May you have a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. I hope all of your dreams come true in the New Year!
Wishing you the best of the holidays, a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year
My new and improved setup for making instructional videos
Last summer I started using some new hardware that has made my video making a lot easier. The new setup helps me make better quality videos while reducing steps and saving a substantial amount of time. Some time ago I shared how I make my instructional videos. In that post I detailed how I recorded... Continue Reading →
To the hoop
Hoop Practice from Chad on Vimeo. My oldest son at basketball practice. He claims he didn't walk doing the spin move at the end. Shot with my HTC One phone and edited with iMovie on iPad.
I’m still so 2010
WordPress 4.1 was released today, and I've just now upgraded. The automagic distraction-free writing is pretty cool and there appear to be a few more neat things on the wp-admin, dashboard, and publishing side. The new 2015 theme, however, at first glance doesn't really get me too excited. The idea behind the theme is to... Continue Reading →
I miss blogging
I've been working on sort of a historical project this week at work, and it's been great to look back through the archives of this blog to see what I did way back when. I started this blog in 2004, I think, so sometime this year I missed the ten-year anniversary. I used to write... Continue Reading →
5 tips on providing feedback to library database vendors
Last week I had the opportunity to give some constructive feedback to a vendor. I met with my sales rep, as well as two designers/developers of the database interface, via telephone and Adobe Connect. Right from the start they made me a presenter and I was able to walk them through my thoughts and give... Continue Reading →
Giving credit where credit is due at #cildc
I gave a presentation yesterday at the Computers in Libraries conference and quoted Aaron Schmidt about the perception of libraries and the library symbol. Folks found a decent sound byte and are still retweeting what I said, but the tweets make it seem that the quote originated with me. I've tried to correct this with... Continue Reading →
What can Instagram teach you about photography?
I've been posting pictures to Instagram for almost two years. Some photographers might think that Instagram isn't where "real" photographers would post as the pictures are generally lower resolution compressed files and/or the pictures are just camera phone selfies. I'm not a professional photographer by any means, but I have found Instagram to more than... Continue Reading →
Design your service desk for the future
As I write this post, I am sitting at the reference desk in our very popular Learning Commons, wondering how heavy, and at what velocity a wayward book truck would have to be to knock this monolith down. This desk is not even 10 years old, built in 2004 when the floor was remodeled, yet... Continue Reading →