“A pat­tern describes an opti­mal solu­tion to a com­mon prob­lem within a spe­cific context.

A pat­tern is not a fin­ished piece of code or design. Rather, it reflects the sum total of a communitys knowl­edge and expe­ri­ence or exper­tise in a given domain.

When we talk about pat­terns, we often start by notic­ing social behav­ior pat­terns. These are pat­terns in what peo­ple do, with or with­out inter­faces designed for those pur­poses. These pat­terns are inter­est­ing and fun to talk about and they help us under­stand whats likely to hap­pen, but they are not the pri­mary focus of this project.

The pat­terns in this col­lec­tion are social design pat­terns (a.k.a. social user expe­ri­ence design pat­terns). They are inter­ac­tion pat­tern for peo­ple design­ing social interfaces. ”

Info. on how to login to ALA Con­nect, access the YALSA Board space there, and get into the chat area.

“Whats the use of Face­book? Well, we use Face­book to host our tuto­r­ial videos. In the absence of server space, Facebooks video host­ing capa­bil­ity is a handy way keep them orga­nized. And the res­o­lu­tion is pretty good, too.” — via WEB4LIB

“Apps.gov makes cloud-based IT ser­vices (which includes Google Apps) avail­able for pur­chase to all fed­eral agen­cies and is an all-in-one store front designed to make the pur­chase and adop­tion of cloud com­put­ing ser­vices com­mon place.

The Apps.gov mall is a pretty impres­sive mar­ket­place for fed­eral cloud com­put­ing ser­vices. The mod­ern IT store includes busi­ness appli­ca­tions, cloud IT ser­vices, pro­duc­tiv­ity apps, and even social media apps for the extra trendy fed­eral agen­cies. Inter­est­ingly enough, Google Apps are made avail­able for pur­chase. Some of the social media apps offi­cially advo­cated include Dis­qus, Face­book, TwitVid, Flickr, YouTube, Scribd, and other rec­og­niz­able social media sites con­sumers have already come to appreciate”