Commenting, your friends and news stream: In addition to changing the comment and messaging system (I hate the new threaded comments), Facebook in the past month or so has rolled out a few new changes:If you're wondering why your news stream is sort of anemic: Facebook has chosen to select who you see and who sees you. Under Most Recent> Edit Options; select All Friends and Fans to see everyone. Of course, this can be very helpful for filtering info, but nice of Facebook to tell everyone.

Commenting, your friends and news stream: In addition to changing the comment and messaging system (I hate the new threaded comments), Facebook in the past month or so has rolled out a few new changes:If you're wondering why your news stream is sort of anemic: Facebook has chosen to select who you see and who sees you. Under Most Recent> Edit Options; select All Friends and Fans to see everyone. Of course, this can be very helpful for filtering info, but nice of Facebook to tell everyone.

You do know that if you work for a public university or publicly funded library, you are a government employee, right? ;-)Designing Social Media Policy for Government: Eight Essential ElementsInstructors:    Jana Hrdinova (Center for Technology in Government) & Giovanni Carnaroli (Dept.of Transportation)Government agencies are increasingly looking to leverage social media to improve the quality of government services and elicit greater citizen engagement.

You do know that if you work for a public university or publicly funded library, you are a government employee, right? ;-)Designing Social Media Policy for Government: Eight Essential ElementsInstructors:    Jana Hrdinova (Center for Technology in Government) & Giovanni Carnaroli (Dept.of Transportation)Government agencies are increasingly looking to leverage social media to improve the quality of government services and elicit greater citizen engagement.

 As many of you in the library community know,  RDA is the new cataloging rules, which replace AACR2. RDA works within the FRBR and FRAD framework (for those who don't know what those terms mean, they are essentially semantic web and linked data friendly schemas for library metadata for library materials, like books.)One of the key parts of the semantic web is to be able to support multiple schemas, as long as the schema is referenced (linked to), the schema is available on the web to search engines, bots, spiders, etc. and the data can be parsed and crosswalked into multiple platforms.

 As many of you in the library community know,  RDA is the new cataloging rules, which replace AACR2. RDA works within the FRBR and FRAD framework (for those who don't know what those terms mean, they are essentially semantic web and linked data friendly schemas for library metadata for library materials, like books.)One of the key parts of the semantic web is to be able to support multiple schemas, as long as the schema is referenced (linked to), the schema is available on the web to search engines, bots, spiders, etc. and the data can be parsed and crosswalked into multiple platforms.

Free online/virtual conference , April 28thMobile learning evangelists Elliot Soloway and Cathleen Norris present their session, "The Educational Reset of 2011: Mobile Learning" The pros and cons of mobile learning are important topics for educators looking to reach this new generation of digital natives.Other sessions include: iThink iNeed iPods, iPhones and iPads in the Classroom and sessions on Emerging Technologies. Register here: http://fetc.org/events/virtual-conference/information/schedule.aspx

Free online/virtual conference , April 28thMobile learning evangelists Elliot Soloway and Cathleen Norris present their session, "The Educational Reset of 2011: Mobile Learning" The pros and cons of mobile learning are important topics for educators looking to reach this new generation of digital natives.Other sessions include: iThink iNeed iPods, iPhones and iPads in the Classroom and sessions on Emerging Technologies. Register here: http://fetc.org/events/virtual-conference/information/schedule.aspx

Apparently only 1 Georgia Librarian has been nominated.

Apparently only 1 Georgia Librarian has been nominated.