Today and tomorrow I’m assisting the #IFLA2010 preconference Marketing Libraries in a Web 2.0 World, hosted by Stockholm University Library. Tomorrow I will be talking about Kista Idea Lab and our visions about Web 2.0 as a concept and as a marketing and networking tool. Have a look at the presentation. /Åke

Doing my best to forget that we are in the middle of the summer, and also still in July, THE supposedly most inactive month of the Swedish calendar. Have to get focused and a little bit organized again after some very lazy vacation weeks… I have been invited to give a talk at the #IFLA2010 [...]

In a few weeks time thousands of librarians from all over the planet will gather together for this year’s big library event: The IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2010, 76th IFLA General Conference and Assembly. It will take place in the Swedish Exhibition and Congress Centre in Gothenburg, Sweden, and the theme chosen for [...]

An updated version of this Youtube ”classic”:

Du har säkert hört talas om Facebook och Youtube. Men hur funkar det egentligen att vara medlem på en nätverksplats eller dela med sig av filmer?  För dig som vill lära dig mer om detta erbjuder Regionbiblioteket i samarbete med Folkuniversitetet en kurs i sociala medier. Målet är att du ska bli säkrare i att [...]

In a few weeks time, at the conference Internet Librarian International 2009 in London,  I will have the opportunity to share some of our ideas about the building of a social media library in Kista. Our vision is to build a digital community, a Kista Feed, that connects all sorts of local and global voices [...]

via parkbench.se Libraries have always done their best to connect to the local community. Physically. Now it’s time we find the proper ways to connect through social media. It’s about listening to local conversations, answering questions and raising new issues. Let’s listen to what Clay Shirky has to say about social media.