ProBlogger on Inviting Participation
The ProBlogger blog has a great post on how to invite participation in your blog. Here are some bullet points from the article:
Reveal what you don’t know - admitting you don’t know something makes you seem real
Ask a Question - ideas: tie it to the thing you don’t know, or ask for experiences or examples
Run [...]
The Physical Library in the 21st Century?
From the comments on this post:
“… what happens to the physical library? If Topeka Public mails the holds to patrons and they can drop the returned item at boxes, and the patrons need not come to the physical library… I’m the systems librarian at the Academy Library Budapest and am alarmed by the declining [...]
More MeeboMe Ideas
Wow - there have been lots of comments on the MeeboMe widget. Great! Some other libraries are trying it out - check the comments on my original post and on Jenny Levine’s post titled Mashing on the Library, Part I to find them. Others have been emailing me, asking for details.
Now, let’s take this one [...]
Fun With our Meebo Widget and the Library Catalog
Update: I’m getting some questions on how we did this, so… We have a Horizon system - look for the searchinput.xsl page in your XSL folder. Then find the appropriate chunk of code where the “nothing found” message and table appears, and add the meebome widget there.
And if you have more questions, feel free to [...]
Actual Work Using Facebook
Just a small aside… but I’ve been doing real live work the last two days using facebook (go friend me - David Lee King at facebook)!
Michael Porter, my writing buddy, is to blame for some of it… We write the Internet Spotlight column in Public Libraries Magazine together, and he posted a question to [...]
Ignoring our Digital Community
Lately, I’ve been hearing librarians say some interesting things about incorporating emerging online trends into their already hectic work lives. They’ll say “wow, this is cool” when I give a presentation - but when implementation time arrives - when these busy people actually need to start incorporating some of these new things into their work [...]
Salt Lake City Public Library Presentations
Yesterday, I spoke at Salt Lake City Public Library’s staff day. I actually gave three presentations - one keynote and two breakout sessions… all three were extremely fun talks!
Salt Lake’s staff day theme this year was “Transform.. Adapt… Grow.” Transformation is a strong theme with them right now - for example, take a peek [...]
Big Juicy Twitter Guide
Want to find out more about twitter, but don’t like the screencasts David Free and I created? Well then… you’re in luck! Go read The Big Juicy Twitter Guide, by Caroline Middlebrook. She covers everything - from what is twitter, to twitter tools, to multiplying your twitter audience.
Valuing Users by Allowing Comments
Casey Bisson said this during his Internet Librarian 2007 presentation: “sites that allow comments value their users.” When he said that, my mind started making connections… what a great way to illustrate why the ability to comment is such an amazing thing to include on a website! So riffing off that quote, here are some [...]
IL2007: Podcasting & Videoblogging Bootcamp
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David Free and I gave a preconference on podcasting and videoblogging at Internet Librarian 2007 - it was a blast. This video was created by the attendees - class-takers did the filming, volunteered to be talent… and the video shows the podcasting part - someone did the voiceovers and someone else [...]
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