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More on introverted networking

A Guide For The Introverted Blogger by Micah Sparacio. The first in series of entries about introvert-specific blogging - unfortunately, as far as I can tell, this promise remains unfulfilled after more than a year. The gold nugget among the slightly unpolished entry is this:
“Introverts usually bring a long term vision to their blogging. They [...]

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Spotting, part 2

Meredith Farkas
Jenny Levine

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Message of the day

im in ur kitchen eatin ur kashewz
(I forgot my conferencing munchies home. It seems my hubby found them. )

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Spotting

I’m playing a game of “spot the library big-wigs”. Tally so far:
John Blyberg (we came on the same flight)
Steven Abram
Karen G. Schneider
Sarah Houghton-Jan
Michael Stephens
Amanda Etches-Johnson

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Oct 29: Exhibit opening

The vendors lured people in to see their exhibits with free finger food and alcohol. A great place to mingle, which I did. I talked a little with some vendors, nibbled on cheese and dried fruit. Had a very satisfactory conversation with a librarian from Berry College (Mount Berry, GA).

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Knowing where to aim is good

On Sunday I found out where my husband is going to apply for jobs. I will, therefore, also start looking at open jobs in California, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, New York (state – we’re so going to be out of the city!), Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington (state). My favorite, merely on the basis [...]

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First line of service

 
Stephen Abram quotes data from New Paradigm (via YPulse) about what the NextGens want.
By this definition, I fall somewhere between Stephen and the Next Gens. (By another I’ve seen, I’m definitely Gen Y.) Whatever the case, I certainly find a lot of the Next Gen ideas appealing.
Stephen says (italicized comments are his):
They want to be [...]

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Changes

After wrapping up my summer studies, visiting relatives in Europe, hosting relatives in NYC, and starting a part-time library job (yay!), I’m back in school. Well, technically school starts next week for me, but other classes have been meeting for almost two weeks. I will also start my internship next week. It’s going to be [...]

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Tuesday in Communication class we were talking about marketing. This is an area that I know very little about. However, there is clearly something to be said for being creative, and for going where the people are. A sample of things I found are below.
The Ursinus College Library (Collegeville, PA) has posted great pictures [...]

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Mission: To go out and mingle

Like the author of Chronicles of Bean, I have a hard time mingling fluently. Two days ago, I decided to stop worrying and registered for the Internet Librarian 2007 conference in Monterey, CA in October. I’m excited: the program has almost too many interesting panels and talks, I’ll get to hear some people whose blogs [...]

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