Archive for February, 2007
Social Software in Libraries: Almost Here!
Monday, February 26th, 2007Social Software in Libraries cover
Originally uploaded by librarianmer.
I just heard from the folks at Information Today that my book is heading off to the printer tomorrow! I think it’s going to spend some time there, because I was told that it will be available at [...]
Five Weeks to a Social Library: Highlights from Week 2
Sunday, February 25th, 2007Week two of Five Weeks to a Social Library is now over. RSS and del.icio.us really generated a lot of excitement for our participants and many could see the personal and professional benefits of using these tools. We have people spending 16 hours per week on the class because they want to play with these [...]
Intelligence 2.0
Sunday, February 25th, 2007I never thought I’d say this… but I want to go work for the Pentagon!
Lewis Shepherd sent me this Computer World article about some of the cool things they are doing in the intelligence community with wikis, RSS, AJAX and Mashups. In particular, they mention the Intellipedia which was launched in 2004 and seeks to [...]
PBWiki’s Point and Click Editor
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007I mentioned PBWiki’s new editing interface a few weeks ago, but this week was the official launch of this tool. I truly think that having a WYSIWYG editor like PBWiki has now is going to break down the biggest barrier to adding content to a wiki. Wiki markup may be easier than HTML for some [...]
Meredith Farkas is made of books!
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007mk1_1024
Originally uploaded by Dave & Bry.
This is so cool! Visit the picture in Flickr and click on All Sizes and you can actually see the individual books! And there are many others too! Thanks Dave!
Lead, follow or get out of the way
Sunday, February 18th, 2007I always tease Roy Tennant about how so many geek girls (me included) — and probably geek boys too — are totally crushing on him. He doesn’t really “get it”. I think his recent post in TechEssence, “Open Letter to ILS Vendors” is a great example of how smart, pragmatic and (as John Blyberg puts [...]
Highlights from Week 1 of Five Weeks to a Social Library
Sunday, February 18th, 2007The weeks and months before the start of Five Weeks to a Social Library required a significant amount of work, but I don’t think I was prepared for how much time I would need to devote once the course started. However, it has been totally worth it so far. I am literally blown away by [...]
Making things happen!
Monday, February 12th, 2007I have always been an idea person. I probably get that from my dad who has had dozens of business ideas in the 29 years I’ve known him. However, before I became a librarian, I rarely pursued any of the ideas I had. I usually either didn’t know where to start or I didn’t think [...]
I am the luckiest
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007Honeymoon in Big Sur
Originally uploaded by librarianmer.
My husband, Adam, never likes taking credit for the things he’s done, though he deserves an absolute boatload of it when it come to my successes over the past couple of years. I’m not a naturally confident person, [...]
Why do you stay?
Monday, February 5th, 2007chickadee
Originally uploaded by withrow.
To the chickadees, blue jay and brilliant red cardinal I saw in the pine tree just outside my kitchen window as I made breakfast this morning, thank you. I have no idea why you’d want to be here in Vermont when the [...]
On speaking
Sunday, February 4th, 2007I’ve been meaning to write about Walt’s great Cites and Insights piece on conference speaking. If you haven’t already read it, do take a look. He combines insights from Rachel Singer Gordon, Dorothea Salo, Jessamyn West and 90 people who participated in Rachel’s survey on the subject with his own insights to create a really [...]
