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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008In 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 [...]
31 Day Comment Challenge: Day 1
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008The 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 [...]
Comment Challenge: 31 Days to Being a Better Blog Citizen
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008One 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 Challenge. [...]
Computers in Libraries (CIL2008) – My Brain is Full
Thursday, April 10th, 2008the group – for Connie Originally uploaded by cindiann I had a really wonderful time at Computers in Libraries, as always. While there are always certain talks where the delivery is disappointing or where you don’t learn anything, I went to a lot of talks that were fun or educational or both. And of course [...]
I won’t be your April fool
Friday, April 4th, 2008I’m a pretty tolerant person, but there is one thing in this world that bothers me more than anything else: dishonesty. I am extremely trusting and will take what people tell me at face value. When I find that I’m being deceived, it really makes me angry and frustrated. When I suspect that I’m being [...]
Marketing to bloggers
Sunday, February 10th, 2008Word-of-mouth marketing is a very powerful thing. When you can generate buzz for your product among the people who are using it, what they say about it will probably do more good than any traditional marketing campaign. So, it stands to reason that when you have a new online product or service, bloggers can be [...]
Don’t take what you know for granted
Friday, January 4th, 2008As liaison to all of the distance learning programs at our University, I frequently deal with our Interlibrary Loan Librarian. We can’t do traditional book interlibrary loan with our distance learners because the loan times do not allow sufficient time for us to ship the materials to the student and for the student to consult [...]
Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Results
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Pfew! All done publishing the results of the 2007 Survey of the Biblioblosophere! To refresh your memory, here are all of the posts about this year’s survey: 2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Demographics 2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Blog Demographics 2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Attitudes and Behaviors 2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Results from [...]
2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Results from Various Filters
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Before I lost my Survey Monkey pro account, I created a bunch of results filters and exported them as PDF files. They allow you to see how a group who answered one question a certain way answered all of the questions in the survey. I think they add richness to the results and I’m sure [...]
2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Attitudes and Behaviors
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007For comparison to the 2005 results (though some questions are new) visit Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Attitudes and Behaviors 23. What is the primary way that you read blog content? ResponsePercent ResponseCount I visit each blog individually 15.1% 118 I read blogs in a Web-based RSS aggregator (Bloglines, Google Reader, etc.) 71.1% 557 I read [...]
Favorite blogs – List and Commentary
Sunday, September 30th, 2007The Top 10 1. Annoyed Librarian 2. Librarian in Black 3. Information Wants to be Free 4. Librarian.net 5. Tame the Web 6. Free Range Librarian 7. Library Stuff 8. Caveat Lector 9. Walt at Random 10. The Shifted Librarian (for the rest of the results, see just below the commentary) What can we learn [...]
Great stuff before the great trip
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007In three days, I’ll be on a plane, flying to Copenhagen, Denmark. I lived there for almost a year in college and I haven’t been back in nine years. I’m speaking at a conference on Sociale teknologier i fremtidens bibliotek 2.0 (Social Software and the Future of Library 2.0) on September 27. I absolutely can’t [...]
Are you a group blogger?
Monday, September 17th, 2007Then consider taking this survey on group blogging that my friends down under developed. They will be presenting the results at the VALA2008 Conference. The survey looks at motivations for contributing to a group blog, getting started, and how you keep it going. Considering that well over 200 people in the Survey of the Biblioblogosphere [...]
Are 1/4 of library bloggers cowards?
Monday, September 17th, 2007If you believe what some people have been saying, maybe so. I didn’t want to be on an Annoyed Librarian kick, but she commented on something that had been bothering me for a while; the assertion that people who blog anonymously (or pseudonymously) are cowards. Considering the number of bloggers who do not identify themselves [...]
What makes a blog successful?
Saturday, September 8th, 2007“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.” -Walt Whitman Steven Bell wrote a comment on my post about the Top Three Library-Related Blogs survey: I hate to be a curmudgeon or party pooper, but I’m not sure I like this idea – in general I think [...]
2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Blog Demographics
Friday, September 7th, 2007You can find comparisons from 2005 at Blog Demographics and Why We Blog. 12. How long have you had your primary blog? ResponsePercent ResponseCount Less than 4 months 16.6% 131 4-8 months 14.2% 112 9 months – 1 year 15.3% 121 13 months to 2 years 23.4% 185 25 months to 3 years 14.8% 117 [...]
Top Three Library-Related Blogs Survey
Friday, September 7th, 2007As an addendum to my Survey of the Biblioblogosphere and in response to the recent discussions about rating and ranking library blogs, I’ve created a survey where people can name their top three favorite library-related blogs. People use a lot of metrics to rank blogs, but I never see anyone actually asking people what their [...]
2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Demographics
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007Here are the 2005 results so you can have something to compare it to. 1. What is your gender? ResponsePercent ResponseCount Female 66.3% 556 Male 33.5% 281 Other 0.2% 2 answered question 839 skipped question 0 Women are definitely better represented in the blogopshere than they were last time, but men still are more likely [...]
2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Index of Results
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007I’m going to start publishing results from the survey in drips and drabs over the next few weeks hopefully, but this page will be the index to the results and will link to them as they come in: 2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Demographics 2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Blog Demographics 2007 Survey of the [...]
Do we need a translator here?
Thursday, August 30th, 2007I’m starting to feel like I’m witnessing the blogospheric version of the Tower of Babel story. There are a lot of people talking about Library 2.0 and I think there is also a lot of misunderstanding about what anyone is really saying. Bad girl that I am, I actually really enjoyed the Annoyed Librarian’s take [...]
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