Elizabeth B. Thomsen

Hiding Images on the Library Facebook Page

Elizabeth Thomsen — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:19:44 +0000

Here’s a simple tip for managing images on your library’s Facebook page. The most recent five images added to your Facebook account display in a row at the top of the page. It’s always the most recent five photos but … Continue reading →

Facebook Status Tagging

Elizabeth Thomsen — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 02:26:11 +0000

Facebook’s status tagging feature is a way to include links from one Facebook page to another. Here’s a status that has a tag in it: The words Massachusetts Library Snapshot Day are blue, and are a link to that project’s … Continue reading →

Two Sites that Turn Your Library Photos into Videos

Elizabeth Thomsen — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 21:10:03 +0000

Here are two sites that make it easy to turn a set of library photographs into a fast and fun video to post on YouTube or share on your library website. How about trying one of these for Massachusetts Library … Continue reading →

Google Tip: Sites with Images

Elizabeth Thomsen — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 01:46:44 +0000

Google has a handy filter that limits search results to sites with images, and displays a selection of the images for each site on the search results page. For many searches, I’m finding that turning this filter on makes it … Continue reading →

Flickr Accounts for Libraries

Elizabeth Thomsen — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 04:46:01 +0000

Flickr announced some revisions to their Community Guidelines today, the most important of which is to allow businesses, non-profits, and other organizations to have an account on Flickr. This is certainly good news for all the libraries who currently have … Continue reading →

Winter Photographs of Your Library

Elizabeth Thomsen — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:28:22 +0000

It’s January, and for much of the country that means snow! You may not like to shovel it or drive through it, but snow transforms the landscape, changes the appearance of our buildings, and can make for some beautiful photographs … Continue reading →

Google Search Stories

Elizabeth Thomsen — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:32:04 +0000

Last February, Google purchased their first SuperBowl ad, the story of a romance told entirely in Google searches, starting with “study abroad paris france” and ending with “how to assemble a crib.” This inspired all sorts of parody videos, and … Continue reading →

Art Babble

Elizabeth Thomsen — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:30:16 +0000

Art Babble is one of the most interesting, informative and stylish art websites I’ve ever seen and it’s no surprise that it won the MW2010 Best Overall Museum Web Site award at the Museums and the Web Conference in April. … Continue reading →

Looking at Data

Elizabeth Thomsen — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 01:56:37 +0000

[This is a page of links for a 30 minute session on Data that I'm doing tomorrow.] Data Trends: Structured, Visual, Interactive Wolfram Alpha — Precise, high-quality answers for structured data. “Wolfram|Alpha’s long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge … Continue reading →

Going Mobile Links

Elizabeth Thomsen — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 04:55:50 +0000

[This is a page of links and a few notes for a 30 minute session on Going Mobile that I'm doing in a few days.] More People Doing More Things with More Devices Smartphones, feature phones Devices that aren’t phones … Continue reading →

History Trends

Elizabeth Thomsen — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:00:57 +0000

This is a collection of the links related to the brief presentation on History Trends that I am doing at the Massachusetts Library Association Conference tomorrow. Facial Recognition Picasa and other image management systems have facial recognition that can help … Continue reading →

Connect with Mobile Users Using QR Barcodes

Elizabeth Thomsen — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:04:58 +0000

An easy way to connect with your mobile users is to add a QR barcode with your contact information to your library website. Users can scan the barcode right from the screen to add your library to their contacts. This … Continue reading →