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good conference ideas from the IA Summit: a photo essay

I was at the IA Summit in Vegas back in March (my first one) and the conference planners did a lot of things that I would categorize as Good Conference Ideas. I started writing this post weeks ago (while I was still in Vegas, in fact) and, having just returned from CiL, where a lot [...]

why Flickr rocks, reason #1376

I have about a million ideas in my head for things I want to do to our library website, and one of them is improving (and lightening up) our 404 page. To that end, I’ve been screen-capturing every neat & fun 2.0 error page I’ve come across for months. Today, I thought it was time [...]

cybertour slides

Just a quick pointer: I did a Cybertour (quickie 15-minute session in the Exhibit Hall) at CiL a couple of days ago and just realized that I hadn’t linked to my slides yet, so here they are. Thank you, Jessamyn, for the PowerPointless layout and stylesheet, it ended up being the perfect solution for such [...]

almost CiL

Originally uploaded by etches-johnson.

I’m in OK-ish shape this year: one preconference presentation is done (it was done in time to have the handout service take care of the printing, copying, etc. This never happens!), the other precon is close to finished (I’m on the hook for those handouts), and the cybertour I’m doing on Wednesday [...]

What is there to say about Five Weeks that hasn’t already been said?

No, seriously. It really has all been said, hasn’t it? And better than I could possibly have said it myself. (I’d link to all the posts, but you’ve probably already read them.) I’ve been meaning to do my own little wrap-up post here, but I got sidetracked by a vacation, a conference, another course, [...]