23 Things Kansas 2010 is history. 23 Things Kansas – the blog is open and ready for anyone to use and learn by. For 23 Things Kansas the numbers tell the story of the program. We started with the numbers and hit Kansas like a “twister.” Now you can use the numbers to judge [...]
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Problems Resolved
May 30th, 2010
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It looks like the problems with the website were resolved overnight. Please let Heather know immediately if all the posts disappear off the homepage again.
Photo Credit
“Sometimes It Doesn’t Go Well” by flickr user Mr. Ducke
Other photo that illustrates this situation: Put Chocloate Pudding on the Top Shelf !!
Heather Braum Receives KLA Award
April 26th, 2010
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(Click the headline to see Heather’s picture and to send her your congratulations!)
Heather Braum, NEKLS technology librarian and 23 Things Kansas Mentor supreme received the 2010 KLA Presidential Award for New Professionals. Heather was cited for her work on 23 Things Kansas and a host of other work she has done for Kansas libraries and [...]
Week 16 Announcement
April 21st, 2010
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Next week is the last week of 23 Things Kansas lessons, can you believe it? We can’t believe how fast our time together has gone! A more lengthy posting will come out over the weekend, including information about what will happen at our celebration webinars and next week’s blog post, but we wanted to give [...]
Follow the KLA Conference Virtually
April 6th, 2010
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Not only are there going to be some live “virtual sessions” at the KLA Conference this week (see Cindi Hickey’s message on KANLIB/KASL sometime in the past week) that you can catch through Wimba, you can also follow along by tracking the conference hashtag on Twitter, #kla2010. Many people may tweet from sessions, and you [...]
Thank You, Liz Rea
March 15th, 2010
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Special thanks go to Liz Rea, Network Administrator, Northeast Kansas Library System (NEKLS), our fearless lesson leader last week who stepped in at the 11th hour to create a fun-filled and interactive week of instant messaging and online chatting. Liz filled in for LaDonna Clark who was unable to do the lesson.
Last week was [...]
Finding Followers on Twitter
March 1st, 2010
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Someone raised a very good question on the Google Groups listserv for 23 Things Kansas this weekend as to why searching by username through the “Find People” feature on Twitter wasn’t working. Here’s my response:
I’m not sure why that doesn’t work. I did a quick Google search, and found out this from Twitter help:
As late [...]
Dealing with Spam & Phishing Scams on Twitter
February 26th, 2010
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As we all know, the Internet is wonderful place full of lots of good information, but it’s also full of bad an sometimes dangerous information. Some of you may have noticed that you have been receiving Spam messages or “weird” followers on Twitter and aren’t quite sure how to deal with it. The following [...]
Continue to Register Your Blog Address and Other News
January 14th, 2010
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I hope you all have had a great first week so far as part of the 23 Things Kansas program. From the comments I’ve been seeing and hearing, people are excited, having lots of fun, and learning together. I think one of the best things about this program is that it’s a great opportunity for [...]
New Participant Blog Listing Now Available
January 13th, 2010
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Many of you have probably been wondering why the participant blog listing hadn’t been updated in over a day. That’s because a better solution was discovered. I am happy to announce that you can now visit the new and improved, and much more usable blog listing at this link.
I hope it’s much more user [...]
