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Inspiring stuff to read, Take 1

Friday, August 13th, 2010

Between work, my son and the class I’m teaching at SJSU (which is about to start), I rarely have time these days to blog. It’s certainly not that I’m uninspired to do so, as I’m constantly reading things that inspire me, provoke me, or just plain interest me. But anyone who has read my blog [...]

The Social Divide

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

I think it’s fantastic that companies are using social media to promote their brands and communicate more directly with their customers. It’s wild when I write about my favorite wine and the New Zealand winemaker actually responds to me on Twitter. Great brand monitoring St. Clair (update: fixed incorrect URL)! There are so many inspiring [...]

A skeptic gets a Kindle

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

I never in a million years thought I’d get an eBook reader from the current batch of options. They were so not on my radar. I didn’t get all excited and jealous when I saw people with them. I never even thought I’d want to read a book that way. Heck, I hate reading articles [...]

Old media really doesn’t “get” new media

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

Last semester, one of my students linked to this great conversation between Teresa Nielsen Hayden (community manager for Boing Boing) and John Scalzi about community-building through comments and moderation. It’s a fantastic read — check it out. Nielsen Hayden made a comment about the need for moderation to promote good behavior in a community and [...]

Rethinking online learning

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

This was another amazing semester teaching at San Jose State University. I had significantly more students in my class this semester than in the past (more than double), which at first made me nervous about the workload I’d have to take on. But it actually ended up leading to an even better class experience, IMHO. [...]

Computers in Libraries Recap: Day 2

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Day 2 was just as full and wonderful as Day 1. I continued my mostly staying offline during the conference and I think it really helped me to keep focused on what was going on in front of me. While I do like Twitter in a lot of ways and think it’s great for conferences, [...]

Computers in Libraries Recap: Day 1

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Since it had been two years since I’d been to an Information Today Conference, I was really excited to attend Computers in Libraries and it did not disappoint. It was a fantastic learning and social experience with a much more diverse array of sessions than in previous years. I was really happy to see a [...]

Coming to terms with Twitter

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

I’ve been teaching a class on Web 2.0 since 2007, and this semester is the first time that I’ve actually had a full week on Twitter (well, microblogging and lifestreaming to be specific). Before, I treated it sort of as an afterthought, including some information on Twitter during the two weeks that I covered blogging. [...]

Teaching Web 2.0 with Web 2.0

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

After a year off from teaching to take care of baby Reed, I’m getting back up on the horse. I’ll be teaching a class on Web 2.0 and Social Networking Software for San Jose State University’s SLIS program starting this Tuesday. As usual, I’ll be using Drupal for my online classroom (rather than Angel, which [...]

Community-generated children’s book for charity

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

For the holidays, I bought Reed an awesome personalized book. While I still have the personalized book my dad made me when I was 3, I must admit that the storyline and illustrations are pretty lame. The one I made for Reed, Following Featherbottom, is beautifully illustrated and educational, teaching kids about geography (not that [...]

Edublog Award Nominations

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

In this post I’m just registering my nominations for the 2009 Edublog Awards.
My Nominations for The 2009 Edublog Awards are:
Best New Blog – In the Library with the Lead Pipe (just over 1 year old; hope that counts as new!)
Best resource sharing blog – The Distant Librarian
Best librarian / library blog – The Distant [...]

This is not my blogosphere

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

One of the things I always loved most about social media was the transparency it created. If a product, service, hotel, etc. was terrible, you could be sure that you’d hear about it from plenty of bloggers. On the other side of things, small companies and talented individuals were able to get noticed because of [...]

Roles and responsibilities for 2.0 technologies

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

I get asked a lot of things via email from librarians, but very few actually make it to this blog. This question was so interesting and probably better answered by the “hive” than just by little old me. I am also curious how others would respond.
I was wondering if you had any advice or links [...]

W(h)ither blogging and the library blogosphere?

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

I remember the first OCLC Blog Salon at ALA very fondly. It was like fangirl overload for me. I have to laugh now when I remember that I begged Michael Stephens to introduce me to Roy Tennant because I was too nervous to introduce myself to someone so smart and awesome. There was such a [...]

Great new books on my “to read” list

Monday, July 6th, 2009

I must admit that the last time I read a non-baby-related book was probably last Fall. And now all these great books are coming out from the LIS presses that I’m absolutely dying to read! This is torture!
The one I’m probably most excited about is Chrystie Hill’s long-awaited Inside, Outside and Online which is all [...]

2.0 or and bust

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

Since before my brain was hijacked by baby stuff, I’ve been thinking a lot about how many third party Web 2.0 vendors libraries are dependent upon (not to mention all the ones we’re dependent on personally!). I actually wrote a column for American Libraries on the subject, but 600 words could not reflect the whole [...]

Looking beyond the technolust

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Let me preface this post with the statement that I hate the term Luddite. I think it’s often used to dismiss people and ideas that differ from our own. It’s much easier to dismiss someone as being anti-tech than to try and understand what may be their very rational argument against something you love or [...]

LIS Publications Wiki

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Now this is a great project to come from an LIS class!
LIS Publications Wiki
Welcome to the Library and Information Science (LIS) Publications wiki. This wiki gathers information about publications that LIS professionals might want to write for — whether they want to reach their colleagues or their communities. All editors, publishers, and LIS professionals are [...]

A sight I haven’t seen in years

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

I’ve been trying to clean up my email, aggregator and life to some extent before the baby arrives, and it’s kind of pathetic how liberated I feel looking at this message:
Now, if you all can just stop posting things for the next month or so, that would be great. K thx!

Congrats to the 2009 Movers and Shakers!

Monday, March 16th, 2009

Take a look at this truly amazing group of people that Library Journal chose to recognize this year. I’ve never known more folks on the list and so many are folks I absolutely adore:
Sarah Houghton-Jan – it’s kind of amazing that she had not been recognized as a Mover and Shaker before this given the [...]

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