The Wonderful World of Webinars

Never let it be said that I am afraid of trying new things.

Earlier this week, I was given the opportunity to teach a webinar (hosted by Connecting to Collections museum community), the audio and materials for which can be found here.  It was really an enjoyable experience, and was very interesting.  I was shocked to notice that I had 138 people listening to my presentation, and amazed that people are finding what I do interesting.  Growing up is weird, something that I feel is particularly symptomatic in my generation.  Regardless, I was impressed that so many people are interested in digitizing their collections, and really hope that many of them make some interesting things and put them out there for nerds like me to view and drool over.

With The Skeptiseum being complete, I have begun the arduous project of tidying up the artifacts in archival storage and making finding aids for all cabinet displays and storage areas.  This is going to be fun.  Thankfully, I have the load lightened due to my wonderful volunteer and friend, Kat.  She has been awesome, and I'm really glad that I have a like-minded partner with which to undertake this task.  More updates on this business as it comes.  Be sure to follow @TheSkeptiseum and @CFILibraries on Twitter to see more of what I do, and for fun bits of history, skeptical quotes, and treasures in our collections.

On a lighter note, my segment for the podcast is all ready to be recorded this weekend!  Hooray!  The theme this episode is the 1980's, and I'm rather excited for it.  Also in podcast-related news, The Thirteenth Four is up on iTunes!!!  So follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, and now SUBSCRIBE TO US ON ITUNES!!!  Do it!  We are working on getting some analytic feedback on our website and RSS feed so that we can keep closer track of our audience, it's something that interests us, and makes us feel like we're doing good things.  If you subscribe, be sure to leave a review to let us (and Apple) know what you like about us and what other things YOU would like to see.  We're always open to topic suggestions, and soon we will be featuring guests on our episodes!

Now that all that is out of the way, I'm off to edit some documents, schedule some Tweets, and figure out what the hell I'm going to write about in this textbook chapter.  In my spare time, I'm going to relentlessly search Amazon to find more pages for my wedding album, and hopefully I will succeed.  Otherwise, I may have to think my (still incomplete) wedding album (sorry, Husband).  Really looking forward to tomorrow - wandering around the Roycroft campus with my husband and having dinner, then recording.  Woo!

Being a grownup is hard.  Sometimes I wish we still lived in a culture that had adolescence rituals or ceremonies, so responsibilities and adulthood had some sort of concreteness, and less of a mysterious shift in states that randomly materializes.  Some certainty would be nice.