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For 2008 my good intensions will focus on the subjects mentioned below.. Although many of the efforts will go into making and developing new tools for users from the library, the most important issue in 2008 will be, without a doubt, "being in contact": maintaining, improving and expanding a conversation between our users and library staff. Expanding our range of Netvibes Widgets to other platforms. Offer Library Widgets as (re)search tools in various social networks, but also creating them inside our organisations intranet. Interoperability will be main target for our widgets. I have to find out how to how to build SharePoint widgets as well... Building the Netvibes Universe into a Library Toolbox for sharing, instructions and tailor-made search and alerts options. Integrating new communication tools in existing library services. We can not ignore cell phone technology and the massive growth of use amongst our users. Short text messages, and chat, but also Mobile...

Global Ranking of Top English-language Healthcare Blogs Current as of December 24, 2007 http://www.edrugsearch.com/edsblog/healthcare100/ It's the time of (making) lists ... , and while I am working on my own list of good intentions for 2008- here is a nice list to read! It was a surprise to see my own blog on the honorable mention list.

Library 2.0 Initiatives in Academic Libraries Have a look at the wiki of the ACRL print publication Library 2.0 Initiatives in Academic Libraries (2007) . This wiki presents updates on the case studies described in the book. RSS feed for updates to this wiki Atom feed for updates to this wiki Chapter 1 : Discovering Places to Serve Patrons in the Long Tail Chapter 2 : Chat, Commons, and Collaboration: Inadvertently Library 2.0 in Western Australia Chapter 3 : Yale: Taking the Library to Users in the Online University Environment Chapter 4 : Delivering Targeted Library Resources into a Blackboard Framework Chapter 5 : Adapting an Open Source, Scholarly Web 2.0 System for Findability in Library Collections Chapter 6 : Push and Pull of the OPAC Chapter 7 : UThink: Library Hosted Blogs for a University-Wide Community Chapter 8 : Discussing Student Engagement: An Information Literacy Course Blog Chapter 9 : Building Library 2.0 into Information Literacy: A Case Study Chapter 10 : ...

Great movie of the special ucberkeleyevents YouTube channel It's a 70 minute session! Academic Library 2.0 is a state of mind! I love that line... Tags: web2.0 , library2.0 , farkas , berkeley , ucberkeleyevents , youtube , academic library , netvibes , penntags , education

While trying to clear some stuff from my desk, I found the Horizon 2007 Report again and remembered the main items: Time-to-Adoption: One Year or Less User-Created Content.... Social Networking Time-to-Adoption: Two to Three Years Mobile Phones Virtual Worlds Time-to-Adoption: Four to Five Years The New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming The new 2008 Report will be published in Januari 2008 at the EDUCAUSE ELI Conference in San Antonio. Here's a glimps to the short-list items mentioned for the Two to Three Years adoption period Mobile Geotagging Socially-Centered Virtual Worlds Scholarly Mashups Want to see the items for One Year or Less? You have to look at the Horizon Project Wiki... And if I keep blogging about stuff I find on my desk I will never be abled to clean it ... Tags: horizon , mobile , social networking , nmc , educause , user-created content , learning , education , teaching

"Dr. Tony O'Driscoll describes the 7 Sensibilities that Differentiate Virtual Social Worlds from other interactive media and makes the argument that these sensibilities provide us with unprecedented freedom to create true experential learning opportunities" the Sense of Self The Death of Distance The Power of Presence The Sense of Space The Capability to Co-Create The Pervasiveness of Practice The Enrichment of Experience Tags: learning , education , social worlds , virtual worlds , Muve

The following report provides -according to the OCLC website - "insights into the values and social-networking habits of library users". With it's 280 pages it looks perfect reading stuff for Christmas. For me 2008 will be the year of the social networks. For Europe and the Netherlands it will become clearer how developments will go. Will one or two stick out? Will new ones arise? Will the interoperability with OpenSocial really take off? Will our Dutch Hyves change into a more serious network or ...? This report tells you how the situation is right now based on a survey (by Harris Interactive on behalf of OCLC) of the general public from six countries—Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States—and of library directors from the U.S. Tags: social networks , social , library , end-users , habits , user studies , OpenSocial