Category: Weblogs
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2006 Edublogger Awards – Nominations Open
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2006 Edublogger Awards “the independently run, community-based awards programme which recognizes and promotes excellence in the educational use of social software.” There are 10 categories, one for Best library/librarian blog. There is information on the site about how to nominate (“If you post publicly, and , you are…
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Good to know about Feed2JS and Spam
Hot on the heels of the talk Meredith Farkas and I gave at Internet Librarian on using Feed2JS (and some other tools) comes this post from RSS4Lib warning about the misappropriation of a locally installed version of Feed2JS. Basically, if you do choose to install the software on your own server, Ken points out that…
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New Blog – LibCasting
Just left a session presented by Greg Notess called Training Tutorial Tour and Tips in which we critiqued 4 different online tutorials, including a couple of screencasts, and Greg took the opportunity to unveil to the world his new blog, LibCasting: Screencasting and libraries. He’s only been posting through the month of October so there’s…
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Netspeed 2006 Handout
Just got back from speaking at Netspeed 2006, where I spoke on the topic of Building Better Relationships through Blogging. I wanted to get the electronic version of my handout up for those who were in attendance and wanted to follow the links. This won’t make much sense w/o the actual presentation, but that should…
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Collaborative Screencasts and Blog Recommendation
I’ve got an undersung blog to recommend to you: Brain_blog from the Library at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario. The librarians there are using this blog more as a newsletter, and only publish to it once per month, with a single lengthy post, and that’s why it’s probably not as well-known as it should be. …
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Sorry for any feed weirdness
Hey all, sorry if any or all of you are getting weird or double entries on my feed. I’m trying to sort out a problem reported by a reader, but I’m backing off for now so things should stabalize. Will you let me know if, either prior to today, or after this afternoon’s glitch, the…
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RSS – Information Pizza
Steven Cohen points to Luke Rosenberger’s great tutorial on RSS. Questions asked and answered: What is RSS? What kind of information can I get via RSS? How do I subscribe to and use RSS feeds? How can I fit RSS into my workflow? What about content from online journals and library databases? How can I…
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A fancier way to say that
One of the first and still best reasons I blog is to keep an outboard brain – a place to jot down ideas, in this case related to my job. I’m about a third of the way through Getting Things Done, The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (recommeded on some other blog I read), and have…
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Thoughts on privacy and libraries and social networks
OK, actually I’m mostly curious about your thoughts, ’cause I haven’t sorted mine out yet. This post is a result of the social network stuff Brian Mathews has been working on (honest, this will be the last time I mention him today, unless he does something else interesting ;-). When I first saw Brian’s post…