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gina.persichini's picture
2007 30 May

8 Random Things

There's something being passed around among the library blogs these last couple of days.  Authors of the various blogs are being asked to list 8 random things about themselves that possibly others don't already know.  I thought about doing that here with a different take, here are 8 things that might not be known about ICFL:

1.  In 2006, ICFL was offered assistance from 79 volunteers that contributed 8,979 hours in support of ICFL services and programs.

Anonymous's picture
2007 25 May

Online Library Card Application

E-branch libraries now have the option of providing online library card applications to their users.

It works like this

gina.persichini's picture
2007 14 May

Tips, Instructions, and How-To information on the ICFL CE Website

Recently I've been doing some presentations at the ILA regional conferences about IM.  The step-by-step instructions for creating AOL and Yahoo IM accounts, along with using Meebo to monitor those accounts, send messages, etc. are now on the ICFL CE website.

Watch for more content there in the future!

Anonymous's picture
2007 11 May

Forums Taken Down

We've removed the forums feature from this site due to lack of activity/interest.

I'd had high hopes that we could conduct most of our e-branch support via this venue and thus build up something of a searchable knowledge-base that folks could query before calling us or emailing questions, since we often answer the same questions time and again.

gina.persichini's picture
2007 04 May

Intro to Social Software

BCR's Shelly Drumm is talking about Social Software.

She asks: What do you think of when I say "social software"?
Answers:

  • Young people
  • MySpace
  • YouTube
  • FaceBook

Great visual at http://xkcd.com/c256.html

The Machine is Us/ing Us (YouTube Video)

gina.persichini's picture
2007 04 May

Shelly Drumm (BCR) Talks about Flickr

We're at the ILA Spring Conference (Region 2). 

Flickr is a social networking tool to sharing photos. It's good for online photo storage, organizing photos, and finding photos in the giant database of photos that is Flickr.

Here's Shelly at the start of her presentation -- a demonstration of how Flickr works from taking the photo to uploading, to tagging, etc.

Social aspects to Flickr:

Anne Abrams's picture
2007 03 May

RSS in Plain English--Really Simple to Understand too!

Okay, I admit it.

I hear alot about RSS and I know what it stands for, but when I click on the icon for RSS feeds off a website, it looks like code to me.

Luckily, I just was forward this really simple to understand video (from CommonCraft) on how it works.

Video: RSS in Plain English

Let me know what you think of it.  And I'll let you know if I actually do it!

 Anne