tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21870021163988646432024-03-19T04:52:18.604+00:0023 things cityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187002116398864643.post-85580753404036106042012-11-15T13:29:00.001+00:002012-11-15T13:30:41.833+00:00Where have we been?Ah, a surprise for your rss feed!<br />
We do still intend to run 23 Things again in the near future, but, as some of you may know unfortunately life, the universe and everything has prevented the programme from running sooner.<br />
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Don't worry, we haven't got a 42 Things programme for you!<br />
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But I have been busy, and you may like to take a look at our <a href="http://libguides.city.ac.uk/socialmedia">Social Media</a> LibGuide which is partially based on the initial 23 Things City programme but does have some nice extra knobs and twiddles (and extra Things) so do go and have a look.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Rowena, 23 Things City Team Leader</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187002116398864643.post-49444918578665077032011-09-13T09:06:00.000+01:002011-09-13T09:06:49.756+01:00And the winners are..Congratulations to everyone who has completed the 23 Things City programme! <br />
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<strong>People's Choice award for favourite blog: <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #993200;">For Your I.A.s Only</span></span> </strong><br />
<div></div><div> </div>23 Things City Evangelist: <a href="http://twinsetnpurls.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #888888;">Twinset & purls</span></span></a> <br />
<div>Most Surreal Blog <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://23thingscull.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #888888;">Simon CUL ILS 23 Things</span></a> </span></div><div>Most Improved <span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://paters-patter.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #888888;">Pater's Patter</span></a></span></div><div>Best Story teller <span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://23cacharricos.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #993200;">23 cacharricos</span></a> for the <a href="http://23cacharricos.blogspot.com/2011/08/autodidatic-quests-of-this-ingenious.html">Quixotic Tale post</a></span></div>Best office 2.0 post - <span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://eliterate.tumblr.com/"><span style="color: #888888;">E-Literate</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span>for the <a href="http://eliterate.tumblr.com/post/7928524320/the-wedding-prezi">Wedding Prezi post and hilarious prezi</a><br />
Best Information searching post - <span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://oliverrobert.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #993200;">Why did the librarian slip on the library floor?</span></a> for <a href="http://oliverrobert.blogspot.com/2011/08/googlingbingingyahooingmamaing.html">Googling/Binging/Yahooing post</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Best new find <span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://atthebookface.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #993200;">Paper Cuts</span></a> for <a href="http://atthebookface.blogspot.com/2011/06/interactive-librarians.html">Interactive Librarians</a> post with a new <a href="http://www.askflick.com/">Cool Thing</a></span></span> <br />
<div>Funniest blog: <a href="http://foryouriasonly.wordpress.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #993200;">For Your I.A.s Only</span></span></a></div><div></div><div>Judging was difficult as all participants had some great posts, some funny posts and some great creations with surveys, prezis and images. </div><div></div><br />
We've also created a highly commended category for those of you who still haven't quite finished, and are just needing a bit of extra time. Please do keep going as we loved your blogs!<br />
<strong>Highly Commended, but not yet finished:</strong><br />
<ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://rachscotthalls.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #993200;">RSH - More than 23 Things</span></a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://librerybloggery.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #993200;">LibreryBloggery</span></a></span> </li>
<li><a href="http://caties23things.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #888888;">Catie's 23 Things</span></span></a> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://putthebookbackontheshelf.tumblr.com/"><span style="color: #888888;">Put the book back on the shelf</span></a></span></li>
</ul>I hope all participants have enjoyed the programme - please do keep going as everyone who completes will receive a certificate and a mention in Library news.<br />
This blog will remain available so you can continue to work your way through all the different Things. We'll also be posting updates and news and 23 Things City will run again in future if you missed it the first time around.<br />
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RowenaUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187002116398864643.post-60774107138516029442011-09-05T23:08:00.000+01:002011-09-05T23:08:49.644+01:00Correct finish dateOK well I just need to clarify that the finish is Friday 9th september, and not friday 5th september as stated in a previous post. Right day, wrong date.<br />
Judging panel meets on the following Monday, but we do need some time to check through all your blogs, and I have a holiday to take as well!<br />
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RowenaUnknownnoreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187002116398864643.post-66325469517275470152011-09-05T11:30:00.000+01:002011-09-05T11:30:00.286+01:00Week 13 final weekJust a quick post to remind everyone that you have this week to catch up and finish, as we'll be judging the prizes next week! Don't forget to register your completion and vote for your favourite 23 Things City blog!<a href="https://spreadsheets0.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHVwTlU4Vk0yUlB1MUMwYUtYTklDbUE6MQ"></a><br />
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Good luck everyone!<br />
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RowenaUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187002116398864643.post-46937856625618279502011-08-31T16:56:00.000+01:002011-08-31T16:56:35.098+01:00Week 12 - follow the blog via your iphone or ipadI've used the free <a href="http://www.bloapp.com/">bloapp</a> tool to turn this blog into an app for your ipad or iphone.<br />
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Just go to itunes to download the free bloapp app <br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/bloapp/id436962200?mt=8"><span style="font-family: Arial;">http://itunes.apple.com/my/app/bloapp/id436962200?mt=8</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Then either search for 23thingscity or follow the link from this QR code with your iphone or ipad2<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHeRWbvxSjyOQ4lKYaavbiGaZUU2x0DP4ahLM7iQ2Ql4smc5SxCkIzwNTo5sl5i-apCeC9GVrgNmFSYUaHhFH63gnq-9JwniqLO-iQqoHRgMXqizDE6_wwR5EzHb8Y1_mPtatXMsq1a23f/s1600/qrimage.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHeRWbvxSjyOQ4lKYaavbiGaZUU2x0DP4ahLM7iQ2Ql4smc5SxCkIzwNTo5sl5i-apCeC9GVrgNmFSYUaHhFH63gnq-9JwniqLO-iQqoHRgMXqizDE6_wwR5EzHb8Y1_mPtatXMsq1a23f/s1600/qrimage.png" xaa="true" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">The app will keep you up to date with this blog, and the 23 Things City programme, but unfortunately it can't use flash, so things like prezi won't work on it.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">See the <a href="http://thewikiman.org/blog/?p=1730">Ned Potter's</a> blog for more info about bloapp</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Rowena</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187002116398864643.post-38095554567958078742011-08-30T11:22:00.002+01:002011-09-05T23:14:08.966+01:00Week 12 - Catch up timeWell done to those of you who have completed 23 Things within the original 11 weeks! If you haven't finished, don't worry as everyone finishing by 5pm on the 9th September will be eligible for the prizes**. After this date everyone finishing will still be able to collect a certificate.<br />
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When you've finished, <a href="https://spreadsheets0.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHVwTlU4Vk0yUlB1MUMwYUtYTklDbUE6MQ">register your completion and vote</a> for your favourite 23 Things City blog.<br />
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We're also asking you to let us know what your favourite and least favourite Things were. This will help us when revising the programme in future.<br />
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**The prizes are £10 Amazon vouchers - there are six of these to be won, so get blogging!<br />
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There may be some other treats for everyone finishing by the 9th September - I can't actually promise any cakes, but this does look very yummy!<br />
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Post updated to reflect correct finish date of the 9th september<br />
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RowenaUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187002116398864643.post-6784217104726504982011-08-22T09:09:00.001+01:002011-09-05T23:15:25.188+01:00Week 11 - The Final Hurdle<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Week 11 - The last Thing!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Well done on completing the 23 Things programme! We hope you've found it useful and fun, and that you'll continue to use some of the Things and concepts in future.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Don't worry if you haven't finished by the end of this week, as t</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o give everyone a bit more time to finish, we've decided to extend the finish line a bit.<br />
Everyone finishing by 5pm on Friday 9th September will be eligible for the prizes. After this, anyone completing the programme will till get a certificate. And please don't worry if you won't be at City at this time, we'll get certificates and any prizes to you. Remember you'll need to blog on all the Things (not including the Cool Extra Things).</span><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Summarize your feelings on 23 Things City on your blog, and add your blog to the <a href="http://uklibraryblogs.pbworks.com/w/page/7262285/FrontPage">UK Librarians wiki</a> (if you didn't do this as Thing 17 in week 7). You will need to create an account with the wiki to add your blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We'd also like you to vote for your favourite 23 Things City Blog, as one of the prizes will be the staff award or people's choice. Don't forget to nominate your favourite 23 Things City blog on the completion form</span><br />
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Post updated to include correct finish dateUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187002116398864643.post-33337933183675779622011-08-15T09:42:00.000+01:002011-08-15T09:42:32.863+01:00Week 10 Reflection and catch up week<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Week 10 Reflection and catch up week</strong></span><br />
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<strong>Don't forget that you'll need to have blogged on all the Things (not including the Cool Extra Things) to receive your certificate and be eligible for prizes!</strong></div><div style="border: currentColor;"><strong><br />
</strong>Even if you've decided that a particular Thing isn't really for you, please do blog your thoughts as to why you didn't find a Thing useful, or if you feel that you don't need to use it now, but would do so in future.<br />
If you're already familiar with a particular Thing then blog about <br />
how you've used it and how you might use it in future for home or work<br />
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To give everyone a bit more time to finish, we've decided to extend the finish line a bit.<br />
Everyone finishing by 5pm on Friday 5th September will be eligible for the prizes. After this, anyone completing the programme will till get a certificate. And please don't worry if you won't be at City at this time, we'll get certificates and any prizes to you.<br />
Of course if you're on track to finish at the original date (end of week 11) that's great!</div><div style="border: currentColor; text-align: right;"><br />
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We all use Google, and all use it every day. There are lots of tips to get the most out of it, but have you ever used any other search engines? Those of us old enough to remember the early days of the web (hey anyone else remember the Netscape/Mosaic web browser face off?) may remember that you searched mostly via subject browsing and directories. You may also remember searching via subject sites from </span><a href="http://bubl.ac.uk/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BUBL</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. This is no longer being updated, but brought together sites classified using Dewey so that you could browse for topics. Google soon swept the board though. But wait a minute, my laptop defaults to searching via Bing! Should I try another search engine?</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thing 21 Look at some other search engines and search tools</span></strong></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week we want you to take a look at some other search engines, and to blog on which ones you prefer, and what you would use in future. If you find a new search engine, please share it with other 23 Things participants via your blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There are lots of different search engines out there, but the main rivals to Google are</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bing: </span><a href="http://www.bing.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.bing.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yahoo: </span><a href="http://uk.yahoo.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://uk.yahoo.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ask (was Ask Jeeves) </span><a href="http://uk.ask.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://uk.ask.com/</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Try running the same search across each of these and see how results compare. Have you found useful hits which you didn't see on Google? Are there useful features you like on these other search engines?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">University of Berkley has a useful <a href="http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/SearchEngines.html"><span style="color: blue;">search engine comparison guide</span></a> which also includes the <a href="http://www.exalead.com/search/"><span style="color: blue;">Exalead</span></a> search engine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://searchengineland.com/guide/google-searching-search-engines?utm_source=sel&utm_medium=home&utm_campaign=nav"><span style="color: blue;">SearchEngineLand</span></a> has useful guides to using Google, Bing and Yahoo</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can see some very extensive lists of other search engines from the <a href="http://www.thesearchenginelist.com/"><span style="color: blue;">SearchEngineList</span></a> and from internet guru <a href="http://www.philb.com/webse.htm"><span style="color: blue;">Phil Bradley</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other search tools enable you to focus on specific types of data or on particular subjects. These allow you to cut out some of the less relevant or less academic results. Here are a few for you to consider - don't forget to blog about ones for other subjects so as to share with other participants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.scirus.com/"><span style="color: blue;">Scirus</span></a> for scientific information including journal articles, researcher information etc</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/"><span style="color: blue;">TechXtra</span></a> for engineering, mathematics and computing</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thing 22 Meta Search engines and comparing search results from different search engines</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It's important to compare the different number and type of results you've found between different search engines. Does the quality of result vary? Do different search engines offer different types of materials e.g. images or data? This will help you reflect on the nature of the web - can we ever search everything via a single search box? How much stuff is not included in search engines?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These search across several search engines so that you don't have to repeat your search in each one - although I find that results do vary. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Try running your search in one of the engines directly, and then compare the number of results you find running the same search using one of the meta engines – do you get the same number of results or not?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.metacrawler.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.metacrawler.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>searches google, bing and yahoo and will state if results are exclusive to any of the providers</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 54pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOQtSXyyE9dbLLMTVVvzul1fYRzv7WIdDBOQfsi5_nT-kUavb6ql3ZSEQl9ku5TWjqV-f4H88eg4t_E_cEmoFZM4iBaVTK6XsEyp179ES2Nk6Xj8lV75fnZNPmJvNBz0YIy4hpjyETx2o_/s1600/dogpileuk.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOQtSXyyE9dbLLMTVVvzul1fYRzv7WIdDBOQfsi5_nT-kUavb6ql3ZSEQl9ku5TWjqV-f4H88eg4t_E_cEmoFZM4iBaVTK6XsEyp179ES2Nk6Xj8lV75fnZNPmJvNBz0YIy4hpjyETx2o_/s1600/dogpileuk.PNG" t8="true" /></a><a href="http://www.dogpile.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">www.dogpile.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Dogpile seems similar as it searches google, bing and yahoo and will state if results are exclusive to any of the providers. The design is quite cute with dog images though! You can search the <a href="http://www.dogpile.co.uk/dogpileuk/ws/index"><span style="color: blue;">UK version</span></a> and compare results</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Cool Extra Thing - Google Fun</span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">There are lots of fun things you can do that use Google. Here are three of them (warning some may be addictive)</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">A Google a Day </span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On this site they pose a question every day and you have to use Google to find the answer. The questions are not always easy.</span><br />
<a href="http://agoogleaday.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://agoogleaday.com/</span></a><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let Me Google That For You</span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Do you get fed up with people asking you a question they could just as easily google for themselves?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Let Me Google That For You shows them how they could have done it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">You enter the question and then send them the link.</span><br />
<a href="http://lmgtfy.com/">http://lmgtfy.com/</a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's an example of the results: </span><a href="http://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=What+is+23things+City%3F"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=What+is+23things+City%3F</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Google Search Stories</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">This site allows you to record a story using Google Searches.</span><br />
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Here's a <a href="http://searchstories-intl.appspot.com/en-us/#">Toy Story one</a> (warning may contain spoilers) and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roEdU5ALsK8">here's one I prepared earlier.</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Have fun!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Helen</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187002116398864643.post-88025165300077545342011-08-01T08:58:00.002+01:002011-08-01T09:11:38.432+01:00Week 8 - Multimedia<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Week 8 Mulitmedia</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We looked at images in week 3, but this week we're going further and looking at a range of multimedia. The early days of the web were much more text based, and images could take a long while to load. We've come a long way from the days of the <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/qsf/coffee.html">Cambridge Coffee Pot</a> (am I the only person who remembers this? Please blog if you remember it!) when people logged in from across the globe to see a scratchy black and white live image of ... yes you've guessed it, a coffee pot! (It was exciting at the time!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">But this does illustrate how important and captivating dynamic content can be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Thing 19 YouTube and Information Literacy</b></span><br />
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</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTrWkhehbXlzRRPs5LylpPwqMTCZwV3r5WlP9M-OErXRA_NrDAw7ukbbQHwMaGRUB880hyphenhyphenUBqdnt3areX5P3RS_dRcKQlTir1GBQ7vn3IwlwkdDyvmscz06OVhcx7Qv2PU_wMl7pTZ-x6c/s1600/youtubelogo.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTrWkhehbXlzRRPs5LylpPwqMTCZwV3r5WlP9M-OErXRA_NrDAw7ukbbQHwMaGRUB880hyphenhyphenUBqdnt3areX5P3RS_dRcKQlTir1GBQ7vn3IwlwkdDyvmscz06OVhcx7Qv2PU_wMl7pTZ-x6c/s1600/youtubelogo.PNG" t8="true" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">I'm sure most of you will have looked at YouTube, whether for checking out your favourite band, performer, tv clip or even just to look at <a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sleepy+kittens&aq=f"><span style="color: blue;">cute videos of sleepy kittens</span></a>! (OK yes, I admit it, I like looking at videos of sleepy kittens!) We've used videos from Youtube in the 23 Things City programme to help explain some of the different Things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So this week, whilst providing a bit of light relief, we'd also like you to consider how libraries use YouTube, or how they could consider using it in future. What about using YouTube for education more broadly? Uploading videos to YouTube means a much greater audience for Library information and also enables people to check out videos on their mobile phone or ipad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This video from the <a href="http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/skills/"><span style="color: blue;">Library at the University of Sydney</span></a> is one of our favourite YouTube videos as it's a great way of getting information literacy across to students - making important topics fun, using a variety of visuals and using student to student learning. Have a look and then blog on your responses to it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is Information literacy? Why is it important for Libraries, students, researchers and the population in general? There are various definitions for you to have a look at from <a href="http://www.cilip.org.uk/get-involved/advocacy/learning/information-literacy/pages/definition.aspx"><span style="color: blue;">CILIP</span></a> and <a href="http://www.sconul.ac.uk/groups/information_literacy/seven_pillars.html"><span style="color: blue;">SCONUL</span></a> and other key information is available from the <span id="goog_607578725"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"><span style="color: blue;">Information Literacy website</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are several other videos on information literacy topics</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A cartoon from <a href="http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/">Latrobe University Library</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A short film on Reading List Fever from the <a href="http://www.liv.ac.uk/library/">University of Liverpool Library</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And a Doctor Who inspired video on learning Dewey from an academic librarian, <a href="http://llordllama.wordpress.com/">llordllama</a>. As a fellow Dr Who fan, I love this, but it may give you some food for thought on copyright and on content across cultures. And come on, Librarians are heroes, not Daleks! We know how to save the world!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Have a look at these and then comment on your blog. A huge variety of styles and techniques are on show in the various library and information literacy videos available. These include slides set to music, talking heads, comedy sketches, cartoons, silly stuff, puppet shows, documentaries, lectures, send ups of tv programmes and films etc, some use professional actors, others use students or librarians. I find some are very entertaining and get the point across well, whilst others are dull, and some of the music is terrible! What works best? Do you have a greater understanding of Information Literacy now you have watched these videos? Did you learn more from watching the videos than you did from reading the definitions and looking at the websites? Does this make you want to be a Subject Librarian?!? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Search for some other library related videos and share your favourites with other 23 Things City participants via your blog</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Confession time...I don't really listen to podcasts! Oops... however I'm hoping I will inspire myself while researching for this week's Thing 20. I might even have a go at creating one, though alas my media career floundered on the fact that I am neither graced with a voice for radio or a face for tv. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">So the basics. <b> </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><b>What makes a voice recording a podcast?</b> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Despite many audio and visual sources being available on the internet, the term podcast really only comes into play when that content can be subscribed to or syndicated, or downloaded automatically (e.g. via RSS) when new content becomes available.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Podcasts can be listened to via your PC or downloaded onto your smartphone or ipod/mp3 player. If you are an Apple user then there are thousands to choose from on iTunes or iTunesU which contains a City University, London guide to podcasting; if you want help in creating your own. For those visual learners out there, here's a Common Craft YouTube clip on Podcasting:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>So how do I find podcasts that interest me?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">You can use one of the podcast directories (<a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/">PodcastAlley</a> or the wonderfully named <a href="http://www.podcastferret.com/">Podcast Ferret</a> ) or take a look at <a href="http://podcastnation.co.uk/search/index.php">podcastnation</a> where you can submit your own. A quick straw poll of colleagues highlighted the following but of course there are many library-related ones available if you're feeling swotty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Randoms</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">BBC has loads <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts">http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts</a> - Radio 3 <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnxf">Composer of the Week</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Melvyn Bragg's </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/in-our-time/">In Our Time</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Joshua Rozenberg's <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tgy1">Law in Action</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail?pid=32604">Dilbert</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> Animated Cartoons</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Alexander McCall Smith's online novel <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/corduroymansionsbyalexandermcca/">Corduroy Mansions</a>(Telegraph)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">David Mitchell's </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/series/david-mitchell-soap-box">Soapbox</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> (Guardian)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/podcasts/">National Gallery</a> monthly </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.loc.gov/podcasts/">Library of Congress</a></span> - featured podcast series include <i>Digital Preservation</i><span style="font-family: Arial;"><i> Slave Narratives</i></span> and <span style="font-family: Arial;"><i>Music and the Brain</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.bl.uk/whatson/podcasts/index.html">British Library</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> - talks, lectures, discussions as well as those focused around current exhibitions. I liked: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><i>Educational standards: not as good as in my day</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><i>Who owns the future of the story?</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.gold.ac.uk/library/library-tour-podcasts/">Goldsmiths</a> has a podcast tour of their library to help new students, whilst other universities <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_536216741">Oxford Brookes</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">) </span>use podcasts as guides for their services.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">There are loads of reasons why libraries might find podcasts useful - in the public sphere, things like storytime and author talks can be great, academic libraries generally tend to focus on the areas mentioned above: tours and guides. <a href="http://skills.library.leeds.ac.uk/podcasts.php?PodcastEpisode=2">http://skills.library.leeds.ac.uk/podcasts.php?PodcastEpisode=2</a> from the University of Leeds also have podcasts on essay writing and critical thinking for their students. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">The article <a href="http://0-search.ebscohost.com.wam.city.ac.uk/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lih&AN=61993848&site=ehost-live" name="citation"><span rwthpgen="1">Higher Education and Emerging Technologies:</span><span rwthpgen="1"> Student Usage, Preferences, and Lessons for </span><b>Library</b><span rwthpgen="1"> Services</span></a> discusses how students find podcasting an effective learning tool and academic librarians have been amazed by their popularity when they created one!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><b>What do i do with them?</b> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Click on the orange RSS logo to subscribe or pull into Google Reader. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><b>How can I create my own? </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/">Audacity</a> is the tool of choice for many but I decided to give </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://audioboo.fm/">Audioboo</a> a go. I downloaded it as an app for my iPhone, registered an account and clicked record. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Here's the result (apologies in advance for the cheesiness of it, amazing how you can't think of anything to say when faced with a big red Record button!)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><b>So it's over to you!</b> Why don't you blog about the great podcasts you've found? Or maybe about where you think City University could be dipping its toe into podcasting - what should we be using the medium for? You might even fancy creating one yourself? </span><br />
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Image credit: <i>iPod - Podcasting</i> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnorman/244055318/">D'Arcy Norman</a> (flickr)<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">~~Emily & Verena~~</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Cool Extra Thing Music Playlists</b></span><br />
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There are lots of music related social media sites available. All allow you to share songs using Facebook and Twitter, along with other sharing sites. <br />
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<a href="http://www.spotify.com/">Spotify</a> and <a href="http://last.fm/">Last.fm</a> are two of the most popular sites. They are both free to join and have subscription options. Spotify requires you to download software to your computer and a lot of Last.fm's features are now subscriber only which is why we haven't looked at either in detail for this week but here's a <a href="http://www.last.fm/user/melon_h/library/playlists/54r0c_folky_stuff">Last.fm playlist</a> (notice the songs are often only samples).I've also created a <a href="http://open.spotify.com/user/melon_h/playlist/1S78x8wh9SkUyZOhXXmPOI">collaborative Spotify playlist </a> (only works if spotify is installed) which if you have Spotify feel free to add to.<br />
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Amongst the great free sites available <a href="http://grooveshark.com/">Grooveshark</a> appears to be one of the most straight forward to use. You can upload your own music, play music and create playlists to share with your friends.<br />
Creating an account is easy. You either click Become a Member or login using your Google or Facebook Accounts. <br />
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This is how to create a playlist:<br />
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Once you have created a playlist you can either play items from it or share it with friends using the share playlist option. <br />
This is a <a href="http://grooveshark.com/playlist/Music+Stuff/57481376">Grooveshark Playlist.</a><br />
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This week create a playlist using any social media music service and share it with the other 23things participants via Twitter, email or your blog.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Helen</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187002116398864643.post-4608949305995586852011-07-25T08:50:00.005+01:002011-07-25T09:30:07.000+01:00Week 7 Sharing<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>Week 7</b> <b>Sharing</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This week we'll be looking at how Web 2.0 tools make sharing easy, quick and fun. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>Thing 16 Slideshare</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">Slideshare rather reinvigorated the humble PowerPoint; suddenly giving you a way to show off your presentations and snoop around other peoples! Michael Arrington (founder of <a href="http://techcrunch.com/">TechCrunch</a>) calls it "the YouTube of PowerPoint". </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">Essentially it's a presentation sharing website where users can upload, view and share presentation files. You can also easily add audio or video (e.g. YouTube) files. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><i>Why use it?</i> </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Go on, create a buzz!</td></tr>
</tbody></table><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">Create some buzz around a paper you're doing at a conference </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">Get ideas for presentation style </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">Catch up on a conference you were unable to attend</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">Networking - find others with a similar interest/expertise</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">Raising your profile - brand awareness</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">Somewhere for students to view your teaching support materials</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">To experience the warm glow that comes from sharing your work with others;-) </span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><i>How do people see it? </i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">Once you've created an account people will be able to just access all your slideshare presentations in one place. Mine, for example, can be found at <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/lawbore">http://www.slideshare.net/lawbore</a> [imaginative huh?]</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">You can also embed specific presentations within your website or blog [see below!] which is a way of both getting more hits to your presentation as well as brightening up your blog/website! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">The presentation below offers an interesting study of what's on slideshare - from most popular fonts to average number of slides per country of origin. Very enlightening! </span><br />
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<div id="__ss_6403387" style="width: 425px;"><b style="display: block; margin: 12px 0px 4px;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/rashmi/slideshare-zeitgeist-2010" target="_blank" title="SlideShare Zeitgeist 2010">SlideShare Zeitgeist 2010</a></b> <iframe frameborder="0" height="355" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/6403387" width="425"></iframe><br />
<div style="padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">View more presentations from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/rashmi" target="_blank">Rashmi Sinha</a> <br />
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<b>How does it work?</b> </div></div><ul><li>Upload your own presentations by clicking the <b>Upload</b> button</li>
<li>Give each of your presentations tags to make it easier to find - this also means yours might appear in the <b>Related Presentations</b> section alongside someone else's work. </li>
<li>Embed in your website or send other interested parties the direct link</li>
<li>Support other slideshare users by 'favouriting' the presentations you like best! </li>
<li>Peer review by commenting on other presentations</li>
<li>Like Twitter, you can follow slideshare people you're interested in.</li>
<li>Try to get onto the Slideshare front page; I was on the <b>Hot on Twitter</b> section a few weeks ago. Very exciting;-)</li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>Over to you!</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">Explore slideshare and think about how it compares to zooming wackiness of prezi last week; do you think there is a place for both tools? Which do you find communicates best to you? Have you found any slideshare presentations that you admire? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">Image thanks to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/moeview/477647900/">Aaron Molina</a> via CC licence via flickr.com</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">~~Emily~~</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>Thing 17 Wikis</b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Used under attribution licence from Kables.</td></tr>
</tbody></table> <span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Wikipedia, wiki</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">leaks and wikianswers are names we hear all the time. The term comes from the Hawaiian for fast or quick but in internet terms it means “a website in which the contents are contributed and edited by visitors to the site.” (<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">wiki. (2005). In The Macquarie Dictionary. Retrieved from <a href="http://0www.credoreference.com.wam.city.ac.uk/entry/macqdict/wiki">Credo Reference</a>)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Interesting fact - The first wiki was created in March 1995 by Ward Cunningham and was called <a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki">WikiWikiWeb</a>. </span></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><b>How do wikis work?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Wikis are live documents which allow editing and addition.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Commoncraft have a great Wikis in Plain English video which explains how they work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><b>I don't want to create an huge encyclopedia so why use wikis?</b></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Whilst <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a> is probably the best known wiki they don’t need to be as ambitious and certainly don't need thousands of contributors.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">I've used them to keep track of who is updating helpsheets, build up FAQs and sign up to events.</span></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Examples of wikis</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Million_Penguins">A Million Penguins</a> - a colaboratively written novel.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/links/index.php?title=Welcome_to_the_Blogging_Libraries_Wiki">Blogging libraries</a> Lists of blogs by libraries<br />
<a href="http://www.wikispaces.com/examples">Examples on wikispaces</a></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a href="http://librarydayinthelife.pbworks.com/w/page/16941198/FrontPage">Library Day in the Life project</a> (Coincidentally running this week)<br />
<a href="http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/wiki/TSR_Wiki">The Student Room Wiki</a><br />
<a href="http://uklibraryblogs.pbworks.com/w/page/7262285/FrontPage">UK Library Blogs</a> Lists of library and librarian blogs in the UK<br />
<a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Wikipedia</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">You can create your own wikis using sites including <a href="http://www.pbworks.com/">http://www.pbworks.com/</a> or <a href="http://www.wikispaces.com/">http://www.wikispaces.com/</a> or within communities (<a href="https://my.city.ac.uk/communities">https://my.city.ac.uk/communities</a>). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Your task for this thing is to add your blog to the </span><a href="http://uklibraryblogs.pbworks.com/w/page/7262285/FrontPage">UK Library Blogs</a><span style="font-family: Arial;"> site and/or sign up for this weeks </span><a href="http://librarydayinthelife.pbworks.com/w/page/16941198/FrontPage">Library Day in the Life project</a><span style="font-family: Arial;">, instructions for how to do this are on the wikis.</span><br />
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<b>Thing 18 Using Del.icio.us</b> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The main advantage of using a social bookmarking site such as del.icio.us is that it enables you to access your bookmarks and share your bookmarks from any computer. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Many libraries have utilised this ability to create and share dynamic lists with their users. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Subject guides at LSE </span><a href="http://www.delicious.com/LSELibrary/anthropology"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.delicious.com/LSELibrary/anthropology</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> and Dublin city in the </span><a href="http://www.delicious.com/DublinCityPublicLibraries"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.delicious.com/DublinCityPublicLibraries</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> are good examples. Nashville has created top teen reads and webcomics listings for their users </span><a href="http://www.delicious.com/nashpubya/webcomic"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.delicious.com/nashpubya/webcomic</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">You can display your del.icio.us tag cloud on a website. Take a look at this example by MIT Libraries virtual reference collection <a href="http://libguides.mit.edu/content.php?pid=50505&sid=370830">http://libguides.mit.edu/content.php?pid=50505&sid=370830</a> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Not only can you add RSS feeds to your del.icio.us account but also to individual tags – keeping you right up to date with any changes in subject guides or lists. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Del.icio.us can be a great marketing tool, the Tate website has a share on del.icio.us link on their website and OCLC uses delicious to manage and promote their top 1000 titles </span><a href="http://www.delicious.com/oclc2005top1000"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.delicious.com/oclc2005top1000</span></a><br />
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Now it is your turn - have a look for some examples of libraries using del.icio.us and share them with us on the blog. You won't need a del.icio.us account to search but do create an acount if you wish to test it out <a href="https://secure.delicious.com/register">https://secure.delicious.com/register</a>. For more info and links to tools and gadgets you can use try <a href="http://www.econsultant.com/delicious-by-function/index.html">http://www.econsultant.com/delicious-by-function/index.html</a><br />
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Want an alternative? <a href="http://www.diigo.com/">Diigo</a> is an option worth considering. Wondering what the abbreviation stands for? <b>D</b>igest of <b>I</b>nternet <b>I</b>nformation, <b>G</b>roups and <b>O</b>ther Stuff. It offers very similar functionality to del.icio.us allowing users to collect and share bookmarks, collaborate with others and join communities of research interest. You can make your collections public or private and use the clever highlight and sticky note tools. Just to hammer home my <b><i>SLIDESHARE ROCKS!</i></b> message, here's a handy presentation I discovered on the joys of diigo:<br />
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<div id="__ss_6848743" style="width: 425px;"><b style="display: block; margin: 12px 0px 4px;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/scyuen/using-diigo-in-the-classroom" target="_blank" title="Using Diigo in the Classroom">Using Diigo in the Classroom</a></b> <iframe frameborder="0" height="355" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/6848743" width="425"></iframe><br />
<div style="padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">View more <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/" target="_blank">presentations</a> from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/scyuen" target="_blank">Steve Yuen</a> </div></div>~~Emily~~<br />
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<b>Cool Extra thing - Evernote</b></div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/slimcoincidence/1109995859/" title="The Research Pile by Krista76, on Flickr"><img alt="The Research Pile" height="144" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1165/1109995859_d0328f952c.jpg" width="200" /></a><br />
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Do you sometimes feel that you have notes in lots of notebooks and could be more organised? Evernote can help! (As this <a href="http://youtu.be/LNE0R3rEe5Q" target="_blank">advert</a> shows)<br />
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Evernote is an web application which is also available to download on to mobile devices, desktop PCs, lap tops and just about every computer. This means that you can literally use it anywhere and it will sync with on all your devices and the website.<br />
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I have been using Evernote for a while and think it is great. I was always starting a notebook then forgetting it and starting another then never looking at the notes anyway because I couldn’t read my writing or had to scan through so much that I couldn't find what I was looking for but with evernote I am finally becoming a notetaker!<br />
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At the recent Business Librarians Association Conference I was able to make notes, download all the pre-conference information and agenda and keep it all in one “notebook” on Evernote. When I came back to the office I could view these notes online and add links to them where needed. I can then share the notes with colleagues. For example these <a href="https://www.evernote.com/shard/s85/sh/a59923cf-ad4d-4410-97e5-ac33fcd2cef8/11e6c05aba9082433d87a8883b1a9948" target="_blank">notes on a talk about doing a library video </a>from the conference.<br />
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<b>Why use it?</b><br />
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Even if you don't have a mobile device to use it on or a lap top to download it to it can still transform your work.<br />
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* You can log on to the web version (<a href="http://www.evernote.com/">http://www.evernote.com/</a>) anywhere with an internet connection and you can share your notes so it is a great way of quickly creating a simple web page or putting a plan together.<br />
* You can clip all or part of a webpage into a note by using the <a href="http://www.evernote.com/about/download/web_clipper.php" target="_blank">web clipping tool</a> (this is easier to install at work on Firefox than on Internet Explorer).<br />
* <a href="https://www.evernote.com/shard/s85/sh/9df4fafa-5f1a-4118-b6b1-b1da8c11e211/1db8555e44019f3a3a3611c8b34d8050" target="_blank">This is a note I created linking </a>to a clipping of this <a _blank="" href="http://melonthelibrarian.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/the-best-fudge-recipe">page.</a><br />
* You can create checklists so you can tick the boxes to keep track of what you have done.<br />
* You can tag notes so notes in different notebooks can all use the same tage and be found on a search.<br />
* If you are using it on a mobile device you can add a location so you can see all notes made at that location by you.<br />
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Evernote is particularly useful for projects as this video shows:<br />
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Evernote have <a href="http://www.evernote.com/about/getting_started/#0" target="_blank">some getting started pages</a> which take you through everything step by step.<br />
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So for this cool extra thing - have a go at Evernote and share your note.<br />
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If you aren't sure if you'll use it I created <a 771df8c925fd6042474e96e677e37e7b="" def3d693-a47b-4bdd-87ee-5ae9a7dfc6a1="" href="https://www.evernote.com/shard/s85/sh/def3d693-a47b-4bdd-87ee-5ae9a7dfc6a1/771df8c925fd6042474e96e677e37e7b" https:="" s85="" sh="" shard="" target="_blank" www.evernote.com="">this post in Evernote</a> and just had to paste it into Blogger which was the easiest post I have done on here.<br />
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HelenUnknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187002116398864643.post-11637239535617059242011-07-18T08:50:00.000+01:002011-07-18T08:50:50.577+01:00Week 6 - Office 2.0<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><b>Week 6 - Office 2.0</b><br />
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This week we're looking at a range of tools which are all useful for organizing things, so are all good tools for office life, whilst still being useful for the world outside work.<br />
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Everyone remembers the first time they saw prezi in action. I saw it at a conference a couple of years ago and pretty wow-ed by it; PowerPoint seemed like a tool from the Dark Ages in comparison.<br />
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In a nutshell prezi is a presentation tool that keeps viewers on the edge of their seats - it zooms, it spins, it can handle images and short video clips. For visual impact prezi is king. Here's a quick example I knocked up on Sunday morning:<br />
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<i>Other reasons to have a go?</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Don't risk killing by boredom! Image dj badly</td></tr>
</tbody></table><ul><li>Embedding one in your blog or website can really lift it</li>
<li>You can show online or download for offline use</li>
<li>Easily shared - you can work collaboratively on them too</li>
<li>Easily modified - and once embedded any changes will be automatically done</li>
<li>Good content can be killed by a bad PowerPoint but in prezi it's probably harder to create something that doesn't look visually exciting (even if the content is a bit iffy...) Remember we're a shallow bunch.</li>
<li> You can break free of the linear slide tyranny and tell a story in a dynamic stylish way.</li>
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<b>How is it used at City? </b><br />
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The subject librarians use it in <a href="http://www.city.ac.uk/upgrade/getting-started/lectures-seminars.html">Upgrade</a> and Emily has a couple in Learnmore which incorporate video around mooting - <a href="http://learnmore.lawbore.net/index.php/Judges_Scary_Or_Softies_Slideshow">Judges: Scary or Softies</a>? and <a href="http://learnmore.lawbore.net/index.php/Saying_It_Right_Slideshow">Saying it Right</a>. Of course we also used prezi for our <a href="http://23thingscity.blogspot.com/p/about-23-things.html">About 23 Things</a> tab. We have our own subject librarians prezi account so let us know if you want access to this. <br />
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<b>Basic pointers</b><br />
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Signup for an account - follow the links for student/teacher licenses as you get more for your money (Oh did I mention this is £0!). Edu Enjoy is free and you get a whole range of benefits including the ability to make your content private and add a logo. Complete with 500MB of storage space.<br />
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You can create your own prezi from scratch or re-purpose an existing one via the <a href="http://prezi.com/explore/">Explore</a> tab. If the creator has been kind enough to allow others to use and change for their own purposes it will have a '<b>Make a copy</b>' button under the prezi panel. Look for the <b>search only re-usable</b> tickbox in Explore.<br />
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Get started by simply typing in your title. Double-click anywhere for adding more text and again to re-size. Click and drag to move stuff around. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stripy! CC thanks to sniggetysnags</td></tr>
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<b>Key Prezi components: </b><br />
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<b>Creation Wheel</b> - This is the nerve centre of the prezi tool. In the mode shown in the image you're able to write text. Click on the mini circles (Insert, Frame, Path, Colors) outside to do anything extra:<br />
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<b>Insert</b>: Prezi has improved this option recently and you can now insert images, YouTube videos, drawings (these are quite cool includes pre-prepared charts, tables, timelines, tree diagrams) and other types of files (e.g. non YouTube videos). Shapes like arrows are also offered. <br />
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<b>Frame:</b> Add a frame - can be useful for grouping components together and very handy when you start plotting the path through your prezi ensuring the viewer sees everything in one frame. They can be made invisible too! <br />
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<b>Path:</b> Here's how you tell prezi which order you want all the components to run - you plot out the route through via points and they're easy to change as and when. <br />
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<b>Colors (grrr....curse the American spelling): </b>allow you to choose a theme - these are pretty limited, which can be seen as a good thing sometimes, but the Wizard will help you adapt the colours in each theme to something less standard. <br />
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<b>Want to find out more? </b><br />
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There are some useful <a href="http://thewikiman.org/blog/?p=866">Top tips</a> from Ned Potter aka <a href="http://thewikiman.org/blog/">thewikiman</a>, especially around the creative process, Prezi themselves have some useful <a href="http://prezi.com/learn/">video tutorials</a> and cheat sheets too. There's a useful prezi created promoting the use of <a href="http://prezi.com/dmwkeecq7if8/prezi-for-researchers/">prezi for researchers</a> might offer some inspiration. <br />
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Finally the excellent 'How to create a great prezi' prezi!<br />
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<div class="prezi-player-links"><a href="http://prezi.com/recyyolzxm3e/how-to-create-a-great-prezi/" title="Where prezi excels - Create using frames - Check your overview - Use a Path - Nonlinear discussions ">How to create a great prezi</a> on <a href="http://prezi.com/">Prezi</a></div></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Think, librarians think!!! CC thanks to laurie.mcgregor</td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>So... let's hear your views on prezi</b> - a step up from PowerPoint or just a bit visually disorientating? Do you think you could use it in your work (or have you already done so)? Have you seen one in action at a conference? If you've had a go you could perhaps talk about the functionality.<br />
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<i style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>What do you think? </b></span></i><br />
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<b>Thing 14 use Doodle to schedule a 23 Things tea chat with another 23 Things participant</b><br />
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Doodle is a scheduling tool which allows people to create a poll of dates and times when a meeting or social gathering can take place. It is a bit like the scheduling assistant in Outlook but you don't need to be in the same organisation and is very quick to use.<br />
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You don’t need to register to use this but you can create an account if you want to be able to log in and manage your doodles altogether.<br />
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This thing is to arrange to meet other 23 things participants or colleagues for a coffee.<br />
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<ol><li>Go to <a href="http://www.doodle.com/">http://www.doodle.com/</a></li>
<li>Click on the schedule an event button on the main screen.</li>
<li>Fill in the form with the details of the event:</li>
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5. Select the dates you want the event to happen on from the calendar and click next.<br />
<i>If you want things to happen at a specific time suggest them on this screen (if it is an all day event leave this blank). You can add as many sessions as you need.</i><br />
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<ul><li>Yes-No-Ifneedbe poll – has an ifneedbe option if you want it so people can show a preference.</li>
<li>Hidden Poll – only the administrator can see the answers. </li>
<li>Participant can only choose one option</li>
<li>Limit the number of participants per option - If you are registering people for a session you can limit how many people can join. This could be useful for hands-on teaching or restaurant bookings.</li>
</ul>7. Click next and decide if you will send the invitation or if Doodle will send it using Google or Outlook address books.<br />
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If you decided to send out the poll yourself you will receive two emails. One with the link to send to participants and the other is an administrator link so you can change, close or delete the poll. You can invite using Twitter or Facebook.<br />
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Once you have closed the poll the most popular date is displayed:<br />
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<b>Thing 15 Survey Monkey</b><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What is survey monkey? </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Survey monkey is a free online survey tool. It is very flexible and you can link it to your google and/or facebook account to ask a series of questions. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ask your fellow 23 things colleagues their opinions or recommendations on a topic related to your blog or find out which is the best venue for your coffee meeting. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sign up for your <a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/">free account </a></span><br />
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</div>1 Choose your theme from the options in the drop down box, <br />
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Step 2 Select the most appropriate question type from the list. Now just type in the text of your question <br />
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Don't forget to include your answers, if you opted for a multiple choice question <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Keep adding questions until you have asked all your questions, then click on the 'send survey' button at the bottom of the page </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<b>Cool Extra Things (this week we have two because they are both so cool).</b><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.rememberthemilk.com/"><b>Remember the Milk</b></a></div><br />
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This is our 23 Things List showing the different weeks as individual tasks. Details of the different tasks are in the notes section and the tasks have been tagged with the initials of the people doing them so we can search for our own tasks:<br />
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Remember the Milk has a great <a href="http://www.rememberthemilk.com/help/guide/">Getting Started Guide</a> and <a href="http://blog.rememberthemilk.com/">blog</a> which have lots of helpful hints.<br />
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Google Docs (<a href="http://docs.google.com/">http://docs.google.com/</a>) is the ultimate Office 2.0. It is a free service providing wordprocessing, spreadsheets, forms and slide shows. It can be used merely as a back-up you can access anywhere or it can be used as a fully functioning set of programmes allowing collaboration amongst many people spread all over the world. It is possible to import and export via Microsoft Office (although some formatting can be lost) and has a lot of the basic functionality of Microsoft Office. <br />
This short video explains Google docs in plain English (via Common Craft). <br />
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Google also have a <a href="http://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour1.html">slideshow</a> on how to get started which takes you through the basic steps of how to use Google docs.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><i>Cat (Jason Farmer) </i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/23975475@N04/3504704523/"><i>http://www.flickr.com/photos/23975475@N04/3504704523/</i></a><i> </i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>What can I do now (Christopher Verdier) </i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cverdier/4867811579/"><i>http://www.flickr.com/photos/cverdier/4867811579/</i></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Surprise (dameskates) </i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dameskates/2297579613/"><i>http://www.flickr.com/photos/dameskates/2297579613/</i></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Edge of seat (Brad Montgomery) </i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bradmontgomery/4319123610/"><i>http://www.flickr.com/photos/bradmontgomery/4319123610/</i></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Yikes (smartblue) </i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smartblue/4111622772/"><i>http://www.flickr.com/photos/smartblue/4111622772/</i></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>RSS (RSS rafa[EU]) </i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rafaelrf/3531293278/"><i>http://www.flickr.com/photos/rafaelrf/3531293278/</i></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>iPhone (</i><i>theOOBE)</i><i> (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peko/351943963/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/peko/351943963/</a></i><i> </i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>iPad (meedanphotos) http://www.flickr.com/photos/meedan/5356419464/ </i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Waiting (</i><i>Josep Ma. Rosell) </i><i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/batega/3775180564/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/batega/3775180564/</a></i><i> </i></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com43tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187002116398864643.post-66851124056346096702011-07-11T09:45:00.000+01:002011-07-11T09:45:39.189+01:00Week 5 Reflection and catch up week<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Week 5 Reflection and catch up week</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">No actual Things this week, but a chance to reflect and catch up if you've been away on holiday or just been very busy. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Don't forget that you'll need to have blogged on all the Things to gain the certificate at the end of the Programme!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rowena</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187002116398864643.post-47718348577558565052011-07-04T09:07:00.000+01:002011-07-04T09:07:35.241+01:00Week 4 Social networking<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Week 4 This week we’ll be looking at social networking and how you can use it for more than managing your social life.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Marketing - you can promote events, services, workshops </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Updating –let people know any changes to services, database downtime, opening hours</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLgFqh2ya6FtC6aR8yF5dr7f_SBsz34gv8TfAGbemu1NAeYjuAw9izDfxjXVGz_v214HMicUE4ZuqUqcG1MAi_vEqeO_EtnTZD8ZjlSR3A8jUT3XJ6j4hG4Rj2wkmv7ZFqaSx0Mv8pq43n/s1600/twitter-logo.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="199" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLgFqh2ya6FtC6aR8yF5dr7f_SBsz34gv8TfAGbemu1NAeYjuAw9izDfxjXVGz_v214HMicUE4ZuqUqcG1MAi_vEqeO_EtnTZD8ZjlSR3A8jUT3XJ6j4hG4Rj2wkmv7ZFqaSx0Mv8pq43n/s200/twitter-logo.JPG" width="200" /></a></div>Information – very immediate you can see what is ‘trending’ before it hits the main news even if you don’t have an account</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">On the move – access twitter anytime, anywhere there is a phone or wi fi signal. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Communicating with students – students engage with Twitter <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2729.2010.00387.x/abstract"><span style="color: purple;">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2729.2010.00387.x/abstract</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
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<div style="padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"></div></div><b style="display: block; margin: 12px 0px 4px;">Phil Bradley lists lots more reasons and ways in which Librarians can use twitter on his site, <a href="http://www.philb.com/twitter.htm"><span style="color: purple;">http://www.philb.com/twitter.htm</span></a> and has hints and tips on getting started, if you are new to this medium. </b></div><div></div><br />
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<b>Thing 11</b> find some Library related accounts to follow. Hint: you could search for libraries or find city university library then see who we follow and who follows us</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><b>Thing 12</b> Set up a linkedIin account and add some city university contacts<br />
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<b>Why should librarians and Libraries use LinkedIn? </b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Marketing – yourself by creating your e-portfolio and your events by using the ‘events’ app.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Updating – catch up with colleagues who you’ve worked or studied with in the past</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Information – Use the ‘poll’ app to survey others or the Amazon reading list to see what others are reading</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
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Don't forget to share your social networking successes with us using the blog and tags. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Verena</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><b>Cool Extra Thing - Facebook (You don't need to join to do this).</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Although we haven't used Facebook in the main things this week it is the <a href="http://mashable.com/2010/03/19/global-social-media-usage/">largest social networking site</a> both in number of users and time spent on it so it would be amiss not to mention it. Many libraries have realised that Facebook is where a large number of their users are active online and so have created an online presence on Facebook.<br />
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Below is a sample of different libraries Facebook pages or groups. Facebook Pages and Facebook Groups are similar but do slightly different things. For example Groups allow mass mesaging of members but Pages don't and Pages allow for target posts into "fans" streams but Groups don't. There is more on this <a href="http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-groups-pages-2010-02">here</a>.<br />
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All the links below are public and don't require a Facebook account to view.<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/SCHS-Subject-Librarians-City-University-London/303794448147">SCHS Subject Librarians, City University</a> (You might recognise some faces here!)<br />
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<a href="http://www.facebook.com/#%21/britishlibrary"><span style="color: blue;">British Library</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/BrunelUniversityLibrary"><span style="color: blue;">Brunel University Library</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php#%21/CityBusinessLibrary"><span style="color: blue;">City Business Library</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php#%21/pages/The-Harvard-Library/148472908522877"><span style="color: blue;">Harvard University Library</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Judge-Business-School-Library-Services/25664826431#"><span style="color: blue;">Judge Business School Library</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Keele-University-Library/168229313204581"><span style="color: blue;">Keele University Library</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/#%21/leedslibraries"><span style="color: blue;">Leeds Libraries</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php#%21/mitmusiclib?sk=wall"><span style="color: blue;">MIT Music Library</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/#%21/pages/Orkney-Library-Archive/185386170641"><span style="color: blue;">Orkney Library and Archives</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/sussexlibrary?ref=ts"><span style="color: blue;">University of Sussex Library</span></a><br />
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Not all university library sites are official as this one that comes up if you search for <a href="http://www.facebook.com/#%21/group.php?gid=96768073781"><span style="color: blue;">Keele University Library</span></a> proves.<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187002116398864643.post-70331275138607568912011-06-27T08:51:00.000+01:002011-06-27T08:51:46.558+01:00Week 3 - using images<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Our lives revolve around images: in a world with ever-competing demands on our attention it is often the simple or striking image that cuts through the babble to make its mark on our mind. In a presentation, teaching session or blogpost we may need to do that bit extra to make sure our voice is not only heard, but that our material engages with the recipient.<br />
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Anyone who has sat through a PowerPoint presentation in black and white, with the only variation between bullet points and numbered list, will tell you that images are vital.<br />
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<b>How do I choose images? </b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thanks to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/21572939@N03/2090542246/">A. Diez. Herrero</a></td></tr>
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<ol><li>Take your own!</li>
<li>Find images online and ask permission from the photographer</li>
<li>Find images online whose use is managed by a creative commons licence</li>
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<b>What would I use images for? </b><br />
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As librarians we need to use images in a variety of ways....<br />
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<ul><ul><ul><ul><ul><li>PowerPoints/Prezis for teaching/presentations</li>
<li>Illustrating blogposts</li>
<li>Websites</li>
<li>Creating dynamic emails</li>
<li>Marketing materials </li>
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<b>Thing 8: Learn about Creative Commons</b><br />
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With a tagline '<i>Share, Remix, Reuse - Legally</i>' Creative Commons was created as a way of bridging a gap between very restrictive copyright law and the desire for a free internet. So as a creator it provides you with a way of protecting your work (whether it be a photograph, a blog, website or set of slides) at a level you choose, and as a consumer to allow you to use the work of others without fear of legal reprisal.<br />
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CC Mission = <i>Creative Commons develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.</i><br />
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There is a scale of attribution rights: with 6 in total.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thanks to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamescridland/2272701122/">James Cridland</a> for image via CC licence</td></tr>
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<b>Attribution:</b> the most generous license - allowing others to use your work in any way (distribute, remix, tweak or build upon - even commercially) as long as they credit your original work.<br />
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<b>Attribution-ShareAlike:</b> as the Attribution option but decrees that the new tweaked work must be made available under the same conditions as the original.<br />
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<b>Attribution-NoDerivs: </b>allows for redistribution commercial and non-commercial as long as there are no changes to the whole, and the photographer is credited.<br />
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<b>Attribution-NonCommercial</b>: permits others to remix, tweak and build upon work non-commercially as long as attribution occurs. Any derivative works no not have to be licensed on the same terms.<br />
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<b>Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike</b>: Like Attribution-ShareAlike above, but with the caveat the use is non-commercial in nature.<br />
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<b>Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs</b>: the most restrictive of the licences - permitting use with attribution as long as usage is non-commercial and no changes are made to the original work.<br />
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<b>Watch this YouTube video to find out more about the Creative Commons ethos: </b><br />
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So what do you think about Creative Commons? Do you think copyright is too restrictive and isn't suitable for the online world? Do you think the 6 levels of CC licence are adequate? Do you even think the use of images in posts is necessary? Blog it! <br />
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</div><div style="margin: 0px;">With over 5 billion images and 60 million photographers <a href="http://www.flickr.com/">Flickr</a> is the King of image libraries. You can browse it without needing to sign up. There's a ready-made <a href="http://www.flickr.com/tour/">tour</a> available via the flickr site. </div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br />
<div id="__ss_5629021" style="width: 425px;"><b style="display: block; margin: 12px 0px 4px;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/riggsm/show-me-finding-digital-commons-images-using-flickr" title="Finding Digital Commons images using Flickr">Finding Digital Commons images using Flickr</a></b> <iframe frameborder="0" height="355" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/5629021" width="425"></iframe><br />
<div style="padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">View more <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/">presentations</a> from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/riggsm">Michelle Riggs</a> </div></div><br />
So to find images covered by a creative commons licence simply stick your keywords into the searchbox, then when the results appear click Advanced Search (just to right of the search box)<br />
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...and then tick the box towards the bottom of the screen that says: <i>'Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content'. </i>This will then re-calibrate your search to only find those images whose photographers are happy for their work to be re-used. Note there are extra options below for non-commercial use and modification permissions.<br />
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As you saw with blogging, resources are catalogued in social media via tagging, and flickr is no different. The tags that photographers add will help you find their content. Learn more about <a href="http://www.flickr.com/help/tags/#37">tagging on flickr</a>. Community is a big thing on Flickr and with 10 million active groups, there is bound to be a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/help/groups">group</a> you fancy getting involved in whether it be to add your own photos to the group or just enjoy the content of others. Random groups I've picked out include the 575-member strong <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/knobsandhandles/">Knobs and Handles</a> and the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/evilmadscience/">Evil Mad Science Auxiliary</a>. <br />
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What's cool about Flickr is the randomness of it all - it really encourages you to think creatively about how you can make your audience sit up and pay attention. There's even a way to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/">search 'interesting' images</a> posted in the last 7 days, and you can just click to reload. </div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br />
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<b>Thing 9: Use Flickr</b><br />
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Use Flickr to find some images to illustrate your blogpost - you could even upload some of your own masterpieces? Don't forget to tag the image within Flickr and give the photographer the attribution within your post.<br />
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If you're stuck on what to post about you could search for ideas about how other libraries are using Flickr to improve their services.<br />
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Remember to be very careful with your use of images online; the press is packed full of stories about facebook privacy settings and people whose images have been highjacked for other purposes. A woman based in the UK was disturbed to find her image used to portray Syrian blogger <a href="http://damascusgaygirl.blogspot.com/">Amina Arraf</a> who wrote about her life as a gay woman criticising the regime. You can see the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/9509289.stm">Paxman interview</a> on this, as well as the story that later broke of the whole blog being a <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-13747761">hoax</a>. <br />
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<b>Cool extra thing: Fotoflexer</b><br />
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<a href="http://fotoflexer.com/">Fotoflexer</a> allows you to mess around with your photos to your heart's content - you can add any number of different effects, some more lame than others. You can change colours, distort, beautify, animate or decorate. Here's a few of me below!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Original pic</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pop art style</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Squished head/big chin combo</td></tr>
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An alternative would be <a href="http://www.photofunia.com/">PhotoFunia</a> which allows you to put your face on any number of scenarios: billboards, statues, famous films, paintings, surfing, being Father Christmas and playing sports. I *may* have had a little too much fun here...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cheap or what? </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Is it a bird? Is it a plane? </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm liking the beard look...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yeah this is likely..!</td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: left;">Posted by Emily Allbon </div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187002116398864643.post-81140581002108937022011-06-20T08:54:00.003+01:002011-06-20T09:24:54.597+01:00Week 2 IGoogle and Keeping Up To Date<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0NzcyWKfjP_a3z8pwZyM_6_TF_QWQySHVZHYPREHbvAkKQW0AGD_czI-_WA4vjXuUshHfb8Fm-42Stm896IV6XrvoAvHfyAX4NBlpYwYKWPBdQhVXRXfrQOZ4OJuuxOD4w1RtM3eTALkx/s1600/23thingslogo6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0NzcyWKfjP_a3z8pwZyM_6_TF_QWQySHVZHYPREHbvAkKQW0AGD_czI-_WA4vjXuUshHfb8Fm-42Stm896IV6XrvoAvHfyAX4NBlpYwYKWPBdQhVXRXfrQOZ4OJuuxOD4w1RtM3eTALkx/s200/23thingslogo6.jpg" t8="true" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Week 2</strong></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a bit of a bumper week this week, but we'll be doing several things which underpin the rest of the 23 Things City programme. Don't forget to blog about each one and to add tags to your posts!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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Thing 4 set up i-google page</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">iGoogle allows you to personalize your use of Google and to add useful gadgets (a bit like having apps on your mobile) and search feeds, bringing lots of useful information together for you in one place. Last week we set up a Google account (you may have had one of these already) and we'll be using it again this week. If you haven't chosen to use Blogger for your blog and need to set up a Google account now, just take a look at the post for week 1.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Go to <a href="http://www.google.com/ig"><span style="color: blue;">igoogle</span></a> </span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You'll see several options to personalize your page and to choose different colours and themes. Tick the boxes which match your interests e.g. news, music. You can always change these later on, and click on the 'see your page' button</span><br />
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</div></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Thing 5 add at least 3 gadgets</strong><br />
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Use gadgets or widgets to personalise your page - you may wish to add a weather report, tube status updates, news headline etc or take a break with an artwork of the day gadget. Don't forget to share your favourite gadget via your blog. Once you've done Thing 6 below, you can add feeds onto your igoogle page too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Click on the 'Add stuff' link at the top right hand side of the page.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-The left hand side of the screen allows you to browse by category e.g. communication, finance, or you can use the search box at the right hand side of the screen to just search </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- why not try searching for 'library' and see what you find.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fed up with searching lots of different webpages every day just to find that there's nothing new on your favourite sites? Want to keep useful info from all your favourite sites together? Set up a feed reader and you'll only need to check this as you'll be alerted to any new content. Sit back, relax and the updates come straight to your feed reader.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Upgrade also mentions that other feed readers are available, such as <a href="http://www.pageflakes.com/">pageflakes</a> or <a href="http://www.netvibes.com/en">netvibes</a>, we've chosen Google reader as we think it's the easiest to use. Why not blog if you use one of these other tools?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you need further help on what feeds are, try the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10628494"><span style="color: blue;">BBC guide </span></a></span><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Now you need to find some feeds to add to your reader. Go to your favourite website and see if they have the orange rss symbol and click on it to see the feed. Or you might like to add the <a href="http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/education/rss.xml"><span style="color: blue;">BBC Education news feed</span></a></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">You can see that this is a feed by looking at the URL - it ends in .rss.xml so you can copy it to add into your Google reader</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidrz-6nrdi4rVFQa-f-Xjkc2OgIsowJPhqZvs10TVe1Ta2KAWs7xa0HbN8ZPGBF77nzA5ITrTNDIwfu3hNt4L2pjGGbfDnX2gQdFLgdFqVGZpUAXjWSwMxBAYzp2PN6G410D6SaIZ1Kseo/s1600/googlereaderaddsub.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidrz-6nrdi4rVFQa-f-Xjkc2OgIsowJPhqZvs10TVe1Ta2KAWs7xa0HbN8ZPGBF77nzA5ITrTNDIwfu3hNt4L2pjGGbfDnX2gQdFLgdFqVGZpUAXjWSwMxBAYzp2PN6G410D6SaIZ1Kseo/s1600/googlereaderaddsub.PNG" t8="true" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Some sites and readers may work differently (e.g. you may just be able to paste in the url of the site without getting the specific feed) but this should give you the general idea!</span><br />
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</strong></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2187002116398864643.post-1211058688733694182011-06-08T13:12:00.001+01:002011-06-13T15:46:11.306+01:00Week 1 blog and blogging<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: black;">Blogging is central to 23 Things City as we use this blog to release each weeks Things, and it’s also how we keep track of your progress via the blogs you set up as part of the programme</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Many individual librarians blog, reflecting on their work and on ideas for new, potential or existing services. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">You can see some interesting blogs from</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/"><span style="color: blue;">Phil Bradley</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://jionalibrarian.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: blue;">John Iona</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://librariansontheloose.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: blue;">Librarians on the loose</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/"><span style="color: blue;">Karen Blakeman</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://lisnpn.spruz.com/blog.htm"><span style="color: blue;">LIS New Professionals</span></a></span></li>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Whole suite of blogs from the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://www.bl.uk/blogs/index.html"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;">British Library</span></span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Digital Developments from </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://lselibrarydigidev.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;">LSE Library</span></span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Once you’ve set up your blog you should use this to reflect on your experience of each weeks Things - how you use them, how you might use them in future, what applications you can see for libraries or indeed your personal life. Maybe you’ve discovered some great new things you’d like to share with other participants and the wider world. Even if you’ve used one of the Things before you may have had a chance to consider it afresh.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Thing 1 Set up your blog and</span> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dENDTTFJek1Bdm5qNEdjZkZKczFjVUE6MQ"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;">register it</span></span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> <span style="color: black;">with the 23 Things City programme</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">How to do it</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">We have used </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;">blogger</span></span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> for this blog, and suggest that you do the same as we'll be using Google accounts later in the programme although you may prefer to use </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://www.wordpress.org/"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">Wordpress</span></span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> or </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://www.tumblr.com/"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;">Tumblr</span></span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue;">.</span> If you've already got a blog and don't want to set up a new one, that's OK. Just </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dENDTTFJek1Bdm5qNEdjZkZKczFjVUE6MQ"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;">register your blog</span></span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> with the 23 Things Team and start using it to reflect on your expereinces of the programme</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">This <a href="http://youtu.be/bU4gXHkejMo"><span style="color: blue;">short video</span></a> gives you an overview of how to set up a blogger blog</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Your next screen allows you to name your blog – remember there will be a prize for best blog name, but you can go back and change your name later. You will also pick the blogs URL, Blogger will inform you if anyone else has already chosen your URL and prompt you to pick a different one</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The next screen allows you to pick a template, with different colours and designs, again you can change this later if you prefer. Feeling adventurous? You can also create your own design</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
</span><b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Thing 2 Add your first post(s) </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Get blogging! You may want to blog your first post with an introduction to who you are and what you're interested in. Add a second post on your experience of setting up the blog and what you've learnt so far. You'll be blogging each week on your experiences of the various Things. Try adding some images - on Blogger you can insert these via clicking on the image button from the toolbar </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaFNXVUpMczqopeATA-6Sv48xF0c8Uqo1dD6gxmgpnJ0st8Bi82pA5jRaSkwiLuFK-yV6X2eUqRGC01eKhOiCTb71Ntg57_eQZD29jDZTgfrmGykYETb5K2YxK4Gd5xFXpwHaiCfWB4H24/s1600/imagebutton.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaFNXVUpMczqopeATA-6Sv48xF0c8Uqo1dD6gxmgpnJ0st8Bi82pA5jRaSkwiLuFK-yV6X2eUqRGC01eKhOiCTb71Ntg57_eQZD29jDZTgfrmGykYETb5K2YxK4Gd5xFXpwHaiCfWB4H24/s1600/imagebutton.PNG" t8="true" /></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span><br />
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Thing 3 Add some tags.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">As library staff and information professionals we know the importance of organising information so that other people can find it, be that through correct use of metadata, via classifying titles consistently or by using subject headings. You’ll notice this blog uses tags to that readers can go straight to the bits they need - for example this post has the tags week1, blogs, blogging etc</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Cool Extra Thing 1 - Commenting on blogs</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">We'll be adding links to all participants blogs on the 23 Things Site - have a look at these and add some comments to your fellow participants blogs. OK this may not seem very cool at first but it's great when you see that someone has commented on your blog!</span></div></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Welcome to 23 Things City!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Come along to one of our staff info sessions in the Large Teaching Room on 3rd June at 10:30 or 7th June at 2pm</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alternatively you can find out more about the programme, <a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dENDTTFJek1Bdm5qNEdjZkZKczFjVUE6MQ">including how to register</a> by exploring this blog, and by watching the prezi in our About 23 Things tab above.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Please note that you will need to have set up your blog in order to register for the programme, but don't worry as this is the first Thing we'll look at in week 1. You can reflect on blogs in week 1 in order to help you set up your own blog. You can complete the registration process at any point up to week 2.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">23 Things is open to all staff at City University Library. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The programme starts on the 13th June. We hope you enjoy the 23 Things!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rowena, Emily, Verena, Helen</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0