DigiCMB

A small new project has just been created in relation to the new Poken gadget . The Poken gadget works in a simular way as RFID, but different ;-) The Central Medical Library, UMCG will perform a small research into new ways of exchanging information with library users. The question we are asking ourselves is: How can we make library users more aware of our services, products, ánd our web-presence in the social web? And can we -instead of giving them business cards to take-away- find another way to pass that info on to them? With a special Library Poken placed at a central meeting place in the library, users can connect with that CMB Library Poken. They will take with them our details of the Facebook, Hyves, Twitter & Linkedin Library presence for now, but more will follow. (Youtube, Delicious, MSN, MySpace, Last.fm, ... you name it) The Library will get info about the users use of social networks. At the moment, both parties that have "poked" still have the option...

I can understand why they developed it. We need an easy way to exchange "business card info" and this one does it. Many simular tools will follow, but this one is fun! It does focus on a very young population. Maybe medical students? Or the large Hyves population in the Netherlands? I can imagine the Poken would do great at events and meetings. I hope Poken will spread fast and that they will develop in the right way Short movie about "How the Poken thing works". See it live from the Groningen Huis de Beurs Meet Up at January 7th 2009 ;-) http://doyoupoken.com http://doyoupokenwebshop.com http://doyoupoken.ourtoolbar.com http://www.netvibes.com/doyoupoken Tags: poken , social networks , doyoupoken Usgang Facebook Twitter Linkedin Hyves Hi5 : MySpace Badoo, Bebo, Flickr, Netlog, Ning, Plaxo, Skyrock, Spoke, Stdivz, Viadeo and Xing

I find it always hard to start-up again after a holiday period. Add to this feeling, the New Year happening, Christmas, loads of birthdays and memorials, the need to seriously look back at the previous year, ánd the necessity to give priorities to new challenges and tasks for the coming year, and then you know what I was doing the last weeks. First thing I said to myself about this blog was that it should focus a bit more on the direct relevance for the UMCG staff in relation to the Medical Library. So don't be surprised if you see posts about the specific UMCG situation here now and again. But I will always keep the new and weird stuff in here too. ;-). More and more subjects are being discussed via Twitter and I frequently forget to post about those topics. My Tweetdeck has become a standard application. So I need to find a better way to collect and implement all the things that are being discussed at Twitter into this blog. I want to start 2009 off with a completely irr...