As with #sla2008, and again with thanks to the folks at Wordle (still a great tool!), I present you with a cloud based on the tweets from #sla2009. Click the thumbnail to view the larger image.
Compare this year's cloud with 2008 and you may notice a few things:
"SLA", "session", "conference"and "great" are again the more [...]
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Here is my preliminary schedule for SLA2009 in Washington, DC. I will also be at plenty of Open Houses and sessions.
The best way to contact me while I am in DC would be a direct message on Twitter – yankeeincanada.
Fri Jun 12, 2009
9am SLA Board of Directors Executive Session
1pm SLA Board of Directors Open Session
Sat [...]
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SLA 2009 is almost here! Since May 2, 2009 the #sla2009 re-tweeter has been busily sending around tweets as people prepare for conference. Undoubtedly, the volume of tweets will increase as we get closer to conference and will balloon from June 14-17, 2009.
With a bit of help, I have designed a dashboard for the re-tweeter [...]
Once again, a re-tweeter for has been developed for this year's SLA conference based on the Twitter API and John Eckman's code. Many thanks to John and our own Karen Huffman for improving on last year's code!
Starting on Saturday May 2, 2009, the sla2009
Twitter account will become a re-tweeter. What's a re-tweeter you
ask? It's simple. [...]
I have seen a lot of discussion on various blogs about establishing hashtags on Twitter for the various groups in SLA. I don’t know if this list exists yet, so I am going to start one. What hashtags are out there? Add a comment with known hashtags and I will compile the list.
#sla2008 (Annual conference [...]
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SLA eVoting for the 2009 Board of Directors Election will begin on 10 September 2008 at 12:01 a.m. EDT.
All members* eligible to vote and in good standing as of 25 August 2008
may participate in the election. Polls will close on 1 October at 5:00
p.m. EDT.
Members with a current e-mail address in the SLA database will
receive [...]
Candidate Speech (Video)
I want to talk with you today about three things:
Leadership, Volunteers and Technology.
While we can’t predict what the priorities of the incoming Board will be, based on my years of experience with SLA: Leadership, Volunteers, and Technology
will be areas of focus for me, if I am elected.
SLA is not only a professional [...]
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With thanks to the folks at Wordle (what a great tool!), I present you with a cloud based on the tweets from #sla2008. The only term I removed from this graphic was sla2008. Click the thumbnail to view the larger image.Also, here are the Top 15 Tweeps for #sla2008
conniecrosby
artquiltmaker
ChrisVestal
yankeeincanada
khuffman
nengard
desertlibrarian
leahs
jdysart
robotfrog
raabonte
CindysConfNotes
carolyne
jambina
lukelibrarian
Nice going y’all! There’s probably more analysis [...]
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I have developed a re-tweeter for sla2008 based on the Twitter API and John Eckman’s code. Thanks John!
Starting on Wednesday June 11, 2008, the sla2008 Twitter account will become a re-tweeter. What’s a re-tweeter you ask? It’s simple. When a follower of sla2008 posts a tweet with the hashtag #sla2008 in their tweet – probably [...]