Category Archives: social media

Copyright, RSS, & more

robinna/ July 18, 2008/ social media, watch.see.hear, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

Apparently today is copyright day… Given that I use RSS feeds to pull my content into other sites (facebook, my portfolio, etc.), I sometimes get caught up in the ease of use and forget that RSS is a really a form of syndication. Hmm… today I came across this interesting post via my google reader: a brief discussion of some

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Flickr pro account — is it worth it?

robinna/ July 5, 2008/ social media, Training, web 2.0+, networking/ 2 comments

Just in case you didn’t know, Flickr now allows video upload for “pro” accounts.At this point, running time is limited to 90 seconds. Hopefully, if they want to be a full media site, they will up the time limit, because 90 seconds, well, that is not very long. To be honest, I’m losing my love of flickr quickly anyhow. “Pro”

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Building an educational flickr collection

robinna/ July 2, 2008/ Libraries, social media/ 0 comments

Nice well-rounded article about the effort by a group at Lewis & Clark College (Portland, OR) in are building an educational collection of ceramics images in Flickr, including project overviews, sample codes and more. http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/74

25 social networking tools for librarians

robinna/ April 14, 2008/ social media, twitter, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

25 Useful Social Networking Tools for Librarians By Jessica Hupp http://www.collegedegree.com/library/financial-aid/25-useful-social-networking-tools-for-librarians "As a librarian, you want to be able to share information with patrons and students in the easiest way possible, and social networking offers a great way to do just that. With social networking tools, you can create bookmark collections, share notices, and more. We’ve profiled 25 of the

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