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How I spent my vacation
Belly rubbing Originally uploaded by librarianmer Adam on the dock Originally uploaded by librarianmer I have to say that this was one of the best vacations I've ever been on.…
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Quiet time
Friends Lake Originally uploaded by ftzdomino Tomorrow morning, Adam and I are leaving for a vacation in the Adirondacks. This is the first time in AGES that our vacations haven't…
Building Academic Library 2.0
I am on a roll with this travel mojo! On Monday, I visited the Annual Conference of the Association of Christian Librarians in Quincy, MA to give a preconference entitled…
If you haven’t heard of it, it’s new to you!
I don't write much on this blog about the gadgets and applications I use, but I've recently started using several things that I thought people might want to know about…
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How Meredith got her travel groove back
Last week, I was in Puerto Rico, speaking all-day at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez (on the Western side of the island). I've gotten pretty tired of traveling…
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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…
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…
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…