Archive for the 'Keeping Current' Category
Taming Your Digital Distractions
September 16th, 2009NYT – “And so it goes: You get to your PC every morning with hours of productive time ahead of you. Next thing you know, it’s 5 p.m. and you’ve frittered the day away on Digg, Hulu, Wikipedia and your fantasy football league. And no wonder — how can anyone expect to get anything done [...]
The Secret to Finding Time For Social Media
November 11th, 2008B.L. Ochman – “The No. 1 question I’m asked when I speak at corporate seminars and mention that I recently wrote my 7,000th Twitter entry is “How in the world do you have the time for social media?” The answer: I don’t. I make time.”
More signal, less noise
September 23rd, 2008Phil Bradley – “One of the things that I’m often asked is ‘how do you keep up to date?’
More on Keeping Current
March 2nd, 2008Attenalert – “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, 2008He’s updated it, with a shiny new domain. Thanks StevenB
Keeping Up, 2.0 Style
December 6th, 2007A presentation by Anne Walsh. (via)
Tips on Keeping Up
November 13th, 2007From Phil Bradley
Twacking Twitter
October 11th, 2007I’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, 2007Wayne 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, 2007Fiona Bradley – “Now, the amount of resources I can pull together for an essay is limitless.”
More on Keeping Up
August 10th, 2007Fiona 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, 2007Only have a Couple of Minutes? (via)
Worldcat Identities
February 18th, 2007Tim 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 [...]
