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Posts from February 2006

Posted
20 February 2006 @ 4pm

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IM, blogs, op-ed

shiny new toys @ your library

Over at ACRLog, Steven Bell’s latest post opens with a question: “At your academic library is there a feeling, perhaps an underlying pressure, that new technology should be leveraged to a greater extent than it is?” The question, I think, has to do with the notion that perhaps we’re implementing Web 2.0 technologies (like blogs, [...]


Posted
13 February 2006 @ 12pm

Posted in
blogs

Black History Month - a short-term blog story

Virginia Commonwealth University Library is doing its Black History Month Blog again this year. I think using a blog for a limited lifespan project is a great idea (ease of implementation, ease of updating, etc.). If you’re interested in the marketing aspects of the project, my buddy Jill Stover (project coordinator) has an interesting post [...]


Posted
7 February 2006 @ 5pm

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rss

feedster redux

I don’t know if you’ve tried Feedster over the past couple of months but they’ve been having trouble - painfully slow searching and feeds for searches that didn’t work. It was a real shame because when it did work, it was a pretty decent tool. I had my last blogs & RSS class [...]


upgrade

I promised myself that after about 10 straight days of being attached at the hip to my laptop, I’d take to-day off and clean the house and read a book and have a relaxing “unplugged” day. Well, I cleaned the house, but then decided that I really needed to upgrade to WordPress 2.0, so [...]


OLA, done

Whew. I’m beginning to think that the quality of a conference is directly proportional to your level of fatigue by the end of it. I’m exhausted! I gave a session on IM to-day, the presentation is here and the handout is here. Here are the links to the staff training materials [...]


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