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
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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
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 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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