Blogging And Thinking And Writing And Contemplating

I have been thinking about blogging and social media a lot recently. Currently I have been acting as a guide for the Learn@APNK program,  and I am heading to Gisborne next week to talk to the librarians there about Social Media. Thinking about how to explain Social Media, and how to “sell” it without sounding [...]

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New Years Crystal Ball Gazing For Library Land

Another year has been set on its path, and we have started the downhill slide to Christmas. I think it must be a function of age, and having children, but each year seems to go past really quickly, and the speed seems to be increasing. New Years is a time for reflection, navel gazing, crystal ball gazing and [...]

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Something awful this way comes

One of my favourite tasks in libraryland is that of deselection. Imagine my delight when, a few months ago I discovered a blog called Awful Library Books – a wordpress sister blog no less, and one which more than a few of you may know as it has been featured both on nz-libs and Sideswipe [...]

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Cool blog i found: iLibrarian

See what happens when you take away the “must-post-on-this-day” regime? I found this cool site called iLibrarian It’s actually a blog as well, but it had a lot of cool posts on it about Web 2.0 technology. Apparently libraries aren’t Web 2.0 yet according to some Lianza conference feedback i heard last week – oh [...]

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Social networking

I’ve been reading a very interesting book entitled “Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom; how online social networking will transform your life, work and world” by Matthew Fraser and Soumitra Dutta. The book is divided into three parts – identity, status and power. With regard to identity the authors outline the tension between our personal and [...]

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Come Together, Right Now

One of the cool things I have discovered I love about blogging, apart from statistic watching, is looking at the incoming links.  So far we haven’t got too many that aren’t from one of our own blogs linking us back to here. These show that we are part of a much larger conversation about libraries. [...]

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It’s a Blog Eat Blog World Out There

I have been thinking about blogs recently. I have been thinking about them rather a lot. In fact you could probably say I have been thinking about them too much. My editor in chief will probably be grateful when I’m not thinking so much about blogs! Currently I write for two blogs, this one and [...]

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Some self “analysis”?

Want to assess your blog, website or twitter posts?  The following three websites will help you. First, test the reading level of your blog or website.  Juicy Studio will provide you with some seemingly meaningless numbers such as those displayed below: Reading Level Results Summary Value Total sentences 596 Total words 5818 Average words per [...]

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