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I could not attend ALA, but I followed along via the tweets about the conference (#ala09, #ala2009), tweets about sub-meetings and presentations (i.e., #toptech, #unala2009, #acrl101, etc.), and watched ustream videos and cover-it-live events (i.e., lita’s top tech trends). I even heard about ALA on NPR (Librarians go wild for Gold Book Cart). But just [...]
Yesterday I read about ScreenJelly on TechCrunch and thought I’d try it out. I have been impressed with other screencasting tools such as Jing, ScreenCastle, ScreenCast-O-Matic, Webinaria, etc, but ScreenJelly is just so darn easy to use. It’s browser-based, so no need to download anything. You can record your voice as you record what’s going [...]
I know I’ve been talking a lot about Obama recently, but I just found something else fascinating and new about his administration. While perusing whitehouse.gov yesterday, I noticed that within his Executive Office, Obama has an “Office of Social Innovation.” Maybe Obama really is trying to make government cool again!
How cool is this? The KC Public Library is having a trivia contest and they’re using Twitter as the forum for folks to submit answers. What a great idea for getting more people involved and connected to the library! Follow their stream at KCPubLib.
