Tag Archives: social networking

Social Your Site

Posted on 23 August 2009 by Rick Mason

Jenny Levine makes a great case on The Shifted Librarian for adding a feature to your sites that allows users to easily share your content via social networks.  Not only will this offer a way for your users to help … Continue reading →

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Perfect Storm

Posted on 16 August 2009 by Rick Mason

The Perfect Storm is a brief essay in the current issue of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) newsletter.  G. Sayeed Choudhury, the author of the essay, states that “Universities have authentication and authorization systems to identify who … Continue reading →

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Save Ohio Libraries

Posted on 23 June 2009 by Rick Mason

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 →

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Freecycle

Posted on 6 May 2009 by Rick Mason

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 →

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Social Backrub

Posted on 31 March 2009 by Rick Mason

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 →

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Library Web Site of the Future

Posted on 17 February 2009 by Rick Mason

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 →

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Social Networks and College Students

Posted on 23 October 2008 by Rick Mason

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 →

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Visualizing the Bible

Posted on 7 February 2008 by Rick Mason

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 →

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Library 2.0 Webinar

Posted on 9 January 2008 by Rick Mason

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 →

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Libraries, Internet, and Generation Y

Posted on 30 December 2007 by Rick Mason

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 →

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