Geeks Bearing Gifts: Unwrapping New Technology Trends
Free Online Learning Opportunity
February 2 to March 20, 2009

The Pacific Northwest RML is now accepting registrants for the online version of “Geeks Bearing Gifts: Unwrapping New Technology Trends.” We are offering this course free of charge as a benefit to our Network members.

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NN/LM Pacific Northwest Region is pleased to announce that Go Local Montana is now live! This is the first live Go Local project in our region and we couldn’t be more pleased. Montana Go Local is a project of the Voices of Hope with partners 2-1-1/First Call for Help District XI Human Resources Council, 2-1-1/First Call for Help United Way, Montana State Library, and The Help Center. The site is possible thanks to the dedication and hard work of Jackie Fitzgerald.  Voices of Hope would like to send a special thanks to Susie McIntyre for initiating the project. More promotion of the site will follow in the coming months, but you can take a peek at: http://medlineplus.gov/montana.  Congratulations to the entire Go Local Montana team!

You’ve heard of blogging, but have you heard of microblogging? Twitter, the most popular microblogging platform, is a place on the web where people give updates on their lives by answering the question “What are you doing?” in 140 characters or less.  The character limit makes it “micro.” Is this a practical way to share information? Is it a colossal waste of time? You’ll be the judge of that! Here are a few reasons to give Twitter a chance, along with some basic instructions for getting started.

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Next Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 at 1 pm Pacific time, is the beginning of our Community Assessment Rendezvous class series for 4 units of Medical Library Association continuing education credit for registered participants. For more details about the Community Assessment class, including an updated agenda, please visit
http://nnlm.gov/pnr/training/CommunityAssessment.html and register at http://tinyurl.com/RendezvousReg.  Space is limited to 25 students and filling fast!

Save the dates for these upcoming RML Rendezvous sessions, with more details and reminders announced closer to the dates:

February 18, 2009 at 1 PM Pacific time - Emergency Services Continuity with Dan Wilson, Coordinator for the National Network/Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) National Emergency Preparedness & Response plan.
March 25, 2009 at 1 PM Pacific time - PubMed Update with Linda Milgrom, NN/LM Pacific Northwest Region (PNR) Outreach Coordinator
April 15, 2009 at noon Pacific time - Scholarly Communication with Alison Aldrich, NN/LM PNR Technology Outreach Coordinator
May 2009 - on break for the Medical Library Association conference.

We look forward to having you join us!

Happy New Year! January is a great time to break out the crystal ball and see what new technologies will change the way we live and work.  The following post was written by Max Anderson, Technology Coordinator for the NN/LM Greater Midwest Region. It originally appeared on the Cornflower blog.

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by Gail Kouame - guest blogger

Some of you may remember Alison’s Thanksgiving post about technologies for which we are thankful. I chose Skype as my gratitude-inducing resource. Why? Well, read on…

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