A look at the world outside the library’s doors.
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 22nd, 2009
Foursquare goes a step beyond text messaging and Twitter. Instead of texting friends to find out what they’re doing, or following them on Twitter, you can check in with Foursquare and see where your friends are and join them. It skips the step of calling and asking someone if they want to join you for [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 30th, 2009
The Handheld Librarian Online Conference occurred today. The conference looked at handheld devices and remotely accessible library services, e-books, social networking and more. There were two keynote addresses and a number of different breakout sessions in four tracks. Just some of the breakout session titles were “Everything We Know About Implementing a Kindle Loan [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 15th, 2008
A hospital and library in Norwich, Connecticut are using Twitter to keep in touch with their customers.
“The William W. Backus Hospital and the Otis Library are using an instant messaging service known as Twitter. The Internet-based system sends messages containing up to only 140 characters, throwing down a challenge to the verbose everywhere.”
Twitter joins a [...]