Category Archives: Computers and Internet

For those of you who want to incorporate vitality to your social media with visual content – here are 55 free templates!

  We know we’re visual animals, and according to this August 2013 article from Inbound Marketing written by Pamela Vaughan: And in social media? Visuals pretty much make or break your presence. In fact, photos on Facebook generate 53% more Likes, … Continue reading

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Explore Arduino!

Explore Arduino! My experience in creating a successful program series teaching hands-on physical computing to teens Last year I had the pleasure of serving as an Interim Teen Librarian. In addition to numerous school visit presentations covering Booktalks, discussing the library’s Teen Summer Reading … Continue reading

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OverDrive is bringing you some fresh help

OverDrive is bringing you some fresh help. For those of you who use Overdrive for your eBook needs, check out the new help site. As a Librarian, I will say that Overdrive Help is awesome – I’m always impressed by … Continue reading

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Get Free Training with Microsoft Virtual Academy

If you live in Washington state, chances are that your community library has a great resource if you want to learn how to use Microsoft Products (Windows, SharePoint, SQL Server, etc.): Microsoft IT Academy. You can enroll in high-quality courses that will prepare … Continue reading

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New Interactive eBooks w/Crowdsourcing – readers can add permanent content to authors’ works…plus impending launch of the Digital Public Library

New Cloud-Based Social Reading Platform for Web and Mobile From Sumbola And example of what’s not just around the corner, but here now: readers crowdsourcing content to enhance an author’s work… “Readers can opt-in to share their page notes and … Continue reading

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Take a break! Break Reminder download

If you’re like me, you can get lost in researching/working at the computer, with an hour passing before you know it! Then you suddenly realize it’s way past the break you should have taken to stretch and move around to avoid ergonomic injuries. … Continue reading

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Social Learning Summit: Free & Online, Saturday, April 21st

For those lucky enough to have off on April 21st, please note this great learning opportunity : a one-day free virtual conference that is being held as a partnership of Classroom 2.0 and the Discovery Educator Network, Saturday, April 21st, 2012, from … Continue reading

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Rise of Digital Influence

On Twitter, I follow digitalassetman, who posted this link to an article by DAMFoundation (DAM = digital asset management)…it’s an examination of the three pillars – Reach, Resonance, Relevance – that make up an organziation’s digital influence. It then explores how to digitally engage your customers through … Continue reading

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Look, touch and feel: How your mobile interface will morph in 2012

From Network World: Look, touch and feel: How your mobile interface will morph in 2012. Touch, waving, voice all to become more prevalent mobile user interfaces: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/122111-outlook-mobile-interface-254225.html I’m excited by some of these features in this article; I current use the … Continue reading

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“W3C Library Linked Data Incubator” discussion = why I love LinkedIn Groups!!!

Online collaboration is an amazing thing: with this one discussion title on the Digital Libraries LinkedIn Group, I learned not only what is currently happening in European libraries, I learned a lot more about the semantic web! The original  post queried: “What … Continue reading

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