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Interesting graphic about Twitter

From the Website Monitoring Blog:

The graphic includes fun facts about the number of accounts on twitter, types of messages tweeted, international demographics, who has the most followers, etc. It also has a nice time-line of Twitter’s growth since its creation in 2006.

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Missed ALA 2009? Flexyourinfo.com has updates

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 now — I just stumbled upon Heather Devine’s (Flexyourinfo) ala2009 page – a more comprehensive, all-in-one-place collage of tweets and conference photos. For the visual folk, please check this out! Want to see what was going on at the Unconference? Select that option. Want to know what happened on Tuesday? You can even see the tweets and photos by day! You even have the option to pick which tweets you’d like to see by hashtag.

Read more: Heather posted more about this at her blog.

Tags: ALA, ALA 2009, conferences, innovation, tweets, twitter

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Vicariously living through #ala2009, #ala09, #unala2009

I just got back from a vacay in Denver and am settling back in at home before work starts again on Monday. I ever-so-briefly played around with the idea of doing a quick turnaround to Chicago for ALA, but it wasn’t financially feasible nor the best timing. So I’m at home, enjoying a cup of coffee early on this Saturday morning, doing a little multi-tasking: schoolwork, writing, reading, cleaning and browsing through the many hashtags related to ALA 2009: #ala2009, #ala09, #unala2009. I created a few searches in TweetDeck, so it’s constantly updating with snippets of what’s going on in Chicago.

I’ve noticed a few other folks who have created twitter accounts specifically for the conference, which is a great idea. One example is the Boulder Public Library’s staff professional development twitter account, @bplconference.

And for fun (but mostly inappropriate comments), catch some of @alasecrets tweets. Someone has created a twitter account specifically for the ALA conference. I’ve seen a few folks tweet the password – anyone can log in and anonymously share their thoughts of what’s going on at the moment… Some are quite funny, snarky and a wee bit crude. (In fact, I believe there is a correlation between time and crudeness… as more time passed, the more – shall we say – explicit @alasecret’s tweets became). It’s amazing what people will say when anonymous, though I must admit librarians are quite a creative bunch! (Psst – this is the tamest tweet I could find for @alasecrets).

Update, 6/11 afternoon: @alasecrets has been put to rest/disabled (someone changed the password and protected the updates)…not sure who shut ‘er down, but there is already a new anonymous account: @ALAsecrets2009. For information on how to post, check the directions.

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Screenjelly – quick and easy screencasting, no download, no fuss!

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 on your computer screen. ScreenJelly allows up to three minutes of recording, so you better be concise (which, in my opinion, is a good thing!) Like most other screen casting tools, I think it has great educational implications – you can easily record short tutorials and presentations, but ScreenJelly allows you to tweet it, email it and/or upload it to Facebook, StumbleUpon, etc.

I played around with it and found it really easy to use. I created a short video — please take it easy on me, I was just testing it out. My personal reaction to what ScreenJelly has to offer is positive. The only downsides to ScreenJelly is the three-minute limit and the fact that there is no option to embed it into webpages.

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International Twittering Libraries

updated 7/29/2010

I have received quite a few comments from folks around the globe (which has been really GREAT, by the way!) Instead of incorporating them into the long, long list of Twittering Libraries, I decided to keep that list as U.S. only, for organizational sake. Hence below is a growing list of International Twittering Libraries.

If you have any recommendations and/or would like your library to be added to this list, please contact me. I’d love to hear from you!

• ACT Public Library & Heritage Library (Canberra, Australia)
• Adelaide City Library (Adelaide, Australia)
  
• Alexandrina Library (Australia)
• Biblioteca AGS (Aguascalientes, México)
• Biblioteca Francisco Xavier Clavigero (Mexico City, Mexico)
• Bibliotheque Brossar (Brossard, Québec, Canada)
• Bibliothèques de MTL (Montréal, Canada)
  
• Bibliothèque du Collège François-Xavier-Garneau (Québec,Canada)
• Bibliothèque Toulous (France)
• Bibliothèque_UGB (Saint-Louis, Senegal)
• Birkbeck Library (Bloomsbury, London, UK)
• Bracebridge Public Library (Ontario, Canada)
• Bradford Libraries (Bradford, UK)
• British Library – Americas Collection (St Pancras, London, England)
• British Library – Business & IP Centre (London, England)
• British Library (London, England)
• Burnside Library (Australia)
• Canterbury Libraries (Canterbury, UK)
• Cambridge University Library (UK)
• Central Hawke’s Bay District Libraries (New Zealand)
• Central Library, Regent Circus (Swindon, Wiltshire, UK)
  
• Cheam Library (Cheam, Surrey)
• Deakin University Library (Australia)
• Delft University of Technology (Delft, Netherlands)
• De Montfort University Library (Leicester, England)
• Dixie Grammar School (Market Bosworth, UK)
• Dublin Business School Library (Dublin, Ireland)
• Dunedin Public Libraries (New Zealand)
• Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Public Library (Dublin, Ireland)
• Dungannon Library (Ireland)
• Durham University Library (Durham/Stockton-on-Tees, UK)
• Edinburgh City Libraries (Edinburg, Scotland)
  
• Edmonton Public Library (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
• Feminist Library (London, England, UK)
• Fleetwood Libraries (Lancashire, UK)
• Greater Victoria Public Library (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada)
• Guille-Allès Library (Guernsey, England, UK)
• Hague Public Library (Amsterdam)
  
• Idea Store (England)
• Imperial College Science Library (London, England)
• International Labour Organization (Switzerland)
• International Library of New Zealand
• Fleetwood Library (Lancashire, UK)
• Flinders University (Australia)
• Grey Lynn Library (Auckland, New Zealand)
• Hastings District Libraries (Sunny Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand)
• Haringey Librares (London Borough of Haringey, UK)
• High Country Library (Wangaratta, Northeast Victoria, Canada)
  
• International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics Library (Lund, Sweden)
  
• Joe Fortes Library (Vancouver, Canada)
• John Rylands University Library (Manchester, England, UK)
• Kapiti Libraries (Kapiti Coast, New Zealand)
• Kingston Frontenac Public Library (Ontario, Canada)
• Lancashire Libraries (Lancashire, England)
  
• Leeds Libraries (Leeds, UK)
• Leicestershire Libraries (UK)
  
• Manukau Libraries (Manukau, New Zealand)
• McGill University Library (Montreal, Canada)
• McMaster University (Canada)
• Medicine Hat Public Library (Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada)
• Metropolitan University Leeds Met Library (UK)
• Milton Keynes Library (Milton Keynes, UK)
• Mt. Barker Library (Australia)
• Mt. Gambier Library (Mt. Gambier, South Australia)
• National Library of Australia
• National Library of New Zealand
• Newcastle University, UK arts and humanities liaison team
• Newcastle University Library & Info Science, Agriculture & Engineering team
• Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet
• Open University Library, Milton Keyens (UK)
• Pelham Library (Ontario, Canada)
• Plymouth Libraries (UK)
• Red Deer Public Library (Alberta, Canada)
• Rodney Libraries (New Zealand)
• St. John’s Nottingham Library (UK)
• Scottish Poetry Library (Edinburgh, Scotland)
• Sheffield Libraries
• Smethwick Library (Sandwell, UK)
• Sprowston Library (Norwich, England)
• State Library of Queensland (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia)
• State Library of South Australia
• State Library of Western Australia
• Stirling Libraries (Scotland)
• Streaky Bay Library (Streaky Bay, Australia)
• Stockton Libraries (Stockton-on-Tees)
• Sutton Mobile Library (Sutton, Surrey, UK)
  
• Surrey Libraries (Surrey, UK)
  
• Tararua District Libraries (New Zealand)
  
• The Itinerant Poetry Library (traveling the world–”anywhere I can get to”)
• Toronto Public LIbrary (Toronto, Canada)
• Townsville Library (Townsville, Australia)
• Universidad de A Coruña Biblioteca de Caminos (A Coruña, Spain)
• Universiti Brunei Darussalam Digital Library (Brunei)
• University College of Dublin (Dublin, Ireland)
• University College London Science Library
• University of Glamorgan (Wales, UK)
• University of Lethbridge Library (Alberta, Canada)
• University of Liverpool Library (Liverpool, UK)
  
• University of London Birkbeck Library (UK)
• University of London Goldsmiths Library (UK)
• Universtities at Medway Drill Hall Library (UK)
• University of Notre Dame (London, UK)
• University of Otago Library (Dunedin, New Zealand)
  
• University of Oxford Bodleian Law Library (UK)
• University of Portsmouth Library (UK)
• University of  Stavanger (Stavanger, Norway)
• University of Sussex (Falmer, East Sussex, UK)
• University Technology of Syndey (Syndey, Australia)
• University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica)
• University of Wolverhampton Librarians (West Midlands, England)
• Victor Harbor Public Library (Victor Harbor, South Australia)
• Vienna University Library (Austria)
• Warwick University Library (Warwick, Coventry, UK)
• Wellcome Library (London, England, UK)
• Wellington City Libraries (New Zealand)
• West D’tonshire Libraries (Dunbartonshire, Scotland)
• Westminister Library (Central London, UK)
• Whitburn Library (Whitburn, West Lothian)
• Whitby Public Library (Whitby, Ontario, Canada)
• Yale College Bersham Road LRC (Wrexham, Wales, UK)
• Yarra Plenty Regional Library (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) – supporting reading in public libraries
• Yarra Plenty Regional Library (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) – local and family history

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