Whoa, so have you checked out shutterfly lately? I haven’t done anything with my account there in FOREVER, because well, shutterfly didn’t seem to do much. It certainly wasn’t as great as flickr. However, shutterfly has jumped into the social networking venue with both feet — take a look at my “profile” shutterfly page vs my flickr page. Okay, Okay, I know, the shutterfly page ...
Author Archives: robinna
12 New Rules of Working you should Embrace
Like | robinna | Aug 20, 2008 | life 2.0+, productivity
From Zen Habits, with my thoughts in brackets. 1. Online applications and the cloud beat the desktop and hard drive2. Collaborate on documentation [online], don’t email [Don’t collaborate on paper, either. If needed, make screenshots of prototypes to share with the group. ]3. Collaboration is the new productivity [not necessarily true, if you’ve ever been on a dysfunctional committee or project group that can’t get ...
Acck! ebooks!
Like | robinna | Aug 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
So, I’m probably (long story) taking this class focused on web2.0, scripting, etc. I’ve not taken an academic class focused on web2.0 technology, so I am excited about that. I certainly read enough about web2.0 and experiment with things (and can’t count how many conferences, seminars, etc. I have attended), but it will be interesting to get a more scholarly perspective on it. Who knows, ...
Getting started with flickr (ppt)
Like | robinna | Aug 16, 2008 | Design, photography, social media, tutorials
Nice little tutorial. Getting Started with Flickr View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: flickr howto)
Convert text to mp3
Like | robinna | Aug 15, 2008 | media, tools/tips
Hearwho.com is a free online service which converts text (type it in or copy + paste) to a downloadable audio mp3. Choices include: male or female voice, English or Spanish language, and then a couple of choices for quality. I’m not sure how well it works with a large chunk of scientific or medical text, but still an interesting project.http://www.hearwho.com/ —-Very cool!
Survey: Catalogers working in non-MARC metadata
Like | robinna | Aug 14, 2008 | 3D, FRBR, Library Catalogs (ILS), metadata, rda
Hopefully, some of my fellow metadata “moonlighters” will see this survey also. ————To *all catalogers* (with or without MLS) in academic libraries: SURVEY: Integrating Non-MARC Metadata Production into the Duties of TraditionalCatalogers. You are invited to participate in a brief national, online survey. The objective of this survey is to research the national trends in the integration of Non-MARC metadata work into the duties of ...
Q&A: Installing opensource software
Like | robinna | Aug 13, 2008 | life 2.0+, meetups/conferences, my projects, question of the day, web 2.0+
Today’s question from my mailbox: Once you download an Opensource software how do you know it will work on your server? If you can FTP/ssh/webdav into your webspace you should be able to install any software that you download provided: Your server meets the System requirements needed for the software, e.g., right version of php loaded, mysql, imagemajick, adequate space, etc. Many commercial companies will ...
50 social networking sites (the basics)
Like | robinna | Aug 12, 2008 | life 2.0+, networking, web 2.0+
From social networking to blogging to image sharing…. a nice list of all the basics organized by category. A few additions:Under social networking, I would add one of the oldest social networking sites for artists, deviantart; under misc, I would also throw in sites which are more tool based, too, like slideshare (for sharing powerpoint), and some of the rss/blog services (technorati, bloglines, google reader) ...
Twitter news roundup
Like | robinna | Aug 11, 2008 | CMS, life 2.0+, social media, twitter
I can’t cover ALL of the stuff that I read that is interesting, so I thought I’d do a quick roundup from my google reader box (today’s topic: twitter!). I hope I’m not just rehashing what everyone has read a million times already, though. Twitter 25 startups using twitter: the list (for product updates, feedback loops, creating evangelists, listening to marketplace, announcing news, having conversations ...
Most popular social networking services
From Digital inspiration:A survey of the most popular social networking services (I’m not sure I consider email to be truly social networking, but anyhow…) Email: 35%Facebook: 10%..Myspace: 7%del.icio.us: 4% Complete stats and graphs here