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Web 2.0 and programming tips from a library technology enthusiast, What I Learned Today... covers blogs, rss, wikis and more as they relate to libraries.

My delicious bookmarks for 2009-01-06Today

• embedit.in
  Embed anything into your website
• Social Mention
  Social Mention is a social media search engine that searches user-generated content such as blogs, comments, bookmarks, events, news, videos, and microblogging services.
• Tweet Manager
  Twitter App For Complete Twitter Automation
• Tweetree - Birds in a tree.
  Tweetree puts your Twitter stream in a tree so you can see the posts people are replying to in context.

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Social MentionYesterday

I just learned about Social Mention from ResourceShelf.

Social Mention is a social media search engine that searches user-generated content such as blogs, comments, bookmarks, events, news, videos, and microblogging services.

It allows you to easily track what people are saying about you, your company, a new product, or any topic across the web’s social media landscape in real-time.

I tried it out and like it - but I want one feature that isn’t there. I’d love to see the ability to remove items from a specific domain in the advanced search. That way if I’m searching for mentions of me or my company - I don’t find the posts that I’ve written.

Other than that - it’s a pretty cool tool.

My delicious bookmarks for 2009-01-05Yesterday

• How to Embed Almost Anything in your Website
  Learn how to embed almost anything in your HTML web pages from Flash videos to Spreadsheets to high resolution photographs to static images from Google Maps and more.
• Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine

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Time to teach/learn what’s currentJanuary 6

Cliff has a great post over on his blog about what students are learning in library school. Cliff points out that as an instructor in any LIS program you have to keep up with what’s going on in the library world - and then pass that info and those skills (the keeping up skills) on to your students:

If you teach in an MLIS program, stay in touch with librarians to know what your students should be learning to be prepared for the real world. …
If you are a cataloger, constantly strive to improve what you do, and stay in touch with the cataloging community.

My favorite part is one of the comments from Ryan which warns students:

If you are a student: Don’t expect that school will prepare you for the workplace. Look beyond the assignments to learn something about the profession. Better yet, get a B on your assignments so you can make time to learn the real goods of library work. You have to think beyond your profs (most of them anyway) to get a job in this profession. Your real learning *begins* when you graduate.

The problem with Ryan’s comment is that it requires that students already know how to keep up with what’s going on in the library world - and if they’re not being taught that then they’re never going to know wha

Google Custom Search Engine WebinarJanuary 5

This sounds interesting:

Join the TLT Group to learn how to better use the Google Custom Search Engine.

January 9, 2pm-3pm EST
Using Google Custom Search Engine: Turning an Information Fire Hose into a Precision Instrument (TLT)

For more information and to register for this program, visit: http://www.tltgroup.org/calendar.htm