The ability to syndicate media and information, as well as involve people socially, make Web 2.0 tools perfect for marketing library events or services. More and more libraries are taking advantage of these cheap and easy options for connecting with patrons. Here are a few ideas for how to use Web 2.0 tools in your [...]
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Gaming in Libraries
In the article, Gaming @ Your Library, Dale Lipschultz states that, “using games to support learning is not a new idea; in fact, one might easily suggest that it is perhaps an instinctual impulse that we have been mistakenly repressing for too long.” She continues to point out how animals will mock hunt [...]
Second Life Explorations
I first played around with Second Life many years ago before companies and schools got involved. At that time, I felt that there was not much going on in Second Life, that it was a cyber desert and I just didn’t see the worth and value. There have been heated arguments for and [...]
Screencasting with Camtasia
I have to admit that I am more of a fan of podcast, screencast, and vodcast consuming rather than podcast and screencast creating. Each recording takes a lot of work—no wonder creators often cease production after a short run. My experience with creating a screencast this week was a little….frustrating. I certainly have a lot [...]
Bibliotechno–Podcast 2
Welcome to my second podcast. It seems I cannot escape background car noise. Perhaps I need to find a cave to record in.
Bibliotechno–Podcast 1
Voila, welcome to my first podcast. In this podcast, I discuss marketing a podcast, commitment issues, and the death of podcasts.
Wonderful World of Wikis
As I stated in my last post, I have never been much of a fan of wikis. But I now realize this was because I didn’t understand their possibilities. After spending the week exploring the world of wikis, I can admit that I have become fan…mostly.
Setting up my wiki with Mediawiki was complicated. Nothing went [...]
Tip-toeing through the wikis
I have to admit that I have never been the biggest fan of wikis. Sure, I had turned to wikipedia once or twice as a jumping off point for further exploration on a subject, but I found them sort of clunky and never imagined that I would be editing one. Part of this was a [...]
RSS in libraries–possibilities and disappointments
In this week’s chapter on RSS, Meredith Farkas talks about how libraries can use RSS to both push and pull information–pushing information to patrons about the library and subjects that interest them and pulling information from a variety of sources to provide comprehensive coverage on a subject for library users. There are some libraries [...]
