Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 26th, 2005 No Comments »
Wed. IL 2005 Keynote
Roy Tennant and Rich Wiggins
Google Print Making the Virtual Library Real - Rich Wiggins
Rich has a great sense of humor and started by showing a number of jokes, including a hilarious cartoon about why Google should never be bought by Microsoft. He then started to talk about the idea of digitizing the [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 26th, 2005 2 Comments »
Flickr, Tagging, and the F-Word
Jessamyn West began with a quick overview of Flickr as a lead in to Jenny’s talk on social software. Advent of web tools that allow us to be more social and what social software’s play is in the workplace.
Flickr like other social software allows people to share stuff. Its easy [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 24th, 2005 3 Comments »
Choosing the Right CMS - Jeff Wisniewski
Jeff starts the presentation with a discussion of the workload of web maintainance. The open part of the talk was terrifically entertaining and funny. He provided a overview of the core functionality of CMSs.
Creation: Every CMS provides an interface through which writers (content owners) can add, edit, delete content.
lots [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 24th, 2005 No Comments »
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Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 24th, 2005 No Comments »
Shifting Worlds - by Lee Rainie
Lee Rainie is the Director of the Pew Internet and American Life project. He talked about including IRC content in the presentation. The content showing on the screen while a presentation is going. He asked how many people were blogging live or going to blog the session later. He talked [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 24th, 2005 1 Comment »
Library Terms that Users Understand
John Kupersmith
Alot of the words that we (librarians) put in front of our users don’t have any meaning for them. If you put words like catalog, database, ILL, Periodical in front of a college freshman, its like showing them a wall of noise. Problems with library jargon are not new! In [...]
Posted in Blogging on Oct 20th, 2005 No Comments »
The first step to getting WYSIWYG editing for Movable Type is by adding the EnhancedEntryEditing plug-in. The directions on this page a very good and they will help you get the plug-in installed and working in a snap.
So you’ve added the plug-in, but you notice that whenever you create a new blog you are missing [...]
Posted in Blogging on Oct 20th, 2005 No Comments »
I said that I would get back to everyone about how set up linked templates as the defaults in Movable Type. I did some investigating and found out its possible. However, I will say in advance of my explanation that you might want to polish your Perl readings skills and Unix permissions skills a bit. [...]
Posted in Blogging on Oct 20th, 2005 2 Comments »
We’ve been in the process of installing Movable Type to use here for the Libraries’ weblogs. However, Movable Type doesn’t completely meet all of our needs out of the box. So the web developers and I have been working to tweak it. Some of the tweaking has been creating a template for the weblogs that [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Oct 18th, 2005 2 Comments »
Its only Tuesday and the week is already shaping up to be quite busy. At the end of the last week, I got several requests concerning conducting web-based surveys. In the past the Libraries had built each survey individually for the person conducting the survey. This isn’t very efficient and means that the survey builder [...]
