by David Lee King on July 28, 2009
Remember that I told y’all about Bobbi Newman’s Day in the Life project? Well – here’s my contribution to that. Only doing one day, but boy – it was a doozy of a day!
So – My Day in the Life, in roughly chronological order:
- Met with Cafe staff to get firm pricing for breakfast/lunch for Podcamp Topeka
- Posted a reminder about Podcamp Topeka on Twitter
- Met with Communications Manager about a couple of “interesting” comments to a blog post on our library website
- Took down (closed, not deleted) a couple of comments
- Helped hunt down why some comments weren’t appearing on our website (fixed) and figured out a better way for me to get copied on comments (Feedburner RSS feed was too slow – now subscribed to the direct comment feed, which is much faster for some reason)
- Posted email to all staff in relation to comments and library policies (written with Communications Manager)…
- … then answered emails about THAT email
- Updated by Digital Services staff on our recent battles with the conflicker worm (we won) and our DVD Dispenser (electrical problem)
- Participated in a BCR Public Libraries Advisory Group conference call
- Had another conference call/meeting about comments on our website
- Proofread a galley proof of my upcoming LTR
- One more (late) meeting about the comment (no, it’s really NOT that bad – we just needed to figure out some procedural things, like what to say, who gets to say it, etc stuff)
Now I’m going home!
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by David Lee King on July 21, 2009
Every once in awhile, I write a “what David did today” post … I’d love to see what others with similar jobs did!
So – What did I do today?
- Checked to see if someone was answering a couple of blog post comments on our website (they were)
- Gathered updates from my department about our nasty Conflicker worm (almost cleaned out – nasty, nasty worm. Still have to yell at McAfee.
- Also got updates about our virutal servers we recently purchased, about scanners for the public, and about our recent bandwidth upgrade
- Lots of Podcamp Topeka work (we’re hosting a podcamp) throughout the day- emailed podcamp.org owner to see about being listed there, emailed our cafe manager to figure out lunch costs, created a pbworks wiki page for session leaders, and tweeted about it a couple of times
- Added 23 things kansas meeting to my calendar…
- emailed youtube video of local family using our summer reading coupons at applebees to library managers
- lunch at my desk … twitter/rss/emails/facebook messages
- walked around public floor, asked staff how PCs were behaving
- Did some planning for Thursday’s skype call with Darien Library for our weekly managers meeting
- Worked on updating our Technology Plan to send to the state… erate and all
- Finished off the day researching how to write an Experience Brief – thinking about writing one for our website.
Whew! Busy day for me.
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