Minnesota Library Association Presentation 2010

Distance Tech Tools for Your Average Patron: Ten Ways to Make Technology Viable, Marketable, and Cost-Effective in Reaching Distance Patrons
Warning: This presentation will involve helping your library succeed in a web 2.0 environment and also will require…audience participation, viewer discretion advised

The Flip Intro

What About the User?
Usability is more important than display
Tools are only tools
Make it simple
How the user thinks and how tech can help
What do you want to get out of it
While I have your attention, you can find more updates and contribute at The Wiki AKA http://mla2010tech.pbworks.com

So What Do Users Want?
Simple
Effective
Smart
Tools
Lets talk about them

Recommended Reading
Don’t make me think! : a common sense approach to Web usability
Interactive information retrieval in digital environnements
Learning web design : a beginner's guide to (X)HTML, style sheets and web graphics
Follow the links! Brush up on the user and the libraries toolbox

Down to Business: Ten Rules
Widgets make sense, use them!
Find the need, then bring the technology some sample freebies are included
BREAK ALL THESE RULES
If you know a better way, post it, share it, blog it
Having a YouTube presence is better than a web presence! Video tours!
No worries about reinventing the wheel, it still works!
User behavior should dictate tech
Don’t abuse Facebook and sites like it, use them
Use new tech if it’s free
Wikis work if you work them
Screencast your message, the web is about multimedia they tell me
Interface design does not mean glitter, web site audit time

Wikis, Widgets and Websites, Oh my!
Pbworks
Free
Get the patrons involved
Dynamic Collection development
Content control over what your patrons need!
Jing
Get it
Don’t be nervous
Make a list of frequent questions over the phone
Give the patrons the visual idea
Wikis First: How to user them

Movies and TinyChat: Communication through the Web Using Power Tools
The Flip
Make movies about the library
Need a new building? Videos are worth a million words.
Video newsletters (Digitize and make it happen on YouTube)
Tiny chat
Why not Meebo?
The power of voice and video
Any operating system philosophy
User needs getting met

Websites: How to build them for next to free!
Free software I use in lie of adobe
Notepadd ++
NVU
Gimp
XnView
Inkscape
How to learn?
THE best starting place is at the W3C schools
http://www.w3schools.com/
All software mentioned will RUN ON A FLASH DRIVE! 

Librarything for Dynamic Collection Development
How to use it
Get your patrons involved from a distance
Making people OWN the collection
Books suggestions make the libraries services better
http://www.librarything.com/

Need’s analysis
What do your patrons need the most?
What software tools do the job?
How can you provide them at a reasonable cost?
What level of support does the library wish to give patrons on local machines? What license agreements are you willing to enter?
How to build With Tools Towards User Needs

The Power of Portable
Empower users with portable apps
Flash drives at the library?
What about the not so tech savvy? Assume everyone is not so tech savvy
Guide them through it, you can do it
Find out more at portableapps.com
Logo Subject to trademark

The Library as a Digital Community Hub
Issuu and publishing events!
Video and publishing events! Just get them in the library and using it
How to make patrons feel good about using technology.
Making the library come to life, the power of dynamic content!

Analyzing Software Licensing Agreements
Difference between open source and GPL at your library
When to license, know what to license
What software do you need?
I took the IP law class so you don’t have to
An analysis of the Firefox license agreement.

Goals of implementing your tech program?
Who are your target users?
What do they need?
How can these tools provide for those needs?
Thank you for the conversation !
New ideas come through sharing! Please update the wiki with your thoughts and comments at http://mla2010tech.pbworks.com

Minnesota Library Association Presentation 2010

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