“Welcome to ATLAS! Using Social Media to Promote Digital Photos” Alliance Library System(ALS) and LearningTimes are pleased to announce n online conference to debut ATLAS, a new set of social media tools to promote history and digital photographs. The conference will beheld online using Adobe Connect on Monday June 29 from 9:00 A.M. –11:00 A.M. There is no charge for
A few of us at twitter (thanks @ashuping) were having a discussion about images & creative commons which expanded to microblogging. A few months ago I read a really interesting post arguing that if you post an image through twitter it is essentially public and free to be used by anybody (or at least that is how I read the
You do know that if you work for a public university or publicly funded library, you are a government employee, right? 😉 Designing Social Media Policy for Government: Eight Essential ElementsInstructors: Jana Hrdinova (Center for Technology in Government) & Giovanni Carnaroli (Dept.of Transportation) Government agencies are increasingly looking to leverage social media to improve the quality of government services and
Apparently only 1 Georgia Librarian has been nominated. Seriously and I know some great people (for whom I will write nominations…) For those of you with a competitive, or appreciative, spirit – ALA-APA is hosting a contest with no prize other than the knowledge that your state celebrates its library workers publicly on National Library Workers Day (NLWD), Tuesday, April
I’m teaching blogging (we’ll do some widgets and advanced blogger customizations!), digital identity, and image editing in the cloud! You must be a UGA member to participate; however, we hope to capture these and offer them online for free. UGA’s Training and Development is offering a special 10-week training opportunity sponsored by the UGA Libraries on Social Media and its
My social media policy:Use appropriate social media tools to professionally connect and cultivate a community of interesting individuals while sharing my experience, knowledge, and creativity. I will not friend/follow network everyone for the sake of numbers. Best practices1. Participate2. Be respectful and appropriate – remember your audience3. Share but don’t overshare – if your mom or boss shouldn’t see it,
Go to Settings>Mobile Text message notifications:Twitter will send alerts to your phone, depending on your settings. You can limit it to particular times (I would not want to receive alerts in the middle of the night), or particular types of messages. You can limit to only those you allow to send to send alerts via twitter (perhaps, your family, dearest
I think the maps are especially useful but lots of good info available at the Google Crisis Response for the 2011 Japanese Earthquake/Tsunami. Google did a person finder for the Christchurch Earthquake, too, but this really encompasses much more information. Google has put together a list of resources for the 2011 Japanese Earthquake and tsunami, including a link to the
So I was looking at a way to visualize my web presence, but even beyond that, some of my interests. Mainly this was for fun (yes, I do things like this for fun) but also to help me “see” where my interests are as I explore potential PhD programs.Here is a start (which you can see at mindomo):