I haven’t contributed anything myself, but I love the idea of making your own ALA-esque READ posters. I think it could be awesome community outreach… cheap too. Take photos at your next program, community event OR local school (be sure to Flickr them) and make them into READ posters… put them on [...]

I’m just coming off a weekend of wall to wall librarianship. I was fortunate to spend all day Thursday and Friday at the PLA conference. Followed by a raucous Friday night reminding the gentle citizens of Cambridge, MA that information needs are all around us, if we’d only look. I got [...]

Today, I’m at a NELINET training seminar: Exploding Your OPAC:
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I’ve been thinking some lately about the special skills required in blogging and what they might teach a college classroom of students. Stephanie Klein is a talented, beautiful, brave New Yorker who has parlayed her blog writing into an impressive measure of fame. Friday’s post included an interview by a current [...]

I’ve heard about IM spam, but I’ve never seen it myself - well, until this morning, that is. I should begin by providing some background. I am logged on to IM whenever I’m on my computer. I do much project collaboration, casual work-related housekeeping, and socializing (yep, I’ll admit it). I use [...]

When trying to represent social software like IM & chat to librarians, I find the most difficult part is convincing them that these are tools their users are already using. If the librarians not participating in the community, how do can I prove to them it exists? I try stuff like, ‘to many [...]

It takes me an average of 45 minutes to write a post for Remaining Relevant. I struggle and twist over every sentence, every paragraph, every nuance. I think blog writing needs to be disciplined and concise. I’ve been assured by other bloggers that it will get easier once I find my voice. [...]

Has every blogger heard this or something like it: “Why do you have to blog everything, can’t you just email me?”
I’ve been following up on Danny O’Brien’s research and the fall out from his presentation at O’Reilly’s 2004 Emerging Technology Conference. Cory Doctorow noted:

Power-users don’t trust complicated apps. Every time power-geeks has had [...]