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Last night I gave a presentation on blogs & RSS to the Rocky Mountain chapter of the Special Library Association. My co-presenter was Scott Brown from Sun Microsystems. It went very well despite the combination of my not being able to get an Internet connection for my laptop and the provided computer with a connection not reading my jump drive (where the backup copy of my presentation was) due to it running Windows 98. (I ended up running my PowerPoint off of my laptop then switching the projector cable to the desktop to do the live portion of the presentation.) While figuring all this out one of my hosts commented that I seemed to be handling all the problems in stride. Ah, the life of a trainer. I must say that the most interesting part was learning that Sun employees are encouraged to blog, whether or not it’s work related. Most of those blogs are publicly available at http://blogs.sun.com/roller/, and they all have RSS feeds too. It was fun to learn last night that currently the most popular blog at Sun is not the one by the CEO. He’s currently in second place.

Published by Michael Sauers

Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.

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