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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Tag Archives: social networking
Save Ohio Libraries
Odds and Ends: Save Ohio Libraries is the rallying cry as well as the focus of this week’s activities. The Save Ohio Libraries Facebook page is rapidly approaching 12,000 members (and has gone from 11,543 to 11,768 as I have … Continue reading
Posted in Event, Government, History, Libraries, News
Tagged Columbus, Government, Libraries, Ohio, Save Ohio Libraries, social networking, Ted Strickland
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Freecycle
Freecycle is a site which organizes regional groups of people and organizations around the idea of reusing items rather than throwing them away. This idea is similar to the various discards listservs, as well as CraigsList’s free section. When you … Continue reading
Social Backrub
This is just one of my passing thoughts, which I suspect is understood by many, but not necessarily expressed this way: Google’s PageRank is, for all practical purposes, a form of social networking applied to the concept of a particular … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged Google, html, PageRank, social networking, Web Design
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Library Web Site of the Future
The Library Web Site of the Future, written by Steven J. Bell, is yet another essay about what is wrong with library web sites, and yet it is not just another essay… It is a strong critique that touches upon … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Library 2.0, OPAC, Web Design
Tagged library web sites, OPAC, social networking, Steven J. Bell, Web Design
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Social Networks and College Students
The 2008 ECAR (EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research) survey has been released, and they have added a section on social networking (pdf version of chapter here). Among the findings: Slightly over 85% of those surveyed use social networks, with Facebook … Continue reading
Visualizing the Bible
Visualizing the Bible is a project by Chris Harrison, a doctoral student at Carnegie-Mellon University. It consists of visualization of biblical references and social networking. Check out his other projects, as well, such as his Wikipedia Top 50 and Clusterball. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Statistics, Wiki
Tagged Carnegie-Mellon University, Chris Harrison, social networking
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Library 2.0 Webinar
10 Ways to Make Your Library Great in 2008—via Web 2.0 is a webinar being held next week that promises to be very informative. The focus is on social networking and how libraries and library staff can approach new technologies … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Library 2.0, Training, Tutorials, Video
Tagged social networking
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Libraries, Internet, and Generation Y
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has released a report (Pdf here) that you should read. Really. It will likely challenge assumptions that we make regarding who uses libraries and why. Here are a few of their findings as … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Library 2.0, Statistics
Tagged After Work, broadband access, Major, search engine, social networking, wireless access, Work
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