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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
31 Day Comment Challenge: Days 8-11
Saturday, May 10th, 2008Rather 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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
On not so SWIFT otters and instilling a fear of failure
Thursday, April 10th, 2008I went to the discussion about the SWIFT conference platform, which I haven’t discussed publicly on this blog (though many others have on theirs — and many of them offer quite astute observations). I do think it is a deeply flawed tool that doesn’t provide value. I knew just about everyone in the feedback session [...]
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 [...]
Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0
Sunday, March 9th, 2008First Monday has a great issue covering Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0. The articles look at Web 2.0 phenomena (user-generated content, interactivity, social networking, etc.) from a socio-political-economic perspective and bring up some interesting paradoxes inherent in the movement. So far I’ve read “Market Ideology and the Myths of Web 2.0″ and “Loser Generated Content: [...]
Building 21st century librarians AND libraries
Sunday, March 9th, 2008There were three recent posts that got me thinking a lot about the growing necessity to have tech-savvy people in public services positions. The first was Dorothea Salo’s post about how many librarians outside of Systems see learning about (or doing anything with) technology as being something outside of their sphere of responsibility. The second [...]
Assessing social technologies in libraries
Thursday, February 21st, 2008A Facebook friend messaged me yesterday with a library 2.0 assessment-related question that I didn’t have the answer to, but was curious about myself. So I thought I’d put it out to the hive mind: “[I was] wondering if you knew of any libraries who are doing a great job at assessing the impact or [...]
My FAQ and the expert versus the hive
Sunday, February 10th, 2008In the past two weeks, I’ve received around 10 emails asking for my advice on various topics. Sometimes these are questions that have easy answers. Some are asking for more involved advice that I’m happy to offer. Others are asking for things that would require an unreasonable amount of time and effort on my part. [...]
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