The document discusses major tech trends like self-curation using images, location-based services, personalized content creation and consumption, communication tools, and why Pinterest is important for sharing goals and experiences visually. It also covers apps like Flipboard for creating magazine-like experiences from custom content and iBooks Author for publishing on the iPad, and concludes with statistics on growing usage of services like Google+ and tablets/e-readers.

1. Tech Trends Joe
Murphy
University of Denver ASIS&T TechBytes Speaker Series 1/23/12

2. (some) Major Trend Areas
• Self curration
• Images as element of discovery, sharing,
social, and activity
• Location and Proximity
• Content: personalization for
consumption and creation
• Communication tools and directions

3. Why Pinterest is Important:
We experience and consume so much visually and Pinterest gives us a way to share and make
note of goals, plans, experiences, desires, with images from online or from our own lives

4. http://bit.ly/pinterestforinfo
Some suggestions:
•Bookmark resources
•Books and collections
•Contributions from community
•As a visual resource guide
•Facilitate collaboration
•As a teaching tool
•Pin pictures of staff to up the human
element.
•Track metrics
•Pin pictures already in use for various
social media projects

5. Named Apple's iPad App of the year
Developed for the iPad,
Flipboard Creates a visual
magazine like experience for
custom curated content
Key points:
•Visual browsing
•Personal choice in content
•Social and proprietary content
iPhone app released in
December, 2011 “has been
downloaded more than one million
times in its first week” -
http://mashable.com/2011/12/14/flipboard-iphone-1-million/

6. iBooks Author for
publishing on the iPad
http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/
iPad iBooks textbooks http://www.apple.com/education/ibooks-textbooks/

7. “The Future of History Is on Facebook”
We often learn about people
through social networks - this can
apply to historical figures too.
http://on.mash.to/FBlibsandhistory

8. Google+ now has 90 million users globally
- http://investor.google.com/earnings/2011/Q4_google_earnings.html
Adding over 600 thousand every day and might reach
300 million users with in a year
- http://mashable.com/2011/12/27/google-plus-62m-users/
President Obama to host State of the
Union questions on Google+ Hangout bit.ly/googleplusforlibs

9. “Tablet and E-book reader Ownership Nearly Double
Over the Holiday Gift-Giving Period.”
-Pew Internet And American Life Project http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/E-readers-and-
tablets/Findings.aspx
“The number of Americans owning at least one of these digital
reading devices jumped from 18% in December to 29% in January.”

10. Also: perpetual timeliness?

11. Stay in touch
And let me know what technologies are
impacting your library work.
Thank you
Joe Murphy
libraryfuture@gmail.com
Twitter: @libraryfuture
http://joemurphylibraryfuture.com