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June 17, 2009
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Anyone who’s reading this blog directly rather than in their rss reader may have noticed a new box appear on the upper right hand side – Subscribe via Email I’m happy to have finally gotten around to offer this option.  Teaching patrons and training staff has taught me that there are still a great many people who don’t use an rss reader for whatever reason.  So I thought it was time for me to get out of my bubble and provide an option for people who aren’t rss fanatic. Just enter your email address, confirm your subscription and blog posts will be delivered to your email like magic! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Buzz it up Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend

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Monitor your brand

June 15, 2009
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Carie Lewis has a great guide to monitoring your brand using iGoogle, it’s easy, free and most of us already have a Google account, plus it pulls all the information into one place. She includes 5 different categories: Brand – mentions of your name, including acronyms, misspellings, etc Current – issues that people are talking about that involve you right now Detractors – people you know don’t like you but talk about you Competition – people in the same space as you Staff – prominent people in your org, like your CEO And includes a great list of places you should monitoring: Google Alerts – I hope you know what they are and are already using them! Filtrbox – a paid monitoring service to make sure we catch everything Tweetmeme – tells you the most popular tweets about a subject Twitter Search – shows tweets containing a certain keyword (we don’t use this anymore because we use Tweetdeck separately) Technorati – shows blogs that mention certain keywords Blogpulse – another blog monitoring tool Digg – shows most popular articles on the web Boardreader – shows forum posts by keyword Some additional readings 100 Personal Branding Tactics Using Social Media Top

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Why I’m over people Twittering Conferences, Meetings

June 11, 2009
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Why I’m over people Twittering Conferences, Meetings

and anywhere else two Twitter users happen to run into each other. Its seems like a day doesn’t go by without signing into my Twitter account to see a stream of tweets from someone going by with a #hashtag I don’t recognize. I’m not talking about a couple of tweets, I mean the full-on stream. I’m begging you, please stop! I’m all for the idea of sending a Tweet when you hear something remarkable, moving, or innovative, but based on the number of Tweets I see flying by every other sentence is worth exclaiming over, somehow I doubt this. What it really looks like is too many people are using Twitter as their personal note taking system.  Get a notebook, a netbook, or a pen and paper, whatever, just stop Tweeting! If you’re Twittering: You’re not paying attention – mulitasking is a myth – you can not text as fast as you type, so whatever you are texting likely happened 30 seconds or more ago, meaning you are not paying attention to what is being said now.  Stop texting and pay attention, its what you’re there for. Even if you’re tweeting from a computer… You’re not contributing.  Yes, I know

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My 71 hours as a Palm Pre owner

June 10, 2009
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I had my Pre for less than 3 whole days so this is hardly a comprehensive review but rather a report of my experience since so many people asked me about why I returned it. I’ve been awaiting for the Pre for a long time.  My contract with Sprint expired in January and I’d started shopping around, wanting a little more from a smartphone than I was getting from my Centro.  I’d pretty much decided to switch to an iPhone when the Pre was announced. I waited not so patiently for it to come out.  Well Saturday was the Day! I headed to the Sprint store and got there around 8:50, by 9:40 everything was complete other than loading my contacts and some basic instructions on how to use it.  But we ran into a glitch, they couldn’t get my contacts to load.  Now the employees were wonderful and it was not fault of theirs, but I didn’t actually leave the store until 12:30. I headed home and plugged in my Pre to fully charge the battery and download the latest version of the software.  Once I started using it noticed right away that my signal at home was weak. 

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“Go be secretly awesome. Then tell someone.”

June 4, 2009
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I’ve never been fortunate enough to hear Jessamyn West speak and based on Jenica’s notes from last week, I’m really missing out.  Some of my favorite bits The digital divide is real, and our system for technology education scales very badly.  There are economies of scale in most library work – processing 30 books does not take 30 times as long as processing one book – but teaching 30 people about the internet and computers takes 30 times longer than teaching one person.  Libraries have become the social safety net for many Americans to learn what the tech-savvy think of as remedial technology skills, but the project doesn’t scale. “We are living in a future that they are not that interested in.” “Librarianship both is and is not sexy.  Exploit that.  Go be secretly awesome.  Then tell someone.” These are some really good things to think about, but we’re supposed to do more than just think – “Go be secretly awesome.  Then tell someone.” Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Buzz it up Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later

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