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The book is here!
The book is here! Originally uploaded by librarianmer. My day started off pretty badly. I woke up and my neck was so stiff and painful that I couldn't turn my…
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Krabby Patty
I've got a long list of things I'd like to post about, but I'm just feeling crabby and unable to focus on them right now. I'm not feeling down about…
Want to implement social software at your library?
If you have any interest in implementing social software tools at your library, you may want to check out some of the amazing proposals created by our participants for their…
Making Five Weeks to a Social Library happen: The down and dirty
In this post, I'm going to talk about the decisions we made in creating the course and what I would do differently next time. Hopefully this will be useful to…
A model for the future of online learning
Last Spring, while Chairing the library track of HigherEd BlogCon and feeling like it was not an engaging enough online conference model, I had a crazy idea to create a…
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You mean there are non library blogs?!?!?
Rachel Singer-Gordon has been thinking about what bloggy influences we have from outside of the library world. I read a bunch of non-library blogs in the other areas I'm interested…
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Congrats to the Movers and Shakers of 2007
I'm back from Florida, but am probably about to fall asleep since I got up before 3 am to make my flight. I just consider myself lucky to have gotten…
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Before I leave… help out Rachel Singer Gordon!
I received this e-mail from Rachel the other day. If you are a librarian and consider yourself to be in an alternative career, please do consider helping her out. You…
Five Weeks to a Social Library: Highlights from Week 4
Wow! I can't believe we've just finished Week 4. It's definitely a bittersweet feeling. I can't imagine waking up in a little over a week and not finding new posts…
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Flickr Alternative Book Cover Contest!
Every day, I see something amazing and creative that people have done online with photos, audio or video content. Whether they are creating something totally new or remixing things to…
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Medical Wikis?
Update: I received an e-mail from one of the creators of Ask Dr. Wiki stating that they are now requiring folks to prove that they have medical credentials before they…
Five Weeks to a Social Library: Highlights from Week 3
As you all know, I'm a big fan of wikis, such a big fan that I often cannot gauge how other people will respond when they are introduced to wikis.…
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Rettig for ALA President
Could you ever have imagined a couple of years ago that a candidate for ALA President would have a campaign video on YouTube??? :) This isn't why I personally endorsed…
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Social Software in Libraries: Almost Here!
Social Software in Libraries cover Originally uploaded by librarianmer. I just heard from the folks at Information Today that my book is heading off to the printer tomorrow! I think…
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Five Weeks to a Social Library: Highlights from Week 2
Week two of Five Weeks to a Social Library is now over. RSS and del.icio.us really generated a lot of excitement for our participants and many could see the personal…
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Intelligence 2.0
I never thought I'd say this... but I want to go work for the Pentagon! Lewis Shepherd sent me this Computer World article about some of the cool things they…
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PBWiki’s Point and Click Editor
I mentioned PBWiki's new editing interface a few weeks ago, but this week was the official launch of this tool. I truly think that having a WYSIWYG editor like PBWiki…
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Meredith Farkas is made of books!
mk1_1024 Originally uploaded by Dave & Bry. This is so cool! Visit the picture in Flickr and click on All Sizes and you can actually see the individual books! And…
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Lead, follow or get out of the way
I always tease Roy Tennant about how so many geek girls (me included) -- and probably geek boys too -- are totally crushing on him. He doesn't really "get it".…
