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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Why not?

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

I have been so touched by the kind words people have written about me with respect to my winning the LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology (or as my father-in-law started calling it to everyone he saw last weekend “tech librarian of the year” — lol). I always feel [...]

Validation of my crackpot teaching ideas

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Last week, my students in the Web 2.0 and Social Networking class I teach (at San Jose State) presented their fantastic proposals (via web conference) for implementing a specific social tool at a specific type of library. I was so impressed with their creativity and professionalism. Each of them made a very good case for [...]

I’m REALLY not the Annoyed Librarian (nor am I annoyed)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine commented on the fact that I hadn’t written anything about the Annoyed Librarian being paid to blog for Library Journal. That was more a result of my having kidney stones and being in excruciating pain than my not wanting to comment on it. But also, I really [...]

My next big project

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

I often tease my husband about his need to always be involved in a project. He’s always got to be working on something outside of his “day job”, whether it’s cleaning out his storage room (better known as the troll room), digitizing his parents’ slides, digitizing all of our documents, or creating the most awesome [...]

How I got started blogging

Monday, September 8th, 2008

A student in the class I’m teaching for San Jose State University asked me the following the other day:
How did people first learn about your blog? Do you have a previous blog post on how it became popular? It would be an interesting read!
It’s a good question and one I thought I’d post here [...]

Collecting blogs in archives

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

One of my former students from SJSU had an interesting question for me about archiving student and faculty blogs:
I am in the midst of reading Varsity Letters : Documenting Modern Colleges and Universities and I realized that a major hole in our archives is the documentation of the teaching and learning that is taking place. [...]

31 Day Comment Challenge: Days 26 – 31

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Note: 95% of this was written on a flight from San Juan to Philadelphia, so please excuse any spelling/grammatical errors or anything that just doesn’t make sense. I haven’t had time to really proofread this and I wanted to finish the challenge in a reasonable amount of time.
Day 26: Exploring Other Ways to Comment
Today, [...]

31 Day Comment Challenge: Days 19-25

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Day 19: Respond to a Commenter on Your Own Blog
This activity is supposed to be about responding to people who comment on your posts. The person who created the activity writes “if readers have made time to comment on your posts, you should always make sure to respond back (ideally to each reader) in the [...]

What is this thing we have here?

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

I’ve been reading and experiencing things lately that have really gotten me thinking about blogging, social media, and why people share so much of themselves online. If you’re looking for deep insights into this or some sort of logical argument, step away from the blog. My own thoughts are rather a jumble.
I often ask [...]

31 Day Comment Challenge: Days 15 – 18

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Day 15: Give a Comment Award
I’m supposed to recognize one or a few commenters on my blog today, and for whatever parameters I choose (they write good comments, they comment frequently, they make me think, etc.).
I’m going to recognize a few commenters who really challenge me and make me think. Many of the comments I [...]

What do you wish had been offered at your library school?

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Day 14: Turn Your Blog Over to Your Readers
In this post, I’m supposed to turn my blog over to you by asking you to answer a question. This one is actually something I’ve been thinking about for a while and am curious to hear other people’s answers.
I frequently get asked what courses I wish [...]

31 Day Comment Challenge: Days 12 – 13

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Day 12: Make Sure Your Blog Technology is “Comment Friendly”
Last week, I examined the comment-friendliness of my posts. Today, I’m supposed to examine the comment-friendliness of the technologies I employ on my blog. Some blogs certainly do put up a lot of hurdles to people wanting to comment. For some reason, on Blogger blogs, I [...]

31 Day Comment Challenge: Days 8-11

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Rather than boring you to death with 31 Comment Challenge posts, I’m trying to condense a bunch of the activities into each post so if you’re bored, you can easily skip these.
Day 8: Comment on a blog outside of your niche
My husband is definitely a car guy. He watches car shows, reads car magazines, [...]

31 Day Comment Challenge: Days 2-7

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

In case you were wondering, I haven’t given up on the comment challenge! I’ve just been rather involved in the comment storm that’s taking place on my blog right now.
I definitely didn’t do all of these activities “by the book” but my goal with this is really to be a better blog citizen and think [...]

31 Day Comment Challenge: Day 1

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

The first activity in the comment challenge is to do a comment self-audit. Here’s mine:

How often do you comment on other blogs during a typical week?
It is so variable. Probably on average I comment on three blogs a week. Sometimes I don’t comment at all, sometimes I comment a lot. Sometimes my comments are [...]

Comment Challenge: 31 Days to Being a Better Blog Citizen

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

One of my favorite blogs is the Bamboo Project Blog by the brilliant Michelle Martin. Michelle writes about social software in the non-profit sector, e-learning, workplace learning and more, so while it’s not a library blog, there’s a whole lot to be learned there. Now, she is coordinating a project called the 31-Day Comment [...]

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