the big house library

welcome to our newest social site: slinkset! :)

 
slinkset is a social news aggregator and community feedback generator from the nice people at posterous (we use them for our china trip blog).

i learned about it from weebly tech support and looked into it. turns out in the library with the lead pipe uses slinkset for their news feed.

so far i'm just using it to load content from our various RSS feeds (twitter, flickr, this blog).

but i'm hoping students and staff will use bighouselibrary.slinkset.com to suggest new services, features, and materials; comment on what's going on; and rate what they like (and what they don't). we'll see! :)

 
Tina Kells, a citizen reporter from Port Quoquitlam, Canada, recently requested (via a Flickr direct message) to use some of our Big House Library pics on Flickr in an online news story she wrote about the Great Shake Out 2008 -- an earthquake drill day in Southern California. Click here to read her story.  While Casa's earthquake drill was not parto f the Great Shake Out per se, it's cool to see our photos being used in a related context. I've been asked before to contribute photos to NowPublic  articles, and I have consented because I love contributing to the collaborative nature of their "Crowd Powered Media." So, thanks, Tina, for including Casa in the Great Shake Out 2008! And remember, in the event of an earthquake, "Drop! Cover! Hold!" =)

The Big House Library is on Twitter! What's Twitter? Twitter is a free social networking and microblogging service that lets you keep in touch with people using the web, your phone, or IM. Twitter helps people stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: what are you doing? So, want to know what we're doing? Follow us on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/bighouselibrary. =)