i’m very excited to be giving my first Click U workshop at the upcoming SLA conference in Washington, DC.
Click University — Informing Avatars: Exploring the Possibilities of Virtual Worlds
Through a hands-on workshop, participants will have the opportunity to learn about the possibilities of virtual worlds, enter Second Life to create an avatar, and explore [...]

it’s Ada Lovelace Day (go read about her, i’ll wait) and i (along with 1694 other folk) pledged to blog about a tech heroine. so i started doing some research. then more research. and though i did uncover a lot of awesome women who have done amazing things, none of them  were just right.
and then [...]

such as present at a workshop where you’re on the slate with seasoned veterans like Stephen Abram and Michael Stephens.
i would say that i am fairly comfortable presenting in front of a group. we do a lot of teaching at my branch, so i have had a lot of practice explaining somewhat complicated things to [...]

sometimes print really is better. (Photo credit: inju at www.flickr.com/photos/35468141938@N01/112082907)
CBC’s Spark (i love Nora Young!) had a recent episode discussing the value of offline formats of communication: basically, stuff printed on dead trees.
hearing about Ben Tennett’s project Things Our Friends Have Written on the Internet, where he selected blog posts and published them as a [...]

well that was awesome and terrifying.
my first presentation at Internet Librarian. i think it went pretty well. i know i spoke way too fast but i was worried that we wouldn’t have enough time.
click here to go to my list of presentations and check out our slides.
many thanks to erik and jaap of the shanachies [...]

when i started this blog i really thought i would be blogging about library-related matters in Second Life. i have, and i will again, but i don’t think calling this blog “informing MUVEs” is entirely accurate.
since my motto/mantra/catchphrase/thing i like to write is “knowledge requires collaboration” maybe i should try and incorporate that. but how, [...]

today i helped some folks who live in countries where a lot of news is censored, find quality information to answer their immediate needs.
Amy Kearns had an idea a few weeks back about having a 24 hour “twitter librarian” that would answer questions shot into the twittersphere.
Metafilter offers similar reference services (tho not answered specifically [...]

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if you click on the link in the bar above you’ll be able to see transcripts of my live-blogging using Cover It Live (which is a genius app and i’m really happy with it.)
for some reason i lost connectivity (i blame SNOW) and had to rewire my house so there’s a big chunk missing between [...]

okay, first, i want an iPhone. us Canucks can use them but only with some hacking, and as techie as i like to think i am, really i just like to play with the toys, not program them.
according to the International Business Times (thanks for the tweet about this Fleep!) Vollee plans to develop an [...]