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IM web conference

Thank you to everyone who attended my web conference this afternoon on IM reference! The handout is here. We started a bit late as a result of some file upload issues (totally my fault!), so I apologize for skipping over the last few slides and cutting short the Q&A. If you have any questions about [...]

shiny new toys @ your library

Over at ACRLog, Steven Bell’s latest post opens with a question: “At your academic library is there a feeling, perhaps an underlying pressure, that new technology should be leveraged to a greater extent than it is?” The question, I think, has to do with the notion that perhaps we’re implementing Web 2.0 technologies (like blogs, [...]

OLA, done

Whew. I’m beginning to think that the quality of a conference is directly proportional to your level of fatigue by the end of it. I’m exhausted! I gave a session on IM to-day, the presentation is here and the handout is here. Here are the links to the staff training materials [...]

Young Canadians in a Wired World

Phase II of Young Canadians in a Wired World came out last week (”the most comprehensive and wide-ranging study of its kind in Canada”). The study “looks at the online behaviours, attitudes, and opinions of more than 5,200 children and youth from grades 4 to 11, in French and English language schools, in every province [...]

a step in the right direction

You may have already heard about the plans for Yahoo! & MSN IM services to start playing well together:

MSN and Yahoo Messenger will be glued together, forming the world’s largest instant messaging community at some 275 million combined users, the services’ companies announced on Wednesday… The resulting integration, due out in the second quarter of [...]