Okay, I know a large number of readers of this blog are international visitors but I just had to post this local piece of news.

First, a look at the final product. Recently, I have being thinking about how information flows in a large organization, including libraries.

Librarians are often overwhelmed by the mass of fast moving information they need to keep track of.

I've being a librarian for 2 years now, and it seems a good point as ever to look back at my career so far.

I've being thinking about how libraries can mashup their Twitter, Flickr, Youtube and other web 2.0 accounts and display them using cool visualizations.

After posting about what Library Twitter accounts are doing here and here, I stumbled upon a more efficient way of getting the statistics and this resulted in the following batch of statistics (Number of followers, Number of following, Followers/following ratio, Age of account (based on first tweet) and total updates for all

I used to own a web domain a few year ago, and every month I would dutifully download and analyse my server logs using Analog.

There is considerable literature by now on handling reference and/or communicating with patrons via phone, email and Instant Messaging, but would the same considerations apply for Twitter?

In my recent posts comparing Twitter accounts of libraries, I found that when listing by follower counts, only 4 out of the top 20 accounts belonged to Academic libraries.

Recently, I was pondering about the need to set targets or KPI (key performance indicators) for Libraries carrying out Social media activities.

Introduction In this post, I will talk about a little known service called Google Profiles, why it is becoming important, and I will describe how libraries have being using it, the web 2.0 accounts they are listing on it, and compare it to the accounts listed by libraries on Friendfeed.