Well, I just received a very interesting phone call from a one Daniel Bernstein. Daniel, it seems, works for Meebo. Regular readers know that I lurve Meebo. It is the only chat interface I use now and I have been considering adding the new widget they released, Meebo Me, to the sidebar on this blog. I had a gushy “OMG I totally love you moment,” but hopefully I was sensible after that.
He mostly wanted to know about librarians, what we do, how we do it, and what is this ALA/LITA thing. It was lovely. I wish other social software companies cared as much how people are using their tools. Heck, I wish ILS vendors cared so much that they found the co-chair of a tiny interest group which dealt with their stuff and called them up for a chat too.
–Jane, I am waiting Innovative
p.s. Because Mr. R thinks librarians throw our initialisms around like candy:
ILS – Integrated Library System, sometimes substituted for OPAC and visa versa
OPAC – Online Public Access Catalog, see above
Michelle,
Thanks for the post … and the chat!
Stay in touch,
Danny
Ah, but we also throw candy around like initialisms. That’s what makes our meetings so fun!
You guys throw candy around? Do you guys advertise that as a job benefit? Maybe more people would be librarians if they knew that. Now, if you said you were throwing meat around, I might even become a librarian. Nah, not even for meat. Meat and Ice Cream? I’ll have to think about that.
p.s. Sorry for taking that into left field.
That rocks! I adore Meebo, too.
I suppose the real question is whether spelling out the initialisms makes them any more clear. . . .
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supports aim, icq, msn, yahoo, irc, jabber, sametime, etc.
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