Posted in Library Systems, Social Software on Oct 7th, 2007 6 Comments »
Putting together my presentation for LITA Forum and another presentation I’m doing at the end of November, I started to think again about restrictive IT policies regarding desktops, firewalls, and filters and how such policies effect Library 2.0 type endeavors.
At UH we have (my opinion) a very restrictive and controlling set of IT policies regarding [...]
Posted in Social Software on Nov 16th, 2006 1 Comment »
I had a chance to skim Hacking del.icio.us this week. Overall, I’m really impressed with this book. It covers a wide range of topics which start at a beginner level and move up to more advanced topics. One of the best chapters is on del.icio.us APIs and data. It talks about some extensions and code [...]
Posted in Nifty Tools, Social Software on Oct 21st, 2006 3 Comments »
Gliffy is a nifty tool that Loomware - Crafting New Libraries highlighted. I got pretty excited about this because I like to make diagrams for my staff to look at to show how I want systems they are building to work. Typically, I need to share the diagrams with not only my staff but the [...]
Posted in Social Software on Sep 28th, 2006 No Comments »
A while back I decide that I wanted to migrate all my Furl links to Del.icio.us because Furl was giving me some trouble and I’d grown to like del.icio.us better. The problem was that I couldn’t figure out how to get it to import all 1600+ links at once and then get them to be [...]
Posted in General Thoughts, Social Software on Mar 14th, 2006 4 Comments »
I’ve been playing around with PMWiki on my website trying to get it installed and configured so that it does what I want. Overall, I like it alot. Its very easy to use and was simple to install. When I say simple I think that almost anyone could do it and it takes less than [...]
