New Blog from a Systems Librarian

Just got a comment that made my day! Mike picked up a copy of Priceless after reading about it on my blog, and is writing his thoughts on it at his new blog! How cool is that?

Review of the Ann Arbor District Library’s Website

A friend of mine recently mentioned that he’s been waiting for my review of the Ann Arbor District Library’s newly redesigned website… and I had to laugh. I’ve been toying with the idea of doing occasional library website reviews on this blog, and thought “well, at least one person will read them, so why not?”
So, [...]

Dave’s Informal Rules for Commenting on Dave’s Blog

Someone commented on one of my posts yesterday, I commented on his/her comment in another post, that person then commented back… which I think is great! That’s one of the advantages of RSS and blogs, right?
But I also realized that this blog is read by many people, and someone else might have considered commenting before, [...]

E-mail is for older people, teens say in survey (from Yahoo! News)

Here’s an interesting news story: E-mail is for older people, teens say in survey.
According to a recent survey, teens (age 12 - 17) think email is for grown-ups (even though 90% of the kids DO have an email account, too).
Interesting stuff!

Someone Doesn’t Know Me Too Well

Just received a comment on one of my posts, “Luddites have XML Feeds, too!” … from, of course “Annonymous.” Here’s the comment:
I think, also, it is important to point out to those who are concerned about disappearing printed materials that the rise of new media/technology (radio, television, telephone, phonograph, audio and video cassettes, cds, dvds, [...]

Experience in the Mundane

Kansas City’s airport parking lot was recently redesigned, and it makes life alot easier for me. The new parking lot uses KC-based themes at each shuttle stop (there are at least 20 shuttle stops). The idea is that while you might not remember you parked at 25-H, you might remember that you parked at the [...]

Engaging Customers

Still dabbling in Experience Planning… this is from page 4 of The Experience Economy, by B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore. It’s an awesome read, by the way.
Here’s a cool quote: “companies stage an experience whenever they engage customers, connecting with them in a personal, memorable way.”
Examples: Planet Hollywood, Hard Rock Cafe - [...]

Internet Librarian 2005 Advance Program is out

The Internet Librarian 2005: Advance Program is out - I just received mine in the mail today (along with a bunch of speaker forms I need to fill out), and it’s on the web. There are a lot of amazing programs this year - I can’t wait.
And don’t forget to check out the “Top Tech [...]

KCResearch is Live!

Update to the update: see, I told you - we’re already back live…

Update: wouldn’t you know it - right after I psted this, we took the server offline. We are in the process of switching servers… ssssooooo, bear with us - it WILL be up again soon!
KCResearch, a project my library is working on, is [...]

Video on the Kansas City Public Library Website

We are starting to experiment with “new” media on our website. For starters, we’ve added two short promo videos (not done by us!) on our website - find them on these pages:

Fringe Festival
Summer Reading program

And they’re available via RSS, since both pages have related RSS feeds. No, they’re not RSS 2.0 with enclosures, so no [...]

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