A tale of 2 identities and the struggles to merge them:

I need some feedback. I have multiple blogs out there. Some are more up to date than others; but none are particularly scandalous.From 2000-2006, I art blogged. I blogged my art process. I blogged new art works. I blogged my heath problems. I blogged a photo friday EVERY friday. I photoblogged from my camera. It was much more personal than what I post here. (there are about 1000 posts in an expression engine website, just sitting...)I occasionally crossposted here, but not so much. It was back in my "I need to keep my identities separate" days.

Professional CV (a Jquery experiment)

So, when I did my dossier for promotion (I go through a rank and promotion process which is somewhat similar to tenure but *not* tenure) , I did it in Jquery. I wanted something that represented my skills as well as meet the format of the dossier.You can see it live embedded below or go to http://www.robinfay.net/cv/ http://www.robinfay.net/cv/

Technical Services Efficiencies, Now and into the Future! Tomorrow!

Ideas and Insights Series:Technical Services Efficiencies, Now and into the Future! (Atlanta, GA)http://www.lyrasis.org/Classes-and-Events/Venues/L/LYRASIS-Atlanta.aspxDate:Thursday, February 3, 2011Location:LYRASIS-Atlanta1438 West Peachtree St., ste. 200Atlanta, GA 30309Registration fee is now $50!REGISTER for this EventAgendaThe pace of change facing library technical services staff is ever accelerating, as our organizations explore new technologies and new media.

What is your time worth?

In the last week, I've received 3 requests to teach or train people in various things. Basically, they want me to teach them what they should know 1) to do a particular job for which they don't want to hire someone or 2)to do the job for which they were hired, but clearly do not have the skills (or to teach someone they hired who is clearly undertrained). Oh, and did I mention for FREE?I've been thinking about this long and hard -- for a variety of reasons, as one of my goals for this year is to evaluate my career path.

It's true.... I'm writing a book (no. 3 in list)

The Tech Set II Cloud Computing in Libraries - Marshall Breeding, Director for Innovative Technologies and Research for the Vanderbilt University Libraries Cloud computing offers organizations new cost-effective ways to use Web services for their computing needs including software applications, data storage, cloud development platforms, and processing power. This informative handbook provides a comprehensive view of the cloud computing landscape, the types of solutions available, their benefits and limitations, and how to use them in your library.

Time flies (projects and more)

So, your might be wondering why I've been so quiet. Busy busy busy.I set up my art page on facebook athttp://www.facebook.com/robinfayartsYou do not need to friend me (or even "like" the page) in order to see my photos and artwork.I will be migrating a huge chunk of my art website there, will I redesign it in Drupal (I'm getting rid of all of the stand alone products, so that it's just Drupal). I just helped put together a lunch group to read and discuss metadata and the semantic web.

Twitter for librarians

Tools I use:To future/schedule tweets
  • Future tweets
  • Brizzly
To post:
  • Brizzly
  • delicious to twitter (links)
  • picnik (twitpic) to twitter (images)
To manage followers/following
  • TwitterKarma: see follows/unfollows and when they posted last (can be slow)
  • Mytweeple: same as above with a little more info
To manage my presence:
  • Klout
  • Twitterstatistics
Librarians and library people I follow
  • @libraryfuture
[I follow more non-library people than I do li
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