Archive for the ‘Local Engagement’ Category
Libraries are Miscellaneous
Posted by: greebie on: November 12, 2009
With a wide range of ‘things’ happening in and around libraryland, including Library 101, Stephen Abram’s paper on open source (pdf), Mark Albertson’s opinion piece on the changing purpose of libraries, and Laurel Tarulli’s recognition that not everyone fully understands what it is that librarians do. It all leads me to think about the ongoing [...]
Restorative Practices and Librarianship – another framework to tie unconferencing and social media to librarianship?
Posted by: greebie on: October 7, 2009
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 [...]
Print Media in the Toilet
Posted by: greebie on: April 15, 2009
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 [...]
The Reader — New Blog from MPOW
Posted by: greebie on: February 2, 2009
A few colleagues of mine have released a blog for MPOW about reading called The Reader.
Kudos to David, Kristina, Maureen and Laurel for what looks like a fairly impressive blog so far (my name is up there only to put in a few bits of CSS here and there).
Cutting to the Chase – What is the Brand of this Blog?
Posted by: greebie on: January 26, 2009
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. [...]
Want to Lead an Organization? Stop Blogging.
Posted by: greebie on: December 5, 2008
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 — [...]
Obama, Your Day Has Filled My Brain
Posted by: greebie on: November 5, 2008
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 [...]
On D250, Voting, Vote Promotion and Collective Wisdom
Posted by: greebie on: October 20, 2008
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 [...]
Mark Your Calendars: Halifax Podcamp 2009 on January 25th
Posted by: greebie on: October 14, 2008
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? [...]
What am I doing now?
- RyanDeschamps: Something to show your kids. The periodic table of videos : http://bit.ly/58feRl
- RyanDeschamps: No, Jamie Lee Curtis was not at Akerley Campus where they were doing H1N1 shots. That was my son screaming: AAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH!
- RyanDeschamps: Just watched a short cartoon where they called a hamburger a 'meat cookie.' Brilliant to think of it that way.
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