Archive for June, 2006

My (gulp) Speaking Schedule

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

It’s funny for me to think back to one year ago when you couldn’t have paid me to speak at a conference. Between now and November, I’m going to be giving at least 8 talks (2 virtual). Even now that I feel better about speaking, the thought of giving so many talks makes me a [...]

Selling RSS to the busy clinician or faculty member

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

I recently revamped the subject guide for our Information Assurance (basically Info Security) masters program. One thing I did was mix together several info security news feeds into one using RSS Mix and syndicated it on the Web page using Feed2JS (which we now have installed on our own server — makes it MUCH faster). [...]

Promoting your grads: what all library schools should be doing

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

When I graduated from FSU with my MLIS, I didn’t come out of it with job searching tips, an alumni network or really any help of any kind in finding a job. The College of Information, as it is now called, wasn’t great with the mentoring, networking, support stuff. So when I saw the Prospectus [...]

Walkin’ in a Wiki Wonderland

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

You know, I’m really going to end up running out of titles for my wiki posts, but that’s a good sign. It is so exciting and gratifying to me to see the number of people and organizations who have adopted wikis for personal and professional uses. I honestly don’t know of an easier or better [...]

A big fat done stamp (and some advice)

Friday, June 16th, 2006

I had a dream about Rachel Singer Gordon the other night… I told her I was done with my book and she shook her head and told me to keep editing. In spite of this dream and the nagging feeling that I missed 1,000 little things while editing the book, I printed it out and [...]

Test

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

I just upgraded WordPress and I want to make sure everything is still working right.