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Friday Picks: May 4, 2012

pollyalida — Sat, 05 May 2012 03:59:44 +0000

Obviously this isn’t really going to be a weekly sort of thing. You’d think I could manage that? But I’m barely managing to keep up with the weekly “Friday Photos” group on flickr. So let’s cheat a bit and make that my first pick this week. Friday Photos 2012: Do you like photography. Interested in [...]

Friday Picks: April 14, 2012

pollyalida — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:42:09 +0000

More odds and ends. Some new, some not. New photo editor for Flickr - With Google having gobble up the Picnik photo editor, Flickr has turned to Aviary for photo-editing features. Digging Into WordPress - New printed edition updated for WP 3.3 now available. I love this book, it’s chock full of WordPress tips and and information. [...]

Friday Picks: March 30, 2012

pollyalida — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:04:18 +0000

Some interesting things I’ve run across this week. Trying to restart my “New & Not So New” posts that I used to do! ‘New Librarianship’ Pinterest Boards - Contest that was run by the Syracuse iSchool. Contestants created pinterest boards reflecting their vision of the future of librarianship. Voting has ended, but take some time [...]

Pinterest: Tips for locating original images

pollyalida — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 04:09:32 +0000

If you’re having as much fun with Pinterest as I am, you’ve probably noticed that many pinned images don’t link back to an original source. Or worse, they don’t link back to any source at all! It’s frustrating to find a great looking craft idea, but find that the image links back to a site [...]

Online Newsstand Project Shutdown

pollyalida — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:40:58 +0000

If you thought that the Online Newsstand project was a great idea, then you’ll be dismayed to hear that it’s been shut down. EBSCO cites conflicts in contracts with publishers. Hopefully the shutdown will be short-lived. After all, doesn’t this improve access and promote use of the content? And that’s a good thing, right? Or [...]

WordPress Classes & Webinars

pollyalida — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:01:00 +0000

Over the next few months I have a lot of WordPress related stuff going on with my WordPress buddies Amanda Goodman and Kyle M.L. Jones. Workshop - Creating a WordPress Website- Basics March 20, 2012 in person workshop at NEFLIN, Jacksonville FL Free Webinar – WordPress for Library Websites – Carterette Series Webinars April 25, [...]

Online Newsstand Project

pollyalida — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 06:22:54 +0000

What a terrific idea this is. The Online Newsstand Project brings libraries together to make magazine articles simpler to access. Magazine covers are displayed on your library’s website and your customers simply click through to see a list of articles. I was very excited to see that one of my local libraries, the Bethlehem Public Library, [...]

Pinterest and WordPress

pollyalida — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:57:47 +0000

When I searched the WordPress plugin directory for “Pinterest” 2 weeks ago, I found 20 plugins. Today there are nearly 50. These plugins add PinIt buttons to your posts and pages, provide options for displaying pins in sidebar widgets and also offer ways to block people from pinning your content. Of course I wanted to [...]

MHLS Build Your Base Online project – RSS examples

pollyalida — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:27:20 +0000

I’m working with the Mid-Hudson Library System on a 10 week 23 things online learning project, which is part of their Building Your Base project, a 2 year grant funded project focusing on helping library staff explore new ways to connect their communities. This past week we explored RSS as a tool for gathering information [...]

Pinterest: curation, image sharing, collaborating, bookmarking & obsession

pollyalida — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:53:20 +0000

Like so many other folks, I’m having a lot of fun with Pinterest. When it released invitations last spring, I grabbed one and included it in my school library workshops as a way for students to gather images and curate collections of ideas for projects. But mostly I tried to forget that I knew about [...]