DU ASIST tech trends webinar

Tech Trends Joe Murphy

University of Denver ASIS&T TechBytes Speaker Series 1/23/12

(some) Major Trend Areas

• Self curration• Images as element of discovery, sharing,

social, and activity • Location and Proximity • Content: personalization for

consumption and creation • Communication tools and directions

Why Pinterest is Important:We experience and consume so much visually and Pinterest gives us a way to share and make note of goals, plans, experiences, desires, with images from online or from our own lives

http://bit.ly/pinterestforinfo

Some suggestions:•Bookmark resources •Books and collections•Contributions from community•As a visual resource guide•Facilitate collaboration•As a teaching tool•Pin pictures of staff to up the human element.•Track metrics •Pin pictures already in use for various social media projects

Named Apple's iPad App of the year

iPhone app released in December, 2011 “has been downloaded more than one million times in its first week” - http://mashable.com/2011/12/14/flipboard-iphone-1-million/

Developed for the iPad, Flipboard Creates a visual magazine like experience for custom curated content

Key points:• Visual browsing

• Personal choice in content•Social and proprietary content

http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/

iBooks Author for publishing on the iPad

iPad iBooks textbooks http://www.apple.com/education/ibooks-textbooks/

http://on.mash.to/FBlibsandhistory

“The Future of History Is on Facebook”

We often learn about people through social networks - this can apply to historical figures too.

Google+ now has 90 million users globally - http://investor.google.com/earnings/2011/Q4_google_earnings.html

Adding over 600 thousand every day and might reach 300 million users with in a year

- http://mashable.com/2011/12/27/google-plus-62m-users/

bit.ly/googleplusforlibsPresident Obama to host State of the Union questions on Google+ Hangout

“Tablet and E-book reader Ownership Nearly Double Over the Holiday Gift-Giving Period.” -Pew Internet And American Life Project http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/E-readers-and-tablets/Findings.aspx

“The number of Americans owning at least one of these digital reading devices jumped from 18% in December to 29% in January.”

Also: perpetual timeliness?

Stay in touch And let me know what technologies are impacting your library work.

Thank youJoe Murphylibraryfuture@gmail.com Twitter: @libraryfuture

http://joemurphylibraryfuture.com