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It's a few weeks now since I  have launched the cmbUMCG twitter account (in Dutch). The reasons for this were: to start to focus more in Dutch on our target groups, to find out if they are out there tweeting too, and why to keep up with tweets about UMCG: staff, students, patients, and news flashes published by third parties to explore how to get parts of our content and services in there, without having to invest a lot of extra staff time for maintenance and updating to show that the library is using this channel too, to show ourselves and the UMCG. Creation of the account is pretty simple of course via Twitter . Be sure to find a nice logo and background. There are several sites that offer simple free templates for twitter backgrounds (i.e. http://www.twitbacks.com/ ), or you create your own . To get relevant content into your Twitter Library account you need: active library staff that tweet about news on any aspect of library services and resources. You can can also...

On some of our Public Pages, like CMB and EduCMB we placed several Link Modules to show links to content on the website of our library. The Link Module then displays a Thumbnail from that page/site. A few day ago suddenly the thumbnails for links within the www.rug.nl domain were replaced with little indecent pictures, clearly not coming from this university portal. Quick contact with Netvibes , resulted in quick action: they decided to block thumbnails for www.rug.nl at once, and investigate. My question to them : is the rug-site hijacked or the Thumbshots.org-site? The outcome is still unsure, they now noticed trouble with Thumbshots and Google Groups as well. They DID act quickly again in adjusting the Link Module: you now can turn the Thumbnail ON or OFF!. Related articles by Zemanta Partnership with Sage brings Netvibes to even more Enterprises (netvibes.com) The next Netvibes: Wasabi Edition (netvibes.com) Netvibes Powers T-Online.de, Germany's Largest Portal ...

In my attempt to keep up with emerging technologies I could not forget Google Wave of course. Finally I got an account and am now exploring the possibilities. Helpfull in this were a couple of specific public waves: The Google Wave Directory of helpful waves (you need a GW account to access the waves) Links: ABCs of Wave Comprehensive Google Wave Extensions List Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): Google Wave From The Start - Tips for new users and beginners Google Wave on the iPhone/iPod Touch Google Wave: :SUGGESTIONS: How are you managing your inbox? How To Make *GROUP* Waves RELOADED/ RIP Public? HTML Gadget - Add HTML to your Wave iGoogle Gadgets That Work Inside Wave Keyboard Shortcuts for Google Wave. SHOW OFF YOUR GADGETS - provide the URL Official DC, VA, MD Wave Wave Extensions/Plugins/Whatnot Wave Guide Discussion 0.0 Wave Guide: Waves Greatest Hits Welcome to Google \/\/ave    Other useful or interes...

I really love the Google Toolbar Page Translate option ... This way I was abled to read the Hungarian Netvibes public page from http://www.netvibes.com/ovidspclassroom . The owner -Edit Csajbok Semmelweis University Central Library- wanted to know how to put a GetSatisfaction widget in there, like we use at http://www.netvibes.com/cmb . I have put the code in a Google doc to share.

#midwestmla09 is the hash tag for the Midwest MLA 2009 conference. I wish more of that conference was openly available (yet). Or at least to be found. Why not use the same tag in Slideshare? Here are two talks for now: Libraries Leveraging Facebook And Twitter View more presentations from Michelle Kraft . And: M Health Sciences Libraries (M for Mobile) by Eric Schnell at #MidwestMLA09. Why not embed & share? http://bit.ly/113Hm5 It's a great presentation;-)

Conduit Open Just a few days ago I took a deeper look at Conduit Open . Not because I have any shares in the company, but because we as library are using the tool for years now, as well as Netvibes. And to my surprise, it now looks they both started working very closely together! Conduit Open is a beta version of a marketplace for toolbar components.It was launched a couple of months ago. For Toolbar Creators Basically they implemented a way for toolbar owners [you cant call them developers as creating a toolbar is made dead simple] to SHARE not the toolbar itself, but the seperate toolbar elements, menu*s and buttons. (Hélas not the searchbox with all the library custom searches.) Admins find a share-option in the edit-mode of the toolbar  at each element. This way the component gets published in the Marketplace, available for all. Admins can also choose to search for new components in the Marketplace when logged-in. This Search service offers móre information about the co...