David Lee King, digital branch & services manager, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library gave a talk called Managers listen up!:
why social networking and Web 2.0 is important for your library:
Some people think change means: fresh breeze at beach or screaming at the laptop
why pay attention to change
There are best practices to handle change
Why […]
According to a bit in The Wired Campus Garrett sent me, Encyclopedia Britannica is offering people who publish on the Web regularly (Webmasters, bloggers, etc.,) access to its content for free. Usually, it charges fees. This move is likely in response to the growing popularity of Wikipedia.
I wonder if Britannica includes Wikimedia contributors among its […]
Can you believe today is j’s scratchpad’s fifth anniversary? Yeah, well, I can. I guess it’s about time for me to get a life.
I took some time away from this space and from blogging during the last year, but I keep coming back to it for some silly reason. I guess I’m just one of […]
Patrick Curl is making a summer roadtrip that makes me jealous: 50 bloggers in 50 states. If Patrick is going to Alaska, too, I wonder if he’s going to keep true to the roadtrip and drive there and back.
I love roadtrips. Two of my life’s goals are to go to all 50 states (I think […]
And now for something completely different …
It’s been a while since I’ve just blogged something for the sake of being an on-the-spot blogger. Tonight’s blog group is visiting Pecha Kucha Night Boston #4, hosted by group member Brett Stilwell. The idea is that we geeky types will live blog, Twitter, photograph, film, and otherwise record […]
Click more for the outline for the second week of the blogging class I taught in December at the Boston Center for Adult Education.
Click more for the outline for the first session of the blogging class I taught in December at the Boston Center for Adult Education.
The Specky Boy blog has posted a listing of 63 essential WordPress hacks, tutorials, help files and cheats:
http://tinyurl.com/3ctcuy
Link via iLibrarian blog:
http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/
Also the WordPress blog has a sneak preview of version 2.5:
http://tinyurl.com/35dh54
Link via the What I Learned Today blog:
http://www.web2learning.net/
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While Jon was talking about faceted blog archives at blog group, he mentioned a locker room incident where someone shut out a journalist who blogs based on the idea that journalists who blog should be treated no differently from other bloggers. The statement provides more details about the situation, thoughts about reporters who blog, […]
Garrett let me know about an article in Monday’s Boston Business Journal announcing the death of the corporate blog. Apparently, the number of new corporate blogs and the amount of content on corporate blogs have been declining. Once enthusiastic blogging organizations are not keeping their blogs as lively as they once were.
(Access to this article […]