http://socialnetworkinglibrarian.com Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:26:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While I've enjoyed blogging on this blog for the past 4 years or so, I am cutting back and will only be posting on this blog occasionally. The main reason for this is that while I do love blogging and sharing with you about the new technologies and other web ... http://socialnetworkinglibrarian.com/2010/07/15/my-journey-as-a-librarian-and-entrepreneur/ http://socialnetworkinglibrarian.com/2010/06/28/library-of-the-future-in-plain-english/ Do you need a guide for the social media marketing that you are doing or should be doing for your library? Library journal is here to rescue you. There is a new book that has been published called, Social Media Marketing GPS. It is being featured on the library journal ... http://socialnetworkinglibrarian.com/2010/06/18/social-media-marketing-gps/ Have you seen the viral video, Librarian Goes Gaga? If not, you really need to see it. I am including it here but rather than just posting it for you to watch and admire, I want to include some additional information as food for thought. What lessons can you ... http://socialnetworkinglibrarian.com/2010/06/08/librarians-d-gaga-video-and-social-networking-in-libraries/ Yea, how cool is this, this blog was chosen as one of the top 25 library blogs by Online Degrees. Curious what the others are? Click the link to figure out what they are. http://socialnetworkinglibrarian.com/2010/06/01/top-25-blog/ Have you ever visited the open library? I never had. I didn't even know it existed until this past week when one of the speakers at the Utah Library Association conference mentioned it. That said, I am certainly not an expert on it. What caught my attention the most is ... http://socialnetworkinglibrarian.com/2010/05/17/the-open-library/ Isn't it ironic how sometimes librarians think alike? In any case, I was just thinking about writing this post about foursquare when I picked up the most recent copy of library journal and lo and behold what did I find, but this article about libraries and fourquare. So it seems ... http://socialnetworkinglibrarian.com/2010/04/25/how-libraries-can-use-foursquare/ Have you tried using facebook in the college classroom? What about using facebook with your library literacy demonstrations? The ways in which you can use facebook in the classroom are in fact, unlimited. This article from online college on 101 ways to use facebook in the classroom, proves this. So ... http://socialnetworkinglibrarian.com/2010/04/14/101-ways-to-use-facebook-in-the-classroom/ Does library 2.0 really exist? We talk about it all the time and we work on putting libraries into social media platforms and on creating library 2.0, however, does the movement really exist? And are libraries really benefiting from it like we think they are? I found this interesting Google ... http://socialnetworkinglibrarian.com/2010/04/08/library-2-0-a-myth-a-legend-or-a-fact/ Given that there are many unemployed or underemployed librarians. Here is a list of 50 ways I came up with that librarians can make money without a job and yes I have actually done a large number of these. 1. Start an online business. There are lots of different forms and many ... http://socialnetworkinglibrarian.com/2010/03/31/50-ways-librarians-can-make-a-living-without-a-job/