Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Their product is explanation
As easy as most web 2.0 applications are to use, sometimes it’s the concept of a tool that’s hard to describe to somebody. “Why exactly would I use social bookmarking? Why aren’t my regular bookmarks good enough?” Fortunately, the geniuses at Common Craft work hard to explain these concepts in plain English. They are a […]
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Send me your success (and failure) stories
In an earlier post I presented some findings from the survey done by the Task Force on Social Networking Software. They found that many librarians are having access to various social networking web sites and applications blocked by their IT departments. I asked for some success stories on getting these sites unblocked, but I didn’t […]
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Oxford
Very nice place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.
George Bernard Shaw
I serve on several publishers’ library advisory boards, and I attended the fall meeting of a major publisher in Oxford, England this November. Other than spending several hours at Heathrow Airport, this was my first visit to […]
