Archive for the 'politics' Category

Blog and Twitter Worlds Collide. . . then Converge?

April 30, 2008 in Community Development, Leadership, accessibility, communications, diversity, ideas, politics, rants, self-promotion, technology

 
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 [...]

Chiming in On the Biggies

April 1, 2008 in Change Management, Community Development, Ethics, Information Policy, Leadership, Library School, Partnerships, Professional Development, Spaces, Trends, communications, e-learning, ideas, library2, media, politics

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 [...]

Whistleblowing, Ethics, and Internet Use

March 18, 2008 in Community Development, Ethics, Information Policy, Leadership, communications, diversity, family, media, politics

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 [...]

The ALA Code is Not Enough: Thoughts and Case Studies on Librarian Ethics

February 18, 2008 in Ethics, Heroes, Information Policy, Library School, communications, library2, politics, rants, slowlibrary

Sarah Houghton-Jan, the illustrious Librarian in Black brought up the issue of ethics in libraries reminding us to post the ALA Code of Ethics on our office walls. She also points to a post by BlogJunction highlighting two other studies
Ethics are extremely important, but I am here to say that a statement of [...]

Facegoat? Criminal Investigations in Canada and Social Networking

January 11, 2008 in Community Development, Ethics, Information Policy, Leadership, Trends, communications, politics, technology

The Internet and the court of law have long been at odds in Canada — for a lot of things, but in particular for publication bans coming from court cases. A most recent example has been demonstrated through this article in the cbc, that I noticed via Library Boy and has since [...]