They’re called “must-listen” for a reason, so hop to it

Jason Kucsma, Emerging Technologies Manager at the Metropolitan New York Library Council, recently gave First Monday Podcast an excellent recommendation in his blog techMETRO, by including it in his list of 4 “Must-Listen Podcasts for Tech-Curious/Savvy Librarians“.
More than just a mouthpiece for the authors published in each issue, FM Podcast benefits from hosts Joy Austria’s [...]

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Insurgent Country Music and F-Bombs

I don’t have a contract with First Monday Podcast, or get paid in any way actually, but if I did have a contract, it would probably include blogging, tweeting, Facebook posting, and tumbling the arrival of every new episode featuring one of my technology podcast reviews.  This month, I do not swear like a sailor [...]

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Creativity and Exploration: Web 2.0 and Beyond

I will be nattering on about my usual preoccupations at the next Metropolitan Area Reference and Instruction Librarians (MARIL) meeting next month, so if you’re in the vicinity, register and come on by!  MARIL is a great group–part of the Metropolitian Library System– and I’ve met a lot of great area librarians and learned even [...]

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Blogging about Blogging about Podcasting about Podcasts

I swear this is the last time I use a title like this, but I had to continue the theme in order to share Clark Boyd’s blog entry about First Monday Podcast and my review of The World’s Technology Podcast.
I’ve got my next five review assignments, so I’ll be spending my commutes listening to technology/information [...]

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Blogging about Podcasting about Podcasts

Do you like podcasts?  Hey, me too.  So much in fact that I’m now a Podcast Review Editor for the First Monday Podcast.  The very first podcast review is up (on The World’s Technology Podcast) and available as part of this month’s new FMP “Watch the Ordinary”.  I hope you’ll give the podcast and my [...]

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Have I Blogged You Lately That I’m Awesome?

A recent junk folder find:
Hey Genneaux!

Your slideshow Tools of Engagement: Reaching through Collaboration has been featured on the SlideShare homepage by our editorial team.
- the SlideShare Team
p.s. Why not blog this and let the world know about your awesome creation?
Why not indeed? Maybe this is what I need– encouragement from my [...]

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I Am a Tool (of Engagement)

Wow.  So my first full-out teleconference experience is over and done with.  I’m exhausted, but pretty exhilarated as well.  The producer of the Library Challenges & Opportunities series, my Associate Dean Ellen Sutton, did a phenomenal job of choosing presenters for this event.  I learned so much from these ladies just by chatting with them [...]

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Three days until Tools of Engagement

It’s not too late to register for the Library Challenges and Opportunities teleconference “Tools of Engagement: Attracting and Engaging Library Users“. You wouldn’t want to miss me babbling inanely about my blog, my attempts to win over library patrons and how many RSS feeds my Google Reader aggregates for me! Thrilling, chilling fun [...]

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There isn’t a good word like “alma mater” for places where you used to work, but if there were, the Newberry would be mine

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Buy “My Mistress’s Sparrow Is Dead” and Support 826CHI

My husband tutors little kids at this great place in Chicago called 826CHI– they’re pretty great, so check them out. He gets this fun little newsletter from them announcing their different fundraisers and so-on and he forwarded it to me. There’s a nice little blurb about Jeffrey Eugenides’ new book My Mistress’s Sparrow [...]

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