WordPress for Library Websites
I need to ask a favor of you, my kind and generous readers. I recently offered to redesign the website for the Brown Public Library in Northfield, VT, which is…
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…
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Followup on Is this how we encourage people to contribute?
I've been thinking a lot about the discussion last week about speaking, being compensated for speaking, transparency, the profession and it's (perhaps?) inferiority complex, and so much more. Everyone contributed…
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.…
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Is this how we encourage people to contribute?
A person I'm friendly with in California wrote me last night asking for advice about a speaking gig he just got. He's pretty new to the speaking thing (though he…
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…
Loex 2008 goes online!
I got this email about LOEX 2008 Encore from Catherine Pellegrino at Saint Mary's College and wanted to spread the word: The annual LOEX conference is trying something new as…
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Passion Quilt – Share
While I didn't get tagged yet, the passion quilt meme really spoke to me. For this meme, you're supposed to post a picture from a source like FlickrCC or Flickr…
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The Monkey Song (with a hat tip to Louis Prima)
Every few months, I get an email from someone in library school or a new librarian basically asking me how I've accomplished all that I have in this profession in…
The VT Lecture Circuit
My father-in-law -- who was big on the lecture circuit before he retired from optometry -- always says that you are valued as a speaker in direct proportion to the…
Help Wanted!
I just got back to work this evening and was pleased to find that the job ad for the Distance Learning Librarian position at Norwich has been posted. If you're…
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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Computers in Libraries: In the Beginning
This week, I'm at Computers in Libraries, one of my very favorite conferences. This year's schedule seems to be even better than usual an I found myself torn between two…