How to do Bio's
We've been using an off-beat biography format for our online bio's here at the Otter Group that includes questions like: “Something you should know about me that I don't normally put on my resume,” and “What I'd be called if I were a professional wrestler.” The format always yields surprising and rich information about my colleagues.
Now we're extending this format to our customer programs. We're just about to launch an Innovation Boot Camp on Library 2.0 for the American Library Association. There are 50 people in the program and the bio's are pouring into today (the deadline was yesterday). They are wonderful. I encourage you to go to the site and read them. (http://library2.0.alablog.org/blog/_WebPages/Participants.html) I can't wait to start learning among this very interesting group of people.
The latest submission pointed out that we're not alone in our love of professional wrestling names. Karen Munro, the e-learning librarian for UCAL, Berkeley, pointed us to McSweeney's list of Bad Names for Professional Wrestlers: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/1999/11/03wrestlers.html.
I think the librarians beat McSweeney's hands down. What do you think?
Librarians:
The Eccentrist
The Great “Dane”
Kikkoman
Garanimal
LITA
Sweet Pete
Papa Smurf
The Info Masher
Hurricane Anne
Snake in the Grass
Menacing Marci
Beware!
The Kompressor
Big Cheese
The Badass Librarian (the headshot doesn’t show the tattoo or the new biker mustache & sideburns) — my personal favorite
McSweeney's
Linus
The Spiller
Lace
The Soup-Eater
Stilts
The Tailor
Mitochondria
Kimono Boy
The Really Tiny Moth
The Bulimic Cheerleader
Winston Churchill
Vasco de Gama, Jr.
Tickles
The Fig Wasp
Cookies -n- Creme (tag team duo)
The Healer
El Wusso
The Precocious Feline
The Professor
Balsamic Vinegar
The Stooge
Diabetes
Warren G. Harding
The Wilting Zinnia
The School Boy
The Yearling
The Pediatrician
The Old Coward
Naomi
The Narcoleptic
