Writing
As much as I love presenting on libraries & web development, usability, user experience design, and emerging tech, I probably love writing about these topics even more! If you’d like me to write for your publication, go ahead and ping me.
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“2.0 Watch: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Web 2.0″ a column in Access (the official magazine of the Ontario Library Association). Published quarterly.
- Emptying the Junk Drawer: Increasing Usability by Decreasing the Size of your Website (Summer 2011)
- You Are Here: Checking in with Location-Based Social Networks (Winter 2011)
- The Future is Now: Welcome to the Real-Time Web (Fall 2010)
- Indistinguishable from Magic: When Web 2.0 Goes Mobile (Summer 2010)
- The Unconference: What it is and Why it Matters. An Interview with Amy Buckland (Spring 2010)
- The Server in the Sky: Say Hello to Cloud Computing (Winter 2010)
- Mobilizing Content and Creating Rich User Experiences with… Bar Codes (Fall 2009)
- A Sip from the Fire Hose: Strategies for Keeping Up with Technology (Summer 2009)
- A Little Birdie Told Me: Taking Our Conversations Online (Spring 2009)
- Microblogging: More for Less (Winter 2009)
- On Building the 2.0 Library (Fall 2008)
- 2.0: Are We Done Yet? (Summer 2008)
User Experience for Libraries with Aaron Schmidt. Forthcoming 2012 from Neal Schumann.
“10 Ways WordPress Can Improve your Website UX” with Aaron Schmidt. In Using WordPress as a Library Content Management System, by Kyle Jones and Polly-Alida Farrington. Library Technology Reports, ALA TechSource.
“Corralling 2.0: Building an Intranet that enables individuals” with Catherine Baird. Journal of Web Librarianship Vol. 4 No. 3, June 2010. p. 265-276.
“The Read/Write Web and the Future of Library Research” with Aaron Schmidt and Sarah Houghton-Jan. Journal of Library Administration, Vol. 49, No. 4, May 2009. p. 365 – 382.
“Reference Librarian, Academic Library” in A Day in the Life: Career Options in Library and Information Science, Priscilla Shontz & Rich Murray eds. Libraries Unlimited.
“The Brave New World of Social Bookmarking: Everything you Always Wanted to Know but were too Afraid to Ask.” Feliciter 52:2, p. 56-58 (2006)
Review of UbuWeb published in C&RL News, Vol. 66, No. 6. June 2005.
“The Library Blog: Serving Users and Staying Relevant” in Last one out turn off the lights: is this the future of American & Canadian libraries?, edited by Susan Cleyle and Louise McGillis. Scarecrow Press, March 2005.
“Take up Thy Pens and Keyboards! Why it’s Never too Early to Start Thinking about Publishing”. Knowledge Quest: Journal of the American Association of School Librarians. Vol. 33, no. 1, p. 42-43, Sept/Oct 2004.
“Look Mom, I got my Name in Print! Lessons Learned by a Publishing Neophyte“. LISCareer.com, 2004.
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