Don’t anyone dare call me an “early adopter,” because last night, I signed myself up on Facebook for the first time. I joined up mostly because some of my coworkers are on there, and I was inspired by Michael Porter’s Social Software Showcase presentation. I also liked Facebook’s clean, basic look, and thought it made […]
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 […]
Just before my blog went down, I started giving Twitter a try. While my blog was down, I got to know Twitter a lot better.
And I was wrong.
Before, when I said Twitter wouldn’t appeal to me? Yeah, I was wrong. It turns out, Twitter is a lot of fun to use. Trying to squeeze my […]
Despite many people I know and respect giving Twitter reviews that range from “eh, it’s pretty useful” to “this is a fascinating and important new social trend,” I still remain skeptical about how much using Twitter would appeal to me. But it occurred to me this morning that without actually trying it out, I can […]
Even as I rationalized and defended the excitement and curiosity about Twitter in Biblioblogistan, and enjoyed David Lee King’s “Twitter Explained for Librarians,” I was wary of dipping my own piggies into Twitter. Why?
As much as I’ve gotten a kick out of John Blyberg’s rant against Twitter, it’s not because I think Twitter is “the […]
I’m big on fostering and participating in communities of likeminded people, both in person and online. Have I established that well enough already? You all know that about me, right? Right. It’s why I immediately jumped on board when Jessica started the collaborative Library Talk blog and Library Links blogroll. Sadly, Library Talk hasn’t really […]
I gave Google Reader a shot when it first came out, and I wasn’t all that impressed. But people I respect have been complaining that Bloglines is sometimes tardy in updating some feeds (and I’ve noticed it myself) and singing Google Reader’s praises. So, I decided to give it another shot.
I’m still not all that […]
Ryan Deschamps’s very brainy “no-brainer” top-10 list of Library 2.0 applications should be required reading by…well, everyone in Libraryland. So, hop to it! And spread the word!
