Picking up on the theme from last week’s post, Tech Reporters Losing Control of the Story to Social Media, here was an interesting tweet that could a lot of play at SXSW.   @robinsloan The way to cover big news in 2011 is not "here's what happened." This is content curation in action and we were glad to be part of it. MORE >>

Last week, I wrote  about the challenges we face in understanding how to value and measure social marketing. Being able to attract a qualified, quality following is a real social marketing skill. It isn’t about spending huge amounts of money to grab people’s momentary attention. Sucker. Participations. MORE >>

I recently spoke at the Creative Freelancer Conference in Denver (part of the How Design Conference ) and led a “Lunch and Learn&# table discussion. asked the attendees to write down their burning questions about social media marketing. How do social media marketing tools work? How can you best use social media tools? MORE >>

In a recent conversation, I was asked what I thought about twitter as a learning tool. Over the course of the past few years I’ve moved from saying “I don’t get it” – to feeling like it’s a good addition to my Learning Tool Set. thought it would be worthwhile to pull together these resources. Now What? 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. Librarians have to be able to use search engines and use them well. MORE >>