Web 2.0 on Resumes

Hey, I got some reader mail! Letters…I get letters…bags and bags of letters….okay, actually it was just one. But anyway, here’s what they wrote:
Dear Sarah,
D’you mind if I ask you a serious question? (Okay, I just did.)
I’m fairly Web-2.0-literate: I’m on Facebook, I took an I-school class taught partly in Second Life, I [...]

Twitter and Customer Service

I’ve heard stories about companies using Twitter for customer service. However, I’ve never tried to use actively solicit company help or received any via Twitter. Until today.
I’m currently in the middle of creating a presentation on library services for one of our law journals. For last minute presentations like this that have a [...]

Avatars

Interrupting blogging hiatus to procrastinate on writing legal research assignments…
If you were on Twitter at all this weekend, you probably noticed that at one point or another, seemingly everyone changed their profile pic to a cartoon one created by Face Your Manga. If you missed that, then perhaps you remember last year when suddenly everyone [...]

Online Course Management Systems

Interrupting hiatus for brief rant-like post…
I just spent an hour doing TWEN training with our teaching faculty and their staff assistants.  Am I the only person that’s bothered by (a) Wexis created course management systems, and (b) TWEN’s dominance in these?
I don’t have a problem with TWEN as a system. It works fine [...]

Temporary Hiatus

Alternate title: Blogging is hard, yo!
I’m putting this blog on hiatus until September 1.  The fact that it’s taken me about a week to get around to putting up this post is pretty much all the evidence I needed to realize that I should do it.   Once I get done plowing through a bunch of [...]