I recently stumbled into the foursquare world all because of the release of their new BlackBerry app. I’m happy I got into it.
I can’t really say much that hasn’t been already said by David Lee King and Julie Strange concerning foursquare and libraries. I highly suggest you check out these two amazing posts and learn as much as you can from them.
I have this feeling that foursquare is going to be the next big thing that brings us together. We as librarians need to understand this tool and harness its power!
[…] 如Julie Strange所说,这个服务虽然还没有成为主流。但是它正在受到越来越多的图书馆领域内外的人的关注,所以有人认为它可能成为“图书馆的下一件大事”。最后值得一提的是,它虽然是“面向全球的”,但是至少在中国,无论是关注程度还是已经创建的地点都是非常少的,而且考虑到它需要的技术支持(比如智能手机),我也并不是特别看好它在中国的发展。信息素质这件事真的是我们(尤其是我们公共图书馆)当下必须要开始关注的。 […]