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 [...]
Category Archives: Web 2.0
Out of Office (for the past year)
September 1, 2008 – 8:53 pm
One year ago this week I began working outside of MPOW’s office. Space was getting cramped and I volunteered to give up my office and telecommute. I still go into the office a couple time a week, but I just find a table, put down my laptop and work from that spot. The other days [...]
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 [...]
NYPL is Moving to Drupal
June 17, 2008 – 10:32 pm
I’ve previously mentioned my preference for content management systems over traditional websites. We use Drupal at MPOW and it allows almost everyone in our office to easily contribute to our site.
Drupal is also becoming a popular choice for libraries and now the New York Public Library is joining the party. Josh Greenberg recently posted on [...]
CiL 2008: Widgets, Tools, and Doodads for Library Webmasters
April 8, 2008 – 2:12 am
Darlene Fichter
Data Librarian
University of Saskatchewan
Frank Cervone
Director – Library, Information, and Media Studies
Chicago State University
Firefox: www.SafeCache.com (defends against cache-based tracking)
Firefox: www.SafeHistory.com (protects history privacy)
Firefox: FoxMarks (auto syncs bookmarks)
Firefox: FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extenstion)
sync/backup extensions and settings between computers
meebome.com
embed a chat window on your website
LinkBun.ch
put multiple links into one small link
www.docsyncer.com
automatically finds and [...]
