Embedded Librarian: Hello, I am the Embedded Librarian who Used to Blog at this Address

June 9, 2010

Hello, I am the Embedded Librarian who Used to Blog at this Address

When you forget your blog password, it's been too long.

There is no excuse, but there is a reason, that I do not blog as frequently as I used to. Sometimes it's that I don't think I like the job enough to blog about it without negativity. Sometimes it's that I love it so much I don't want to stop to share it, but here goes...

(Any place is a good place to start, right?) I ran two professional Twitter feeds (see Thing 1 and Thing 2), and managed to pop in via my personal account occasionally, during our annual conference. It was a great experience and I am convinced that the librarian is the best person to have this job during a week-long conference. I plan to write this up for...for something, so I can share it with other solos. Next week I will give a presentation to one of the teams to explain what all I did and why I think it was effective.

I also got to dress up as a giant penguin to help launch a website that I work on, and to promote my monthly newsletter, whose mascot is Tappy the Penguin. If that's not working in the white spaces, I don't know what is.

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By the Numbers

Google Bookmarks: 105
Google Bookmark "labels": 63
Office 2010 Trainings: 1 in development, via GoogleDocs
Windows 7 Trainings: 3 completed
Google Docs Training: 1 in development
SMUG (Social Media Users Group) Meetings: 3 completed! Round 4 in development
Official Twitter Search Tips disseminated: 6 and counting
Acronyms: 219
Tags created: 1196 (last count on Delicious; can't figure it out yet in Google Bookmarks)
Tagged Resources: 2329 (last count on Delicious; can't figure it out yet in Google Bookmarks)
Information Overload/Filter Failure Trainings: 1 completed, 16 informal conversations
Web Accessibility Trainings: 6 formal sessions completed; 1 in development; 55 informal conversations; 12 formal conversations; 4 blog posts; for colleague publication-1; intensive volunteer projects-1 in progress, online toolkits rescued-1!
Web Accessibility statements drafted: 4. Approved: 4.
Social Bookmarking training: 3 in development, 12 completed; many informal conversations;1 piece of writing in press; 1 effusive blog post; 1 sad and confusing week
Tweets: 5,516 (personal) and 2,184 (professional)
Twitter trainings: "power of the hashtag"-in development; 1 best practices list created, 4 formal presentations, 92 informal conversations, 1 blog post, 1 conference presentation completed, more and more "formal conversations" happening. Twitter style guide releases: 1!
Google Alerts Sent: 144 and counting
Gmail tags: 370
Google Groups Trainings: 4 formal sessions completed; 3 informal conversations
Webinars I've participated in: 51 and counting...
Wiki projects: 15 in various stages of development
Wiki training: 8 completed
Wikis started by staff members (on their own): 9 and counting...
YouTube trainings: 3 informal conversations
Number of times I have sent David Carr's Twitter article around: 59 and counting
Number of fan letters to David Carr: 1
Number of responses to fan letters to David Carr: 1
Number of ReTweets by @carr2n: 1
Number of ReTweets by @doctorow: 1
RTs by @RonCharles: 1
Mentions on JD Roth's blog: 1
Mentions by @kathryncalder: 1!
Mentions by @richardroeper: 1!
Mentions on Mike Rowe's blog: 1
Mentions on Dan Pink's Blog: 2
emails from @dannyschmidt: 2!!!
Emails from Gretchen Rubin: 1!
Direct messages from @euxautres: 1!
Number of ReTweets by @OnPointRadio:1! Number of Twitter haikus authored by me, read on air by Tom Ashbrook: 1 (twice)!
Tweets from @AlexisMadrigal: 1!
Mentions by @msamywallace: 1!
Fan letters to Amy Wallace: 1
Responses to fan letters from Amy Wallace: 1!
Mentions by @CommonCraft: 1!
Costumes dressed up in: 1 very hot penguin suit

Read This Book

Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky
A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
The Art of Non-Conformity by Chris Guillebeau
The Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong
Ground Up by Michael Idov
Lessons in Becoming Myself by Ellen Burstyn
The Night of the Gun by David Carr
If We Can Put a Man on the Moon by Bill Eggers and John O'Leary
Living in More Than One World: How Peter Drucker's Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform Your Life by Bruce Rosenstein
Cartwheels in a Sari by Jayanti Tamm
A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink

DC Speak

"advertorial"
"alphabet soup", said to assuage the weight of too many acronyms in one conversation
"antiproposal": a written credo against a pending proposal (Thank you, Susan Fournier of ICBA)
"backfill": I think it's actually Canadian for "fill in the gaps"
"champion, v.t., as in 'We need someone to champion this effort.'"
"I don't want any grass to grow on this; let's move."
"I'll follow-up with you offline."
"low-hanging fruit" - outliers, or tasks easily accomplished to get a project underway
"obligate your funds"
"paywall(ed)": post an article online that requires login/payment to view
"promising practices" (cf "best practices")
"ROOF"-ing: running out of food
"ROOM"-ing: running out of material
"upsell," as in when you have agreed to a certain number of beverages for your event but when you arrive your vendor tries to sell you more (gs)

Embedded Wisdom

The democratization and fragmentation of media play to introverts’ strengths. Influence no longer depends on commanding the masses or controlling the levers to power. Now it’s enough to speak authentically. If even a tiny fraction of people hear you, that’s still a lot of humans. ~Susan Cain
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. ~Tim Ferriss
It's not getting better; you're getting better. ~Jacob Bailis
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. ~Victor Frankl
Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. ~Alan Keightley
If there’s something you want to be or do, the best way to become that thing is to actually take steps toward it, to move in that direction. Don’t just talk about it, but do something. It doesn’t have to be a big thing. Just take a small step in the right direction every single day. ~J.D. Roth
You cannot break the law; you can only break yourself against the law. ~The Buddha
If you have the same problem over and over again, maybe it's not a problem. Maybe it's a fact. ~Clay Shirky
If you have more than three priorities, you have no priorities. ~Jim Collins
A focused collection is an information service; an unfocused or overwhelming collection is a disservice to the user. ~James A. Jacobs
I found that by looking at the white spaces on the organization chart – the gaps between jobs, where no else had responsibility -- that there were new job opportunities, like building an intranet, starting a corporate university, creating a daily business intelligence report, that needed to be done. As it turned out, sometimes I was promoted into a job and sometimes I was promoted because I created the job that needed doing.(SFC)