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Category Archives: Social media & social networking
Libraries of the future infographic
Another snazzy infographic depicting the possible future of libraries. It was adapted from PewInternet for a key address at the State University of New York Librarians Association Annual Conference in 2012. The Pew Internet produce a lot of research into … Continue reading
Schools, social media and digital literacy
Last week the Minister for Education in Wales, Leighton Andrews, announced that local authorities in Wales should unblock access to social media in schools in order to help teach pupils safe Internet usage. He said “Social networking sites have become integral … Continue reading
Personal start pages, rss feeds and my public Netvibes page
At long last I have finally made my Netvibes RSS feeds public, and improved my own personal ‘start’ or home page. I have been muttering about doing this for about 4 years and it was only whilst working from home … Continue reading
E-books and libraries Scoop.it magazine
I have created my first ever Scoop.it magazine issue! (Ok, so you’re probably not as excited as me, but I’m really excited!) My first issue is on the topic of e-books and libraries. I’d been planning another blog post on … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, E-books, Libraries, Social media & social networking
Tagged communication, e-books
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CILIP Wales conference 2012 – my ramblings
For this year’s CILIP Cymru/Wales conference the key theme of leadership was interspersed throughout most of the sessions during the two days. Before I go into detail, most of the conference presentations are available on the CILIP Wales website. Content Leadership was … Continue reading
Posted in CILIP, Conferences, Social media & social networking, Wales
Tagged cilip wales, conferences, leadership
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Doing 23 Things (but not all at once)
Some of you may be aware of the 23 Things ‘thing’. It’s a self-directed online course for your personal and professional development which focuses on learning 23 things about the Internet and particularly newer technologies and Web 2.0 things. The … Continue reading
Posted in Digital things, Social media & social networking, Training
Tagged cpd, cpd23 things, social networking, training
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Don’t start with the new shiny thing!
I was recently able to attend one of the social media strategy training days that have been organised as part of the marketing strand of Libraries Inspire. The team at Wrexham had commissioned Howard Scott (@Howard_Scott), a digital media expert, … Continue reading
Making the case for a social media presence
Some of you may recall that I have mentioned several times that I would make a generic business case available for librarians to use in order for them to request a social media presence in work. Well, you’ll all be … Continue reading
The future’s Twitter, the future’s female
I was interested to see on this infographic about Twitter by Touch Agency that 54% of Twitter users are female. And that there’s a staggering 180,000,000 new tweets posted every day. And that approximately 40% of all tweets come from a mobile … Continue reading
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Welsh libraries and social networking
If you’re looking for some summer reading for your hols, I can recommend a report that is all about Welsh libraries, has interesting quotes as well as pretty graphs and charts. (Bias alert – I’m a co-author of the report.) There … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Social media & social networking, Wales
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