Monthly Archive:: May 2011

A Dropbox in the Clouds

This week, I took a look at a small guide from Google. It is entitled 20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web. The subtitle is, “things you’ve always wanted to know about the web but were afraid to ask.” Interestingly, there were

Social Capital: Building relationships

I wrote a review about the new book Doing Social Media So It Matters : A Librarian’s Guide.

The author brings up the concept of social capital. According to the Encyclopedia of Governance social capital includes "

Thinking Differently: ProfHacker

Lately, all of my new ideas have been actually coming from the ProfHacker blog/column in the Chronicle of Higher Education. I read it often, and there are always new tools, and new ways of doing things. I like to think differently. Among some of the ideas, I've been re-reading about good citations managers, like

QR Codes in The Idaho Librarian

My articleQR codes are gaining traction as more people have access to smartphones and their accompanying apps and tools. In the big scheme of things, QR codes are not THAT big of a deal. After all, it's only a two-dimensional graphic, right? But the potential to