ALIA Qld Library Technicians Group invites you to participate in a workshop hosted by Fiona Winston-Brown, Senior Librarian, Australian College of Natural Medicine. Fiona recently presented to “Beyond the Hype: Web 2.0” held at QUT 1 February 2008. Her workshop was entitled “Social Networking tools: facebook and myspace”.
She has very kindly agreed to enlarge upon this theme for our group’s first workshop of the year. Please see below details:


When: Saturday 29 March 2008

Where: Australian Ca… Continue

Guest Editors: Helen Partridge and Clare Thorpe

Contact: Helen Partridge Email: h.partridge@qut.edu.au

IMPORTANT DATES:

Full papers due: May 5 2008

Authors receive reviews: May 26 2008

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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/12/31/1198949747758.html

So Google and Wikipedia took you by surprise? Nick Galvin looks into his crystal ball and explains what you need to know to survive the next decade. The list includes the Chumby (my personal favorite), microblogging, EveryBlock, 23AndMe, Peer-to-peer lending, mob, Meraki WiFi, the World Community Grid, Loopt, and the One Laptop per Child program.

OCLC just published Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World.

This report to the OCLC membership summarizes the findings from an international study on online social spaces, including social networking attitudes and habits of both end users and librarians.

OCLC Market Research staff developed a project and commissioned Harris Interactive Inc. to survey over 6,100 information consumers ages 14 to 84 from Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.… Continue