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Technical Services 2.0: Using social software for collaboration

ALA Session held Monday 1:30-3:30
OK, I’ll be honest and say that although I found the summary of this program enticing, I wasn’t sure if I’d spend the whole time at the session. It appeared to have an academic focus, and come on – it’s technical services and I am SO not a technical services [...]

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Wiking the Blog and Walking the Dog: Social Software, Virtual Reality, and Authority Everywhere

Jed Moffitt of the King County LIbrary System began the PLA-sponsored Wiking the Blog and Walking the Dog with family stories that somehow led to a disclosure that the topic of social software in libraries is not so cutting-edge as it was eighteen months ago when the topic was chosen for the American Library Association [...]

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Podcast: Casual wiki presentation from the 2007 PLA Spring Symposium

On Friday, March 2, 2007, about 55 people delayed the consumption of a well-earned dinner after a long day of learnin’ to attend my presentation on wikis and the PLWiki project. You can listen to the podcast of that presentation, attached to this post. You can also download the Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) file [...]

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A wiki for public libraries: your feedback requested

I had the opportunity to run this idea by about 10 PLA committees on Sunday, January 21 at ALA Midwinter in Seattle, and everyone had really, really positive feedback, including volunteers to contribute people power and content, and ideas on related programs at the upcoming PLA conference in Minneapolis. You may have also seen [...]

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