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must move towards a model with comprehensive mobile access to online services

mobile’ has come to encompass an ever-expanding field of devices, platforms and content

Smart (internet enabled) or dumb/cellular

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“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.

Already libraries are creating RSS feeds for users to subscribe to, including updates on new items in a collection, new services, and new content in subscription databases.

hybrid applications, where two or more technologies or services are conflated into a completely new, novel service.

personalized OPAC that includes access to IM, RSS feeds, blogs, wikis, tags, and public and private profiles within the library's network.

New Zealand content difficult to discover, share and use

DigitalNZ is testing ways to create digital content, collect and share existing digital content, and build smart, freely available search and discovery tools.

Memory Maker blurs the line between consuming and producing content. What’s sometimes called ‘remix culture’ […]. Digital technologies have opened up new possibilities for young people to access and represent the stories of their culture by taking sound and images and recombining them to say something new, something relevant to them. (Sarah Jones, Lunch Box: Software & digital media for learning, November 2008) http://lunchbox.org.nz/2008/11/get-coming-home-on-your-schools-website-wiki-or-blog/)

Cloud computing is internet-based computing whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices on demand.

Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet.

There are a range of applications that can be delivered to users via cloud computing models, from email or content management to specialist applications for activities such as project management or human resources management to data storage.

The number of influential libraries publishing their metadata onto the web as linked open data, which is the heart of the Semantic Web, is growing

many librarians at major institutions have recognized that a key to the bibliographic future lies in migrating their data out of library silos and into an open, global pool of shared data.

the linked data cloud is seen as the most promising way to ensure that library data remains accessible and reusable

For many years now we have been hearing that the semantic web is just around the corner

most libraries, however, is that we are still grappling with 2.0 technologies.

By marking up information in standardized, highly structured formats like Resource Description Framework (RDF), we can allow computers to better "understand" the meaning of content

the WikiLeaks threat and the persistent leaking of other supposedly confidential corporate information have brought an important issue to the fore.

Companies are creating an ever-growing pile of digital information, from product designs to employees' e-mails.

Much of this information would do little damage if it seeped into the outside world; some of it, indeed, might well do some good. But some could also be valuable to competitors—or simply embarrassing—and needs to be protected. Companies therefore have to decide what they should try to keep to themselves and how best to secure it.

Linking to the Future As long as the web’s basic principles are upheld, its ongoing evolution is not in the hands of any one person or organization—neither mine nor anyone else’s. If we can preserve the principles, the Web promises some fantastic future capabilities.

Locked within all these data is knowledge about how to cure diseases, foster business value and govern our world more effectively.

We should examine legal, cultural and technical options that will preserve privacy without stifling beneficial data-sharing capabilities.

A Text File Good old text is still not a bad way to store data. 

If you want to retrieve that information, you can use a script to tell the computer to organize the information in a particular way.   This is called parsing

Structured Text As you climb the data food chain, complex systems get developed to organize information.