Speaking of Crisis Blogging…

07/02/2012 Leave a comment

I signed up for Twitter last night to try that out, and found myself looking at a blogging (micro-blogging) crisis going on at the time. Check out this article for a full scoop. And yes, it looks like The Illusive Man got in on the mix.

I feel like I could say more, but that would basically be repeating the good work that is already in the article above.

How is this usually handled in blogging? I don’t want to rehash something someone else has written, or steal their visuals, which I feel like is much of what I could accomplish. The tweets I saw even show up in the article. So… yeah. Read and enjoy.

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Recall on Syracreamsicle

06/30/2012 Leave a comment

Hello Salt City Ice Cream fans! My name is David, and I am the new blogger for your favorite Ice Cream. However, just because I am new, does not mean that this is a prank they are pulling on me here in the office. The news I have to give is quite serious.

It has come to our attention that some of our Syracreamsicle Orange Ice Cream may be infected with salmonella. If you have purchased a pint of Syracreamsicle recently, you should return it to the store for a full refund. This is the only flavor of ice cream that may have any problems.

We are taking this issue very seriously. If you have any concerns, please contact us at 315-555-1337, or customerservice@saltcityicecream.com. Also, check for the latest news in this case here at saltcityicecream.com. We are not sure where in our process this could have happened, and the recall will help us identify a source, if any, and to make all changes necessary to ensure this does not happen again.

So how do you know if you have salmonella poisoning? Check out these helpful answers on WebMD. If you believe you have eaten contaminated ice cream, please take all necessary actions. However, we believe our recall efforts should avoid any public exposure. Thank you for your continuing business, and rest assured we are doing everything we can to make sure this never happens again.

(Disclaimer: This is part of an assignment about Crisis Blogging. The blog and its author make no actual claims about being a blog dedicated to Salt City Ice Cream, which hopefully is not a real company so that we’re not messing with anyone’s life! If this were a real emergency, please check the CDC, which has information on outbreaks like salmonella or the Zombie Apocalypse. The unfortunate side of this all is I have not landed a job as a professional blogger…)

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My Interview!

06/28/2012 1 Comment

Wondering if I was interviewed? I was! Check out my response here!

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Assignment:

This week’s assignment is twofold. It will showcase a learning of one of the visual mediums above and also give you a chance to check out what your fellow classmates are doing and find out more about them and their blog.


Once you get in touch, I’d like you to conduct an interview with the blogger you are reaching out to. The interview should involve one of the visual tools noted above. Some examples include…

  • You email them questions, they answer in video form.
  • You host a podcast with fellow blogger.
  • You email questions, receive written answers and photos provided of the blogger along with images of their blog that are put into a slideshow.
  • You host a live stream that the other blogger joins you on.

    • Be creative. So long as you incorporate one of these methods into the process, the assignment will have been fulfilled. If you…

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Introduction

05/24/2012 2 Comments

Whoa, glad I took a look at the class a bit harder before the weekend! I read that the blog needed to be started by Monday, posted on Monday, and I was assuming next Monday! Looks like I am running behind!
My name is David Cox and this is my blog for IST 600, Blogging for Information Professionals. I like to think that I am working as an information professional right now, as I work in retail banking as a manager. This requires a huge knowledge base, and an equally huge knowledge management apparatus. Of course, my co-workers tend to just ask me for the answers! It’s a good backup plan.
I’m about to go on vacation, so we’ll see how they do without me!
What I don’t get to do much of in my current line of work is writing, something I am passionate about. But when I say that to people, the response I tend to always get is: do you have a blog?
Well, no.
So I think I ought to get my mind wrapped around blogging, to understand it as a professional skill, and to contemplate it as a personal tool.
When I think of blogging as a professional tool, what do I think of? you ask. Well, in my early days of my MSLIS studies (I started summer ’09, going to school part time takes some time as I am finding out!), I came across the Ann Arbor Public Libraries site. Their library site is a blog. Simple, elegant, engaging. Something I feel like I would be happy to be involved in, and confident to present to an employer.
That’s a little about me. Time to move beyond the basics I have pulled together here, and go start learning a bit more about blogging!

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IST 511 – Day 5

07/26/2009 Leave a comment

This was hand-crafted in JFK on Saturday, but the WiFi in my wing did not work so well. Here we go!

So Friday was our poster session, which we did in the style of a conference poster session. Lots of topics, lots of people passing through with passing curiosity. Our main focus was to tackle a topic that is contentious for librarians – there are plenty of controversies on which librarians agree for the most part, after all. You can find Harry Potter on the shelves, right?

Our poster began as a search into controversial forms of funding libraries. After all, the American Library Association is against charging fees of any kind – to the point of being against overdue fines. Charging for services discriminates against those who cannot pay, and discourages those who can. Or so goes the argument. So what did we find? Read more of this post

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