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Amanda Palmer: The art of asking | Video on TED.com - Topic 1.1: Music: I Want My MP3 - 0 views

    • Joanne S
       
      Topic 1.1: Music: I Want My MP3 (Breathes in, breathes out) So I didn't always make my living from music. For about the five years after graduating from an upstanding liberal arts university, this was my day job. I was a self-employed living statue called the 8-Foot Bride, and I love telling people l did this for a job, because everybody always wants to know, who are these freaks in real life? Hello. I painted myself white one day, stood on a box, put a hat or a can at my feet, and when someone came by and dropped in money, I handed them a flower and some intense eye contact. And if they didn't take the flower, I threw in a gesture of sadness and longing as they walked away. (Laughter) So I had the most profound encounters with people, especially lonely people who looked like they hadn't talked to anyone in weeks, and we would get this beautiful moment of prolonged eye contact being allowed in a city street, and we would sort of fall in love a little bit. And my eyes would say, "Thank you. I see you." And their eyes would say, "Nobody ever sees me. Thank you." And I would get harassed sometimes. People would yell at me from their passing cars. "Get a job!" And I'd be, like, "This is my job." But it hurt, because it made me fear that I was somehow doing something un-joblike and unfair, shameful. I had no idea how perfect a real education I was getting for the music business on this box. And for the economists out there, you may be interested to know I actually made a pretty predictable income, which was shocking to me given I had no regular customers, but pretty much 60 bucks on a Tuesday, 90 bucks on a Friday. It was consistent. And meanwhile, I was touring locally and playing in nightclubs with my band, the Dresden Dolls. This was me on piano, a genius drummer. I wrote the songs, and eventually we started making enough money that I could quit being a statue, and as we started touring, I really didn't want to lose this sense of direct connection
Joanne S

Tumblrarian 101: Tumblr for Libraries and Librarians - The Digital Shift - 0 views

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    Tumblr got this librarian a job!
Joanne S

Library Day in the Life Project / FrontPage - 0 views

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    Library Day in the Life Project. (n.d.). wiki, . Retrieved from http://librarydayinthelife.pbworks.com/w/page/16941198/FrontPage This is organised by the day that was recorded. Select one of the days and look at the job descriptions of the participating librarians. Select five linked blog posts and click through to read them. Select one librarian and see whether you can find multiple days from that author.
Joanne S

A social media policy for a one branch public library » Librarians Matter - 0 views

  • “Social Media.” includes community created content sites like Blogs, Forums, Flickr, YouTube, Wikis, Social Networks, Twitter and other content sharing sites.
  • When you use social media your behaviour  and content is not only a reflection of you but also of (our) Library.
  • Social Media Do’s Be Professional – Talk the way you would talk to real people in professional situations. Be Courteous – Be sure to listen & ask questions. Be Accurate – Check your facts before you post and provide supporting sources if necessary. Be Useful – Add content because you have something interesting to say, not for the sake of regular posting. Be Intelligent – Provide some value. Don’t talk down. Offer insight. Be Conversational –  Avoid overly pedantic or “composed” language. Don’t be afraid to bring in your own personality. Be Non-confrontational – If you disagree, do so respectfully Be Prompt – If you need to moderate or respond to a comment do so as quickly as possible Be Identifiable – Use your real name and do not post anonymously. Be Transparent – Disclose that you work for the library if this is relevant and be honest & truthful. Social Media Don’ts Don’t Share Secrets –If you aren’t sure you can disclose something, just don’t do it. Think about privacy, confidentiality and permission to use other people’s content. Don’t Bad Mouth – Keep the language clean & avoid slamming people or companies. Don’t Complain – If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. Don’t do Stupid Things – If it doesn’t help the Library or our community, don’t do it. Don’t Defame – Show everyone respect. Don’t Forget your day job –Social Media can consume you so don’t forget your other duties. Moderate, balanced use is essential.
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    Greenhill, K., & Fay, J. (2010, September 10). A social media policy for a one branch public library. Librarians Matter. Retrieved October 1, 2010, from http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2010/09/10/a-social-media-policy-for-a-one-branch-public-library/
Joanne S

Learning together: using social media to foster collaboration in higher education - 0 views

  • The personal benefits of social bookmarking are obvious to anyone who works on more than one computer. By storing bookmarks on the Internet (or in “the cloud”), social bookmarking services like Diigo,
  • How Can Social Bookmarking Enable Collaborative Working?
  • have been judged by a human to have some value.
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  • population of users on a particular social bookmarking site influences not only the amount but also the type and quality of bookmarks in the system.
  • In all these examples, the community of users is an important factor in ensuring the quality of the resources bookmarked in the system.
  • Social bookmarking tools allow users to classify their bookmarks by assigning tags
  • With regard to information literacy instruction, Luo (2010) found evidence that librarians are using tags to present course-specific resources to students.
  • hey can also be used to engage students in resource discovery
  • This use of social bookmarking initiated from a need to simply collect and share resources but has yielded other benefits. Traditionally in projects of this type, librarians collate lists of resources that are then passed on to the web developer to turn into a web page. This is fairly labour intensive for the web developer and means that any time subject librarians want to add or edit links they have to submit the changes to the web developer. Scholar includes a tool that allows RSS feeds to be created from searches of Scholar tags. In this case, the web developer just created links to the Scholar feeds – rather than manually creating lists of links and descriptions in HTML. As well as saving the initial job of manually creating HTML pages, it allows the page to be dynamic. If a subject librarian wants to add a web resource to the page, all they have to do is to bookmark that page with the appropriate tags in Scholar. The new webpage is automatically added to the feed without the need for the intervention of the web developer.
  • librarians can share each other's discoveries.
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