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 [...]

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 [...]

When you’re a technology evangelist working in a field that’s at best slow to change and at worst suspiciously resistant to it; it’s easy to accuse the late majority and laggards of basing their objections on assumptions. Kathy Sierra over at Creating Passionate Users says it well:
half my battles… were about questioning assumptions… many [...]

On Friday morning, my family - who haven’t all been together in over a year - will pull up to my doorstep, load my bags in the car, and drive eight hours (allowing for snack-time) together to Syracuse, NY. On Saturday, the three of them will watch me gather my freshly minted MLIS at [...]

I am a new, but enthusiastic, arrival to the concept of open source software. I use Gaim to integrate my many IM/Chat accounts; I’m currently advocating a slow migration away from Windows OSs to Linux products on our servers at work; beginning with the web server so that I can more easily run the [...]

Has every blogger heard this or something like it: “Why do you have to blog everything, can’t you just email me?”
I’ve been following up on Danny O’Brien’s research and the fall out from his presentation at O’Reilly’s 2004 Emerging Technology Conference. Cory Doctorow noted:

Power-users don’t trust complicated apps. Every time power-geeks has had [...]