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I took some time to visit the vendor booths at ALA11 (the annual conference of the American Library Association - over 20,000 librarians descended on New Orleans this year!), and made sure to visit most of the ebook vendors out there - and let me … [Continue reading]
A couple of weeks ago, I gave a presentation using my iPad, and it worked out pretty well! I used the iPad version of Keynote (Apple's Powerpoint-like presentation software). Keynote has a handy-dandy presenter notes feature that is really easy to … [Continue reading]
Today, I met with some library staff where I work and talked about starting up another blog on my library's website (look for a sports-related blog soon!). That reminded me that I said I'd write a post about our blogging process at tscpl.org ... so … [Continue reading]
Mark this down as a cool tool for your website-building toolkit... Ever wondered what CMS or web server a certain website was using? Wonder no more! Simply enter the URL of that interesting site into builtwith.com and voila! - this site will tell … [Continue reading]
Our Marketing department frequently uses a Creative Brief to plan the marketing and promotion process for events, services, and other stuff the library does. Marketing and our web team meet weekly, and are part of a team we call our Creative Group … [Continue reading]