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Happy Holidays to Everyone!

Best Wishes to all! See you in the New Year.

What a Year! 2006 in Posts, Presentations, Permutations, and … PARTICIPATION! (Updated)

A lot of folks have been looking back at 2006. I realized today what a year it’s been: more library and librarian blogs, RSS gains even more ground, Wikis rule the school (and ALA), IM is embedded directly in pages where our users may find themselves, YouTube offers a way to share a “Ray of [...]

Blog Tag: 5 Things You Don’t Know About Michael Stephens

OH! I’ve been tagged by Phil Bradley! See: http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2006/12/blog_tag_5_thin.html

Phil writes: I got blog tagged by Danny Sullivan into a game of ’5 things you don’t know about me.’ If you’re not interested in me (and no reason why you should be) move on now, because the game is that because I’ve been tagged I [...]

5 Simple Rules for Keeping an Empty Inbox: A GTD Post

It’s nice to be reminded of some of the “Getting Things Done” principles, especially since I juggle teaching, writing, presenting and life. The ideas and some of the methods speak to me.

Here’s a great post about that elusive empty inbox:

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/11/15/five-simple-rules-for-keeping-an-empty-inbox/

Five simple rules for keeping the inbox clean: If you don’t need [...]

My New Keyboard

My New Keyboard Originally uploaded by mstephens7.

Notable Notes

Things I’m reading whilst Waiting for the Refrigerator Repairman:

The Library 2.0 Roundup: http://scruffynerf.wordpress.com/2006/10/19/library-20-roundup/

Excellent clearinghouse of posts, discussions, articles and suck from LIS student Jennifer Macaulay.

The State of the Blogosphere: http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000443.html

As you can see, growth in the numbers of blogs tracked by Technorati continues to grow briskly. While the doubling of the [...]

Purchased at Salisbury Cathedral, for my office

Purchased at Salisbury Cathedral, for my office Originally uploaded by mstephens7.

..never stop.

FOUND!

FOUND! Originally uploaded by mstephens7.

Do you believe it? Lost on the train in Holland — at the end of the line no less, somehow the camera and phone disappeared in but were then turned in 2 weeks later. I received letters from the Dutch authorities, and passed them on to Rob Coers who [...]

The Camera and the Sidekick

Meta shot Originally uploaded by The Shifted Librarian.

Sadly, a string events, and my own human error, resulted in the loss of my camera — and all the picturtes from the trip — as well as my Sidekick 3 during our trip to Holland. I was corresponding with a few folks via the phone [...]

Michael’s Bio

Michael Stephens is a frequent speaker at library conferences around the world, he was named a Library Journal Mover and Shaker in 2005. He has been the keynote speaker at many conferences, including the Iowa Library Association Conference, Ohio Tech Connections, the Rethinking Resource Sharing Conference, the Mississippi Library 2.0 Summit (Mississippi State University), and [...]