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Free -- Gadgets in libraries workshop

Do you need a gadgets orientation covering types, brands, features, functionality and answers to why gadgets are so popular with your patrons? Join us for this webinar with Michael Porter when he presents a checklist-filled session also covering how users are consuming and accessing content on gadgets and how libraries are purchasing and lending gadgets to host this content. It's time for you to complete your checklist and to explore the implications gadgets have on the future of library services.

http://evanced.info/webjunction/evanced

Dispora* opensource social community (yeah, kind of like facebook, but well.. not)

Really interesting article about the progress of dispora* as well as interviews with the developers.

Diaspora*—if it worked—would do everything Facebook did. But users would own their data. If they wished, they could run their own servers. There would be no data-mining. No whiplash privacy protocols. And no Mark Zuckerberg.

http://nymag.com/news/features/establishments/68512/

Free! 1 Voice Many Channels> Blogging & Tweeting 4 Libraries (a robin & amy gig)

Join us - Free! from the fab @amywatts @georgiawebgurl

One Voice, Many Channels: Blogging and Tweeting for Libraries
Free
Robin Fay and Amy Watts
University of Georgia
Does your library blog or tweet? Interested in getting started? Wondering what all the buzz is about? We'll explore how libraries use Twitter and Blogger to share news, events, as well as a community building tool. If you would like to blog or tweet during the session or set up a blog or twitter account, please bring a laptop with a wifi connection.

http://is.gd/fpogj

Google ceases support for pages and files for Google groups

Well, this just sucks (as a manager of groups on google...)

Google Groups will no longer be supporting the Pages and Files features. Starting November 1, you won't be able to upload new content, but you will still be able to view and download existing content. See this announcement for more information and other options for storing your content.
http://is.gd/fpoMe

How to Not Give (and Give!) a Webinar (Free webinar)

Social Media Consultant (Guru, Dude, etc.) Chris Brogan is offering a free webinar on how to not/give a webinar. For many of us, webinars are becoming an increasingly important form of training and teaching (I teach Drupal classes as a webinar through Lyrasis - next intro to Drupal Class is coming up in November).

Unfortunately, as many of us have witnessed, being a good face to face teacher does not equal being a good webinar teacher. I've done quite a few webinars (attended even more) and I definitely realize there is an art form to a good webinar. Sure technical difficulties can sometimes come into play (a tree fell on my power line once abruptly ending my class), but those kind of things are not what makes a bad webinar. I'm still perfecting my webinar craft so I am really looking forward to this (and thanks Chris Brogan!)

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What you can expect to take away from this presentation:

• What makes for good webinar graphic production
• Good voice delivery
• Good storytelling technique
• How to build towards the close you want without selling like an obvious sales pitch

http://www.mtosummit.com/page.cfm/link=81

Cataloging Distribution Service re-launches website

for those interested...
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Library of Congress

News from CDS
The Cataloging Distribution Service has launched a new and enhanced web site.
You can find us at our usual URL--it has not changed: http://www.loc.gov/cds/

The new web site has easy-to-use navigation and a new search engine. The best places to find specific products or to browse our catalog of products and services are in the "Product Categories" and "Find Products & Services" pages.
We will update the home page frequently with news of new or soon-to-be-published products.

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

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 a button on your profile, if you have set it up to display that way.

Click on the Note you want to delete.




Click on the Edit button.
Click on Delete.









Do you want to delete? (Yes, right? If not cancel)

Battledecks at GLA/COMO

ooh, this sounds fun! Gooo, Merryll.
Happy Friday, GLA!

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I want to tell you about an event you DO NOT want to miss at COMO! A Battledecks competition at our Awards Banquet. What is Battledecks? It is a crazy fun time where presenters have 4 minutes to talk on a given topic with 0 minutes of preparation to accompany creative PowerPoint slides they have NEVER seen. Who are our contestants? The Fabulous Merryll Penson, The Hilarious Alan Harkness, The Technophile Brian Hulsey, and the I Wanna Do It Emily Almond!!! The judges will be our State Librarian-Lamar Veatch, ALA President-Roberta Stevens and LibraryMan-Michael Portor! So be sure and sign up for the Banquet! Everyone will be talking about GLA's First Battledecks! Thanks goes to
Sarah Steiner and Tessa Minchew who are coordinating and emceeing the
fun!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TdBkBm1BM0

Digi cred, identity, branding, credibility, influence

My 2 hour presentation/workshop on identity and branding which encompasses alot of different aspects of being online. I'll be reworking this slightly for a presentation in October.
btw, I realize my slides are kind of text heavy, but I really don't stand up there and just read.
;-)

Digicred

View more presentations from robin f.

Free webinars: 2 free webinars: Georgia history (Digital Library of Georgia); teaching financial literacy skills

The Georgia Library Association and Georgia Public Library Service are pleased to announce the September sessions of the Wednesday Webinar series, which highlights trends, innovation, and best practices in Georgia Libraries. The webinars feature Georgia speakers, but registration is open to anyone, anywhere. Topics are chosen to be of interest to employees of all library types, and each session is approved for one Georgia Continuing Education (CE) contact hour each.

Money Matters: Teaching Financial Literacy Skills in the Library
http://georgialibraries.org/events/wed-web-series/money-matters-teaching-financial-literacy-skills-library
Presented by Trudi Green and Teri Hanna

* Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 10:00am - 11:00am Eastern Time
* Separate registration is required for each hour-long session.

Financial literacy is one of the 21st century library competencies outlined in the 2010 IMLS 21st Century Museum and Libraries Report. The Athens-Clarke County Library has addressed this competency with the launch of a grant-funded program "Money Matters: Because Your Future Matters" aimed at helping GED students and others learn basic financial skills. Join Trudi Green and Teri Hanna to learn more about this innovative and timely program. Come away with a clear idea of the benefit of such programming as well as ideas for incorporating parts of this unique program into your library's programming efforts using your own local resources. You'll even learn something about the newest credit rules! Money Matters is funded by Smart Investing @ Your LibraryTM, a partnership between the American Library Association and FINRA.

Discovering Georgia History and Culture: GALILEO and the Digital Library of Georgia
http://georgialibraries.org/events/wed-web-series/discovering-georgia-history-and-culture-galileo-and-digital-library-georgia
Presented by Karen Minton

* Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 11:15am - 12:15pm Eastern Time
* Separate registration is required for each hour-long session.

The Digital Library of Georgia, a part of GALILEO, is a unique gateway to Georgia's history and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and other resources. Join us for this look at the Digital Library of Georgia and a couple of popular history and culture resources. Learn tips on ways training can help your patrons and staff get excited about using electronic local history resources.

Please contact a member of the Wednesday Webinar planning team with questions or ideas:
Pat Carterette, Georgia Public Library Service, pcarterette@georgialibraries.org
Buffy Hamilton, Wednesday Webinars Steering Committee, buffy.hamilton@gmail.com
Sarah Steiner, Georgia Library Association, PACE Chair, ssteiner@gsu.edu

GLA seeks resume reviewers for COMO

If you are planning to attend COMO on Friday, Oct. 15, would you consider volunteering to review resumes for those in the job market? The "Resume Review" session sponsored by the New Members Round Table is from 9:00-9:50 a.m. in Athena Ballroom H. You would meet one-on-one for about 10-15 minutes on a first-come, first-served basis with a person
who presents his/her resume to you for constructive criticism. So far, we just have two people who have volunteered. A few more would be most appreciated, as this has been a popular session in the past. May I add that in my experience, this is a really gratifying thing to do; job seekers are so appreciative of any help, and I will add my own written
thanks to you after the event. Please email me at shelley@westga.edu if
you can do it. Thanks.

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Shelley L. Smith
Senior Cataloger
University of West Georgia
Ingram Library
1601 Maple St.
Carrollton, GA 30118
678-839-6351
fax: 678-839-6511
shelley@westga.edu

E-books & e-content

Some interesting thoughts on e-books from a textbook industry blog:
Nine Important Trends in the Evolution of Digital Textbooks and E-learning Content

The increased disaggregation of content and the breaking up of the traditional textbook model — The movement toward disaggregated content has been seriously afoot ever since iTunes appeared and we started talking about songs instead of albums. We see this happening increasingly in education as digital capabilities allow us to take content apart easily and remix it into new, personal/custom collections. Today, we still think of the “disaggregation” of textbooks as breaking them into chapters. Within five years we will see all learning content as disaggregated learning pieces that can be reassembled as we want/need.

http://is.gd/f8JC8

Doing more with Google sites -- exporting, etc.

I haven't used Google sites too much since I have so much webspace under my namesake domain, but I found this interesting. You can use google sites APIs to export, delete content (eeks, use with caution, I'd say), and more. Very cool -- although I'd love to be able to (export/import) dump the CONTENT of a google site directly into a spreadsheet or google docs (hint, google!) without having to do any extra work. Now that would be handy and I might actually use google sites more.

http://code.google.com/apis/sites/

80s Library video -- the literal version

Everybody KNOWS that librarians don't really shush you anymore... and hey, this is the LITERAL version (original is head over heels).

"I've got a stack of books to return, I wish they were better"... heh, haven't we all been there?

♥ tears for fears, though.

on creativity, inspiration, & consumption of well... everything

Very interesting article about the connection between creativity and inspiration, and the impact of the influence of others.

"When we over-saturate ourselves in other people's work it short-changes our own creative development."

I have often felt this way, although I realize that developing or creating in a vacuum isn't necessarily a good thing, either. However, having the space for "deep thought" (which is in itself a creative process), is important to tapping into originality. Even then, my work is heavily influenced by others, but if I can take those inspirations and twist them into my own unique vision, then I feel I have succeeded. After all, there are no new ideas. Or are there?

http://www.viget.com/inspire/consumption-how-inspiration-killed-then-ate-creativity/

Story is more imporant than brand (storytelling)

Interesting view of the impact of storytelling on marketing with interesting case studies/examples.

At it’s core, storytelling is an exercise done for the benefit of others. True, there’s a symbiotic relationship between the storyteller, the story, and the audience. This is a marked departure from typical marketing and advertising.

http://treypennington.com/2010/09/06/story-is-more-important-than-the-brand/

my thoughts on the future of blogging?

Here is my mini-essay in response to the question, What is the future of blogging?

We've already seen traditional blogging platforms (wordpress, expression engine, etc.) moving towards more robust functionality to the point of becoming content management systems. I think we will continue to see people moving to blogs AS their primary website, especially given the ease of use and the ability to easily embed widgets to pull in news/photos/video/podcasts/social media through widgets. I do think many smaller print publications including peer reviewed publications and books will move to a blog as the primary source of publication. More media, more rich content, and a more defined user experience, utilizing tools like location based/gps services (foursquare, googlemaps, etc.).Blogs will be used to create new content feeding into social media like twitter and then also serving as a place to collocate all of the social media content created and distributed by a particular user. A blog which just be one piece of the digital presence and one piece of creating a brand.