Ooo baby, baby it’s a wiki worldALA, Wikis

by Meredith Farkas on 5/31/2005 with Comments Off on Ooo baby, baby it’s a wiki world

What I love best about wikis is that their content is not limited to the imagination of just a few people (like most websites are). Anyone can add new sections and content to the wiki that they think people would find useful. From the Curmudgeony Librarian’s rethinking of the Calendar of Events to Andrea’s rockin’ …

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Cites and Insights June 2005 is here!blogging, job search, Wikis

by Meredith Farkas on 5/21/2005 with Comments Off on Cites and Insights June 2005 is here!

The June issue of Walt Crawford’s Cite & Insights is out with some interesting articles, particularly those about the open access movement and the broadcast flag. What surprised me was that there were two mentions of my blog in this issue. Wow!!! I guess I’m still surprised that people even read my blog, so I …

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No room at the inn?ALA, Wikis

by Meredith Farkas on 5/15/2005 with Comments Off on No room at the inn?

So, I’ve heard from several sources that there are no rooms left for the ALA Conference at the hotels suggested on the ALA’s website. Yikes! I live in Chicago, but I have never stayed in a hotel here, and therefore I really don’t have any insights other than to check Hotels.com/Orbitz/whatever and pick something in …

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Wiki spamWikis

by Meredith Farkas on 5/4/2005 with Comments Off on Wiki spam

So we got our first wiki spam today. Yuck! Fortunately, the offending content was only up for a very short period of time. Kudos to the valiant member of the ALA Chicago Wiki community who quickly removed the spam. The system does work!

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Wiki EtiquetteALA, Wikis

by Meredith Farkas on 4/27/2005 with 2 comments

It has been interesting to observe how people have approached the wiki I created. I’ve been thrilled to see that people are contributing to it and have added some great tips! However, I’ve gotten several emails and comments suggesting topics, instructions, and other things that could go into the wiki. That’s nice that people are …

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