Educause Article on Social Computing

http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm06/eqm0627.asp
Social Software in Academia

Still new on campus, social software tools can support students and staff beyond the classroom, reaching around the world for learning and communication

By Todd Bryant

Comments About Our Preliminary Report

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Short Video About Social Networking

This is a hilarious video from The Daily Show that explains social networking sites, namely MySpace.  I was introduced to it by two librarians at the CARL conference.  Here are two different locations for it, in case one link fails.  Seriously, this is FUNNY and worth 5 minutes of yor life:

http://planetvids.com/html/Myspace-Trend-Report.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfm8IZTuPbE&search=comedy%20central 

May 18th Meeting

We're getting closer to finishing our preliminary report! I'll be sending out the draft tomorrow. At Thursday's meeting, we can probably hammer out the final the details, send it out the the whole library and brace ourselves for the comments.

Thursday

3-4pm

LL431

InfoLit Task Force Progress Report to Council

Hi All,

Library Council was very pleased with our task force progress report this morning (see the short version I passed out in your email).  Outcomes of the meeting:

1)  Expanding our charge to include collaboration with student and academic affairs groups is approved. 

2)  They asked that we please not limit or remove some of our ideas to the appendix.  They'd rather we suggest everything that we feel is a sound idea in the actual report.

3)  The AzsignMentor idea sparked a lot of attention.  It needs more explanation and fleshing out to help answer people's questions in our preliminary report.

Kudos to us all.  Great work everyone!
Pam

Use of Instant Messengers

A recent listserv discussion asked librarians if and how they’re using IM. Here are some responses:

“we are planning on experimenting with IM this summer and make it available this fall for students and faculty. I have already downloaded GoogleTalk and use it on my office computer. I have used MSN Messenger and AOL Messenger in the past. We plan to train all reference desk personel to use it and it will only be available on the reference desk. This is as per my conversation with the Library Director and also our on-going marketing plans for the Library. Meanwhile, I would like to know if anyone has experience with Trilliam as an agregator for IMs. I believe you can pick up any IM from any provider with this small software.” –Evergreen Valley College Library

In regards to Trillian, I use this exclusively for my IM work. In fact, with the paid version I can also use it for my on-campus Novell IM contacts. You can read how students contact me for IM at http://library.sbcc.edu/247reference.html. –Santa Barbara City College