Category Archives: tutorials

Question of the day: Tweet from your mobile phone (or change your number)

robinna/ March 8, 2011/ Technology, question of the day, twitter, tutorials, Blog posts/ 0 comments

I know this info is available online, but it’s my question of the day, so here goes. 😉 Note> You can set it up twitter to use web or wifi if you have a smartphone; in that case, you may just want to use the appropriate Twitter app for your phone: Iphone; or Android (ton of choices). On your menu

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Technical Services Efficiencies, Now and into the Future! Tomorrow!

robinna/ February 2, 2011/ social media, my projects, tutorials/ 0 comments

Ideas and Insights Series:Technical Services Efficiencies, Now and into the Future! (Atlanta, GA)http://www.lyrasis.org/Classes-and-Events/Venues/L/LYRASIS-Atlanta.aspx Date:Thursday, February 3, 2011Location:LYRASIS-Atlanta1438 West Peachtree St., ste. 200Atlanta, GA 30309Registration fee is now $50!REGISTER for this Event Agenda The pace of change facing library technical services staff is ever accelerating, as our organizations explore new technologies and new media. We ourselves in technical services face new

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Question of the day: How do I delete a note in facebook?

robinna/ September 18, 2010/ Technology, social media, meetups/conferences, question of the day, tutorials, Training, Train, web 2.0+/ 0 comments

Q: How do I delete a note in facebook?A: Although not intuitive, this is easy to do. Type Notes into the Search field at the top OR start with your home page (In the news feed list on the left side, click on More, if you do not immediately see ‘Notes’). You may also be able to access notes via

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Some of things I’ve taught over the years

robinna/ August 9, 2010/ History of Technology, social media, semantic web, Design, my projects, tutorials, photography/ 0 comments

Interesting how my interests have progressed over the years. (and these are just the ones I can remember and just to note this is an alphabetic title list). Heh, the word web sure does appear alot 😉 Many of these are available via http://www.slideshare.net/robinfay/ You can always email me for more info. 😉 ..and guess what? I’m guest lecturing on

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Skyriver vs. OCLC

robinna/ August 6, 2010/ Libraries, social media, tutorials/ 0 comments

Lots of resources related to the recent lawsuit against OCLC including recent articles, blog postings, procedural court docs. (from my twitter stream) “The suit alleges that OCLC, a purported non-profit with a membership of 72,000 libraries worldwide, is unlawfully monopolizing the markets for cataloging services, interlibrary lending, and bibliographic data, and attempting to monopolize the market for integrated library systems,

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Question of the day: where to find free stock footage

robinna/ August 4, 2010/ Technology, meetups/conferences, question of the day, that's cool, watch.see.hear, tutorials, web 2.0+/ 1 comments

Internet archive has both moving images and stills including publicdomain; others are licensed under creative commons (CC).http://www.internetarchive.org and here are the various searches by CC license type:http://is.gd/dMHCl Also searching flickr by CC licensehttp://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/?flickr does have some very short film clips. I’m sure there are other tools, even the creativecommons website hassearching functionality. Youtube allows searching by license, too. Also, fair

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Question of the Day: Delete or rename friends list in facebook

robinna/ July 30, 2010/ Technology, social media, meetups/conferences, question of the day, tutorials, web 2.0+/ 0 comments

Q: How do I delete a friends list? I created one for a special event and I don’t need it anymore. A: Facebook always seems to be moving things around and deleting or editing a friends list is no different. It’s easy enough to create a list (several ways, one being> Under the Friends link on the left menu, click

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