Take it as a key indicator that I’m super-happy in my current role, but it wasn’t until I received an invitation to their party and Hollywood Librarian screening that I picked up on Sue Hill’s new(ish) blog, View from the Hill. I know from my tenure as Editor at Catalogue & Index and as an information [...]

I thought I would clarify the purpose of this blog after reflecting on my first couple of months or so of posts. According to my blog statistics the ‘About’ page is the second most viewed post on this blog - on it I state that I will be posting my findings on the Library/Web 2.0 CyMAL [...]

Blogs are one of the most versatile Web 2.0 tools that you can deploy in your library service. Here are ten simple uses for a blog that any FE library service could utilise. Not only are these functions simple to set up but they are also free! 1 Marketing - blogs are a great way to promote [...]

Following my previous post I have had a pleasant email exchange with Christine Haskell of Seattle Public Libraries Friends Board.  She pointed me to the ‘Friends of Seattle Public Library blog’ (sub title ‘the goings on of the Seattle Public Library’) which is really informative and not only because of the links to other interesting sites ...

I have just been reading a short editorial piece by Patrick Tucker in The Futurist: The 21st Century Writer. It is a reflective piece on Tim O’Reilly’s “Tools of Change” conference, and focusses on publishing in an electronic age. Unsurprisingly. For the serials publisher and the journalist, there is the thought that with half the world reporting ...

There's a curious article in the latest THES: Brabazon, Tara Boomers in thrall to a wiki universe THES, 16 November 2007, 1820:14 It doesn't yet appear in the electronic version, either in the free area or the subscribers section. Brabazon who, it seems, is Professor of Media in that  institution that lies the other side of a railway line and ...

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Last week I was at this conference in Barcelona looking at Web2.0 and education. I found it very interesting, as there were a number of people there who were talking about where we are going and how these tools can be used within education. I had assumed that the main subject of most of the sessions [...]

At long last Wordpress supports tags. It has always had categories, but you have to set these up beforehand and they are only really useful as broad subject headings. They are usually displayed in a side bar on your WordPress blog, and the list becomes far too long and unusable if you treat categories as [...]

There are a number of different tools which can be used for reflection; I’ve been using this blog as a way of keeping track of what I think about things, but there are other ways of doing this eg using wikis and eportfolios, as well as blogs.