Category Archives: software

2209, 2008

FRBR book reviews, opensource access to bibliographic data for wordpress and more — it’s code4lib issue 4

robinna/ September 22, 2008/ software, social media, tutorials/ 0 comments

Code4Lib Journal is a free online journal covering library software, issues & more. There is a rss feed for those who want to subscribe via google reader, bloglines, or another reader. Openbook (a plugin for WordPress) sounds really interesting. I wonder if I can make it work for pacercms? http://journal.code4lib.org/ Editorial Introduction — Issue 4Ken Varnumhttp://journal.code4lib.org/articles/363 Auto-Populating an ILL form

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1009, 2008

Free webinar – Second Circle Event Technologies – Beyond Registration to Community Engagement

robinna/ September 10, 2008/ software, Training, training / tutorials, networking/ 0 comments

Although not specifically library related, considering how many seminars, workshops, and conferences we all attend, this might be an interesting webinar (and free!) Second Circle Event Technologies – Beyond Registration to Community EngagementSeptember 18, 20082:00 PM EDT | Register Now! Events and meetings are a critical element of your overall market relationship management (MRM) strategy – providing customers, employees, partners,

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0809, 2008

Reference in transition (interesting Stephen Abram article)

robinna/ September 8, 2008/ software, Culture, social media, Professional Life, 3D/ 0 comments

Although a good portion of what I read in terms of change in libraries is cataloging/metadata/systems related (metadata for electronic & digital objects, nex-gen catalogs, rda, opensource ILS, products to enhance user experience that work with the existing catalog (e.g., vufind, etc.), changes in LC policy, etc.), occasionally an article which is more reference oriented wanders across my desk. I’ve

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1108, 2008

Twitter news roundup

robinna/ August 11, 2008/ software, social media, twitter, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

I can’t cover ALL of the stuff that I read that is interesting, so I thought I’d do a quick roundup from my google reader box (today’s topic: twitter!). I hope I’m not just rehashing what everyone has read a million times already, though. Twitter 25 startups using twitter: the list (for product updates, feedback loops, creating evangelists, listening to

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0808, 2008

Developing your professional digital identity or personal branding

robinna/ August 8, 2008/ software, social media, meetups/conferences, question of the day, web 2.0+, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

Which domains do you need? Web Worker Daily answers this timely question. I just had a conversation with a colleague at lunch yesterday about digital identity and developing a digital presence. One step in developing a digital identity is to figure out what your website moniker should be, which then of course can be used for email, too. I’ve been

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0508, 2008

GOLD/GALILEO review

robinna/ August 5, 2008/ software, Professional Life, 3D, meetups/conferences/ 0 comments

Friday (8/1/08) I attended the GOLD/GALILEO Annual Users Group Conference. This conference gets better and better every year and I think the session offerings get better, too. The keynote speaker was funny and enthusiastic (Cliff Landis) — always a plus. I attended a session on website redesign, blogging, and the third, on the GALILEO Institutional Repository project. The first session

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0308, 2008

Collaborating in the Cloud (or maybe stuck in the quicksand…) [video]

robinna/ August 3, 2008/ software, Professional Life, 3D/ 0 comments

Collaborating In The Cloud view presentation (tags: collaboration library2.0) Nice overview of distributed information, collaboration (Wired recently also has a great graphic about the hivemind vs. the individual brain, too) and web2.0 — lots of the usual candidates (google products, del.icio.us, etc. etc.) but nicely organized. One thing I am wondering though: What are the emerging technologies in libraries —

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2407, 2008

Q&A: How to pull widgets into Drupal and how to create a new block

robinna/ July 24, 2008/ software, social media, question of the day, Training, training / tutorials/ 1 comments

So, I thought instead of just answering questions via my mailbox or the comments, I would take those questions and expand them into a little post. Question: How to put a widget (Youtube badge, del.icio.us feed, facebook profile, etc.) you into Drupal? What module is needed? Answer: While there are modules for many social networking sites, depending on how the

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