Podcast from Topeka

Take a peek at this blog post from my new employer (Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library). They made a podcast! But not only did they create a podcast and drop it on their Papercuts blog… they made a podcast called “What the Director is Reading” - and recorded Gina Millsap, the library director, talking [...]

Anyone Going to SXSW?

For that matter, anyone even HEARD of SXSW? It used to be a cool new music type of conference… but they’ve added some sub-genres to the conference. One of which is SXSW Interactive.
What’s the difference between a library technology conference and SXSW Interactive? Well… let me say it this way: at a library conference, you’ll [...]

My ALSC06 Presentation

I was finally able to get my presentation posted… Here’s what I talked about at ALSC06, in Pittsburgh - Blogs, Wikis, & Other Emerging Trends - Web 2.0.

For Folks Who Attended ALSC06

I’m still working on posting my powerpoint slides - they’ll appear her soon - it just might take another day or two (software issues). But until then…
A few people asked me if a Web 2.0 “best practices” in libraries existed, and a few others mentioned that my talk was useful, but was a lot to [...]

Making Time for Web 2.0

On Friday, I gave an “Introduction to Web 2.0″ presentation to about 100 children’s librarians at the ALSC conference in Pittsburgh, PA. It was a blast! Attendees really seemed to appreciate the presentation (judging by the many questions and thank-you’s I received throughout the rest of the day).
I even met (and ate lunch with) Mary [...]

Make Subscribing to Blogs Easy

There’s one little thing that bugs me about blog design/usability - it’s where most of us place the Syndicate this Blog section… usually at the BOTTOM OF THE PAGE, and usually hidden in arcane geek language.
Generally, the syndicate/rss info is placed at the bottom of a blog site because that’s where the blog software designer [...]

Experience Staging in College Admissions

This isn’t technically related to libraries or digital spaces, but it might get you thinking nonetheless. Check this post out from the Experience Economy Evangelist. In a nutshell:
Hendrix College stages an experience for their prospective students. What do they do? Here’s a list:

The call it the Hendrix Experience (that’s just cool)
They create a customized, reserved [...]

Target Being Sued for Website Inaccessibility

Go read “Court Denies Target.com Plea for Dismissal,” from the Web Site Accessibility Blog. The Federal Court Judge marilyn Hall Patel has ruled that “a retailer may be sued if its website is inaccessible to the blind.”
What Target lost was their plea for dismissal - not the ruling on whether or not federal law on [...]