We held our 10th annual TechConnections conference this past week. We had lots of great presenters and their slides are being added to the TechConnections website as we receive them.
Below are my slides from my talk on cloud storage services.
Category Archives: Software
TechCon09: Intro to Online Storage Services
May 23, 2009 – 9:44 pm
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. [...]
Is the Browser the New Operating System?
September 8, 2008 – 11:59 pm
I’m a big advocate of open source software and feel most comfortable when I’m using a Linux OS. However, I’m quite content on just about any OS as long as I have my Firefox. I seem to live out of my browser anymore and the OS comes second. Tasks that used to require a separate [...]
DRM Dying Slowly and Painfully
July 27, 2008 – 10:53 pm
Digital Rights Management continues to slowly die. Sony just announced that it’s ebook reader will soon support the popular .epub book format. Up until now, users had to purchase titles from the Sony store. Now other booksellers will be able to provide titles for Sony’s device. Perhaps library content will be an option.
O’Reilly has begun [...]
Join the Social
July 21, 2008 – 12:02 am
Recently I had a chance to speak at one of our member institutions about collaborating with social tools. Slides from the talk are now available. Many of the staff spent their lunch break learning how social tools can be used to collaborate with others.
I could tell that many in the room were seeing [...]
