http://www.cocomment.com/comments/eclecticlibrarian Copyright 2007 coComment.com 2009-11-24T22:50:14.317+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/images/logo4rss.gif http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=eclecticlibrarian&conv=1380260&comment_id=26379619 chkngrrl Could you design and sell some nifty little business cards with info about the comic? I'd be happy to carry them around when I wear my "She Blinded Me With Library Science" shirt. People ask me where I got it every time, and I'm pretty sure they won't remember the info by the time they get to a computer. (Sorry if this has been asked before. I tried searching for it.) 2008-05-06T03:58:07.915+02:00 2008-05-06T03:58:07.915+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=eclecticlibrarian&conv=1115887&comment_id=22269509 Anna Creech I don't read email discussion lists as fervently as I did in the 90s and earlier in this decade. With the blogging librarian boom and social networking explosion, I found I had less time for "boring" listserv discussions. There are a few I still find interesting and useful, such as SERIALST, but for the most part, messages sit unread for months until I finally delete them. The use and usefulness of listservs verses some other tool came up many times in discussions about contracting for a new webhosting service for a professional organization in which I am a member. The committees and the executive board do almost all of their communication via email listserv technology, and almost everyone agreed that they would rather have something that pushed messages out to interested parties than having to pull them from somewhere like a forum, wiki, or other two-point-oh tech. So, given all that, I'd say that the email discussion list is a dinosaur for broad groups of people connected only by the list, but for focused groups, it's still a viable tool. 2007-11-19T05:40:48.937+01:00 2007-11-19T05:40:48.937+01:00