10 tips for maximizing pinterest [infographic]
Useful breakdown of pinterest tips using an infographic.
0909, 2013
Category Archives: social media
0209, 2013
Terracotta army, special properties of chinese blue, and more (ancient & new technology)
If you’ve never seen the terracotta army of 8000 soldiers in person, they are truly amazing. Each face is unique and handformed. How they made these was an advancement in art and technology for the time, but on top of that, they were painted in a now extinct form of paint called Chinese Blue (Han Blue). In researching Chinese Blue,
3008, 2013
The autographer – a camera that records extra data (metadata)
I’d love to give an Auotgrapher camera a try. How could a camera that records temperature, speed,compass (direction), motion, GPS and time be used? Really interesting idea isn’t it? It could add a whole new range of contextual information to videos and photography. Although I do wonder if you would need an altimeter or if the GPS and compass to
2608, 2013
1308, 2013
List of useful facebook links (merge accounts, find your ID, twitter, more)
Mostly for my own ease of access but feel free to use these as well (if you are logged in, it will take you to “your” sections of facebook: Facebook Access and Settings Facebook settings: https://www.facebook.com/settings (name, email, link to download your data, more) Facebook ID (profile): http://findmyfacebookid.com/ (3rd party site) Facebook ID (developer): https://developers.facebook.com/apps?ref=mb (optional; must be set up,
0808, 2013
RDA/FRBR reading list
Lots of RDA/FRB in this list: Karen Coyle: Understanding the Semantic Web: Bibliographic Data and Metadata, Chapters 1 and 2 http://alatechsource.metapress.com/content/g212v1783607/?p=b4700bc9fec34b12a3f42a94a9fd9d4f&pi=0 Diane Hillmann, Karen Coyle, Jon Phipps and Gordon Dunsire: RDA Vocabularies: Process, Outcome, Use http://dlib.org/dlib/january10/hillmann/01hillmann.html Barbara Tillett: What RDA Is and Isn’t http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/trainthetrainer.html RDA Prospectus: http://www.rda-jsc.org/rdaprospectus.html (Presentation with Slides and Notes) Tom Delsey: Moving Cataloguing into the 21st Century.
0608, 2013
Posting from Facebook to Twitter (Set up, making changes, troubleshooting)
If you didn’t set up posting to Twitter when you started your page, you may find it hard to find the link. Facebook no longer lists it under a page’s apps NOR it listed under Your apps in your personal account, either.You can go to the app center and search to find twitter, but… The easiest way to set up
1606, 2013
Push IG photos into ANY facebook page album and how to get an archive of instagram
Remember IFTTT? The worldest coolest little scripting tool for all sorts of magic? Well, here is my post about how to get started with IFTTT – IF This Then That If you’re like me and been completely frustrated by the fact that your Instagram pix do not actually live at Facebook – it’s just an embedded slideshow sort of thing,
1206, 2013
Simplifying new GMail (removing threaded conversations, make a traditional chronological list of emails, etc.)
One of the things I hate the most about email is threaded conversations.I also can not stand how the new Gmail treats messages in terms of forwarding. So, thank goodness you can turn that nonsense off in Gmail and if you want an even more clean and simple interface (which in some cases, does mean less “functionality”), try these tips.