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Month: November 2010
Today marks the end of the last class between me and my Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology. I will be taking this week off (with the exception of the ALA TechSource Webinar that is scheduled for Dec 1st (Wednesday) of this week – there is still time to register!) and doing a whole bunch of nothing (where nothing equals watching TV and knitting).
Yeah for the end of my 19-year degree!
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The week in Tweets
- @xorpheous I love Audacity – it is sooooo powerful for being so free!! #
- First facepalm of thanksgiving – bro & boyfriend arguing design 4 gravy boat as aircraft carrier or troop transport… #
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The week in Tweets
- @dullroar Yup, we have Overdrive at http://www.molib2go.org. The selection is limited now, but will get better! #
- @dullroar No problem – Twitter reference questions are my favorite!! #
- *refreshes her coffee and sits back to watch @sglassmeyer take on @ellbeecee and @wawoodworth in the great 2010 Jeggings fight* #
- @sglassmeyer This seems like a really successful strategy so far. I may incorporate it into my next presentation! Also, jeggings. #
- @orgmonkey Me!!! #
- Overdrive just got a lot more useful for me. I can now read my ebooks on my iPad, not just listen to audio! Hats off to @dullroar!! #
- I have 105 apps on my iPad. Is this abnormal? Am I an app hoarder? Inquiring minds want to know (or at least mine does…) #
- @rpringle & @RobBittner Thanks guys – that makes me feel a bit more normal… 😉 #
- @rpringle are you trying to enable my iPad app addiction? *sigh* I'll go check it out… 😉 #
- @dullroar I have 7 different readers on my iPad (hence the many applications…) but hadn't heard of Bluefire. That one slid under the radar #
- @lilaclee Check the library's blog on Friday – I have a post with links and tips coming out. Let me know if you want to try OD at MRRL… 😉 #
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Choosing to write
I was surfing along on the Internet a few days ago when I came across the WordPress Editorial Calendar plugin (via Chris Brogin) and immediately downloaded and installed it to both my work and personal blogs. It puts all of my posts – drafts, scheduled and posted – into a calendar that lets me see, at a glance, when my next posts are coming out and what I have scheduled in the near future. It also – and this is the killer feature for me – lets me do a quick typing of a blog post directly from the calendar. Every day has a “new post” link that brings up a simple box with the title, content, time and status of the new post. You can set up a post as a draft, schedule it or post it immediately from the calendar itself. The posting interface is simple and doesn’t include the bells and whistles that the Add New post page does, but it gets the job done pretty well nonetheless.
This little plugin has really helped me create new posts for my work blog, where I have a goal of at least 2 posts per week. Now I can easily see that I’ve missed a week in my scheduling and either move a post (via a very simple click and drag from one day to another) or create a new post right there from the calendar. It’s given me a little more incentive to write here, because as I look back at the wasteland that is my very erratic posting schedule here, I get motivated (by shame, yes, but that’s good enough for me…).
Therefore, when looking at the upcoming weeks of empty boxes on my blogs, I am motivated to write – more often than I have been recently – and will hopefully be able to produce more content for both of my blogs!
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The week in Tweets
- So excited! I just connected to my test website running on my virtual server for the first time. I'm a big geek, I know, but it's sooo cool! #
- @nsmith_piano Yes, it is lovely!! Of course, now I find that I can't FTP into it, but I think I know why that isn't working… #
- @evernote I hooked my Mom on using Evernote for recipes – and then she got her sister set up! #ensticker #
- @nirak Your books do that too? I thought it was just me… 😉 #
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One criticism I see about the iPad is that it’s software-based keyboard is difficult to use and unpleasant for long-form writing. I will agree that it takes some getting used to and that I still make more mistakes when using it than I do in a traditional, hardware keyboard, but it is still quite useful for me. I’ve written 2 1500 word articles, a 12 page chapter that will be published in an upcoming book, numerous blog posts (using the fabulous WordPress app!!) and more using nothing more than the software keyboard that the iPad comes with. I did shell out the $60 for an iPad dock/keyboard combo that I never use, because it is unusable with the iPad’s standard case (too much extra stuff around the edge of the case keeps the iPad from being able to connect to the dock at all… I need a new case, clearly!) and it’s more hassle to pull the iPad out of the case than it is to prop it up and start typing away. I’ll admit that I prefer typing in landscape mode – portrait is both a bit cramped and hard to do with the case being configured the way it is (again – new case for me – I’ll put in my Remember The Milk account now!), so landscape is the only way I create text on the iPad.
Now, to be honest, I have pretty small hands – my reach is pretty limited and my fingers are fairly small – so the keyboard that works for me may not work so well for you, depending on your hand size.
The reason I’ve posted all of this is to say that while some people may find it difficult to create text on the iPad, not everyone does. I wanted an alternative voice out there for people with small hands and a willingness to make a few mistakes in return for the convenience of being able to write where ever you are!
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The week in Tweets
- @orgmonkey 2-21 is crazy. I found myself doing homework instead of working on that stupid level. I feel ya. in reply to orgmonkey #
- RT @lisarokusek: Arguing with people who have lost all sense of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. -Thomas Paine #
- @orgmonkey I've actually completed all 4 levels – I'm still fighting to get those golden eggs, though… Congrats!!! in reply to orgmonkey #
- @jasonfleming73 Yes, unfortunately I didn't realize that til it was too late. Now I gotta go get the golden eggs retroactively… in reply to jasonfleming73 #
- @griffey I work with a guy who used to work with her in Colorado. He's cool by association!! in reply to griffey #
- @orgmonkey LOL – I'm glad I'm yours – my boyfriend and son were getting irritated at all the take-out and mounds of laundry while I played! in reply to orgmonkey #
- RT @fark: The way Fox News celebrated election results, you'd almost think they weren't really independent news. http://fk.cm/go/5733431 #
- I subscribed to TheYoungTurks's channel on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/user/TheYoungTurks?feature=autoshare #
- I like my job. Today I have worked on a virtual server, posted to social sites, set up a Fam Feud game in PPT and am off to a baby shower. #
- @jblyberg You forgot? That amuses me, somehow… 😉 #
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I, along with the ever-cool David Lee King, will be presenting a 2-part webinar for ALA Techsource on the 1st and 8th of December (both at 2:30 EST aka 1:30 CST (I just put that last Central time reminder in there for me, honestly…)). We’ll be talking about:
- Collaboration with libraries and patrons using YouTube, Flickr and Dropbox
- Marketing your library with Facebook and Twitter
- 4 things your library MUST do when signing up for ANY social media tool
- Time-savers and tools for maximizing your library’s social media reach
- And much more!
The cost for both workshops is $85 and you can register at the ALA store. As with all ALA Techsource workshops, you will get some reading material, worksheets for you to use at your library and LOTS of information about collaboration, Web 2.0, social networking and whatever else comes up in the question and answer part of the sessions! Join David and I as we dump out all the accumulated knowledge we’ve gotten from our experiences in social networking at our libraries and bypass all that messy trial and error stuff yourself!
