Top Ten Links – Week 2

My hand selected best links I shared on Twitter from 1/8/2010 through 1/14/2010 in no particular oder: Just call me Tenzing Norbook, I guess. Toby Greenwalt's response to Seth Godin's post about libraries and the discussion that takes place in the comments. 2010: The Only Year of the E-Reader great article from Fast Company on … Continue reading Top Ten Links – Week 2

10 Best Links from Twitter – Week in Review

If you follow me on Twitter you know I share and retweet a lot of links.  I don't know how you treat Twitter but if I'm not paying attention when something is shared I miss it. So I've been thinking I need a way to share those links ones on the blog.  I thought I'd … Continue reading 10 Best Links from Twitter – Week in Review

Voting is Open for the 2009 Edublog Awards – Go Vote!

Voting ends Wednesday December 18th. Yes even you library people. You'll find some great new blogs to read and trust me there are names in there you'll recognize! The Edublog Award Categories…. Best individual blog Best individual tweeter Best group blog Best new blog Best class blog Best student blog Best resource sharing blog Most influential blog … Continue reading Voting is Open for the 2009 Edublog Awards – Go Vote!

My Nominations for the 2009 Edublog Awards

My Nominations for The 2009 Edublog Awards are: Best individual tweeter - Marianne Lenox and her blog Best new blog - Emergent by Design by Venessa Miemis Best resource sharing blog - Librarian in Black Best librarian / library blog - The Unquiet Librarian by Buffy Hamilton Deadlines for nominations is Tuesday 8 December!  Then the voting begins, … Continue reading My Nominations for the 2009 Edublog Awards

What Reading (Listening) Do You Recommend for a Leadership Program?

My library has a leadership program and we were asked to recommend books, journals articles blogs blogposts podcasts whatever with an annotation preferably, on any topic relevant to leadership, management, customers service or other topic we think would be helpful to participants.  I went through my favorites of the last couple of years and came … Continue reading What Reading (Listening) Do You Recommend for a Leadership Program?

You’ve got 30 minutes, how do you use them?

I've seen some interesting conversations pop up online lately about FriendFeed vs Twitter, if spending time on Friendfeed killed your blog, (or not) that feedreaders are dead. Here is the thing, most of us don't have that much time to spend online, networking, learning, creating content, whatever.  I remember Helene Blowers talking about taking 15 … Continue reading You’ve got 30 minutes, how do you use them?

What 5 blogs do you think are MUST read?

Here is the deal, my RSS reader, its overwhelmed, I have waaaayyy too many blogs in it.  I've tried weeding (something I'm known for being good at around the library) and I'm still not down far enough.  I think I have a new plan. I'm going to unsubscribe to everything.  If its good and worthwhile … Continue reading What 5 blogs do you think are MUST read?