My notes on a webinar I was at by Howard Rheingold on 29/03/2011.Twitter hashtag: #smuni About Howard RheingoldHoward is an expert in social media. He initially began teaching social media issues by using social media because there wasn’t much theorising
m-Cat – a view to the future?
Following on from my post about my mobile library catalogue the other week, I had comments that some screenshots may be nice. Now I warn you, it ain’t pretty. Being a catalogue for a mobile device, my entire aim was
“For Librarians” page
I was sitting around the other day and thinking “I know a bunch of libraries that provide fantastic open-source software and enhancements but I cannot find anything on their websites about it” and then decided I’d make a page for
m-Cat – the mobile device catalogue
Although I have not posted for 2 months, I haven’t actually been on holiday. No, I have been working so hard I haven’t had time to post. A few things have been going on which are very uninteresting to people
Web 2.0 program for one of our libraries
Although we completed the Learning 2.0 program at the start of the year, one of our branches is currently making a big push for their staff to complete/start the program. I am actually really happy that this has happening. Although
Translating a library webpage
Everyone has told me that setting up translations for a library webpage is difficult and involves a lot of planning and careful consideration of blah blah blah. Maybe I missed something but I have found the translation part of our
Facebook and my ILS
Now maybe I’m just having a bit of a whinge (okay, I’m having a lot of a whinge), but a certain ILS that I have used was very keen on becoming a next-generation-style ILS. They were open to any ideas
The hyperlinked library
I had the pleasure of attending two excellent professional development thingymabobs last week (aka I sat and listened to people speak but calling it training would imply I had a formal-ish teacher). The first one was called The Hyperlinked Library
I won!!!!!
I won! I won!فزت!我赢了!Ooh, and the page even does non-Roman script. How good is today? Just to gloat a bit further, I just won a joystick, dual controls and steering wheel control set from the Learning 2.0 program. I have
#23 Is this really the end? Or just the beginning …
I’ve finished. Woo! Reflections: RSS rocks for work-purposes! I was never able to understand what it could really be used for or anything…I love it! I leave it open in a FireFox tab whilst I’m working and check it twice