It's social media day - what are you doing

Today is social media day (follow it on mashable), like most days, I posted a few new pix http://on.fb.me/i2BShM , did some tweeting, checked in at linkedin, and blogged. So what are you doing? #SMDay

Student work from image editing class (Picnik)

I thought you might like to see

my student's homework for the intro to image editing workshop (their assignment - edit an image). I didn't pick the best image to use as a sample, but I think they had a good time with it.

and here's the original...

Facebook, wifi & security - what you need to know

I actually talk quite a bit about wifi and security (and even in connection with Facebook) in the class I'm teaching this week (it falls under the "how to keep your private life... private" section...)

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If you use facebook, make sure you change the security settings. The default behavior is over http and this Wi-Fi sniffing app (facesniff) for Android is gaining a lot of traction. It builds a quick 'hit-list' of usernames/passwords it has gathered as folks login with their mobile phones or other devices over wi-fi. Then it builds a hyperlink style list for someone to login to your account instantly after it is captured.


http://walyou.com/faceniff/

http://gunsjy.blogspot.com/2011/06/faceniff-apk-for-android.html

Digital identity, privacy, social media best practices

Whew, a huge topic to cover in 2 hours (kind of text heavy in a couple of spots but they get slides too):




last session of the web2.0/social media training program...

Free E conference using social media to promote digital photos

"Welcome to ATLAS! Using Social Media to Promote Digital Photos"

Alliance Library System(ALS) and LearningTimes are pleased to announce n online conference to debut ATLAS, a new set of social media tools to promote history and digital photographs. The conference will be
held online using Adobe Connect on Monday June 29 from 9:00 A.M. –11:00 A.M. There is no charge for this exciting conference.

ATLAS (Alliance’s Trail to Learning-Casts and Syndicated Sites) is a new set of social media tools ALS is using to promote information and photographs about Illinois history. ATLAS features a podmap of Illinois where the user can click on a city or geographic area to see what information is available. One of the sites for Peoria contains a
videocast, podcast, and text about Lydia Bradley, the founder of Bradley University. A user can enjoy the video and audio on a computer or download to a handheld device. The products will also be available
on I-tunes and users can subscribe to the topics of interest to them. In addition to the podmap, there will be an online community around the podmap for users to contribute resources, comments, and experiences. Learning Times is also using this technology with the Smithsonian Museum and the National Air Force Museum.

The program on June 29 will introduce librarians to ATLAS, its beginnings and where we hope to go next. The agenda for the program is below:

Introductions – Kitty Pope, ALS Executive Director
ATLAS project/background/history – Lori Bell, ALS Director of Innovation
Meet Albert Cashier, one of the historical figures on ATLAS – Angie
Green, ALS Library Development Consultant Meet
Lydia Bradley on ATLAS – Valerie Brandon, ALS Innovation Administrator
Podcast training – Jonathan Finkelstein, LearningTimes
Introduction to and overview of ATLAS – John Walber, LearningTimes
Project evaluation – Tom Peters, TAP Information Services, and Eric
Questions – all

Largest data breaches of all time

Interesting infographic of the recent sony data breach (1 million passwords) and other large data breaches.
http://flowingdata.com/2011/06/13/largest-data-breaches-of-all-time/

Leaving library & information science? Already left?

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Another library user wistfully mentions to you "how nice it must be to read books all day!"
-       You've just left another meeting about a meeting and no positive impact has been made on the community you serve,        or
-       Hey, you're just ready to try something new!

Library and Information Science (LIS) has always been concerned with recruiting efforts, especially when it comes to minority representation. Unfortunately, less focus has been on retaining qualified candidates once they choose to pursue and practice LIS.  Now, with concerns about the graying of and rapidly changing nature of the profession, bringing in and keeping qualified and energetic people (regardless of their ethnic background) to work in American libraries has become paramount.

I'd like invite you - a special, public, or academic librarian who is contemplating leaving the LIS field (or perhaps you've already left) - to participate in an online survey that explores:

1.      Librarians' career choices and their expectations about working as a librarian;
2.      What factors impact librarians' decisions to prematurely leave LIS careers, and by proxy;
3.      What can be done to enhance LIS retention efforts and increase longevity and job satisfaction in LIS careers.

Please visit http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LeavingLIS to learn more about and participate in the study. Your participation and interest is very important and is appreciated!

Sincerely,
Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, MSLS
Principal Investigator

New intiative on bibliographic framework

This may also be of interest to those with semantic web interests:

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“Transforming our Bibliographic Framework<http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/news/framework-051311.html>,” a statement from the Library of Congress (LC).  A web site has been established for the Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative<http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/index.html> (http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition) and that will be the central place for plans, news, and progress. 

the fate of your online soul

really interesting thoughts.

"Your photos, status updates and tweets will fascinate future historians. Will these online remains last forever? In this special report, newscientist.com editor Sumit Paul-Choudhury – for whom these are not idle questions – reports on life, loss, memory and forgetting in the internet age."

http://www.newscientist.com/special/digital-legacy

Respecting and preserving the digital life of the dead

Interesting article about archiving the digital life of those after they die.
" When he died, his family were at a loss as to what to do with his digital archives, so they passed them to his friend and former student Jeremy Leighton John, curator of e-manuscripts ("eMSS") at the British Library in London. Hamilton's is one of about a dozen digital legacies curated by John. He now heads the library's effort to understand the technical and ethical challenges associated with preserving such materials for posterity."

http://bit.ly/jigjAT

250,000 new public domain images via Yale

http://dailybulletin.yale.edu/article.aspx?id=8544


"As works in these collections become digitized, the museums and libraries will make those images that are in the public domain freely accessible. In a departure from established convention, no license will be required for the transmission of the images and no limitations will be imposed on their use. The result is that scholars, artists, students, and citizens the world over will be able to use these collections for study, publication, teaching and inspiration.


The Yale treasures that are now accessible under the new policy are as wide-ranging as the collections themselves and include such diverse items as the war bonnet of Sioux chief "Red Cloud" from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, a Mozart sonata in the composer's own hand from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, a 15th-century Javanese gold kris handle from the Indo-Pacific collection of Yale University Art Gallery and a watercolor by William Blake from the collection of prints and drawings in the Yale Center for British Art."

Survey on intellectual freedom

Today is the last day to share your thoughts on how ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom can best develop online learning opportunities. We would appreciate your input on how we can best meet the library community's need for educational offerings on intellectual freedom topics. Please take a moment to complete this very brief survey, which will close today, June 7, 2011. Please distribute to other lists as appropriate. Thank you!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OIFonlinelearning

Georgia Library Resources survey (for librarians)

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Your feedback is needed to help determine Georgia public libraries’ GALIEO resources for Fiscal Year 2013. Please fill out the survey (link below) to identify the resources your public library purchases locally, as well as the resources or topic areas your library would find most useful. Once top resources are identified, database trials will be set up and open for feedback and discussion. The goal of the process is to have a database suite that more closely reflects the current needs of Georgia’s citizens and public libraries.



GPLS Resources Survey: http://www.surveys.usg.edu/se.ashx?s=06C2C3B9191194E6
From the GALILEO staff on behalf of GALILEO Steering Committee members Susan Cooley, Carolyn Fuller, and Helen Poyer.

Automating your social media

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l6ceiAoeZzG8nAN61tzTz3zRnNU4brJt_LZe9R2sxM4/edit?hl=en_US