I’m now into Month 3 in my quest to do something new every day. My birthday in February was quite delightful – I let go of my control freak ways and let my wife plan an entire day of newness. I never knew what was next until it happened. It was a blast! Here are […]
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My New Year’s Resolution to do something new everyday garners interesting reactions. Some question my rules. (What happens if you skip a day, do you have to make it up? Do you plan them out a week ahead of time? You did three different kinds of different puzzles, does that really count as three things […]
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My approach to New Year’s Resolutions for 2014 has been heavily influenced by the book I Dare Me by LuAnn Cahn. For an entire year, Cahn did something new every day – something she had either never done before in her life, or had not done since childhood. I’m not sure why this idea has […]
> Me, surfing in Costa Rica A few weeks ago I spent several days of my vacation in a learning environment. After my return, I prepared to teach a couple of facilitation workshops. I try to use my learning experiences to inform my teaching My surfing instructors patiently worked with me through all the component […]
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>Oh. My. Gawd. LibraryThing. An easy easy way to catalog your books online…and do all kinds of fun things, like see what other people who have your books are reading…kinda like a more interactive Amazon.com. One fun feature is the Anti-suggester. You know how Amazon will tell you, “People who bought X also bought Y?” […]
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>As part of the 23 Things challenge, I frittered away some time on Twitter. Folks randomly post a short blurb about what they’re doing at the moment. I just don’t get the point. There’s a feature where you can have twitters sent to your cell phone. There are some news feeds so you could set […]
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>(I feel a ridiculous need to be clever with titles…but what can you do with a post that solely exists to prove that I accomplished items 6, 7, and 8 on the 23 Things challenge?) I fooled around with RSS feeds and set up a few on Bloglines. I added my favorite comic, Dykes to […]
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>OK, I have dutifully spent some time looking around Flickr and playing with various Flickr mashups. (My favorite is Spell with Flickr.) The mashups are indeed a tremendously fun waste of time…but I am having a REALLY hard time seeing how they might be relevant to my library work. (How did these 23 things get […]
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>Back in April I started this blog as part of the Learning 2.0 continuing education challenge created by the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. Now one of my numerous employers, Marin County Free Library, is encouraging us to participate in a similar challenge via InfoPeople. So here I go, blogging my progress for […]
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