Last week, I explored the birth of the “superfan&# in social media, drawing from the superfan concept at sporting events and pointing out some fan qualities that my company has observed on our clients’ Facebook Pages. What’s so “social&# about that? Isn’t social media giving us far more capabilities? More on. MORE >>

The LCB question this month is, What Tools Should we Learn , or: The question is really about the specific tools that would make sense to learn today in order to be a valuable eLearning professional in 2015? As this image shows (click to expand), there are many web tools that can help develop critical thinking. Blogs. MORE >>

Last year, I looked into the way companies are using Enhanced Facebook Pages as a way to beef up the branding and interactivity available with Facebook’s default Page settings. On my company blog, I explored the enhanced Pages of big companies such as Starbucks and The Gap. Networked Blogs. Tumblr. Posterous. MORE >>

Among the many things my colleague Jane Hard does for our community is to compile the Top 100 Tools for learning each year. Here are my tools, in no particular order: WordPress  is how I host and write this Learnlets blog, thinking out loud. Google is my search tool. Twitter is how I track what people find interesting. MORE >>

Information Wants To Be Free A librarian, writer, educator and tech geek reflecting on the profession and the tools we use to serve our patrons Home About me Contact me CV Book Website Presentations SJSU Class Meredith Farkas Librarian, writer, teacher and tech geek. But I acknowledge that Flickr is significantly less charged than Facebook. MORE >>