Category Archives: watch.see.hear

Facebook kills library’s historical profiles

robinna/ January 11, 2012/ Libraries, History of Technology, social media, watch.see.hear/ 0 comments

Sooo… Facebook has already killed the historical profile accounts which were written about well… just about everywhere (Google Joe McDonald)  although it seems like they also killed a potentially great PR and marketing campaign.  “While McDonald and Lewis initially only had friends who were distant relatives, their lists of connections swelled from just over 100 each to more than 1,000.

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Question of the day: What is Google+?

robinna/ July 18, 2011/ social media, watch.see.hear, tutorials/ 0 comments

For those who haven’t heard about it, Google+ allows you to group networks and contacts in visual circles (and share information similarly to Facebook). Google + is kind of just added functionality to your Google account and if you are already have a Google account, more than likely it will be rolled out to you eventually (following the pattern of

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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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Choosing Technology (free webinar!)

robinna/ December 18, 2010/ Libraries, opensource, watch.see.hear, Training, Train/ 0 comments

Choosing Technology: How We Decide What Technologies Work Best in Our Libraries ( http://georgialibraries.org/events/wed-web-series/choosing-technology-how-we-decide-what-technologies-work-best-our-libraries )Presented by Tim DanielsWednesday, January 19, 2011, 10:00am – 11:00am Eastern TimeSeparate registration is required for each hour-long session (free & open to everyone!)In today’s environment librarians are constantly bombarded with new and emerging technologies. These technologies can run the gamut from smart phone applications to

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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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