The presentation I gave at ‘Managing Information in the Public Sector - The Future - Relaunching ALGIS’ is now available on Slideshare at http://www.slideshare.net/KarenBlakeman/web-20-in-the-public-sector-presentation and on Authorstream at ...

This post follows on from an earlier post about the use of Facebook Pages for Libraries. There have been a number of further developments since then both internally and externally. Internally, our Facebook page has gradually increased interest in terms of the number of fans it has. We currently have over 200 fans - not a [...]

Writing about web page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Coventry-United-Kingdom/University-Of-Warwick-Library/6168162503 Yesterday I had an email from Heather Dawson, the editor of ALISS Quarterly (Journal of the Association of Librarians and Information professionals in the Social Sciences). She had seen Jane Secker's slides ...

Bosses ’should embrace Facebook’ says a report on BBC News. Demos, “The Think Tank for Everyday Democracy”, has apparently released the findings of a study that says: Companies should not dismiss staff who use social networking sites such as Facebook and Bebo at work as merely time-wasters. The BBC report goes on to quote ...

I’ve already passed this on to some who I know are using Facebook within their libraries but I thought I’d mention it here as well. Jane Secker of the LASSIE project is talking to some non-librarians at the end of this month about how libraries are currently using Facebook (if at all). Please complete her short survey [...]

The last week of our Web Quest (based loosely on PLCMC’s established Learning 2.0 programme). Library staff have now completed exercises on the following Web 2.0 technologies: Blogs (WordPress) Photo Sharing (Flickr) Social Bookmarking (Del.icio.us) Wikis (PBWiki) RSS Feeds/Aggregators (Pageflakes) Video sharing (YouTube) Social networks ...

As a consequence of our Web 2.0 in FE project, the college’s ILT Champion surveyed college (teaching) staff about which Web 2.0 technologies they were using, why and how. The survey was conducted via e-mail over three days at the end of April this year. The number of responses (28) was high given the short turn around and [...]

Thanks to a post by Nicole Engard, I have added the Facebook Blog Networks application to my Facebook page and registered ownership of Joeyanne Libraryanne. Facebook Blog Networks is a way to display on your Facebook profile which blogs you own, author and read so that others can find interesting blogs. It also means that each [...]

For those of you who (like me) check Facebook on a daily basis, you probably noticed the new addition of the chat bar on the bottom of the screen yesterday. I’d previously read blog posts about the Facebook chat feature and was looking forward to seeing what it would be like. Luckily I was able to [...]

Having started using Twitter recently I have been thinking about how I project myself into the digital world and what tools I am using to collaborate professionally as well as to keep up with my friends. For example, I started by setting Twitter to update my Facebook status, but my friends on Facebook are mainly friends [...]