Daily Thoughts 03/11/2012

Library Chair, Reading Table, and Reading Desk (Royal MS. 15D iii.) from Charles Knight, Old England: A Pictorial Museum
Daily Thoughts 03/11/2012

I finished taking the Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship online from General Assemb.ly.  http://startmaking.com  It was very interesting.  I think I learned quite a bit.  I learnned the basics of how an income statement is put together, the difference between limited liability companies and corporations, and about the process of fundraising for a tech startup from someone who had successfully done it.  The classes were well worth doing.  I'll probably be going back to go over some of the ideas more closely.

This afternoon, I checked the Twitter and Facebook pages for the library. and placed an e-book on reserve

Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom by Rebecca MacKinnon.
I found a few more companies that are social reading oriented.  There is Bookrix and Bookrabbit both out of the  United Kingdom.  I spent a little bit of time looking at companies listed in the Bookcalendar Twitter account http://twitter.com/bookcalendar  There are a few more companies there as well including Daily Lit, BEA Bloggers which is the new name for the Book Bloggers Convention, Coverspy, Third Iron, Weread, Scribd, and Vook. This adds to the existing companies which I am aware of including Findings, Shelfari, Goodreads, Librarything, Flatleaf, Netgalley, Red Lemonade, Open Margin, Subtext, Book Lamp, Bibliocrunch, Bookiejar, Wattpad,Bookish, and 24 Symbols.

Free Comic Book Day is on May 5, 2012
http://www.freecomicbookday.com/Home/1/1/27/992

Daily Thoughts 02/24/2012

Daily Thoughts 02/24/2012


This morning, I updated the Twitter and Facebook account for the library.  I also spent a little bit of time looking over my Linked In account.  I am planning on going to New York Libraries Share on March 18, 2012 which is a networking group for librarians on Facebook.

I have been reading some more of What Color is Your Parachute and doing the career assessments.  The assessments confirm my desire to work at the crossroads of reading, social media, and content.

I also have been looking at social reading sites like Goodreads, Shelfari, Library Thing, Book Lamp, Scribd, Red Lemonade, Open Margin, Wattpad, Bibliocrunch, Bookjar, Book Glutton which has become Read Social, Subtext, Netgalley which is more of an electronic galley service than a social network.  I also signed up to try two new Social Reading platforms, Bookish and Flatleaf which have not quite launched.  There are also some rather interesting sites which are around like Inkpop- a creative writing site for teens and Cowbird which is a kind of storytelling site.

I spent some time earlier this morning looking at Digital Book World, Teleread, the Digital Shift, and O'Reilly Tools of Change.  I'll probably take a look at IDPF (the International Digital Publishing Forum) and the BISG (Book Industry Study Group) as well.

I am almost done reading What Color Is Your Parachute.  I have an idea of what my assessed strengths are and what I am interested in doing.  I filled in the flower diagram in the book.  Now, I have to start talking to people about different activities.

Web Bits


Steal This Idea
http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2012/steal-this-idea/

Reading The Future: Digital Books and What's To Come for Literature
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/9086635/Reading-the-future-Digital-books-and-whats-to-come-for-literature.html