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Away, away
DSC01509 Originally uploaded by FotoSpawn I'm going to be out of town from tomorrow until next Saturday. I definitely won't be posting anything during that time. I also probably won't…
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What makes a blog successful?
"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…
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2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Blog Demographics
You can find comparisons from 2005 at Blog Demographics and Why We Blog. 12. How long have you had your primary blog?ResponsePercentResponseCount Less than 4 months 16.6% 131 4-8 months 14.2% 112 9 months – 1 year 15.3% 121 13…
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Top Three Library-Related Blogs Survey
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…
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2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Demographics
Here are the 2005 results so you can have something to compare it to. 1. What is your gender?ResponsePercentResponseCount 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…
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2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Index of Results
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…
Do we need a translator here?
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…
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When you wish upon a blog
Remember a few weeks ago when I wrote that I really wanted to be an online adjunct instructor at a library school so I could teach social software to LIS…
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Interesting facts from the Survey of the Biblioblogosphere 2007
Between my headache issues and a crazy speaking/writing/teaching schedule, it is unlikely that I will be able to publish a comprehensive list of results for the 2007 Survey of the…
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Free online learning… from ALA?
Speaking of libraries doing 2.0 things just to look cool, there is an organization that I've criticized about that in the past. I've been concerned that many of the hip,…
Divisions, dogma, and just doing a good job
I have to admit that the Annoyed Librarian is one of my guilty pleasures. I love to laugh and she makes me laugh like crazy, even though she's probably insulted…
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Be the first lab!
I absolutely loved Jill Stover's post about the library as a lab for creative exploration (by the way, if you don't read her blog, subscribe! It's a gem!): This "community…
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Survey of the Biblioblogosphere Update
When I put the survey out, I hoped to get more responses than last time. Two years ago, I got somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 responses. I've been amazed…
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Library school 0.5?
How can a library school teach their students to be user-focused if they model the exact opposite behaviors? Check out the assertive (and admirable) way that Jennifer tried to confront…
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On success and motivation
I read Emily Clasper's post yesterday about overachievers, underachievers and motivation and found that some of what she wrote made me very uncomfortable. I wasn't quite sure how to articulate…
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2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere
In August of 2005, I conducted a survey of people in the library and information science profession who blog to get some sense of the demographic characteristics of bibliobloggers. The…
Career advice from the “To Blog” folder
I've found a lot of great career and work-related posts over the past month or so that I've wanted to share with others. Being a librarian requires much more than…
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Good library publicity for all the right reasons
Way to go Gary Price for getting the electronic and non-book resources libraries offer the attention they deserve in the mainstream tech media! "Steal This Book? Don't Bother": Libraries are…
From the “to blog” folder
When I find a post or article interesting and think I might want to comment on it, it goes into the "to blog" folder. That folder is getting pretty darn…
Upcoming Presentations for Fall
I had a nice, sparse, mellow speaking schedule all set for Fall, and then I got a few offers I couldn't refuse, which turned my Fall into another disaster. Add…
