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Daily Bread Food Bank - Law Firm Challenge

Posted on December 07, 2007
10000 maniacs:bread & circusesOriginal photograph by visualpanic.Some rights reserved under a Creative Commons licence.Last year I reported on the 2006 Daily Bread Food Bank Law Firm Challenge, and a lot of people have been finding this blog in an effort to locate the page for the 2007 Challenge...

Canadian Law Blogs List by Steve Matthews

Posted on December 07, 2007
My buddy Steve Matthews has done it again! He is always coming up with very focussed, important ideas. He has taken the Canadian Law Blogs List which first saw light of day as a blog post a few years ago, and has given it a brand new home with its own domain...

Professional Learning Centre - New Social Networking Courses?

Posted on December 06, 2007
Hi folks! I regret not having more energy to blog these past several days. One distraction has been my course at the Professional Learning Centre at the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto -- Social Networking Tools: Hands on Learning It has been quite popular, to the point where I haven't even really had to promote it here on the blog...

Friday Roundup (Nov. 9/07): You Don't Expect to See Folk You Know

Posted on November 09, 2007
I don't always have time to post every day, so my first attempt writing about things I have been looking at went very well last week. So, I am back to share more! This week I was in Ottawa for a couple of days teaching my Social Networking Tools course for the Professional Learning Centre at the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto (here is a link to the Toronto description)...

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The Friday Roundup - Are We Living in the Future or What?

Posted on November 02, 2007
So many cool things are happening, it is hard to keep up with them all! Here is what has caught my attention this week:Steve Matthews has put together a sample site pulling together those Canadian legal publisher new title feeds over at legalpubs.ca. For information on how he did it, read the About page...

Comment "Captcha" is Now On

Posted on November 02, 2007
This blog has unfortunately been hit by a spammer or spambot posting every hour to various old posts. I have turned the "captcha" feature on to stop it. I am not in favour of using captcha typically and hope this is just a temporary measure until the spambot goes away...

NE2007: Libraries Without Borders: Presentations Now Posted

Posted on October 31, 2007
Presentations have now been posted to the NE2007: Libraries Without Borders -- Proceedings page. More to come! The audio files created also still need to be posted--we are working on that but didn't want to slow down posting the other content.Thanks to everyone who participated!Cheers,Connie

More Take-Away Thoughts from Law Via the Internet

Posted on October 30, 2007
I put together some of my take-away learnings and thoughts from last week's Law Via the Internet conference over at SLAW.The question which I didn't include was, how can librarians get more involved in making the law accessible to the public? There is the obvious link to law librarians, but I couldn't help but think we also have to consider those librarians who work directly with the public, the public librarians...

A Conversation with Stephen Abram at ACPL

Posted on October 29, 2007
Conversation with Stephen Abram from the Allen County Public Library. Link courtesy Michael Stephens.

PodCamp Boston 2: David Maister

Posted on October 28, 2007
David Maister shared his experiences on business blogging and podcasting, and answered questions from the audience.Switched his blogging model to congenial host - "I have this question and what do the rest of you think?"Blog posting - we all want to be relatively regular with our schedule...

Podcamp Boston 2: Social Media for Business with Isabel Hilborn

Posted on October 28, 2007
Isabel HilbornSocial media: media where the users create the content themselves.People who are not doing this want to know why people would spend time on this.Social Media Motivator: Hosts- cost savings/profit- timeliness- suitability- trust, legitimacy and attention - get more sales if there are bad comments about your comment along with good rather than just good comments - seems more authenticWhat can Social Media address? - professionals - networking, sale,s self-promotion, job search, industry expertise- enterprise internal - KM, project management- enterprise external- marketing

PodCamp Boston 2: PodCamp Retrospective and Prospective

Posted on October 27, 2007
20 podcamps world-wide in the past year. Why has it spread so far and so fast?Current challenges:- what size works best?- does venue or location matter?- wiki is not always user friendly?- scheduling/tracking deadlines- how do you manage volunteer staff?How do you expand it out so that you don't have the same 12 people going to every one like Grateful Dead followers...

PodCamp Boston 2: Smart Plan, Sexy 'Cast with Andrea Mercado

Posted on October 27, 2007
She specializes in library technology planning. Podcasts sessions with authors, interviews, etc. Has a blog LibraryTechtonics- what do people use to subscribe to podcasts?iTunes, Miro (can be used for videos and podcasts)- go and listen to as many podcasts; watch as many vidcasts in your area as you can as research to see what is already being done...

PodCamp Boston 2: Personal Branding - the Power of Conversations with Mitch Joel

Posted on October 27, 2007
PodCamp BostonSaturday, October 27, 2007Mitch JoelBuilding Your Personal Brand: The Power of ConversationsYou need to be passionate about everything you do! How many hours a day do you spend working? Podcasting? Most of us do it to get out of our work...

In Boston for Podcamp!

Posted on October 27, 2007
I am currently in Boston for Podcamp. This is conference 3 of 3 in 1 1/2 weeks!!! I am completely excited to be here. I don't have to organize or speak, just focus on connecting with people and learning. Well, I am always learning. But you know what I mean...

In Montreal at Law Via the Internet

Posted on October 25, 2007
Bonjour. Maintenant je suis a Montreal pour le 8e conférence internationale Internet pour le droit. Hello. I am in Montreal for the 8th International Conference Law Via The Internet.I travelled from Toronto yesterday on the fabulous VIA Rail. I enjoyed the trip, especially having wireless Internet connectivity to allow me to catch up on a few things and stay connected...

Hallowe'en Planning 101: Zombies in Plain English

Posted on October 24, 2007
The folks at the Common Craft show always have the best "how to" videos!

Canadian Intellectual Property Review - New Issue Forthcoming

Posted on October 23, 2007
The last issue of the Canadian Intellectual Property Review (CIPR) published by the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada is Vol. 22, No. 1 dated November 2005. I just contacted them and learned there has not been another issue yet. They are expecting to put out Vol...

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Phishing Scam

Posted on October 23, 2007
This morning I received a supposed update on a employment harrassment complaint regarding one of the associations I have been involved with. The text of the email (with link modified so it does not work):To: Connie Crosby, This is an automated email that confirms the registration of harassment complaint #number : 711-755-7517 filed by Maria Jones on September 29/2007 against [association]...

One Down, Two to Go!

Posted on October 22, 2007
Well, it's all over but the shootin'. I can't believe the Northeast regional conference NE2007: Libraries Without Borders has come and gone! A little anti-climactic now as we pull together the final bits and pieces, making sure we don't miss anyone or anything that needs follow-up...

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