http://www.davidleeking.com/2006/05/31/thinking-about-myspace-and-other-free-third-party-services/ David writes: Am I saying that free things like MySpace, Flickr, Blogs, Wikis, etc are bad? No way! But I am saying that these new services need to fit into your library’s plan… don’t just set one up to “see what happens” or “just for kicks.” Think through a few things first: What does your library plan to offer using this new service? What are the library’s goals for establishing this new service? Can the advertising be minimized by paying a fee or by choosing certain categories? Does the service meet the library’s strategic goals? Who’s going to maintain […]
David King on MySpace Ads and some Questions for Planning
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Hennepin MySpace Catalog Search Box Originally uploaded by mstephens7. Nice added element at HCPL MySpace page. http://www.myspace.com/hennepincountylibrary
http://digitalreshift.org: Chris Harris’s new Website, with links to his presentations. http://www.selco.info/blog/2006/05/library-fines-or-not.html: Barbara Missely ponders library fines and links to a CSM poll. http://techessence.info/node/49: Andrew Pace asks: “Have you ever sat down with a programmer?”
IM to other store Originally uploaded by jessamyn. File this under “Why Libraries should have IM activated at each department/branch!”
Charlotte’s Web @ SJCPL Originally uploaded by St. Joseph County Public Library. Look at these happy fellows with their SJCPL library cards!!! (via SJCPL’s Flickr account.) A thought: this picture hidden on the library’s Web site might never bee seen…on Flickr (and this one should be blogged too!) it joins the pool of images associated with SJCPL, South Bend and libraries! 🙂
On May 12th, Jenny Levine and I keynoted SJCPL’s Staff Day. It was a weird thing to come back to the library where I spent almost 15 years but it was so wonderful to see folks I’ve missed. The staff is pretty incredible and were fired up about thinking about change. We did a version of the “Barriers Exercise” I’ve used in Minnesota and in other workshops. It gets folks thinking about how we send messages to our users…. and what experience they have in libraries. Yesterday, I received an email from Pedro, one of SJCPL’s gaming maestros. He mentioned […]
(Also posted at ALA L2, but I wanted this post to be open for comments from any and all too) Good Morning all from Northern Michigan! I hope you had a good holiday weekend! I’m reading Taylor’s meditation on innovation from the Public Innovator’s Lab: In our western culture, corporate wealth rises and falls on quarterly reports. We don’t repaint. Instead, structures less than twenty years old are razed in favor of new retail facades. We are too willing to tear down and start anew. We are enamored of the innovative pilot projects when we haven’t let our previous efforts […]
Web 2.0 – No one owns it Originally uploaded by Paul Watson.
Arrived at the Cottage Originally uploaded by mstephens7. Greetings from Traverse City! I’ll be blogging a bit at the Up North Blog and tagging images UpNorth2006. Have a good holiday weekend!
At Ridgedale for the last stop on the Minnesota Tour, I found that the public wifi start page also allowed for user feedback! This rocks!