Welcome to my corner!

Personalized photo: Current photo displayed on SLA's wiki was taken in Venice, Italy during a trip with my husband, sister, and niece in spring 2008.

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Career/Professional

• Visionary focus coupled with strong organizational, technical, communication, and people skills.
• Consult on best practice solutions related to information architects, portals/knowledge systems, digital libraries, document/content management systems, and metadata/format standards.
• Develop Web 2.0 solutions for intra- and inter-organizational initiatives.
• Train individuals on Web 2.0 tools such as RSS, blogs, wikis, and social bookmarking; best practices for obtaining interns/volunteers and organizing information; and desktop software applications such as Lotus Notes, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Dreamweaver, Adobe Acobat, digital scanner applications.
• SLA member since 1999. Currently a member of the Washington, DC/SLA Chapter and Knowledge Management division.
• Please see my vitae for more information.

Professional Affiliations

Special Libraries Association (member since 1999)

• 2009: Chair-elect, Knowledge Management division
• 2009: Welcome to our UnConference Wiki
• 2007 - 2009: DC/SLA Communications Committee, Wiki Development Chair for 2009 DC/SLA's Annual Conference Wiki
• 2007 - 2008: Director of Communications, Knowledge Management division
• 2008: SLA's Innovation Lab: Developer of 23 Things
• 2006 - 2007: Web 2.0 integrator/Webmaster for Knowledge Management division.
• 1999 - 2006: Information Technology Division (ITE)
• 2004 - 2005: Co-facilitator for several Communities of Practice
• 2002 - 2003: Chair, University of Maryland's SLA Student Group's 10-Year Anniversary Planning Committee
• 2002 - 2003: DC/SLA Chapter Chair, Students/Young Professional Committee (including Webmaster for committee's site)
• 2000 - 2001: Student Committee Member and Webmaster for SLA's Student and Academic Relations Committee
• 1999 - 2001: President (2001 only) and Webmaster for University of Maryland's SLA Student Group

Personal Interest

• Pursuing creative and artistic endeavors.
• Paying it forward one blanket at a time: Blanketing DC with Love. Our goal in 2008 was to make a blanket a day for a total of 365 blankets to give to local charities/shelters. Planning to continue the effort in the fall of 2009. Will market the initiative through various social media tools.
• Sailing and scuba diving.
• Traveling to and experiencing new destinations with my husband, family and friends.
• Just being home with my hubbie and snuggling with/being entertained by my 2-1/2 pooches.

Current Projects

• 2010 Spring CUA Course: Library Technologies & Project Management
• 2009 Spring CUA Course: Library Technologies & Project Management
• 23 Things - part of SLA's innovation lab
• SLA KM Division - Collaborating and evolving resources and services for our members

My Social Spaces

• My personal website/wiki: CyberSailors.com
• My favorites: Del.icio.us
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Second Life: Honeyfox Penucca
• Skype: karen.huffman

My Favorites: Wikis

Delicious/khuffman/wikis (bookmarks tagged wikis by khuffman)
Wikis in Education Application: WetPaint
Directory of Public PBwikis Application: PBWiki
SLA's Click U series on Confluence Wiki A series of four 1-hour training sessions on Confluence wiki, each building on each other.
Adding a Navigation Sidebar You must have administrative access to your Confluence wiki space. This hard-codes a navigation on all pages within a wiki. Source: Atlassian's documentation.
Social Media Policies List of policies from government, education, corporate and organization sites. Source: GovLoop's wiki.
Smithsonian 2.0: Smithsonian Web and New Media Strategy v 1.0 Posted on their Typepad blog and Wikispaces wiki.
Confluence Section 508 Accessibility Compliance - Confluence User Community - Atlassian Documentation Application: Confluence
Accessibility Enhancements - Confluence User Community - Atlassian Documentation Application: Confluence
How do you replace a headlight in a 2004 VW Beetle Source: WikiAnswers
NIH and Wikimedia Foundation Collaborate to Improve Online Health Information When you let yourself imagine, the possibilities are endless! Source: NIH News/Press Release. Application: Wikimedia.