Friday Link Round Up

Just cool (not library related, though certainly community college mission related – incredibly inspiring, worth watching the whole thing)

• TED Talk – Bill Strickland: Rebuilding America, one slide show at a time (and that’s Herbie Hancock on the piano)

Cool things other libraries are doing

• Facebook advertising
• Movie postcards advertising personal reference assistance
  • Article
  • Cards
• Technology Petting Zoos
• Video contest

Technology

• 5 (Actually, 6) Three Letter Acronyms for Librarians – XML, API, CSS, PHP,GPL
• Top 10 Tab Techniques (I’m loving “Mousewheel click links to open in a background tab”)
• Social Software in Libraries, a presentation – especially good for a discussion of the difference between tools and brands in the social software world