No More Kicking

Remember my post from January, Kicking Users Out the Door? Interestingly, after my post (about worldcat.org and a poor user experience I had), I was contacted by two OCLC employees!
They realized that “Goodbye” was not the message they wanted to leave with customers, and asked me where I had seen it, what I was doing, [...]

David’s Current Speaking Schedule

Here’s where I’ll be speaking (and/or attending) this spring. Come say hi!

March 3 - April 11: Basics of Library Web Site Management (online class)
March 6-12: Attending SXSWi 2008! I’m pretty psyched to go…
March 19: participating in Library Camp Kansas
March 25-29: attending my first Public Library Association conference!
March 31: Long Island Library Resources Council.
April 6: CIL08 [...]

Semanal: Post One Video Per Week for all of 2008

The few of you who actually follow my videoblog might have noticed I’ve been posting more video lately. There’s a reason for that… I’ve gone insane! No… seriously, it’s because I’m participating in something called Semanal. What’s that? From the Semanal website:
“Semanal is an open project where you post one video a week. You can [...]

Cell Phone to Podcast Tools

I’ve been looking into mobile podcasting tools, specifically services that allow you to post podcasts to a blog from your cell phone. Here’s a list of tools I’ve found that do this:

Gcast - run by the people behind GarageBand (I actually have some scary bad songs somewhere on GarageBand)
TalkShoe - seems to do this and [...]

Donate to LISHost

What a cool idea! Jenny and Michael have set up a cool fundraiser for LISHost (the dudes who host my blog and many other librarian blogs). Here’s what Jenny says: “So to thank him [Blake Carver, the dude behind LISHost] for all of his efforts, both on our behalf and for the profession, Michael an  [...]

A Better Experience Begins with Staff

From the MSN Money site (via Steven M. Cohen’s Shared Items in Google): “This unique in-store education event signals the company’s focus on transforming the Starbucks Experience for both customers and partners. Starbucks hopes any customers inconvenienced by the early closures will see this as an investment that will have long term benefits. For their [...]

The Web Is Not Virtual

At some point in my talks, I usually mention how websites are changing from a virtual brochure with lists of services to something a bit more “real” - but it can be difficult to explain that concept! I usually show an active library blog with comments, and discuss the website as a form of digital [...]

Library Camp Kansas - our first UnConference

What are us wacky Kansans up to? Check this out:
Ready to participate in a new type of conference? Think some of the most valuable and most productive sessions at conferences are the hallway and dinner conversations?
Want to get to know some of your forward-thinking Kansas library colleagues better?
Join us at Library Camp Kansas: the first [...]