http://www.allmylibraries.com/blog on fighting entropy and finding things Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:05:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am pretty happy with the process I've worked out to review and retweet items at Twitter, so I thought I'd write a blog post about it.  I'll warn you that it may not be very useful if you follow more than a few hundred people (I follow ~180 folks ... http://www.allmylibraries.com/blog/2009/06/03/how-i-twitter/ Greetings! To continue my informal series of posts on "finding your thing", I'd like to talk about... Not fixating on a single self-knowledge tool Lots of people are familiar with the Meyers-Briggs inventory and/or the Keirsey Temperament Sorter.  I like these tools, but I worry that it's easy to fixate on the results ... http://www.allmylibraries.com/blog/2009/05/29/finding-your-thing-more-tools-for-self-discovery/ Hello again! In this post I'm going to talk about one specific tool that helped me find my thing. Apologies in advance for the length, I did cut a few hundred words but it's still pretty long. The StrengthsFinder Inventory and how it changed my life I hated my first ... http://www.allmylibraries.com/blog/2009/05/27/finding-your-thing-strengthsfinder/ I was in this awesome call last Wednesday with Havi and Pistachio called The Strategy of Not Being Strategic. I learned a lot about connecting with people on Twitter by being myself, and I met a lot of cool people too. One thing that came up with several people on ... http://www.allmylibraries.com/blog/2009/05/25/finding-your-thing-intro/ I updated the WordPress theme today to something even more minimal than the Hemmed theme I was using.  (This theme is "Blass2".)  I may customize the colors a bit, but for now, this feels much better. Blogging is going to be light until I can build up an inventory of content ... http://www.allmylibraries.com/blog/2009/05/06/new-wordpress-theme/ I keep meaning to blog about my experience at the AIIP conference, but I also keep getting distracted thinking about getting my business off the ground and getting small things done in that direction. In a coaching session a couple days prior to the conference, Josh had warned me ... http://www.allmylibraries.com/blog/2009/03/31/focusing-and-getting-things-done/ I've read some lovely posts for Ada Lovelace Day on my friends' blogs today and I  have been inspired me to write my own.  Unable to settle on one subject, I've decided to write about three women in technology who have affected me personally. Anne Thompson Anne, or Mrs. Thompson as I ... http://www.allmylibraries.com/blog/2009/03/24/a-post-for-ada-lovelace-day/ I just finished making arrangements to attend the 23rd annual conference of the AIIP next week. I am really excited about this. http://www.allmylibraries.com/blog/2009/03/18/im-going-to-alberquerque-next-week/ I joined AIIP last week. If I had known that doing so would get me a letter from Mary Ellen Bates, I would have joined a long time ago. I first discovered her in 2003 -- before I had even heard of library school -- and ... http://www.allmylibraries.com/blog/2009/03/17/oh-wow-should-have-joined-aiip-earlier/