At our Kansas Library Association conference presentation, an attendee asked a very good question: with all of this social networking on the internet, where the personal and the professional often blurs, what happens if a potential employer does an internet search on you and finds things that could be taken badly out of context or […]
I’ve just created a Library Society of the World page on Facebook. We’re everywhere!
Thanks to my conference sister Rikhei Harris, the Library Society of the World now has a group on LibraryThing. w00t!
I flew back to Kansas City from DC on Wednesday night. On Thursday morning, I got up and drove 3 hours to Wichita to present at the Kansas Library Association’s annual conference. Erin Downey Howerton, Brenda Hough and I presented on using internet tools to network, to engage in conferences and community building beyond official […]
A year and a half ago, at my former place of work, a coworker and I came up with the idea of ripping off the St. Joseph County Public Library’s subject guides wiki to replace the HTML pages we had that provided web links to users of our web site. I was appointed head of […]
I’m looking forward to going to DC for Computers in Libraries. One of the great things about this trip is I’ll be having dinner with an old friend of mine that I haven’t seen in person since we were at GenCon in 2001 (when it was still being held in Wisconsin).
Another cool thing about CiL […]
In my other life in the world of tabletop role-playing games, I’ve been participating in online web forums for years. I’ve become a big fan of this form of asynchronous conversation, liking them much more than email lists or Usenet groups (even if they have approximately the same number of idiotic flamewars).
I love the Meebo […]
Amy Kearns had an idea yesterday. I think it’s an interesting one.
What do you think of some sort of WORLDWIDE, 24/7, 365, volunteer, independent TWITBRARIAN or something like that (name can be something else)?
What I mean is – what I’m thinking is we are all on Twitter all (much) of the time. I know some […]
The New York Times has released TimesMachine, a specific wayback machine that allows you to browse replicas of past issues, from September 18, 1851 to December 31, 1922. Hovering over an article brings a little box that contains the beginning text of the article and a link to read more, which opens up a PDF […]
Thinking about it some more, I believe my last post was a bit over the top. Yes, I think reading and literacy are important. No, I don’t think playing video games is a substitute for reading. Something pushed my buttons, which prompted me to write that post. I realize now what those buttons were.
If I […]
