Want to snaz up your library's promotional materials? Want to seem hip and cool and have your library patrons sporting library flair or bling. Then check out the ingenious new marketing campaign for Wyoming Libraries: http://www.wyominglibraries.org/campaign.html  Thanks to Alex Hartman of Boise Public Library for sharing this marketing campaign with me.

Looking for great FREE online storage space? Do your patrons need a place to store lots of info? Well check out one of the newest innovations from Microsoft called Sky Drive. The site will give its users 25 gigabytes of storage space. To learn more or sign up follow this link http://skydrive.live.com. Thanks for sharing this info Jeremy Darrington of Boise Public Library.

Zappos.com has a great tool that shows in real time when people are buying shoes online, where they are when they buy them, and shows an image of the shoe they are buying: http://www.zappos.com/map/

I immediately thought that it would be really amazing if libraries had this very thing, except to protect user privacy, without the map. What if there was a real time scroll we could implement to show on our website what books are being checked out, in real time?

Yes, it sounds like a lot of work. But it would be so, so, so cool if we could make it happen. Imagine a ticker tape type display in a popular downtown coffee shop!?

Guess the secret's out about how non-threatening and easy it is to do the Twitter thing. Oprah's doing it. The dude from "Dude, where's my car?" is doing it. OCLC's doing it. Sure, you'll get the lame status update sandwiched with the newest programming news from PBS, but it's all on who you follow, follow? Still, you might be asking, what's the value in this thing? Well, it's all about the converstations, people! Also, the good links. And pictures, if you want to share them. Oh, don't forget the New York Times, CNN, and up-to-the-literal-minute breaking news. If you're hankering for something that can explain Twitter better so you can exploit it to YOUR benefit then check out commoncraft's Twitter in Plain English:

Here is a very cool use of twiitering with teens. I could totally see this working in place of a book discussion at a public or school library....check it out,

http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6647718.html?industryid=47078