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Cloud applications, platforms, and services are being embraced by libraries and librarians around the world. If you're just getting started or want to learn more about this increasingly popular trend in computing, here is a collection of 21 articles, blog posts, and conference presentations to get you started:
Infographics and data visualizations have become incredibly popular ways to impart information while keeping your audience engaged. As a result, a slew of user-friendly, free online applications have been created which enable users to create their own information graphics. Here are five such tools that I think are particularly valuable:
These personality types can be found hanging out on pretty much all social media platforms - and for truly effective social media engagement, you'll need to be able to spot them. Quickly.
"Content Curation
Best practice and introduction to tools for collecting, organising and sharing information relevant to a particular topic or area of interest."
As Clay Shirky has famously pointed out, publishing is no longer a job or an industry; it's a button. We are all creating content, as originators or commentators, which is then shared and re-shared many times over, and not all of it by human beings (e.g. 'bots'). Raw, unfiltered and context-free information is now ubiquitous and overwhelming.