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course: blogs, rss, and other 2.0 technologies

Just barely catching my breath from CiL (quick! exhale!) and my 6-week online course through the Education Institute begins tomorrow. I usually try to have all the content done and delivered a few weeks before the start of the course, but with CiL this year, I only managed to get the first 2 weeks out [...]


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22 Mar 2006

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CiL: Blogs as Customer Communication & Collboration Tools

Christina Pikas, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab; Susan Klopper, Emory University; Clara Hudson, University of Scranton Library Christina spoke about the implementation of blogs on the APL Intranet, starting with their first, less-successful efforts, followed by their current implementation (much more successful, from the sounds of it).The institution decided to implement a blog for [...]


school library 2.0

Kathy Kawasaki, a participant in my Blogs & RSS course last Fall, has set up a great blog for her school library, the York Mills Collegiate Institute, here in Toronto. Have a look. There’s a lot of cool stuff going on with this blog: Kathy reports that she’s had excellent support for the blog, from [...]


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, [...]


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 [...]




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