Give the library a face
2008 September 26
I just made a personalized page for contacting me, the Head of Technology, using a bunch of free stuff:
- Meebo me
- Flickr’s embed option
- the NukeFeedback module for Dot Net Nuke (the city’s web content manager)
I know it’s not new or revolutionary, but it took me five minutes and it’s a great way to make a step toward bringing the value of librarians to the internet.
Making a page like this would be easy for any library with a website.
- Get a Yahoo account (free),
- sign up for a meebo account (free),
- Add your Yahoo IM to your Meebo account,
- create a meebo me widget
- copy that code into your website’s source code
- use your Yahoo ID to create a flickr account (free)
- upload a photo of a librarian (this is supposed to be about faces, right?)
- click ‘Share this’
- copy the code under embed and paste it into your website’s source code
- that should do it.
