As she’s going through her job search, Angelica has been asking some questions about writing resumes. I recently had to update my own resume for the speaking I’ll be doing this fall and found myself pondering some of the same things.* There is no easy answer.
What I did when I was looking for a job [...]
Brock Read reports on the success of a LiveJournal weblog Davidson College employed to give new students a forum and resource to help prepare them for life on a college campus in this Chronicle of Higher Education article.
“Administrators say the sites constitute an important new trend: Students who grow up using the Web as a [...]
Using instant messaging in libraries for distance reference and other purposes keeps coming up in the professional literature. This Pew Internet & American Life study indicates four in ten Americans use the technology and the technology is expanding in the workplace. The 28-page report goes into more detail, including some demographic details about IM users [...]
Garrett points to this Research Libraries Group DigiNews item discussing weblogs and whether they should be archived: Blog Today, Gone Tomorrow? Preservation of Weblogs. It covers the growth and popularity of blogging and the cultural importance of blogs.
I hope Jennifer doesn’t mind me violating her silence this way. I read her entry exploring why anyone blogs and thought it was worth pointing to and quoting. She wonders about blogging in public, but comes to the realization that blogs can be a voice for different people with different areas of expertise.
“However, there is [...]