Ok, I admit this post is horribly, horribly off topic and is something I don’t think is entirely appropriate for this space, but I got tagged as the scratchpad by our dear friend and colleague Amy Disch, so …
Four Jobs I
Several months ago, the blog group discussed different blog policies. Around that time, I began seriously pondering my untyped policy about naming people on my weblog and decided I should write it down because I know some of you wonder why I name some people and not others. When a friend who recently started a [...]
Communication & Collaboration: Blogs, Wikis, and RSS Feeds
ACRL ITIG
Friday, December 9, 2005
Because of a powerful snow storm, Megan Fox of Simmons College, and I were the only speakers who attended the program. I was late because of road conditions, so I missed part of Megan’s talk. My notes for the rest are below.
Unfortunately, I missed [...]
Blogs and Knowledge Management
Jessica Baumgart
ACRL ITIG
Friday, December 9, 2005
Raise your hand if you
[About twenty people were in the audience]
Blog [about 7 hands]
Manage knowledge [about 10 different hands]
Use a blog or blogs to manage knowledge [about 2 different hands and one hand of a blogger]
Use XML (RSS, Atom, podcasts, etc.) feeds [about 3 hands]
Use feeds as [...]
“The world moves forward, yet the libraries remain an important local.”–Sidney Verba, Harvard University Library director, at Harvard’s Librarians’ Assembly
Spam, makes old blogs smell fresh
Jazz up any blog with a healping of Spam
“Ice cream is really the greatest invention known to mankind.” by Wayne
“You’re so fucked. But your life is getting better every day.” [...]
Blogging and Work
Jessica Baumgart
Lamont Forum Room
Monday, November 14, 2005
Raise your hand if:
[Of an audience of about 55]
You blog [5 hands]
You blog about work [same hands]
You work with someone who blogs [a few different hands]
A coworker blogs about work [very few hands]
You read a coworker
The Magic and Power of Feeds
j Baumgart
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A Lively Presentation on Blogging in Special Libraries
j Baumgart
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/
SLA RI Chapter / URI GSLIS Student
Formal Dinner & Colloquium
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Why should librarians care?
· Feeds and blogs are great and powerful
· Librarians have not only a role in using feeds and weblogs, but also encouraging their clients to use the technology.
· If we drive technology [...]
Feeding Frenzy!!!
j Baumgart
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On Friday, I gave a case study at the Advocating for New Technology session of the N-Ten 2005 Boston Regional Conference: Enabling Technology Funding: Issues for Grantmakers and Grantseekers. Unfortunately, it’s not a case study I can share in detail on this weblog, but it deals with how I advocated for my office to [...]