Flickr commons develop in 2007 – LoC approached Flickr about sharing photos, encouraging users tagging jan 16th 2008 launched Many nations now participating Can now only search the commons http://www.flickr.com/commons/ Brooklyn Museum – contributing to the commons caused flickr account to get flooded with comments, also posting photos that they “think” are something posting to flickr confirms or discredit it Can no longer respond to all comments, just completely got overwhelmed, it was no longer the small user community they knew and loved, were very close to leaving Goes beyond community working with their stuff, they are also helping with our workload What is the best way to add images to existing sets? Ask the question of the commons community, and you’ll get an answer Library of Congress Power commoners – do historical research and get really involved History detectives provide support to their statements by linking to sources online People provide personal memories of photos Historical context discussions Then and now photos New York Public Library – Flickr puts photos in space more accessible than they currently are, Failed in the creation of community – they framed it as a technology project, No know copyright restrictions, other rights like
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Help your library be omnipresent without spending a dime
Embedded and widgetized library - Dcpl – iphone app - Chat widgets – question point - igoogle gadgets flickr badge creator – can do thru flickr steal this code now please - lets give it away – allow users to remis our source code for their own customized applications on any of their pages or sites make it easy so patrons can just copy and paste code, doesn’t need to be hard is putting code out there safe? Check with web & it folks to be sure but people will start using our stuff – creating a steal this code tool - decide what kind of widget you want to offer – catalog, databases, combo catalog & databases, web-based or IM chat - plan webpage layout of widget and code generator textarea - provide a working example of the widget so people know exactly what they are getting - the magic of html forms – simple catalog search example examples auariua library – steal this code page university of Colorado Denver – university of Minnesota dulutch UMD library advertise service prepared for success reasons to give it away platform independent fun opportunities Mobi – easy to use to create a
Website redesign pitfalls
we watched Eddie Izzard youtube lego star wars death star canteen while waiting, warning there are swear words in the video if that sort of thing offends you Redesign the pitfalls and perils and how to avoid them Good reason to redesign When nav is dysfunctional When your site doesn’t scale When your site is difficult to update When you code is helplessly sick When your site has poor usability When its not performing based on you objectives / goals Redevelop vs redesign Redevelop = triple bypass Redesign = cosmetic surgery If its not broke don’t fix it, if users are finding their way around, consider just cosmetic update – example Amazon.com Quiet death of major relaunch – users don’t like redesign Facebook ainti redesign group has 1.7 million members Last.fm Caveats Beware the vocal majority Be evidence based Five stages of user grief Denial – why did you change it? Anger – you have made the site useless, I’ll never use it again Bargaining – if you would just go back to the old version of a certain portion, it would be great Depression – I have no idea what I’m going to do now Acceptance – I dislike
Computers in Libraries
I’m at Computers and Libraries this week so the next few days will be filled with conference posts. I’ll even be presenting on Tuesday afternoon, just after lunch. I came in yesterday and stopped by the gadgets and gaming session last night to see some cool toys including the Kindle 2! There are so many new toys I want If you’re following from afar the hash tag is #cil2009, you can follow on Twitter, or Jason Griffey has pulled together everything using Yahoo Pipes. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Buzz it up Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend
Get Shoving and Making!
you haven’t heard yet, the fabulous Joshua M. Neff, Steve Lawson and Iris Jastram have created The Shovers and Makers award. And there is only one way to become a Shover and Maker: declare yourself one. No one knows what you have been doing all year as well as you do. No one knows what motivates you, what your professional passions are, why you work so hard on behalf of your patrons, clients or co-workers. So only you really know why you are a winner. Please write a quick profile of why you are a winner this year, and it will get published on this site. Of course I nominated myself and I’m loving reading everyone else’s. So head over there and declare yourself a Shover and Maker! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Buzz it up Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend
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