Great little article on bad IT practices

Go read the whole article at techrepublic… but here are two of their “10 dirty little secrets” about the IT department:
3. Veteran IT professionals are often the biggest roadblock to implementing new technologies
A lot of companies could implement more cutting edge stuff than they do. There are plenty of times when upgrading or replacing software [...]

Lee County Library System Presentation

On Monday, I spoke about Web 2.0 and emerging trends at the Lee County Library System’s staff day in Fort Myers, Florida. The day before, I worked extremely hard, as you can tell from the accompanying photo
Anyway… here’s the pdf of my presentation. And an FYI for those of you who are thinking [...]

Tracking words with Twitter

Twitter recently added a Twitter Tracking feature that lets you track keywords and phrases that twitterers use while twittering. Just for kicks, I tracked the word library for 24 hours - every time someone entered the word library into twitter, I received the update… Here’s what I got back from Twitter:
First, my own test updates:

testing [...]

Another Twittering Library

From my comments on this post… try this on for a cool way to use Twitter. Here’s what the library is doing, to the best of my knowledge (Julie, correct me if I get it wrong, please!):

posting real-time reference questions to twitter.com/askusnow
using the Twitter feed to update “the ‘currently being asked’ section of our internal [...]

My LITA Forum 2007 slides

Last Saturday morning, I gave a keynote at the LITA Forum - very fun crowd! So, as promised, here’s a pdf of my slides.
But wait - there’s more! Why not browse through the slides while listening to the podcast version of my talk? If you think that’s fun… we can even go one further… how [...]

More on Community

Nicole Engard (great blog, by the way - y’all should be reading it!) just left a comment on my post It’s About the Community. I was starting to reply to her comment when it dawned on me that my reply might work better as another post, so…
Nicole says: “David, I totally agree! But what about [...]

Question for CSS Dudes…

Help anyone? My footer works in Firefox, but has disappeared in IE (IE7, at least). I’m open to suggestions!
http://www.davidleeking.com/wp-content/themes/vertigo-enhanced-20/style.css - link to stylesheet…
Thanks!

It’s About the Community

Do you read Robert Scoble’s blog? It can be very interesting! Here’s a post I suggest you read. It’s a good intro to Scoble and his blog, and he also makes a great point in this post, too.
Scoble says: “… eBay is NOT about the technology. It’s about the community…” (OK - so most of [...]

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