Check this out!  For those of you who want to know "what's so great about twitter anyway" here is your guide! Also includes: how to use twitter, who uses twitter, what we call people who use twitter (twitterers, tweeters, or twits?).Complete Guide to Twitter http://tinyurl.com/ylf6k4l24 minutes ago  

Abiline Christian University in Texas started a project two years ago to give iPhones and iPod Touches to their students. The results are that the students felt more positive and maintained better relationships with their faculty: http://www.acu.edu/technology/mobilelearning/index.html

It's a cool idea to do, but what about for classrooms where the students have cell phones already? Mobile learning is an interesting new trend. If you attending Idaho Library Association's conference in Burley this year and saw Chris Haskell's presentation on mobile devices in the classroom you already know that students can use twitter and cell phones for learning, compiling data, recording data, searching for information, and communicating with their professors/teachers. Check out all of their resources posted at coolteachers.org: http://coolteachers.org/

Check out this one below about SlideRocket and Twitter in the classroom!

I was reading this LiefHack post called How to Think What No One Else Thinks and correlating it to libraries. So often we become a part of group think. I don't think any one field is immune to this way of working together. This is how the group behaves and then we follow along.

One key quote in this article is from the inventor/founder of Vitamin C, " Genius is seeing what everyone else sees and thinking what no-one else has thought."

The question is, how can we do that every day? And LifeHack offers some ideas! And they are easy!

* Take a different view of a situation

* Look at the scene from the perspective of an alien, a customer, an inanimate object, someone who doesn't speak English, a comedian, etc.

* Challenge all of the common assumptions

* Look for what no one else is looking for - if someone is looking for the richest region try looking for the wettest

* "If everyone else is facing the bar then turn your back on it."

Ok, so you pull up to go into the library, but the library is packed and there is no parking to get inside. What do you do? Wish you rode your bike? Curse the people who won't leave the library? Dream of a larger parking lot?Imagine this! A library book delivery service to your car as you cruise by the library! When notified by e-mail that the items are ready for pickup, users simply cruise to the library, cell phone a librarian and supply library card numbers, the names of items desired and descriptions of their cars.  http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6594373.html 

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!?