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About Me: I am the Head of Instructional Initiatives at Norwich University in Vermont, which is in a lovely rural area in the middle of the state. I'm the author of the book Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication and Community Online and write the monthly column "Technology in Practice" for American Libraries. I've been blogging for over five years at Information Wants to be Free. I've always been passionate about online learning, having chaired an online conference and created an online course to teach librarians about social software. I'm also really fascinated by online communities -- why some become extremely successful and others fail. Most of my time these days is devoted to my adorable son who was born in April 2009.
Favorite Books: Plainsong, Revolutionary Road, In Cold Blood, Winesburg Ohio, Steppenwolf, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
Location: Barre, VT
Name: Meredith Farkas
Job title: Head of Instructional Initiatives
Place of work: Norwich University
Settings where I'm interested in working: Academic
Blog/Website Address: http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/