media today — Facebook + Friendfeed, and a little about Wowd)

robinna/ August 11, 2009/ social media, twitter, Search engines/browsers, seo, life 2.0+/ 1 comments

If you haven’t heard/read (and you don’t follow my tweets — georgiawebgurl@twitter), Friendfeed has been bought by Facebook. Read about it here and here. On another note, I asked for an invite for Wowd. I am interested to see how this will differ from StumbleUpon. Both seem to be in the popularity contest site recommendation field, but Wowd seems to

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Facebook Commandments

robinna/ August 7, 2009/ social media, my projects, question of the day, Training/ 2 comments

A colleague and I were having an interesting chat about facebook in the workplace. I have my own rules (and practices) for facebook, given that my “friends” are a diverse mix of colleagues, friends + family (some even cross those lines) and drawn from the various areas and interests in my life. Given that I’ve articulated these verbally many times,

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New social networking site for genealogists

robinna/ August 4, 2009/ software, Libraries, social media/ 0 comments

This is for my mom 😉 ————–GenealogyWise.com is a brand new social networking site, similar to Facebook, but dedicated to genealogists. In fact, it was officially announced the first part of July. GenealogyWise.com is a site with forums, blogs, videos, RSS feeds and more – again, all related to genealogy. Developed by WorldVitalRecords.com, it looks to be a great tool

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changes in facebook privacy

robinna/ July 11, 2009/ social media, privacy/ 0 comments

Interesting article about the upcoming changes in facebook privacy. I’m not surprised facebook is moving towards public feeds, because as the article puts it: Facebook holds a giant reservoir of demographic and sentiment data. It is the mother lode – and it’s been inaccessible so far because everything has been private so far. http://tinyurl.com/lgpfh8 For public entities and organizations such

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Facebook changes in privacy

robinna/ June 29, 2009/ social media, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

Okay, I don’t feel like tinisizing that URL, but you can follow it on a blog, right? 😉 Interesting article about the upcoming changes in facebook privacy. I’m not surprised facebook is moving towards public feeds, because as the article puts it: Facebook holds a giant reservoir of demographic and sentiment data. It is the mother lode – and it’s

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Survey on Cataloging/Metadata Training (please help!)

robinna/ April 10, 2009/ social media, 3D, my projects, tutorials, Training, Train/ 0 comments

All~Would you please share with appropriate lists and colleagues?Many thanks. ——————–This message has been cross-posted to several lists. Please excuse duplication. Metadata and Cataloging Training Survey linkhttp://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=S6LEGThhanvSpjVMeVzwWw_3d_3d ———We are conducting a survey on training in the cataloging field which for the purposes of this survey includes all forms of metadata generation or correction for bibliographic use. Catalogers include professional and

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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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