Facebook Gestures and privacy

The newly announced Facebook Gestures feature is being added to websites all over the net (ie. The Huffington Post Connect feature or sharing music on Spotify). Gestures is an opt-in feature that allows you to share content from a website directly to your Facebook timeline by clicking the "Add to Timeline" button.

What many Facebook users might not be aware of, is the price for all this one-click convenience. Once you add the app to your timeline it will auto-share ALL your activity to your Facebook friends unless you manually change the settings to turn the feature off. It's all well and good when the latest tech article I've read at the Huffington Post is sent to my Facebook profile, but do I really want my friends and colleagues on Facebook to know that I also had a peek at the latest celebrity gossip while I was there? Hmmmm, that's a lot of privacy to give up for convenience...

Facebook Gestures and privacy

The newly announced Facebook Gestures feature is being added to websites all over the net (ie. The Huffington Post Connect feature or sharing music on Spotify). Gestures is an opt-in feature that allows you to share content from a website directly to your Facebook timeline by clicking the "Add to Timeline" button.

What many Facebook users might not be aware of, is the price for all this one-click convenience. Once you add the app to your timeline it will auto-share ALL your activity to your Facebook friends unless you manually change the settings to turn the feature off. It's all well and good when the latest tech article I've read at the Huffington Post is sent to my Facebook profile, but do I really want my friends and colleagues on Facebook to know that I also had a peek at the latest celebrity gossip while I was there? Hmmmm, that's a lot of privacy to give up for convenience...

Tools for organizing research

If you’re like most students at this point in the semester, you are probably juggling multiple research papers or projects. Keeping track of your research from all those various places you have to look (book catalogs, journal databases, and websites) can sometimes be challenging.

There are a number of free citation management tools on the market that can help you get organized. These tools will help you save and organize all of your research in one place, in much the same way that iTunes does for your music files. Some of them will even insert citations and bibliographies into your paper for you. Check out this library guide to explore some of the more popular tools available.

Tools for organizing research

If you’re like most students at this point in the semester, you are probably juggling multiple research papers or projects. Keeping track of your research from all those various places you have to look (book catalogs, journal databases, and websites) can sometimes be challenging.

There are a number of free citation management tools on the market that can help you get organized. These tools will help you save and organize all of your research in one place, in much the same way that iTunes does for your music files. Some of them will even insert citations and bibliographies into your paper for you. Check out this library guide to explore some of the more popular tools available.

Conversation Prism--Social Media Visual Aid tying the messages & products, the people, and the tools together

Just came across this beautiful visual aid that I absolutely had to share. Brian Solis and Jesse Thomas have done an excellent job on this graphic outlining how various groups communicate and collaborate using many of the vast social media technologies out there in cyberspace. Check it out at theconversationprism.com.

Conversation Prism--Social Media Visual Aid tying the messages & products, the people, and the tools together

Just came across this beautiful visual aid that I absolutely had to share. Brian Solis and Jesse Thomas have done an excellent job on this graphic outlining how various groups communicate and collaborate using many of the vast social media technologies out there in cyberspace. Check it out at theconversationprism.com.

"Workshopping" at the 2010 SUNYLA Conference

It’s always interesting to see how your conference presentations will be received. You spend so much time preparing, wondering if your work is innovative enough to keep an audience's attention, and anticipating what could (and probably will) go wrong—especially when it comes to the technology side of things.

Yesterday, a fellow librarian and I had the opportunity to run a three hour pre-conference workshop on developing a communication strategy for your library using social media. This was a first for me, moving outside of the typical 1 hour presentation or panel discussion. Our presentation was completely in the clouds, so we were very nervous about losing wifi connections. I must say, the experience was much less painful than I thought it would be. I attribute this to small class size, a forgiving audience, and great internet connectivity. For a first try it went incredibly well; this supported by all positive comments on our post-assessment. To top it off, we were invited to take the show on the road and present it again at one of the larger research centers within the SUNY system. The good news? Outside of a few tweaks, we are already prepared!