Coming from a family oft referred to by others as the Flanders, blog comments were fraught with peril for me. If posting them myself, I used to feel responsible for posting only positive, affirming words that couldn’t possibly be seen as negative – to ensure the blogger’s feelings would not be hurt, their self-esteem remain [...]
Reflections on Facebook
Well, I’ve taken advantage of a week off from readings and assignments to get caught up with being alive in the world again; getting into an exercise routine, spinning up some fire, and getting back in touch with friends and family. Even getting in touch with friends I haven’t interacted with in several months, and [...]
Wikis
Collaborative construction can be a very powerful force. I believe that the shared knowledge of a group will always be greater than the knowledge of a lone person. In order for a wiki to be successful – that is, to attract content creators and editors and users, to create a community around it [...]
Multi-author blogging: guidelines
An institution is an individual in corporate law. As such, each member of the institution are representatives of the single “body”. For Librarians, this idea of the many representing the one can be keenly felt in multi-author blogs for their own particular Library.
In order to maintain a uniform voice, Libraries with more than one Librarian [...]
