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Archive for March, 2007

Friday, March 30th, 2007

More on Social Libraries

Today appears to be Social Libraries Friday here at Library Monk. It may signal the beginning of a trend, you’ll just have to wait until next Friday to find out.
First we have 23 Things from the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, which is described as:
23 Things (or small exercises) that you [...]

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Friday, March 30th, 2007

Library Social Networks on Ning

I’ve had a Ning account for about a year, but I really hadn’t used it much. Well recently Ning seems to have gained popularity, at least among library folks.
ALA now has a Ning site, and Bill Drew has started a Library 2.0 site on Ning. There is also a Librarian Bloggers site. It will be [...]

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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Work and a post worth keeping at the top

Well work on new UTK templates has kept me from blogging much lately. But I still read blogs, Walt at Random among them.
So when he posted today about Kathy Sierra of the blog “Creating Passionate Users” receiving death threats and canceling speaking engagements, I had to go to her blog and read her latest [...]

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Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Houston, we have templates…

Yep the templates I talked about a bit ago are out. Actually they were released Friday afternoon. Creative Services has a nice site up for them, and this template roll-out is a lot more pleasant and well received than the one in 2003.
Once again, Darren has a post about the design of the [...]

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