PLN - Alaska Libraries and Librarians

Living and working in Alaska offers unique opportunities and uncommon challenges.  Alaskan librarians in general are a tight knit group of talented caring professionals. The sources under this heading help me to keep up with regional issues and find out what is happening up the street at the state library.

Just this week the AkLA (Alaska Library Association) started a google doc for librarians and library staffers to share their various social media nicknames and sites.

I subscribe to the statewide and local chapter listservs "AKLA List" and "juneaulis​t".

I read the Alaskan Librarian Blog written by Daniel Cornwall. This blog covers some library topics and other topics of local interest. When Daniel published a series of posts about our state's specific databases, he agreed to my request to write a guest column for his blog.

Alaska Library and Librarian Twitter feeds that I follow:



Carissa Cotta ‏@carissacotta
A.K. Marshall @jitterymoose
valarie kingsland‏ @valarie907
Daniel Cornwall‏  @DanielCornwall
Morgester‏ @Morgester
jonas lamb‏  @shack_poet
Coral Sheldon-Hess  @web_librarian
Christie Ericson‏  @aknorsk
Freya Anderson‏ @libkitty
AkLA‏ @AKLibraryAssoc
Egan Library‏ @EganLibrary
Alaska State Library‏ @AKStateLibrary

PLN - SJSU Library School Connections

For now until I get my MLIS my library school connections are a key part of PLN, this includes following the twitter feeds from my fellow MLIS students, subscribing to or following my current instructors' social media postings. I also joined a Facebook group for SJSU SLIS students that focuses on the eportfolio process and challenges.  I get a lot of good and timely information from the SJSU SLIS student yahoo group. It one of my major go to resources for advice on course selection, internships, future employment and coping time management issues.  Through the yahoo group I'm able to reflect on, compare and  share my opinions and experience with fellow students.

 

sjsumlis · SJSU MLIS Yahoo group

SJSU MLIS eportfolio support group

On twitter I follow SJSU SLIS student organizations, students and instructors.

LIB 203 Social Media and Older Adults

The brief article “AARP Overhauls Website as New Research Finds Social Networking Continues to Rise Among Boomers and 50+ Americans.” (June 2010) describes the recent changes to the AARP website. These changes are designed to create an interactive online community for AARO.org users. In conjunction with the website update AARP is expanding its online content delivery to e-readers, smart phones and mobile phones. The article also highlights research findings from AARP. These finding show that among Americas 50+ social networking is growing and Facebook is the most popular social networking site.

In the article “The Ongoing Web Revolutions” Michael Stephens (2007) suggests that participation in Web 2.0 social media like facebook, flickr and youtube is built on trust. The AARP research findings that a majority of 50+ Americans have heard about social media from family members, children and grandchild supports Stephens proposed link between Web 2.0 participation and trust. Working with older adults I’ve found many rely heavily on recommendations from family members with regards to computers and the internet. For example, my son recently got married out of state. For health reason his grandmother could not travel to the wedding. We upload the wedding video to youtube and she was able to see the wedding before the cake was cut! She then participated in the Web 2.0 by sharing that youtube link via email with her brothers and sister.

AARP Overhauls Website as New Research Finds Social Networking Continues to Rise Among Boomers and 50+ Americans. (2010, June 7). PR Newswire. Retrieved from http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aarp-overhauls-website-as-new-research-finds-social-networking-continues-to-rise-among-boomers-and-50-americans-95762894.html

Update 8/27/10:
Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project data supports the AARP finding listed above. http://t.co/NjV5reZ

What Facebook Quizzes Know About You

What Facebook Quizzes Know About You

Wow! a friend from high school included me on a friend quiz on facebook. I thought was that something I should check out and sure enough, more privacy setting needed to be adjusted. Facebook, I am not a fan!

Privacy and Facebook

The 3 Facebook Settings Every User Should Check Now

This in-depth article from the Technology section of the New York Times reviews and explains 3 key elements of facebook privacy settings:

Who Can See The Things You Share
Who Can See Your Personal Info
What Google Can See - Keep Your Data Off the Search Engines.

For someone new to facebook like me, it was very helpful for understanding who sees what and where they see it. The article concludes "it's time to be proactive about things and look out for yourself".