31 Day Comment Challenge: Days 26 – 31
Note: 95% of this was written on a flight from San Juan to Philadelphia, so please excuse any spelling/grammatical errors or anything that just doesn't make sense. I haven't had…
31 Day Comment Challenge: Days 19-25
Day 19: Respond to a Commenter on Your Own Blog This activity is supposed to be about responding to people who comment on your posts. The person who created the…
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What is this thing we have here?
I've been reading and experiencing things lately that have really gotten me thinking about blogging, social media, and why people share so much of themselves online. If you're looking for…
31 Day Comment Challenge: Days 15 – 18
Day 15: Give a Comment Award I'm supposed to recognize one or a few commenters on my blog today, and for whatever parameters I choose (they write good comments, they…
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What do you wish had been offered at your library school?
Day 14: Turn Your Blog Over to Your Readers In this post, I'm supposed to turn my blog over to you by asking you to answer a question. This one…
31 Day Comment Challenge: Days 12 – 13
Day 12: Make Sure Your Blog Technology is "Comment Friendly" Last week, I examined the comment-friendliness of my posts. Today, I'm supposed to examine the comment-friendliness of the technologies I…
31 Day Comment Challenge: Days 8-11
Rather than boring you to death with 31 Comment Challenge posts, I'm trying to condense a bunch of the activities into each post so if you're bored, you can easily…
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31 Day Comment Challenge: Days 2-7
In case you were wondering, I haven't given up on the comment challenge! I've just been rather involved in the comment storm that's taking place on my blog right now.…
31 Day Comment Challenge: Day 1
The first activity in the comment challenge is to do a comment self-audit. Here's mine: How often do you comment on other blogs during a typical week? It is so…
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Comment Challenge: 31 Days to Being a Better Blog Citizen
One of my favorite blogs is the Bamboo Project Blog by the brilliant Michelle Martin. Michelle writes about social software in the non-profit sector, e-learning, workplace learning and more, so…
On not so SWIFT otters and instilling a fear of failure
I went to the discussion about the SWIFT conference platform, which I haven't discussed publicly on this blog (though many others have on theirs -- and many of them offer…
Computers in Libraries (CIL2008) – My Brain is Full
the group - for Connie Originally uploaded by cindiann I had a really wonderful time at Computers in Libraries, as always. While there are always certain talks where the delivery…
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I won’t be your April fool
I'm a pretty tolerant person, but there is one thing in this world that bothers me more than anything else: dishonesty. I am extremely trusting and will take what people…
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Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0
First Monday has a great issue covering Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0. The articles look at Web 2.0 phenomena (user-generated content, interactivity, social networking, etc.) from a socio-political-economic perspective and…
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Building 21st century librarians AND libraries
There were three recent posts that got me thinking a lot about the growing necessity to have tech-savvy people in public services positions. The first was Dorothea Salo's post about…
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Assessing social technologies in libraries
A Facebook friend messaged me yesterday with a library 2.0 assessment-related question that I didn't have the answer to, but was curious about myself. So I thought I'd put it…
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My FAQ and the expert versus the hive
In the past two weeks, I've received around 10 emails asking for my advice on various topics. Sometimes these are questions that have easy answers. Some are asking for more…
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Marketing to bloggers
Word-of-mouth marketing is a very powerful thing. When you can generate buzz for your product among the people who are using it, what they say about it will probably do…
Flu trumps blogging (and pretty much everything else)
I probably owe a lot of people emails and I've been wanting to write up my tech trends and talk about some of the cool things I learned at the…
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Some great Library Technology Reports
As I've been spending more time than I would like in waiting rooms over the past few weeks, I've had the chance to catch up on some reading; namely Library…
