Hola! I'm chairing the ATHDrupal group and for now, I am just "helping" the EEATH group (I hope a Chair rises organically in the group).ATHDrupal is a new regional Drupal group (forming out of the ashes of UGA Drupal Group). We would like to invite anyone interested in Drupal to join us.

This is for my mom ;-)--------------GenealogyWise.com is a brand new social networking site, similar to Facebook, but dedicated to genealogists. In fact, it was officially announced the first part of July.GenealogyWise.com is a site with forums, blogs, videos, RSS feeds and more - again, all related to genealogy. Developed by WorldVitalRecords.com, it looks to be a great tool to help us stay andget connected with other researchers.

Quick project update:I'm finishing up the Faculty Learning Committee on Emerging Technologies and I've accepted to be a member of the FLC for 2010 on Visual Learning (The Shift to Visual).

I'm reviewing books for techstatic (next month, my review is on MediaWiki and then April's title is Library Blogging).Review - Developing Facebook Platform Applications with RailsReview - Content Management Systems in Libraries

SO, one of the things I love to do is post by email to blogs (call it laziness, if you want!).POSTING TO BLOGGER VIA EMAILBlogger makes this incredibly easy and does most of the work for you.Under Settings> EmailIn the Mail to Blogger Address, choose an email address you would like to use.You can also chose if you want to publish or keep them as drafts (for review and publ

Has anyone used Issuu to epublish? If so, what do you think? I've been considering switching platforms for the arts magazine. I like PacerCMS, but I don't have much time for development these days. I chose PacerCMS because it created a nice issue and did everything I wanted out of the box (and it pretty much does, once I created my CSS templates). So, I don't HAVE to switch to anything... but whoa, does Issuu look good. However, the free version is ad based. ;-(Is there anything opensource like Issuu?

I'm not trying to start a political discussion, but if you haven't checked out the new website http://www.change.gov, it is kind of interesting in terms of the use of web2.0 technologies.It includes a blog (with rss, of course), a mechanism to sign up for emails, a form to share stories or thoughts, and more (the blog includes youtube videos, too).Contrary to the chatter about it being drupal run (I was hopeful!) , it's expression engine (the search throttle screen and the rss feed gives it away....)See (first clue; oh do I know this screen w

In the past few years, I've been noticing a trend amongst many of the smart, talented cataloging colleagues that I know -- they are are leaving the Cataloging profession.I think there are many factors at work, but I see a few trends:

• The shifted job: Their jobs have shifted even if their job descriptions or titles have not.
• The evolved job: Their jobs and official job descriptions have shifted from "Cataloger" to something involving bibliographic services, metadata, electronic resources, digital initiatives, etc.

The Closing of Library Services... The Opening of Library Services (Free Webcast)Wednesday, Oct. 22, 3-5:30 pmBrewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and director of the Open Content Alliance (OCA) and a critic of proprietary services like the massive Google Books project, will be the keynote speaker for the fourth John Seely Brown Symposium on Technology and Society sponsored by the University of Michigan School of Information. Mr.

So, who's going to GLA/COMO '08? For the first time in FOREVER it seems, I am not presenting. How'd that happen? ;-)Instead, I'm on the ballot (unopposed) to Chair the Professional And Continuing Education Interest Group (PACE, that is)The problem I always have with conferences is whether to go support my friends/colleagues/coworkers or whether I should only go to those that interest me, or well, those that sound like fun. I try to hit the middle ground! ;-)I'm going to the 'Taking on Technology Preconference' (sounds like fun!) on Weds.