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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 Challenge. [...]

Computers in Libraries (CIL2008) – My Brain is Full

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

the 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, 2008

I’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, 2008

Word-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, 2008

As 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, 2007

Pfew! 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, 2007

Before 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, 2007

For 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, 2007

The 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, 2007

In 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, 2007

Then 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, 2007

If 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, 2007

You 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, 2007

As 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, 2007

Here 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, 2007

I’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, 2007

I’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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