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Author Archives: robinna
best of… secrets of the catalog / library metadata (presentation archives)
Like | robinna | Feb 26, 2010 | Libraries, Life, life 2.0+, meetups/conferences, metadata, my projects, tutorials, web 2.0+
I decided to start digging out some of my old stuff that I either 1)haven’t posted here before, or perhaps, 2)I posted it 5 years ago, but it is still relevant or 3) it is super popular (on twitter, on a blog, etc.) which makes me think it is worth a re-post. I promise my site is not about to become a re-hash and just ...
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More changes at Facebook / removing profile boxes
Like | robinna | Feb 25, 2010 | social media
Heads up… more changes for Facebook.I’ve gotten 3 notices in the last 3 days about moving applications to tabs. Profile boxes are going away. I have my Pandora playlist embedded in what I thought was a box, but FB calls it an information area, so maybe that one is okay. It does appear that you can still move them to a Boxes tab to put ...
Question of the Day: How to search your own tweets at twitter
Like | robinna | Feb 24, 2010 | Culture, History of Technology, Life, life 2.0+, meetups/conferences, publishing, question of the day, semantic web, social media, Technology, tutorials, twitter, web 2.0+
So, this was MY question today: as in, I wanted to re-post a tweet about moonshine arts & literary magazine. I couldn’t quite remember what I wrote and I didn’t use a #hashtag. So what to do? How do you search your own twitter feed? There are lots of cool trending tools out there, but those are very limited in terms of timeframe. I personally ...
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Survey us…
Like | robinna | Feb 22, 2010 | Design, my projects
UGA Libraries are looking for site feedback in preparation for a site redesign. The Web Advisory Group is working on a new look for the UGA Libraries home page, http://www.libs.uga.edu As we begin the redesign process, our first step is to gather feedback. We want to find out what works and what doesn’t as far as the current home page is concerned, and to get ...
The buck stops at the library
The buck stops at the library. If we keep cutting library aid, people who can’t figure out how to file for taxes, or how to use e-mail, are going to be out of luck. Lots of aren't librarians cool stuff, but overall a nice piece on libraries and librarians. http://www.salon.com/books/nonfiction/index.html?story=/books/feature/2010/02/21/interview_marilyn_johnson_librarians
RDA vocabulary (article)
Like | robinna | Feb 20, 2010 | Design, Libraries, metadata, semantic web
http://dlib.org/dlib/january10/hillmann/01hillmann.htmlAbstract“The Resource Description and Access (RDA) standard, due to be released this coming summer, has included since May 2007 a parallel effort to build Semantic Web enabled vocabularies. This article describes thateffort and the decisions made to express the vocabularies for use withinthe library community and in addition as a bridge to the future oflibrary data outside the current MARC-based systems. The authors also touch ...
Illusion: Insight into visual design elements
Like | robinna | Feb 17, 2010 | Design, Life, life 2.0+, my projects, webdesign
Covers the most basic elements of webdesign: layout, fonts, whitespace, color theory; additionally encompasses fundamental guidelines and findings regarding how users use the web.Btw, my portion is more of the design stuff. Oh, and this is a google presentation so the design of the presentation itself is a little fugly. 😉 Illusion Insights Into Visual Design Elements View more presentations from robinfay.
Free mobile learning/education webinar
Like | robinna | Feb 16, 2010 | Design, Libraries, mobile, Training, training / tutorials, web 2.0+
Sorry for the late notice, this just came across my desk.As far as I can see, it is free.——————————-https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/948880016 Mobile Learning Fundamentals: Innovation Showcase and Real-World Examples – Presented by A.J. Ripin with special guest, Dr. David Metcalf The way that we live, work, play, and learn is being impacted by the increasing mobility of our global society. As leaders, it is our responsibility to ...
So, what does an Emerging Technologies Group talk about?
Like | robinna | Feb 15, 2010 | Design, my projects, social media
Thought you’d never ask…Here is the agenda for Weds. afternoon meeting of the Emerging Technologies Group… we are still playing with our acronym ET or EMT… I kind of like EMT.Robin = me (I chair, btw…)————– Agenda 2/17/2010 Tie up RSS/multimedia pages (Robin/Amy) — any lingering questions or issues? (webpages created to highlight our multimedia and also all of the feeds we are generating…) Libraries ...
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