Virtually Here...

Hmmm, just so much virtual space to explore and only so much time to do it in. I must admit to a recent Facebook addiction. I wonder if there is some help for that?

Anyway, I am on holidays to Scotland soon, mainly Northeast, Edinburgh, Inverness, area and wee bit of time in Glasgow.

Any suggestions, especially with regard to libraries to visit?

Thnx

The blog policy that I wrote was put forward to senior management, was approved and is now official policy. Wow, feels a bit strange, but at the same time I have come across another policy statement written for a museum setting that I really like and would like to incorporate some aspects of it (thanks DA). I have come to the conclusion that this policy is a living document and will continue to evolve. As it should.

Now if only I could convince staff that it is not that time consuming… Continue

Okay, read the following and then click the link at the bottom, too cool!

And you thought those people that set up roomfuls of dominos to knock over were amazing. There are no computer graphics or digital tricks in the film. Everything you see really happened in real time exactly as you see it. The film took 606 takes. (Holy cow!) On the first 605 takes, something, usually very minor, didn't work. They would then have to set the whole thing up again. The crew spent weeks shooting night… Continue

I attended a Sirsi Dynix session this morning on Second Life. I thought it was interesting to note that there were well over 200 attendees. I signed up for Second Life quite some time ago, but never got into it. Not sure why, because I used to really like Sim City and The Sims.

I will go back and play a while, but quite honestly I don't see the value, and already I have a hard enough time keeping up with my persona… Continue

Well, I finally have the "staff blog" built and it will be officially launched today. The idea is to get staff buy in, increase their comfort with blogging, and then make the blog available to our customers. It is a "book review" blog, intended to act as a Reader's Advisory, but I see the blog reviewing all media formats, music, movies and games too!

So here is the part that has to do with the title of this particular posting, I am in the process of building a map with all our locations… Continue