Commoncraft does it again. Twitter in Plain English is a great explanation of why Twitter is so popular. What are YOU doing? 140 characters or less please.
Posts under ‘Social Networking’
Social networking for gardeners – myfolia.com
There are social networking sites out there for every interest. Well, at least there are for most of my interests. Even though I’m not much of a knitter, I enjoy lurking at ravelry.com. And now there’s myfolia.com. I didn’t go looking for this site, it found me through flickr. Social networking connecting me with more [...]
Evaluating Web Content – in the age of blogs, wikis & social networking
Laura Cohen and Trudi Jacobson (U of Albany Libraries) have put together a terrific new guide to Evaluating Web Content, with particular attention being paid to blogs, wikis, social networking, multimedia sources and more. 10 years ago, Trudi and Laura collaborated on what I’ve always considered the definitive guide to evaluating web content. Their new [...]
Making Friends
Here I am, sitting all alone in my home office. It’s just me and the fish. I used to feel pretty isolated working alone. No longer. I have so many friends and colleagues right at my fingertips. Sure, I have my email running all day long. But that doesn’t feel as immediate as it used [...]
NYLA – Social Networking Tools PreConference
Jill Hurst-Wahl presented a full day session on social networking tools at the New York Library Association meeting. She filled presented all sorts of terrific ideas for using social networking tools in libraries and answered many interesting questions from the participants. She encouraged everyone to experiment with the tools and consider how they might help [...]
