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To what degree can restorative practices be applied to the act of leading people to information? To me, it does not hurt to ponder the possibilities. I’ve been working in the community on these lines recently, and see many many connections to what libraries and librarians already do. Certainly, restorative practices already are used [...]
Inspired by Joel Kelly’s first experiment with Videoblogging, I grabbed a flip and made my first attempt at video blogging. In the aftermath, Joel noticed that people wanted to talk about his vacation beard more than what he was actually saying.
On the whole, the advantage to video is that you have appearance and sound to [...]
With the dismal numbers (59.1%) coming out on this year’s federal election compared with previous years, and with the even lower turn-out for the Halifax Regional Municipality with online voting to boot, it is no wonder that people are calling vote promotion venues like D250 to task. Dal News is one of these, and I [...]
I am very pleased to announce that, along with some great players (namely Craig and Jon), Halifax is going to have a podcamp on January 25th. The even more interesting news (for librarydom) is that it will be hosted at the Alderney Gate Library with support from MPOW.
So. . . you might have some questions? [...]
Based on feedback from my survey, I know that most of you do not need or care for information about local (to me) community. That makes total sense, and please bear with me — I have a tutorial coming on relational databases very soon.
That said, I still want to draw people’s attention that this week [...]
Tim Spalding of Library Thing has initiated an idea for an open source, crowd created replacement for the Dewey Decimal System called OSC. On the whole, I am for starting anything. I think entrepreneurialism like this is a good thing. Competition of any kind cannot hurt the process of information organization — it makes [...]
It all started because I Blogged where I should have Twittered. . . Greg wrote a post called “Stepping into Marketing“ talking about Mitch Joel presentation. And I wrote this:
I actually had Mitch in my Twitter list, but he didn’t follow me, so I took him off. I might put him back though.
Whether or not you think this [...]
I’ve had a tongue-in-cheek post-in-waiting for a while now that would look at traits I notice in online cultures as a way of understanding whether or not a particular service is for you or your library. It had been percolating, percolating, percolating. . . and then I read Greg Schwartz’s post on Managing His Own Social [...]
UPDATE: Since I’m venturing into potentially controversial territory, I thought it would be a good time to remind my readers that this is my commentary on a situation that occurred in a library in California and not necessarily the opinions of my employer. I will say that I believe we are [...]
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 [...]
What am I doing now?- RyanDeschamps: @extremekinger T.O. just needed to see a couple of saves from their goalie early on so they could feel competitive again. It happened!
- RyanDeschamps: @tastyfishnchips My only question for them is 'how can you get 3000+ followers and yet only 1 or 2 put you on a list?' Can't be good.
- RyanDeschamps: Yup - a ton of followers and barely listed by anyone. You lose! (and you too, and you too, and also you!)
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