Tararua District Library had some good tweets. They have a really good user friendly blog with the blog and the tweets covering a range of topics. I also had a look at Library Secrets(College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn) and their bio reads:" The library is full of secrets - Are you listening?"
Making the library a place of intrigue and discovery, a place to reveal and uncover hidden mysteries - great idea! some interesting links to follow as well.
Tweet:
Free Family Entertainment - you can get 20 books 10 magazines 5 dvds - where from? your local library - and the icing on the cake JOIN for FREE! bring ID & proof of address.
Tweets could be fun to use in the Reading Experience. You could send out a tweet with an intriguing line from a new popular fiction and then add the title or some of it and let the reader guess the rest!
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
search and compare
Decided to search my favourite flower on twitter search -I searched 'paeonies' and one tweet came up; with 'peonies' there were tweets galore - obviously a flower loved by many. The comments were mainly thoughts and feelings to do with peonies (especially pale pink ones ) and a few short 'how to grow' hints. Looked at Bingtweets and twoogle which are both good - think I preferred twoogle - the search was easier to read. Tweetgrid was interesting. It gave more information and links to sites about peonies - along with fantastic images and paintings.
Monday, November 16, 2009
tweet tweet
Had a look at whose tweeting - I liked the grabaseat - useful and honest - a great way to keep an eye on cheap seats. Looked at some of the media tweets but mainly general bites of information that people would know anyway or discussions on what they ate! however, in saying there is the choice not to read them so we can't lay any blame..
Friday, October 23, 2009
creative commons
http://www.flickr.com/photos/estherase/516542666/sizes/l/
The getwithit creative commons license states that it is a - Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 New Zealand - which means the material can be :
Shared or distributed - in sharing the license terms should be made clear and the best way to do this is by having a link to the relevant web page. The material can also be adapted. The proviso is the work should be acknowledged in the manner specified by the author/licensor.However, it should also be made clear that they are not giving personal, specific endorsement to your work. Another proviso is that the work should not be used for commercial gain.
There is also the understanding that the conditions can be waived if there is direct permission from the copyright holder. The material should be used fairly, keep in mind the author has moral rights and consider the issues of publicity/privacy in using other peoples works.
The link above to a photo in Flickr search has creative common rights which are very similar to the getwithit programme. The difference is that the license states that there are some rights reserved and at the bottom is a link to a new version. This new version has a 'share alike' icon which means that the work can only be distributed under the same or similar license.
The getwithit creative commons license states that it is a - Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 New Zealand - which means the material can be :
Shared or distributed - in sharing the license terms should be made clear and the best way to do this is by having a link to the relevant web page. The material can also be adapted. The proviso is the work should be acknowledged in the manner specified by the author/licensor.However, it should also be made clear that they are not giving personal, specific endorsement to your work. Another proviso is that the work should not be used for commercial gain.
There is also the understanding that the conditions can be waived if there is direct permission from the copyright holder. The material should be used fairly, keep in mind the author has moral rights and consider the issues of publicity/privacy in using other peoples works.
The link above to a photo in Flickr search has creative common rights which are very similar to the getwithit programme. The difference is that the license states that there are some rights reserved and at the bottom is a link to a new version. This new version has a 'share alike' icon which means that the work can only be distributed under the same or similar license.
Open ID
While Open ID seems like a good idea, and while internet use can be traced anyway I would not choose to have one access point to many accounts even if they were generic and not personal. Somehow, and this probably isn't even logical, I would feel it was making it too easy for someone if they wanted to find out what you were up to and one password gave them open sesame to many of your other accounts!
Thursday, October 22, 2009
keeping your privacy
Privacy is always something that has concerned me regarding information put on the internet. With Facebook I always reminded my daughter that anything she put on for her friends could be accessed by an even wider circle. There are sites like Amazon and Trademe where I am happy using my credit card and others where if there is any doubt,I don't use.
In the library if patrons have asked about different sites and whether they are safe I tell them about the purpose of it and who it can be accessed by and then I feel they need to make their own decisions. When it comes to their library accounts I remind them to keep their passwords safe so other people cannot (hopefully)make bookings on their Pharos account and use their time and money.
Netbasics was an excellent tutorial and it would be good for people getting their first computers to realise the importance of having safeguards against viruses etc. Once, at home our computer suddenly came up with red alert signals that our windows xp was in danger and to click on to their warning to save our data; so we ignored and shut down the computer but a friend of ours at his work, did click on and lost valuable data - as the warning was a virus.
In the library if patrons have asked about different sites and whether they are safe I tell them about the purpose of it and who it can be accessed by and then I feel they need to make their own decisions. When it comes to their library accounts I remind them to keep their passwords safe so other people cannot (hopefully)make bookings on their Pharos account and use their time and money.
Netbasics was an excellent tutorial and it would be good for people getting their first computers to realise the importance of having safeguards against viruses etc. Once, at home our computer suddenly came up with red alert signals that our windows xp was in danger and to click on to their warning to save our data; so we ignored and shut down the computer but a friend of ours at his work, did click on and lost valuable data - as the warning was a virus.
Monday, October 19, 2009
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