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8 Tips for the Care & Feeding of the Reluctant Tech User, by @gwynethjones at The Daring Librarian

8 Tips for the Care & Feeding of the Reluctant Tech User, by @gwynethjones at The Daring Librarian | The Information Professional | Scoop.it

"Teaching tech in isolation never works. When a reluctant tech user learns how to do something with a project about which they're personally passionate, they're gonna be instantly engaged, work hard at it, and feel super exultant when it works!"

 

1. Make it personal

2. Show and tell

3. Small steps, etc"

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Week 2: Take a photo with a mobile device: Instagram / Flickr app / Snapchat

Week 2: Take a photo with a mobile device:  Instagram / Flickr app / Snapchat | The Information Professional | Scoop.it

Kim Tairi is the Associate Director, Information Management at Swinburne University. She loves her mobile. It has changed the way she works. Professional sharing and connecting is easier. Google her to find out more.


THINKING POINTS:

How could your library use photographs to promote library services, events and activities?Does your library Twitter account use Instaweather to provide a daily update?Do you have a permission form available so that when you take photographs of clients or events you have their agreement for those images to be used and shared online?How easy is it for clients to contribute digital photographs to your library collection (eg. local history)?Could you use photography in library programming (eg. how-to classes or competitions)?The Getty Museum celebrates the Instagram photographs taken by museum visitors by adding them to their Insta-Getty Pinterest board
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How to use mobile photos as part and promotion of your library services!

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Social Networking and Web 2.0 applications | American Library Association

Social Networking and Web 2.0 applications | American Library Association | The Information Professional | Scoop.it
U.S. libraries of all types are turning more and more to social media and Web 2.0 applications and tools, using a wide range of applications to connect with customers.

Via Judy O'Connell
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What Archivists Do | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

What Archivists Do | Flickr - Photo Sharing! | The Information Professional | Scoop.it
Collaboration by Marta Crilly, Nadia Dixon, and Marti Smallidge (What Archivists Do | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

 

(Archivist humour...)

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Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology: Flickr for Librarians

Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology: Steal this Idea: Flickr for Librarians: http://t.co/YKjGbKEB...

 

16 Ways To Use flickr @ Your Library, by Mickey Coalwell

 

1. Publicize EVENTS at your library with candid photos of activities and participants.

2. Present a collection of HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHS of a city, community, area, or building – how about your own library?

3. Highlight OUTREACH SERVICES such as a bookmobile or delivery vehicle, along with outreach staff and drivers.

4. Publicize a GAMING tournament or other teen event.

5. Show photographs from an AUTHOR SIGNING at your library.

6. Show the BANNED BOOKS DISPLAYS at your library.

7. Promote and share a CONFERENCE OR WORKSHOP.

8. Provide a VIRTUAL TOUR of your library facility.

9. Share photos of PARTIES AND CELEBRATIONS at the library.

10. Show pictures of regular COMMUNITY MEETINGS held at your library.

11. Provide a gallery of LIBRARY STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS.

12. Create WIKIS OR INSTRUCTIONAL WEB SITES for staff on library technical topics.

13. Promote your Friends group's FUNDRAISERS and BOOK SALES.

14. Create a VIRTUAL TRAVELOGUE of your city or town.

15. Post pictures of your ADMINISTRATORS OR LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

16. Show BOOK COVERS for reading lists or Readers' Advisory blogs.
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Occupy libraries around the world - in pictures

Occupy libraries around the world - in pictures | The Information Professional | Scoop.it

"As Occupy campaigners set up tent cities around the world, informal libraries have sprung up as part of the protests. 

Here we gather some of the best photographs posted to the Occupy libraries group on Flickr, to show how protesters are getting shelf help."

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Social media activities for libraries, Infographic by Phil Bradley

Social media activities for libraries, Infographic by Phil Bradley | The Information Professional | Scoop.it
Some ideas to try out! This is made available under Creative Commons licensing, so you are free to take a copy of this and use it yourself without having to ask me.
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Great ideas!!

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Web 2.0 Tools & Applications in Libraries - Slideshare by Nicole Engard

As presented at Computers in Libraries 2012 (Presentation by @nengard - Web 2.0 Tools & Applications in Libraries http://t.co/keWwg3Rc via @slideshare #cildc...)...

 

by Nicole C. Engard on Mar 24, 2012

Live demos/hands-on with four Web 2.0 tools:

- Delicious

- Flickr

- Wordpress

- Zotero

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Every 60-Seconds in social media - Infographic

Every 60-Seconds in social media - Infographic | The Information Professional | Scoop.it
Theme : social, media, every, many, tagged Via (#infographic of the day : http://t.co/WxSwH8gb Every 60-Seconds...)...

Via Errol A. Adams JD/MLS
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10 Reasons Why Google+ Is Better for Social Photography Than Flickr

10 Reasons Why Google+ Is Better for Social Photography Than Flickr | The Information Professional | Scoop.it

Good to know for Information Professionals as well.

 

"10 Reasons Why Google+ Is Better for Social Photography Than Flickr. Posted on November 28, 2011, 3:41 pm, by Thomas Hawk, under Flickr, Google, Google Plus. 10. A few months back I wrote a post “Flickr is Dead.”

 

Over the past few months the tide has begun shifting even more. Photographers are moving in mass from Flickr to Google+ as their primary photo sharing network.

Just like the social crowd moved from Webshots and Fotolog to Flickr a number of years ago, the social photography crowd is now moving from Flickr to Google+.

There are a number of reasons why this is happening and in this post I’ll outline some of the key ones."

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