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...

When you consider having a library presence in social networks, and got Facebook on your list for some reason (for instance, because ..% of your users have a Facebook account) think carefully before you actually create anything. The Group function is used very often, but actually does not offer that much functionality. Many applications, ( FB or Third-party) can not be added to Group-pages. My advice is to support any Group with one or more Facebook Pages (also referred to as Fan Pages). The most interesting application is by Facebook itself and is called "Static FBML" . Static FBML By Facebook Add advanced functionality to your Page using the Facebook Static FBML application. This application will add a box to your Page in which you can render HTML or FBML (Facebook Markup Language) for enhanced Page customization.) With the use of the Static FBML box (Facebook mark-up language) you can almost add any webcontent with html code into little gadgets/widgets in a Faceboo...

Dig Deeper with Social Media » Social Networking Software Task Force Short Courses 5:04pm Source: sns.mlanet.org Social Networking Software Task Force Short Courses Each course is offered a la carte so you can choose the topics that are of most interest to you and is free to current 2009 MLA members. Note that institutional members may only have one person complete each short course for CE credit. Please read the Technical Requirements page before beginning course work. RSS feed Google Youdao Xian Guo Zhua Xia My Yahoo! newsgator Bloglines iNezha Tags: mla , web2.0 , library2.0 , social networks

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