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Remember to share and play nice
My mother tells me that I was terrible about sharing when I was a little girl. My toys were MY toys. I would lick cookies so that no one would…
Social software metapost
These days it's completely impossible to keep up with all of the "Web 2.0" apps out there. I read eHub and TechCrunch and it seems like dozens of social software…
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Fill out Michael’s survey!!!
Michael Stephens' blogger survey is up and running. Here's what it's all about: The purpose of this research study is to help better understand the motivations of librarians who write…
Any Vermont Bloggers?
I know this message is probably only useful to Jessamyn (and it isn't, since she already knows about it), but Cathy Resmer from Seven Days has organized a Vermont blogger…
New communities, physical and virtual
For background, this post was inspired by Laura's (of lis.dom) excellent post on the uses of the biblioblogosphere, which was in response to posts by Mark Linder, Angel, and Joy…
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Thanks a lot Wilma
So I left Florida to get away from the hurricanes... ... but Hurricane Wilma was nice enough to make a little visit to Vermont. We got about 16 inches of…
How to slack in peace
For those of you in the Northeast who have been dealing with almost 2 weeks of continuous rain, here's something that definitely brightened my day and made me laugh my…
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Screencasting social software
Brian Lamb, one of my favorite Ed-Tech people and wiki-evangelists, has created a terrific screencast about blogs and their use in education (note: it's a big file and you must…
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Why blog?
I used to blog a lot more than I do now. I was unemployed and had a lot of free time. Now that I have a job and a house…
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Bloggers in LJ
I was excited to see that the Bloggers Roundtable I did with several other fabulous librarian bloggers finally made its way into Library Journal. It's a great article, but part…
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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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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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The Carnival pulls up stakes…
...and moves into Joy's town! Come one, come all to the Carnival of the Infosciences #3 at Wanderings of a Student Librarian! When Greg first mentioned this carnival idea, it…
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Survey of the biblioblogosphere
Here is the Survey of the Biblioblogosphere, as promised. If you write a library blog (personal, professional, official, unofficial, part of a community, in any language) please visit the survey…
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Reader survey results
I think I've gotten enough responses to close the survey and report my findings. 72 people filled it out, and that figure blew my mind! I thought I'd probably get…
