Aubri Keleman, Teen Services & Web Coordinator, Whatcom County Library System Tao Gao, Live2Create Interactive Aubri - Rumba with Joomla What is a cms and why is it wicked cool? The webmaster doesn’t have to do anything Pre-redesign collect stats review your brand collect photos – tell a story focus groups set explicit goals in priority order redesign questions do staff and leadership know why a new website is needed which cms is best for us what can we afford money vs time vs design how much staff time can we put into the redesign & upkeep; do you need to outsource or do you have the talent you need on staff how will decisions be made, who gets the final say who is the best for the website how will staff be involved in the redesign process what project management tool should we use – blogs and wikis, they used a wiki goal wc3 compliant new page – www.wcls.org results increased user feedback more content, more up to date content users spend more time on our site improved navigation w3c compliant flexibility Problems you cant limit authors to just one page or section calendar migration Bookmark on Delicious Digg
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CM Tools: Drupal, Joomla, & Rumba
CM Tools: Drupal, Joomla, & Rumba John Blyberg Ryan Deschamps Ryan ModX How not to have to use drupal Cms in general Why joomla Why switch to ModX Good content mngmt system should facilitate division of labor, support overall development, ensure best practices and standards Halifax public library now in modx looked the same in joomla Its not about the front end, its about the cockpit, ask long as the front end performs its about making the lives of your staff happy Why they choose joomla Number 1 in market share Huge community of support Templates www.opensourcecms.com – demo of anything, can see how the back end looks and works why they switched to ModX from Joomla painful upgrade started looking useful stuff – code etc, wanted to look at new services, joomla is not that great for adding unique nice interface but doesn’t help the development of the site ModX Has fine grain user access, can restrict access to specific pages Resources What he does like Still needs work Needs more documentation Some syntax knowledge required Joomla really good for an intranet, wouldn’t recommend for a front end site, community engagement is more important that community size application framework
Social network profile management
Social network profile management Greg Schwartz Michael Porter Sarah Houghton-Jan Amanda Clay Powers Greg Identity Digital identity mapping – online interactions make identity much more complicated Your next employer looking for your identity will do a google search You do not own your online identity Tip -own your username - if your name is unique and can grab everywhere use it, otherwise pick something - checkusernames.com - join the conversation , develop your identity by participation - listen, pay attention to what other people are saying about you - be authentic – your digital identity should be your real identity Amanda Clay Powers What are we doing here anyway How managing identity online is like managing information We know how to manage identity because we know how to manage information (really?) Our place is to educate people about what they are doing Peoples perception that librarians don’t know how to help them with their online interactions Who else is in the position to coach people with this? Who else has the number of computers we do Sarah Being online as the library Register for online sites with a generic email address, not the address of a specific staff member Quick
Best of the Web
Best of the web Firefox - Greasemonkey - smart key words - can use set up address bar to seach any site on the web - customize google extension - better gmail2 – takes ads off of gmail google reader - helvetireader book city jackets wikimedia commons flickr image search pictobrowser skitch – screenshots, then allows for annotation, can upload directly to flickr jing – can do screenshots and screencasts screentoaster vimeo – look at the sign up process, even if you’re not going to use it, go through to look at sign up process, your libraries processes should be like this postrank copypastecharacter.com today’smeet when is good letmegooglethatforyou colorlovers tagcrowd wordle qature – real time aggregation of whats happening on twitter search.twitter.com tweetdeck vyew – free online web conferencing tool bacolicious wordpress theme called thematic very powerful ted.com googlevoice – get a number from google, calls will be routed to phone, voicemails will get transcribed googleforms zohocreator netnewswire – only for macs prezi 280slides lovelycharts typetester evernote zotero worldtimeserver.com tadalist.com hulu toodledo sendyouit emic4all – records in mp3, audacity to edit logmein.com – remote support dropbox Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Share on netvibes share
Continued Online Community Engagement
Control what you can - Brand – logo, identity - public website - opportunities for practice - best practices online let go when you can - what is tied to your brand - where can you let go? - What needs to have a system wide project? Trust - trust staff - give guidelines - provide opportunities to learn Evaluate - honestly assess performance - find the right person for the job - accept that it will take time - accept that there will be mistakes - it is a learning experience Communities have been around for years they do police themselves, think of book review on Amazon, some will be positive and some will be negative Social media monitoring Do we really need to talk about why again, everyone that matters is doing it Customer service – when you get negative feed back go out and respond Identify stakeholders Technorati Google search Backtype Discussion boards – niche communities Boardtracker Twitter Friendfeed Flock Optiem Techregime Not about the tools, its about the community using the tools Cultivating a culture of learning Learning is not a spectator sport Libraries are not a spectator sport Stewardship – Helping people manage info exchange
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