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upcoming presentations & courses

Some looming presentations I’ll be giving and courses I’ll be teaching over the next four months. Plus, of course, Five Weeks starts in four weeks (and there’s already been a flurry of activity on the course blogs!) — can’t wait!

Health Library 2.0: Delivering Web Services with 2.0 Tools, OLA Super Conference, Toronto, February 2.
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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 [...]

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 [...]

course update

As a follow-up to the intro to blogs/RSS course I taught last Fall through the Education Institute, I’m teaching another 6-weeker this Spring called Getting the Most Out of Blogs, RSS and Other Web 2.0 Technologies. This time, I’m focusing on:

blog design, usability, content
creating content and style guidelines for library blogs (especially multi-author blogs)
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everything to get you started on blogs & rss

That intro to blogs/RSS course I said I’d be teaching? The course description is up & it’s open for registration. FYI, it starts the week of October 31st and it’s a six-week online course, and yes, you can enroll no matter where you are (although it’s a bit cheaper for members of these library [...]