Edward Vielmetti: Superpatron
Yesterday, Edward Vielmetti, a very committed patron at the Ann Arbor District Library e-mailed me about an amazing idea he has for improving the Library Success Wiki (stay tuned for…
Cool things I found this week2
Here are some of the great things I've found this week: Roy Tennant's brilliant What I Wish I Had Known, a reflection on the things he would have been better…
I’m talking about wikis!
Well, I guess that comes as no surprise, but this time I'll actually be talking (as opposed to writing)! I'm so excited to be giving a live online talk about…
Cool things I found this week
The unsinkable Rachel Singer Gordon's column about the role Gen-X'ers can play as a bridge between the boomers and the millennials. She's dead-on and this is an article you should…
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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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Public speaking and wiki-evangelizing
I am not one of those people -- like Steven Cohen or Jessamyn -- who is very comfortable giving talks. No matter how well I know the material, I still…
When is a wiki not a wiki?
Or does using a specific type of software necessarily define the product? I was as excited as everyone else when I heard that the WorldCat wiki was live in Open…
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New-ish wiki on the block!
Well, it's new to me at least! It's always exciting for me to see librarians using wikis to share information. The fabulous folks at Librarians with class pointed out the…
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Library Success Wiki in SLJ!
Wow, this is some month for me! Library Journal and School Library Journal! This month, the Library Success Wiki is featuerd as SLJ's Website of the Month. It's a terrific,…
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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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Curiosity did not kill the cat
When I was a child, I was always reading (surprise, surprise, right?). Often, I would read books that were perhaps a little advanced for my age range in terms of…
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Wikimania hits WebJunction
Next month, WebJunction's editorial focus will be on Online Community for Public Libraries and I was asked to serve as guest editor for this segment. I know I don't work…
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Online communities in a “locked down” society
I've never understood librarians who are afraid of change. Maybe it's because I'm young, but I doubt it, because I'm probably a bigger fan of routine than the average person.…
Of wikis, communities, and moving
I've been feeling very guilty about my lack of posts this week, especially since they will probably become even more sparse during the month of August. My mind is truly…
“Just do it”
Library Success wasn't the only wiki to come out last week. We also saw the birth of the LISWiki, which has been criticized by various people in the biblioblogosphere (love…
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ALA Wiki: What I learned and what I’m doing with it
I don't know how many of you have looked at the ALA Wiki since the conference, but there are a growing number of conference reports culled from other blogs. Definitely…
Blogging ALA on a wiki!
When the wiki was first created, I put up a page for people who are blogging the conference so that people would know where they could find conference reports. Well,…
Very snarfy
I must apologize for the lack of posts this week. I've come down with a horrible cold (bordering on the flu) and I just haven't felt up to doing much…
