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How You Look Is Part of the Story
Posted by: greebie on: June 30, 2009
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 [...]
Three Briefs About Your Web Presence
Posted by: greebie on: July 26, 2008
I had three brief things come to mind, neither of which really need a whole post to describe. I’ve been thinking what works for a web presence in a Microblog world, and what real competitive advantages & disadvantages websites have over other media.
Are You Ready for Your Blog?
One of the things that is overstated about [...]
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tips for Libraries
Posted by: greebie on: July 14, 2008
After seredipitously encountering an Search Engine Optimization (SEO) victory (my wife searched for events happening on a major street in my city and our events page turned up #1), I’m feeling pretty good about the library website. That does not mean that we cannot improve however, so I thought I’d blog about it a bit.
Now, [...]
Dawn of the Dewey: What About A New Standard?
Posted by: greebie on: July 11, 2008
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 [...]
Blog and Twitter Worlds Collide. . . then Converge?
Posted by: greebie on: April 30, 2008
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 [...]
Passion Quilt Meme
Posted by: greebie on: April 28, 2008
off to work..
Originally uploaded by *Solar ikon*.
Ok I was tagged by Cindi and Amanda for the Passion Quilt Meme. I’m not a meme-ish sort of person — probably because anyone I tag usually does not end up doing the meme.
So, you are supposed to grab a photo from Flickr’s Creative Commons or other photo directory, [...]
Sustainability and Libraries: Is Anyone Challenging Our Assumptions about Digitization?
Posted by: greebie on: April 21, 2008
Among the best things about conferences (besides karaoke, right Greg?) are hearing ideas from people you had not previously met. One of the memorable conversations I had was with Sarah Cohen about whether libraries were really on board with the what, whys and hows regarding sustainability. I think we came to the conclusion that libraries [...]
The ALA Code is Not Enough: Thoughts and Case Studies on Librarian Ethics
Posted by: greebie on: February 18, 2008
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 [...]
The Life-Path of a Librarian
Posted by: greebie on: February 8, 2008
Steve, Iris, Rikhei & others are going through some kind of meme on why they are librarians. I think self-reflection is great. In fact, when I started this blog, that’s what I intended to do — take opportunities to look at the library world in ways that might reflect “others” in [...]
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