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		<title>What do Martha Stewart, hashish, laundry bags, and existential communists have in common?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[reposted from an entry I authored on Infopeople&#8217;s blog, 10/5/2011 Social media &#8211; or more to the point &#8211; a snapshot of my life as portrayed on social media. I’ll try to explain that eclectic mix in a bit. I’ll be presenting an Infopeople course, Library Marketing and Promotion via Social Media, from mid October [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LibraryAnywhere: Smart App needs more brains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LibraryAnywhere is one of my favorite iphone apps. It allows me to search a library catalog &#8211; preferably my own, but not yet. However, it does allow me to search a library within my library&#8217;s consortium. So, hey, I can easily search the catalog and place holds on books. The closest library found when I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bellcow.com/2011/02/libraryanywhere-smart-app-needs-more-brains/</link>
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		<title>My Year with a Kindle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago I purchased my first Kindle and was immediately impressed. I thought I&#8217;d found a new technology partner to take with me everywhere. The task of reading and holding the Kindle is quite enjoyable &#8211; easy on the eyes, easy to page forward through a book and lightweight. But, I quickly discoverd [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bellcow.com/2010/10/my-year-with-a-kindle/</link>
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		<title>Mindful of the Message</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IT director, project manager, grant writer, teacher, mentor, tech support &#8230; mom. I take my job(s) seriously, especially the last one listed &#8211; mom. That is why I find the Clear.com commercials so offensive that I can&#8217;t ever imagine using their service or supporting their company. I have such a visceral disdain for the message [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perspective &amp; the Results of our Actions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I followed a tweet from the University of Virginia that showed what geographic area the Gulf oil disaster would affect if it was centered at UVa&#8217;s Rotunda. Using the same site, here&#8217;s what it would affect on Day 51 if it was centered in my own back yard. Think of every animal, plant and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bellcow.com/2010/06/perspective-the-results-of-our-actions/</link>
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		<title>Reconnect &#8211; Reskin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My college roommate was an artist and graphic designer, long before computers did that sort of thing. She moved to Colorado and we lost touch, because we didn&#8217;t have facebook, linkedin, twitter or classmates.com back then. This past summer we reconnected as I was determined to track her down and was successful. She is the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bellcow.com/2010/05/reconnect-reskin/</link>
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		<title>Life Lessons of Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This has been a rough week for Illinois libraries. The North Suburban Library System, as all Illinois library systems, is in crisis &#8211; they have not received much of their funding for their fiscal year which ends in one month. We hear these stories in the news each night in our state, highlights of educational [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bellcow.com/2010/05/life-lessons-of-work/</link>
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		<title>Service &amp; Social Learning &#8211; Mixing in the Mud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it takes getting your hands dirty to make a difference. A group of University of Virginia students learned that &#8220;first hand&#8221; in January when they spent their winter break working outside of Buenos Aries, Argentina. Their initial assignments seemed impossible for their two-week stay &#8211; build an adobe hut/bathroom, tame an overgrown space and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bellcow.com/2010/04/service-social-learning-mixing-in-the-mud/</link>
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		<title>Retro Fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spring cleaning has uncovered some newsletter archives from 1984. Pyrotechnics, a brilliant or sensational display, as of rhetoric (The Random House Dictionary), was published for 9 academic years (1983-1991) by Academic Computer Services at DePaul University. The articles are quite entertaining in today&#8217;s state of technology. Especially loved this classified: &#8220;ACS is selling terminals, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bellcow.com/2010/04/retro-fun/</link>
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		<title>Visit to Fountaindale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rob Zschernitz from NSLS and I had a great visit with Paul Mills. Paul is the Technology Services Manager at Fountaindale Public Library District in Bolingbrook, IL. We&#8217;ve had the pleasure of working with Paul for the past decade when he was at the Prairie Area Library System. It was great to visit a friend [...]]]></description>
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