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Archive for the 'Keeping Current' Category

More on Keeping Current

March 2nd, 2008

Attenalert - “Attenalert is a keyword monitoring tool that allows you to find references to specific words and phrases through various sources online.” (via)

Steven Bell’s Keeping Up Web Site

January 9th, 2008

He’s updated it, with a shiny new domain. Thanks StevenB

Keeping Up, 2.0 Style

December 6th, 2007

A presentation by Anne Walsh. (via)

Tips on Keeping Up

November 13th, 2007

From Phil Bradley

Twacking Twitter

October 11th, 2007

I’m still not back on Twiiter and probably won’t be for a while (I’m over my anxiety about quitting [qwitting?]), but this is really cool from a keeping current POV.

Rafe Needleman - “[N]ow you can get alerted whenever someone Twitters about you or your company. Just send a Twitter message “Track [word],” and whenever someone [...]

More on Keeping Up

September 9th, 2007

Wayne Bivens-Tatum - “The difference between these librarians and some of us more kept-up librarians isn’t that some of us work like we’re in a library sweatshop and others of us just goof off playing around with social software or something. It’s a difference of priorities.”

Unlimited

August 20th, 2007

Fiona Bradley - “Now, the amount of resources I can pull together for an essay is limitless.”

More on Keeping Up

August 10th, 2007

Fiona Bradley - “I don’t try to keep up with everything - I have a few favourite topics like library 2.0, leadership, presentations and life hacks that I follow.”

Great Way to Keep Current

July 28th, 2007

Only have a Couple of Minutes? (via)

Worldcat Identities

February 18th, 2007

Tim O’Reilly on Worldcat Identities:

"A lot of people think that there’s a single big identity play out there, and focus on technology solutions, but it seems to me that in true bottom-up internet style, we may eventually build our online identities out of a mashup of all the tracks we already leave in cyberspace. (Seth [...]