Daily Archives: January 22, 2007

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Tag Cloud as Ad

http://www.sim.vuw.ac.nz/degrees/mlis/MLIS-ad.pdf Brenda Chawner at the School of Information Management at Victoria University of Wellington alerted me to their snazzy print ad for the MLIS degree… see any tags that might draw students to their program? Steal this idea! Not just library schools, but libraries could do some FUN advertising with tag clouds. 🙂

John Blyberg Creates the SOPAC for aadl.org

http://www.blyberg.net/2007/01/21/aadlorg-goes-social/ Blyberg works his code magic on his catalog, Drupal and improves the social aspects of their Innovative Interfaces Inc catalog: So what is the SOPAC? It’s basically a set of social networking tools integrated into the AADL catalog. It gives users the ability to rate, review, comment-on, and tag items. The concept is nothing new, but the nature of our systems do not yield readily to this kind of retrofitting–something I plan to really start tackling in earnest, but that’s a topic for another post. If you’re wondering (and didn’t know already), AADL’s automation system is III which recently […]