Deloitte’s upcoming webcastSocial Media and Government: Managing the Blurred Line between Personal Lives and Official Business discusses how businesses and governments can take advantage of social media while handling the risks of employees using the tools. Registration is free. The event is Tuesday, December 8, at 2 pm EST.
Jenny Levine of the Shifted Librarian library blog started to use WordPress’ Lifestream plugin which allows her to post feeds from her major sites such as Flickr, delicious, Twitter, Google Reader, and Youtube onto her blog. It also allows her to add any other RSS feeds not listed.
This looks like an interesting experiment using [...]
The latest issue of Jottings, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Library and Information Studies newsletter, announced Sarah and David, who hope to graduate this year, are spending a few months in Botswana to intern at two new public libraries. Wow! What great opportunities!
They’re blogging about it, of course:
Sarah Elsewhere
dave 2.0
(Had I been able to [...]
Garrett suggests doing some spring cleaning on blogs, particularly those running WordPress.
I’d be a lot more inclined to follow some of the suggestions, like updating software and going through old posts, had I access to the server and had this blog far fewer than 5,000+ posts.
James Chartrand of Copyblogging.com wrote an interesting post called The Winnie the Pooh Guide to Blogging:
“Sometimes, expert advice comes from where you least expect it. Winnie the Pooh himself will tell you he is a “bear of little brain,” but he also has an uncommon, clear-eyed wisdom.
You may have heard of The Tao of Pooh. But [...]
There’s another library blog book called LibWorld – library blogs worldwide:
Description:
“On April, 23rd 2007 a series of postings started on Infobib.de, where guest authors from all over the world introduced the library and library related blogs of their own country. This book is a collection of 30 revised LibWorld articles, accompanied by a foreword by [...]
Walt Crawford has published a book on library-related blogs called The Liblog Landscape 2007-2008:
Description:
“Liblogs–blogs written by library people, as opposed to official library blogs–provide some of today’s most interesting and useful library literature. This book offers a broad look at English-language liblogs as they are and as they’ve changed between 2007 and 2008. The book [...]
I thought some of you might want to know what my Halloween costume is. After all, on the Internet, no one knows you’re a cat.
Um … consider this an early Blogacatmas present!
I’ve been blogging longer than Typepad has been around. *feels old*
And, yes, I have blogged on Typepad.
Technorati has released it’s 2008 State of the Blogosphere Report which states:
* Blogs are pervasive and part of our daily lives:
“There have been a number of studies aimed at understanding the size of the Blogosphere, yielding widely disparate estimates of both the number of blogs and blog readership. All studies agree, however, that [...]