{"id":699,"date":"2009-09-23T00:29:36","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T00:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/\/?p=126"},"modified":"2020-07-11T15:00:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T19:00:38","slug":"book-introduction-published-the-myths-realities-and-practicalities-of-working-with-gen-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2009\/09\/23\/book-introduction-published-the-myths-realities-and-practicalities-of-working-with-gen-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Book introduction published: The Myths, Realities, and Practicalities of Working with Gen M."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lackie, Robert J., John W. LeMasney, & Kathleen M. Pierce. \u201cIntroduction: The Myths, Realities, and Practicalities of Working with Gen M.\u201d In Teaching Generation M: A Handbook for Librarians and Educators<\/em>. Eds. Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic & Robert J. Lackie. NY: Neal-Schuman, 2009: 3-14. <http:\/\/www.neal-schuman.com\/bdetail.php?isbn=9781555706678><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Special thanks to Robert Lackie for inviting me, and both Robert and Kathleen Pierce for co-authoring.\u00a0 Generation M is an important topic to consider, and I feel that Robert’s book does a great job of examining the topic.<\/p>\n

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Image by niallkennedy via Flickr Lackie, Robert J., John W. LeMasney, & Kathleen M. Pierce. \u201cIntroduction: The Myths, Realities, and Practicalities of Working with Gen M.\u201d In Teaching Generation M: A Handbook for Librarians and Educators. Eds. Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic & Robert J. Lackie. NY: Neal-Schuman, 2009: 3-14. <http:\/\/www.neal-schuman.com\/bdetail.php?isbn=9781555706678>. Special thanks to Robert Lackie for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,24,27,29],"tags":[809],"class_list":{"0":"post-699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-honors-and-awards","8":"category-publications","9":"category-references","10":"category-research-interests","11":"tag-technology","12":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/reblog_e.png?fit=1%2C1&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-bh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":624,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/05\/13\/143-of-365-is-an-exclamation-for-graduation-in-inkscape-design\/","url_meta":{"origin":699,"position":0},"title":"143 of 365 is an exclamation for graduation in #inkscape #design","author":"lemsy","date":"2010-05-13","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm taking part in the graduation ceremony at Rider University today to publicly celebrate my successful acquisition (with honors) of the Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership with a concentration in Communication that I acquired in December of 2009, and I thought it would be fun to explain how that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "portfolio"","block_context":{"text":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/category\/portfolio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Graduation by John LeMasney via lemasney.com","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/20100513graduation.png?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":42966,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2015\/06\/10\/zen-find-robert-pirsig-cc-lemasney\/","url_meta":{"origin":699,"position":1},"title":"The Only Zen You Find – Robert Pirsig cc-by lemasney","author":"lemsy","date":"2015-06-10","format":"image","excerpt":"On Robert Pirsig \"Pirsig's work consists most notably of two novels. 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