I got an interesting email the other day from Ted Lee. Ted works for Meebo and wanted me to pass along a job posting. Meebo is looking for Customer Support Manager, and they think someone with reference librarian experience would be good for the position. I have no idea what Meebo is like to work [...]
As Walt blogged about, the Library Society of the World Meebo room got attacked by guerrila spambots on Thursday afternoon. I was at work and had a meeting to go to, so there wasn’t much I could do about it. I quickly posted on the Meebo forums, then suggested to the people in the chat [...]
I woke up this morning to find that Meebo now has chat rooms. Chat rooms have been around for ages, but Meebo’s are awfully slick. You can incorporate multimedia into them, so that they make excellent conferencing and collaboration areas. At a coworker’s suggestion, I created a Meebo room for my colleagues and me to [...]
This weekend, my house fell eerily silent, even as my entire family communicated and collaborated with each other. My daughter was chatting with me on IM. At the same time, she was chatting with my wife on IM. At the same time, my wife was chatting with me on IM. At the same time, my [...]
My daughter just used Gmail’s chat for the first time and IM’d me at work. I’m kvelling right now. EDIT: Now she’s trying out emoticons.
My supervisor, the branch manager, is very very cool and a great boss for any number of reasons, but one of the reasons is that she’s very supportive of my efforts to bring current tech into common use at the library. However, she is admittedly easily overwhelmed by a lot of new tech. Bringing in [...]
A while back, I was griping about not being able to chat via IM at work. Well, the times they are a-changin’ at MPOW. Thanks to one of my coworkers, we’re starting to use IM at work. It started with the adult reference staff at the main library, then I jumped on, and now they’ve [...]
I just took Michael Stephen’s survery on IM use in libraries, and now I’m a bit glum. My library doesn’t use IM at all, except through the KANanswer program that we, as a Kansas library, participate in. I can’t IM coworkers, I can’t IM other library professionals, I can’t IM patrons except as an anonymous [...]
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