Sep

30

What should a social media expert know?

September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment

If you’re thinking about including what you’ve learned in Michael’s Library 2.0 class in your resume then you should take a look at this list; “What I want a social media expert to know”, by Chris Brogan.
A lot of job descriptions mention that they want candidates that are comfortable with 2.0 technologies. If you’re applying [...]

Sep

28

Post #2 Participatory Libraries

September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Librarians need to act now in order to stay relevant in the information age and a participatory, flexible model is the best way to do it.

Sep

28

SLC Public Library

September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment

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This is the Salt Lake City Public. The building is absolutely beautiful and I encourage anyone who has the chance to visit this space. The best view of the entire city is from the roof of the Library.

Sep

22

… and coming in at 3rd, “The Introductory Post”

September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment

This post explains why I’m interested in Library 2.0.

Sep

20

White House saves everything!

September 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment

According to this Washington Times article the W.H. is storing everything it collects from its social media sites. This includes all comments users make on the White House’s Facebook, MySpace, Flickr …
The article explains that anything received by the President, including information from social networks, is considered to be part of the Presidential Record and [...]

Sep

19

Volunteer with 2.0

September 19, 2009 | 1 Comment

I recently saw an article in Time Magazine that had a feature on volunteering in small doses, or micro-volunteering. Flickr has partnered with the Library of Congress to make images more accessible to the public and in order for that to be successful people have to tag images. There are a ton of photos and [...]