Listen to Kat Edmonson – Just Like Heaven (The Cure Cover) 7 Great Completely Free eBooks on Social Media You Have to Read. 9 Usability And UX Pitfalls, And How To Avoid Them. As the web has matured, design has come along with it, but there are still a number of issues that affect usability and user experience that haven’t matured at the same rate as design.
If we want to be ahead of the design curve: get more satisfied clients, and happier users, we need to make sure that both we and our clients understand what these points are, and how to solve them. U.S. public libraries: We lose them at our peril. The U.S. is beginning an interesting experiment in democracy: We're cutting public library funds, shrinking our public and school libraries, and in some places, shutting them altogether.
These actions have nothing to do with whether the libraries are any good or whether the staff provides useful service to the community. This country's largest circulating library, in Queens, N.Y., was named the best system in the U.S. last year by Library Journal. Its budget is due to shrink by a third. Los Angeles libraries are being slashed, and beginning this week, the doors will be locked two days a week and at least 100 jobs cut. And until it got a six-month reprieve June 23, Siskiyou County almost became California's only county without a public library. 5 Social Media Trends to Watch Right Now. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
With social media itself an exponentially growing trend that's here to stay, many companies both small and large are keeping tabs on new social technologies as they emerge. With new sites, services, apps and practices that help businesses connect more directly with customers coming online at a rapid pace, it's often helpful to zoom out a bit and keep an eye on upcoming trends on the cusp or just over the horizon.
Whether or not particular individual services succeed, the following trends are likely to stick around in the near-term future. Seth's Blog: Goodbye to the office. Factories used to be arranged in a straight line.
That's because there was one steam engine, and it turned a shaft. All the machines were set up along the shaft, with a belt giving each of them power. 10 Things I Learned In Web School. Overdue at the Library: Good Guides on How to Use It - Libraries. By Jennifer Howard Washington More than 19,500 librarians of all stripes descended on the nation's capital over the weekend for the annual meeting of the American Library Association.
They tolerated unseasonably fierce heat. They heard literary luminaries including Toni Morrison and Junot Diaz talk about the value of libraries and books. And they explored almost every aspect of what they do: cataloging and collection building, assessing e-books and encouraging elementary reading skills, preserving materials and serving patrons. Listen to Galaxie 500 – Fourth of July.
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A day that honors the technological and societal advancements that have allowed us to have a dialogue, to connect and to engage not only the creators of media, but perhaps more importantly, one another. STEPHEN FRY: WHAT I WISH I'D KNOWN WHEN I WAS 18. Oil Slick Around Mississippi Barrier Islands. As of June 27, 2010, the entire gulf-facing beachfront of several barrier islands in eastern Mississippi (offshore of Pascagoula) had received a designation of at least “lightly oiled” by the interagency Shoreline Cleanup Assessment Team that is responding to the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
A few small stretches of Petit Bois Island had been labeled heavily or moderately oiled. This high-resolution image shows Petit Bois Island (top right) and the eastern end of Horn Island (top left) on June 26. In general, oil-covered waters are silvery and cleaner waters are blue-gray. This pattern is especially consistent farther from the islands. History, with rose-tinted hindsight. St Petersburg billboard with reworked slogan "For Motherland!
Without Stalin" Why rewrite history books - to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative for the good of the nation, asks David Cannadine in his Point of View column. According to a newspaper report last week, the Russian authorities have recently gathered together a group of academics to draw up a school textbook that would present an approved version of the complex and controversial events that make up Russian history. Social networking sites: 10 mistakes organizations make. Millions of people log onto social media Web sites daily, prompting such varied organizations as Gaithersburg-based MedImmune, the American Red Cross and the Department of Housing and Urban Development to follow.
But simply creating an account on Facebook or Twitter rarely equates to being plugged in. Area consultants said many organizations spend ample time and resources on social media without seeing much return. Here are 10 common mistakes that they see businesses, nonprofits and government agencies make. Doing too much at once. 10 Laws of Productivity.
You might think that creatives as diverse as Internet entrepreneur Jack Dorsey, industrial design firm Studio 7.5, and bestselling Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami would have little in common.
In fact, the tenets that guide how they – and exceptionally productive creatives across the board – make ideas happen are incredibly similar. Here are 10 laws of productivity we’ve consistently observed among serial idea executors: 1. Too Much Self-Doubt? Try Thinking Like a Creator. Recently, a friend passed along a question from a colleague who asked for advice about combating impostor syndrome. Susan Pinker’s Psychology Today column describes the origins of the term to describe a pervasive self-doubt and minimizing of accomplishments that is often found among high-achieving individuals.
Imposter syndrome is not a psychological disorder, but rather a loose descriptive term that covers a range of tendencies and behaviors. These include attributing one’s successes to external factors out of one’s control, like luck or coincidence, but at the same time internalizing any mistakes or failures as one’s own fault. This often causes individuals either to continually strive harder for success or to consciously aim lower than their true level of possible achievement so as to minimize their suffering. Carol Fitzgerald: Libraries and Librarians Are Endangered Species: What You Can Do to Help.
In April my mother called to say a cost-cutting move threatened to close my hometown's local library. The town council of Cedar Grove, New Jersey needed to trim the budget by $600,000, and by eliminating library funding council members thought they saw an easy cut. How To Develop a Social Media Strategy: A Roadmap for Integration. The problem with any new function in a business is deciding how it fits with existing operations. This could be the reason we see so many social media programs that operate in a sort of silo apart from other outreach. The following list of questions and resources should provide a comprehensive roadmap for developing a strong social media strategy with clear organizational alignment.
Top 10 Resources for Design Inspiration. The World's Reaction to Landon Donovan's Game Winning Goal. Make Better Use of Your Local Library, Save Money While You're At It. High-Handed Administrators Generate High Costs - Brainstorm. Across the planet for the past two years, university management has been opportunistically putting the screws to faculty, staff and students with bogus claims that “the economy made us do it.” Listen to Sarah Jaffe – Summer Begs. This is not our A Train DCTA plans no night or weekend service « THINK DENTON // DRINK & THINK // KEVIN RODEN. 4 Reasons Why the Library Should Affect Your College Choice. Can Vinyl Save the Short Story? Maybe the future of the short story has nothing to do with e-readers or online distribution. Austin Taylor : World Cup 2010. Ten of the greatest maps that changed the world.
What it's like to own an Apple product. Listen to saint etienne(band) 『 1. lost in the library 2. martin court 』 S Office for Information Technology Policy brief explores effect of mobile devices on library services. Late Friday afternoon, the United States Department of Education announced it will award $28 million in 46 two-year grants to local school districts to be used for school libraries as well as other non-profit organizations that work for childhood literacy. These grants are being awarded as a part of the U.S. Department of Education’s Innovative Approaches to Literacy (IAL). Top 10 Lists in The Librarian’s Book of Lists. 2010 top ten trends in academic libraries — College & Research Libraries News.
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