Presentation Planning

Section 1: Timelines

• Presentation is Friday, October 5, 2007
• Denver Ballroom Suites V and VI

Section 2: Tools In Use

• Blogs - both (Genny has locally installed WPMU, Michelle has MoveableType)
• Wikis - both  (Genny has pbwiki, Michelle has MediaWiki)
• Chat - Michelle
• MySpace - Genny
• del.icio.us (Tagging) - may be on horizon for Genny
• Feedburner (Subscribe by email or RSS) - Genny has on blog, Michelle same (though simply RSS enabled, no Feedburner)
• Other heads-up tools that aren't 2.0?  (like email newsletters) Michelle - we have some newsletters, but none in my subject area as I tend to find them irritating and useless. :)

Section 3: Other Tools to Discuss

• Facebook
• Podcasting
• Tagging
• RSS - already there via blog, but elsewhere??? e.g. in OPAC? Michelle - we have RSS on the library events page
• Basecamp - internal usage, project management site

   

   

Section 4: Project initiation, Training and Buy-In

•  Identifying a need that "sounds like" a social tool
• Pilot projects
• Work with the enthusiastic staff
• Signoff vs. skunkworks?

Section 5: Measurement and Evaluation

•  Difficulty measuring use of outside-hosted resources (MySpace)
• Using FeedStats, Feedburner, local logs to measure blog subscribers
• Using standard web usage logs to measure blog visitors for locally-installed blogs
• Did it work as an outreach tool?