Category Archives: social media

Free E conference using social media to promote digital photos

robinna/ June 13, 2011/ social media, Training, Train/ 0 comments

“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

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Creating a social media policy (Free webinar)

robinna/ April 11, 2011/ social media, Training, Train/ 0 comments

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

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Nominate me — or your favorite librarian ;-)

robinna/ April 5, 2011/ Libraries, social media, watch.see.hear/ 0 comments

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

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10Weeks to a 2.0 You Social Media Training

robinna/ April 2, 2011/ social media, my projects, Training, Train/ 2 comments

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

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Social Media Policy & Best Practices

robinna/ March 17, 2011/ social media, twitter/ 2 comments

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,

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Controlling twitter notifications to your phone

robinna/ March 14, 2011/ Technology, social media, question of the day, twitter, Blog posts/ 0 comments

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

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Google’s Person Finder & other resources for Japanese Tsunami/Earthquake

robinna/ March 12, 2011/ social media, semantic web, that's cool/ 0 comments

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

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This is my brain on mindmap

robinna/ March 4, 2011/ social media, my projects, that's cool/ 0 comments

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):