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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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Giving and Taking

Oh Meredith, why can't you just write a nice, short, concise post? I really don't know what happens! I start writing and my fingers just seem to take over. This…
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My Top Technology Trends for 2007

When I was asked to be one of the Top Tech Trend experts, I knew I wasn't going to be able to attend the actual panel session this year, because…
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If I just had 15 minutes each day

Stephen Abram wrote a column for Information Outlook on Learning 2.0 called 15 Minutes a Day: A Personal Learning Management Strategy. So it got me thinking. If I had 15…
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DrupalEd is released

When we taught Five Weeks to a Social Library, we used Drupal and kind of had to hack it to make it work as a course management system. Too bad…
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In other happy news…

I was beyond thrilled to see the Wired article featuring Helene Blowers' amazing Learning 2.0 project and model. You know when you make it into something like Wired, you've MADE…
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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…
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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…
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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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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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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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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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Highlights from Week 1 of Five Weeks to a Social Library

The weeks and months before the start of Five Weeks to a Social Library required a significant amount of work, but I don't think I was prepared for how much…
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Making things happen!

I have always been an idea person. I probably get that from my dad who has had dozens of business ideas in the 29 years I've known him. However, before…
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Does distance learning have to be like this?

Jennifer Macaulay, who really just has to stop writing such insightful pieces or I will never get anything done, wrote a piece on her experiences as a distance learner a…
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Five Weeks to a Social Library Update

I am pleased to announce that, after much deliberation, we have chosen our participants for the Five Weeks to a Social Library course! They are a diverse group -- geographically,…
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Application Deadline: Five Weeks to a Social Library

I just wanted to remind folks that December 1 is the deadline for applications to participate in the Five Weeks to a Social Library course. You can find the application…
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The good, the bad and the utterly hillarious

I have been ridiculously busy getting ready for the five talks I have coming up in the next three weeks. I have to have the slides for them all totally…
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Five Weeks to a Social Library: Participant Application

I'm so pleased and excited to see how Five Weeks to a Social Library is shaping up! We have a terrific group of presenters involved in the course who will…
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Female speakers in library tech: an interesting finding

Friday was the deadline for proposals from content creators for Five Weeks to a Social Library. At the beginning of the week, some of the planning committee was beginning to…
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