This topic has been percolating for a long time, so I was psyched when Michelle contacted me with an invitation to participate in the BIGWIG Social Software Showcase. (Blogs, Wikis, Social Software Interest Group = BEST library acronym to date.) The idea, as I understand it, is to get some folks to produce some [...]

Congratulations are in order for Etsy and their entry into the big time. My mom’s a brilliant artist, with a number of brilliant artist friends, and there was a time, a few years back when one of my own friends and I hatched an Etsy-like scheme of our own. We got pretty far [...]

Things got a bit mixed up because the keynote speaker had travel trouble, but that meant that I got to have a very nice chat with some folks from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. Again, it’s incredible to me how far off the radar libraries are. Here is an organization in the business [...]

Session: Taking Care of your Website: Savvy Software by Bill Savoy, President of Savvy Software
This is a vendor demo. They’re out of Portsmouth, NH, which is kind of cool.
Browser based.
Fall River School District is their demo site.
Admin levels for editors and contributors - very much like Scriblio/Wordpress.
WYSIWYG editor - browse local files for things [...]

First session: Assessing Technology Needs and Creating a Technology Plan for Non-Profits by MJ Shoer, President of Jenaly Technology Group, Inc.
As I continue to work with libraries implementing Scriblio, I thought it would be helpful to know how to give libraries advice on how to think about their technology plans.
Do we even know what we [...]

Today I’m attending the Nonprofit Technology Conference. It’s so easy to forget that libraries are also non-profits. I’m excited to learn how other types of institutions who struggle with the similar challenges of limited funding, outreach challenges, and working with committees and/or boards are dealing with the particular challenges of technology. I’m immediately [...]

I was sorry to miss the NELA-ITS workshop on Open Source Software last week. But, thanks to the wonders of the internets, I did get some of the content. Particularly fascinating to me was Randy Robertshaw’s presentation on using open source software solutions on all library computers. Now, I’ve long thought this [...]