Best of Internet Librarian WebEx - Additional Materials

Here are some links and handouts from the 12th Annual Internet Librarian Conference, 2008 Monterey, CA. The them was Beyond 2.0: User-Focused Tools & Practices.

We are pointing you to publicly available information that is posted on the open web. You can also look at the main site: http://www.infotoday.com/IL2008


Mary Ellen Bates' handout- http://batesinfo.com/il2008.html

Steven M. Cohen link to weblog, LibraryStuff, the name of the article with links is Tips for Keeping Up - http://tinyurl.com/keepingup

What’s new with RSS by Steven Cohen - http://tinyurl.com/ILwhatshot

Twitter and How the Twittest Use it for Keeping up: www.slideshare.net/event/internet-librarian

Karen A. Coombs, Open Source CMS Preconf IL 2008 http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/218/open-source-cms-preconf-il-2008/

Liz Lawley, Learning and Play in a Social Mobile World -Technical/Tangible/Social -http://delicious.com/mamamusings/il08

Lifestreaming Tools AKA Keeping your Social Media Streams Under Control

• Flock: http://www.flock.com (browser)
  
• Friendfeed: http://www.friendfeed.com (web site)
  
• Tumblr: http://www.tumblr.com (website/RSS aggregator)
  

Sharepoint Key Features:
Managing docs – can’t decide how docs are arranged (relevance doesn’t work) – create more smaller doc libraries so they can use folders rather than a long list of docs

• can set permissions at doc level – won’t even show up for people without permissions

Meeting Workspaces

• has spot for minutes and agendas – Sharepoint has this preference for this way of organizing
• agendas and minutes attached to calendar entry

Announcements

• per groups – easy to use

Calendars

• agendas and minutes attached to calendar entry
• melding many different paper calendars
• coolest feature because all events can be in one place

Blogs

• way to communicate from group out to rest of staff
• bullet point summary rather thank slogging through minutes
• simple to create
• allows comments – can be turned off
• encourages collaboration throughout org

Wiki

• WIPs
• Reference desk wiki: putting together bunch of navigational areas for a variety of topics relevant to the ref desk
• assignments for students they are bringing to desk

discussion boards

• create and posting easy

Notifications

• RSS or email alerts available
• doesn’t work with aggregators – they haven’t figured out how to deal with bloglines or google reader

Surveys

Document workflows

task lists

Document versioning