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What I’ve been doing when I’m not blogging, and working, fixing up the house…
I feel badly that I've been too busy to blog as much as I used to. I guess that happens to everyone sometimes. I'm just so crazy about Vermont and…
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Letters to a not-so-young wanna-be Librarian
Ok, Rilke's title sounded a lot better. I got an email this morning from a gentleman from New York City who is in his early 40's. He recently started library…
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Website redesign at MPOW: What I’m Learning
I am in charge of our website redesign at my job, and I've been putting my graduate coursework in Web Usability to work over the past few weeks. This week,…
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Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Results
I just finished writing up all of the results of the Survey of the Biblioblogosphere. The results have been broken down into four parts. Since I posted them in the…
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Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Why we blog
I received 116 responses to the open ended question "why do you blog?" Instead of presenting every answer to you, I went through and categorized them by the different goals…
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Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Attitudes and Behaviors
16. How many blogs are you subscribed to (or if you don't subscribe, how many do you read regularly)? Less than 15.... 21 (12.8%) 16 to 40.... 36 (22%) 41…
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Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Blog Demographics
Here are the questions relating to people's blog(s) and their blogging history: 11. How long have you had your current blog? Less than 4 months.... 20 (12.3%) 4 to 8…
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Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Demographics
Since there were 19 questions in the survey, one essay question, and many questions that allowed "write-in's", I figured I'd break the results up into a few blog posts. Here…
Working on the Survey of the Biblioblogosphere
I just closed the Survey of the Biblioblogosphere and am going to work this week on making sense of the results. I'll try to publish the results as soon as…
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Finding a job and finding lasting love
When I was looking for a job, I remember reading (and sometimes participating in) the many discussions about the job market on NEWLIB-L and NEXGENLIB-L. People would talk about how…
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Online community roadmap at WJ
Over the past month, I've worked with the folks at WebJunction to develop September's Online Communities focus. I had the opportunity to work with some fantastic librarians/writers/bloggers and got to…
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Jobs and the elusive sense of “fit”
I was about halfway through my Masters of Social Work program when I realized that I did not want to be a social worker. It's not that I don't love…
