Archive for September, 2007

Sweet sweet victory - Sunday, September 30th, 2007

These are now obsolete. Check these out.
Scriblio is truly in beta form. We released it before it was all polished and buffed in order to get some feedback and start building some community around it. That, of course, comes with some frustrations. Despite my own involvement with the project, when you [...]

Smart Amazon - Friday, September 28th, 2007

Inspired by Jenny, I tried Amazon’s new downloadable mp3 service this morning. All in all, I was impressed - especially cool was the little app that monitors the download and sticks it right into your iTunes. Smart Amazon! That makes it pretty much one-click and to must of us that convenience is worth [...]

Librarians in the wild - Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Tonight I am scheduled to give an introduction to Web 2.0 to the Tamworth Library Friends group. Tamworth has been so good to me, giving me a chance to test Scriblio, so I was excited to talk to them. I didn’t even know it was open to the public until my phone rang [...]

Everything you ever wanted to know… - Monday, September 24th, 2007

I was thrilled today to join the admirable ranks of Jessamyn and Andrea to offer a Web 2.0 smorgasbord to NH librarians.
My Web 2.SO? or Why Libraries Should Care, repurposed from BIGWIG, served as the day’s introduction. Jessamyn then offered a practical introduction to Flickr and del.icio.us. She even inspired me to [...]

Good eggs - Friday, September 21st, 2007

Midnight on Wednesday-Thursday found me hunched over my computer finishing updating the Tamworth Library site to the latest Scriblio release. I did run into one hiccup with the search function. It startled me, since searching ease is the site’s bread and butter. Thanks to some quick tech-support, it did get resolved quickly. [...]

Fun with office supplies - Thursday, September 20th, 2007

Since, for three weeks anyway, I’m a woman of leisure - I get to play with fun stuff on the internets. Today’s highlight and chief activity, for example, is staple pinning. I guess I’m lucky that the ex that I stole my stapler from had high class taste, because its does rotate for [...]

But were we ever relevant? - Thursday, September 13th, 2007

There’s little doubt that historically libraries have enjoyed a place of pride in their communities but is that the same as being important in the daily lives of our users? If we’d done a good job when they had to come to us, won some loyalty, added some value, it seems to me they [...]

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