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Today’s local paper had a toilet bowl on the cover. A toilet bowl. Yes, I know the article was about how the new Sewage Treatment plant in Halifax is done broke and won’t be fixed for a while. But guess what? We didn’t have a Sewage Treatment plant attached to the [...]
Over the next few months, I will be doing a little bit of presenting at various conferences and events. Here is the list:
Wednesday April 1st, at Computers in Libraries Conference, Washington D.C.: CM Tools: Drupal, Joomla, & Rumba
Alongside one of my library heroes, John Blyberg, I will be presenting on ideas and features around [...]
Branding. Every social media yahoo will use the term, replacing it for just about every word from “style” to “reputation” to “logo” to “colour scheme” or whatever else. It is vague, but every business type needs to pretend they understand the term.
I learned a little about branding while partnering with folks from Revolve.ca. [...]
Yes, the title of this post is intended as tongue-in-cheek, perhaps even pandering to the idea that being contentious will always get attention. But I assure you that it is intentional and based on quite a bit of thought on ferries, buses walking to work, being involved in the community and so-on.
I am learning — [...]
It’s always a good feeling when you are at a stage where you cannot possibly be stimulated more. It lets you give yourself permission to stop thinking about things and just experience, learn or appreciate the things around you that make you feel good. After three important events, one community related, one family related/personal and one [...]
There have been a few, ahem, debates going around and I could make a post on each of them, but things have just been too much in my home life recently, so I’m going to chime in one on one.
MLS or non-MLS?
My favorite call on this issue is coming from Dorothea Salo, but there [...]
One of my favorite Monty Python works, is the famous “Accountancy Shanty” coming from Monty Python’s Meaning of Life. With the lyrics “It’s fun to charter an accountant and sail the wide accountant-sea,” it’s obviously a satirical look at the idiosyncracies of your friendly neighbourhood bean counter.
Five Accountant-ish Things for Librarians to Know
Well, [...]
Ten more ideas about how I can make my life better, in libraries and elsewhere:
Plan an unconference — somewhere, somehow.
The field needs more unconferences, and I’d like to host/organize one for local librarians this year — probably in the summer sometime.
More controlled and productive computer time.
No, this has nothing to do with social software. I [...]
This is kind of like the “day in the life of” except it is a “night in the life of.” I can’t remember the times, but consider that most of this stuff happened between 8pm last night (Tuesday) until I posted the final blog post today.
I logged onto Meebo for fun.
I chatted [...]
Designing an organization is not something that managers should take on without a good deal of thought. Unfortunately, the coverage of organizational design in library management courses is often simplified to a toying around with two organizational dichotomies: flat or hierarchical; centralized or decentralized. The impression you get from such a surface [...]
What am I doing now?- RyanDeschamps: RT @ChangeCampHFX How can we improve #Halifax? Join the conversation of change on December 5 at http://bit.ly/1au6gZ #ChangeCamp
- RyanDeschamps: @DanORourke Thanks for the #followfriday and Two if By Sea is a pretty good spot! http://bit.ly/25XgZN
- RyanDeschamps: Can't wait to show off my latest knitted hat. Hint I think @msauers and @doctorow will like the idea.
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