Last night’s launch went well, despite some last minute technological glitches. (Thanks to KS and JJ for your wonderful assistance - we couldn’t have done it without you!) Picture sixteen librarians crammed into a small room, and me and sirexkat doing our best to regale our audience with tales of the joys of the blogosphere.
Most of the attendees were not already blogging - but it was good to finally meet Hoi and catch up with Sputty (hope we inspired you enough to keep going!). Here’s the start of great things… and much blogging!
After the first event sirexkat and I decided we did have enough energy to drop in on the bloggers at the monthly meetup. It was great to see Toxic Purity, Skribe and JOOB (even though he was asleep - babies do that I guess), Dee, Simone, Kay, and Richard (barcamp - interesting. Can it happen in Perth?). There were at least four other bloggers there too but I didn’t manage to say hi. And Jon, did you make it? (I was late.) Next time!
Categories: blogging, conference, ALIA, Click06, bloggers, meetup
This evening, I have not one, but two blogging events to attend!
The first is a launch/demo of our Let’s Blog Click06blog the conf blog. Nineteen librarians are coming along to learn about conference blogging, and we want to show them our blog which we hope will serve as a safe space for those who haven’t blogged before to dip their toes (or should that be fingers?) into the blogosphere. We’d like to record our impressions of the conference for those who can’t make it.
I was just thinking about how sirexkat and I have been working on the blog the conf blog together - giving our own time (and our own money! we paid for the server space and domain name), at 9pm every night, on the weekends, thinking, planning and writing - and how amazing it is that this ‘extracurricular’ project is engaging me so much. All this fervour, interest, enthusiasm - I must be a blog evangelist after all.
The second event is the monthly Perth bloggers meetup. I hope I won’t be completely drained by the end of the first event, which goes from 6pm to 8pm, but I hope to pop in to say hello to everyone who’s there when the launch is done.
All this blogging - I’m going to bed every night quite exhausted - who’d have thought blogging could be so exerting?
Categories: blogging, conference, ALIA, Click06, bloggers, meetup
Yesterday at work, while gazing out of the window (as you do when you have been staring at a computer screen all day), I saw a guy get up from the bench he was sitting on, walk a few steps, then chuck an empty soft drink bottle on the ground, among some bushes. Then he walked back to his seat and sat down again to chat with his mate. I couldn’t believe my eyes. If he had kept walking a few more steps, he would have reached the bin strategically placed specifically for such rubbish.
I got up, let myself out of the library and went up to him. “Excuse me,” I said, “I just saw what you did, I was looking out the window…” I pointed in the direction of the discarded bottle. Actually I didn’t need to even point, because I could see that, as soon as I said I’d seen what he’d done, he knew what I was referring to, and he knew he shouldn’t have littered. I’m sure I didn’t need to, but I went up to the bin, gestured at it, and opened it for him to deposit the bottle into. I think I made a comment about littering on our campus. Then I went back to my desk.
Back at my desk I could see the guy went back to sitting on the bench for a few more minutes before getting up and wandering off. I do wonder why he did it. I mean, it wasn’t as if he’d remained seated and flung the bottle away from him - he’d actually gotten up! Did he just lose motivation to use the bin halfway along the arduous trek to reach it??
M suggests that I was outside my “jurisdiction”, since the incident occurred outside the library. I contend that it was a shared, public space and we all have some level of responsibility and care for it. Maybe I embarrassed the guy in front of his friend and the smokers who were out there - but it irked me. What would you have done?
Categories: community
