PLA 2008, Day 2: Think Outside the Book: Online Services as Outreach

Sarah Cofer, Barbara Pitney, Kristen Becker
What do they blog about?

they use the blog as their outreach
“we totally blog about it” - mp3 player services, tutor stuff, etc
teens like personal connections - they promote their services, but they also talk about themselves - ex - librarian dyed her hair purple, and she blogged about it
trying to [...]

IL2007: Presentations I Gave

Here are PDF files to the three presentations I gave at Internet Librarian 2007:

Introduction to Videoblogging (part of a preconference)
Setting up the New Stuff: Planning and Implementing Library 2.0
Topeka’s Second Life: Experiments in a Digital World

Internet Librarian 2007 Meebo Chat Room

Michael Porter made a Meebo chat room for Internet Librarian 2007 - let’s see if I can embed it in this blog post…

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Thoughts on Everything is Miscellaneous, Part 2

A few days ago, I shared some thoughts about David Weinberger’s book Everything is Miscellaneous (and Weinberger actually left a great comment, too - how cool is that?). This post is the second part of that series. It covers three random thoughts that didn’t really fit into the first post (and weren’t big enough for [...]

Change Starts With You

Cindi at the Chronicles of Bean blog just posted a must-read post. Very cool to see someone jumping in with both feet! Also cool to see someone who wants to change - wants to actually LEAD change, and is actively seeking ways to make that happen.
To all my way-cool geek friends in libraryland - what [...]

ALA2007: Libraries as Conversations with Gamers

Eli Neiburger, aadl.org
- Showed stats - gaming is a major part of the content industry
- there are more adult women gamers than teenage boys
- teens say “email is how you talk to old people”
- Pokemon the game has more text than some school curriculums do - it requires significant text literacy
- video gaming is like [...]

ALA2007: RUSA Preconference: My VideoBlogging Slides

Here’s the presentation I just did at the ALA2007 RUSA Reinvented Reference pre-conference… Introduction to Videoblogging.
Enjoy!
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SirsiDynix Has a New CEO and CFO

SirsiDynix just appointed Gary Rautenstrauch as New CEO and Douglas Maughan as the CFO. Found via Stephen Abram…

Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 3 - Case Study of Website Redesign

Cuyahoga County Public Library
Where the library was…
they wanted to be a portal - have a customizabe customer experience
wanted to reach new audiences
weren’t quite sure what their customers wanted
created an rfp
Implementation of the website - by the website company…
discovery:
focus groups for the community - variety of types (ie., kids, teens, seniors, etc)
competitive research - looked at [...]

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