Posted in Intranet on November 25, 2007 | No Comments »
I ran an intranet feedback session with the Brisbane staff the other day. It’s the first of my end 2007/08 series, next week it’s Sydney’s turn.
The morning commenced by luring them with “Dreamy Donuts”. Personally, I have heard of Krispy Kreme, but not these, but as they were close to work I thought “why not”. Food [...]
Posted in Library on November 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I am always evaluating the message I am delivering to my colleagues and always thinking, “is my message getting across AND how can the message improve”. (do my colleagues understand the library) I think it’s important to always be thinking this as it will truly help your service to evolve and get more people using [...]
Posted in Library, Web 2.0 on November 7, 2007 | No Comments »
Usual question ? What do you do? My answer, “I get paid to blog and search google.” It’s not really what I do all day, but some part of my work is submitting information to my library portal via a blog. BTW, we use wordpress.
Initially the blog started as a way for me to handle [...]
Posted in Library on November 6, 2007 | No Comments »
So you have been seeing my library marketing campaigns flourish. Current campaigns are the Sherlock Holmes ad and the “view the library refresh and grab a muffin” session I held last friday. Well, last Friday the CEO turned up and I had about 10 minutes with him before the hordes turned up. It was good [...]
Posted in Photos, Rainfall, Uncategorized on November 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »
If you had of told me on Saturday night at about 6pm, that our dam would fill up and our property would be flooded with water on Sunday morning, I would have told you you were crazy, and that it would not happen! Well, we rushed out and redirected some of the tank water in [...]
Posted in Library on November 2, 2007 | No Comments »
The Librarians, a new show on the ABC, which you are all well aware of, has caused quite a rabble on many ALIA email lists. Many people are criticising it, saying they hate it, like it etc. But I see another side to the screening of this show, see my reply to a few library [...]
Posted in Library on November 1, 2007 | No Comments »
So, I have a vision for how I’d like to market my library within our organisation, and some of it is now coming to fruition. Your “Urbis Super Sleuth” is one strategy and there are more on the boil, which I will share with you as they are launched.
Recently Katy (she did lots and lots [...]
