Reading now: Technology Training in Libraries

Technology Training in Libraries (Tech Set #6) by Sarah Houghton-Jan, Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2010.

What do the reviewers say:
This should prove an essential resource for librarians responsible for implementing training and employee development programs. [Houghton-Jan is a 2009 LJ Mover & Shaker.]" --Library Journal, June 2010
"Houghton-Jan…offers a guide to help all types of libraries implement low-cost, comprehensive, and effective programs for staff to learn new technology skills." --SciTech Book News, June 2010



Extract:

Your library plays a crucial role as your community's epicenter for technology whether you provide skill building resources, free access to the Web or both. To deliver top service to your Web-savvy users, you and your staff must stay up-to-date with the latest technology skills and trends. This invaluable new guide in The Tech Set® series from renowned consultant, speaker, and technology instructor Sarah Houghton-Jan presents practical, start-to-finish guidance so you can easily and successfully implement a low-cost, comprehensive, and effective staff technology training program in your library. Houghton-Jan outlines various types of technology training programs and helps you determine which one is right for your library. You'll learn how to create a list of important technology skills to include in training, how to integrate popular technology training tools into your program, and best practices for dealing with common problems like working with different learning styles, dealing with difficult learners, and finding a suitable location. There are tips for marketing your program to supporters and skeptics alike, as well as guidelines for evaluating its success. Whether you're an experienced technology instructor or a first-time trainer, this new 'Tech Set' title will help you develop thriving, easy-to-implement, and budget-friendly technology training programs in your library.

Blogger Interface Upgraded -- The Good News and the Not So Good News

Good NEWS: My Blogger Tricks:

EXTRACT:
All BlogSpot blogs will be automatically upgraded to the new blogger look so that it may blend other Google Products. With the introduction of Google Plus , developers at Google have given the same design and look to every Google service to keep things simple. The current interface at draft.blogger.com will now be officially launched at Blogger.com from First April 2012 onwards. This upgraded interface has many new features and is a lot faster. All your favorite blogging actions now have several shortcuts thus making your blogging experience even more worthwhile. We will also learn how to turn back to old blogger look or switching back to old user interface. Lets have a quick look at some of the important changes. Continue reading

Not So Good NEWS: Dave Lucas: New Blogger Interface Problems

EXTRACT:
I woke up this morning with that new sluggish blogger interface shoved down my throat!
Well, I thought, if I could find a way to zap facebook's timeline... I could handle this!
UPDATE (10:30pm) The alleged "upgrade" has also crippled blogger's ability to read and publish posts that are "scheduled" - such posts must now be published manually.
I prefer the old, more compact, version of blogger's interface: here's why:
The opening interface looked like it was "buffering" the way a music video does on dialup. Hey, I'm on BroadBand!
It took much longer than usual than upload a post.
Trying to get an image up was a real bitch. The pictures just wouldn't stay centered as programmed.
The new interface seems to hate it when you're editing the template HTML.
And to add insult to injury, anyone doing blogger work on an iPad is SOL! (Continue reading)

What others say:

The Thinking Mother: New Blogger Formatting Problems: Sorry

The Real Blogger Status: Better Get Into The New Blogger GUI Soon ...

The New Blogger GUI (2011) was pushed out, during the past week, to a number of blog owners - and the complaints are showing up in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken. Some are polite.

Please, Blogger - allow us the option of staying with the old format.

and some less polite

Are you listening Google? Your new interface SUCKS!

Only one thing is obvious - many people, suddenly finding themselves using the New GUI, do not like the New GUI.

www.allblogtools.com Three Issues/Problems With new Blogger Read_Me / Jump_Breaks And How-To-Fix-It

Dreamz~n~Wishz: New Blogger Problems

Anybody else having trouble navigating this new blogger? They auto switched me over today and I can't seem to find my way around very easily. And I can't add to my blog list on my page. And I have no little pencil icon to click on to make edits. I think they are in the process of working out bugs...but I was doing just fine with things the way they were and I don't like change when "it wasn't broke for me...so please don't fix it". Grrrrr.... And on top of that today is Picnik's last day. So sad. Adjustments and adapting, Lisa...you can do it. Sigh.

Orange Crate Art: The new Blogger interface, unliked

productforums.google.com: I'm getting an error message when I try to embed a custom template ...

Continued problem with Blogger Server - Women's League for ...

Blogger Interfaces Compared @ Digital Waffle: The Ultimate Tech Blog for Everything Tech


Solutions:

Vertical pictures turned horizontal - solution How to revert custom domain back to blogspot @ the original Blogger Tips and Tricks

Bloggerati: How to install a new blogger template.

Defence and Freedom: The new Blogger interface sucks

Blogger New Interface Layout @ Simple Blogger Tips - Simple Blogging Tips, Tutorials, Hacks, Guides, Help and More! Only for Blogspot Bloggers!

Post a video in the "updated blogger?" The icon is not available ... www.google.com › Help forum › Blogger › How Do I?

[Pro] Blogger template problem @ FreewayTalk

Updated tabs of new blogger platform | Techblaster.NET

Revisiting the gap between intention, action and the results in relationships

"Action is based on Intention." Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), Hadith An-Nawawi, Number 1

Herein questions are many, including:
One Wants To Say ‘Love’ When in actually Means ‘Sex’? Or
One simply means to say I have a friend who is not a friend-indeed!!!
Is feminism, in the West (e.g., the US), same-as, feminism in the east (e.g., India)?
Socio-psychologically speaking, is dating considered the same, in the East (India for instance) as against the West (America for instance)?

In short, is it all about intentions, actions and the resultants? Are these role models imported, more so, from Bollywood (a.k.a. West) and Hollywood (a.k.a. East), just to compare and see the meeting or diverting trends!!! Or is it an extended social nexus, which is more cultural, spiritual and historical? What do you say???

Reading now:

'A Man. A Woman. Just Friends?' by William Deresiewicz, NYTimes.com

I cannot think of another area of our lives in which there is so great a gap between what we do and what our culture says we do. But may be things are beginning to change. Younger people, having grown up with the gay-rights movement and in many cases gone to colleges with co-ed dormitories, are open to a wider range of emotional possibility.

Friendship between the sexes may no longer be a political issue, but it is an issue of liberation: the freedom to love whom you want, in the way that you want. Maybe it’s time that we all took it out of the closet. Continue reading

Love and sex in India: Why some Indian men can't take a hint, Courting or harassment: What happens when Western women mix with the locals? by Hanna Ingber, GlobalPost

Australian journalist Virginia Moncrieff, who has worked across Asia, Africa and the Middle East, remembers being in India and having a long chat with a university student. She gave him her phone number, and he proceeded to call and text countless times a day.

“I still can't figure out why, when I was so obviously displeased and bothered by the endless, endless calls that my new ‘friend’ just could not, and would not, stop contacting me,” she wrote in an email.

According to cross-culture and gender specialists, this behavior in "new India" is a result of shifting social norms, a low level of interaction between opposite sexes, influences of pop culture and differing interpretations of power dynamics between men and women.

As Mumbai changes and modernizes, there is confusion over what type of behavior is acceptable in personal as well as work environments, says Jerry Pinto, author of "Surviving Women," a manual of gender politics in India. Continue reading

Real life couples don't sizzle onscreen ...
In more than a few instances in the past, Bollywood stars who have become increasingly public about their love life have disheartened viewers (and directors) with their lack of comfort and uneasiness when it comes to portraying love scenes onscreen...

Though Hindi films are no longer shy of intimacy, many Bollywood actors, especially those who are real-life couples, continue to look uncomfortable with such scenes. continue reading

On the same shelf:

Love in the Time of Globalization: Indian and American National Identity in Romance Cinema

Modesty in a Culture of Immodesty: Does it have a place?

Concealing to Reveal: Modesty in Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body

Physical, Emotional & Verbal Immodesty | The Rock of Roseville

She’s my girl ‘friend’ not my ‘girlfriend’

What is Infidelity? By Nisha JamVwal

Closing the Gap Between Intention and Action

Feminism in India - Indian Feminism and Sexuality - Bride Burning ...

Badass Muslim Girl - Bollywood used to be all about the modesty

SELF-ATTENTION—SHAME—SHYNESS—MODESTY

American Indian leader objects to vulgarity in Bollywood | The Global Indian®

Love & Responsibility in Sydney: March 2012

Do You Want To Say ‘Love’ When You Mean ‘Sex’?

The Case Against – The Boyfriend-Girlfriend Culture

The Big Question: Are women to blame for rape? - Yahoo! News India

BOLLYWOOD HEROINES - Mix Articles/pix - Asian Outlook

Ellie’s advice: Wife is overreacting to husband’s trips to strip clubs

Modesty of dress and Indian culture « kracktivist

He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know, by Jessica Valenti

Veil: Modesty, Privacy and Resistance (Dress, Body, Culture), Fadwa El Guindi

Sexuality, Obscenity, And Community: Women, Muslims, and the Hindu Public in Colonial India, by Charu Gupta

Wanted Cultured Ladies Only!: Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s-1950s, by Neepa Majumdar

Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society by Ruth Vanita

Films and Feminism: Essays in Indian Cinema, by Jasbir Jain

Marrying Anita: A Quest for Love in the New India, by Anita Jain

Surviving Women: a manual of gender politics in India, by Jerry Pinto

Impact of Bollywood on society @ much ado abt nothing

Impact of Bollywood on society @ Sitagita.com

The Impact of Bollywood: An Overview, Darshana A, Yahoo! Contributor Network

Google’s Convergence Re-visited

Googled to know what's in the news, about: "We're changing our privacy policy.""This stuff matters,"
says a news story: "Google announced this week it intends to consolidate privacy policies and combine all of the user data it has harvested into one profile. This means that data from Gmail users would be combined with that gathered from their searches on YouTube, Maps, Google+, Picassa, Chrome and any of Google's other services..." continue reading @  Asia Times Online



And, thus spake a Blog author @ London Review of Books:

"...Technology companies used to emulate IBM – Microsoft emulated IBM and Google emulated Microsoft – by commoditising the complement: IBM made it cheap and easy to get parts to plug into your computer, allowing it to sell more computers; Microsoft made it cheap and easy to buy computers, allowing it to sell more software; Google made it free and easy to do anything on the internet, allowing it to sell more ads. (Apple made it cheap and easy to get music online, which led to everyone buying iPods, and to 30 per cent of all music sales going through Apple.)" continue reading : 

World Wide Webs

Daniel Soar 31 January 2012

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• Google's One Singularity Sensation - The adMarketplace Blog
• Google Privacy Changes: What you will see - John W. Ellis | John W ...
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• What Every Librarian Should Know about Electronic Privacy Jeannette A. Woodward
• Google Bomb: The Untold Story of the $11.3M Verdict That Changed the Way We Use the Internet Sue Scheff
• The Googlization of Everything: (And Why We Should Worry) Siva Vaidhyanathan
• The Social Media Mind: How social media is changing business, politics and science and helps create a new world order. David Amerland
• The Age of the Platform: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Have Redefined Business Phil Simon
• Google and the Law: Empirical Approaches to Legal Aspects of Knowledge-Economy Business Models (Information Technology and Law Series)
  Aurelio Lopez-Tarruella
• Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom
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  Erik Qualman
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  Kevin D. Mitnick
• Google: It's in your DNA
  Laney A. Sparacino
• Convergence of Internet search and social networks
  
• Future of SEO: Change, Convergence, Collaboration
• millionshort.com [Million Short is an experimental web search engine (really, more of a discovery engine) that allows you to REMOVE the top million (or top 100k, 10k, 1k, 100) sites from the results set. We thought it might be somewhat interesting to see what we'd find if we just removed an entire slice of the web.]
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• Experts: Trust in Google is 'funny' and 'strange' ITWorld Canada
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• The Google Cookie That Seems to Come Out of Nowhere Wall Street Journal
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• Google Allows 'Do-Not-Track' Browser Button
  
• BEWARE! Google is spying on all you do on the NET
  
• Googlization of Libraries: Debunking the Internet Godzilla Myth
  The Second Follett Lecture, Graduate School of Library and Information Science,
  Dominican University, 15 February 2006, Edward J. Valauskas -- reproduced in World Libraries Volume 19, Numbers 1 & 2, February 2012
  
  
• Google to Consolidate Data March 1: 5 Steps to Protect Your Privacy Huffington Post
  ‎EXTRACT:
  

  1. Don't sign into Google
  2. Use your browser's "private" or "incognito" mode
  3. Clear your Google history
  4. Review your Google dashboard
  5. Clear your browser's history

Job searching with social media for dummies - Reading now

AT the outset it is a good resource for any job searcher, who can use his/her social networking skills from branding and communicating a message online, to all the basics of dealing with Twitter, Facebook and other sites. In short one can gain newer job opportunities!!!

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Shows you how to easily harness social media sites
Advice on how to brand yourself online
Covers all of the latest and most popular social media sites: Google, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and more

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By Joshua Waldman (ISBN: 9780470930724), Wiley, John & Sons, 2011.
Table of Contents

Part I: Preparing for Your Job Search;

Chapter 1: The Lowdown on Social Media for Job Hunters; Chapter 2: Setting Yourself Up for a Successful Job Search; Chapter 3: Reviewing the Basics of Online Networking

Part II: Marketing Yourself with a Personal Brand;

Chapter 4: Personal Branding; Chapter 5: Crafting Keywords, Value Statements; Chapter 6: Communicating Your Expertise Online by Blogging; Chapter 7: I've Been Googled! Managing Your Online  Reputation

Part III: Crafting Web Résumés with LinkedIn, Video;

Chapter 8: Updating Your Résumé for an Online Audience; Chapter 9: Using LinkedIn to Put Your Best Profi le Forward; Chapter 10: Producing a Compelling Video Résumé;
Chapter 11: Taking Advantage of Other Online Résumé Options;

Part IV: Using Twitter, Facebook, and Other Sites to Find a Position;

Chapter 12: Uncovering the Hidden Job Market with Twitter; Chapter 13: Using Facebook as a Job Hunter; Chapter 14: Getting Familiar with Lesser-Known Sites for Job Hunters;

Part V: Executing Your Proactive Social Media Job Hunt Strategies;

Chapter 15: Tracking Down Opportunities, Companies, and People to Target; Chapter 16: It's About What I Can Do for You: Discovering a Company's Needs; Chapter 17: Embracing the Informational Interview for an Insider Advantage; Chapter 18: Engaging with Hiring Managers through Social Media;

Part VI: The Part of Tens;

Chapter 19: Ten Ways the Job Search Has Evolved in the 21st Century; Chapter 20: (Almost) Ten Ways to Stay Up-to-Date with Social Media Changes; Chapter 21: Ten Common Mistakes People Make When Using Social Media Sites

Budget Chief Questions Toronto Public Library Collections: Are we an international library?

In Toronto Star and http://libraryworkersunion.blogspot.com/

"The second mention was for something more substantial: councillor Paul Ainslie (Ward 43, Scarborough East) demanded an apology from budget chief Mike Del Grande (Ward 39, Scarborough-Agincourt) for his remarks in the Star this morning about the Toronto Public Library:

“Should the city library become a Blockbuster?” Del Grande said. “Is that what we should be doing? Is that our core program or is that program creep?”
In calling for a debate on library programming, the budget chair said he questions the library’s decision to stock non-English items.
“Are we an international library? What proportion of our budget should go for non-English movies and books, etc.? The argument would be made this is what makes the city great, but I would dare say our common language is English.”

Del Grande also suggested (in the Toronto Sun) that "every single library" has 100 copies of Pirates of the Caribbean 4. (Based on the TPL's web directory, I assume Del Grande means that the entire library system has 112 copies, almost all of which are currently out on loan.)

On the same shelf:

• Multicultural Acquisitions (The Acquisitions Librarian, Nos 9/10)
  Linda S Katz

• Diversity Resources - Accommodation, Tolerance and Coexistence