I'm sure that many of us remember the mantra of Bill Clinton's campaign workers back when they were running Clinton for president: It's the Economy, Stupid. I was thinking of this when I read the 2007 Horizon Report. This report...
A couple of weeks ago, I submitted my annual Web Presence Usage Report for the past fiscal year. I can't provide a link to it (it's a Web-original document), because access to our staff site is IP protected. Yes, we...
This is the era of the end of Web design. Let me define what I mean by Web design. This is the presentation of your site - especially your main screen page - with graphics, menus, colors and fonts that...
I'm curious. How do you assign staff permissions to allow contributions to your library's Web site? My library (unfortunately) still maintains its Web site manually. By this, I mean that we have no content management system (CMS) to generate pages....
I'm in the final stages of preparing a talk on social software tools I'll be giving on Thursday at the Rhode Island Library Association Annual Conference. As I prepare my slides about the concept of "going where users are," it's...
A couple of weeks ago, I admitted to a long-term obsession with search engines. This time around, I'm admitting to a long-term obsession with URLs. I guess I'm just a neurotically obsessed individual. I'm into URLs for a number of...
I was very pleased to see Karen Coomb's article in the January issue of Information Today, "Building a Library Web Site on the Pillars of Web 2.0." Karen describes her work at the University of Houston Libraries to revamp the...
I wish I could show you examples of exemplary academic library Web sites, but I can't. There aren't any. Yet. Sure, some sites are pretty good. I frequently suffer from Web site envy. But our sites still follow a model...
What would an ideal Library 2.0 academic library Web site look like? I've been putting some thought into this, and here's what I've come up with. In a nutshell, such a site would run on a wiki-based content management system....