Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
Watching and participating in the Social Software Showcase from a distance is really neat. Particularly watching Griffey in action! My biggest disappointment was that only 2 people showed up for the virtual discussion :( . I can understand why, hey the discussion was on a Saturday. I’m hoping that more people show up for the [...]
Posted in LITA Top Tech Trends, Web 2.0, Web Services on Jun 30th, 2008 3 Comments »
Sarah Houghton-Jan (see her summary and trends) and I participated in Top Tech Trends virtually this past Sunday. It was a blast. I had a little easier time hearing than Sarah, although hearing myself speak was slightly disconcerting. I really enjoyed talking with people in the back channel Meebo chat room. Though some people pointed [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Okay let me explain for those of you who are already VERY confused and keep sending emails asking if I’ll be at ALA or not.
NO I’m not attending ALA in person. I made a promise to my husband so I’m staying home this year. However, I am participating in both the Social Software Showcase and [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 26th, 2008 No Comments »
OCLC has a bunch of really neat tools, in particular, the WorldCat Affiliate Tools which allow libraries to use data and services from OCLC in more meaningful ways. Some of my favorites that I’ve been playing with include
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Many of these tools started out as OCLC Research Works projects, which has a few tools I feel [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 25th, 2008 No Comments »
So as part of the Social Software Showcase this year, I’m hosting two virtual discussions via TalkShoe.
I’m a relatively new TalkShoe user. I’ve participated in Greg Schwartz’s Uncontrolled Vocabulary podcast recording once, but never hosted a TalkShoe event myself. As a result, I’ve been trying to get a sense of the instruction/directions I might need [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 21st, 2008 1 Comment »
My co-author Jason called me last night to tell me that copies of our book “Library Bloggng” had arrived on his doorstep. YAY!! At long last! Finally! Unfortunately my copies haven’t appeared yet so I’ll just have to link to Jason’s pic below instead of a photo of me doing the happy dance in front [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 18th, 2008 5 Comments »
For the last 3 weeks I’ve been working on a widget for Wordpress which allows you to send a particular search to WorldCat, return the results and display them in the sidebar in Wordpress. The results are mashed-up with data from Amazon, the GoogleBook API, and LibraryThing. The goal of the project was to demonstrate [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 18th, 2008 4 Comments »
For the last three weeks I’ve been working on creating a prototype of a Wordpress widget which retrieves search results from the WorldCat API and mashes that data up with information from other sources including (LibraryThing, Google Books, Amazon and Open Library). The idea is to create a sidebar listing of books with enhanced information [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 11th, 2008 No Comments »
I originally planned for this summer to be a quiet one without any travel after early June. I wanted to have some time to recover and also not be stressed out the way I was last summer with too many commitments (professional and personal) and a web redesign I was trying to push to get [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 7th, 2008 1 Comment »
I don’t know if it is my luck or just because I like to use Drupal modules that aren’t quite right yet. I’ve been trying to get the TinyMCE or FCKEditor modules for version 6 of Drupal to work right this week with little success. Thus far the TinyMCE modules is the closest to working, [...]
