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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008I 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, 2008A 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 [...]
SOPAC 2.0 at Darien Public Library
Monday, September 1st, 2008Run, don’t walk to check out the Darien Public Library’s awesome new Drupal-based website along with the John Blyberg-designed new-and-improved SOPAC 2.0. I, for one, am totally impressed with the site and the catalog. One of the biggest things about SOPAC 2.0 (short for Social OPAC) is that its component parts are going to be [...]
PALINET Leadership Network
Monday, September 1st, 2008Walt Crawford started his work on the PALINET Leadership Network site less than a year ago, but already, he has made it a terrific resource for people in our profession. Some of the articles on the wiki are original, while others are compilations of writings on a theme by a variety of innovators and leaders [...]
Reinventing the Rook Tour
Monday, August 25th, 2008Last week was one of the most stressful, but also most satisfying, weeks I’ve had at work. That week, we did our “rook tours” which are orientations to the library for the new Freshmen entering the Corps of Cadets (our school’s population is around 50% ROTC). For three days a week before classes start, we [...]
Teaching online with Drupal
Sunday, August 17th, 2008In the Spring, I taught a class for San Jose State University on social software in libraries. Last week, I received both the student review of my teaching (which is anonymous) and the peer review of my teaching by a permanent faculty member at SJSU. I was beyond pleased by the comments and by my [...]
Not without the Web
Monday, July 28th, 2008A week and a half ago, I was giving a talk in South Florida (where I used to live) and it’s made me a little reflective about how much my life has changed since then.
Four and a half years ago, I was a Library Assistant I at the Boca Raton Public Library, working in [...]
Building Academic Library 2.0
Friday, June 13th, 2008I am on a roll with this travel mojo! On Monday, I visited the Annual Conference of the Association of Christian Librarians in Quincy, MA to give a preconference entitled Building Academic Library 2.0. Like Puerto Rico, it ended up being a terrific experience. Everyone was so friendly and I was fortunate to have a [...]
If you haven’t heard of it, it’s new to you!
Sunday, June 8th, 2008I don’t write much on this blog about the gadgets and applications I use, but I’ve recently started using several things that I thought people might want to know about and try for themselves (if they don’t know about them already). I often assume that everyone already knows about the things I’ve discovered, but after [...]
How Meredith got her travel groove back
Sunday, June 8th, 2008Last week, I was in Puerto Rico, speaking all-day at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez (on the Western side of the island). I’ve gotten pretty tired of traveling over the past year, but this trip reminded me of what I loved about doing all this in the first place. The whole experience was [...]
Collecting blogs in archives
Thursday, June 5th, 2008One 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, 2008Note: 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, 2008Day 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, 2008I’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, 2008Day 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, 2008Day 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, 2008Day 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, 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 think [...]
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 are [...]
