Yesterday MPOW held its spring support staff symposium in Wilmington, Ohio. My Executive Director and I had an opportunity to speak about text-based communication and etiquette. In a short amount of time, we covered email, instant messaging, text messaging, and social networks. Most of it is common sense, but common sense isn’t always common, right?
Category Archives: Libraries
Lots of Drupal to Drink
March 11, 2009 – 12:34 am
We’ve been using Drupal at MPOW for almost three years, but I feel like there’s still tons to learn. Drupal is really hot in libraries right now and it seems like everyone is talking about it. Below are the Drupal posts and resources I’ve come across in just the past week or so. Drink it [...]
Will OCLC Survive Open Source?
December 30, 2008 – 12:28 am
Linux Journal is one of the few magazine subscriptions I’ve kept. However, there’s also a lot of free content on the site. So I was pleased to see a recent blog post on LinuxJournal.com about open source and libraries. The post is based on Aaron Swartz’s rant against OCLC and WorldCat. It is, however, a [...]
Integrating Web 2.0 Tools (KLA Presentation)
October 5, 2008 – 5:27 pm
The Kentucky Library Association held its annual conference this past week. On Thursday I presented Integrating Web 2.0 Tools into Your Web Site. The session covered easy ways to integrate content from Google Calendar, Custom Search Engine, Maps, YouTube, Flickr, and RSS feeds. Most of the slides are screenshots and the URL for the tool [...]
Upcoming Presentations
September 28, 2008 – 11:12 pm
Integrating Web 2.0 Tools into Your Website October 2 Kentucky Library Association Conference Louisville, Kentucky Technology Trends October 13 Wright Memorial Public Library Dayton, Ohio Mashup to Keep Up October 24 Ohio Educational Library Media Association (OELMA) Conference Columbus, Ohio Breakout Session November 18 Web 2.0 Exposed Athens, Ohio
