Categories: ideas
- Reflections on a “Biblio-Social Experiment”
(cross-posted from phillynetsquared.org)
On our last Net Tuesday (December 1), we held the Philly Net Tuesday Book UNclub at Robin’s Bookstore. The idea was pretty straightforward… We would discuss books in Net Tuesday’s scope of interest: social networking/media, nonprofit technology and social change. (That’s the “biblio” part.) And we would use the style of an unconference, [...]- Tagging and the Back-of-the-Book Index
I like to read non-fiction books in my “field” of information and social empowerment. And, like a lot of people, I sometimes annotate books as I read them. In doing so, I am, in effect, “tagging” portions of the book with metadata. I’m applying my own, personally meaningful expressions to words fixed on the page. [...]
- About putting out new ideas
I had coffee the other day with John S. James, a very interesting person who has come to a couple of Net Tuesday Philly events. We met primarily to discuss his idea of “smart accounts” – a sort of alternative compensation scheme for enabling online consumers to get something for free – while simultaneously compensating [...]
- Why nonprofits should promote social media in general
The NetSquared “think tank” topic this month is:
What do you think the role of nonprofit organizations is in the changing world of social media?
When I first read it, however, I mentally transposed “the changing” to “changing the” and read it as:
What do you think the role of nonprofit organizations is in changing the world of [...]- Libraries facilitating self expression
I’m frustrated by the seeming lack of commitment of libraries (especially community-anchored public libraries) to their role in facilitating patrons’ ability to speak. Librarians entusiastically rally ’round the flag of “Intellectual Freedom“, but they think of it almost entirely in terms of defending patrons’ right to read stuff written by others. All very well and [...]
