CIL2008, Day 1: Widgets, tools and doodads for library webmasters

Speakers: Darlene Fichter, Frank Cervone
Firefox tools:
safecache: protects privacy, defends against cache based tracking techniques
safehistory: protects your privacy by defending your history cache
FoxMarks: automatically synchronizes bookmarks
FEBE: Firefox Environment Backup Extension - syncs extensions between computers
Other webtools for collaboration
meebo chat widget
LInkBunch: lets you put multiple links into one small link
DocSyncer: automatically finds and syncs your document files [...]

CIL2008, Day 1: Fast & Easy Site Tune-ups

Speaker: Jeff Wisniewski
Keep content fresh
- Update your copyright date! You can use code to do this
- add a last updated script to your page (do it as an external script so you use one script in many places
- add photos to contacts! Goes a long way in increasing user’s trust in a website
Turn boring old [...]

CIL2008, Day 1: Hi Tech + Hi Touch

Speaker: Jenny Levine
Computers and the Internet will not save the world (Clifford Stoll, from 1995) - what’s missing is human contact. This is also true in libraryland.
We know how to do this in our buildings:
- Delft Public Library (DOK)
- they have electronic based contextual digital signage (run off a Wii, of all things)
- they integrate [...]

CIL2008, Preconference: Podcasting & Videocasting Bootcamp

David Free and I had a great time with our preconference workshop yesterday. Here’s a link to my presentation, and David Free’s post on the session (includes a link to his presentation and a link to the podcast we made). And of course, the video we made is at the top of this post.

Participating in Digital Community, or Lots of Links to David

I’ve been doing some thinking about all the different digital communities I participate in on the web, so I thought I’d create a list of them. It’s not a short list.
Things I use the most:

My blog (it’s an active community)
Flickr
Twitter (as I write this post, someone else just started following me on Twitter!)
Facebook
del.icio.us
AIM (I’m [...]

Video on the Web Presentation

A couple days ago, I gave a workshop on videos and videoblogging to the fine folks at the Long Island Library Resources Council. It was a fun presentation to give (see the video above)!
Here’s a list of videos we watched during the class:

Me - Changing a Tire
Rocketboom
Steve Garfield
Jay Dedman
Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library - [...]

Gadgets and Gaming at Computers in Libraries 2008!

If you’re going to be at Computers in Libraries 2008 on Sunday (April 6!!!), then stop by this cool new event (swiped from Aaron’s blog):
What: Gaming (& Gadgets!) Night
Where: CIL 2008, Jefferson Room
When: Sunday, April 6th, 5:30-8:00 pm
How much: FREE
Who: You and other people interested in gaming
Jenny Levine and I have given a [...]

Interesting Job Titles

From my comments, someone just asked for a list of interesting librarian-related job titles. Can you guys help out? I’ll start the list off with some previous posts of mine:

NextGen Librarian
Digital Access Architect
21st Century Librarian

Then add in a few others:

Director of Digital Strategy (Helene Blowers‘ job title)
Digital Branch & Services Manager (that’s me)
Open Source Evangelist [...]

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