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Collecting blogs in archives

One of my former students from SJSU had an interesting question for me about archiving student and faculty blogs: I am in the midst of reading Varsity Letters : Documenting…

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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…

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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…

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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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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…