Category Archives: social media

5000 resources to do just about anything online

robinna/ September 9, 2007/ software, publishing, social media, Leadership, CMS, webdesign, twitter, tools/tips, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

5000 resources to do just about anything online I love mashable and I can’t possibly summarize everything in this article, but if you are looking for new things to do with your blog/website, or just to have a little fun on the ‘net, do take a look. You can find things such as 30 widgets for a wordpress blog, 70+

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Yahoo photos is closing

robinna/ August 24, 2007/ social media, web 2.0+, yahoo/ 0 comments

Well, I guess it’s no surprise to me. Flickr is superior… ——————We will officially close Yahoo! Photos on Thursday, September 20, 2007, at 9 p.m. PDT. Until then, we are offering you the opportunity to move to another photo sharing service (Flickr, KODAK Gallery, Shutterfly, Snapfish, or Photobucket). We’re making the transfer real simple, and with a couple clicks we’ll

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Mini presentation on Web 2.0 technologies

robinna/ August 21, 2007/ software, Libraries, publishing, social media, semantic web, Design, my projects, Scripting, XHTML/XML/CSS, Training, web 2.0+, networking/ 0 comments

Overview What we are doing IM External (Chat Ref) Internal (Serials, Ref) Blogs Del.icio.us The cataloging del.icio.us page has been up for about a month. We have 7 users linked to this page and we will be in a list of libraries using del.icio.us in Library Journal http://del.icio.us/url/db7b6b3059612ca00876d4a393f3747c Wikis External (FAQs) Internal (Reference, Serials Cataloging) Looking to the future Higher

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the end is near? (well for web 2.0, etc.)

robinna/ July 7, 2007/ publishing, social media, twitter, life 2.0+/ 2 comments

On one list I read (sorry, I forgot which one) a user posted that they thought the term Web 2.0 would slowly fade away. As we all become more comfortable with the dynamic, interactive and user oriented technology on the web (my paraphrasing), Web 2.0 would just become the “web.” Thinking over all of the various technological advancements in modern

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conference overview

robinna/ May 18, 2007/ social media, my projects, twitter, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

Alot of interesting info at the conference I attended yesterday. A few practical things (how to use handheld scanners to do inventory — looks labor intensive but not hard) and an glimpse into captivate for creating tutorials. The social technologies program was most interesting. For one, the presenter demoed my favorite web 2.0 video. 😉Mostly, I was interested to see

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some kind of new stuff from yahoo…

robinna/ February 13, 2007/ social media, Leadership, web 2.0+, Search engines/browsers, networking, yahoo/ 0 comments

yahoo pipes (rss feed & aggregator)http://pipes.yahoo.com/ and 360 which seems set to take on umm. myspace(? facebook?)http://360.yahoo.com/ …and then there is new aol video website which also has taken the place of the wonderful multimedia search engine, singing fish. From what I’ve read elsewhere, singingfish was purchased by aol in 2003, but they have just recently taken down the whole

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library database typos

robinna/ December 3, 2006/ Libraries, social media, watch.see.hear/ 0 comments

ok, I know I’ve mentioned this one already, but for those of you who are interested in the typos group, the link is here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libtypos-L/ and here’s a sample of possible typos:Adadem* ; Bpres* ; Distrub* ; Everday ; Intergrat* ;Ot-the ; Portuges* ; Psued* the * of course is for truncation, so that you retrieve all misspellings within the

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