Cohen arranged for the bloggers highlighted on the ITI blog site to get green press ribbons. I was all aflutter!
Categories Blogging
http://www.cafepress.com/curmudgeony/curmudgeony1 (Thanks Joyce!)
http://groups.blogdigger.com/CIL2005 This link aggregates many of the folks blogging CIL. I’m tickled to see Hidden Peanuts on the list! Welcome to CIL Chad!
I’m happy to report that TTW is one of the blogs listed at the Information Today Blog for the Computers in Libraries conference, which ITI’s Tom Hogan Jr., VP of Marketing & Business Development says could be the highest attended in 5 years. I leave out of South Bend at 6am tomorrow! See you there….
Via Stephen, Steven and Stephens: http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/09/blogging_is_good_for.html 4. No matter how great you are, your career depends on communicating. The way to get better at anything, including communication, is by practicing. Blogging is good practice. Well said. One thing that came up in conversation with Mr. Abram at PLA is that a blogger can have a voice in the LIS blogosphere from the smallest, most remote library in the world and still reach a huge audience if they are putting their blogging presence out there. This, to me, insures we get original voices. Original thoughts. And best practices to try out […]
Abram said: “that’s a young Michael Gorman.” I LOLed!
http://www.oblog.nl/ Speaking of the UK response to our ALA president’s words… Check in with our colleagues in the Netherlands as well… Rob is posting about Gormangate. (I promise I won’t beat this issue anymore!)
Nice little weblog found its way to NetNewsWire this am: http://technogeekery.blogspot.com/2005/02/michael-gorman-on-blogging.html Note UK Blogger Phil Bradley’s post who I got to meet last year in London. He edited my book for the UK back in the day. I was interested to read his perspective.
Well done Greg & Karen! I am loathe to link just to the LJ piece… other suggestions?
Dear Mr. Gorman: After being struck speechless early this morning when your article and commentary related to it began to pop up on the LIS Weblogs I monitor, I feel the need to write a bit. Maybe I can assist you with the question you posed in Library Journal: Who are the Blog People? I realize this is a broad question and your article did not single out librarians as bloggers, but here goes: I am a librarian and I am a blogger. I love libraries — especially the public library. I’ve been with the St. Joseph County Public Library […]