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 [...]
Mississippi Library Association Presentation
I recently spoke at the Mississippi Library Association’s annual conference, held in Vicksburg this year. I had a blast! My first job out of library school was in Mississippi, so I was able to hang with old friends - very nice indeed.
And here’s a link to the 2.0/emerging trends presentation I gave.
Enjoy!
IL2007, Day 3: Building Web 2.0 Native Library Services
Casey Bisson (met him for the first time - nice guy!)
“Libraries are much larger than our books and our OPACs”
Catalog challenges:
usability
findability
remindability
We use Linux daily - it’s the dominant platform of most social web apps
IBM saves over $900,000,000 annually because of LInux
Scriblio.net (used to be his WPOPAC) - very cool. He’s making this easily available to [...]
IL2007, Day 2: Promoting Play Through Online Discovery: Lego Building
Meredith Farkas:
issue - lots of people don’t have access to continuing education programs
hands-on learning is important
online courses can be run cheaply
talked about Five Weeks to a Social Library:
had 40 participants, all kinds of libraries
tools used:
drupal - it allows multiple blogs, all in the same place, and static content, too
blip.tv
opal
lessons:
playing with technology is essential to learning [...]
IL2007, Day 1: Cranky? Boomers & Older Adults are Greying the Internet!
Cranky? Boomers & Older Adults are Greying the Internet!, Allen Kleiman
seniornet, thirdage, eons - examples of senior-focused social networking cites
these sites are doing something, but aren’t doing a very good job of it.
said a 46 year old isn’t a baby boomer… ??? (picky sideline thing)
most of these sites are focused on seniors or boomers with [...]
IL2007, Day 1: Integrating Libraries & Communities Online
Integrating Libraries & Communities Online, Glenn Peterson, Marilyn Turner
Marilyn Turner
bookspace.org - they made this. It’s cool. It brings together book lists, author lists, librarian tips, etc… many genre guides
it’s only focused on books - so it still has the traditional librarian bias to content
they include a librarian’s blog on each genre page
assign 2 people per [...]
IL2007, Day 1: Putting Evidence-based Practice to Work
Putting Evidence-based Practice to Work, Frank Cervone and Amanda Hollister
Frank:
most librarians haven’t been trained in HCI
defined evidence-based practice
data provides primary evidence for decision-making
it’s not “common sense” - different stuff generally happens than what you “think” will happen
Ex - doing a usability test, then comparing it with other similar tests to see the larger picture
similar to [...]
Topeka’s Techie Toybox
I thought some of you might be interested in my library’s “techie toybox” that I have been purchasing over the summer. What is a techie toybox? In our case, it’s a bunch of gadgets, cameras, and the like that library staff can check out and, well, do stuff with. Here’s the list of gadgets (photos [...]
New Song and Video: Social Digital Global Shift
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I recorded a new song and video for y’all! This song is all about social networking and how people are using the emerging social web to connect with each other, to communicate… and in my case, to sing songs to my blog readers.
When writing the song, I was thinking about [...]
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