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Connie Crosby is Now Podcasting - Community Divas

Connie Crosby
September 30, 2008 04:38

This summer my friend Eden Spodek, a communications specialist known for her blog Bargainista.ca and one of my fellow Podcamp Toronto organizers, and I dared each other to start podcasting. What better way to fulfill that dare than to create that podcast together?!Thus Community Divas was born! Our...

Product Recalls and Taking Corporate Responsibility

Connie Crosby
September 24, 2008 22:18

Wherever I turn today, I am running into news about recalls:news that the horrific tainted milk scandal in China, where almost 53,000 children are sick and 13,000 are currently in hospital, has now led to a second recall in Canada. On Sunday there was a recall of Nissin Cha Cha Dessert and...

Update: recruiting with social networks & a new law KM online group

Connie Crosby
September 17, 2008 15:10

Hi folks! Here are a few of my recent blog posts you might be interested in:On my business blog Connection I shared some of the resources I used and some of the websites we looked at during a workshop I taught last week on recruiting using Facebook and other social networks. I also released a copy...

Kick-start your Monday with the Hi-Fi Sci-Fi Library

Connie Crosby
August 25, 2008 01:01

WARNING: this song will get stuck in your head. You are warned!!This video is by Michael Porter and David Lee King, created for Michael's upcoming presentation to the Library and Information Technology Association (or LITA, a branch of the American Library Association). The full story of how this...

Six Random Things

Connie Crosby
August 17, 2008 22:44

Every once in a while a meme goes around the blogging world, and sometimes I play along while other times I don't. Just depends on the mood I'm in.This weekend I was at a Niagara Podcasting & Social Media Meetup, and saw my podcasting friend Daniele Rossi. It was great to see Daniele, and now he...

Connie Crosby's Day Off, or How Twitter Decided We Needed a Break

Connie Crosby
August 05, 2008 16:57

Funny things happen when I go off-line for any length of time. In the case of this weekend, I signed off mid-afternoon Friday to head for a workout and then meet a family member who was arriving in town to visit for the long weekend. While out I tried to send a message to my Twitter followers via...

Use That iPod! Latest Podcasts with Connie Crosby

Connie Crosby
August 01, 2008 19:46

Okay, I had the date wrong for the Law Librarians podcast in my last post. As recompense I have put together links to a few other recent podcast episodes that, coincidentally, I have been involved in:Uncontrolled Vocabulary, Episode 52 - Uncontrolled Tech SupportSummary: group phone-in show...

Law Librarian Podcast - Margie Maes is Next Week's Guest

Connie Crosby
August 01, 2008 18:33

Law library podcast The Law Librarian is set to continue recording next Friday, August 8th at 3 pm CST. The show is hosted by Richard Leiter and Brian Striman. Today's guest is Margie Maes (some readers may know her as Margie Axtmann), Executive Director of the Legal Information Preservation...

What Does an Earthquake Do to a Library?

Connie Crosby
July 30, 2008 04:46

Today's news that a moderate earthquake shook California quickly spread through the social networks (well, a 5.8 earthquake isn't moderate in my books!) It was only a matter of time before some video surfaced. I was excited to see that the first footage I saw was of the damage in a library. I had...

Slaw Update

Connie Crosby
July 25, 2008 18:26

Do you read Slaw, the Canadian co-operative law blog? We're now three years old! I try not to re-post from one blog to the other, but as a result I suspect not everyone reading here knows I post over there as well. I hope to start regularly posting references to Slaw just to help keep track. ...