It’s all on the go... It’s all on the go... what mobile technologies do we need to be taking advantage of?

Andrew Walsh, Getting Your Hands Digitally Dirty In The Library. October 2010

Turn on your mobile Turn on your mobile phones...phones...

A few facts & figuresA few facts & figures

“The mobile Internet is ramping faster than desktop Internet did, and we believe more users may connect to the Internet via mobile devices than desktop PCs within 5 years.”

Morgan Stanley, December 2009.

Text messaging (SMS)Text messaging (SMS)

Join in with the social Join in with the social networksnetworks

Twitter embeddedTwitter embedded

First Challenge!First Challenge!Start playing with some social

networks...

Tweet @poll followed by the code OR text a code to 07624 806 527

Quick & dirty Quick & dirty broadcasting?broadcasting?

QR CodesQR Codes

http://percentmobile.com/getqr

Mobiles know where they Mobiles know where they are...are...

Getting competitive?Getting competitive?

Augmenting realityAugmenting reality

Augmenting reality (2)Augmenting reality (2)

Information (mobile?) Information (mobile?) LiteracyLiteracy7 pillars, Big six, etc.OR:

From: Edwards, S. (2009) Panning for gold: Information Literacy and the net lenses model. Auslib Press: Adelaide.

Mobile is different...Mobile is different...

Second Challenge!Second Challenge!Be radical. Think

how mobiles will change your users and do something about it now.

Thanks for listeningThanks for listeningSlides are at

http://eprints.hud.ac.uk More stuff at http://bit.ly/lilacAW

I’m at a.p.walsh@hud.ac.uk or @andywalsh999 on Twitter