Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

Bookmark these!

Posted by Nicole on January 15th, 2006 under Life, Online Tools & Tips
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There are 2 very handy resources I need to tell you about. One I’ve known about for a while and one I just found today.
Ever get annoyed with those automated systems where you have to hit a hundred different numbers before you get a person? Well this IVR Cheat Sheet from [...]

Happy New Year!

Posted by Nicole on January 1st, 2006 under Life
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Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year!

Get organized

Posted by Nicole on December 21st, 2005 under Life, RSS/RSS Aggregators
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Steven Cohen frequently mentions how unorganized he is - well maybe this nifty tool would help - ReminderFeed.
ReminderFeed is a FREE reminder service tool that works through your feed reader. Simply fill out the form below, then add the RSS Link to your feed reader. It’s that simple!
What I’d like to see is a way [...]

Overreact Much?

Posted by Nicole on December 21st, 2005 under Library, Life
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I just read over on Leslie Burger’s blog about a - what I consider - silly fiasco over a simple holiday card. A NJ librarian sent decided to use the ALA “Seasons Readings” holiday cards this year. She sent her first batch of cards to the township committe, library donors and local politicians, [...]

Not a Librarian

Posted by Nicole on December 15th, 2005 under Library School, Life
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I’ve been a bit quiet the last couple days, this isn’t because I’m not keeping up with library news it’s because I’m finding things a little out of my league. As I mention in my tag line I am a Library Web Manager - not a Librarian - and sometimes I feel out of [...]

New Home

Posted by Nicole on December 11th, 2005 under Blogs/Blogging, Life
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Welcome to our new home. I don’t plan on ever moving again.
I don’t have time now to design my own theme, so I downloaded one from a great site: alexking.org.
I’m off to catch up on my reading so I can post some more for you. Please update your bookmarks & feed [...]

Snow Days

Posted by Nicole on December 9th, 2005 under Blogs/Blogging, Life
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Are an excuse to get busy … well for people like me. Today was a snow day so I decided to try and get my new domain set up with WordPress so that I can host my own blog. The url is web2learning.net but I’m still trying to transfer stuff over and I haven’t [...]

No more days off

Posted by Nicole on December 5th, 2005 under Life
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Geeze! I took one day off from monitoring my Bloglines subscriptions and now I have over 550 new posts to read … I guess that means no more days off for me. Watch here for a bunch of updates - unless it was 550 boring posts.

Zero!

Posted by Nicole on November 18th, 2005 under Life
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Oh My Goodness! It can be done, it took me 2 weeks but I have subscribed & unsubscribed to hundreds of blogs/news sources and I'm not down to 161 feeds and ZERO new posts … of course that will change in a minute or so, but I just thought I'd share … back to work.