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Recent Webinars

I’ve helped to present two webinars in the past couple of months with some pretty amazing co-presenters. First was the “Using Tech To Move Your Small/Rural Library Forward” webinar (link goes to free archive) that I did with Maurice Coleman. That one was all about small and free tech that could be used by libraries with little to no technology budgets or personnel – and of course, even libraries that have money or IT personnel would get some value from saving their dollars for other things, right?
The second one I did was for ALA Techsource with David Lee King and is not (yet?) available as a (paid) archive – I believe they are planning to do this, but I’m not 100% sure. You can get links to readings, slides, documents and other information from the blog linked above, though. That one covered the use of social media in libraries – I talked about collaboration and marketing and David talked about the nitty gritty of using social sites to connect with patrons and communities.
Both webinars were great fun and are, at least partially, available for you to check out!

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The week in Tweets

  • @LibrarianE13 @pollyalida Oops – the actual link to the comment on the WordPress category feeds is http://bit.ly/gwwX3N. Hope it helps!! #
  • @LibrarianE13 Good! "See" you later today, then! #
  • Separate facebook page for @davidleeking 's art gallery – what a great idea, Imma gonna steal it! #sociallib #
  • Thank you all for attending the workshop – and thanks to @ALA_TechSource for making it run so smoothly! #sociallib #
  • @LibrarianE13 a great audience makes for a better presentation! There were some great ?'s and discussions! #sociallib @davidleeking #
  • It's the holiday season @ MRRL – food bank workers are picking up a LOT of donated food for fines food and Santa is roaming the building! #
  • I just loaded up 3 "5 ways" posts for the library in WP – 5 ways to get the most out of the lib, 5 ways to give back, 5 ways to give back. #
  • Gulp. I just posted a "tell us what we did right (and wrong) @ MRRL" post on Facebook. Now to hope that our FB fans are generous souls… 😉 #

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I’m done!

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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