Anybody who questioned the Pew Internet and American Life report about how teens use the internet and how they expect conversations and interactivity from the online services they use might do well to take a look at this comment on my Chernobyl Tour story:
Student Looking for Info that your not give us
February 3rd, 2006 10:11
you [...]

Posted February 5, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: blog, blog comment, blog comments, blogs, blogs are conversations, comments, future libraries, internet generation, libraries, library, millennials, reference blog, social internet, social web, teens, web 2.0. Be the first one.

Drawing from John Blyberg’s ILS Customer’s Bill of Rights and
The Social Customer Manifesto, Jenny Levine offers this Online Library User Manifesto:

I want to have a say, so you need to provide mechanisms for this to happen online.  
I want to know when something is wrong, and what you’re going to do to fix it.  
I [...]

Posted January 25, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: collaboration, commons, community, conversation, future library, future of libraries, interactivity, jenny levine, libraries, library, manifesto, millennials, online library user manifesto, social software. 2 Comments.

As part of a larger message to faculty returning from winter break, our CIO offered this summary of how he sees advancing internet use affecting higher education:
Are you familiar with blogs and podcasts? Google them, or look them up in Wikipedia. Some of you may already be using these new tools. Others may think these [...]

Posted January 24, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: faculty, higher education, internet, internet and education, internet and higher education, internet use, learning, libaries, library, millennial students, millennials, netgen, netgens, students. 3 Comments.