For this, I’m just looking for more ideas about how to punk our city’s cms. I heard Darlene and Jeff when I went to Monterey a few years ago.
Him and Me

Improve the site incrementally. Iterative change - small stuff instead of big stuff. This model is so much easier on us web [...]

I poked my head out of budget season tonight and was proud to encounter cool things coming out of two state library systems near and dear to my heart. Bobbi Slossar, of whom NHSL should be extraordinarily proud, responds to the LOC’s Flickr initiative.* From Bobbi:
This seems like a good time to [...]

In September I met the Library Director of the Effingham Public Library along with a board member-slash-web master. They asked me if I’d be willing to help them create a more dynamic and easier to maintain web presence. Naturally I enthusiastically agreed. Both of them had immediately grokked the opportunities that [...]

No one has ever accused my blog of being too cute, but I did return from Istanbul and filled out my family a bit.
The contrast, though, of visiting a place as strictly observer - even more pronounced by not speaking a word of Turkish - and then fully integrating a pair of babies into my [...]

When trying to represent social software like IM & chat to librarians, I find the most difficult part is convincing them that these are tools their users are already using. If the librarians not participating in the community, how do can I prove to them it exists? I try stuff like, ‘to many [...]

Picture this: a girl up late hunched over her desk in her pjs. Lights are low. House is cold (it’s winter in New Hampshire and, honey, it’s cold outside… but heat costs money). And she pens an empassioned plea - okay, not so empassioned and not really a plea, but marginally clever [...]