I had a recent online conversation on Twitter with someone and she mentioned that she was very excited to have the opportunity to meet someone who was (and still is) her library hero from young (being a librarian was her childhood dream).

Earlier in January I wrote Location based services/pages your library should claim or monitor , where I suggested libraries should register, claim or otherwise own various place pages on Yelp, LibraryThing local and Google places. But back then it was still early days...

Say you want to find out where libraries are placing their social media buttons on the portal.

I'm trying a little social experiment with the new FaceBook group feature.

Xtranormal has the tag line "If you can type, you can make movies" and it's really that simple!

Every library has problems that everyone knows about and are common user complaints but are ignored because the problem seems to be too huge, too large , too costly, too impossible, too everything to fix.

Say you have a new service or page you want to advertise, what possible places could you put it?

Recently, I started to realize that our page on the proxy bookmarklet (a bookmark that allows quick access to full text articles via the library's subscription even when the user doesn't use the library portal as a starting point) is extremely popular, despite being burred deep in our current portal design.

My recent blog post on "heretical thoughts" where I played devil's advocate and expressed doubts and how libraries weren't yet successful in getting users to use mobile services.

Location based services like FourSquare, Gowalla , Loopt enable users to check-in at different venues.

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