November 2008
30 posts
A Guide to the Google Library Project Settlement →
The ARL and ALA have published A Guide for the Perplexed: Libraries and the Google Library Project Settlement. Those of you who wish to get up to speed on exactly what occurred during the October…
Nov 27th
Web Design Advice You Can Dance To →
Are you redesigning your website or creating a new one for your organization? Get some great advice on how to properly design and code your site for optimal usability and search…
Nov 26th
10 Tips for More Effective PowerPoint... →
Stepcase Lifehack offers 10 Tips for More Effective PowerPoint Presentations in their latest post. If you have an upcoming talk that you’re planning, you may want to check out the article for more…
Nov 26th
Overcoming Resistance to Technological Change →
Tom Haymes, Director of Technology and Instructional Computing at Houston Community College Northwest, outlines a Three-E Strategy for Overcoming Resistance to Technological Change in the latest…
Nov 24th
100+ Wordpress Video Tutorials →
Anyone who works with the WordPress blogging platform will want to check out this posting of 100+ Wordpress Video Tutorials, from Basic to Advanced. These videos will step you through how to do…
Nov 24th
40 Great Resources for Making Lists →
For those of you who are as crazy about making lists as I am, you may want to check out this article from Mashable titled 40 Great Resources for Making Lists. Doriano “Paisano” Carta…
Nov 22nd
Top 20 things librarians wish patrons knew →
Danielle Dreger-Babbitt of the Seattle Books Examiner has posted a 4-part article series covering the Top 20 things librarians wish patrons knew before visiting the library. The listed items were…
Nov 21st
Windows Live in Plain English →
The folks at Common Craft have put together a new video explaining Windows Live in plain english. If you have an interest in setting up a profile in this…
Nov 20th
Gmail Launches Themes →
The official Gmail blog has announced the rollout of themes and color customization for Gmail. Users of Google’s Gmail program can now deck out their inboxes by accessing the “themes”…
Nov 20th
LIFE photo archive →
The Parisians, Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt Google announced the LIFE photo archive yesterday, a collection of images photographed by LIFE Magazine photographers and newly digitized…
Nov 19th
Tip’d Social News Website →
One of the principals here at OEDb has just started a venture called Tip’d, a social news website for finance, investing, and business topics similar to Digg. Those of you who have an…
Nov 18th
Why Start a Blog & How to Make it Work →
Valeria Maltoni at Conversation Agent discusses some of the reasons why businesses and organizations would want to start a blog. She goes on to provide 25 useful tips to make blogging work for…
Nov 17th
When Technology Fails Report →
Pew Internet & American Life Project published a new report yesterday about what technology users do when their devices fail. A key finding from this study showed that 48% of technology…
Nov 17th
15 Useful Project Management Tools →
If you are managing projects for your organization, you may want to check out the latest article from Smashing Magazine which discusses 15 Useful Project Management Tools. The piece covers six…
Nov 14th
20 Great Online Image Editors →
Mashable presents a list of 20 Great Online Image Editors. These are both free and subscription-based online applications which will allow you to import your images from social networking…
Nov 14th
10 Mistakes That Could Be Killing Your Blog →
Leo Babauta at Write to Done provides insight into 10 Mistakes That Could Be Killing Your Blog. The article clues bloggers in to some common errors which may turn away readers. Here are his top…
Nov 13th
Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy →
The American University’s Center for Social Media released a new Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy guide yesterday. “This guide identifies five principles that represent the…
Nov 12th
100+ Free Applications for Mac OS X →
UsingMac.com puts together a mega-list of over 100 Free Applications for Mac OS X. Each annotated entry in this guide has been categorized into the following application types: Productivity Tool…
Nov 12th
Librarian-Powered Search Engine →
The Wired Campus blog covers the story of a new project in development called Reference Extract which will be a Web search engine powered by the expertise of librarians. The project…
Nov 11th
101 Business Twitter Ideas, Tactics, and... →
Barry Hurd at 123 Social Media provides a collection of articles written by niche experts on ideas for using Twitter for business and marketing. Here are a few of the links included in this guide…
Nov 10th
How to Drive Traffic to Your Website →
Aaron Schmidt and Sarah Houghton-Jan write about How to Drive Traffic to Your Website for the latest issue of Marketing Library Services. In this tips-filled article the authors offer advice on…
Nov 10th
6 Non-Human Twitter Users →
Mashable has put together a list of 6 inanimate objects, animals, and plants which have Twitter accounts and make regular updates. Two of these Twitterers are from NASA including the …
Nov 7th
The 22 Step Social Media Marketing Plan →
Peter Kim, Senior Partner at Dachis Corporation, puts together a framework of 22 social media tools which can be used for marketing and promotion in a post for Mashable. Included with each tool…
Nov 7th
How to Promote Your Blog Like the Big Guys Do →
Leo Babauta, Zen Habits blogger, discusses Branding 101: How to Promote Your Blog Like the Big Guys Do on the Write to Done blog. The article talks about how to establish a brand with your blog…
Nov 7th
Go With the Flow: Selling Social Networking →
Michelle Boule writes for School Library Journal about Selling Social Networking in your library. She discusses ways to address common concerns about online social communities in order to reassure…
Nov 6th
Emerging Tech Challenges in Higher Ed →
What are the challenges surrounding the deployment of emerging technologies? John Camp, moderator at Campus Technology’s 2008 Executive Summit surveyed 50 IT leaders from diverse…
Nov 6th
Libraries on the Go Presentation and Slides →
Today I’ll be presenting at the NEASIS&T Mobile Mania event in Boston, here are my slides. Libraries to Go: Mobile Tech in Libraries View SlideShare presentation…
Nov 5th
Open and Libraries Workshop & Slides →
Today I’ll be giving a half-day workshop at METRO, the Metropolitan Library Council here in NYC, these are my presentations for anyone who is interested in “open” topics. The main topics I’ll be…
Nov 4th
Blog Search Engines : The Complete Overview →
Wondering about which search engine is the best when looking for blog content? Search Engine Journal provides a breakdown of the features and functionality of today’s top blog search tools in Blog…
Nov 3rd
Open Access to Mobile Web Library Technology... →
I will be giving a talk on libraries and the mobile Web at the NEASIS&T Mobile Mania event in Boston next week, and just in time the ALA has been kind enough to let me self-archive the…
Nov 2nd